Read some books...

Supplies Used (left to right):

Unity Stamp Company Stylin Stars

Basic Grey Urban Prairie

Basic Grey Origins Clip

Verve Stamps Reach for the Stars

CS on both is PTI

Unity Stamp Company Bevy of Butterflies

Bazzil Tulle

All highlighted products available at

LIMELIGHT PAPERCRAFTS

I love making bookmarks, because not only are they a fast and super easy project,

they make a great gift tucked into a new book.

The first time I met Christi we met for lunch at Eckert's

one of my favorite places that I miss terribly!

Anyway,

having previously been blogland friends and GoodReads friends

Christi went through my "to read" list and

gave me 4 0r 5 books of hers on that list with the

sweetest little bookmark tucked in.

I thought that was one of the most thoughtful things ever!!

Still working, dreaming, playing and hoping to be up and running soon!!

Have a great Sunday!

TODAY.....

...TODAY....

There is so much promise in that one little word

Today...I found out that I will not be able to stay in my current job that I really love

Today...I decided to be grateful for all the love and support in my life

Today...I am deciding to not feel sorry for myself

Today...I got an email from my bestest friend and soul sister that said

"I think God is setting you up for success by losing your job"

So I'm sharing

Here's my little secret

I'm opening a WEB STORE front selling

Hybrid Kits and Papercrafting Supplies

The kits are going to be amazing

this much I can promise

because I had A LOT of help

putting the first one together

and I am so very excited to share them with you!

I promise

there will be lots of fun to be had,

friends to be made

and

inspiration to be found

Very Soon

I will introduce you to

my incredibly fabulous and talented

Design Team

God Bless these women

for agreeing to join this dream of mine

and helping me to make it come true

I hope to have the first kit ready

and the store open

by the middle of March

I'll keep you posted!

Owl love you forever...

I'm in lurve with this

SILLY OWLS Rub On Set from

EAD Designs!

These little guys are just the cutest!

I ordered them in brown, but you can order them in any color you want.

I haven't ever done an 8 1/2 x 11 layout, but I've been making a few lately mostly because

I have this album I bought on clearance forever ago, and I really am making an effort to actually put my layouts into albums instead of boxes.

Am I the only one who does that?
Anyway I really like working with this size,

It's so much less pressure to not have to fill up that huge 12x12 square.

Supplies used on this layout:

Silly Owls Rub on Set

Paper is Basic Grey Lime Rickey and Sassafrass Lass

Here's what we've been up to...


My whole family was in town for Rob's Chief Induction Ceremony on Saturday Night.
It was so awesome to have them here to share it with us, and my mom has decided to stick around for awhile, since he'll be leaving to go to a class in Alabama for a couple weeks.

Why is it hard to get your mojo going

when there are people around?

My Last Limelight Sketch Day!!

Yep, it's true!

I've been a member of the Design Team

for almost a year,

and it's time to say goodbye!

I have so enjoyed working with these wonderful ladies.

I've got some big changes in store and I hope you'll

keep coming by so you can find out what they are!!

So...

this week at LIMELIGHT

it's all about the sentiments!!

Supplies Used:

October Afternoon Cherry Hill

Unity Stamp Company Simply Said

Create a project or card based on the sketch above and

put all those sentiment stamps to good use!!

Link it up to Mandy's Blog

No later than Sunday night for a chance to win a single sentiment stamp of your choice!!

Order your February Unity store kit, Life is Fabulous, now!!

New Cosmo Cricket Paper Pads Now in Stock!

The Pink Cat V-Day Small Stamp Sets are HERE!

ON SALE NOW (through 2/14):

• All Ribbon - Buy 2 yards, get one FREE! Please specify your choice of free ribbon (of equal or lesser value, please) in the Comments section at checkout! (New Burlap String 10-yd package counts as ONE yard each unit.)
  
• All Jillibean Soup and Crate Paper 20% off!
  
• All Fun Flock $2
• All Shimmerz 30% off!

Make sure to go check out the rest of the chicks!

JenMarie

Lisa H

Lisa A

Christi

EAD Blog Hop Day!!

This month's theme is Pink and White..

I had some serious fun with this theme and

the

FUNKY TREES RUB ON's

Supplies Used:

Paper K&Co

EAD Designs Vinyl Scrapbooking Rub Ons Set Funky Trees

Sparkle Mod Podge

Anna Griffin Flowers (K&Co)

Unity Stamp (Stylin Stars)

Sentiment Rub On Scenic Route

$1.00 Frame from Michael's

(loving playing with these lately!)

EAD Designs Rub Ons

Funky Trees

Valentine

Paper Basic Grey Nook and Pantry

Glass Vase Ikea

I just love the effect of the pink showing through behind the white on the vase

EAD Designs

has

beautiful vinyl designs for your home and craft projects

at prices that are amazing AND

EMILY

who is one of the sweetest people to work with ever!

Those Roses were part of my Valentine's Day gift,

I split them up and cut these ones shorter for the bedrooom.
What a sweet man I have!!

I also got a ITunes card for my IPOD Touch (Christmas gift) and

so I'm currently in App heaven.

I hadn't played that much with these before so if anyone wants to share

their favorite apps with me I'd love to hear about them!!

Go see what the rest of the DT is up to!!

If you leave a comment on all of our blogs and then go back and leave a comment on

EMILY's BLOG

You'll be entered for a

$10 GIFT CERTIFICATE!!
Valerie

Jenn

Raechelle

Lynette

Domo Arigato..Mr Roboto..

Come on...

You know you're singing along

You can thank me later for making it stick in your head all day!

I love this

Blast Off! Vinyl Rub On Set from

EAD DESIGNS

It's so fun and goes so well with the Cosmo Cricket

Get Happy Line

some more of that older paper I needed to use up

You can do so many fun things with vinyl

Stop by the store and check it out!

EAD DESIGNS

Something tells me those blast off rub ons are probably about to go on sale!

There's another reason you're hearing this song...I do have a secret.

One I'm not quite ready to share yet but I promise I will be soon.

There are still a few kinks that need to work out, but hopefully they will and in the next week or two I'll be ready to spill my guts!

I'm really excited about it and I hope you will be too!!

We actually got out of the house for a few hours yesterday,

granted we just went to a friends house around the corner but it was still out of the house!

I'm venturing out this morning to get the mop on my head fixed,

both our families are due to come in this weekend for Rob's big hoopla and we have a lot to get done around here.

One thing about being snowed in for over a week,

I also had to buy my dress, heels, hose and everything

else I needed for this coming weekend and my new endeavor online...

and now it's all stuck in the UPS system due to the weather!!

So probably on Monday or Tuesday the UPS guys is going to show up and just park his truck in the driveway!

We're supposed to get another storm on Tuesday!

Believe with all your heart...

Supplies Used:

Paper Basic Grey Nook and Pantry

Stamps Unity Stamp Company Believe in Fairytales

Ribbon May Arts Satin Scalloped Edge

All products available at

LimeLight Papercrafts

I really like the look of sewing on paper...

but man,

it is a pain in the butt

to take out all the crap it takes to do that..LOL

So I want you all to really take a minute

to appreciate the work that went into that very simple card up there...

ok I'm kidding

Well, we're going on day 7 of being snowed in...

We're beyond a little bit nutty here at this point.

and at some point last night during our 6th movie marathon

someone in this house...and I won't mention any names

ate what was left of the chocolate

There is hope though, I think there's a good chance we'll be back at work tomorrow

the sun is actually peeking out

I'm going to go lay on the floor

in front a window in my underwear and drink a margarita

Rain or Shine...

Supplies Used:

Paper October Afternoon Weathervane

Stamps Unity Stamp Company Livin and Lovin Life

All available at

LIMELIGHT PAPERCRAFTS!

Cardstock is PTI...

I swear using this stuff makes a huge difference in my stamped images especially in coloring them
I colored the image in using Martha Stewart markers and a SU Blending Pen

Guess What?

It's snowing again!

I actually ventured out of the house today, I've been doing work from home.

They haven't been letting anyone on the base except for base residents and essential personnel. Good thing I live here!

They opened the Commissary for just a little while and had the SP's there making sure no one got out of hand...

I actually saw fights breaking out over milk!

I took my friend Liz though, and we had fun.

I'm glad I did because the line took over an hour,

so it was nice having someone to chat with.

We were supposed to go shopping together so she could

help me pick out a dress for this big banquet we have coming up...

Well, I'm not getting to the mall in the foreseeable future so I ordered a dress online and we went grocery shopping instead!

Toilet Paper/ Cocktail Dresses

I'm sure you can see the correlation, right?

I love having a truck.

We share a belief that calories don't count when your snowed in.

We Were Here...

Remember when I told you I found a bunch of older paper..?

Well this was part of it

This is some old Dreamstreet paper which I just love

I used to have this thing where I would buy two sets of the same paper

because I hated to cut it up

um...yeah..

I know there's a whole reality series about me

The "PRICELESS" title is from

EAD DESIGNS MY FAMILY RUB ON SET

This set is perfect for Page Titles and

you'll be seeing quite a bit more of this set in the next several days!

AND I have a feeling that they'll probably be on sale today!!!

Journaling Stamp is Unity, Letters are American Crafts Thickers

The picture was taken on a beach of the Potomac River near Piney Point Pier.

You can become a FACEBOOK FAN of

EAD DESIGNS

Here

and keep up with all the cool new stuff the DT has been working on and

all the new products in the store!!

Thanks! We're still buried in snow here, with more headed our way!

Love Gives Us a Fairytale...

I snapped this picture of Britain today while the boys were playing in the snow. I don't get very lucky getting good pictures of him anymore, he usually likes to roll his eyes and make dorky faces whenever I pull out the camera, but I caught him just right this time.

Supplies Used:

Stamps Unity Stamp Company Believe in Fairytales

Silver Fox Smooch

Paper is Memory Box

Ever since I got this stamp set I wanted to use that Fairy Stamp,

but I just couldn't seem to make it work with anything.

I'm still not sure I did, but I just love her!

I've been stuck in the house all weekend due to the snow,

but I got a lot of stamping and projects done so I'm pretty excited about that!

I've been rearranging a lot of my crap, so I unearthed

a whole bunch of paper I forgot I had.

So, you'll be seeing a bunch of that in the days to come...

Mandy's got some great deals this week at

LIMELIGHT PAPERCRAFTS!

Go check it out!

Order your February Unity store kit, Life is Fabulous, NOW!!

The Pink Cat V-Day Small Stamp Sets are HERE!

ON SALE NOW (through 2/14):

• All Ribbon - Buy 2 yards, get one FREE! Please specify your choice of free ribbon (of equal or lesser value, please) in the Comments section at checkout!
• All Jillibean Soup and Crate Paper 20% off!
  
• All Fun Flock $2
• All Shimmerz 30% off!

LIMELIGHT CHOCOLATE PROJECT DAY!!

It's LIMELIGHT PROJECT DAY!!

This months focus is Chocolate. Wow, what a chore! LOL!

I found the little jar for .99 at Joann's and filled it with my favorite guilty pleasure (well besides coffee of course)

Chocolate covered pretzels...these don't last long at all at my house...

we're constantly hiding them from each other , we should probably be on an episode of Hoarders.

Anyway back to the project

I used Basic Grey Nook and Pantry Paper

My Nesties cut out the cute little flower label

Stamps are the Pink Cat Studio Mini Valentine set Lily Valentine Fairy

Products are available at

LIMELIGHT PAPERCRAFTS!!

Well, I'm a little late getting this up because internet has been so spotty. I have never ever seen this much snow. No really, I know I said that here right around Christmas when we got 24 inches, but we're way past 24 inches, and it's still supposed to snow all day. When I let the dogs out this am, I had to dig a well so I could open the door. They were able to kind of hop on top of it for a couple steps, then they sunk and I couldn't see them at all. Thankfully the fence around the patio kept a small area somewhat clear big enough for them to do their business. The bed of my truck is full up to the roof. I will post some pictures later, but right now the wind is so strong all you can see is white.

I can say we've definitely had a fair dose of togetherness this winter.

I'm starting to feel a little like Jack Nicholson in The Shining.

The first thing I'm doing when I can get out of my driveway again is going tanning.

Well, maybe not the first thing...but it's on my list

Go see what the rest of the chicks are up to:

MANDY (THE Boss)

CHRISTI

LISA

LISA H

JENMARIE

Memories...

These pictures were taken last summer at the National Harbor. There's this really amazing sculpture there of Neptune, that looks like he's climbing out of the ground.

It's so huge you really can't appreciate it from a photo, you have to be above it to get the whole picture. You can sit in his hand and climb into his mouth it's really awesome!

Supplies Used:

Paper October Afternoon Weather Vane, Report Card

Stamps: Unity Stamp Company Believe in Fairytales

I colored in the stamp using DerWent inktense watercolor pencils

EAD DESIGNS VINYL RUB ON "MEMORIES" Title cut 4x12

The coolest thing about EAD Designs?...

Emily can pretty much make anything you want out of vinyl!!!

The best thing about EAD Vinyl Rub-ons...?

They rub on to your project like butter and then they actually stay on.

I don't know about you, but as I pull out some of my older layouts I've noticed the rub ons tend to rub off with time...not so with EAD VINYL!!!

EAD DESIGNS!!!

Paper and Stamps are from

LIMELIGHT Papercrafts!

Mandy has lots of deals going on right now! Scroll down to the post below to check them out, and stop by tomorrow for our monthly project featuring

CHOCOLATE!!!

LimeLight Sketch Challenge Day!

Supplies used:

Paper KaiserCraft Be Mine Collection

Stamps Pink Cat Studio Valentine's Mini Set

Lily Valentine Fairy

All Supplies available at

LIMELIGHT PAPERCRAFTS!

Here's your sketch!

This week at Limelight it's all about the hearts!

Create a project using this sketch and HEARTS

and link it up to Mandy's Blog

HERE!

For a chance to win the

Lily Valentine Fairy Set!!

The January Unity Kit is HERE!!

The Pink Cat V-Day Small Stamp Sets are HERE!

ON SALE NOW:

• Open Stock 12x12 Patterned Paper: BUY 2, GET 1 FREE! (Please specify your choice of free papers in the Comments section during checkout. Free paper must be of equal or lesser value.)
• All Ribbon 10% off!
• All Fun Flock $2
• All Shimmerz 30% off!
  
• Selected Past Unity Store Kits $26
  
• Cosmo Cricket Oh Joy! Crafting Kit ONLY $10! Selected Basic Grey, Cosmo Cricket, and other products at major savings

Go check out the chicks!!

• Lisa Henke

  How about a color challenge?
• 
  Jennifer Taylor (JenMarie)

  L O V E
• 
  Christi Snow

  Happy Birthday Paper Makeup Stamps!!!
• 
  Lisa Arana

  stocking up…
• 
  Ryann Salamon

  CARDS Magazine – Jan 2010
• 
  Amy Castellano

  In the Limelight...