tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8942472984203085752012-02-15T08:00:46.117-05:00A place for me to share my idea's with you, be inspired by others and just lose myself in my little crafty worldKaren Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04432594471328548230noreply@blogger.comBlogger9411100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894247298420308575.post-66831402235921401112012-02-15T07:58:00.001-05:002012-02-15T08:00:46.136-05:00

Good morning friends!! Thank you SO much for joining us last week!!! You really showed the "LOVE"! This week is a fun one!!! "This week's challenge is one that only happens once or twice a year here at FBW but is always one of our most popular challenges..so without further delay, our challenge for this week (and this week only!!) is~ Anything With Wings! So all those times you wanted to use

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Good morning! HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!! Be sure to pop over to Digi Darla's today to check out our new challenge - I'll be back later with my creations!!! Here's your little Freebie to earn for this challenge!! The DT did some AWESOME work with this little guy as well as 2 images from Dearie Dolls .. check it out!!!

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Good morning!! Did you get a chance to check out my Cards For Emily post yesterday? If not, pls do!! It's VERY important for a very special little girl!! Now onto today's challenge at Lasting Memories. We're challenging you to use the word LOVE on your layout. We also have a super giveaway from Michele in honor of her birthday today!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHELE!!! For my LO today, I chose a pattern

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Welcome to the Cards for Emily Blog Hop Day 1!!! This is a 2 day hop so be sure to come back tomorrow for some more inspiration! :) If you came from Beckie - http://justbcreativecrazy.blogspot.com/  then you are in the right place! If you just happened across my blog and are interested in the entire hop and Emily's story, start back at Michelle's blog at Scrappin' For Kenzie! Emily is

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Good morning friends!!! I wanted to share a little birthday card I made this morning for my little friend Landen, who's turning 4 today!!! I did this all in My Memories Suite and now just have to print it off!! One of my fav things about this software is the shadow effect - can ya tell? LOL!! I think he'll love it. Have a great day all!!! Challenges Entered: Week #140 Free & Easy

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To view my FBW post, please click HERE For my very first Child's Play post, please click HERE Thank you so much for visiting today!!

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Good morning friends!!! Guess what!!! Today's the first day for Child's Play Challenge!! We're kicking it off with inspiration from "Lincoln Logs" ..  For my layout today, I chose to use the colors as well as a nutcracker in honor of the wood in Lincoln Logs!! I love how this turned out. Using My Memories Suite, I chose some photo's from our 2011 Christmas Tree. We now have 2 trees each yr

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Good morning!! Thank you all for joining us last week! So much talent and inspiration out there!!! This weeks challenge at FBW is a fun one!! L= 2 or more layers (I layered the paper borders as well as the photo's) O= odd number of embellishments (I have 7 embellishments) V= use the color violet (2 of the Christmas balls have violet in them) E= use any color except red (TRY doing this when

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Hello!! This is honestly just a fun page I put together using the same photo, just edited in different ways. The LO is completely digital, using My Memories Suite software!! What do ya think??

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Welcome to our first hop of 2012 at Lasting Memories!! If you've come from Suzanne's blog then you're on the right track! If not, just click HERE to start at Lasting Memories and you'll also find all the details of the hop there! Please be sure to read through because this week we have a lot going on! We're being sponsored by Digi Darla which is PERFECT since this weeks challenge is "DIGITAL

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Here's another LO I put together using My Memories Suite for Emma's baptism. I absolutely love this page - I caught a very special moment between a very proud daddy and his little girl. Denise and Chris held a reception after the baptism and Chris was just kind of off on his own enjoying his little girl and I happened to look over and saw a sweet photo opp. I hope you like it. Challenges

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Hello friends!! Wow, what an awesome amount of talent and creativity last week at Flutter By Wednesday's!! Thanks so much for joining us!! We have a new challenge this week and it's OPEN but don't forget your butterfly, fairy or angel. We're also being sponsored this week by Rhoda Design Studio!! Super fun!! For my creation this week, I chose to do another digital layout using My Memories Suite.

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In under the wire, seriously! I've missed playing the PLG challenges and this one was calling my name!! I'm working on some baptism pages of my cousin's little one, Emma, who was baptized on Jan 22, 2012. I adore these photo's I took of her. I have another page ready to post tmw as well. What I found inspiring about the photo was the colors and the butterflies. I love butterflies. I didn't want

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**My second post for today, please visit my Digi Darla post to see my newest creation and our little freebie!** I made the DT at Child's Play Challenges!! Look fwd to working with the girl's and being on Tiffany's Design Team. Here's my LO that I entered!! We're getting started on Wednesday, Feb 8th!!

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Hello!! Monday means a new challenge (and FREEBIE!) at Digi Darla's!! This weeks challenge is "Very Valentine's". We also have a sponsor too!! We're being sponsored by Robyn's Fetish! Winner will win 5 of her awesome images! I created this card using Robyn's Fetish "PussyCatLuv". I used a pattern from my CTMH "Originals" book. The card is 6x6. I added some stickles on his sweet little heart

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Hey All!! It's Sunday and time for a new challenge at Lasting Memories!! Bet my post title had you thinking, "What the heck is she talking about?" We're asking you to use your 'trash' on your layouts this week. Scraps of paper, ribbon, old stickers..whatever it is, if it's scraps, it's perfect for this week's challenge! I try to keep my paper scraps with the corresponding paper, so when I

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Cricut Craftin Friends Blog Hop  Celebrating Cricut Craftin Grammys 1 year Blogaversary DAY 2!! Hello and welcome back!! So glad to see you back for Day 2 of our 2 day hop! I am amazed at all the talent out there, so you will be too!! I've included the blog hop list, in order, at the bottom of the post. If you're just joining us, click HERE for all the details and start hopping!! Just

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Cricut Craftin Friends Blog Hop  Celebrating Cricut Craftin Grammys 1 year Blogaversary We're so happy you could join us for this hop celebrating the one year blogaversary of Cricut Craftin Grammy. I have asked a few of my Cricut Messageboard friends as well as my Design Team friends (Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog, Lasting Memories and Sweet Sassy Diva ) to join her in this two day

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Good morning friends!!It's Wednesday and that means we have a new challenge at Flutter By Wednesdays today!! Thank you all so much for joining us last week!! This weeks challenge is...embossing! Just be sure to have a butterfly, fairy or angel on your creation. For my card today, I chose to emboss with my Cuttlebug folders - paisley, divine swirls and swiss dots - I love the color contrast on

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On Sunday we had my cousin's baby daughter's baptism and this is the card I made for her. Felt so good to get in my craft room and play with paper!! I get so caught up in digital that it's been awhile since I've been in my craft room. This is one of DigiDarla's images, isn't she sweet? Hubby got me the punch for Christmas and love it!! I colored this little gal up with prisma's and added a

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Good morning!! It's time for a new challenge at Lasting Memories!!! This week we're challenging you to a "Recipe Challenge" but not a crafty recipe!! We're talking REAL recipe!! Something you bake, cook, make - that sort of recipe!! Could be bath salts, baked goods even fancy drinks!! Here's what I decided to share with you.  These are FABULOUS!! **PEANUT ALLERGY** is a biggy here

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HUGE Thank you to Tina for letting us know about an awesome giveaway over at Wee Memories!! "I am going to be giving away: 1 of my new stamp sets from The Crafts MeowA HUGE paper stack from Graphic 451 stamp set from Graphic 451 stamp from Unity Stamp Co.1 stamp set from Your Next Stamp1 PRINT of your choice from my Etsy ShopSome twine and misc. embellishmentsand some surprise goodies!!"

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Hi all!! I've had quite a few emails asking where I got my falling hearts from - here's the LINK and you can do hearts, petals .. have a look! Make sure you keep it because they have all kind's of things on there and for every occasion, it's pretty cool!!! Enjoy!

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**reminder! we have a great challenge AND a giveaway going on at Lasting Memories right now!** Good morning friends!! It's time for another Flutter By Wednesday challenge!! Thank you all so much for joining us last week!! This week's challenge is OPEN just remember your butterfly, fairy or angel. I chose to do  another card face to print off using My Memories Suite. I love how versatile this

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**For my PLG challenge entry, click here as this is my second post today!** Hey all!!! As you know, I'm a DT member at Digi Darla's as well as her newsletter editor. I approached her last night about taking on ANOTHER (yes, I can handle it!) challenge from her .. she's mom to 9 kid's and super busy .. so I've started Digi Darla's Challenges completely on it's own! I'm super excited to be in

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Good morning! A dreary one here in Ont .. crazy weather these days!! I had a chance to play in my digital software the other night for this week's Paper Lovin' Gals challenge, which is this inspirational photo... And using my My Memories software, here's what I created. I used the tower as well as the vintage feel and the colors as well. I hope you like it! Have a great day!!

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Happy Monday all!! It's time for a new challenge at Digi Darla's! This weeks challenge is "Happiness Is .. " and I chose a pre-colored image called "Pup and Present" Isn't he just adorable!!! I couldn't resist this little guy. I did the 5x7 card in My Memories Suite. I've really been trying to play a little more. Come on over and play along at Digi Darla's, we'd LOVE to see your creations!!!!

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It's Sunday which means a new challenge at Lasting Memories!! This week we're challenging you to a New Year's layout. I know, sounds complicated, especially for those of us who don't do anything for new years - I fall in that category. We spend a nice quiet night at home. You'll see as you visit each of the DT that we all have a really different idea for this challenge and you'll surely be

Karen Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04432594471328548230noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894247298420308575.post-67329584136328252582012-01-14T06:00:00.000-05:002012-01-14T06:00:00.745-05:00

Hey all!! We've added another addition to Lasting Memories!! Saturday's Inspirational Sketch!! This sketch comes to us from Ashley Horton (thank you Stacia!) and I've added my take on the sketch. I don't normally do sketches, but I had a lot of fun with this one. Now hurry on over to Lasting Memories and join the fun! Use this sketch if you like and be sure to join our current challenge, which

Karen Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04432594471328548230noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894247298420308575.post-47079674607084417452012-01-13T08:56:00.003-05:002012-01-13T11:57:17.576-05:00

Morning all!! Here's my last layout from our Muskoka trip! Just a few fun photo's .. that's it. The album is done! YAY! Have a great day all! It's getting cold here, looks like we're in for a bit of a cold snap. Batten down the hatches and if you can't find me, look in my craft room!! I can dream, right?? :) Don't forget! Still time to join us at Lasting Memories!! We have a new addition to the

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Hello and good morning!! Another digital LO from My Memories Suite! I am loving this! I just recently had to dig through some photo CD's and now can't wait to get working on some poor left behind pics!! This is another LO from our Muskoka Wildlife Centre trip. These guys were amazing and so beautiful. They're stories are below ... have a great day all! Akayla: He was donated to us from a

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Good morning!! Guess what! It's Wednesday, which means a new challenge at Flutter By Wednesday's!! This week Danni challenged us to "get rid of the winter blah's, use bright colors" AND be sure to include a butterfly, fairy or angel. I chose to do a birthday layout from Florida in 2011. Ashleigh celebrated her 11th birthday. Look at that tan!!! I thought this certainly looks bright and fun!!! Be

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Hello!! Here's another layout for my "Muskoka" album. I've done a complete tutorial at Lasting Memories from start to finish of making this page - check it out!! Rufus the Bobcat: "Rufus was a result of the breeding of bobcats for the pet trade. The woman who had Rufus had de-clawed him, using human nail clippers and was bottle-raising him in an attempt to socialize him. Fortunately a new act

Karen Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04432594471328548230noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894247298420308575.post-10003465484122457282012-01-08T08:00:00.000-05:002012-01-11T16:52:47.106-05:00

Hello!! Guess what!! Lasting Memories is back with a whole new DT, awesome challenges and changes too!! This week to kick off a new DT term, it's All About You!! Sounds easy right?? Not for me!! I'm usually the one BEHIND the camera, not in front of it, so I don't scrap a lot of pages with me in them. This is part of my Muskoka album and it's strictly just me: photographer not much into cold (

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"Barney (a.k.a. Moonface) was captive born at a raptor breeding facility in Simcoe, Ontario and was hand-raised since shortly after hatching.  Barney is eagerly visited by thousands of children because of his famous t.v. role in a children's television series called "Zoboomafoo".  This little fellow plays a delivery owl called Moonface. Barney has travelled across the province teaching school

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"Blossum was born in captivity in Ohio to an ex-pet opossum.  Fortunately it is illegal here in Ontario to keep wild animals as pets.  This little marsupial was only 9 weeks when she became a Canadian citizen and she will now remain with us as a member of our education team. Opossums only started to make their way into our province in the last 20 years so she will help us to teach Ontarians about

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Meet "Chocolate" and "Lucky"! Both of these amazing animals live at Muskoka Wildlife Centre. I didn't get a good pic of Lucky as she was back in the bush a little more out of the way. Each animal at the centre as a story - Chocolate is in the top LO and you can see Lucky a little in the trees in the second layout. Have a great day! "Chocolate was born in captivity in Timmins. She was purchased

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Good morning friends!! I have some exciting news!! I've been asked to (re)join the Flutter By Wednesday DT! I was so excited when Danni asked me if I would like to join the DT!! FBW was my very first DT experience and I'm super happy to be back - thank you Danni and to the FBW team for such a warm welcome!! Before I get to this weeks challenge, a HUGE thank you to all of you who played along in

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Hello friends!!! Just a reminder that we've extended our DT call at Lasting Memories till tmw at 6pm EST!! Calling all scrapbookers!! Come on out and give the DT call a try! You just never know! I'm looking for 6-8 new members and I love to have something for everyone on my team .. I really hope you'll come on out and give it a try. If you're thinking about getting INTO scrapbooking .. come on

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Here's another layout from out Muskoka trip. I'm trying to get this album done before we put our digi order in. I love this LO. Ashleigh can be quite the ham, especially in front of the camera as you can see!! Never a dull moment with our girl!!

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Morning friends!! I was so excited to get this layout done. I wasn't sure how the photo's would come out, as I learned that when you're taking pics from a vehicle, you should turn it off. I couldn't get my camera to focus and apparently it's something to do with the heat. I took these from outside, so they turned out, thank goodness!! What a stunning bird of prey!! 

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Hi everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful new year!! I ended up sick with a cold and hubby's mom in hospital (she's ok .. misdiagnosis!!!) so we had a quiet night in, which we didn't mind at all. We usually spend the evening with finger foods, good movies and the kid's. We really enjoy that. I do have a couple resolutions and they're not out of the ball park for me .. One of the things we

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Hello!! It's snowy outside which means it's cozy inside and since I'm just sitting, I thought what better time to do a layout I've been wanting to do. Tiffany is starting a new challenge blog in Feb called "Child's Play Challenges" and is currently running a DT call. We were given this image ... And asked to make a layout based on it. This is what I came up with! I chose 2 photo's that I

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These are actually from last Christmas, but I just had to share again!!!! I've met some new friends over this past year and I knew you'd get a kick out of these. These are our boys, Buddy and Riley. Bud's (first 2 pics) my suck. I always wanted that dog that followed you everywhere, ya know?? Well, I found him in Buddy. Riley's a big galoot lol and a very funny one at that!!!! Hope everyone's

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From our home to yours, Merry Christmas!!!! I had this pre-posted for yesterday, so not sure what happened, but hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!! 

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It's Christmas Eve!!! So much to do, but you didn't think I'd miss a day, did ya?? I have to keep up with my friend Stef, who won't miss a day either!! Ok, I MIGHT miss tmw!! So, guess what!! It's time for a new challenge at Paper Lovin' Gals this week!! We were given a photo and I loved it so much, I incorporated it right into my layout! I thought this would be a great "opening" layout for

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Oh man .. I did it AGAIN!! If you haven't had a chance, check out my text blunder HERE. So last night, I send Andrew (my son) a text saying "Dinner" .. I get a text from my BROTHER "Q'ues ce cest??" (no he's not french, just likes to think he's either that or spanish LOL!!) I'm thinking, WHAT??? Oh man .. I text HIM (who's an hour away) that dinner was ready!! I give up!!! "They're coming to take

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HOLIDAY EATING TIPS 1. Avoid carrot sticks. Anyone who puts carrots on a holiday buffet table knows nothing of the Holiday spirit. In fact, if you see carrots, leave immediately. Go next door, where they're serving rum balls. 2. Drink as much eggnog as you can. And quickly. It's rare.. You cannot find it any other time of year but now. So drink up! Who cares that it has

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Ok ... so I think the hustle and bustle has caught up with me .. lol!!! Here’s one that will make you laugh out loud!!! We had invited friends for Christmas dinner as they have no family. We had a feeling they wouldn’t come as they have their traditions on christmas day, but wanted to pass on the invite. So, i get an email from Nicole wishing us all the best and “see ya in the new year” so i

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Good morning!! First off - BIG reminder we have a challenge, blog candy AND DT call going on over at my Lasting Memories challenge blog!!! Check it out when you have a sec!! Now on to today's post ... I wanted to share this years teacher's gifts with you today. I got the idea from my cousin Nancy. This is such a nice yet inexpensive gift idea! I found out Ashleigh's teacher is not a coffee

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Good morning!! Today I would like to send HUGE birthday wishes to my little sister, who turns 30!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY Lee Ann!!!! May your day be filled with love, laughter, family, friends and most importantly, good health!! Enjoy your day today!!!! Entering this layout in FBW #183 - Open with a butterfly, fairy or angel

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Hello!! Over at 2 Sister Challenge Blog, there's a "Kid's Christmas" challenge and there's also a new (very yummy looking) challenge at Paper Lovin' Gals this week!! Check out this "yummy" photo!!! Using my MyMemories Suite, I came up with this digital layout. I just love these photo's and thought it was perfect for the inspirational photo and the title of the PLG's challenge "Christmas

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Good morning!!! It's a new challenge at Lasting Memories today and we're going on a little Christmas vacation for 2 weeks as well, so you have 2 weeks to join us!! We have a DT call going on, a winner for last weeks challenge AND a giveaway this challenge too!! Whew!! There's a LOT going on over there!! This weeks challenge is an inspirational photo (below) and we have a sketch if you'd like as

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Good morning friends!! Wow, is the countdown on or what!? Can't wait for Christmas, it's my favorite time of the year. I just wanted to share something with you this morning .. most of you know I'm trying to take my photography hobby to a different level and I have done 3 photo shoots since November. What a surprise this morning to find my friend Kelli posted hers and they're framed and look

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Here's another gift I was asked to make. This is from Eden to her grandma. The poem is so sweet, you should be able to see it it you click on the photo to enlarge it. What a doll!! I can't wait for Lisa (Eden's mom) to see this tmw!!! I have it in a shadow box now and just really sets the whole thing off. Love it!!! I even impressed myself with this one!

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This week at Paper Lovin' Gals, they have a new challenge!! It's an inspirational "Home For The Holidays" photo .... When I look at that photo I see the colors as well as winter, fun in the snow .. so, this is what I came up with. Ashleigh turned 11 in Oct, but since we were away on vacation, my mother treated her to Muskoka Wildlife Centre, a place we'd never been. Was really cool - a long

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Morning all!! It's Sunday and another new challenge at Lasting Memories! I love this one!! It's all about winter and snowflakes this week. Yesterday we were at Muskoka Wildlife Centre and here's some shots I got of Ashleigh. Aren't these awesome?? Love them!!!! I kept this layout simple bc the photo's really don't need words. I'm also going to do some more pages, so stay tuned. We have a little

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Each year I take a handful of Christmas cards to my grandma to give out to the special ladies in the nursing home. I'm heading up to see her tmw, so just finished these. The lighting isn't the best, so they don't show as well as they look and the stickles are still a little wet, but wanted to show you what I came up with. I added Martha Stewart snow glitter to the snowmen and then fun flock on

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Hi there!! Well, we woke to a blanket of white this morning. Was nice. But ohhhh, so cold. I don't like that part. I'm down a daycare kiddo the rest of this week and all of next, so I had a chance (sort of, between chasing a 1 and 2 yr old lol) to get a homemade gift done. I did a layout and put it in a shadow box. I'm letting the receiver add her own pics, so I'll include the rest of the

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(this is my second post today, be sure to scroll down to see the advent pieces I did for a friend!) Last Friday, we had our annual Christmas Club party. My friend Kelli and I host a monthly scrapbook club and then we get together at Christmas for dinner or something like that. This year we did dinner out and a gift exchange, but it had to be something handmade. You should have seen the gifts!!

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Morning friends!! Remember yesterday I posted about Christmas tags for Eden? Here's the rest of the 'order'. Lisa asked me to make the pieces for an advent calendar. Eden's only 2, so she won't realize it's late. Lisa wanted the numbers backed on to Christmas shapes, so I came up with this. She bought an over the door shoe hanger and these will go on the pockets. I was going to trim around the

Karen Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04432594471328548230noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894247298420308575.post-10693570063851724932011-12-06T09:36:00.001-05:002011-12-06T09:42:41.147-05:00

Hi all!! We have a new challenge at Digi Darla's this week!! It's a Cat's Christmas! We're being sponsored by Priscilla Styles as well! Super fun!! Here's one of Priscilla's images - isn't this adorable?? Too cute!! For this weeks challenge, I had to get creative as I didn’t have a printer at the time I put it together. I saved my image and opened in PSE and just added a little punch of red

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I was asked by a friend to make her daughter's "Santa" tags, so this is what I came up with. This is one of my favorite Christmas stamps from Close To My Heart. These little elves are adorable. I cut out a 4" ornament shape with my "Art Philosophy" CTMH cartridge and then added some stickles on the branches and colored my little elf in prisma's. I didn't add ribbon in case Lisa has something

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Good morning friends! It's time for a new challenge at Lasting Memories!! This week we're challenging you to use a sentiment on your layout. Could be one word, quote, poem, song .. whatever you like. It's a "Sentimental Journey" this week!! I went looking in my My Memories Suite for my idea and found this, which is actually a pre-done page and I just had to add my pics!!! Then I added some

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Happy Saturday night!!! We've had a busy day, so tonight I relaxed with my laptop and My Memories Suite. Love it. Over at Paper Lovin Gals this week, we were given the above photo and asked what we find inspiring about it. I love the colors and I also see Christmas. So, I came up with this layout!! I have a corresponding one for tmw too, so be sure to come back and see it!! Here's my layout!!

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Hello friends!! It's Wednesday, which means time to Flutter with a new challenge at Flutter By Wednesday!! Danni is asking us to follow a recipe this week: color blue lace 3 or more flowers at least one butterfly So I decided this was a great challenge to showcase one of my butterfly photo's from Florida!! I love how it turned out. This is completely digital and all done using My

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Hey friends!! Digi Darla's looking for some fresh new faces and holding a DT call from now till January 5th! Check out all the details right HERE!! In the meantime, want to earn 3 FREE Christmas digi's? Check these out!!! Are these not the cutest??? Earn 3 free digi's from this choice of 6 just by posting about our DT call on your blog!! Be sure to come back to Digi Darla's and leave a comment

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Before I get to my post ... HAPPY 30th BIRTHDAY JERE!!! Now the fun begins!!!  Good morning!! We have a new challenge at Lasting Memories this week and another giveaway too!!! We have a color challenge this week and this is what I came up with for mine. I am loving this digital software because it actually said "Happy Birthday" on it and I changed it to "Sisters". Can you imagine doing that with

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Just a reminder, today's the last day to get in on this week's giveaway!!! A DISTRESSING TOOLTAPE RUNNER AND 2 REFILLSSNOWFLAKE MINI POCKET PUNCHCHRISTMAS ADDITIONS KIT Hurry and join the fun for a chance to win this giveaway!! You have till tonight at 9pm EST!! HURRY!!

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This WON PLG #7!!! Thanks so much!!! In case you missed my post from earlier, I wanted to take a moment and wish all my US friends a safe and happy Thanksgiving!! Be sure to have some turkey for me too!! There's a new challenge at PLG and they are asking us to use this Inspirational Photo and wanted us to tell them what we see in this photo .. I saw the colors, fall and being thankful -

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First off .. a very Happy Thanksgiving to my US friends. May you have a day filled with family, happiness and good food!! Just a reminder .. there's a GREAT giveaway going on over at my Lasting Memories challenge blog!! Calling all scrapbookers! You still have time to enter .. challenge ends on Saturday at 9pm EST and winner announced with Sunday's new challenge!! Hurry!!! How cool is this

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Hey all!! Do you like working with digital images?? Looking for some new inspiration or to share your inspiration with others?? DigiDarla's is currently running a DT call from now till January 5th - hurry over and check it out if you're interested!!!

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Morning friends!! I had a chance to get some Christmas cards done this wknd and here's a couple that I did. We found a fun new tool too! "Sew Ribbon" tool is super fun and that's how I did this card with the ribbon through it. Cards, paper, stamps and die cut tags are all from CTMH!!! Also, just a reminder, we have a giveaway going on over at Lasting Memories for all your scrapbookers - be sure

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Hi everyone! I wanted to share some pics from our retreat this past wknd and show you what we made the girl's for our Thank You gift. We made a little basket and filled it with 12 Christmas tags for each person. The whole thing was made using our new "CTMH Art Philosophy" cartridge. The wknd was great, but unfortunately, I woke up with a head cold on Saturday morning, so it was a little tough

Karen Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04432594471328548230noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894247298420308575.post-33084220734625348082011-11-20T08:00:00.002-05:002011-11-20T08:00:02.257-05:00

Hello!! We have an awesome challenge today at Lasting Memories!! We have THREE inspirational photo's from you to choose from. I chose this one to do a Florida layout from 2007. Yes, I am now TWO trips behind .. yikes!! This is from our first "Deep Sea Fishing" trip. Was pretty cool. Be sure to pop over to LMCB because we also have a giveaway this week AND another DT member is having giveaways

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Hello friends!! I have some exciting news to share and while you're reading (you'll see my news in there), check out the awesome stuff going on at Digi Darla's!! Come on over and check us out!!!  I can hardly hold in the excitement!I have a LOT to share with you, but I will try and be brief!(if that is possible for me!) First things First, though! Have you heard about the AWESOME challenge Darla

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Good morning!! It's time for a new challenge over at Digi Darla's today! I'm a little late as I have a little problem right now - a broken printer - which is not a good thing when working with digi images!! I decided to just leave this little guy alone and do up the page around him. I saved him to my PC and then opened up My Memories Suite and uploaded him to my layout. I can't wait to get my

Karen Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04432594471328548230noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894247298420308575.post-32558323283018069222011-11-13T18:47:00.000-05:002011-11-13T18:47:09.556-05:00

Hey all!! I didn't get my challenge LO up today .. but I'll get it done and up soon. We have an awesome challenge this week at Lasting Memories - we're doing hidden journaling!! Be sure to pop over and check out what the DT did!! AWESOME!! In the meantime, here's some photo's from a mini photo shoot I did today of Ashleigh. I was hired to do a photo shoot and we went early to scout the area for

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Hello friends!! I'm a little late on this one, but getting back in the swing of things from holidays. This week at Lasting Memories, we have a fun challenge. We're going sepia and earth tones! I had a question earlier about using Earth Tones if you can't get a sepia photo - of course you can. We want to see your layouts and it's amazing how creative we can get when we don't have access to one

Karen Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04432594471328548230noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894247298420308575.post-51378301049140455642011-11-08T10:49:00.005-05:002011-11-08T11:28:59.157-05:00

Hi all! Well, we're back from our 2 week vacation in the sunny south of Florida. Hurrican Rina did mess things up a little for us - she didn't actually come in to land, but the gulf was cold (about 70* - cold to me lol) and we got a little wind/rain and low temps, but when that sun came out, man was it hot. We all came home with nice tans and relaxed. We did have a chance to get over to the

Karen Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04432594471328548230noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894247298420308575.post-10271020785617818152011-10-31T08:00:00.015-04:002011-10-31T08:00:03.512-04:00

It's time for a new challenge at Digi Darla's today!! Our challenge this week is called "Holiday Harvest" and you have 2 freebie digi's to choose from! For my layout I chose to use "Fall Pumpkin" image and I uploaded it in PSE and actually tried something different. I loaded it up and then went to EDIT, Photo Effects and first I did "Miscellaneous" and "carving" and then went back in and

Karen Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04432594471328548230noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894247298420308575.post-27133924640337966092011-10-30T11:11:00.001-04:002011-10-30T11:16:39.675-04:00

Hello from the sunny south!! Today we have a new challenge at Lasting Memories - Using the word "Cherish" on your LO and show us someone or someTHING that you cherish the most! I had a minute last night to sit and do a digital LO for this week's challenge and came up with this one. A couple pics from our vacation. Having a great time, although the weather's been a little up and down - wearing

Karen Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04432594471328548230noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894247298420308575.post-65863446885491208632011-10-14T17:23:00.001-04:002011-10-14T17:24:20.975-04:00

Evening friends! Michele on my LMCB DT told me I should check out this new challenge blog called "Paper Lovin' Gals" AND they're having a DT call, which Michele told me about to! So, this is my entry for this weeks challenge. Can you believe it took me 10-15 min's to put this together!? And NO mess! LOVE it! Yes, another MyMemories digi layout! This was a couple summers ago, might even be 3 now

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Good morning!! Well, today's layouts are a fond and funny memory for me. When Ash was about to turn 9, she asked me if she could get some colored highlights in her hair. So, after some thought, I said sure - but the wash and wear type stuff. We go to the hair dressers and I hear her ask for purple! Eeek! Turned out quite cute though. Later that day my parents came up and my dad said "What in

Karen Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04432594471328548230noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894247298420308575.post-42473624608080431862011-10-12T09:50:00.000-04:002011-10-12T09:50:10.515-04:00

Hey friends! So, today's LO is one of my favorite memories of this vacation. We had this little chipmunk that kept coming around and scoping out peanuts. Well, I don't know where Ashleigh got this idea, likely her dad, but they tied a peanut to a fishing rod and Ashleigh went "Chipmunk Fishing"!! She had a blast and you know, that little chippy played right along with her for hours that day! He

Karen Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04432594471328548230noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894247298420308575.post-76503097101837074042011-10-11T20:54:00.001-04:002011-10-11T20:55:42.818-04:00

Evenin' all!! I'm actually having a quiet night, for once, so I got in here to play and catch up some more. I can't wait to get all these LO's back!! They're being sent in on Friday for printing. I've done a great job getting caught up and loving this software!! Yep, another MyMemories!!! Check it out by clicking the little logo to your right - top of my blog!! You won't be sorry. So, this is a

Karen Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04432594471328548230noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894247298420308575.post-53957116751013405172011-10-09T08:00:00.003-04:002011-10-09T08:00:02.368-04:00

Good morning friends! Today is a new challenge at Lasting Memories and we're challenging you to use TAGS on your layouts!! This is a photo from our Spring Scrapbook Retreat. My friend Kelli and I host it and we've been doing a spring/fall one and now we've been asked to add a 3rd wknd in there, so we're doing on in Feb 2012 now as well!! We have an amazing group of women and we fill up super

Karen Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04432594471328548230noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894247298420308575.post-82003071389640945912011-10-08T07:00:00.002-04:002011-10-08T22:33:08.354-04:00

Morning and happy Saturday! We have no more plans for the wknd, but to relax and ENJOY!! Last long wknd of the year for us. As promised, here's another layout from my first trip to Algonquin. This is a 2 page spread I put together to showcase the scenery. Again, all my layouts lately have been digital and are done using MyMemories Digital Software! Super easy and fun. Check out the link in my

Karen Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04432594471328548230noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894247298420308575.post-17759945458070673172011-10-07T11:04:00.000-04:002011-10-07T11:04:15.711-04:00

Morning and happy Thanksgiving wknd!! We have a nice 3 day wknd here and can't wait to get it started! Family dinner at my sister's tonight and then 3 gorgeous days to enjoy. Weather is supposed to be incredible. Here's a layout I just finished - my very first trip to Algonquin Park and seeing purple finches for the first time. I have a couple more to add, will post when they're done! Entering

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Hey all! I know, better late than never, right?? I'm pretty late with this week's challenge at Lasting Memories, but here it is!! We have a great challenge this week ... a recipe challenge with a little twist! Here's the recipe ... (1) photo (2) embellishments of your choice (button/ribbon) (3) different colors (red/blue/white) And the twist?? Song lyrics of your choice!! (thanks Denise for this

Karen Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04432594471328548230noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894247298420308575.post-14347761317572863382011-10-04T15:34:00.000-04:002011-10-04T15:34:34.221-04:00

This week at Digi Darla's, we're challenging you to "Blue and Brown"! Super fun! Here's my creation and I used one of Darla's images - "Mermaid and Friend's" I did a little paper piecing, used my Swiss Dots CB folder and the card is from CTMH and comes already scalloped! LOVE this! Happy Tuesday!

Karen Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04432594471328548230noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894247298420308575.post-65495801666515366362011-10-03T09:47:00.001-04:002011-10-03T09:48:43.945-04:00

Good morning! I hadn't had a chance to get these on here ... these are the baby shower favors I made for my cousin's shower. I used the new CTMH Cricut cartridge and cut these little guys at 10" and then cut the little butterflies, I THINK at 1.5", filled my little bags with candy and tied it all up! They were a HUGE hit!! Hope everyone has a great day today! I have a busy day ahead of me.

Karen Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04432594471328548230noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894247298420308575.post-70863320362131104862011-09-26T07:00:00.002-04:002011-09-26T07:00:03.361-04:00

YAY! I am DONE a whole set of pics from our fishing trip! This is the last of them. I did 6 LO's and I love them all. Can't wait to get everything printed now. Amazing really, when you look at these pics, how small the kid's were once and Andrew would let us take his pic. Now it's a fight most of the time, but I just go in stealth mode, lol, and get what I want!! Have a great day!

Karen Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04432594471328548230noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894247298420308575.post-61990272246548350242011-09-25T08:00:00.014-04:002011-09-25T08:00:06.973-04:00

Hello there!! This week at Lasting Memories, we're challenging you to use frames and flowers on your layout!! Fun stuff! For my layout today, I chose to use some floral pics from my gardens and then I edited them in my scrapbook software as "embossed" to give them a fun look! I love how this turned out!! Have a peek over at Lasting Memories to see what the DT did and come on out and join us!!

Karen Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04432594471328548230noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894247298420308575.post-68169169151368253342011-09-24T22:22:00.000-04:002011-09-24T22:22:14.471-04:00

Sneaking in a couple layouts before my Lasting Memories post in the morning! I've been getting in here whenever I can to get caught up on pics. Ashleigh is 3 here and she'll be 11 next month! I love these pics. Such a happy child and I remember this day like it was yesterday too. Another reason I love my camera!! Enjoy your night! Challenges Entered: FBW #172 - Open with a Butterfly, fairy or

Karen Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04432594471328548230noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894247298420308575.post-50444590327973395512011-09-24T07:00:00.002-04:002011-09-24T07:00:00.863-04:00

Here's 2 more layouts from our family day fishing trip in Kirkfield back in ' 03. Still a few more to come so stay tuned!!

Karen Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04432594471328548230noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894247298420308575.post-73103832334178086642011-09-23T07:00:00.007-04:002011-09-23T07:00:16.132-04:00

Before I get to today's post, I'd like to send a shout out to my Aunt Linda!! She is so good to comment on all my posts and even emails me when I don't post for awhile to be sure all is well! So ... HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Hope your day is filled with love, laughter, family, friends and most important, good health. I love you! Now onto today's post!! Morning!! I am super excited to be getting so caught

Karen Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04432594471328548230noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894247298420308575.post-48279475741952225442011-09-22T08:00:00.003-04:002011-09-22T08:00:04.806-04:00

Hello! As promised, here's Ashleigh's corresponding LO to yesterday's fishing LO! Yesterday was Andrew and today is Ash. I can't believe they were even this small!

Karen Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04432594471328548230noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894247298420308575.post-31692945037620233692011-09-21T08:25:00.007-04:002011-09-21T09:24:19.302-04:00

Good morning!! Here's another fun LO I did with MyMemories. I'm really trying to get caught up with all these old pics. I love the way this one came out and I'm working on a corresponding one of Ashleigh as well. Hope everyone has a great day - we're halfway through the week!

Karen Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04432594471328548230noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894247298420308575.post-19559156817164557642011-09-19T08:00:00.016-04:002011-09-19T08:52:19.272-04:00

Hello!! My mom and I took a Motorcycle Training Course this past wknd and wow, was it hard work! Friday night from 7-10 in class and then Sat 8-4 on bikes and Sun 8-5 on the bikes. Saturday morning we didn't even turn the bikes on, you pushed a partner to get balance control etc and then finally turned them on Saturday late morning. We were both completely exhausted on Saturday night and muscles

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