HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

OIU ..... it's been a while! First I want to wish all of you a very Happy and prosperous New year full of fun, laughter, creativity, health, and all around great year. I know many of us had a year full of trials and tribulations in 2008!

I changed my background and lost everything I had put on my blog as far as music, widgets, and links to fun sites on the net. Be patient, I will get them back up :)

Chistmas was a little weird this year. I went camping for 2 weeks from 12/22-1/4, which meant I wasn't with my family for Christmas. My son did come out Christmas night and we experienced a wild 60mph wind/sand storm in the desert. He also cooked for us! what a treat! We celebrated Christmas tho as a family prior to my leaving town which was nice and quiet and simple...but it was just weird. Probably won't do that again, it was the first time ever.

I did have a wonderful time camping with my husband for 2 weeks in the desert tho! I will address the trip another day soon with pictures, but I wanted to upload some projects I worked on before I left. lots of charm swaps, my annual ornament swap, and a few things for my not so secret santa pal Cyndi - (yep we share the same name!!)

So enjoy the pictures of my fun projects and I must get busy on making some clay cupcakes or maybe "Cones" for Dareya's ABC swap!!!

MICKY AND MINNIE CHARM BRACELET SWAP - THIS IS MY ENTRY:


I hosted a vintage Christmas tag and charm swap and these were my entries for that:



My friend Pete and I co-hosted my annual secret stocking swap this year. I was very back-logged and she wanted to get her feet wet in hosting swaps. She did a great job and I had a lot of fun this year because I didn't worry so much about the administrative part of the swap. A very special thanx to you Sweet Pete!! she had us do things for our pal on weekly deadlines and one of them that I wanted to share was the recipe one. I love this salsa and althought it may not always be traditon for christmas the colors went well! also there is the card I gave her and the basket I made. The handles on the basket actually lit up with miniture battery powered lights. My pal Cyndi loved it - I'm so glad - it was fun to see my idea come off without a hitch.





This is a matching braclet and earring set I made for my dear MIL..

This is my entry for Dareya's New Year's bling charm swap




And finally this is my entry for my own annual ornament swap....


stay tuned for vacation pictures and a special featured artist........

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SO THIS IS WHAT I MADE OUT OF THE PAPER.....

I was busy making 28 recipe cards for the BBQ swap on Two Peas ran by Kim! My category was a drink and it was "Absolut Blue Pearl"
I had a ton of fun working with the red, white and blue. On the edge of the cardstock I used white acrilyic paint put on with my fingers and red acrylic paint on the edges of the Blue Hawaiian shirt paper from Karen Foster (yep finger painting! My mom helped me cut the Hibiscus (qk) flowers from the white glittered Doodlebug paper, and after I cut the stamens I used glitter glue and put a small red confetti star in the center. I tried out my new treading water punch from Fiskers. I must sau I really like the quality of Martha Stewert border punches better. MS punches cut carstock no problem and Fiskers seems to have a harder time with cardstock. Just a personal opinion, but I love the scallop for this particular recipe!

I hope the girls in the swap enjoy them and I cannot wait to get all the recipes and maybe make a cover for the book! I got some paper the other day that i am hoping will be great for a BBQ recipe book cover.

Well stay tuned, next I am going to post pics of a few things that I splured on, you're gonna love them!

take care all and hugs to you all

ATC Swap I have been working on...

So I finally finished all those buggers! I had three catagoriesX 20 EACH, why do I do this to myself?). I had July, December, and St. Patty's day. My friends over on Two Peas and I did this swap and now we are embarking on a disney ATC swap!!! Ok here are some pics of my cards:

December

St. Patty's

I meant to tell you all that the St. Patty's cards are hybrid. All the pattern paper and graphics anyways. I will update with the artist names when I can open that folder again on my computer, I'm having a little trouble this morning. Anyways they were all free downloads!

July
My very talanted mom did the water color on the suns and shorts of the penguins. Can i just say these make me happy!!!! Just look at them! thanx for all the help mom!
oky doky, stay tuned tomorrow for some wonderful pictures of hand crafted paper flowers made by my mom. You are gonna love them!! SERIOUSLEY!!!!!!

Mother's Day

I've been sorta busy lately making things. I worked on some Mother's day cards and a wall hanging for my swapping pal on Two Peas. I also made a card for my mom, but I have to get the photo from her, then I will post it :) so here are a few things that I worked on last weekend:) the bottom 3 pics were for Mi'chel. she was my swap partner for 2peas Mother's Day swap. the top 2 was a card for My Mom-in-law. I had great fun using my new border punches from Martha Stewart!

I hope you all had a terrific Mother's day! If you're not a Mom, I hope you spent some time with your Mom. It's important to spend time with the best woman in our life! I spent the day scrapbooking with my Mom. It's always so much fun to create with her as she is a far better artist than I, and I can always rely on her to help me get my stuff just right! THANKS MOM! I LOVE YOU!