The Crazy Chaotic House

April Blogging Friends Blog Hop

2018-04-01T02:00:00.000-07:00

Happy April and Happy Spring! It went from 55-80 degrees in like 2 days here in Northern California. Pure craziness!!! I think I may have even got a little red from the sun out at my kiddos baseball games yesterday. Spring break is over and my crazy kids are headed back to school on Monday....Thank goodness!!! I had a photoshoot last night and boy were the mosquitoes out in full force. I keep forgetting to put the spray in the car to have handy at baseball and my sunset photo shoots...MUST remember to do that!!!

So this month's theme is to CASE another member of our hop. I cased Libby Fens. I only CASEd her layout. This was such a hard decision for me, as is everything, so I made it a little easier on myself and just chose a layout from last month's hop. I really wanted to use a set that I hadn't used in months, a set that I have forgotten about {which is actually a lot} I used Life Me Up...love this set so much! I really don't and haven't used it much at all. My next two monthly classes will focus on items and sets retiring. We will be finding that out soon! I'm really hoping this set isn't on that list!

Libby's design

Let's see what Michelle has created this month for us!

Tammy Gill

Rick Adkins

Join me on Facebook!!!! I think I will try and do my first Facebook LIVE next week! I would love for you to join me:)

March Blogging Friends Blog Hop.

2018-03-01T02:00:00.000-08:00

It's hard to believe its March already! It's that busy BUSY time of year for us. Basketball is just about over and baseball has already started. Plus lots and lots of school activities and field trips. The next 3 months are going to fly by.

I am so excited to show you what I created for our Sale-a-bration theme hop. I CASEd a card straight from the Sale-a-bration brochure but then kept adding and adding tidbits to it. I loved creating with the Springtime foil DSP....so many different ways to add color. I added color with ink pads and aqua painters. The DSP is thick and a little glossy, it dries pretty quick and looks even more lovely in person. I love the way these turned out!

Let's see what Michelle has going on today......

    Crystal Komara     

Libby Fens

Mary Blocher

Jessica Mink {that's me}

Michelle Clarke

Mary Ann Kay Rossiter

Tammy Gill

Nikki Daigneau

Place a $50 order {before tax and shipping} using hostess code: MRBUCUWD and receive these 4 cards and envelopes for FREE along with a Sale-a-bration item! I will mail you all 4 completed cards for FREE.

Join me on Facebook!

February Blogging Friends Blog Hop.

2018-02-01T02:00:00.000-08:00

I am so glad the month of January is FINALLY over! It seemed to really drag. The family has been hit again with that dreaded flu but this time around my husband and I both got it so that wasn't good. It was horrible! The last kiddo woke up yesterday with it, this round seemed to move fast so let's hope by end of then week he's good to go:)

This month our theme is RED in celebration of Valentine's day! My creations are not totally red. A couple of these cards we made at last months class but I switched out the colors using red for the blog hop. Last month Stampin' Up! kicked off Sale-a-bration. For every $50 you spend {before tax and shipping} you get to pick out a FREE item from the Sale-a-bration catalog and the super cute Party Pandas is a FREEBIE you can select.

Let's see what Leanne has created this month!She's up next!

Crystal Komara  

Libby Fens

Mary Blocher  

Danica Ferrante 

Jessica Mink

Leanne Dillon Johnson 

Michelle Clarke 

Mary Ann Kay Rossiter     

Tammy Gill 

Rick Adkins 

Lisa Harvey Reber   

I am offering these cards w/envelopes for FREE with a purchase of $40 {before tax and shipping} using hostess code MNEKNY4A at checkout. I will mail you all three cards completed for FREE.

January Blogging Friends Blog Hop.

2018-01-01T02:00:00.000-08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New year! I know we did:) Things have been crazy busy around {like always} but I am enjoying the couple weeks the kids have off of school to wind down and get ready for the next 6 months {which will be crazy busy}. We have had lots of family birthdays this month including two of my sons', turning 8 and 10...double digits!!!!

The kids have had the flu for the past week or so. It went straight down the line and all three got it...thankfully Ryan and I didn't get it and I'm not sure how we didn't! So the kids have done absolutely nothing for the past week and I am about to lose my mind BUT I guess the good thing about them getting it over break is they didn't miss school. I just wish it wasn't Christmas because my oldest was down all day on Christmas day at both Grandma's house and looked miserable. He said, "It was the worst Christmas ever"....so that was pretty sad to hear.

With all the craziness going on I have not ordered anything from the new Occasions catalog. I am hoping to later next week if I can narrow down my selection:) This month's theme is "Baby, It's Cold Outside". At first I wasn't sure if I had anything but I went searching my stamp sets and found the Christmas Cookie Cutter set with the little eskimo girl {super cute} and I have never used that particular stamp before so I was excited to come up with something.

Let's see what Leanne has this month for us....

Crystal Komara

Anna Conetta Masciovecchio

Libby Fins

Mary Blocher

Jessica Mink {that's me}

Leanne Dillon Johnson

December Blogging Friends Blog Hop

2017-12-01T02:00:00.000-08:00

Hello Friends!!!! The last month of the Year....WOW!!! Who is ready for Christmas?! I know I am not!!! Not only do I have Christmas but I have two of my sons' birthdays this month, the 17th and 24th of December. Oh and on top of their birthdays we have several family members birthdays as well. A busy busy month ahead. I almost dropped out of the hop this month but as I was cooking dinner tonight I decided to open up the computer and push through all the chaos here at home. The yelling, fighting, whining, and craziness!

I remembered I haven't shared my swap cards I received from our team swap. So that's what I am sharing this month. Christmas swap cards!!!

Made by: Susan Duvall-Serota

www.sduvall.stampinup.net

Made by: Greta Leonard

Made by: Michelle McDaniel

Made by Suzie Barnes {My Upline}

www.suziebarnes.stampinup.net

Made by: Sharon Wren

http://rockymountainhistamping.blogspot.com

I hope you enjoyed all these great cards and hope they bring you some inspiration this holiday season. Have a great weekend!!!

 Crystal Komara

 Anna Concetta Masciovecchio

 Libby Fens

  Mary Blocher 

  Jessica Mink

 Jodi Skrip Horsley

 Leanne Dillon Johnson

  Michelle Clarke 

  Mary Ann Rossiter 

 Tammy Gill

 Rick Adkins

  Lisa Harvey Reber  

 Nikki Debbie Daigneau

November Blogging Friends Blog Hop

2017-11-01T02:00:00.000-07:00

Happy November! WOW!!! It's almost the end of the year! Can you believe it?! I am amazed each year how fast it flies by!!! I am so happy to be back! Once again I fell off the face of the earth:) Life is crazy as you all know! This months blog hop theme is Thanksgiving/Fall and this month we have some newbies joining us...YAY for new fiends!!!!

Today I am sharing a few cards that I have made over the last couple months for my monthly card class. I LOVE the Painted Harvest Suite! It's my favorite from the Holiday Catalog.

This card I CASED from Erica Cerwin

This card was also CASED {Please forgive me I cannot find the demo}

Let's see what Leanne has created this time around......

Crystal Komara

Anna Conetta Masciovecchio

Libby Fens

Mary Blocher

Jessica Mink

Leanne Dillon Johnson

Michelle Clarke

Mary Ann Rossiter

Tammy Gill

Rick Adkins

Lisa Harvey Reber

Nikki Debbie Daigneau

Make it Monday

2017-09-04T19:57:00.002-07:00

I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend. Ryan and I had a last minute get-a-away in the Jeep up on the trail KIDFREE so that was extra nice. It was FUN and I can't wait to get back up there. Today was busy and the kids are winding down getting washed up and then bedtime. As usual I am multitasking and cannot wait for the crazies to get into bed:)

I am so excited to share toady's card. This was a creative challenge from a training group I am in and the sketch came from the catalog. I love recreating directly from the catalogs. I love going to the catalog for a sketch when I am having a creative block.

CHEERS FRIENDS!

Product List

Half Full Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[144999]

$22.00

Fresh Fig 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[144242]

$8.00

Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[101650]

$9.00

Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad

[126978]

$6.50

Wood Textures Designer Series Paper Stack

[144177]

$10.00

Painted Harvest Photopolymer Stamp Set

[144783]

$21.00

Leaf Punch

[144667]

$16.00

Painted Autumn Designer Series Paper

[144613]

$11.00

Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad

[126973]

$6.50

Garden Green 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[102584]

$8.00

Metallic Foil Doilies

[138392]

$4.00

Jute Twine

[144625]

$5.50

Delicate White Doilies

[141701]

$3.00

September Blogging Friends Blog Hop

2017-09-01T02:00:00.000-07:00

Hello Friends! WOW! September already! The Summer break with the kiddos flew by and we are just finishing up week 3 of the school year and even that has gone by pretty darn quick. Baseball has started up for the Fall so we are back to being crazy busy.

I am super excited to share this post with you!!! This month's theme is the Holiday Catalog. It goes LIVE today September 1. Lots and LOTS of awesome, super cute, adorable new products. I joined a swap with my team so I will be sharing my swap card along with 3 others. I hope you take a look at the new catalog and get some inspiration from these cards.

Click here to check out the new catalog

This is my swap I made! I love it! It took me forever to come up with it and wasn't happy with anything. I have another card I will be sharing on Monday with this new set...Cheers!

Simple and super cute!

Card made by: Janey Backer

Love this stamp set!

Card made by: Ruthie Graen

I must get this set! Love this card!

Card made by: Julie Robinson

Crystal Komara

Anna Concetta Marcivoecchio

Mary Blocher

Danica Ferrante

Jessica Mink-You are here

Leanne Dillon Johnson

Lisa Harvey Reber

{why can't blogger ever do what I want! I apologize for all the different size font}

Make It Monday...on Tuesday!

2017-08-15T10:12:00.000-07:00

Good Morning Friends! Well I totally spaced and forgot to publish my Make it Monday post for Monday!!!! So here it is on Tuesday! Last week my kids started school....WHOOHOOO! So we are trying to get back into the swing of things. I hope everyone had a great Monday!

Today's card was a team color challenge. I whipped this card together. This seems to be my go-to layout when I am in a hurry or can't think of anything else. Most of the time it works. It's simple and very easily duplicable.

Lots if new clearance items added today!!!! Checkout out!!!

Product List

Flirty Flamingo 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[141416]

$8.00

Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad

[141397]

$6.50

Island Indigo 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[122923]

$8.00

Island Indigo Classic Stampin' Pad

[126986]

$6.50

Soft Sky Classic Stampin' Pad

[131181]

$6.50

Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[100730]

$9.00

Whisper White 1/8" Sheer Ribbon

[144172]

$6.00

Banner Triple Punch

[138292]

$23.00

Brushstrokes Clear-Mount Background Stamp

[139533]

$15.00

Confetti Celebration Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[142034]

$18.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$4.00

1-3/4" Circle Punch

[119850]

$18.00

Ruffled Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

[143699]

$10.00

Make it Monday

2017-08-07T20:58:00.002-07:00

Happy Monday!

Only 3 days until school starts!!! WHOOHOOOO The kids are ready, they may not think that but they are. And we all know I am ready!!! Last week we enjoyed lots and lots of swimming! We know lots of awesome people who invite us over to swim a lot:)

Today I am sharing what we made in class over the weekend. I love this suite so much!

I can't wait to create more using these products. You can make so many different little boxes for treats with the crate die. If you like these projects you can order this class to-go.
You will get everything you see to make these projects {minus the inks and adhesive}. You will get all the paper and ribbon/trim and the Wood Words bundle.

Email me to get registered for this class to-go. This is the full class to-go kit. It includes
Woods Words Bundle {$46.75 value} and all five make and take materials plus envelopes.
Price $65 plus additional $7 for priority shipping of the kit. If you are local we can waive the $7 fee and do porch pick up.

Deadline to order this class is August 28

Kits expected to ship September 5.

How cute is this?! LOVE it!

Product List

Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[101650]

$9.00

Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[100730]

$9.00

Daffodil Delight 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[119683]

$8.00

Wood Textures Designer Series Paper Stack

[144177]

$10.00

Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad

[126949]

$6.50

Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad

[126970]

$6.50

Whisper White Uninked Craft Stampin’ Pad & Refill

[145406]

$9.50

Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad

[131173]

$6.50

Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[121045]

$8.00

Delicate White Doilies

[141701]

$3.00

1-3/4" Circle Punch

[119850]

$18.00

Daffodil Delight 1/4" Double-Stitched Ribbon

[144116]

$7.00

Vellum 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[101856]

$8.00

1/4" Copper Trim

[144179]

$6.00

Wood Words Clear-Mount Bundle

[145316]

$46.75

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$4.00

Mini Stampin' Dimensionals

[144108]

$4.00

Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

[140931]

$7.00

1-3/8" Circle Punch

[119860]

$16.00

5/8" (1.6 Cm) Burlap Ribbon

[141487]

$7.00

Pretty Label Punch

[143715]

$18.00

Glue Dots

[103683]

$5.25

Soft Suede 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[115318]

$8.00

August Blogging Friends Blog Hop

2017-08-01T02:00:00.000-07:00

Happy August! Each month I do these posts and it's amazing to me how fast the weeks go by. The kids start school next week and we are back to being crazy. We are enjoying the last few days of summer break relaxing, swimming and trying to stay cool. Today is for sure toasty Tuesday....it's suppose to be 106!!! Tomorrow and Thursday we are spending the day swimming so hopefully that will wear the kids out and the pass out at bedtime. We are starting earlier bedtime today so that should be fun considering it's not completely dark until about 9:00 or so...UGH!!!!

This month's theme is our favorite things....and right now I'm loving the Wood Words bundle and to be honest I really haven't done much with it yet. I have yet to make a wood crate using the die. I have had some projects around the house and haven't had much time for creating or crafting. There is always something going on. But the hop this month forced me to create something even if it was fast and quick. Ive also been trying to do a make it Monday post every Monday. Those usually don't post until late Monday night.

I got the inspiration for these cards from a fellow demonstrator Valerie Moody. I am even thinking of offering these in an upcoming class. I do have a card class scheduled for next weekend August 6 so maybe {wink wink} these will pop up there.

Let's see what Jodi has to share with us this month!

Libby Fens

Mary Blocher

Danica Ferrante

Jessica Mink-You are here

Jodi Skrip Horsley

Leanne Dillon Johnson

Michelle Clarke

Lorene Yoshimura-Tanigawa

Mary Ann Rossiter

Tammy Hibbit Gill

Rick Adkins

Lisa Harvey Reber

Don't forget to join me on Facebook!

Product List

Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[101650]

$9.00

Wood Textures Designer Series Paper Stack

[144177]

$10.00

Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad

[126949]

$6.50

Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad

[126970]

$6.50

1/4" Copper Trim

[144179]

$6.00

Daffodil Delight 1/4" Double-Stitched Ribbon

[144116]

$7.00

Vellum 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[101856]

$8.00

Wood Words Clear-Mount Bundle

[145316]

$46.75

Mini Stampin' Dimensionals

[144108]

$4.00

Make it Monday

2017-07-31T22:17:00.000-07:00

I hope everyone had a great weekend. We cooled off at my Sister and brother-in-law house...they have a pool and we pretty much just invite ourselves over:) And then yesterday the kids went with Grandma to the community pool followed by McDonalds then they had a flat tire when they were done so that made for a complete kid-free afternoon. I did some things around the house and enjoyed the quietness....it was awesome! That doesn't happen enough around here.

Today's Make it Monday is a color challenge that was posted on our team page.

Product List

Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[101650]

$9.00

Pool Party 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[122924]

$8.00

Perfect Plum 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[101889]

$8.00

Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad

[126982]

$6.50

Perfect Plum Classic Stampin' Pad

[126963]

$6.50

Very Vanilla 1/2" (1.3 Cm) Lace Trim

[141672]

$7.00

Crafting Forever Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[143958]

$20.00

Timeless Textures Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[140517]

$20.00

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

[145372]

$30.00

Glue Dots

[103683]

$5.25

Make it Monday.

2017-07-24T16:08:00.001-07:00

Happy Monday! Well 17 days left! Once again that's all I have to say about that...LOL

I missed last Monday and was going to share these cards from card class BUT I started something....painting. A couple weeks ago I painted my boys' bedroom and last week I started the playroom and hallway. Its all done except the baseboards and door trims. I still need to put everything back on the walls and put stuff back where it belongs. I am trying to reorganize things as I go. I am also trying to get rid of the kids' junk as I go. They have SO much crap! It's unbelievable! The book shelf looks like a hot mess with their all over it. They are little hoarders and love to save every little piece of paper and toy. My Mom is great at helping me get them to get rid of stuff. She and Bentley already went through lots BUT there's still lots more to go through. I am also trying to redesign my little craft corner of the room. I am also finished painting my shelf I use for my stamps and punches. I did a white wash finish and lets just say it took a little more time than I thought it would....plus it was my first time so I kinda learned as I went BUT I think it's going to turn our nice. Once I am all done I will share the room with everyone:)

Here are the cards we made in card class.

This one is my favorite! I CASED from another Stampin Up! Demo Susan Wong. Thanks for the inspiration!

I hope everyone has a fabulous week!

Make it Monday

2017-07-10T15:23:00.000-07:00

Five weeks and three days left until school starts! The arguing and fighting back and forth...I'm so over it. Then there's the playing and getting along moments that do happen BUT they are so loud. Is it possible for them to play nice quietly...I don't think so. That's all I have to say about that...rant over.

This week's card is once again a sketch challenge within my team I am part of. And can you believe it I was the random winner and get to pick out a new stamp set! Now what will decide on? I am so indecisive...it's a good thing my upline Suzie Barnes is on the Stampin' Up! incentive trip in Thailand right now so that gives me a few extra days to decide.

I knew whatever the challenge was this week I wanted to try and use the new Foil Frenzy DSP. This is what I came up with. I love fast and easy cards! Sometimes that's all I have time for and this card requires no STAMPING! I had left over "Happy Birthday" dies and knew I wanted to incorporate that into my card. At first I wasn't sure about it, it's so bright and shiny and kind of hurt my eyes when I kept looking at it...LOL.

Product List

Foil Frenzy Specialty Designer Series Paper

[144125]

$13.00

Berry Burst 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[144243]

$8.00

Lemon Lime Twist 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[144245]

$8.00

Happy Birthday Thinlits Die

[143700]

$20.00

Glitter Enamel Dots

[144200]

$7.00

Make it Monday

2017-07-03T17:12:00.002-07:00

Well...it's been forever since I have done one of these post. Over the weekend I participated in a team color challenge and loved the color combo so much I thought I would share it. I needed a little push to throw together a quick card and I got to use some new product for the first time. I got some chores and errands done earlier today and we are having left overs for dinner so this gives me a little time to type up a quick post:)
P.S. Who doesn't love having leftovers?! It's almost like a night off from cooking!

I hope everyone has a Happy and safe Forth of July!

I would LOVE for you to join my Facebook group!

Product List

Night Of Navy 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[100867]

$8.00

Flirty Flamingo 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[141416]

$8.00

Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[100730]

$9.00

Silver Foil Sheets

[132178]

$4.00

Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad

[126970]

$6.50

Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad

[141397]

$6.50

Wood Words Clear-Mount Bundle

[145316]

$46.75

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$4.00

Whisper White 1/8" Sheer Ribbon

[144172]

$6.00

Rhinestone Basic Jewels

[144220]

$5.00

July Blogging Friends Blog Hop

2017-07-01T02:00:00.000-07:00

It's JULY!!!! And I am back! The last 2-3 months have been NUTS but I am so glad I took the time to create and join the hop this month. School is out...which means lots of chaos at my house. Not like there wasn't chaos before but now with 3 kids home ALL day LONG it can get pretty crazy around here. Only 6 weeks until school starts and I CANNOT wait! The littlest one will start Kindergarten sooooooo that will be interesting.

So what I have been up to? Well....we went on an AWESOME vacation in April, lots of baseball, lots of field trips and school activities, then lots more baseball. Thankfully we will get a couple months before it starts up again. I am enjoying some down time. I am enjoying long mornings at home {even if they are crazy}, I am enjoying not having to leave the house, I am enjoying doing NOTHING! My Summer to-do list hasn't gotten any shorter yet. I think I finally chose a paint color. I think I went through about 10 or so samples. All the gray colors look so blue in my house BUT I think I have narrowed it down to two.

This months theme is watercolor. I LOVE watercoloring. I chose this card because it is simple. You simply get your aqua wet and squeeze the water on the shimmer paper, then take the ink from your stamp pad with the aqua painter and let loose on your paper. I got mine a little too wet and it took awhile to dry plus it curled up the paper a little BUT I still love the way it turned out. This is one of the new in-colors Berry Burst. LOVE it!!!

Let's see what Jodi has created this month.....I bet it's AWESOME!!!

Crystal Komara

Anna Conetta Masciovecchio

Leanne Dillon Johnson

I would LOVE for you to join me on Facebook!!!! Once I reach 100 members I am going to have an awesome give-a-way!!!

April Blogging Friends Blog Hop

2017-04-01T02:00:00.000-07:00

Hello Friends! April is here!!! Another great hop this month. This months theme is YELLOW! Anything and everything YELLOW! I had a couple ideas right away. I aways try and work with what I have on hand. A couple months ago I got the Honeycomb embossing and the hostess set Pun Intended, so i knew I wanted to create a stamp using the Happy Bee-day stamp with the cute little Bee. The second card I created I wanted to use the Sunburst Thinly {I've had this one for months and this is they first time using it}. I also used both of these in yesterdays card class...two for one deal!

I hope you enjoy the cards I created and they inspire you!

Join my Facebook Group today! For current classes and inspiration!

Let's hop on over to see what Leanne has for us this month.

Crystal Komara

Anna Conetta Masciovecchio

Mary Blocher

Jessica Mink

Leanne Dillon Johnson

Michelle Clarke

Lorene Yoshimura-Tanigawa

Mary Ann Rossiter

Tammy Hibbit Gill

Rick Adkins

March Blogging Friends Blog Hop

2017-03-01T02:00:00.000-08:00

WOW.....March is already here! February was kinda the calm before the storm....the next 3 months are going to be crazy. I know a lot of you can relate. This year we signed up our youngest for T-Ball so we will have 3 kids playing baseball this year. It's already nuts and we have only just started. I barely have time now to craft and create...so thankful for this hop and my monthly class that keep me going:)

This month's theme for our blog hop is Sale-a-Bration. I am sharing this super cute calendar I made. When I first saw this set I knew I had to get it. It reminded me of my BFF and I started thinking right away what I could make her with this set. I immediately made her a little desktop calendar and popped it in the mail. Since then I have made another and this one I am going to give to another good friend. I colored both with the new watercolor pencils in the Occasions catalog. They are super easy to use and I just love the way these turned out.

The first one is the one I made for my BFF.

This is the one I made for the hop and will be giving it to a friend.

Cell phone photos...sorry very poor quality!

I am hoping to reach 100 members in my Facebook group....help me by reaching this goal! Once I reach 100 members I am going to have an awesome Give-a-away!!! Join my group and stayed tuned!!!

Lets see what Jodi has created for us today!

Crystal Komara

Anna Conetta Masciovecchio

Leanne Dillon Johnson

Michelle Clarke

Lorene Yoshimura-Tanigawa

Mary Ann Rossiter

Tammy Hibbit Gill

Rick Adkins

Lisa Harvey Reber

February Blogging Friends Blog Hop

2017-02-01T02:00:00.000-08:00

Hello Friends!!! I am so excited to be back this month and we have a guest joining us...Tami White! December was quite hectic and I was unable to pre-order any of the new goodies from the Occasions catalog so I had to skip January's hop.

I was kinda stumped as to what I was going to do for the theme "Love". I didn't order the popular Sealed with Love Bundle {SUPER CUTE bundle by the way}. I have a couple sets that have love in them but I really wanted to do a watercolor card. I always have these "visions" in my head BUT most of the time my visions never turn out the way I want them to....like this one. I would have liked the colors to blend a little better. Out of the ones I did I liked this one the best.

I used Shimmery white cardstock {which I LOVE} and my Aqua painters to create the background. I initially wanted more layers but it was covering up the background that I wanted to show off. I love adding little nips of ribbon and twine.

Let's see what Jodi has made today!

Anna Conetta Masciovecchio

Tami White

Crystal Komara

Libby Fens

Mary Blocher

Danica Ferrante

Deborah Smart

Jessica Mink

Jodi Skrip Horsley

Leanne Dillon Johnson

Michelle Clarke

Lorene Yoshimura-Tanigawa

Mary Ann Rossiter

Tammy Hibbit Gill

Rick Adkins

Lisa Harvey Reber

Jenny Lane

I would to see some new friends in my Facebook Group!

December Blogging Friends Blog Hop

2016-12-01T02:00:00.000-08:00

I am so excited for this month! I LOVE Christmas! And we have Brian King joining us this month...SUPER EXCITING! My life cannot get any busier right now, I am sure all of you are just as busy. My older boys both have birthday's in the month of December, I am sure you've seen that mentioned before:) Plus we have other family birthdays in December and my Husbands birthday the first week of January and 2 nephews and a niece with January birthday as well. It's a busy time of year. Oh and we will have twin nieces born sometime this month as well!!!! 

Okay this month I chose to do a couple super easy simple and very easy duplicatable cards. I whipped these up in no time and I am thinking I might even use them in class this weekend. Yes I haven't even designed cards for card class yet!

I hope you like my easy super simple cards. Lets see what Jodi has for us this time around. 

     Rick Adkins

    Brian King

      Crystal Komara

Anna Conetta Masciovecchio

Anne Power

Mary Blocher

Danica Ferrante

Deborah Smart

Jessica Mink

Jodi Skrip Horsley

Leanne Dillon Johnson 

Michelle Clarke

Lorene Yoshimura-Tanigawa

Mary Ann Rossiter

Tammy Hibbit Gill 

Jenny Lane Gauthier

November Blogging Friends Blog Hop

2016-11-01T02:00:00.000-07:00

Busy crazy times going on over here! I cannot believe It's November! Not much time until Christmas and birthdays. The weather here has definitely turned over the last couple weeks, which is unusual for us here in Northern California. I just heard on the news that this is the rainiest October in like 60 years. Usually it's 100 degrees still towards the end of the month. Every year we go to the pumpkin patch it's always blistering HOT but this year it was perfect Fall weather.

This month's theme was to create something using Lovely as a Tree stamp set....well I do not have this set! I know I must be the only Demonstrator without it! I don't even have any "tree" sets. I wasn't going to participate but then my fellow hoppers here gave me some suggestions and then I was mentally going through all my sets and remembered I have Sprinkles of Life which has that cut little tree. So BAM! I had a tree and had to get to work considering I wasn't planning on participating so therefore needed to make time to create.

Here is what I came up with....I hope you like it!

Crystal Komara      

Anna Conetta Masciovecchio  

Libby Fens 

Anne Power 

Danica Ferrante 

Deborah Smart 

Jessica Mink-You are here!

Jodi Horsley

Leanne Johnson

                           Michelle Clarke

Mary Ann Rossiter 

Tammy Gill   

Rick Adkins   

Lisa Reber 
 

October Blogging Friends Blog Hop

2016-10-01T02:00:00.000-07:00

WOW!!! It's already October! I cannot believe how fast these last few months have just blown by. My Christmas to do list is slowly approaching and there is no time to get an early start on any of it. Two of my boys' birthdays are in December so it gets a little crazy around here. SO let the craziness begin!!!

This month's hop theme is anything NEW from the Holiday Catalog....since it's October I deduced to share the cards we made at last card class. I just love these little cookie cutter guys so much! And the Christmas ones are just as cute.

This is not my card design.....I CASED this layout from Erica Cerwin at Pink Buckaroo Designs {she's one of my favorite Demos}

I cannot wait to create some scrapbook pages using this set. I have so many Halloween photos to scrapbook and these little guys will be super cute on my pages!

Now lets see what Jodi has created for us:)

Crystal Komara

Anna Conetta Masciovecchio

Leanne Dillon Johnson

Michelle Clarke

Lorene Yoshimura-Tanigawa

Jenny Lane

September Blogging Friends Blog Hop.

2016-09-01T02:00:00.000-07:00

WOW!!!! I can't believe its been a year since we started this Blog Hop!!! This month to help us celebrate we have a special guest....Shellie!!! Whoohooo!!!

So this months theme will be celebration in honor of our one year birthday of doing this blog hop. My projects this month are simple {as always}, cute, and very duplicatable. I used the "lets celebrate" stamp on both my card from the Balloon Celebration set.

I am loving the watercoloring technique right now and just made a similar card in card class last week. It's so easy. I cannot wait to start designing this months class using the halloween cookie cutter set available in the new Holiday Catalog.

I hope you enjoy my projects this month:)

I watercolored on shimmery white cardstock

To celebrate this month I am giving away a past Paper Pumpkin kit. This was a very special Paper Pumpkin...this was the kit to celebrate Paper Pumpkin's Third Birthday and it could be yours!

Comment below telling me your favorite stamp set in the annual catalog and I will draw a winner!!!

Lets see what Jodi has created this month!!!!

Crystal Komara

Shelli Gardner{Guest Blogger}

Anna Conetta Masciovecchio

Jessica Mink{that's me...you are here}

Jodi Skrip Horsley

Leanne Dillon Johnson

Michelle Clarke

Lorene Yoshimura-Tanigawa

Jenny Lane

I hope you enjoyed this month's blog hop!!! Don't forget to leave a comment below to enter to WIN!!

August Blogging Friends Blog Hop

2016-08-01T02:00:00.000-07:00

Well...here we are another month has past and a new one is beginning. This month's blog hop theme is Taste of the Tropics ....flamingo’s, pineapples, ocean and sunshine. I recently got the new Pineapple background stamp so I decided to center my projects around this awesome pineapple stamp. I created the while Hello card and then I was going to do a scrapbook page but then decided to get out my heat gun and do some embossing and that's when I did the black, copper, and gold pineapples. LOVE the Pineapple right now. I hope you enjoy my projects this month!

Continue on to see what Jodi has created.....

Crystal Komara

Anna Conetta Masciovecchio

Danica Ferrante

Jessica Mink {that's me....You are here}

Jodi Horsley

Michelle Clarke

Lorene Yoshimura-Tanigawa

Mary Ann Rossiter

Tammy Gill

Rick Adkins

Maui.

2016-07-30T14:17:00.000-07:00

Ryan and I were in paradise for a week. And we were there with no KIDS. A week. A whole week! Need I say more. It was relaxing, beautiful, and so awesome.
It was quite crazy leading up this awesome vacation. The crazy busy school year was just ending {we left the day after the last day of school}, we had just went camping on the holiday weekend {a week before we left}, baseball season was still going on, I had just went on Easton's overnight field trip a week before we left and 2 days before we went camping.....needless to say we needed this vacation. We needed this vacation for our sanity. We needed this vacation for us...for our 10 year anniversary!

Everyone asked us what we did while we were there....our answer...nothing! We relaxed! We did things on our time and our schedule....it was wonderful! There was only one thing we had planned and that was for Ryan to golf at The Plantation Course in Kapalua. Other than the golf we had nothing planned, that's the way we wanted it. When we were there 10 years ago on our honeymoon we did tourist activities and we didn't want none of this time.

Photo overload ahead!

Whoohoooo...We made it!!!!

Having some drinks while we wait for our room.

This road we called the Road of Death. We took a drive one day and the highway turned into a one lane road....like seriously a one lane road with no where to pull over, super windy, and with hello tall brush. It was just a tad bit scary.

But the road of death eventually brought us here....an awesome little swimming hole!

Love all the bright colorful flowers and scenery...everything was lush and so green!

This was on our hotel balcony.....this partial ocean view was just fine with us.

***WARNING...GOLF PICTURES OVERLOAD*** With views like these it was hard not to take a million photos.

The doors that open up to the First hole.

Breakfast at the Plantation House.

Yummy!

Sunset at the Kapalua Plantation Course Restaurant.

Sunset on Kaanapali Beach

This made me a little nervous when Ryan brought the phone out in the water...eeeeekkkk!

Our Hotel had a walk up bar about 5 feet from the beach...Room Charge PLEASE!

FaceTime with the boys at the beach...they thought that was pretty cool.

About the second day or so we bought these little plastic cups to take our booze down to the beach...can you guess what mine is filled with?!

The wind was blowing so bad it was pelting us in the face.

We couldn't take any more of the blowing sand so we moved to the pool.

Happy Hour is the place to be!

A mom of boys will always find hot wheels/matchbox cars in the bottom of a bag.

We were waking up so early coming down to Lahaina was awesome because there was no one around and we scored on front row parking.

The streets of Lahaina.

After a couple days of searching for some "good" coffee we finally found Bad Ass and we drove the super far 3 miles every morning to Lahaina to get a fresh cup.

While walking around Lahaina we would walk past this every day...so true this is!

Ryan's favorite meal the entire week, he couldn't stop talking about it.

Oh and I found a lego dude in my purse...only a mom of boys!

CHEERS TO A WONDERFUL VACATION! We had such an awesome trip and cannot wait to go back!

I love him! Happy 10 year Anniversary to US!