Simple Woman’s Daybook

I’m going to start posting my Daybook on Monday’s since I will be posting for Paper Maniac on Tuesday’s.

FOR TODAY November 22, 2010

Outside my window...snow and melting snow.  I love living in Boise where the snow doesn’t stick around very long!
I am thinking...about the things I am planning for our craft day on Saturday.
I am thankful for...my family.
From the kitchen...clean, clean, clean and then maybe some rice Krispy treats!
I am wearing...navy Yellowstone sweat shirt and gray sweat pants.
I am creating...haven’t planned it yet but probably a couple of M5D cards.
I am going...to fix my outside faucet.
I am reading...the same two books.  I haven’t been reading much lately. :-(
I am hoping...that the weather will be good so that my sister can come up for Thanksgiving.
I am hearing...the Young and the Restless!
Around the house...I’m going to try to do my very best everyday and then start every new day fresh! (see the photo I’m sharing)
One of my favorite things...pumpkin pie.
A few plans for the rest of the week:  Thanksgiving Dinner!
Here is a picture for thought I am sharing..

Sorry for the picture quality but it says, “It’s a new day, a fresh start.”  I’m going to read this out loud to myself every morning!

If you would like to take part, go to the Simple Woman’s Daybook blog and share your link.

Blessings,

Christine

October Giveaway Winner

Now that it’s the first of November, the October contest has to come to a close.

The winner of the October Comment to Win contest is the lovely Kim.  I’m so happy that her number came up.  She has visited my blog almost since the beginning and has not been feeling well herself these days.  I’m so happy that I can do a little something to cheer her up.

Kim lives in the UK so I’m going to find a prize just for her that she may not be able to get as easily in Europe.

Congratulations Kim!!!

Blessings,

Christine

Owl Moon’s Maiden

Once again, I fell in love with a new image from McMahon Vintage and just couldn’t resist making a card with it.

She is called Owl Moon’s Maiden. Isn’t she just lovely! I let the image do all the work and made a very simple card using Basic Grey Kioshi DP and some beautiful Zva Crystals. This set is a long set with a lot of flourishes and I broke them up to use several times on different cards. Big money saver there!!!

How is your Halloween going so far? I hope you have a lot of kids tonight to get all your candy!!! *giggle*

Blessings,

Christine

Challenges:
Get Sketchy--sketch
A Spoon Full of Sugar--Die cutting and punches

Pink Halloween

Happy Pink Halloween!!!

For Pink Saturday today, I thought I’d share some pink puppies I found around the internet!

I have no clue what she is supposed to be, but she is adorable!

And I couldn’t resist a little butterfly…

…or a tu-tu!

And what about this little pirate!

I have such a soft spot for Schnauzers…and flowers!

And the little pom princess is the cutest of all!

Well, did you think I could leave the feline crew out?

Just a couple more!

I have no words.

And lastly, I’ll leave you with some beautiful pink Halloween treats!!!

If you would like to participate in Pink Saturday, go see Beverly at How Sweet the Sound. She’s definitely the hostess with the mostess.

Blessings,

Christine

A Vintage Ghost

When Sue from McMahon Five Designs first sent me this image, I immediately feel in love with it!  There is something about this lady that I instantly loved.  I colored her face and added a few more shadows to her costume then cut her out, tearing the bottom.  This is my favorite card in a long time and I can’t even tell you why.  LOVE it!!!  Okay, enough gushing about my own card!  I’ll just get this posted.  There are soooo many digital images being released today at McMahon Five Designs – some are from Shawne at Studio 313, some McMahon Vintage images as well as some from Jessica Original!  Let’s see if I can go find some!

I’m in love with this set!!!  You have got to go over and check out what my DT sister Kristine made with it!  You will be blown away.  You can click on the picture to got to the M5D page or on Kristine’s name to go to her blog!  Leave her some love while you’re there.  It’s such a beautiful gift piece!

McMahon Vintage also released a few Fall/Halloween images!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Halloween’s Witch and Owl Moon’s Maiden.  I’m currently working on a card with Owl Moon’s Maiden.  I’ll probably be back later today with that one!

See ya’ later alligator!

Blessings,

Christine

Deets:
Medium-Copics, Distress Ink; Image-McMahon Vintage; Ink-Distress Ink; Paper-The Girl Paperie--altered with Distress Ink; Punch-Marvy; Chipboard house--Maya Road.

Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp and Show--spooky
Kaboodle Doodles--Contains a bat
The Pink Elephant--Brown and orange
A Crafty Little Place--spooky
Sampin’ for the Weekend--Halloween/fall
Crazy 4 Challenges--Halloween
Creative Inspiration--Halloween/fall
Simon Says--punches

Creative Card Crew--Punch it
Crafty Creations--Halloween or perhaps, autumn
Dutch Dare--Halloween or purple, black, green, orange
Paper Play--A haunting we will go
Daring Cardmakers--Halloween

Shouting from the Rooftops!!!

No, I’m not really on the roof but this is the best place for me to shout out—my neighbors would think I’m insane!

It’s now official, I’m going on the Brave Girls Alumni Cruise!!!  Making Brave Girl art on the open seas with a stop off at Nassau!  What could be better for a cold day in March!  Let’s just hope I can get a passport in time.  If not, all’s okay.  I’ll just stay on the ship and make more art!!!

Wings that Sing

Ever since I went to Brave Girls camp, I’ve had a spot in my heart for birds, much like how I love butterflies.  There is a lot of symbolism in birds and this sentiment is just one of the things I love about birds, especially song birds. In case you can’t see it, it says “Be as a bird perched on a frail branch the she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, know she has wings.” – Victor Hugo

This is another of the Studio 313 images by Shawne that were released a couple of weeks ago. With everything else that’s been released at McMahon Five Designs and with my trip to Utah, I haven’t been able to make a card with it.  This one will be showing up again and again, I love it that much!  It’s such a good sentiment.

I used the Prima Fairy Flora paper (love this stuff) and some Zva crystals from the store!  You need to go check out all the things that Sue has in the store.  She has a ton of stuff on sale as well!!!

I mentioned that M5D is sponsoring the Sketches by Carly challenge.  What I didn’t realize at the time is that Carly is my M5D dt sister Kristine’s 12 year old daughter!!!  She draws up the sketches and her mother put’s them on the computer for her.  There aren’t very many entries yet so go check it out.  And I’ll give you a little hint.  Check out the M5D blog for a little surprise.

That’s it for today!  I hope your having a great week.  It’s cold, rainy and windy here.  That’s fall weather for sure but I hope it doesn’t freeze out the Boise State game tonight.  Have a great week!!!

Blessings,

Christine

Breast Cancer Awareness with McMahon Five Designs

Edited to add projects by my lovely design teammates!

 

Our DT Sister, Bonnie has been feeling down since learning the news that her friend, Elise was recently diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Many of us have followed Jacque's journey this year with Breast Cancer.

On my personal note, several years ago my mother fought her own battle with breast cancer and remains cancer free after all these years.  We are all affected by this disease in one form or another and we can all do one thing to protect ourselves. SELF EXAMS! It's quick and simple and can save your life.

The M5D girls rallied together this past week to not only cheer up our sweet Bonnie's spirits but to help bring Awareness to such an important issue that affects us all.

To put our efforts in action, we came up with the this

FREE Breast Cancer Bear Digital Stamp

BUT

there is one stipulation before you download him.

You have to promise to perform a self exam!

It's on God's Honor System and we know you will

do this for Yourself ...and... your Family!

As an added BONUS, we also came up with a set of 7 Breast Cancer Awareness Images to buy!

100% of PROFITS will go to

Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

Breast Cancer Bear Set

 

Here is my card with an image from this set.

 

Christmas ornament card by Kristine

 

Beautiful card by Michelle

 

Amazing card by our sweet leader, Sue

 

Refrigerator Magnet by Carolyn

 

Stunning card by Bonnie

 

We'd love it if you would help us Spread The Word by displaying one of our blinkies or badges on your blog.

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And for the blinkies that won't play nice with each other, we have this non-blinky badge. :)

Thanks for taking the time to read about this important cause.  Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could stomp out breast cancer in our children’s or grandchildren’s life times!

Have a great week.  There is so much going on here so I’ll be back very soon!!!

Blessings,

Christine

Deets:
Medium-Copics; Image-M5D; Flowers-handmade with felt and black beads; Pearls, KaiserCraft colored with Copics; Punch-Martha Stewart; Other from stash-ribbon, string of pearls.

Challenges:
Icopic Color challenge--Pink black and white with breast cancer ribbon
Sketch Saturday--sketch

Fabulous Lou Lou

Finally, I got a chance to color the Fabulous and Feathery Lou Lou!!!  Isn’t she the most fabulous lady?  This is another Studio 313 image by Shawne which you can only get at McMahon Five Designs!!!  I couldn’t help but add some sparkle to her eye shadow and her plum and tail feathers.  Oh, she is so gorgeous!!!  Maybe she’ll turn up again in another incarnation!  Let’s hope!

It’s going to be a busy week at M5D.  We’ve got a special event planned for Monday, Oct. 25 (ya that’s this Monday) plus we have another release from Studio 313.  Wow!!!  All that in one week!  I’ll tell you what, things are really hopping over there.  So many things coming down the line!  Hold onto your hats and stay tuned!!!

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I have another surprise to share with you.  I’ve been chosen to be one of two reporter/blog writer’s for Scrapbook Royalty, soon to become Charity Wings.  I met Elena and Sheila (the wonderful ladies behind Scrapbook Royalty) at Brave Girls Camp and expressed an interest in helping them out.  When they said that they needed a blog writer, I thought that was right up my alley!!!  I’ll probably make my first post this week.  I’ll be sure to let you know when it happens!!

That’s it for today!  See you Monday (or maybe even Sunday, you never know)!!!

Blessings,

Christine

Deets:
Medium-Copics; Image-Studio 313; Sentiment-Studio 313; Paper-DCWV; Pearls-KaiserCraft (colored with Copics); Button-Papertrey Ink; Punch-McGill; Other from stash-ribbon.

Challenges:
A Crafty Little Place--Easel card
Friday Sketchers--sketchers

Let’s Clown Around with Shawne

We have another adorable release from Studio 313.  Molly Clowning Around—isn’t she adorable!  I decorated the inside of the card as well.  I wanted to use the Happy Birthday sentiment that is also from Studio 313. 

Here is the complete set that you can get at McMahon Five Designs.  You get the colored version as well! Aren’t the sentiments wonderful!!!  As with most of Studio 313 designs, you may purchase this in either jpg or png format.

Now, I’m off to color the sweet Lou Lou plus, we will be having a Studio 313 release every Thursday for the foreseeable future so stay tuned!  We’ve got some wonderful images coming!!!

Plus, McMahon Five Designs is sponsoring the Sketches by Carly challenge this week.  This is a new to me challenge as I think it will be for many of you.  She’s got a great sketch so go check it out.  You may just receive a $10.00 gift certificate from McMahon Five Designs.

I hope you have a great weekend!!!  My sister and I are going down to an older part of town for a walk with the autumn leaves, maybe a little antiquing.    I love seeing all the beautiful huge trees in that part of town.  I used to live down there.  All the homes are beautiful with huge trees and a lot of color in the fall!!!

Blessings,

Christine

Deets:
Medium-Copics; Image-Studio 313; Sentiment-Studio 313; Paper-DCWV; Ribbon-Papertrey Ink; Buttons-Papertrey Ink.

Quick Little Post...

...for Friday to let you know I'm still around. I seem to have some kind of flu thing that's been keeping me down a bit. I did get to my table and create a little today but I couldn't find my camera to take a picture. I'll find it tomorrow and share then. For now, just a little Halloween joke.


Why do ghosts like bees?
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So they can sneak up behind them and say, "Boo-bees!!!"

I know, kinda lame but kinda cute!!!

Talk to you tomorrow!!! It's Friday!

Blessings,
Christine

Something Pretty

I just realized that the first thing you see on my blog is the picture of my ugly hand with the blisters so I decided to post something pretty.

Here are some of the beautiful red roses from my garden.

Yesterday we had a great time in Logan with Trisha.  We went to the Utah State University Museum of Anthropology to watch a presentation about Paganism in Modern Society.  It was quite interesting.  I really didn’t know anything about Paganism and found everything so informative.  Then we went to the movie, Life as We Know It, and then went to dinner.  It was a fun movie and I really liked it but I wanted her to end up with the other guy.  I’m not going to say anymore incase you want to go see it! *giggle*

While we were out and about we saw that our favorite antique store in Logan was having a yard sale and I found a couple of funs things.  I can’t wait to share when I get home!!!

I’ll be heading for home tomorrow.  I haven’t felt very well this weekend so I will be happy to be home.

I hope you all had a good weekend as well!!!

Blessings,

Christine

Quick Update

I felt soooo much better when I woke up this morning--very little pain left.  I had to go pick up some prescriptions this afternoon so we decided to stop by Michael’s while we were out to see if we could find anything else for our pumpkins.  We wandered around the store for an hour and neither of us spent more than $10.

Anyway, while on the way to the pharmacy, my transplant coordinator (Leann) called and said that all my test came out perfect!!! Once again, no rejection and all other tests came out beautifully!!! Leann said that Rose and I should go celebrate. We're going to the museum, dinner and a movie tomorrow with Trisha!  Trisha has to work for a couple of hours early in the morning and then we’ll go have fun! 

I mentioned yesterday that I had to have a couple of things froze of my hand.  While I was on the computer last night, I noticed that one of my blisters looked like Australia so I thought it would be fun to share!  Kinda’ gross but kinda’ fun!!!  That blister has expanded to about twice it’s size now but it doesn’t hurt unless I bump it.  I’ll be kinda happy when it bursts and starts to heal.  Ya’ know it’s kind of hard to take a photo of your right hand.  I had to turn the camera sideways to get the right angle.  The bottom one looks kinda’ like a heart!

Have a great Saturday everyone!!!!  I need to have my pumpkin done tomorrow night for a contest so when we get home, that’s what I’ll be doing for the rest of the evening.  I think it’s going to look great!

Blessings,

Christine

It’s All Okay

My tests are all over and everything checked out okay which is very good news!!!  I won’t hear about the biopsy results until later this afternoon but I’m sure they will come out fine.  They always have.

It was kind of a rough two days though.  On the first day, I saw the dermatologist and he froze off two pre-cancers on my hands and then scraped and sent two skin cancers for biopsy—one on my forehead and one on my waist.  He’s pretty sure that they will be the good kind but they need to be biopsied.  That really caused a lot of discomfort on Wednesday night.

On Thursday I had a left and right heart catheter which means that I got stuck in my left groin and in my neck on the right side.  I was in a lot of pain last night but I am feeling so much better today.  Thank goodness.  I usually breeze through heart catheters but it was pretty rough yesterday.  But all is okay today!  Yay!!!

So that’s about it for today.  I just wanted to update you.  I’ll be working on my pink pumpkins today after I go pick up some prescriptions and one more supply that I need.  I can’t wait to finish them and show them off!!!

I hope you have a great weekend!!!

Blessings,

Christine

Numbers Tag

Just a quick post tonight for my project using the Compendium of Curiosities challenge and the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge.  Once again, I was able to combine these two wonderful challenges.  Thank goodness that the CCC challenge was for two weeks because I didn’t get a chance to work on it last week.  Plus, I had a heck of time with this technique and tag—it’s a triple try!!!

I won’t get into details here and bore you but this is as much work as I have put into a simple little tag!  And to top it all off, I couldn’t get a good picture.  I only  brought a few supplies with me so I had to make do with what I had.  I went and raided my sis’ craft supplies to find the yarn to use in the tag!

I’m very sleepy tonight so I’m going to keep this short.  I’m getting up early to put some chicken soup on.  I’m going to make chicken and dumplings for dinner for when the girls get home tomorrow.  With it Columbus Day on Monday, everybody is still off work until Tuesday so no one will have to be rushing home!

I hope you all have a beautiful and peaceful Sunday!!!

Blessings,

Christine

All supplies are Tim Holtz stamps, Distress Inks, Fragments.

Oak Tree in Fall

First off, I have to apologize.  For some reason, I just haven’t felt like blogging.  I should have had this posted on Tuesday; it was ready.  But now, I’m here posting on Saturday.  Sorry to my M5D team.

I couldn’t get a very good photo without my own setup.  This photo has the image very washed out while the embellishments are all perfect.  Oh well.  The image is the beautiful Oak Tree in Fall from Studio 313.  (All the Studio 313 images come in either jpg or png.)  I wish you could see it for all of it’s glory.

The paper is from the Basic Grey Kioshi pad.  What, you say?  I altered it with a bit of Distress Ink to darken it for the fall theme.  I used one of the beautiful Prima Swallowtail Butterfly Olivia from the McMahon Five Designs store.  The only embellishments I brought with me to Utah were the items from M5D so I had to get creative with this card.

After I dropped my sisters and niece off at the airport on Saturday, I stopped by the lss and got some flowers and buttons.  I chose the larger flower in green so that it would look like leaves.  When I was out in the backyard with Chloe on Sunday I noticed this viney looking thing growing on the fence that had ALL of the autumn colors so I picked some and brought it inside.  I heard that you can preserve flowers using Mod Podge—one of my favorite things.  So, I attached some of those on the card as well.

That’s about it.  Everybody will be home tomorrow and I’m glad.  Boredom has set in!!!  You want to know how much?  Yesterday, I painted a pumpkin pink!!!  Yes I did.  I took one of those craft foam pumpkins and painted it pink.  I have what I hope is a great idea for a home decor piece.  I won’t be able finish it until I get home so for now, I have a pink pumpkin.  It looks pretty strange.

Last night I was talking to Rose and I told her I’ve been spending time in the craft room but then had to  correct myself and say the kitchen.  I’ve used it a lot more for crafting than cooking. *giggle*  Sad but true!!!

I’m not sure what we have in store for the first of the week.  On Wednesday, I will have tests and Thursday, more tests, leading up to the doc appt where they will tell me everything is GREAT!!!  A long couple of days and Thursday starts with a heart cath so when the meds wear off at about 6:00 pm, I’m not a happy camper!  I want to be home and in the recliner!!!  But by Saturday, I’ll probably feel great!  I better because I plan to spend that day with my neice before I go home on Sunday or Monday.

I hope all of you have a great week!!!

Blessings,

Christine

Simple Woman’s Daybook

FOR TODAY October 5, 2010

Outside my window...beautiful, sunny fall day.  I can finally say it’s a fall day!!!  Yay!!!
I am thinking...not much.
I am thankful for...my ability to visit my sister to help out when I can.
From the kitchen...don’t know.  I’m on a kind of vacation.
I am wearing...still in my pjs.  Hey, I didn’t get to sleep until 3:00 am.
I am creating...a new card from M5D and then I’m going to color some images I brought with me!  Plus, I’m going to start an afghan that I’m making for my nephew.
I am going...to find a fun activity for me today.  Maybe the bird refuge, maybe a drive in the mountains to see more fall leaves.  We’ll see!!!
I am reading...the same two books.  I haven’t been reading much lately. :-(
I am hoping...for my sisters and niece to have a good vacation.
I am hearing...my favorite show in Utah—Studio 5.
Around the house...it’s not my house, so not much.  I do need to do the dishes though.
One of my favorite things...cool and crisp fall days.
A few plans for the rest of the week:  some more vacation type things.  As many times as I’ve been to Utah, there are still a lot of things I haven’t seen.
Here is a picture for thought I am sharing.. a photo I took last week at Cascade Springs.

If you would like to take part each Tuesday, go to the Simple Woman’s Daybook blog and share your link.

Blessings,

Christine

More from Studio 313

No clever title today.  There just wasn’t one coming to me!!!  But I have to say, Shawne is clever with these fun images from Studio 313.  I have a few things to share today. 

I love celebrating all the holidays of fall.  I’m not much of a scary Halloween gal but I do love the cute side. 

And Shawne’s Halloween images are soooo cute!!!!

First up, I made a little plaque to hang.  I colored the wooden plaque with Creative Inspirations paint.  I colored the sweet monster and ghosts with Copics then painted them with two coats of Mod Podge which makes the paper flexible and tear resistant.  After the Mod Podge was dry, I molded them into puffy shapes (they don’t show up well in the photo) and applied them and the “Boo!” onto the plaque to which I had already attached a border piece of Debbie Mumm paper.  (All of the projects use Debbie Mumm paper.)  I added some fun buttons—see the pumpkin I used for the dot on the exclamation point.  I strung and wound some wire around beads and I will be able to hang it from wire.

Next up is a card made with Shawne’s “You’re Spook-tacular” image.  I used the my fun MS drippy border punch.  The little ghost is another fun button!!!

Now, the cute little Molly with her sweet dog!  Isn’t she adorable in her little pumpkin costume!!!  Love it!!!  Even  more Halloween buttons!!!  I got these at Hobby Lobby a few years ago!!!

That’s it for tonight.  I’ll be making another card with the last Studio 313 image that I brought with me.  Sue sent me some more images Saturday morning but I don’t have a way to print them here.  I really want to make something with the cutie-patootie Fabulous and Feathered Lou!  This is the colored version.  It comes when you buy the digi as well as some fun sentiments. 

Have you ever read the Stephanie Plum mystery novels by Janet Evanovich?  Doesn’t this image remind you of the lovely Lula in her books?  Cute and sassy!!!  I can’t wait to get my Copics on her!!!

Thanks for stopping buy.  Don’t forget about my comment to win giveaway!!!  I love to hear from you!!!

Blessings,

Christine

October Giveaway

First of all, I have to apologize for not coming around to visit this past week.  It’s been so busy with getting ready for my trip.  Then when I got here, my sister and I had a little fun before she left for her vacation.

Now, as promised, I’m starting out the month of October with another giveaway!!!

I haven’t decided what to give yet.  Maybe it will be something that I get while I’m in Utah or maybe something that I make.  I’ll post a picture as soon as I decide!!!

So, the rules are the same as my Birthday Giveaway.  Comment on every post during the month of October, plus, put the above button with a link to my blog on your sidebar.  That’s it!!!  On the first of November, another giveaway will start and I will choose the October winner.  How fun is that?

I love it when you come and visit!!!  I love the love!!!

Blessings,

Christine