The Card Concept 2nd Year Anniversary!

It is The Card Concept's 2nd Year Anniversary!  There is a beautiful inspiration photo piece with which to be inspired plus some prizes - so let's get at it!

I'm going to throw this out there and say my card goes under the Classy and Elegant theme - what do you think?

I used a few older stamps from Cornish Heritage Farms that I have had for a few years- Aged Sheet Music 6 x 6 stamp and Ticking Backgrounder - they just seemed perfect to use for this challenge!

The sentiment is from Waltzingmouse Stamps - another company that is closing it's doors - I have many fond memories of WMS since I was once a Design Team member- such beautiful people….

Also - after raiding my drawers (craft drawers) I found some Prima Flowers.  I used Papertrey Ink Branching Out die for my leaves and then tied it all together with some beautiful ribbon and pearls!

Take a ride over to The Card Concept and see what you can do with this gorgeous photo!!

It's Your Day!

Good Day! 

Did you catch the Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog Waltz yesterday?! If not there is still time to enter and win a stamp set! J

Just leave a comment on every designer's blog - don't worry - there are not too many of us -and you are entered to win a stamp set PLUS leave a comment on the Waltzingmouse Stamps blog, and then you are entered to win another stamp set! woohoo!

Today I have a card I made for a twelve year old boy (yikes!) who likes army tanks.......well, I don't have any army tanks but I did have the helicopters from Kim Hughes stamp set Little Guy, so I made a sort of army card.

I used one of the sentiments from Papertrey Ink's Star Prints and then highlighted it in white. Kind of hard to see - I should have maybe just stamped the whole thing in white...what do you think?

The cloud die cuts and felt are also from Papertrey Ink, as is the Kraft Cardstock. The designer paper is some that I have had in my stash for awhile......gotta use up that stash!!

I hope he likes it!

Argggghhh....and your booty too!

Did you know that September 19th is "International Talk Like a Pirate Day"?!

Hope Stamps Eternal is celebrating that day this weekend with our Inspirational Cupcake Challenge and we would love for you to play!!

Just make a card or create a page after being inspired by the Cupcake photo and upload your link to the Hope Stamps Eternal blog! and here is the photo for this week......




Isn't it a swash-buckler?? Doesn't it shiver your timers??!! (enough already....)
Now everyone knows that Pirates like a good haul and they travel the seas looking for booty......well.......they found a gift card stocking holder and they LOVED it and they were satisfied!! (true story.....I swear.)





I found this wonderful booty....uhmm gift card holder/stocking template on Splitcoaststampers by Claire Brennan.

When you lift the flap there is a place that you can tuck in your gift card! Isn't that brilliant??

With all this pirate talk I got a little nervous and when I was sewing, I mistakenly sewed the flap shut (covered up nicely by pompom ribbon!) So I decided to just make a decoration.....which I LOVe by the way!

I used Daisy D's Christmas paper for the main part of the sock and used the Distressed Stripes Cuttlebug folder on the toe, heel and flap of the stocking...



The sentiment was stamped onto Kraft paper cut out with Spellbinders tags and then held in place by two buttons topped with Zva Creative Crystal Dots and they are sooooo blingy and sparkly and just like finding a treasure! See how it all ties in?

Well, I hope you have enjoyed my different look at "International Talk like a Pirate Day" I don't want to have to walk the plank!

Please take a look at the other matey's inspirations - they may have followed the rules a tad bit more than I did!

Give a Dog a Bone....

A bone for a new neighbourhood puppy......a few months ago because this is one of the first projects that I did for the Dirty Dozen in April - my first month!

The theme for April was "Going Green" figurately or literally - green creations or being "earth"green..... My puppy tag falls under the "earth" green and recycling - and this is how it goes.



This is simply an office supply manila tag juiced up and attached to one of those delicious chewy bones that get all gooey and disgusting when the new little puppy dives right in!

Talk about a natural cycle......the receiver of said chewy bone will soon have his digestive system signaled to deliver the ultimate fertilizer to keep the lawn (maybe mine....!) greener than ever!

The stamps used are from a combination of two sets by Kim Hughes, Cutie Pet-tootie and Pet-tootie Sentiments, both available at Cornish Heritage Farms

....and thanks for hanging in there!

Stamps: Cutie Pet-Tootie, Pet-Tootie Sentiments (Cornish Heritage Farms) Ink: Memento, Ranger Distress Ink, Inkssentials white gel pen Paper: Office Supply tag, SEI, Cosmo Cricket, Imaginisce Accessories: scallop punch, Petite Oval Nestabilities, button, twine

Whoot......

Good Sunday morning everyone!

Well, today I am on my way home from the CHA supershow so this is preposted. I am sure I had a wonderful time and I will have a ton of pictures for you tomorrow or Tuesday!

But today is Hope Stamps Eternal Cupcake Inspiration Challenge day! The cupcake photo was super cute with it's little owls so naturally, since I had just received some wonderful little owls, I HAD to use them!


The cute little owl is popped up onto the card with a black foam dot adhered under the black part of the owl.
Since the owls are sheer, and you can see through them, using the black foam pop dot makes it even harder to detect. It looks like a magic floating owl.....uh huh....



The tree is paper pieced with Basic Grey June Bug and then I carried the same designer paper over to the card base for some continuity.

I added a little border of black cardstock cut out with my Martha Stewart cornice punch and then tied a May Arts Ribbon bow.

The sentiment is from Kim Hughes stamp set called "U R A Hoot" , although the real sentiment has two "whoot"s and I only wanted one "whoot" but, don't worry, I didn't give a "whoot" ! HAH!

.......and the tree is from Kim Hughes stamp set called "Making the Grade". I stamped the tree onto Basic Grey June Bug and cut out the top of the tree and then stamped it again onto the Kraft cardstock and cut out the trunk of the tree and glued them both onto the white cardstock.

I tied a bit of twine to the buttons and used mini glue dots to add them to the card and once they are on.....they are on! Fabulous stuff! The tag is made with one of the tags from the Wizard Tags Trio from Spellbinders.

Please take a look at the other HSE Sweeties blogs for their take on this wise little challenge!! ...and feel free to play with us - we would love it if you did! When you upload to Splitcoaststampers or Papercraft Planet, just make sure to leave the keyword CIC18 so we can all see your wonderful creation!!

Rachel - Hope Stamps Eternal
Michelle - Stop and Stamp the Roses
Tammy - Stamp Happy
Natalie - dougnat diaries
Colleen - Glitter Ink
Jessica - Shamrocks and Seashells
Kelli - Yard Sale Kind of Luck
Carolina - Carolina's Creative Pad

Missing You.....

This is going to be a quick post today because I have lots and lots of assignments due, and not enough time in a summer's day to do them all!

I love the summer and golfing and hanging out the clothes (you know I do!) and being in my basement away from this delicious sun isn't something I enjoy!

So I have started moving my "stuff" outside to our little cabana and working outside on the table and oooooo, I am luvin' it!



Here is the card that I sent into Moxie Fab's tree challenge and I combined it with a Limited Supply challenge on Splitcoaststampers.

Lonely, stark and looks like it is missing something doesn't it? Good. That is exactly what I was going for! yay!

Isn't the little fence cool?! I stamped the Cornish Heritage Farms Weathered Wood backgrounder (which I think is discontinued) with Papertrey Ink Dark Chocolate onto Kraft paper and then punched out the fence with the Martha Stewart picket fence punch!

I hope you like it and I hope you come back! I will have some sneak peeks on Sunday for Little Paper Shop and they are so dang cute!!


Stamps: Launching Pad, Natures Silhouettes, Weathered Wood backgrounder (Cornsih Heritage Farms)
Ink: Dark Chocolate (Papertrey Ink), Memento black copics
Paper: Dark Chocolate, Kraft and white (Papertrey Ink) , Taylored Expressions Key Ingredients, Co'erdinations
Accessories: Martha Stewart Picket Fence punch, Basic Grey brads, Pop dots

{Cheers} to you!

Isn't that a funny way to greet a Sunday morning??!! and it's not even communion! (oops, that could be blasphemous)

Happy Sunday and what a beautiful day it is! The sun is shining and it promises to be a day full of gorgeous HEAT! Thank goodness....we have been lacking in the heat department lately.....

It's time for another Cupcake Inspiration Challenge! Every Sunday Rachel from Hope Stamps Eternal has a challenge in which a photo of delicious cupcakes is shown and you draw inspiration from that photo!

We would love for you to join us! Just take a look at the inspiration photo and make a "something" to add to your Splitcoaststampers Gallery or PaperCraft Planet gallery! When you upload, leave a comment with your link, on the Hope Stamps Eternal blog so we can all check it out!!

I took a different route - surprise! surprise! - Here is the photo of the yummy cupcakes







and here is my card......





I didn't have a penguin stamp, but wouldn't the Imaginisce Penguin have been perfect??!! Ooooo, Rachel is out of those sweet images right now but there are other Imaginisce products available in the store!!

I did have Kim Hughes set Ahoy Matey and so I grabbed the parrot and coloured him up with my copics. Then I added some Diamond Glaze to his cute little hat and his eyeball (ew....I hate that word eyeball... yuck)

I used my new Basic Grey Lemonade, available NOW at Hope Stamps Eternal, and this sheet matches perfectly with my Scarlet Jewel cardstock and ribbon....yay!

I stamped a Cornish Heritage Farms Large Polka Dot backgrounder onto Sweet Blush cardstock and layered it and my Lemonade designer paper onto Kraft and the Scarlet Jewel cardstock.

The sentiment is from Cornish Heritage Farms Birthday Centers, and I gussied up my card with some K & Company baubles and a flower with a Karen Foster bling in the middle.

Now the Karen Foster bling WAS orange, so I took my brown copic marker and coloured over top of the jewel to make it a shade darker! Isn't that so cool! THAT is what blogging is all about - learning little tricks of the trade - believe me I didn't think that up by myself - I had help and I think it was Lauren Meader's blog where I read that tip!

I decided to enter this card into Cornish Heritage Farms Summer Stamp Star Design challenge. It is 5 weeks of cardmaking, so hopefully I can keep up to the challenges. I have the first one done! yay!

Some FUN, especially for me!

Woot! Woot!!! I am so fabulously excited because I have been asked by Taylor Van Bruggen to be her Featured Cupcake Sampler today!! ohmygoodnessohmygoodnessohmygoodnessohmygoodnessohmygoodnessohmygoodnessohmygoodness

Honestly, I don't think I am a gusher, so it is hard to get my feelings out without posting a kazillion bunch of !!!!!!!!!!, but I am totally floored and honoured to be the Featured Cupcake Sampler this week and to work along with Taylor's fabulous Baker's Dozen!! Thank you Taylor for asking me!

Now what's so hard about saying that?



Ah well on with the fun stuff!........I made my card bright and cheery today because it has been raining here and I can't even hang out clothes on my new clothesline. I wonder how long I can say "my new clothesline". When does a clothesline become un-new?

Whatever, I needed some cheeriness!

I used Taylor's sketch (of course), Kim Hughes stamped image Cosmo the Turtle and Papertrey Ink cardstock along with some fun K & Company Berry Sweet designer papers.

The little lollipop is covered in Crystal Lacquer to make it all shiny and yummy and I cut out the little guy and then glued him back onto the cardstock. I do this because I like the look but without the added bulkiness so you can still pop it in the mail!

Speaking of popping, make sure you pop around to the Baker's Dozen design team to check out their "sure-to-be-fabulous" creations with this fabulous sketch!

Hubby has gone to Michigan International Speedway to see the LifeLock 400 race this weekend and I am missing him.....On the positive side, I can stamp to my heart's delight!!

Supplies:
Stamps: Kim Hughes
Paper: Papertrey Ink cardstock, K & Company Berry Sweet designer paper
Ink: Memento black, copics
Accessories: WE R Memory Keepers eyelets, Cuttlebug spots and dots embossing folder, Stamping Up
scalloped punch, Prima flower, Crystal lacquer

Twinkling Truck Delivery!

Today is Tuesday and that means it is time for Madelynn's Twinkling Tuesday Challenge and we have another Temporary Twinkie and that is Kimmie's son Nicky!!

Nicky loves the colours blue, purple and orange so that is what he chose as the challenge today....create a card with blue, purple and orange!!

So I chose the stamp set Baby Love and Little Guy (Boy) by Kim Hughes and available at Cornish Heritage Farms. to work with today.

I stamped the truck image from Little Guy (Boy) all over my cardstock in memento black ink and then I masked it and stamped the baby bottle from Baby Love in the back of the pick up!

I was able to colour each and every truck with various shades blue, purple and orange copic markers and then adhered it to some Spring Rain cardstock.

I ran the sewing machine around it kind of willy-nilly a couple of times, and then added a Plum Pudding swiss dot ribbon, a Melon Berry button and the sentiment that was cut from the Spellbinders Tags 5 die! I sponged around the tag with Spring Rain ink before I removed it from the die.

Isn't it a cute card? I love the effect of the multi coloured trucks and a sweet baby card to boot!!

Check out the Twinkling Tuesday blog today because our sweet Darla is the featured stamper!!

I probably won't be posting tomorrow, I am having some tests done and I don't think I will feel much like it....

Welcome Baby.........

Hello! We are away again for a couple of days so I am preposting this card and I won't be posting tomorrow......sorry....



And just so you know how much FUN I am having without you, I am going to tell you where we went.

The Poultry Show. Chickens. Now.......aren't I a Lucky Clucker?? LOL!!!

Supplies:

Stamps Cornish Heritage Farms/Kim Hughes Baby Love
Paper: Papertrey Ink Plum Pudding, Coordinations cardstock, DCWV Nana's Nursery (luv it)
Ink: Memento and Copics
Accessories: Papertrey Ink Plum Pudding ribbon, stickles, nestabilities, circle punch, brad

Friends.....

Oooooo, how I love the new Melon Berry from Papertrey Ink!! That is my card base today and the button is one of the new Melon Berry vintage buttons that Papertrey Ink is now handling.......how is a girl to save any money??!!

Today's Way to Use It Challenge was to find crafty ways to use your iron!! Wow, did I groan when I read that. Where the heck IS my iron??!!




Angelnorth, the guest hostess, gave some examples, and I chose to use the wax paper resist tutorial.

Instead of scrunching up the wax paper as in the tutorial, I saw this card, and decided I would use my Cuttlebug folder too!

I ran the wax paper through my Cuttlebug in the Stylized Flowers embossing folder. Then I followed the tutorial using my glossy cardstock and embossed waxed paper.

I sponged Papertrey Ink Spring Moss ink over the glossy paper and my Stylized Flowers started to show up beautifully!

Then I just cut it up to use on my card, which has a history of its own, because of a small blunder! When I was stamping the sentiment from Friends Centers, Cornish Heritage Farms, I stamped it upside down....crap. So that is why it is sort of the same layout as yesterday's blog hop card.....

Ah, well........Hope you have a good day and stay safe.........I really have GOT to clean my stamping room so I can get some projects started finished!!

A Classic Sketch...........

First of all, so sorry about the yucky picture.

Ron is having a meeting in the kitchen where I always take my pictures so I am "stuck" in the computer room which is where I had to take this photograph, on a magazine, in front of my little drawers full of beads. Yes, I have beads in my office. Is that wrong I wonder.......

It is dark and rainy and gloomy here today so the picture is not very bright and those men just keep rambling on about John Deere and fenders.....ho hum.





This is for today's sketch challenge at Splitcoast Stampers.

I used Cornish Heritage Farms, Bel Air stamp with the sentiment being from "You're a Classic" ....perfect for the men in your lives!!

My card base is Papertrey Ink Dark Chocolate.

The background is the Cornish Heritage Farms License Plates stamped in Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream ink on Papertrey Ink Kraft Cardstock. Then I sprayed it with Tattered Angels Bronze Glimmer Mist to give it a bit of sparkle. Difficult to see in the picture but dang pretty IRL!

Like I said, it is rainy and gloomy here today so I think I will try to stay in my stamp room, if I can ever get out of this computer room, that is. Honestly, men babble on more than women and I really feel like I am trapped in here....

You are probably wondering why I don't just leave the computer room, say hello to the nice men and go on my merry way. It has to do with my still being in my housecoat and my hair looking like I worked on it all night.......if you get my drift......sometimes I need a talking to.....lol!!

Come back later, say five-ish, to see my Papertrey Blog Hop card!!

Twinkling Tuesday and a Hijack.............

Yes, I have kind of personally hijacked the colour challenge for today's Twinkling Tuesday challenge.

I don't have those exact colours and that is not so bad, but I did add another colour, as you can see. I'm going to blame my SEI designer paper because it had pink in it so I felt I had to add it.

And besides (lots of excuses!) I was using my new Shady Tree image, Artsy Blooms and I had to colour it some sort of colour! Truth is, colour challenges and I sometimes have a spat, but I won today.




Actually I did take a picture of this card horizontally too, and it really didn't look so bad that way either - the sentiment "bloom" looked better, but then the flower was sideways.

I have decided that I need to use up stuff that I have received or bought but never use, so I dug out my white Glittered letter thickers and adhered them to my cardstock and then sprayed them with Tattered Angels Honeydew Mist and Vintage Pink glimmer mist. What a sparkle! and I get to feel what it is like to actually use my products .....and it feels good!!

I punched the edge with the Martha Stewart punch that I got from Wal-Mart- which didn't work all that well at first. I think you have to start those babies with some plain old computer paper and then work your way up to thick cardstock. I don't think it will be the first punch I grab next time!

I coloured the image with copics and then trimmed around it to pop it up onto the card. It was really too bright so I sprayed it with the glimmer mists also. I used the honeydew mist on the leaves and stem and the vintage Pink onto the flower petals. It didn't tone it down but it actually brought out the colour more and what a shimmer and shine!

I added some ribbon and some Hero Arts Gems to finish it off! Don't forget to head over to the Twinkling Tuesday blog and then off to the other designers challenges!! They will probably have all played by the rules and that's a good thing !!

Supplies:
Stamp: Cornish Heritage Farm Shady Tree Studio Artsy Blooms
Cardstock: Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream, Dark Chocolate, Stampers Select White
Designer Paper: SEI
Ink: Memento black, Ranger Vintage Photo, Antique Linen
Accessories: Martha Stewart punch, Papertrey Ink Spring Moss ribbon, Kaisercraft crystals, white gel pen, glittered thickers, Cuttlebug swiss dot folder

Ways to Use Green!

I took the Ways to Use It challenge literally, like it said, and used green on my creation.

You could have actually recycled or reused stuff and put it on your card but I settled for using the colour green, unless you count using supplies that you never use and you SHOULD use, yep okay, I did that too....... lol!



I used Jen del Muro's sketch this week, because it is a cute sketch and because I haven't used any of her sketches since I was guest designer back in August (checkitoutcheckitoutcheckitoutsubliminalmessaging) I think I was scared off of sketches for awhile after that pressure lol!! But it was totally fun and such a great experience to be in amongst the "greats" and I don't say that lightly. Those ladies are absolutely amazing!!

Back to the card. I used Cosmo Cricket Cogsmo designer paper throughout the whole card, except for the card base which is Papertrey Ink Stampers Select white. I LOVE it for card bases because it is sooooooo sturdy!!

I stamped the Cornish Heritage Farms Scroll scrapblock in Papertrey Ink Spring Moss on the green paper of the Cosmo Cricket paper and adhered it to the card base.

The image and sentiment are from Cornish Heritage Farms and they are two of Kim Hughes sweet little ol' stamps from the set Little Guy!

I coloured it with copics and outline the image and sentiment is Sakura glitter pen. I added some Stamping Bella crystal bon bons (too many I think, but then again can you ever have too many baubles??!! I think not.......)

The ribbon is from Making Memories and it really doesn't have any green in it. I just took my copic pen and coloured in some green in the circles sort of willy nilly here and there!

I ran the Fresh Snow pigment inkpad around the edge of the card just because it is sort of an interesting thing to do sometimes!

I also added, as you can see, a button and some twine, as so many are doing these days, so I am basically copying everyone is blogland - isn't that what makes the world go around - cheating and stealing?

Okay - I am just KIDDING!! and I don't copy everyone in blogland.....not everyone...... where am I going with this?......no where fast me thinks.......

Have a great day and go blog surfing and don't copy anybody! K?

Flutter....

Splitcoast Stampers has an Inspiration Challenge every Saturday which I thoroughly enjoy! I don't always have a chance to play, but today I did because I don't plan to do a dang thing except ..........nothing!...... well....... maybe empty the dishwasher and throw in a load of laundry ......but nothing else......!

The original artwork I chose to be inspired by was from the website Flutter and this beautiful piece by Rachel Austin called "Kerby".

Apparently it is so called because, as you can kind of see, under the top image is a map and on that map is a town called Kerby - isn't that just so cool??!



I stamped on vellum so that you could see through the image onto the "map" below.

My "map" is actually the scrapblock Fiery Floral Scrapblock by Cornish Heritage Farms. I stamped it in Papertrey Ink Spring Blue ink onto white cardstock.



Then I stamped all of the images staz-on ink because it dries quickly on vellum and doesn't smudge on vellum and stays put on the vellum (ask me how I know......hehe)

I made a little scalloped border across the bottom and adhered the image and the background to some Dark Red prism cardstock and then mounted that whole thing onto white again.

I added some frosted lace stickles to the center of the flowers and tied some red ribbon around the top because I LUV ribbon!! I think that is my favourite embellishment of all!! But I do like gems and I am really starting to LUV buttons........

This card is kind of plain today, but I think I still like it.....

Thanks for coming around today!

Supplies
Stamps: (Out on a Limb, Birds of a Feather, Faux Ribbon) Papertrey Ink;( Fiery Floral Scrapblock) Cornish Heritage Farms
Paper: (Stampers Select White, Vellum) Papertrey Ink; Prism Dark Red;
Ink: (Black Cherry, Azure, Timber Brown, Black) Staz-On;
Accessories: Ribbon-So-Facile, treading water punch, frosted lace Stickles, tombow glue

WT206 You Superstar you!!

Ways to Use STRIPES today - YAY!

I love stripes and it also can make a quick card with barely any thinking - is that good or not?! I dunno.........maybe not.........Well I had the Splitcoast Fan Club sketch this month so it made it fairly easy also!!

This is my second run at the fan club. I renewed my subscription because that Dirty Dozen has so much going on for them. A lot of inspiration is to be gleaned from there and lots of fun challenges too!! I don't do the challenges all the time but if I can, I try to do them.

And you get to look through their gallery and hope something rubs off.....anything....soak up all that goodness!!


I pulled out my K & Company Wild Saffron paper - rather an old designer paper but I still love it and hardly ever use it.

It just so happens that I did see some chipboard embellishments at the JawMart that were also Wild Saffron, so I bought them because "they" said I had to.

I stamped the AlphaNumber backgrounder onto Memory Box Meadow cardstock in Versamagic Tea Leaves.

Then I stamped the main image, that cute little inchworm from Kim Hughes Stamp set Making the Grade onto Papertrey Ink stamper select white cardstock and coloured him with copics.

AT first I coloured him green but he looked hideous I didn't like the way he looked so I went over him again with another "quite yellow" copic and it toned him down or spruced him up - something like that!!

The flowers and the superstar piece are both from the Wild Saffron chipboard. Using premade chipboard is starting to grow on me. I don't know if I like this trend or not because.........

I just finished my awesome online course with Tania Willis, making your own embellishments, and I learned so much - even how to use chipboard in different ways, so I should have been able to make my own embellishments!! ackckckck!!!!!!!!! dang it........

What is for supper?? Does anyone know? I see hubby got some butterfly pork chops out to thaw. What the heck is that supposed to mean? I supposed I have to do something with them now. I think I am a grump today.......I have NO reason on this planet to be a grump......so I am going to call it the February grumps.........babbling fool........

Our 10th Twinkling Challenge!!

Good morning and welcome to, unbelievably, the 10th Twinkling Tuesday! This is the day when we get to create our card based on a sketch from Madelynn, daughter of Jessica, and, might I add, only 8 years old!

Here is this week's sketch:



and here is my card, plus a little close up so you can see all the dimension.









I decided to use a 4 1/4" x 4 1/4" card because every other way I tried it just wouldn't work out for me!

I got out my Cornish Heritage Farms, Kim Hughes stamp set Sweet Spring and stamped a sweet chickie on each panel and coloured them up with copics. I stamped them again on white cardstock, coloured them too, cut them out and popped them up onto the first panel!

I stamped and coloured the kite, from the Kim Hughes Little Gal set, cut it out and popped it up onto the first image! Love all the dimension!

The sentiment is from Kim Hughes Pretty Birds stamp set and I stamped it in Brilliance Black as well as everything else!

I like this ink because it doesn't smear when you colour the image with copics. The trick is to let it sit for a minute or two or sometimes, if I am in a hurry, which is a lot!! I use my heat gun to speed up the process!!

My designer paper is Scenic Route and my ribbon is from Papertrey Ink.

Off to Math Class today with Holly and then pancakes tonight because it is Shrove Tuesday, followed by Ash Wednesday followed by Lent.

Now I have to decide what to give up this year.

Two years ago I gave up chocolate........eeeekk!! I made it through until Easter and I was quite proud of myself.

Last year I gave up chips and it was a dismal failure. I may have lasted a week...... The funny thing is I would rather have chocolate than chips.

I think I am going to give up buying stamping supplies...........It is only until Easter. I just have to tell myself "What is more important to you - Jesus or stamping?" I know the answer emphatically.....but.........hopefully I can do it.