Love You All the Time

I made this simple card using Close to My Heart's new Fundamentals papers. I used Adventure here.  I love the new heart thincut dies and the shimmer pens.

XOXO - Valentine's Day

I made this for the Simon Says Stamp Have a Heart challenge. and, of course, my husband!! :-)

Have a great day!

Can we Keep Him?

I made this for the masculine challenge over at Simon Says Stamp!  The text is all about how mama doesn't want a dog and says "no, no, no" and the boys showing her the photo... and what happens next.

Canvas is My Latest Obsession!

So, my latest obsession is making mixed media canvasses.  I love the Julie Nutting dolls from Prima!  You have to paper piece them to get fun dresses, but it is worth it to me. I embossed the hearts so they would fit my friend Stacy's challenge. I'd like to encourage you to enter her challenge-she is so sweet and leaves you love, and there is always a nice prize for someone!  I also decided to enter it into Simon Says Show Anything Goes. I used some Faber Castell gelatos that I won from them a long time ago as well as some distress paint and stamps! The saying comes from CTMH. 

I hope you like her. I am in love with doing these!

Thanks for looking! I'll have more soon! maybe even today!

Happy Valentine's Day!

My friend Stacy got me going on vellum with her most recent challenges! I made 10 valentine cards for family and could still think of a whole bunch more people to send to but I stopped. I forgot to take my photo until one of the last ones (and not the prettiest). It just so happens to also meet the Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger and Simon Says Have a Heart challenge this week!!!! Yay! I'm back to entering challenges! :-)

Hope you are having a great day and have a great Valentine's Day next week.

P.S. We have a contract on our house (though signatures are being finalized)! Thanks for all of your kind thoughts and prayers!! Now, we wait for inspections, appraisal and closing!! Please continue to pray that all goes well and the closing on March 26 will go off without a hitch!!! Thanks again!

The Massman Side of the Family

We had family photos taken this year on the Massman side of the family! This is the first scrapping I've done in a long time. So, excuse the wonky photo!  It is straight in real life!  I made it for my friend Stacy's challenge.  If you have never done one of Stacy's challenges, you should give it a try.  The odds are good that you would win one of her wonderful prizes!  I made another layout that I will post later.

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Quick, Cute Christmas ornaments

I made these little ornaments for The Paper Variety's challenge to show them your ornaments and for my friend Stacy's challenge! The tree has some Ranger distress ink on it, but I thought they looked cute plain, too!

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A Walk in Phoenix

My twin sister and I had so much fun in Phoenix that I went a little wild in printing photos! Here are a couple of photos of us on our walk around downtown Phoenix--it was really near our hotel, in fact! I used Sketch Inspiration's Sketch #237 to make this layout for The Paper Variety's My Favorite Embellishment challenge! I think you can tell that I chose buttons! I think there are 20 buttons on this one! I don't know if buttons are my favorite because I hate to leave the other embellishments out...but I do use them a lot and love them!!!!

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If you are anywhere near St. Charles, Missouri, this weekend, come out and see us at MOSAICS--(Missouri Festival For the Arts)! I understand there will be over 100 juried artists there!!!

Leo

I did this for a challenge on Sketches 4 All.  It's Leo by himself this time...

I had fun with the Distress crackle paint and some ink. I also had fun with some embossing folders.

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Journal I Made at My Local Library

The Journal -- Finished

Metals: Dragonfly with purple square

Heart and Live, Laugh, Love with clear and green bead

Before I added the stuff around the edge and the Tattered Angels (probably a better photo, but I like the Finished Product much better!

I made this journal at the library.  It is my favorite craft I've done at the library.  When I brought it home, I hadn't sprayed it with Tattered Angels or added the little paper to cover the wrinkles on the edge! I'm even happier now!  The cover is muslin to which we added fabric crayons rubbed over stamps and an acrylic paint wash.  We then hand-sewed in the 4 signatures (5 sheets of paper each).  It was so much fun that I might have to try it again.  The purple circle is polymer clay with an impression of a dragonfly in it! Can you tell that I'm proud of my first attempt at making a book!

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Have a great day!

1999 in Panama City, Florida

I made this using a sketch from Just Us Girls. It seems to be designed for cards, but I love scrapbooking so much more!  It fit some challenges at Sketches 4 All also! Steve and I got married this year. We actually took this trip before we got married because we were unable to take a honeymoon! It's a long story...

"Moxie Fab World Challenge: Diggin' on Doilies & Lace"

Moxie Fab World had a cool challenge.  I used red floss to sew my doilies to my card  I thought the addition of the diamond Kaiser jewels in the lower left added a modern touch to the card.  Butterfly and Red hearts have a little silver shine added. Hope you enjoy it!