Welcome to our little HOP!! We are SO happy that you could join us in celebrating some NEW stamps! Mr. Rubbernecker released some SUPER cute images, on the down low, a few weeks back and we wanted to share them with you!! They are SO adorable that we just HAD to show them off! We have sweet SCOOTER KIDS, some new ANIMALS, and we even got some cute new FRIENDS!!! You can find them by visiting RUBBERNECKER STAMPS and clicking on the 2011 NEW RELEASES!! Hey, wait, there is MORE!! We also have something else to CELEBRATE!!! Our design team has a NEW name!! We are SO excited!! I bet you were wondering what was up with that!! Weren’t you?! We are NOW the……………………………..

Cool, huh? We are going to have SO much to share with you!! It will TRULY be a SISTERHOOD , for sure!!! OK now, a HOP would not be a HOP without a little PRIZE!! Right? Of course!! SO, in honor of our news AND our new images, if you visit ALL the participants and leave some LOVE? You will have the chance to WIN a………………………………….

$25 RUBBERNECKER STAMPS CERTIFICATE!!

WOW, more coolness!! Our winner will be announced on TUESDAY, so you will have plenty of time to hop! OK, better get HOPPIN’!! Thanks SO much for being a part of our excitement!! You will find the HOP ROUTE and my creation below!! Have an AWESOME day!!!

THE HOP ROUTE!

• Charlene Merrick
• Frances Gumprecht
• Jacquie Peifer
• Jen Charboneau
• Joan Ervin
• Judy Rozema
• Julia Aston
• Juliana Swanson
• Kecia Waters
• Kittie Caracciolo

CREATION:
Stamps-Scooter Kid Alex
Ink & Paper-Memento Tuxedo,PTI Black,GP White, DCWV School DSP
Other-Basic Grey & Misc buttons, Twinery twine
Copics-0,E000,E00,R20,R27,R29,R46,C1,C3,C5,C7,B91,B93,B95,B97,B99

GRACIOUS GLIMPSE -HAPPY BIRTHDAY KYAH!!

Hey all! Happy Saturday to you! First let me say..................

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KYAH, LOVE YOU!!

OK, had to be done!! Sorry I have been a little absent here! SO much going on! It will slow down here shortly and then we can get into the GROOVE that is back to school! Haha! Are you ready for that? WOW, did the summer fly or what? I cannot believe it!!
SO, today I am excited to share a GLIMPSE with you!! A GRACIOUS GLIMPSE that is!! Woohoo, I am SO excited!! I am a GUEST DESIGNER over at CHRISTIAN PAPER CRAFTS!! How COOL is that? They have a WONDERFUL community over there!! You should check it out!! AND.................when you become a member?? You will have access to their DT gallery!! SO many GREAT creations to see and the best part? There is a NEW theme EACH month with NEW creations!! What is NOT to love about? Thanks to Taylor for inviting me to be a GUEST DESIGNER and thanks to ALL the DT girls for including me in their TEAM this month!! OK everyone, here is a GLIMPSE of what you will see in the CPC gallery!! The theme THIS month is, of course, Back To school!! SO many FUN things to be made!!!


Hope you like mine! I made this for my DD, Kyah! As you saw, today is her birthday and she is the BIG 9!! Haha! Hard to believe!! I found a list pad with her initial on it, which is hard to do by the way, because they ALWAYS sell out of the "K"!! I stamped my Stampendous Changito School monkey on it, at the top and bottom of the page, and colored in the top page with my Copics!! I then added encouraging sentiments from MFT and VERVE!! Every time she turns the page she will have CHANGITOS to doodle on and an encouraging word, from me!! Oh and I found the "K" pencils to match!! You all know me and the whole MATCHY thing!! Haha! Thanks SO much for stopping by and have an AWESOME Saturday!! Until next time, which will be tomorrow for a FABULOUS HOP, be sure to ENJOY LIFE!! We only get ONE!!


CREATION:
Stamps-Stampendous, MFT, Verve
Ink-Memento Tuxedo Black
Other-Copics (watercolored using the "0" marker)

THANK YOU KELLIE WINNELL........

Hey all, how are you tonight? Well, almost morning, I must admit! I just wanted to stop by and share something with you! I was crusin' blogland and I found THIS!!! Check it out!!
Kellie Winnell, of TICKLED PINK STAMPS, had this on her blog!! Now, I have to say, I was floored!! How utterly selfless and COOL is she?!! HUH?? I ask you?!! This is ESPECIALLY special to me, as my son Kade has Alopecia!!! I am not too sure how many of you follow my blog regularly or may have just known this. BUT, he does and he is a HUGE trooper about it!! I think WE, his parents, are more worried about it then HE ,himself, is!! Of course, I would not expect anything less from a FOUR year old!!! I mean, would you?
When this all started,about a year ago, we took him to our family doc, then for blood work, and finally to a Dermatologist! They said he had Alopecia!! They have NO idea why it happened, if and when it will EVER grow back, or even if it will ALL fall out!! Can you believe it? Even though I had learned about Alopecia in Cosmetology school, I figured they would have come up with something by now for it!! You know? Well, we let his hair grow on the longer side for awhile and then had NO choice BUT to shave it off! It was just SO thin and sparse that having it longer? Started to look DUMB!! My little man is SO amazing and does NOT let it bother him SO much that you should have heard him the day we clippered it down to his scalp!! He turned around to look in the mirror and FLIPPED out!! He was literally SOBBING and screaming!! He looked at me and said.............

"Mommy where is my hair? You cut it off? Put it back on Mommy! Put my hair back on"!!!

How devastating for ME, as a parent, to have done that to him! He just kept repeating that last part, over and over!! Put it back on!! UGH!! Point is? He did NOT care that he had VERY little hair left! He did not care that he had to wear a hat most of the time, so people would not be rude and stare at him!!! He just wanted, what little hair he had, BACK!! Yuck!! That was tough!! AND? It just shows me too, what we have in store, once he goes to school!!

Anyway, I am going on, and on!! I just have to say, THANK YOU, to Kellie Winnell!! Thank you for what you are doing and bringing to light and issue that is near and dear to me and my family!! You are an AMAZING person for caring about others!!

I have some pics of my little man below! He is AWESOME no matter what!!

I hope you all will spread the word and help Kellie with her cause!! Help spread awareness of this disorder and if you are able, help with a donation!! No matter how small, it is a help!!! EVERY little bit matters!! Thanks to all of you for letting me ramble about something that is personal to me!! Have an AWESOME night!! Remember....................ENJOY LIFE!!

FRIDAY "AFTERNOON" FUN

Over at Rubbernecker Stamps!! Hope you will come and join me!! I have LOTS of DEETS to share!! Have an AWESOME day!! ENJOY LIFE!!

FRIDAY FUN!!

Hey all! How are you? Hope you are having a FABULOUS FRIDAY!! Just wanted to stop by and let you know that I am hanging out at the RUBBERNECKER STAMPS BLOG today!! If you have time, I would LOVE to share with you!! Here is a GLIMPSE of what I am sharing!! Thanks for visiting and remember..............................ENJOY LIFE!!!

FINAL PRETTIES CHALLENGE AS A PRETTY!!

Hey there all! Good morning!! LONG time NO see, huh?? Well......... a LOT has happened, since we visited last!! However, I will have to SHARE later! Today is WEDNESDAY and you know what that means!! Another PAPER PRETTIES challenge!! AND? June is the end of MY term, so this is my LAST challenge as a PRETTY!! SO sad!! BUT.....with how MY month is going? It just goes right along with everything else!! Thanks SO much to ALL the girls and to Heather!! It was SO awesome to be a part of your AWESOMENESS!! I will miss you all!! This week's challenge is a color challenge!! Your challenge is......................................

CREATE SOMETHING WITH RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, + NEUTRAL!!!

Alrighty!! Check out the PAPER PRETTIES BLOG , to see the rest of the PRETTIES creations!! You know they ROCK, so you will NOT want to miss it!! OK, I must be off now!! I will fill you all in on life's details and share some pics from vaca, during our NEXT visit!! Until then..................remember, ENJOY LIFE!!! I mean, seriously? you only get ONE!! Thanks for stopping by!! Have a WONDERFUL day!!

RELEASE DAY HOP AND CHALLENGE-PWC157!!

Hello there all!! How are you? Did you arrive here from FRANCES' blog? If not? You should have!! Did you know? Today is the PAPER PRETTIES release day HOP and it is CHALLENGE day to boot! Gotta love that!! LOTS going on!! First let us talk about the CHALLENGE! It is to...............................

CREATE SOMETHING WITH SUMMER IN MIND!!!

Haha! That was SO easy with this month's RELEASE!! It is a SUMMER one, for sure!! My SUMMER creation is below and I used BEACH COOPER!! He is SO cute!! Check him out!! Alrighty, you MUST be on your way to JENNIFER'S blog to check out what she has to share with you!! I have ALSO included the HOP LIST, just in case you should need it!! Thanks SO much for stopping by and ENJOY the HOP!! Oh.....and? ENJOY LIFE!!




Paper Pretties Blog

• Agnieszka Marchel
• Amber Hillman
• Chris Veneruso

• Debra Vandersteeg

• Dominique Hornberger
• Frances Byrne
• Jacquie Peifer (you are here)
  
• Jennifer Greco
• Kristine Reynolds
• Lynda Benden
  
• Taylor Usry

HOW ABOUT ANOTHER..............

PEEK- A -PEEK?? Of course you want to see my NEXT sneak, right? OH, oh.....haha!! I am getting ahead of myself!! MUST be y medicine head!! SO sorry! I have a PAPER PRETTIES sneak-a-peek for you!! How about that? Would you like that? The set that I am sharing with you today, is a sentiment set!! A BIRTHDAY SENTIMENT set!! Cool, huh? AND.....of course, my sneaks would NOT be complete.....without a stab at the CAS thing!! Haha! So HERE are BOTH of the above!! Thanks for stopping by and have an AWESOME Monday!! Don't forget our HOP on WEDNESDAY!! You know.....the RELEASE HOP?? Until then, as I said before, check out the PAPER PRETTIES BLOG for some more creations!! OK, I am done! Haha! Proceed to your NEXT destination!! Haha!! AND.....................remember..........ENJOY LIFE!
PS. I used the butterflies from the PP SYMPATHY set!!

HOW ABOUT A PEEK?

A pretty, PRETTIES peek!! What do you think? I have an AWESOME one for ya!! Do you like COOPER?? The Paper Pretties COOPER?? Yepper!! I got him!! I even got him.......at the BEACH!! Woohoo!! Say hello to BEACH COOPER!!





CA-ute, huh? Super, duper CUTE!! I was just......SO excited, when I got done with this one!! I got to use my NEW flag nesties!! OR, whatever they are called! Haha! Oh yeah....they are called Pennants!! Whoops! I ALMOST forgot I had them!! After I used them to cut out the paper? I used my ATG gun to stick them together and then I folded them!! I wanted it to look like a flag blowing, you know? In the wind!!! NOT that you can tell by my pics! Oh well! I was tickled with how it turned out!! Hope you like it!! COOPER will be available for your VERY own on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8th!!! I know, I know.......it seems far.......BUT....it will be here before you know it!!! Until then? Stay tuned for ALL the AWESOME sneaks!! The PRETTIES girls have some AMAZING creations prepared for you!! If you want to check them out, stop by the PAPER PRETTIES blog for ALL the fun!! I will see you back here on MONDAY for MY next PEEK!! Have a GREAT weekend!! We are off to Pittsburgh to see my BESTEST!!! Remember......ENJOY LIFE!!!



MY CREATION:
STAMPS & INK-PP Beach Cooper,Memento Tuxedo
PAPERS-SU Real Red,DCWV Stack 6 DSP
OTHER-Spellbinders Pennants & Ovals,SU buttons
COPICS-0,w3,C7,E00,E02,E11,E51,E55,E25,E27,E29,B91,B93,B95,B97
Y26,Y15,Y17,YR12,R27,R29,R46

PWC156

Hey there all! How are you? It's hump day! Can you believe it? WOW, the time is FLYING by!! Here we are and it is JUNE already!! GEESH!! Only a month until I am the BIG 4-0!! Man! Oh well! I say? BRING IT!! Haha!! I am READY! I believe that AGE? Is a state of mind!!

OK, so......enough of my blabbering!! Since today is Wednesday, that means it is time for another PAPER PRETTIES challenge! Speaking of BRING IT, here is MY take on this week's challenge AND the sketch to go with it!!

Well, what do you think? Do-able, right? Of course it is!! Be sure to visit the PAPER PRETTIES BLOG for some MORE Pretties creations!! Those girls are SO talented!! I hope you can join us and I hope you all have an AWESOME day!! Until next time..........................ENJOY LIFE!



MY CREATION:
Stamps & Ink-PP Fun Quotes,Memento Tuxedo
Papers & Such-PTI Smoky cardstock, Misc DSP
Other-Nesties,Red ribbon from Mike's,CB emb folder,MFT Flower Trio Die,Kaisercraft pearl