It's been a long time!

Yipes! It has been a really long time since I've been on here or stamped for that matter! I have 3 Unity kits that are STILL IN THE ENVELOPE they were sent in! :D Not to mention the ones before that, which remain unopened! Ack! It does, however, feel so relaxing to blog again. So what have I been doing? Well....I got my REAL ESTATE LICENSE! Woo-hoo! I am so excited and LOVING my new job as a real estate agent! I've been so busy with work, though, that I've had to neglect my stamps, blogging, and forum time! Maybe this week I will try to bust out a card with some of those stamps I haven't inked?:D So that is my life as of now. Work, work, work. Hope everyone is having a joyful December! I love this time of year! As soon as we get all of our Christmas lights up, I will TRY to post pictures! For now, ta ta!

August KOTM is in my hands!

Video Update - 8/16/2009

HAVE YOU SEEN?????????

Unity Stamp Co.'s August Kit of the Month?!?!?!?!?! It's a MUST HAVE!

Oh my gardness! I love love love love love love love it!

You have to go SIGN UP TODAY!

Sweet Angela even has an AMAZING incentive for signing up this month!

Go check it out!

Busy Bee, Busy Bee, Where Have I Been?

Hey all! I'm here (IRL) just not here. blogging. I haven't had any time to create anything and I'm not going to have much time in the next few months, therefore, I just want to let you all know, I'm going MIA for a while...on this blog. I did start a new blog..not crafty/creative...faith...my faith blog. I have the feeling it's going to be my only lifeline for the next few months.

If your wondering where I'm going, the answer is no where. :) I just have a lot going on, spiritually, mentally, physically... no, I'm not going crazy and no I'm not sick..just busy.....:) As some of you know, I'm going to real estate school and trying to finish that up as quick as possible, planning a wedding for October, helping my better half run a business (nothing large, just me and him), and being a mom AND wanting and trying to find a job until I finish my schooling...all during the same second of the every day....so it tends to get a little stressful at times.. :) which leads to my stamping/office desk being full of papers, invoices, bills, calculators, pens, calendars, etc. instead of the usual ink, stamps, cardstock, dp, glue, and embellies...the latter has been replaced :(

So, if you're interested, join me on my faith blog. I'm going to be trying to keep up with it regularly! Toodles!

It's Stamping Bella's Birfffday!

Hooray! And HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO EM!

You should have came from HERE. If not, start at the STAMPING BELLA BLOG, and roll on! :)

So here's my card I made for Em's Birthday! I used Partygirlabella and I {{{{LOVE}}}} her! The DP you see in the background is My Mind's Eye, but I wish you woulda been able to see all the colors, hence all the coloring in the image!

There you have it! And remember:

In addition to the fabulous eye candy, we have decided to hide a prize somewhere along the hop! One pre-selected blogger will draw a random winner from the comments on her post, and the winner will receive a $40 Gift Voucher to Stamping Bella!!! The fun part is...we're not telling you who it is! So as you hop, make sure you leave comments on every post so you have a chance to win!! We will announce the winner on Monday in the Splitcoast forum. MWAH!



Enjoy the hop! Your next stop is HERE.

.......A MONTH LATER......

Yep! It's been exactly a month since my last post and for that, I apologize. My life got pretty hectic there for a while. Not saying, it's not going to stay that way with WEDDING PLANNING and other stuff going on for the summer! Yep, wedding planning! We set a date - October 3rd. It's going to be AMAZING!

So I do have some shtuff to show you. Just a few things I've done in the last month.

I was really into stamping and coloring right onto kraft cs. What do you think? Each card's image is from Unity Stamp Co.'s May Kit of the Month. Aren't they fab? :D They are all colored with Copics.

This LO didn't quite turn out the way I had wanted, but I think it still works. I did the background, using a stamp from Unity's Delectable Delights set. It took FOREVER to color. I get writer's cramp pretty easily, so I had to stop and take breaks often. :D

Well that is all for now, folks! :D I'm going to try to stamp and blog in the afternoon's each day. We'll see how it goes! Stay tuned!

Coming Soon!

My Growing in Unity Day 2 post is coming soon! It's taking me A LOT longer than I thought it would - very time consuming, but is going to be worth the wait! Stay tuned!

Growing in Unity, Day by Day, All Week Long Day #1

I'm such a ditz! This was supposed to post this morning, but leave it up to Ramsey to screw it up! :)

Ok.

Hello again! It's my turn to post for Unity ALL WEEK LONG! I'm excited. I just love Unity. The company, the stamps, the actual word - LOVE THEM! :) And guess what?! We started this little everyday-posting-Unity adventure at the end of October and we have people signed up clear into THIS OCTOBER! That's a full year of Unity on the blogs! Isn't it amazing!

So...Unity just celebrated their 1st birthday on May 1st and had TONS of stuff for Unity addicts to participate in and win! It was so fun. So I never got a chance to post some of the things I created for the challenges, and some of them, I didn't want to post. Except this one. I really did like the turn out.

I did this for the Hip Hop challenge. The challenge was to create a one layer card. I am no good at these usually, but was actually surprised by the outcome. I also had a friend that asked me to make some birthday party invites for her little girl's birthday, so these were perfect! She asked me to leave the other side blank and she would write what she wanted on there, so it's just blank on back! My FAVORITE part - the stamp. It's from Cupcakes a'la Yummy and is my MOST FAVORITE STAMP SET EVER! I {heart} the heck outta it! :)

Supplies Used:

Paper: Papertrey Ink Stamper's Select White

Ink: Memento, Copics

Stamps: Cupcakes a'la Yummy
Embellies: PTI Raspberry Fizz Swiss Dot Satin Ribbon

Tools: Circle Nesties, SU! Scallop Punch

**If you, or someone you know :), would like to sign up to post Unity on your blog for 5 days (Mon. - Fri.) please visit HERE and leave a reply.

Have a terrific Monday! See you all tomorrow!

Aloha!

No, I'm not in Hawaii again, but I'm really wishing I was. I have been incredibly busy and stressed! Yipes! I hate getting this way, but I guess it happens, right?

So I have been doing a little stamping, but it's really nothing I'm too proud of, therefore, I'm not posting it. It is in my SCS gallery, but you have to find it, I'm to going to direct you there :). Seriously, it's not that great. :) So IF my life ever calms down, I swear I will do something worth posting! Actually, I have to as I am up again next week for blogging all week long using Unity! Yay! My favorite company in the whole wide world! Be sure to stop by next week! Speaking of Unity, have you seen May's Kit of the Month, yet? It is AMAZING! I love it! Go subscribe today, it's totally worth every penny! OH! Since, I don't have any eye candy for you, go check out TONYA each and every day this week! She is so very talented and has some great stuff to show!

In the mean time and if you haven't already, go check out Scripture Scrappers! Each week (usually Monday or Tuesday), Danielle posts a lesson and other members of the DT post their version of the lesson throughout the rest of the week. We're coming up on our last lesson for the Fruit of the Spirit study, so go check it out! Plus, we've got more DT to announce in the weeks to come and even more exciting news dealing with Christian Papercrafts Magazine!

So that is all my news, for now! I will try to post more often, but don't count on it. Just keep me in your thoughts! :) Aloha!

Fruit of the Spirit - Love

Hey all!

Sorry I haven't blogged in a while! Got kinda busy, but things are certainly slowing down for the time being. So here's a little LO I did for Scripture Scrappers Fruit of the Spirit lesson on LOVE - one of my favorite subjects! :) I think this was the first lesson, so I'm playing a little catch up! But here it is!

For this lesson, I chose the verse 1 John 4:12 - No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. How true is that?!? God loves each and every one of us, which gives us the ability to love as well, so when we love, God loves! Hallelujah!

The picture in the LO is one we took in Kauai last July. I believe we were on the shuttle going to the luau. How amazing it was! I'm pretty sure, Tryzmen was giving orders as it looks like he was saying something! :) Man I was tan, too! :)

Speaking of Scripture Scrappers - I am now on the team! Danielle asked me be a part of the team last week and I was thrilled! I am so excited for what is to come! There are going to be a lot of great things happening, so come join us in learning and teaching of God, Jesus, and the Holy Bible through scrapping! http://scripturescrappers.ning.com

I hope you all had a fabulous weekend and have a fantastic Monday! I will be back tomorrow with more from the Fruit of the Spirit lessons!

Supplies Used:

Paper: CTMH Black CS, Sunny Yellow CS, Cosmo Cricket Hello Sunshine: Blowing Bubbles DP

Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink Black Soot

Stamps: Unity Stamp Co. Worn Grid Background

Design Note: Triple the Sketch # 53

Embellies: Tim Holtz Elements Grungeboard (hearts), Stickles, Martha Stewart Glitter, Pressed Petals Chip Chatter Alphabet Chipboard, Pebbles Inc. Ribbon

• 1st Birthday

Hey there friends!
I know I've been MIA. I am still waiting to hook my computer back up to my printer, so I can download my pictures! Anywho, here is a little LO I did this afternoon...and I mean ALL afternoon :D. It took me a while to figure some stuff out!


This is by far my most favorite LO EVER! :) This digital kit I got from scrapbookgraphics.com and is by Lorie Davison. She is amazing! I love love love love love her kits! The alpha is just a freebie I got from some random site. If it's off yours, I apologize for not being able to remember where it is from.

Obviously the layout is of Tryzmen's 1st birthday (last year)! It was too funny! He was soo cute with his blue frosting face! LOL!

Well the weather WAS nice here, but I hear we are supposed to be getting a rainstorm tomorrow that will last through the weekend. Hopefully, though, the snow is staying away! :)

Have a great Wednesday everyone!

•••BLOG•••CANDY•••

ok, i'm super excited about this....

The sweet & beautiful, Danielle is giving away some UH-MAZING blog candy. GO CHECK IT OUT RIGHT NOW!

on another note: i have some stuff to show you, but still don't have my puter hooked up to my printer, so i can download my pictures...i just may have to use my Blackberry! :D

• It's a WORLD RECORD kind of day! :)

Hey there hoppers! If you arrived here from Karen's Blog, you are on the right track! If not, please start HERE and continue on!

ok...so...WELCOME TO UNITY'S WORLD RECORD INSPIRATIONAL BLOG HOP! I have a huge long story about why I'm not posting something I JUST created....to spare you the time, I'm just going to tell you, I have nothing....new...so...I'm just doing a little UNITY RECAP! sorry!
This here is one of my favorite cards, I've ever done using the birdie from the Growing in Unity set. I LOVE this little dude!



And here is a LO I did using Giggle Grove. This is one of my ALL-TIME fav. sets! I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE Giggle Grove! And...a little journaling box from the Sept. Kit of the Month. If you aren't subscribed to the KOM, go to Unity's website when you are done hopping and sign up! The kits are amazing! :)

So your next stop is the ever-so fabulous, LEE!

AND....a little quote to finish you off!

"Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others." - Buddha

•More Digi

First off - story time..............

For the past little while....ok...truthfully...for the past 2 months (since we moved in) I've been "borrowing" the internet. :) I have a Mac and as far as their range for picking up wireless networks goes, it's awesome! :) So...I also do the book work for my fiancee's welding business. Therefore, I am on the computer/internet...A LOT. We recently got started with invoicing the company we are contracted to via the Internet. I did my training on the program last week. So this week, I go to start my first invoice and the stinkin' thing won't work right. So I got a hold of the company and the lady told me I have to have Internet Explorer (not exactly a Mac program, but you can download a version for Mac), so I downloaded IE and opened up the invoicing program. No worky. :( So I tried a few other web browsers for Macs and not one of them worked right. So we do have a regular PC that was in storage, so I went and busted that out, only to find that it's not as great at picking up the wireless as Macs are....so I finally got an Internet hook-up scheduled for tomorrow. So right now....I have my PC set up on my desk, my Mac set up on my kitchen counter (so I can still surf the Internet and blog :) ), no printer hooked up, so I can't download my pictures from my camera onto my computer.....which is why I'm posting so much digi work! :) So....tomorrow morning I should have my internet hooked up, so then I can upload pics! In the mean time of all of this, I have company coming tonight, will probably be entertaining them tomorrrow, plus getting my internet hooked up, plus working on my post for UNITY'S WORLD RECORD INSPIRATIONAL BLOG HOP that is taking place on Saturday! BUT, we are leaving on Friday night to go to the World Championship Hill Climbs in Jackson Hole, so I have to get my blog post done before-hand...after I get my internet hooked up and download pictures - while entertaining our company. :) All in all, it should be an interesting next couple of days.....

Ok, so enough venting on that! :) Onto my projects......


This here is my page for the His Holy Name Challenge Week #3. If you remember from a couple days ago, I am trying to get caught up on these. :) So the challenge for week #3 was "protector." I used the Psalm 91:14 verse, which says, " 'Because he loves me,' says the Lord, 'I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.' " How true is that?!?!?!

So my 2nd project is for the Scripture Scrappers' Bible Study Challenge (note to self: add Scripture Scrappers blinkie). The challenge word is "joy."



I'm pretty proud of myself for this LO. It's my 2nd ACTUAL LO. And that handsome devil is my son. He was only a few months old in that picture (he is now 2). He was sitting in his Bumbo® chair. He loved that thing! :)

So that is all for right now. I probably will not have a post tomorrow, so be sure and stop by on Saturday for the WORLD RECORD INSPIRATIONAL BLOG HOP. Click on the blinkie on the right to get the deets! Have a wonderful couple of days!

•Happy Birthday, Sis! & a challenge.....

FIRST OFF! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BEAUTIFUL OLDER SIS, TARA! I tried finding a pic of the both of us, but couldn't? So here is a pic of my beautiful sis on her wedding day last summer.


2ND - I got waaaaay behind (like by 5 weeks!) on my His Holy Name Challenges and the Scripture challenges. Remember those? :) So here is my week 2 creation. I used the Dream a Little Dream Kit from Faith Sisters.


So that is it for right now. :) I have kind of a busy, "faithful" day. I say faithful b/c I'm doing a lot of catching up on these challenges, my bible studies , and starting a book by Victoria Osteen, "Love Your Life." I'm excited! Toodles!

•VeGaS bAbY!

Since I've been sick and haven't stamped anything, I finally got my Vegas pictures downloaded! Here they are! It was soo much fun! Looking over these pictures makes me want to go back!

This was our little camp area, minus one camper. That's our camper straight ahead! :D

Kolby and I at the Nascar Cafe. We went to the Stratosphere too, but I didn't get any pictures b/c I was freaking out about how high up were! :D

Qualifying day! It was a little windy! :D

Nationwide race! I had an awesome shirt on (Joey Logano) but it was a little chilly! :D

Race day, baby! :D It sucked! Ha! Our driver (Matt Kenseth #17) lost his motor in like the 5th lap, so he was out for the whole race! I was super bummed, but still had a good time! :D

•Sicky, Icky

Hey there blogger buds! Happy St. Patty's Day!

So I've been sick for the last couple of days, so I haven't stamped anything. This is actually the first day I've gotten out of bed! DS is sick too, so it's been kinda crappy around my place. Hopefully I will drug myself up enough to be over this for the most part by tomorrow and get some stamping in! Hope things are well!

• Bella's Favorite Stamper Challenge & Unity Addicts Wednesday Challenge!

Happy Hump Day!

Hope everyone is enjoying their Wednesday! It finally stopped snowing here and the sun is shining, so I'm patiently waiting for the snow to melt and for some nice weather again! :D I MISS VEGAS! :D

So here's a couple cards I did today. The first one is for this month's Bella's Favorite Stamper. This month the favorite stamper was Dawn (Dawnbarghorn on SCS). I CASEd this card . And here is my card!

So my card doesn't even come close to looking as good as Dawn's, but I have it one heck of a shot! :D

My second card is for today's Unity Addicts Wednesday challenge. The challenge was to use green (for St. Patty's Day) as a focal point. Here is mine:


I'M SO READY FOR SPRING! I seriously have the worst spring fever EVER! :D

So that's it for right now. I am still working on downloading my Vegas pictures, so keep an eye out for those! Have a great day everyone!

Whew!

Hey there! It's me! Remember me? Probably NOT! I know I've been out for a while! I had a lot going on with taxes, Vegas trips, sick kid, sick self, etc. But I'm back!

First off, do you like my new blog look? I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE it! :) Veronica at VK Design Co. did it. Click on her blinkie and go put your name down to get a new one! She can really do pretty much anything!

2nd off, my trip to Vegas was AWESOME!.....other than the fact the Matt Kenseth lost his engine in like the 5th lap or something.....but fun was definitely had! I have pictures coming as soon as I figure out how to get them to download onto my computer! :)

And...YES...I do have some things to share. I was going to share these before I left, but couldn't find the time! These are the cards I made for February's VSN! Although I only got a few done, I still had tons of fun!


So there's the lump sum of them! You can visit my SCS gallery HERE for the details of the cards! So, I'm out for now! I promise to be back later (or tomorrow)!

• Etsy Inspired #23 and SCS Sketch Challenge #215

Hey there!
Hope everyone had a great weekend and a fantastic time with their special someone! So I'm in a little bit of a rush, so I'm gonna cut this a little short.

OH! First...I'm sure you are wondering why my blog is full of black and yellow??? It's because in about a week I am leaving for Vegas for the Nascar race!!!! YIPES! I'm sooooo excited!!!!! Anyway....the black and yellow is for my driver....Matt Kenseth! He won the Daytona 500 yesterday (in case any of you care ;)) Ok...back to busines.....

This is my first time participating in Ashley's Etsy Inspired Challenge. It was pretty fun! So here's my card:


So I used Unity's Diva-lish set and Distressed Dots Background. The pink paper is PTI Raspberry Fizz (my fave!) and so is the ribbon! I also used Raspberry Fizz to stamp the image and I embossed the little diva, but the only way you can tell is because she's a little bit darker......so that is it for right now! I might be back later today! :)