Happy Halloween!!!

Happy Halloween Blog Friends!! I hope your having a SPOOKILY FABULOUS DAY!!

We just finished our annual pumpkin pancake (topped with syrup and pecans) breakfast.. Now I am gonna make some pumpkin scones! and I get some CREATIVE time! :) Gotta make something similar to THIS cute idea by Erin!

Thought I would share our pumpkins with ya! Will have costume photos later!!! :)

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Have a GREAT day.. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Friday!

Ok can you all BELIEVE it is Oct. 29th.. where has this month gone?!! It has FLOWN by.. that means all the holidays are gonna be here like TOMORROW! :) LOL! Ok maybe not really but fast enough!!

I have a card to share today.. I LOVE Tina Wenke stamps.. they are so CUTE! I got 2 new ones this year in Halloween theme.. so I wanted to use one for some of my cards...
Amanda made her teacher one using this image and I FORGOT to get a photo! BOO!
Supplies- Copics, PTI PP, Ribbon, Button, and Sentiment stamp, Pumpkin stamp- Tina Wenke, Ink - Tim Holtz, and Memento

Today is Amandas class FALL party... so I must head out to that.. Hope you have a GREAT day! THANKS for stopping by!

Perfect Presentation DT Share!

Happy Monday!!! I am SUPER excited today it is my first share as a DT member with Perfect Presentation!! (THANKS again Leigh Ann!)

For my template today I picked the Easy Candy Wrapper! and it really lives up to its name!! I actually used the PDF version, since cricut was upstairs, and I was a bit lazy and didnt run to get her! :) I loved it so much I am gonna make a few more this week for Halloween Treats! :)

Fun news too! Just leave a comment here and I get to draw a LUCKY winner to choose the template of their choice!! :)

Be sure you stop by the rest of the DT to see what they have to share
Alyssa
Chris
Harriet
Julie
Kerri
Terri

Now I MUST get stuff done for Halloween.. hmmm last week I THOUGHT I was ahead of the game! :)
Have a GREAT day.. THANKS for stopping by!

Holiday Tag Share (Again!)

Happy Sunday!!! It is that time again.. PIO DT share! YEAH! :) We had a GREAT sponser again this week Stamping Dragon Designs.. are they not the CUTEST!!

I picked this bear for my image this week.. again sticking with things I will use this holiday season I made up a tag and decorative bag!

Challenges for Beth-

PIO-Red, Green, and White.. Plus something soft (felt on bag)

CES - Buttons and Bows
Delightful Challenges - Christmas
Mel Jens - Anything Goes
Stamping Royalty - Ribbon
The Ribbon Girl - Red and Green
Tuesday Throwdown - Anything Goes
Wee Memories - Cute Holidays

Hope you had a WONDERFUL weekend! We sure did, and tonite we are carving pumpkins! YEAH!!!
THANKS for stopping by!

Xmas Tag!

Happy FRIDAY!!!! Hope you all had a GREAT week!!! I have just a quick share today.. I am BUSY getting ready for BUNCO tonite.. it is here.. so EXCITED! Not sure we are gonna play.. but always fun to get together with the neighbor girls! :)

So this week at PTI we did another stamp challenge.. I choose Tree Trimming Trio.. I promised myself I would TRY to create things I could use for the coming holidays.. SO.. I need tags! (and I really wanted to play along with the challenge since I started it! LOL!!)

So LOVE my nesties! and the WM stamps that cordinate! My labels 14 set arrived yesterday... so cant WAIT to ink them up!!! All other stamps PTI, as is the ribbon and button.. bling from Michaels!

That is all I have today.. just a quick easy tag!! Off to finish my cleaning and make dessert for tonite!! :)
THANKS for stopping by! Have a WONDERFUL weekend!!!

Weekend Photo Shares!

Happy Tuesday!!! We had a FABULOUS time on our little get away weekend!!! Got to spend time with Larry, Kimmie and Allybug.. didnt have to share them with anyone but US! :)

Kimmie and I had BIG creative plans.. um they didnt work out so well ! BUT we got to get a little creative.. I wont even say how little! :) hee hee! I heard at the store there were 8 scrappy gals up there.. hmm if we had known we would have crashed their party! HA!

So the house was AMAZING we all rented.. right on the water.. hot tub.. decorated so CUTE!!
Leavenworth was PACKED full of people! (it was the last weekend of Oktoberfest!) and today on the way home we went to the pumpkin farm.. so CUTE! I took so many photos!!
I have a FEW to share with ya!

The House Slideshow-

Leavenworth and Pumpkin Patch Slide Show!

If you made it HERE! THANKS!!! I will be back HOPEFULLY with a creative share tomorrow or Thur. then I am BOOKED solid and wont get any creative time til HOPEFULLY monday!
have a GREAT day!
Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Monday! and some FUN shares!

**WARNING LOTS OF CHIT CHAT and PHOTOS AHEAD!!** :)
Happy Monday!!! I have some FUN stuff to share today!! First off I got an email last night from Leigh Ann asking me to be on her Perfect Presentation Design Team.. I was so EXCITED! I said yes of course.. I am looking forward to that.. her templates are FABULOUS!! (and you know how I LOVE templates! LOL!!)

Now on to creative shares! Speaking of templates! :) You know the CUTE mini pizza box I shared below.. well I saw on the directions page it had a mini version of the mini pizza box! SOOO I made it up.. AND another mini pizza box.. I put them side by side so you can see how they compare!

I used PTIs tiny treats.. over in the PTI forum I started a fun little challenge.. we picked 3 sets and you can create whatever you want with them.. then share.. I think it will be FUN to see what people create using the same set.. got this idea from Jennifer McGuire!

Alrighty enough talking!!! Here is what I created for my own challenge! :)

The 2 boxes (tops) You can find how to do that FUN flower HERE! I did my own take on it, and used my border punches for the edges.. AND only used my PTI 8 inch paper.. it still worked.. and I am sooo making MORE!! (I hope everyone wants SMALL gifts for xmas this year! HA! I want to make up boxes for EVERYONE with those flowers on top!! )

Side View-

Close up of each flower I made... I LOVE this border punch on the edges! (more coming soon! LOL!)
Finally inside.. the smaller pizza box held 3 Ghirardellis squares, and 2 Lindt pumpkins with a KEY TAG gift card from starbucks (reg. gift cards are a tad to large!) The larger one held 6 Ghirardellis squares and 3 Lindt pumpkins and a reg. size gift card (can you say TEACHER gifts!! :) - IF Amanda picks this style box of course!)
If you made it this far THANK YOU!!! :)
Have a GREAT day!!!!
THANKS for stopping by!

Happy Tuesday!!

Happy SUNNY Tuesday.. what a BEAUTIFUL day here for us! LOVING it! Hope it stays awhile!!

First off I want to say THANK YOU so much for the sweet comments for the little Halloween Party... I am a LUCKY Mom to have 2 such GREAT kids.. and I LOVE my girl is so creative.. I mean at 10 she does things I dont even think of! LOL! Wonder where she will be in 10 years! :)
Now if your here for those party photos.. they are right below this post! :)

Today I have HALLOWEEN cards to share!! I have so many ideas BREWING in my head I think my family may get different styles this year.. usually I do up just one style but I have sooo many CUTE stamps I want to use! :)

Here is one I made up yesterday used some of my NEW PTI goodness!! Fine Linen, and that YUMMY Sugar Plum PP by Lisa (its NOT just for Xmas is it! LOL!) Then some older PTI.. and then I added a foam bat for fun.. I have so many of these sets.. CLAIMING they are for the kids! HA! I LOVE them!! I thought it finished if off just right! :)
Next up I was in a Fall Swap over at PTI~ (THANKS Ted for putting it together)
Here is the card I sent off- to Pat... I was gonna link her blog but I didnt see it in her siggy!

I used my large scallop on it.. I think it is a bit hard to tell.. I just so LOVE that look... I think the black and white stars may not have been the right choice for that but I was HAPPY with the card.. that pumpkin just makes me smile! He is all lined with my spica pens.. love a little SPARKLE that it adds!- and of course PEARLS.. you know me... I gotta add 'em!

Here is the DARLING card I got from Caren (no blog in siggy!) isnt it CUTE! Those little monsters are all done with Spicas and so CUTE!! She also included the CUTE set of 4 note cards.. THANKS Caren! LOVED getting HAPPY MAIL!
Ignore my mock studio showing in that above photo! LOL!!

I am off to get my kiddos from school! Hope you have a GREAT day!!
THANKS for stopping by!!!!

AG Doll Halloween Party!

Happy Sunday!! I cant believe a week has come and gone with no posting! all I can say is I was BUSY BUSY getting ready for the little AG Doll Halloween Party Amanda wanted to have here with some friends.. SO that was on friday but we were getting ready all week for it.. doing something each night so we got it all done!

We had a GREAT time.. painted pumpkins, made bracelets for the girls and the dolls, ate, laughed and the girls all played in Amandas room over an hour.. and not a PEEP was heard! :)

I have LOTS of photos to share.. so get cozy and a big THANKS if you make it all the way through!

This is Alex! :) Amandas new AG.. she got her so she could have the new innerstar U account on the AG site.. so she was the girl of choice for the party today!!
The Girls and their AGs! :)


Amanda made ALOT of fun clay creations for the girls.. they got to take them all home with them!!
Here is a comparison to the real size food! :)

She and I made the kisses.. I printed out the TINY wording in word.. printed it at a size 5.. covered the clay kisses with foil and presto AG doll kisses! :)
We made these pumpkin tortilla chips! :)

All the marshmallow pumpkins! (for the girls!)
We also made plates/cups for the dolls to match the girls (or pretty close! )

Painting Pumpkins-
The little treat boxes we made up... using PTIs favor it die, stamps, foam cat.. .inside is some candy corn hand sanitizer and halloween silly bands (which are now band at school! HA!)

If you have made it this far THANK YOU! :) I am HOPING to scrap these photo soon.. I have a VISION!! :) It really was FUN.. I think all the girls had a GREAT time!! :)
Have a WONDERFUL day... I will be posting more this week! I have cards to share! :)
Thanks for stopping by!!

Challenge Card!

Happy Sunday!! Hope your having a FABULOUS weekend!! Ours has been nice.. and today we are busy again.. so I am gonna keep it short and sweet! :)

It is time for our PIO team share... Cute and Charming! I used this DARLING sewing machine digi image from Stamping Dragon Design!! All my other challenges are posted below!


Challenges for Beth-
PIO- Cute and Charming
ABC Challenge- D is for Distressing
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Anything Goes
AI Factory - Anything Goes
Charisma - Anything Goes
Digi Doodle - Embossing
Ellephantastic - Charm
If The Shoe Fits - Flowers
Scrap and stamp - Embossing
Sketch Saturday- Sketch
Stamp insanity - Embossing
Tuesday Taggers - It Takes All Sorts (open challenge)sponsored by Ribbon Oasis
Tuesday Throwdown- Paper Pleating

THANKS for stopping by! Have a GREAT day!

WaltzingMouse Sept. Blog Waltz

Hello Blog Friends! Happy FRIDAY!! (are you ready for the WEEKEND?!- I AM! LOL!)

So today I am playing along on my FIRST Waltz with waltzingmouse stamps! How I LOVE their stamps..


Now I must warn you my project is FUN FAST and EASY! Life this week was BUSY.. AND my stamps just arrived yesterday that I wanted to use! So in light of all that... Here is my little treat bag!! Took me all of 15 minutes to make!!!

Stamp the bag, create the tags, add a fun border punch, ribbon and button and VIOLA! There it is! I this it is the FASTEST project I have ever done! :)

I will just fill it with treats next month ... and PRESTO a fun little goodie bag for a friend!
Stamps Used-Midnight Feast, ink staz-on, border punch- Martha Stewart, PTI ribbon and CS

THANKS for stopping by! I am looking forward to my first WALTZ!!!
Tonite I am off to BUNCO.. moms night out so if I dont hit all blogs today I WILL for sure tomorrow and sunday!!
Happy WEEKEND!!!!

Happy Tuesday.. ANOTHER Halloween Share!

Hello AGAIN! I cant stop creating Halloween over here! I am gonna be DONE with treat bags.. and it is not even gonna be Oct! HA HA! That is good right.. being AHEAD of the game!! :)

Todays share is a Halloween Goodie Bag! Was gonna make a template up but thought.. BETH use those bags! So I did! :) The tag was INSPIRED by my friend Mona (and by friend I mean I STALK her FABULOUS blog daily! LOL!) I love on THIS tag she layered the 2 nesties.. so I BORROWED that idea for my tag!

Pumpkin is cut from Mini Monsters.. one of my new cricut carts.. it is DARLING! I will be making monsters this Halloween for sure! LOL! Stamp and Ribbon-PTI (release TONITE cant wait!)

Ok enough chatter.. here is the tag close up-
and the bag.. Oh and I busted out the STICKLES for this one too! and spica pens!!


THANKS for stopping by!!! I am off to get my girl.. ZUMBA in a bit.. but will be HOME in time for PTI release... cant miss that!
Have a GREAT rest of your day!!

Happy Monday!! More Challenge Shares! :)

Happy Monday Blog Friends.. the sun is OUT here in WA.. yeah.. supposed to be WARM and SUNNY for a few days.. I will take it! :) I LOVE this time of year.. when the sun is shining.. the leaves are turning.. it isnt to hot... (dont get me wrong I love summer too!- and miss it.. but I will take sunny fall days over rainy fall days anyday! HA HA!)

I have 2 shares for ya! Played along with a few other challenges this week.. see kiddos go back to school and I get PLAY TIME! :)

First up is a card.. my friend Diane INSPIRED my leaf! She made this DARLING one here.. and I had to try it.. I used some tissue paper that I COATED in glimmer mist.. I wish the photo could capture how pretty it is IRL! :) Stamped with my NEW PTI leaf print set, and used the PTI die (they are FABULOUS!) ... embossed my paper, stamped.. and VIOLA.. a fun fall card!

Challenges I joined are linked under the card! :)
Challenges for Leaf Card-
The Shabby Tea Room- Inspired by photo.. Nature and or use green
Paper Play- Autumn is coming
All Sorts- Colors of Autumn

Next up I have a CUTE little box for Halloween Treats.. I found them HERE .. She has the free template linked there!Used my NEW PTI Halloween Tiny Treats.. Stamped my background... added some fun embellies and done.. (I think this is for my Justin for Halloween.. gone are the CUTESY days of Halloween.. he is in 8th grade now! HA! BUT I cant do creepy scary.. so this is as good as it gets! LOL!)

Challenge linked below!

Sew Many Challenges- Happy Halloween Project!

That is all I have today.. SORRY I talked alot didnt I!! I do that in real life too! :) I bet you NEVER would have guessed!
THANKS for stopping by... I have a bit of time.. I am off to PEEK around blogland..
Have a GREAT day!

Sunday Challenge Card Share!

Happy Sunday! Hope your having a WONDERFUL weekend! It is time again for a PIO challenge!! This is a very special challenge at Pile It On this week. We are working alongside Operation Write Home to provide handmade cards for our troops overseas to send home to their loved ones. There are guidelines that you have to follow to make these cards so this week the team won't be showing their sparkle as glitter is a big No No!!
OWH accepts all types of cards but are especially looking for Birthday, Anniversary or Christmas cards at the present time so that is what we are asking you to make this week.
Hope you will join along!!

Here is my card for PIO and all the challenges I played along with are linked below!


Challenges for Beth-
PIO-OWH
Creative Cottage - Celebrations
Fab N Funky - Anything Goes
Flutter By Wed- Pink
Incy Wincy - Celebrate
Nut Crafters Nutshells- Pink
Pennys - Birthdays
Paper Romance - Clean and Simple

Thanks for stopping by!! Have a GREAT day!!!

Favor- It Boxes!

Happy SOGGY Thursday! Today I am home ALONE! Kiddos went back to school yesterday.. Steve went back to work today.. it is so QUIET... I am not used to it yet! I am sure by monday I wil be! :)

So I have been sneaking in some creative time! I am in LOVE .. LOVE LOVE LOVE! :) With the CUTE new Favor It Box #1 Die from PTI.... it just comes together so FAST and EASY, and CUTE! I love them! (ok I said that 4 times already! LOL!)

I have 3 to share with ya! (Amanda made 1 too.. but I cant find where she put it.. so that will be shared on another posting!)

Happy Halloween Box-

Boo Box-
Grateful For You Box- (Amanda made me the center of my flower.. that sweet girl made me up 85 of them in GREAT fall colors! AND I have more I would like.. she is so GOOD TO MOM! )
There they are!! I want to make MORE! But figure I better wait til I know what I want to do with these! I am so gonna make up more for Halloween Teacher Treats! :)

Thanks for stopping by! Hope your having a FABULOUS week!!

Love My Tapes Share!

Hello Blog Friends! :) Hope your all having a GREAT week! Today was our kiddos first day of school.. it seems so late compared to some of my ONLINE friends who have been back a few weeks! But that is us here in WA. State.. out late.. back late! :) and it is POURING rain... sigh! (photos coming soon!)

I do have some FUN news.. I got an email from Shemaine at Love My Tapes.. asking if she could use the flowers I made on their Wed. Blog share.. HELLLOOO YES! LOL!! I was so EXCITED.. and THANKS so much Shemaine for asking! :) They have a FABULOUS blog.. lots of fun ideas!

I LOVE the paper tapes.. so fun to make flowers with.. ruffles.. etc...
These are my 2 flowers-
Here is the box I made using the yellow one.. you KNOW I love that captured card box from PTI!
Side View-
THANKS for letting me share!! I hope you have a GREAT day!!

More Brown Bag Fun.. and a little Soap!

Happy Sept... HOW did that happen! Summer just flew right by me!!! I do LOVE fall.. but would like a couple more weeks of summer PLEASE! LOL! The kiddos have off until Sept. 8th.. so we are packing some FUN into these last few days of summer!!!

I have a couple shares for ya! :)

First up.. I made more soap! Oh my how I LOVE making this fun easy craft with Amanda! The longest thing about it is drying time! We made this one up for my sweet niece Allyson! She was so cute.. she tried to scratch out the frog! :)

I used Honey and Shea for the soap.. added some pink mica powder to the shea layer, honey is on top.. that is why it has a golden hue!

Supplies- Soap Supplies from - Bramble Berry, Eraser from Michaels, and Stamps-PTI

Next I have some more FUN goodies with lunch sacks! I cant stop making them!! Both Michelle and Melissa from PTI have shared some CUTE ideas.. here is my take on them! and I had a bag top cut from the ones I made HERE.. so I cut it in half again and made a little tag envie! I still want to make MORE!!



Supplies- Lunch Bags- Target! ;) Everything else from PTI! (SHOCKING I know! HA HA!)
I think I am gonna keep on making them like the ones from the blog hop.. I figure I get 2 goodies from one bag.. a pocket and a sack.. 2 for 1 I like it! HA HA! :) but then again.. you never know I could change and do the pockets again like this! ;) Keep ya guessing! HA HA!

Thanks for stopping by.. we are off to finish up the last few school things! :) then off to lunch.. FIRST I must find my coupon for bath and body works.. I need a few things.. (OK I dont.. BUT when you have a coupon.. a girl NEEDS to use it! right! :) )
Have a GREAT day!!

Surprise Blog Hop!

Dont ya just LOVE surprises! Well today some PTI forum friends are having our own special blog hop.. as a SURPRISE THANK YOU! To Nicole for all her HARD work, and for sharing her AMAZING talent with us!! I simply ADORE everything she creates.. she and her DT at PTI are responsible for many MANY shopping excursions! HA HA!

So I was very happy to be part of this FUN HOP!!! Many Thanks to Nicole, and ALL who make PTI the FABULOUS place it is!!!! ((hugs))

My card.. Girly you rock.. many Thanks.. so TRUE!! So TRUE! :)
Thanks for stopping by.. I am off to HOP around!!!!
Have a GREAT day!

Miss You!

Happy Sunday!

So I went CAMPING for the first time in about 25 years.. in a tent.. and that was the first time in about 35 years! HA! I SURVIVED.. we had a GREAT time.. met up with Larry , Kimmie and Ally! I got LOTS of photos.. and promise to share more later!

Today it is time to share a PIO card with ya! All other challenges I played along with are listed below the card!!!

We had a WONDERFUL sponsor this week.. Digi Doodle Shop.. they have such FABULOUS digi images!

Here is my card.....

Challenges for Beth-
PIO- Farewell Summer
Allsorts - In Garden or Park
Christmas Stampin' All Year Long -Anything, but Christmas
Digi Doodle Shop- Distressing
Pennys - Pink and Green
Stamps R Us - Stitching

Off to unpack from our trip! Clean the kitchen.. and figure out dinner!
THANKS for stopping by! Have a GREAT day!