"Merry Christmas 2012"

I Love Your Smile

This is a poem I wrote for my husband. I Love Your Smile: I love your smile, And I like to think it's there because of me. I love your eyes, And I like to think that they sparkle when I'm what you see. I love your heart, And I like to think that it beats in time with mine. I love you, And I love that you're my king and my sunshine.

"5 Beautiful Years"

This is the card Bill gave me for our 5th anniversary.

"Hot Anniversary Card"

I made this card for Bill for our 5th anniversary. I used sunflowers because the first song I ever sang to Bill was "You Are My Sunshine" while handing him a sunflower. On the inside is a poem I wrote for him.

Angel

Ok, I want to start by saying that I never claimed to be an artist. The "angel wings", on both the picture and the layout, could have been a lot better...if it had been done by somebody else. But if it had been done by somebody else it wouldn't have been a personal touch from me to my husband. I'm satisfied by how it turned out even though it is far from perfect. Jouranling: Bill calls me his angel, so I made this picture of me with angel wings and framed it for him. 7-7-12

Corey & Quetta's Wedding (Framed)

I made this layout for my son and daughter-in-law using one of their wedding pictures and framed it for them. (I noticed too late that I left out the "u" in Marquetta. Oops!

Corey & Quetta's Wedding

My son got married on June 16. This is my son and new daughter-in-law on their big day.

"I Love Picnics"

Getting one in at the last minute again...this is my submission to this week's Sketchy Thursdays challenge...and tonight is the last night for submissions! (http://www.sketchythursdays.blogspot.com/)
I'm also submitting this to Frosted Designs' Fabulous Friday Challenge. (http://frosteddesigns.blogspot.com/) The challenge this week is to make a project using a bbq, picnic or outdoor games theme. Because I had some picnic photos to use, the choice for me was obvious...picnic theme!

"Nothing Can Stop Me Now!"

Ok...so, I knew I was going to scrapbook my new car (not actually a new car...it's used...but new to me!) but I was struggling with the title. Then when I saw the twist for this week's Twisted Sketches sketch ("Stop") I knew what the title would be! (http://www.twistedsketches.com/)
Journaling: After a month of walking, riding the bus and bumming rides off of people whenever we could, we finally got another car!
*For those of you who might be wondering, the car is a 2007 Nissan Sentra.

"Nuts"

I am submitting this layout to Twisted Sketches (http://www.twistedsketches.com/)
This week's twist is "play". Since I had done this surprise for my husband, which was a play on words, I decided to use this for this week's twisted sketch.
Journaling: I bought Bill a can of cashews, put them into a basket and attached a note: "I am nuts for you."

"Journaling Spots & Flowers"

Today I received my prize I won on Lori Apgar's blog (http://scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com/) from Frosted Designs' National Scrapbooking Day online crop (http://frosteddesigns.blogspot.com/).
Lori sent me these great journaling spots and these beautiful pink flowers! Thanks again, Lori!

"I Need More Buttons"

I decidede to use my new craft organizer that I won from the Wayward Girls Crafts blog (http://www.waywardgirlscrafts.com/) for my buttons so I can keep the different colors seperated to make it easier for me to find specific colors of buttons when I'm doing a layout. When I put all my buttons into the organizer, I realize...I NEED MORE BUTTONS!!!! Lol! My husband and I are going to the mall tomorrow to pick up some photos we had taken last week so I'll make a point to pick up some buttons while I'm out!

"Congratulations Quetta!"

I created this layout to submit to Sketchy Thursdays (http://www.sketchythursdays.blogspot.com/)

Journaling: Quetta received her diploma in Pharmacy Tech.

"My Favorite Photo"

I created this layout to submit to My Favorite Things challenge blog (http://whatisyourfavething.blogspot.com/). The current challenge is to scrapbook your favorite photo. That was easy for me because I recently got my first photo of Bill, Corey, Quetta and me all in a photo together. Usually it's Bill taking a pic of me with the kids or me taking a pic of Bill with the kids. I had been wanting one of all of us together so when we went to dinner on Cinco de Mayo Bill asked the waiter to take a pic of all of us together, which he very graciously did. So, this is my favorite photo!

Yet ANOTHER Prize!

Wow! Unbelievable! I just found out that I won another prize from the Frosted Designs challenge blog (http://frosteddesigns.blogspot.com/) in their National Scrapbooking Day online crop!
That's 3 prizes in 2 weeks that I've won!

"My New Craft Organizer"

Today I received my craft organizer that I won from the Wayward Girls Crafts blog (http://www.waywardgirlscrafts.com/)!

"Rose From Bill"

I am submitting this layout to Frosted Designs (www.frosteddesigns.blogspot.com) for their Fabulous Friday Challenge. The challenge this week is to use ribbon or twine on a layout. I attempted to make a rose out of ribbon. Here is a close up of it:

"Curvy"

Wow! I'm running out of time to get this layout submitted to Twisted Sketches! (www.twistedsketches.com) This is a layout based on T.S.'s sketch from last Wednesday. Today is the last day before the new sketch is posted tomorrow! I couldn't get this layout done any sooner though because not having transportation I haven't been able to go anywhere to get pics printed. I rode the bus to Wal-Mart today and got this pic printed to do this layout.
When I saw the twist on the sketch last week (curve), this is what my mind came up with...
Journaling: When other people look at me they see fat... but when Bill looks at me he sees beautiful, sexy, curvy.

In the sketch, the journaling was on the bottom left of the page, but for my layout, I flipped it to the top right of the page.

Another Prize!

I would like to thank Lori Apgar (http://scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com/) for choosing me as the winner on her blog for the challenge she hosted on the Frosted Designs blog (http://frosteddesigns.blogspot.com/)! She hosted the hidden journaling challenge.

"I Won a Prize!"

Exciting news! I won a craft organizer on a giveaway at the Wayward Girls Crafts blog! http://www.waywardgirlscrafts.com/
Thank you so much to the ladies at Wayward Girls Crafts!