Busy Weekend

I won the paper give-a-way at a favorite blog/podcast last week! Thank you Samantha - keep up the good work! I look forward to making some "cool" designs with these papers. Keep checking her blog she has great information!






Check out Michaels this week. They have new $1 stamps and they are cute!







Packed my bags. I've gotten quite a collection of these Joann's scrapbooking totes. I snagged them all on clearence so have less than $20 in all 4 of them! Well all I can say is I match!

















The latest one opens I got Thursday and it opens up and holds a ton of stuff very organized - this is just the label. Not bad for $2.96










GUESS THEY WANTED ME TO TAKE THEM TOO.... HOW DO 2 GROWN MALE KITTIES FIT IN A LITTLE PET TAXI AND LIKE IT - THEY SLEPT THERE FOR HOURS






I tried to follow the rules by making page kits but didn't put the embellishments in the kits so ended up taking a lot of stuff and the totes served their purpose and held up. I have a better idea of what to expect and do the next big crop I attend.


I was cranking out the pages this weekend














These two are made with the Little Yellow Bicycle line of papers and I plan on submitting to 2peas challenge - maybe I'll win the bike....


Here are some of the layouts that I created during the "Flip Flop Crop" in Conyers GA on Saturday. I had such a good time. Met some great women and won some awesome prizes....



The beach page I won first prize using the supplies contained in the kit they gave us when we walked in the door.

It's amazing how different each person's take is with the same goodies given to them. I happened to take along some extra beach photos of many years ago in Daytona and the colors in the packet were just too bright for me so I used the white cardstock and the rules said all inks were ok so I dragged my trusty chalk cat eyes to make it look a little like sand (well the color at least) then I brought along a spray ink so the dots really did the trick for the effect. I am crazy about circles right now and the border punches so I had to put both of those in the design. Just enough ribbon and brads to add a nice touch to the edge. The buttons I took the time to sew on and the title was provided but I added the Daytona for my needs - which was still in the rules as long as I used the paper provided and another chance to use the Cricut. I won $10 in vendor merchandise for this one!



I paid to use a Cricut there for $5 - I was taking advantage of that. I had never used one before and they are the greatest!




MY NEW TOY - LOVE THE CRICUT EXPRESSION!!!!!











Worked on a bunch of different old birthday pages of me. A rare chance to use my flowers......










These next 2 pages are very special to me. There are of friends at a favorite gathering each year at our church (Sunrise Baptist Church). They have a women's conference each year called Rubies of the Faith. This is 2005 and my best friend from Baltimore came to visit to attend and in the photo a dear prayer warrior friend that has since went home to be with the Lord is pictured beautifully in her turquoise shirt ..... Alfreda "Freda" Vincent..... she is so missed by so many but I can still picture her "with her tambourine up in heaven". She was originally from Liberia and was such a woman of God. The man serving us our meals is our pastor (don't find many churches like ours). Pastor David



Poe is the sweetest man and best pastor I know. His wife "Miss Billie" is always our keynote speaker and blesses our socks off. It's a special time for all and we all look forward to it each year.