Altered items

I have been having fun using some of my scraps and some stampsets from Papertrey inks. Altered items are so much fun and a nice break from doing the ordinary. The little notebook is so dang cute for my purse! What a help it is going to be to keep my lists going...ha! , the bottle is a cute little pencil holder , I drank the frappacino in it and washed it...I knew it would be cute! the third is an ID card, just in case I forget who I am LOL!!! I don't particularly like the photo, but it was the smallest one that I had handy. So there you have it! Enjoy!

I'm a slacker!

Yep, I admit it, I have been crazy busy with that awful 5 letter word....TAXES.....Yucky Yuckness, glad its all over!!!! Woop, woop!

I have made a big purchase....I bought a Sizzix BigKick! WooHoo! I am loving this machine! Now I can get rid of my other sizzix die cutter, my Quickutz and my sidekick and condense it all to one die cut machine! So excited!

Okay so to celebrate I finished a layout and am pretty please with the way it turned out! My two goons! I hope to be back in a day or two to post more projects I am working on. Thanks for visiting!

Thursday, 14 February 2008
I've been tagged!
ive been tagged by Carrie so here goes...

A: The rules of the game are posted at the beginning.

B: Each player answers the questions about themselves.

C: At the end of the post, the player then tags 3 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

10 Years Ago: Today, my DH and I renewed our Vows (married 10 years) I never had the "wedding"...we eloped when we got married..... so we did this day 10 years ago, our daughters were there!

Things on my to-do list today: Make an awesome dinner, Go fix my flat tire at Wally World, pick up a few needed ingrediants, go to the LSS for a treat for me!

What I would do if I were suddenly made a billionaire: Pay off the Mortgage at my Church, Buy my Mom a Place of her own with a monthly allowance, Buy a big farm with 6horses for my family, Donate a hunk to Shriners Hospital (they fixed my DD's back), Payoff my siblings Mortgages, build a HUGE Scraproom and quilt room for me and the girls...build my DH a shop with all the coolest of cool tools...new cars, clothes and shoes for everyone.....Travel

3 of my bad habits: Bite my nails (that is why I now have acrylics), don't share my candy to well hehe, Take everyones glasses and put them in the dishwasher before they are done with their glass! LOL!!!

3 places I have lived: Brooklyn, New York....Denver, Colorado....Spring Hill, Florida

5 jobs that I have had: Secretary, Bookkeeper, Reservations Agent for 2 airlines,
Customer Service for History Museum, Teacher.

5 Things people don't know about me: I am 100% Italian, 1st Generation American, I play Flute and Sax, I have an addiction to White Chocolate, I love collecting small figurines.

I tag: 1.Jane 2. Debbie 3. Linda

Valentines Card

I have been doin a little blog - hoppin and stumbled upon a card I knew I just had to scraplift! So here is my version. I have used Papertrey Stamps, CTMH Inks, My minds Eye patterned paper, Bazzill Cardstock, and grosgrain ribbons. SU Scalloped punch and EK successes round punches! I am so getting into the layered 3D look! Don't ya just love it!!!!!! Enjoy and thanks for stopping by!

Hi all, sorry I have not posted in a couple of weeks but it has been kinda weird here lately. First our neighbor collapsed and my DH and I tried to revive him but it was to late.....

Then our computer keyboard and mouse fried so we had to wait for the new ones and I am happy to say it only took Dell 24 hours to have a new set out to us! Yeah Dell!

And thirdly we have been having some kinda weather out here! Whew SNOW, SNOW, and more SNOW coupled with High Winds!

On a happier note my DH bought us tickets to go see Brad Paisley, Rodney Atkins and Chuck Wikes in concert and MAN WAS it GOOD!!! We had a great time and if you wanna go see a good show, BP is awesome, I suspect he will bump Kenny from Entertainer of the Year....Great job!

So Here I have two new projects to share, hope you enjoy!!!! First is a double layout of my DD visiting Gma's and Gpa's farm ....She LOVES horses so she was definitely in her glories!

I have used all CTMH products (my link is on the sidebar) with the exception of Cosmo Crickets Bare Naked Chipboard that I painted and Sprinkled with Martha Stewart Glitter......

Cosmo is a sponsor over at The SHaker Box, where I am a design team member, there stuff ROCKS!

The second is a 6x6 Card that has a surprise pop up box ! How fun is that! It is totally fun to make......I have used ALL CTMH papers Inks and stampsets. The papers are called Just Chillin, which is what I'm gonna go do! Have a great day friends!

20th Wedding Anniversary.........

Yep, 20 years...WOW! We had the most wonderful evening. Fine dining and wonderful conversation.....very romantic evening with my husband. He took me to a fancy restaurant downtown and wined and dined me. It was a very special evening. I have to say probably one of the best in my life next to my wedding day. Here we are before going out.
20 years is a long time these days, and I wouldn't change a thing, he is a very good man and has my heart in his hands........................ Have a blessed day.

Non Traditional Valentines Card

I have always told my husband to never give me a heart for a gift because everytime a former boyfriend did , we broke up! So we have always avoided Hearts for Valentines day especially!

So here is my Non traditional Valentine Card using tradtional colors! I have used

Close to My heart inks in Blush and Holiday Red. Various Ribbons from my stash, and my Marvy Scalloped punch that I love so much! LOL! Stampsets used are from Paper Trey .

Thanks for looking!

New Look!

Okay so I had to change the look with the new year! I hope you like it! I really like brown and pumpkin colors so enjoy! Will post more new stuff a little later! Have a good one!

Cards Galore!

I guess I am on a card kick! I need to make more layouts! Here are two cards I have made, the Happy Birthday one is using Cosmo Cricket papers and "h" letter, the stamp and inks is CTMH.

The Ladybug card is Papertrey's Little Lady and Beautiful Blooms Stampsets, using CTMH inks in Holiday Red, Olive and Topiary! Thanks for looking!

Two more cards!

Here are two more cards using the same papers....very nice kit to work with, the colors are just so cool! I have really been having a great time layering!

Layered Cards

All the new rage....I am seeing them in everyone's blogs! Layered cards with multiple ribbons!
Here is a new card for today. I am loving the layered look on cards. If you haven't tried it yet , you may want to, but careful.....they become addicting!
I have used Cosmo Cricket papers, Marvvy Punch, and Close to my heart Stamp and Ink!

Here is a layout I just completed for my DT assignment using Papertrey Stampsets.

I used Papertreys:

Beautiful Blossoms, and Faux Ribbon.

Close to my Heart

Library card.

Scraps of paper, Marvvy Scalloped punch (my new favorite toys!) and sizzix dies. Enjoy!

COMING SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There's a CYBER CROP coming up the weekend of January 18-21!!!!!!
Where???? Theshakerbox.com
Be sure to hop on over! It is a great site and lots of fun is planned! I am a member of the DT and I can tell you the talent is overflowing over there! Go mark your spot!

Happy New Year!!!

Hello Friends! Welcome to 2008! On New Years Eve it is my usual tradition (for about 4 years now) to scrap with my sister until Dick Clark's Rockin Eve comes on at 11:30pm ....well we didn't scrap! Instead we just had good ole fashion family fun with my girls and my hubby.....Surround with the people I love! We ate like Kings too! Shrimp Scampi, King Crab legs (thank you Larry! He actually fishes them from the Berring Sea) Salad and Homemade Pecan Pie! Whew! Very good!

So since I didn't get to scrap on New Years Eve, I made my first 2 layouts on New Years DAY! The papers are Cosmo Crickets Gretel Line and the Buck Naked Chipboard! Love those! This year in 2008 my goal is to post many projects in my blog (keeping my gift of gab to a minimum!)

So keep checking back......

The subjects of my pages are two beautiful gals! One is my Eldest Daughter who is a "big Senior" this year and it is her Casual Photo and the other is my New Beautiful Great Niece! Her Daddy is my Nephew and my Godson! She is just so adorable! Anyhoo, I choose to do blocking with my GNieces LO and one photo only for my DD. Enjoy!

Merry Christmas Eve

What a wonderful time of the year. It is my favorite. This year will be a little different for my family as my eldest daughter just had a major nose surgery and a wisdom tooth pulled all in one! It was quite extensive and lasted 6 1/2 hours, but now she will be able to breath so nicely and her nose is going to be gorgeous. But for now she is bandaged, brusied and in a bit of pain.

It is something she has wished for for years, Merry Christmas baby! She is so glad she had it done. Thursday is her big reveal, the bandages come off and her new nose, albeit will be swollen will be what she's waited for!

Here's a picture of our tree this year, the girls did a fine job with ornaments and DH did a great job with the lights. Merry Christmas.

My Christmas cards.

Here are my 2007 Christmas cards. I was able to make 50 cards from ONE that's right ONE paperpack of Close to my Heart Paper packs. This is made from Everlasting Paperpack, CTMH Inks and CTMH Stampset Let us adore Him. I love the way they turned out. I had alot off using my CTMH distressing set...OMHECK it was so much fun! If you haven't seen, touched or used one yet, you just have to! So much stuff and so much fun to use! Check out my website and look under Accessories, then distressing tools. http://tildapapergal.myctmh.com/ If you have any questions about my cards just email me....

Enjoy!

My New Do!

So I got really tired of my hair looking all funky so I went to my hair dresser and look what she put together! I totally LOVE IT! I love the way my hair matches my eyes, Reddish brown. Yep my eyes are reddish brown. Tell me what do you think????????????????

2 Posts in one day! Oh my!!!

I just cropped the photo's from our Thanksgiving feast at my sisters place. She is setteling in and her place looks so adorable! Here we are having a great day!

Me and my family

The Turkey, my sister, my sister with my family.

Can't get enough............

Christmas cards!!!!!! I keep making them! I just can't stop! LOL!! So here is a card made from those wonderful McGill punches! This is a leaf that just so happened to make a great wreath!

The second card is made with my new infatuations....scalloped edges! Enjoy!

It's beginning to look alot like.............

Christmas! I have been making a few items to put under the tree and wanted to share with you a few of them! The purse and bookmarks are not my original idea, just the colors and patterns. I have scraplifted the templates. The journaling block is for a swap I am in , to fun! Enjoy!

(All papers, Inks and Stampsets are CTMH!)