What a show!!! Last night it was finally time for the concert! I got to see my totally favorite band for my Anniversary a gift from hubby. I must admit he totally suprised me. I usually know what I'm getting for gifts from him but this one really was a super cool suprise.

Here's us being cheesy with our tickets as we're heading out the door to drive down to Irvine.

A shot before the show of the VIVA balloon and the crowd at Irvine Meadows.

Woo Hoo band comes on finally at 9pm to Lovers in Japan! We got there are 6:00. the opening acts weren't that great but Coldplay was worth the wait.

A shower of butterfly shaped confetti for VIVA LA VIDA

The very entertaining Chris Martin. He was really funny during the concert

The band trekked all the way up to the cheap seats to play a few sets for us. I found this extremely classy!

It was a great night out with my hubby!

This week at Jacksonbelle we're showcasing Inkadinkadoo products and they're 25% off! Check back tmr for the Tuesday Sketch challenge on the JBelle blog!

Thanks for stopping by!

I almost forgot...

With so much going on this week for Lily's Birthday I completely forgot to post my 2 Sketches 4 You challenge cards! I think I missed the deadline since I'm on the West Coast but here they are...

Here's Laura's sketch

And my take using the new Calypso line from my LRS kit

and the bonus sketch by Kim

I used GCD paper and a Hambly screen print for the center of the window.

I am soooo tired from all the birthday festivities I'm heading to bed for the night! Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Birthday Lily Eve...

Happy Birthday! My little girl is 2 today! I can hardly believe that it's been two years since we were blessed with a daughter. Where does the time go?

I've been running crazy trying to finish last minute things for her party and just finished making her Marshmallow Lasagna at 12am! Yep you heard right, Wubzy's favorite party dish! We celebrating Lily's 2nd with a Wow Wow Wubzy themed party. She loves this show on Noggin and Mat and I admit we do too!
My wonderful friend Heidi came over to help me make the most fantastic cake for Lily! I {heart} you Heidi! You are such a great friend to come over and help me even tho you weren't feeling all that great. I bet you're dying to see pics of the cake huh? Well I promise I'll be posting them soon!

I wanted to post some pics of my little sweetie to show how much she's grown.

Here's my momma holding my precious baby girl just a few hours after she was born. It was a beautiful July afternoon and a totally smooth delivery. I asked my doc when she walked in "she's right there isn't she?" because I was feeling a lot of pressure on my left side. I remembered she smiled at me and said "time to meet your daughter"

It was one of the happiest days of my life. A very long time dream of mine came true and I now had two beautiful children.

And my dad, man he is one proud grandpa! Lily started talking in Arkansas and called my dad "Pa Pa" it was SOOOO cute! It's really hard not having my parents here to celebrate today but I know that they are celebrating this special day as much as we are. We are a close family and a few states aren't going to come between the love we have as a family ever! I love you both so much Mom & Dad!

Here she is 4 days old

and 11 mos old already into my scrappy stuff

4th of July 2008

Her 1st birthday

And a few weeks ago at my dear friend Roxanne's daughters 6th birthday. She has grown so much and I'm so thankful for her and my son Scott. My kids are my life and I love it everyday.

Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.-- Margaret E. Sangster

Happy Friday!

Hey it's Friday! Yay!!! I can tell my sweet hubby has been really looking forward to today. He has a job in sales and it's not an easy gig let me tell ya! I love him immensely for enduring the up and downs of his job everyday so I can be home with the kids and supporting me in my paper crafting hobby. He's always a great sport and gives me positive feedback on my projects. Love you Babe! OH and I promise you'll have clean laundry tonight!

So this week at Jacksonbelle Embellishments we're featuring Daisy D's products and they're 25 percent off! Many item's are only $1! Here's a quick layout I created for Unity's crinkle challenge for the Hip Hop using Daisy D patterned paper.

My dad caught this photo of me kissing my sweet new baby girl on her birth day July 18, 2007 right after they brought her to me after her 1st bath. For some reason the mega pixels were bad and the image wasn't the greatest so I blurred it with a focal point on Picasa since I don't have Photo shop. It doesn't matter really if the pic not great I'm happy to have a memory of that moment.

Next I used the same paper and emebellies for a card

I love using raffia to make leaves on my cards. It's a fun technique I learned awhile back from the Hero Arts designers. The middle of the flowers is a Sun shaped paper punch. Love that!

Tonight I'm looking forward to baking the cakes and getting the rest of the party necessities ready for Lily's Special day!

It's gonna be great! Have a fantastic weekend whatever your plans are! Thanks for stopping by!!

Hip~Hodge Podge Happpiness~Hooray!!!

Happy Hip Hop!!! Today is the big Hodge Podge of Happiness reveal. Yep! You can get your hands on this amazing kit here!

I{heart} this kit! Voting on the images in the Splitcoast forum and knowing that I was a part of this kit coming together makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside! I am also so excited to be Guest Designing for the entire month of July at Unity!

Here's a look at this amazing kit.

I love the mix of images and the focus of family. So many possibilities!

Speaking of family, my sweet daughter is turning 2 this Saturday. I can hardly believe that it's been two years since her birth. I've dreamt all my life of having a daughter and not a day goes by that I don't praise God for his amazing blessing. My family is my world and scrapping all our moments together is my true passion.

So in honor of my daughter's 2nd birthday I scrapped a layout about her birth day using a few images from this amazing kit. I of course look terrible but I still feel the joy I felt that day when I hold her. Ok I promise I'm not gonna cry...

I so loved this day!

Here's a close up of the tree I paper pieced the trunk and my journaling.

I also want to share a super quick frame I made with the set UK-408A Everyday Adorable This frame comes unfinished at Michaels for a buck and I used one sheet of Sassafras paper with the cute scalloped border from my July Paper Posies kit. I traced the frame and cut out the patterned paper using Zip Dry glue and sanded the edges, stamped the Unity images in Chocolate brown ink and embossed and added a cute Prima flower. Adorable huh! Makes a great gift for family.
Now Hop on over to **Renee'** and see what amazing Unity eye candy she has for you today!! Don't forget to check back at the Unity blog at 11 to see what Unity other goodness Angela is offering up today!

Extra Extra Read All About it!

EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT!


Yes Hero Arts has launched their newly designed website today and it's SUPER FAB!! Make sure you stop by the Hero blog for lots of giveaways and prizes! Join the fun with this week's challenge and create a card based on inspiration you get from the Hero website! Click here to get all the deets!

Here's my entry for this week's challenge



A birthday card for my sweet Lily who's 2 on Saturday! I got my inspiration from Jacki's card here
Be sure and visit the Hero Blog today and watch Aaron's video about the new changes on the website. I was lucky to have the opportunity to meet him at Winter CHA in Anaheim and he was super cool!
be sure and leave a comment to be entered to win a $100.00 Shopping Spree!!!

New Sketch on the Jbelle blog!

Good Morning! It's Tuesday and there's a new sketch challenge posted on the Jacksonbelle Embellishments blog for you to get inspiration from this week. Here's the sketch.

This sketch is great for a masculine card but I chose to go girly using Prima Life in Colors patterned paper. I also used bling from Daisy D Rhinestones Ice which are on clearance in the store and the Lizzie Anne Designs It's a Party Stamp set

We'd love to see what you're inspired to create from this week's sketch so stop by the J'belle blog and link up your creation to the sketch post or upload your card to PCP or SCS using the code JBEO62.

For more sketchy inspiration, check out the blogs of the Jacksonbelle Rockstars!!!
Kristine Breach ~ Ink Something
Tobi Crawford ~ Tobi’s Place
Dawn Easton ~ Treasure Oiler Designz
Stephanie Hargis ~ Steph’s Stampin’ Stuff
Mitzi Koons ~ Stamps Jubilee
Loretta Lock ~ Love to Create
Jimmi Mayo ~ Stamping & Shopping
Bethany Paull ~ It’s Not All Black & White
Michelle Philippi ~ Inside My Own Private Idaho
Carly Robertson ~ Paper in Bloom
Lynda Benden: Stamp Act
Melissa Bove: Keepsakes By Melissa
Jennifer Buck: The Buck Stamps Here
Jill Dunn: Ink Genious
AJ Otto: The Willow Garden
Heather Lee-Reppen: Ink on my Ear
Lindsey Botkin: Embellished

Don't forget Daisy D is on sale in the store and most of it is already marked down in the clearance tab here.

Lastly I want to post this quote for a friend that's needing prayers of love and support to get thru a very difficult time. I am praying for God to give you strength friend...

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do... Eleanor Roosevelt

Thanks for coming by my scrappy little blog today. Enjoy whatever the day brings you!

Monday Love from Unity!

Good Monday Morning! I love Mondays! It's a chance to start fresh and wipe the slate clean from the previous week. Mondays in Blog land are exceptional because their are new challenges posted on 2Sketches4You and other challenge blogs I love.
Today is an exceptional Monday because my work is being featured on the Unity Blog today! I created a couple layouts with some of my favorite Unity kits. I love how this layout turned out of my sweet Lily.

For this layout I used the Bevy of Butterflies set I got from Unity for signing up as a KOTM member in June. The paper is by Scrap Within Reach and the fun letters are My Little Shoebox. I also used some Kaiser bling and Prima felt vine and flower.

I made this layout with the July Paper Posies kit and my favorite Unity kit Love is in the Air. I absolutely love the hot air balloon image.
I am so thrilled to be the Guest Designer for the month of July! I'll be creating something fun with Unity for this week's Hip Hip so stop back by!
Have a great day Monday and thanks for stopping by!

12 Pictures and a new sale at Jacksonbelle Embellishments!

What a day! I've been going non stop since we got up this morning. The party planning is in full swing! I'm so thrilled that my sweet little girl is celebrating her birthday in just 6 days! Lily's 2nd birthday party is next Saturday and I'm wrapping up all the plans and gathering what I need to throw a Wubzy party!

I'm going to make this cake with the help of my super talented friend Heidi

Heidi also mentioned this great blog to me called 12 of 12. The concept is this:

Twelve pictures of your life, taken the twelfth of the month! Remember the details, remember the routines, remember the way things really are!

I love this concept and this will be my first month playing! Here goes!

We set out to Toys R Us to pick up Lily's birthday gift and found this personalized cup that Lily went nuts over. She didn't put it down the WHOLE day!

After Toys R Us not having the kitchen we wanted in stock we headed to the South Bay galleria for lunch at Red Robin.

Mom had to get another shot of us girlies, a friend of mine Angela thinks these shots are the best!

While we were waiting for food Lily was making fish lips and momma caught it!

After lunch we made our way upstairs to The Disney Store to make a very special purchase.

Yes, you guessed it! Lily's very 1st princess party dress!

Lily loved the heels {notice the cup? See I told you she wouldn't put it down}

She spent a lot of time looking at the shes and was lovin the flip flops. She is SO her mother's daughter!

We finally settled on the Belle dress since Wubzy is dressed in yellow too! Daddy was a good sport and shelled out the cash for his daughter's party wear and let me snap his pic. Love you babe for indulging my girlish notions.

Then it was time to hit Costco and Lily and the cashier were talking about her special cup

Finally on the ride home, Lily got a visit from the sand man. Pretty great he makes automobile calls...

And finally while I was cooking dinner I came into the living room to find all of the bins behind Lily emptied all over. I looked around and declaired "Lily this is one hot mess girl!" To which she gestured at me a thumbs up. Hmmm looks liked Daddy is rubbing off on his little girl.

That's 12 photos of the 12th day of July! What fun we had!!

Now for a little Jacksonbelle Embellishment announcement. All Daisy D products are on sale at Jacksonbelle…most are 50% or more off of their original prices.

There are some fabulous Daisy D embellies in the store for a $1 that you'll want to get your hands on! Make sure you stop by the blog to get some Daisy D inspiration from the J'belle rockstar design team!

I'll have some fun Unity things to share tomorrow as part of my Guest Designer spot so make sure to stop back by.

I hope you had a great weekend with your family and friends. Thanks for coming by!

Hip Hop Hang~Ova!!!

Goood Friday morning peeps! Hope you're enjoying your morning cup O' joe like me and checking out all the HHH Posts! I am gonna order me some rubbah today! Angela has 30 percent off ALL weekend at Unity! What are you waiting for? Click here to SHOP!
Here's a few Unity treats I created for you this morning

For this card I used My Mind's Eye paper from my Little Red Scrapbook kit and really love all the colors!



I made this card based on this week's sketch challenge at Splitcoast


OK are you lovin these images??? You can get them FREE! Sign up for the KOTM and get this set Stylin Stars with your first KOTM FREE!!!! Get all the deets here
Hope you have a fabulous Friday! I am heading out to my LSS today cause she's got Bazzill 4 sheets for $1! Woot Woot, see you this afternoon Sonja!

Be sure and check back here Monday, I've got something special to show you! Thanks for stopping by!!

Thank you, Thank you very much...

Whew! I've been given a special award by two people in the same day! Wow!! I love that people enjoy visiting my blog and think of me so kindly. I truly am humbled! A big thanks to both Celina & Amy for this award


Now I'm to name 7 other blogs that are worthy of this honor so without further ado...

1. Denise- I'm so thankful I had the pleasure of getting to know you while on the SOL DT. Your blog is always so inspirational!

2. Melissa- ditto

3. Jessica- ditto ditto!

4. Jen- yea you love the Diamondbacks but I still like ya...

5. Jacquie- my sweet pal how I love to Yahoo with you!

6. Bonnie-Girl you can pump out the cards like no other!

7. Jen- Your cards always make me smile and you are so sweet to pop by my blog often, thanks!

Whew! Now for the 7 things you may not know about me...

1. I love chocolate but hate chocolate ice cream

2. I dance like crazy in my scrap space when no one is looking

3. I hate plaid anything

4. I'm double jointed { ick huh }

5. I love the color purple but rarely scrap with it

6. I have a shoe obsession

7. I'm obsessed with my coconut creamer for my coffee

It's Hip Hop and time to Frame this Alpha!

Good Morning! This is my second fantastic week as Unity's Scrapbook Guest Designer!
Quick somebody pinch me cause I can hardly believe that my blog is linked with all this amazing artwork from the super talented Unity Design Team girls!

This week's Hip Hop we are featuring the new Frame this Alpha Set! Now as a scrapper I tend to lean more toward Thickers for my titles but after using this Unity set on my project I have SO many more ideas swimming around in my scrappy little head. I can't wait to ink it up again! You can see the set here in the store.
Here's my layout

I used Summer Soiree by Fancy Pants. The paper had an awesome scene so I let it be a big part of the layout and added some Stickles for dimension. For my title I used the tag stamp in the Frame this Alpha set and stamped the title inside. I added some stitching too! A new thing for me that I love how it turned out. Below is a close up.

I Stickled the stitching in the patterned card stock here too and embossed the Splash title


And lastly a close up of the waxy flax I used to connect to the tags like a clothesline. I enjoyed creating this layout. What a fun and versatile stamp set!
** Make sure you start your Hip Hop at Angela's blog here so you don't miss any of the fabulous artwork the Unity girls have created today!
When you reached the end of the Hop join us for chat, fun games and PRIZES in the Splitcoast Unity Forum here!!!
Now hop on over to the sweet and SUPER talented **JULIE**

2 Sketches 4 You Challenge

It's time for another fabulous sketch challenge at the 2 Sketches 4 You blog! This week's sketch is by Kazan.


And here's my take on the sketch


Supplies: stamped images by Unity Stamp Co., paper is the new June Bug line from Basic Grey {love it} ribbon and button also by Basic Grey. Bling by Hero Arts.
I'm gonna give the bonus sketch a try this afternoon and I'll post it here later.
Thanks for stopping by!