Great Cards to Share with You!

Today I am off from work and enjoying another day with my best friend Tiffani! We are trying to get some projects done and so I don't have anything new to share with you today. However, my talented friend has recently finished some cards that I love and wanted to share with you here!

She doesn't have her own blog or even have time to post projects into galleries, so I wanted to give some of her projects the recognition they so deserve!

This card is the one that she made to give to my daughter Leah when she graduated from college recently...

I love this one so much! We both think it might be the prettiest card she has ever made. She designed the word art that you see on the front of the card in Power Point using Word Art! And the good news is she is happy to share it with any of you that would like it!

Just click HERE to download the beautiful Word Art document that she created!! If you choose to, you can change the colors or sizing, by simply ungrouping the image and making the changes you desire. Then just print it out onto the cardstock of choice.

This is the card that she made to give to my daughter Tiffany when she graduated from high school...

She matched the card to my daughter's school colors and used her Prismacolor pencils with Gamsol to blend the colors. Isn't it awesome!

The card you see here is one of the ones we worked on last week when we were playing with our stamped images and pencils. It was a birthday card for here neice.

The elephant digistamp is called Party Ellie and can be purchased very reasonably from HERE .

Hope you enjoyed a peek at some of my talented friends cards! She is such an inspiration to me!! Tomorrow I will be back with BLOG CANDY to share!! Have a great night and I will be back soon!

May your bucket overflow with friends that inspire and encourage you!

Warm, Wonderful Weekend

My wonderful husband turned 44 on Saturday and we went away for the whole weekend to celebrate it! It was very special because we were able to go without the kids, all by ourselves. We spent Friday and all day Saturday together enjoying some relaxation and time kayaking on the Homossassa River. Our best friends Chad and Tiffani joined us for Tom's birthday celebration on Saturday night. We had so much fun! My cheeks were hurting from laughing and smiling so much! We had surf and turf for dinner that the guys grilled up and then we went out to a couple of local bars for some dancing and more laughing! Here are a couple of photos from our trip...

Tom kayaking down the Homossassa River.

Tom fishing from his kayak! He didn't catch anything! :-(

Relaxing at our campsite!

Tiffani helping to get dinner ready on Saturday!

I didn't end up bringing any of my images to color this weekend. I wanted Tom to get most of my attention... so I was really ready to stamp when I got home. We were pretty tired by the time we got home, so I didn't get a lot done in my scrap room, but I did manage to get one card made for St Patrick's Day!

This card combines the Limited Supplies Challenge LSC210 which limited the amount of time we could spend on our card to thirty minutes. (For me, that is hard!!)

The other challenge FS109 was to CASE the feautured stamper Judy. You can see her gallery here. This is the card of hers that I CASED.

And here is the card I created...

By combining these two challenges I was able to create a cute card that I needed for St Patricks Day in a very short amount of time. I like how it turned out even though it is a little plane Jane!

Well I need to hit the sack and catch up on little sleep. Not only were we out late last night, but we also lost an hour with Daylight Savings Time!

Have a great night and may your bucket always overflow with fond memories with your friends!

Where Did I Disappear to Already?

Wow! That's all I can say for what has happened to me for the past three days! I am sorry for disappearing from blogland, but I couldn't help it!

It all started in the middle of the night on Monday (early Tuesday morning) when my phone rang at the ungodly hour of 2am. It was work and I was called in for the delivery of an extremely premature (26 week) baby. Unfortunately I had only gotten to bed two hours earlier, so I was already very tired. I didn't leave work until 7am after I had stabilized and transferred the baby to a higher level NICU. I tried to lay down when I got home and didn't have much success, so I ended up taking about an hour nap later in the day.

This was my day off and I had plans with Tiffani (my best friend) to go out to dinner, get a couple of drinks and go see the new Sex in The City movie. Since I rarely get days off, I couldn't let my lack of a little sleep stop our plans, so I plugged along. I got home about midnight that night and was feeling very tired!

I slept all night on Tuesday and thought for sure that I would wake up raring to go, but instead, I was dead to the world. I couldn't barely muster up enough energy to prepare any food or start the couple loads of laundry that I managed to do. I can't tell you how exhausted and weak I was. I laid around all day and either watched TV or napped. I didn't even turn on my computer which is very rare for me.

I thought it might have been a combination of the lack of sleep coupled with the dieting and low calorie intake that had left me listless, but I really don't know because I never felt like this when I dieted before. I was certain that by Thursday I would be back to myself, but when work called me in at a little after 7am, I was still exhausted and unable to find my energy again! Now I was really disturbed because I couldn't bear to let my life slip by me without participating in it!

So Thursday turned into another lounge fest where I practically did nothing. Thankfully my oldest daughter Michelle (pictured below with Tiffany) had come over to hang out with me, so I did enjoy my time visiting with her. She shares my passion in the show "So You Think You Can Dance" and we watched some reruns that she hadn't seen yet. I also met Tiffani for lunch which is something we try to do whenever she is inspecting property in my neck of the woods. She is dieting with me so she is the perfect pal to talk about dieting and food with!

I am still just amazed at how tired I was for the past three days. I apologize to our customers, because I didn't design or convert one file and now I feel so far behind. But I am happy to say that I feel back to myself this morning. I awoke at 6:30 this morning and noticed that I felt like my old self again! So I think I am back on track and will try to make up for my lost time!

Now for a quick update on a couple of things...

My diet is going well! I have lost a total of 4 pounds since Monday and I hope that as soon as I start expending some calories by doing anything other than lying around that I will lose some more still this week!

I promised you pictures of my daughter Tiffany dressed as Wendy! She was so adorable and she even looks just like the animated Wendy from the commercials. She pitched the ball across the plate, but because it all happened so fast, no one got a picture of the actual pitch, but just the before and after shots! Oh well... she is still so darned cute and will have these memories for a life time! What a cool opportunity!!

So today starts with a c-section at work, then I hope to work on WBW some and also have to make two more graduation cards and one birthday card! I hope I have my mojo back and will be able to create some nice cards! Again another long post, but try to think of it as four days worth wrapped into one!

Have a phenomenal day! I plan to!!

Kelly :-)