WOW July almost over!

Wow is it me or did July seem to fly by! Had lots of bithday's this last month between family and friends. But I kinda enjoyed staying busy crafting :) Which is good cause its super hot outside here in Texas not a lot you want to do outside...lol I am still biking but I am not going till like 730 when its cooled down some. And I make sure to take a full bottle of water, and take breaks when I need it. But anyways that is what I have been up to this month nothing to exciting...lol

I wanted to share this card with you and the inpseration behind it. As we all do there are times you need card and you have mental block going, hate when this happens. I found this site last year its called PAGE MAPS. If you click on that link it will take you to there site. For days I have mental block I will go to this site and just look at card sketch layout ideas to get ideas. That is what happened with this card, I needed a card for my sister in law and was having a hard time. I went on the site and found a card LO I thought was cute and just tweaked it some. They also have scrapbook LO ideas as well. But what I like is you can look at the LO's and get ideas you dont have to make it the same. You can make it the same or as different as you want, just there to give you ideas. For some reason this site just seems to get my juices flowing, if that makes sense...lol I have really grown to love the site.
Here is a picture if the card sketch I used from the site, as you see its not to different.

Well thanks for looking and supplies will be listed below the post:)

Supplies used

Sweet Treats Cricut cart

K&Company paper stack-Kelly Panacci (Blossom)

Hero arts stamps-birthday messages

Recollection card stock

glossy accents

Stickles

Cuttle bug die cut-floral boarders

Birthday cards using campin critters

Finally! I am saying finally cause July birthdays are now over....lol Sorry I did not post last week but figured I would wait till the last birthday and I was done making cards for all the birthdays. As I said in  the last post I have tons of family and friends who have birthdays in July. Its my busy month for crafting, second to Christmas.
So for this post of course its birthday cards, just to let you know the next few post will be birthday cards :) lol I needed a card for my brother as well as a cousin so I decided to make two cards with the same style but different layouts. I used campin critters for the deer, the balloon was off a stamp set. I also used the same papers trying to use the scraps up.

So thanks for stopping by and looking and products will be listed below. :)

Supplies used

Cricut Cart Campin Critters

Hero Arts Stamp set-birthday message
Wire

Tim holtz distress inks

Water colors pencils

Stickles

glossy accents

Let over scrap papers -sorry don't know the names

Birthday card

WOW July for me is a busy month! We have so many July birthdays in our family. Brother's was the 1st his wife's is the 15. There son, my nephew Jacob the 22. Then my sister's was the 6th and her sons was the 3rd. Plus my cousins is the 22nd and we have friends with July birthdays. I think I am forgetting one....lol I just made a list of all the cards I needed to make this month to keep track so I did not forget one. So anyways here is one of the cards I made, have many more to post so will be making more post soon. This one was pretty simple cause I was really needing to get it done to go out. Plus trying to use the scraps up. Well thanks for looking, hope everyone has had a great week so far. Supplies will be listed below.

Supplies Used

Scrap paper

Recollections card stock

Recollections Flowers

Glimmer mist

Marta Stewart pearl gem

Spellbinders circle dies

Studio G stamp from Michaels 1.00 stamp

Colored in stamp with water colors pens

Glossy accents

Stickles

Martha Stewart Scallop edge punch

Sympathy Card

Hello all hope you all had a great 4th we had a pretty good day. We really did not do much ourselves, we went to our local Denton fire work show, ANNUAL KIWANIS FIREWORKS SHOW . They put on a great fire work show, the music this year for the show was great. Played some great 80's music like Def Leppard and Journey, I am dating myself right now but that is okay...lol Anyway here is a picture I snapped maybe one day I can afford a DSLR and shot real photos instead of this point and shot camera I use....lol

So anyways before I head out I just wanted to share a card I made for a dear family friend who lost her mom. I am always stumped when doing cards like this I never know what to say inside the cards. Its a pretty simple easy card..

I used the Cindy Loo cricut cart had been wanting to use some of these flowers on this cart and thought prefect time. So supplies will be listed below, thanks for stopping by and looking :)

Supplies used

Cricut Cart (Cindy Loo) cut at 4.25

Celebrate it Ribbon

Fiskars Scallop edge punch

Unknown Scrap Paper

Card stock

Stickles

Recollections Boutique Fleur Chip Board Alphabets

Hero arts stamp set (Every day sayings)

Happy 4TH!

HAPPY 4TH! Just wanted to pop in and say have a great 4th and hope your enjoying cooked out food and fire works. We stayed home so no cooking out this year since our grill is broke. :( Oh well...lol Its gonna be a laid back 4th for us and kinda enjoying it. We might got to Denton Fire work show lest DH seems to want to go so we will see. Anyway hope you all are having a wonderful day and having a great day with family.

Cards of support!

Okay I thought my next post would be craft related but this was much more important. I have a favor to ask of you bloggers. If you could take just a few mins of your day to make a card of support for a family going through a very hard time. This is for a online friend I have known for many many years. I met her in a crafting group and since a group of us always have stayed in touch even though the group is no longer around. Jacquie has a daughter and 8 months ago she had her son Hayden. Hayden after he was born had some health issues on and off but things seemed to take a turn for the worse a few months ago. He began losing wight even with close monitoring making sure he got extra nourishment to get some weight on him, he still lost. He had to be put in the hospital a few days after they seen he still was not gaining. He gained some weight and they did some testing to try to find out why he had been losing weight. He got to go home after he put some weight on, then not long after he got home he got sick and had to go back and was back in the hospital for phenomena.

He was a very sick little boy. Since then they have been in the Hopsital and now have been transfered from Alaska to Seattle just the other day. They flew Hayden by plane to Seattle they have found out he has a very serious conditions called SCIDS (severe combined immunode...ficiency)  Click here for more info on it. Its a life threating diease and he has to undergo a bone morrow transplant. That is why the medivaced him to seattle to undergo this. During this time she is seperated from her daugher while she is there with her son Hayden. This has been a very trying time for there family and little Hayden has been a trooper with all the sickness and testing he has keep a huge smile on his face. He has won a spot in many of our hearts.

Is that not the cutest face!

So what I am asking of you blogger is to take a few mins of your day and make or just send a card to the address below. Would love to see his room full of caring cards and letters of support. This family needs lots of prayers and just to know others are thinking of them. And should you want to keep track of the day to day progress there is a Caring Bridge page and facebook page for him as well. I will have that below as well.

Seattle Childrens Hospital

4800 Sand Point Way NE

Seattle,WA 98105

c/o Hayden Boone

dont worry about room # they will find his room #

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/haydenboone/mystory

Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/jacquie.boone#!/groups/397599956971026/

I am still alive....lol

Warning long post! LOL We have had a eventful june so far post will explain.
WOW its been forever since I have posted, its been almost a month. I am very sorry for the lack of posting but the end of May and this June has been one crazy month. Its kinda long story but I wanted to explain where I had been. I was busy the last week of May getting ready for my nephew Ryan's high school graduation which was on June 1st. Graduation was wonderful, he had tons of proud family and friends cheering him on. My heart was full with pride and joy and will admit I had to fight tears back...lol Just hard to believe he is now headed off to college.



Ryan and me

This was the card I made for him

So after not even a week later my youngest nephew Jake wanted to come stay with us. So my brother brought him down and that weekend we ended up going to Texas Motor Speedway almost all weekend thanks to the sweetest neighbor in the world, she could not use her season pass nascar tickets so she gave them to us. Friday was truck racing and then Saturday was the Indy car and Jake had never been to either so it worked out great he had a great time. And we got to go down to the garage and on the track after the Indy race. Here is Jake on the start finish line.

Sunday we all kinda was tired and did not want to do much we gamed on xbox. He did alot of that while he was here....lol I got him hooked on gaming online with people (our close friends only).
So that Sunday as well our neighbor said he had a bike we could borrow for Jake, he knew we ride alot and Jake did not have a bike. Well little did I know how the week would end or else I would have said no thank you...lol
Monday we got it and DH and Jake worked it fixed it had a flat and needed a little tuning up no major issues. We did not ride that day but Tuesday after DH got home we thought okay lets take him out on a bike ride. We rode some trails and then rode another 8 miles on a walk bike path. He enjoyed it but I was always saying be careful and saying don't cross the street till I go, acting like a over protective mom....lol He is about to be 13 and a little accident prone. We all got back in one piece.
Then the next day Jake was wanting to ride again so Dh after he got home worked on the bike some more trying to get it tuned up really good. It was getting late so I wanted to just wait till the next day plus it was cloudy like it might rain. DH says lets go and just go ride the trail real quick and come back. I almost stayed home and let them go but thought no I better go just had a feeling. We ride the light trail and they wanted to ride a more hilled trail I did not want to ride it so I told them I would meet them. Of course told Jake once again, BE CAREFUL! So I go on and it takes me about 10 mins to get my bike ride over and I am coming around to meet them and I see Jake by himself riding on the side walk. And then he hopped into the street to get to me as soon as I seen him do that I knew something was wrong. He said DH had went over the handle bars and hit his head and was bleeding really bad. I think the worst and as I am going fast as I can to get there I ask is he awake and is he still on the trail he says yes he is awake and he was able to walk out of the trail.
I get to him and there was blood all down his face from his nose. He had went over the handle bars and hit right side face first on the ground. I knew with him bleeding like that he could not ride back I call the neighbor and ask can she come pick us up. She dropped everything to come get us and we get home and put the bikes up and we head to the ER. His jaw was hurting really bad and he had hit his head as well, he said he did not hit it to hard though. I just felt like he needed to go. Well after few hours the CT comes back and no broke jaw and no broke nose, no head trauma but he had three fractures in his eye orbital area. One close to the sinus area. Because of that he had lots of blood trapped in it and has to be on antibiotics. They said it will heal fine on its own so that was a relief. But he was very swollen the next day and sore so he was off work for the rest of the week and we was home all weekend. I thank god Jake was here and with him when he fell. Here I was more worried about Jake getting hurt never thought DH would be the one. Even Jake said you was worried about me getting hurt...lol
I made DH buy a helmet about 4 weeks before this he tends to ride fast on the trails. Always worried about him falling and me not knowing he is hurt. He said he did not hit his head hard but after I looked at his helmet a few days later I seen he had cracked the helmet. I told him as sore as you are it could have been much worse thanks to wearing a helmet.
So if you ride bikes or your kids ride make sure to wear a helmet yes they are annoying I hate them, I have not been wearing one. But that can save you if ever take a fall. After this when we go get him a new one I will be buying one as well. He wont be able to ride for about another week but just glad he is okay. So wanted to explain where I have been and hope you understand why I have not been on. My nephew just went back last Friday and DH went back to work this last Monday so been little busy with taking care of him. So now back to normal life, sorry for the long post. Will have a card to post in next post so things are back to normal...AHHHH. LOL