A Thankful Challenge

Us CAS gals got our Thank You on with this week's challenge! Our task...create a Thank You card using Fall colors! And the team did it again with some AMAZING samples! Make sure to check out the challenge HERE and play along!

Here is my sample for the week...

I wanted it to feel warm and homey, from the sentiment to the felt flower and felt rik-rak!

Probably won't be back before Thanksgiving so please everyone celebrating have a WONDERFUL holiday and please be safe! Love you guys!

Published for the first time!

So I received in the mail 2 weeks ago the Holiday Cards and More Paper Crafts magazine and man was it AWESOME to see my own card published among the other outstanding and completely STUNNING creations they chose for this publication! It was such a surprise to have my card chosen in the first place! Yes, I had to have some kind of confidence in what I was creating to be able to submit, but never did I truly think it would happen!

It is an honor, and extremely exciting to share the card today!

If I had to pick one from the probably 10 I submitted, this would have been the one I chose as well! It was the most fun to create and when it was completed I was so proud of myself for creating it! I'm not usually one for loving or even liking something I make, but this once, I did!

I wanted to say a HUGE thank you to the editors, designers and all of the AWESOME people who work at Paper Crafts magazine for bringing our crafty world such fantastic inspiration with each and every issue!

You can use the link above to go directly to the PC website. It is a MUST BOOKMARK spot!! And if you haven't checked out the Holiday Cards and More Vol 6, get going because it's absolutely amazing!

Hugs, loves and sparkles <3

CASing it up at TOL!

This weeks challenge was picked by ME!! Use your FAVORITE (or one of) your favorite patterned paper on your CAS card! I picked SU! Brights collection....totally LOVE the colors and patterns! I made quite the funky birthday card!

Pretty cute right?! I LOVE this birthday stamp (SU! and I cut it apart!) and that little skull punch is supah cute!! (thank you Rosie for letting me use it!)

Ok that's all for now! Hugs, loves and sparkles around!! <3

It's getting crazier!

This time of year I am sure is wild for EVERYONE who celebrates the holidays the way we do...not only do they come up SO QUICKLY, but they are so close together! UGH it's a super fun time but totally exhausting. And leaves much little time for crafting!

I did however manage a card for this weeks CAS challenge at The Outlawz...HOWEVER...I did it wrong haahahaa, it's monochromatic alright, BUT it was supposed to be a holiday card. I did a congrats card. I had both sentiment stamps out and with the mommy mush brain taking over, I stamped the wrong sentiment! It still works though, I just felt really bad for doing it wrong:( I didn't even catch it until I already had it posted!!! Good gravy! Anyways, here is the mess up!

I hope you will play along, and check back on Sunday for a brand new challenge!!

BLOG HOP AT TOL! And 1000 Member Party!!

If you haven't checked out the 1000 Member Party going on right now at The Outlawz..you are MISSING OUT!! Believe me, you WANT to play along for these prizes...

oh, you thought I was going to tell you what they are? NO WAY! GET OVER THERE and look at the LIST of $800 worth of prizes being given away!

And you know at TOL it is always a friendly, fun environment to get your craft on!

For the CAS challenge this week, we did a super fun challenge..BOO CREW!! Get out your rarely used or unused ANYTHING and create a CAS project using it!! This week, I used a stamp I have NEVER inked up since I got it in 2008!!

I ALMOST FORGOT THE BLOG HOP!! Good gravy! Maureen did an AWESOME tutorial for the Box-In-A-Bag and a gorgeous sample! I created a sample for it as well!

Make sure you head over for some fabulous fun and really great friends!! 1000 members, WHOOOO HOOOOOOO!!!! Here's to the next 1000!!

Did you miss me??!?!?!

I KNOW I KNOW...I totally DITCHED my blog. It was a MUCH needed break from the cyber world. You all know how it SUCKS you in and just can manage to take over every aspect of your life...I needed to take a step back, reevaluate, reorganize, pretty much any word you can put the prefix "re" in front of lol!!

BUT..I am feeling much better. I am getting my creative mojo BACK. I am starting to want to do challenges again, I miss my Moxie Fab world so much!! I want to make a billion cards for World Card Making Day. I want to have FUN again! I also so desperately want to reconnect with all of you amazing ladies who have always been on my blog, leaving such love!!

So to kick off my new found attitude....

PLEASE JOIN US AT THE OUTLAWZ FOR OUR 1000 MEMBER PARTY!!!!

Noah is 3!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my most amazing and sweet little man! He is the absolute light of our lives! This tiny guy we have gotten to care for, love, nurture, play with, snuggle with, watch grow, become this 3 year old KID!! Through quickly being potty trained, through the Terrible 2's, through bumps and bruises, through scary dream nights, Noah has become this incredibly smart, complete comedian with a heart of gold and a grin that can make the saddest person smile!! I can not be more blessed to have this little boy, to have made this little boy, to have the joy of watching him grow! It is hard it happens so fast, for anyone who has children....you know what I mean:) And to know one day he will be all grown up, with a family of his own...I am so happy to know I will have gotten to teach him and love him his whole life to get him to where he is going! 3 is an amazing age, Noah is just a sponge of youth waiting for the next awesome thing to happen, and I can't be more thrilled to be here for him!! I love being this amazing little boy's mommy. It is the most wonderful job I could ever ask for. God has certainly blessed our family with him! With both of our healthy, sparkling, bubbly spirited children! I thank Him for this gift of family He has given us! Everyday!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NOAH!! WE LOVE YOU TO PIECES BABY MAN!!

(taken this morning, he said "I a DRONG man!!" hahahahaha LOVE!)

Hope you all have a wonderful day!!!