Close to my Heart - Find you Style

8x8 layout (me & my angel friend MaryJane

I'm so tired tonight had a wonderful day going out shopping with my hubby, my friend and her hubby today! I wanted to come on and post some cards before bedtime. I made the layout (above and the 4 cards below for my workshop last weekend...they were samples on what you can do with the January Stamp of the Month called "Find your Style". I'm LOVING this set and you can only purchase it until Monday, January 31st so don't forget to place your order with me before then if you don't want to miss out on this beautiful set! You can email me at valerie1011@q.com.

Sweet Baby Ella!

My Dear Friend Christine's son and daughter-in-law had a little angel in April and this is what I made for her room! Both were made with my Cricut!

Wanted to come on and say hello and share a little something. I have been really busy this summer..lots going on but I'm trying to keep up with some little things I have made in the last month.

The week before the shower Christine and I got together to make some little things for the shower and here they are! These were also made with my Cricut machine.

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Christine added some embelishments & some adorable pictures of Ella on these and pinned them up on the wall...they were ADOABLE!!!

A Card for my Dear Friend!

I made this card for a VERY dear friend of mine Mary Ann...I figured I needed to start making cards for people and actually send them out! I'm SO very bad about this! She received it loved it and even framed it...can you believe MY creation is up on someone's wall he he! I used to work with Mary Ann about 8 years ago at a law firm and we were very close friends..I do miss her so much and we recently had lunch together..boy it makes me wish we would have gotten together a lot more the last few years! I'm just so grateful for a wonderful friends! In fact, I'm blessed with SO many & I'm also blessed with a WONDERFUL family! I thank God for them each and every day and I'm so glad I will be spending tomorrow with them on this special Thanksgiving Day! I hope you all have a Blessed & Happy Thanksgiving and God Bless you all!!! Hugs!

Sunday Fun!

This last Sunday my Angel Friend Mary Jane came over to spend sometime together. We had a great time of stamping and chit chatting and getting caught up since it had been a while since we hung out. We made a couple of cards with the new set she just bought from Stampin Up called delightful decorations..what a lovely set this is! We looked on Splitcoast Stampers to get inspration since we couldn't get started on our own haha! We got both these wonderful ideas from some ladies there...I should have wrote down their names to give them credit but I didn't..so sorry! Anyways...here are the two cards we made...

Helloooo Kitty!

Today wasn't a perfect day...last night I went to bed with a HORRIBLE sore throat. I tossed and turned all night long. It hurt so bad to swallow and drink anything...I was afraid I was getting strep so, I drank some hot tea with honey real slow and took an antibiotic since I had a refill from the last time I had an infection. Today I feel a tiny bit better but still not 100% I'm hoping that medication kicks in no matter what it is I have.

This Sat. is Amanda's sweet 16th birthday! This is Trish's adorable daughter that I simply adore. I thought I'd make her a card...she loves the little goth hello kitty so I printed out a coloring page image of hello kitty from online and added a digital skull that I had from Toxic Desirez she makes awesome digital scraps to use for online tags and digital scrapbooking!

Stay tuned for tomorrow's post...Modern Sugar Blvd. is releasing a bunch of new digital images and I will have some cards to show you done with some of the new stuff!

What a WONDERFUL day I had!

I had soooo much fun today! I was invited to my FIRST ever tea party!!! I have wanted to do this for so long already and I was talking to one of my friends Christine one day and I don't remember what brought it up. She told me her and her stamping/neirbor/friends get together every so ofter for tea parties and I just thought that was SO cool! So she said that the next time they have one they will invite me and they did!!! Anne Marie had the tea party at her house. She had dropped off the most adorable invite here at my house last week. I took a picture to share it...isn't it so pretty???So we walked into Anne Marie's home and WOW the table was set up so beautiful. Cute little tea cups and yummy choc. dipped cherries, scones with lemon and some other kind of spread and chicken salad sandwiches and more sweets and more sweets! I couldn't believe my eyeballs!!! haha! (she's probably laughing at me reading this because I can't remember what kind of spread it was that she used but YUM! that's all I gotta say to it all! I'm so mad at myself that I took my camera and didn't take pictures it would have been so much fun scrapping my very first tea party! I so enjoyed it all so very much and the best of all was the company...Anne Marie, Tierza , Stephanie & Christine are all such wonderful ladies and I'm so BLESSED to have them all in my life! Thank you Anne Marie for ALL of that it was so awesome!

So as soon as I got home guess what I did? I got online searching for my own tea set hahahaha! I so want to have a tea party! It's so much fun!!!

The Angel Company Appreciation Party

This last Sunday I had an appreciation party for my circle of angels to thank them for joining the club. Last month was the last month for the club. I had food, games, prizes & gifts for all of them and we had LOTS of fun!!!

These are the little goodies that I made for them. The first picture...I made sunflower pens, second picture are mini comp journals and the third picture are sunflower pins. As you can tell I tried my best to go with a sunflower theme since it is fall and all the pretty sunflowers are out EVERYWHERE!

Here are the make n' takes that they all got to do. The first picture is the coaster boxes they made and the two others are cards.

Oh and I almost forgot to share with you all the cards the circle girls made. At the end of the party I had a contest for them to make a card with all the supplies that were on the table (from all the other projects). They freaked thinking ok...I come here to learn how to make cards now I'm on the spot to make one all by myself and no help??? HAHA! I wanted to show them that they can really do it on their own and they did!!! Check them out...they all did a WONDERFUL job don't ya think?

Another TAC Sketch & Fun with Trish

This was another sketch challenge and my card that I did for the TAC message board.

Then I've been promising to post the project and cards that me and Trish made at her house last Sat. when I went over to stamp with her.

First we made these cute little designer bags. She found the tutorial for them here http://cambriaturnbow.blogspot.com/2008/07/designer-bags.html . Aren't they the CUTEST things ever??? They are soooo simple to make!

I also made one last week for this VERY sweet girl that works at the Vet's office where we take our dogs. She is always so sweet to us and my doggies so I filled it up with kisses and lip gloss.

We also made these cute little cards with last month stamp of the month from The Angel Company.

And last but not least a picture I took with my bestest friend Trish and her baby. We always want to take a picture together and seem to always forget. I'll try my best to get one the next time I see her.