It's All About The Journey

L Is For Love

Hello Ladies. I hope that all of you had a wonderful weekend.  I have a little Valentines Day Favor and card to share with all of you. I am making them for all of the children in our family. So after I finished one of them last night I decided I would post it to my by blog and participate in the Pals Paper Arts , Anything But A card Challenge .   Now all I have to do is finish up the remaining six that are all ready for me to put together.

Here are the Favor and the 3"x3" card that I made to go with it.

Here is what I used to make the set.

The favor was made by using the Stampin'UP! Fancy Favor die . This is the third time I am making little favors for the children. As far as I am concerned this die certainly has paid for itself. Not just for the price I  paid for it but for the huge smiles I have gotten from the children. I love this die.  I used the Sending Love specialty paper #117153, Whisper White and Chocolate chip card-stock. I also used Chocolate Chip ink. To make the hearts I used the Full Heart punch  and the
Scalloped heart of Heart embosslit# 117332 . Love this too. The little pink heart was made by using the Small heart # 117193. I popped up the hearts to make them 3 dimensional. I added both Whisper White and Pretty In pink grosgrain ribbon. Inside my favor I added lollipops and Hershey kisses.  

The card is a 3x3note card.I used Whisper white, Chocolate Chip and Pretty In Pink card-stock. I used a strip of  matching paper from the favor box so that it would tie back to the box. I used the Pinking Hearts Border punch# 117649  on the top and the bottom of the paper. I used the sentiment from the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set. To finish off my little love note card I added a button from the Latte collection and used white thread.  For the boys I used the red designer papers from the Sending Love collection. I hope to get them finished by next week. I can hardly wait to see their little smiles again when they are each given one.

By the way the lollipops were purchased at Wal-mart in the candy selection. They were only 1.00 each. Aren't they pretty? I hope they taste as good as they look. :)

  Do you like scrapbooking or digital scrapbooking? There is a brand new community for scrapbookers called Soul Scrappers. Erika Martin of Stampin' Mama Designs has put together a brand new site complete with forums, galleries, daily challenges and so much more. Even if your not a scrapbooker go and check it out. Erika explains why she has opened up Scrapbooking community a lot better then I can.   It truly is an awesome community to be a part of.  Hope to see you there. :)

I thought that I would share just 2 photos of Wayne that I took yesterday afternoon.

 

 Yup! Wayne was up on the roof yesterday and today too. We have a big rain storm coming tonight lasting until very late Monday night. We are going to be in a flood watch tomorrow until Tuesday morning.  Lots of high winds are expected tomorrow by mid afternoon with very heavy rain and even some thunder. So the snow had to come off of the roof. Poor guy. This makes the third year in a row that Wayne has had to go up on the roof.

What  a good sport. I asked him to smile for me after he had come down from the roof of the house and the garage . And he did. :) I love taking photos of him.   
 

I think that I have taken up enough of your time so I will stop here. Thank you very much for stopping by my blog. It means a lot to me. Stay safe, stay warm and don't forget.........Smile. :)

 

 

Another Valentines Day Card And Some Photos.

Hello Ladies. I made a card today and I would love to share it with you. This card did not take much time to make because I used a lot of scraps that I had hanging around. Normally I do not keep my scrap card-stock or DP but I decided that it was time for me to start saving some of it. Now that I am using my punches more I've found that keeping  my scraps sure has come in handy. As always this was a very easy card to make.

Here is my card.

   

Here is what I used.

All products are from Stampin'UP! The card-stock that I used is Very Vanilla, Real red, And Pretty In Pink. The DP paper I used is Sending Love Specialty # 117153. The ink used is read Red and versamark. Punches used are: Extra Large Fancy Flower # 118073 Pinking Hearts border # 117649 and the Small heart # 117193. I used the Polka Dots Impressions folder # 117335 and the Finial Folder . The Stamp sets that I used are: With ALl My heart # 118623and Grateful greetings from the last mini catalog. I hope this set is brought back because I love it. Last but not least I used a pink button from the Sorbet button collection.

First I would like to share two photos of one of Wayne's favorite dinners that I make for him.  It's called Sweet & Tangy Pot Roast. If you would like the recipe hop on over to my Personal blog. You will find it here.

 
Cooking in my crock-pot.

 
 Here it is on the plate and all set for Wayne to eat.  He always thanks me after he eats what I cook. Isn't that sweet ?

It is still snowing here in NH. The grand total from Monday until now is 9-10 inches. I don't think that we will get more then an inch today but who knows.:) Tomorrow is suppose to be a snow free day, Yay!  On Monday I stated that I would share with you what Wayne and I did for the weekend. Instead of posting all of the photos I decided to make a Smilebox and share it with you that way. If you do not have high speed cable then it will take awhile for you to view it.  If you feel the book moves to slow then just click on the arrow so that you can get through the photos quickly. Don't forget I add music to my Smilebox. So don't forget to turn your speakers down.

Make a Smilebox photobook

I know, not a very exciting life huh? What you just saw is how Wayne and I spend most of our weekends in the winter. It is just too darn cold or stormy to do much else. We do not ski or snow board so we live a very quiet life. But it's our life and we are quite happy to have it.:)

I hope that all of you are having a good week so far. I will be back this weekend. Now, I am off to do a few things that need to be done. Stay safe, stay warm and Smile. :)

Love Ya Much and Two Photos

Hello Ladies. I hope that all of you had a wonderful weekend. Last night I made another Valentine card that I would like to share with all of you. I made this card using the Pals paper Arts challenge for this week. I'm a little late getting my card done but it's done and with one one day left  to spare. If you have time go take a peek at what  the designers made. You will not be disappointed.

Here is my card.

 
  
  Here is what I used.

Chocolate Chip, Real red,Pretty In Pink and Very Vanilla card-stock. The ink that I used is Chocolate Chip. To make the flower lighter in color I used the stamping off technique. I used the Stampin'UP! Scallop Heart of hearts Embosslits die # 117332, Perfect Polka Dots Impressions Folder #117335, the Finial press folder,Small Heart punch #117193 and the Full Heart punch. The DP I used is Sending Love Specialty #117153. The stamp sets that I used are: Well Scripted # 118601 and the flower Image is from Of the Earth Level One hostess set. Last but not least I added a Real Red grosgrain ribbon and a button from the Late buttons located the Big catalog.

Wow! I just looked at the photo of my card  and noticed that the right hand side looks a little smaller then the right hand side. I must have cut it off a little when I did the editing. Sorry about that. :)

Personal Ramblings

Today, I went for a 30 minute walk. It was very cloudy and 37 degrees outdoors. It was late afternoon when I left my house but I was determined to get out and walk before the snow storm started. I knew it would not be a good idea for me to go too far so I  went for my walk  on a major route. It is a busy road but because I was working with a limited amount of time and because I had not been out walking since late November a semi-flat surface and a fast route was the way for me to go. Ladies, if you like to take walks and do go walking by yourself like I do most of the time please make sure you bring a cell phone with you. Today, while out walking a big pickup truck  drove right into the break down lane where I was. Instead of stopping  or driving away he slowly approached me until I pulled my cell phone out of my coat pocket. As soon as he saw my phone go to my ear he drove back onto the  main road. I saw him as he drove away. He was alone in the truck. This is not the first time that this has happened to me which is why I never walk the same route every day that I am able to take my walks. It has happened to me on side streets, remote areas and now a busy route. Each time it's happened I've whipped out my phone and called Wayne and thankfully, each time the man in the vehicle was spooked enough to drive away. I will never know if anyone was going to do harm to me because I had my cell phone with me. Just thought I would share that with you. I have 2 photos of me coming home from my walk because Wayne took the camera out and waited for me.:)

 

Did I mention that it was very windy? I'm glad that I had very warm clothes on because the walk back home was very cold.  The snow looked yucky ? Not now though. It's  snowing so the snow is white and pretty again.

 
  

Wayne took more  photos of me but I did not want to post a lot of photos of just me.  

I do have a few more photos to share of what Wayne and I did this weekend. Nothing exciting but the photos document the things we do and one day we will be able to look back and recall what we did on a certain weekend.That is one of the reasons why I have so many photos of  he and I and of our family when ever I can get them.  Next time I post a card or a project I will upload them to my blog.

It is now 3 AM so I had better stop typing for now. I hope that all of you have a fantastic week. Thanks so much for stopping by. Stay safe, stay warm and Smile. :)