Archetype giveaway and finding yourself.....

I was over on "act normal be different" blog and she is having a giveaway in regards to knowing your type of person. She is giving away a Visa gift card with a signed book "Archetype".
http://www.bedifferentactnormal.com/2013/01/my-archetypeme-discover-who-you-really.html

I firmly believe in someone knowing your type of personality. There are alot of books, test and surveys to take. You may have even taken one in your church or school. I first took a test and class in my church.

My love for crafts and people has always been in my life. I have a mother and grandmother who loved crafts. So that was in my life for a life time.

I found that my caring ways really came out early in my life but more so in my work life. I have always been in a recptionist position. This gave me talents to come out alot of course. LOL Then I thought why do I want to be labeled as a recptionist all my life? Well God had better plans for that and I have been in this line of work all my life.

My sunny, happy and smiling self comes out all the time.  People do sometimes think I am fake, but really I am like this all the time. No one would know that inside I can scream of self worth. But I do have a very loving husband and my love of God does help me.

You should take this test or any test and find who you are. Remember you are special and if you do not let your talents come out, you will not be able to share those wonderful features to us all.

Crafting Hugs,

Christmas Snow card

I just had to use this card for my Aunt. I have been making her Christmas cards for a few years and I saw this card on Lee Conrey's blog. So cute and simple.

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I really do like to mask and this stamp set is the perfect set to use.

Stamps: Serene Shilouettes, Curly Cute
Ink: SU black and Marine Mist
Paper: SU white cs

Crafting Hugs,

Husband Advant Calender

I found a great idea for my special husband on a blog but cannot find it on my Pinterest. Sorry for that, but if I find the original idea will post.

I made an Advent Calender for my husband. We do not have children so he does get spoiled at times.

I looked in my stash of envelopes and knew I had long red ones and white A2. Great idea since I like to decorate with red for the holidays.

I took some off white paper for the background and then some Stampin Up Christmas DSP from last year. Added some embellishments.

Then I wrote up some ideas I love about him and some things that I would do for him. Here is the first day picture and also where I hung the envelopes.

He likes candy and the first day he received two caramel santas. The saying was "candy for my sweet"  

My other day ideas:
1-Take the dogs out at night (his job)
2-A little nookie
3-He gets to do what he wants tonight. (this could be interesting)
4-Do the dishes. (I cook He does dishes)
5-Did put one in to look at lights in neighborhoods.

So a few ideas. It does take some time to put together. I am going to use the same ones next year but put in different days next time.

Crafting Hugs and Merry Christmas,

I won a wonderful giveaway....

I was a winner of a bead giveaway over on Inspirational Beading blog. She had a giveaway from MarutiBeads for 60 beads.

This is what I saw when I opened the box. I was like WOW!!!! I must have not looked at the description about the giveaway since it was for 60 beads. Check out the other pictures.

 

They came in pacs of either 5 or 6 beads which were individually wrapped.

 

These are a couple of  pictures of the beads I received. Now I have to be real creative and find ways to make some things with them. The beads are handmade. Yes Handmade.

Crafting Hugs and Merry Christmas.

 

12 Days of Christmas Swap....

How can we not love Splitcoaststampers???  I really love swaps. Who does not love to get something special in the mail. So here was a swap to do 25 Days of Christmas. Can you believe all of the ladies in 3 groups made 25 items for 25 ladies. WOW! and fun.

So I thought and thought what to make. I took a class to make some wonderful Christmas Tags and these are a product of ideas from that class. I.  kind of lost some of the tags so I was not sure what some were. But the poinsetta and tree were the newest ones. My poinsetta is a cut from a Cricut Cartridge. It is so pretty and I thought the best.

My day was the 21st so I made a tag and put the number on it. I then added the tags to a glassine bag. See the bottom picture.

Hope you enjoyed looking.

 

Crafting Hugs and Merry Christmas,





Christmas Tea Cups

My Best Friend/Adopted Sis is having a Church Tea and needed some tea cups. I made 30 for her daughter in laws bridal shower and she asked me for these for the tea. How could I not say no and since I really needed something new to do.

You always want things to be perfect for that someone special. Right???
Well I found the perfect paper, since the theme was Holly and Poinsetta's, how is this not great? I ran the flower under an embossing folder and then used a brad from Stampin Up.

The tea cup is from My Time Made Easy. She has alot of templates for sale and they are only $5.00. She even has a Tea Pot.

I did add a black scallop botton square. I did sponge the cups and bottom with black ink. This gave it a vintage look.

Supplies:
Paper:Stampin Up Cherry Cobbler and My Mine Eye "Christmas" 6x6 pad
Template: Mt Time Made Easy Tea Cup

Crafty Hugs and Merry Christmas!

Sunrise Bracelet

I so a beautiful tutorial for a seed bead bracelet from eebeads tutorials.
http://www.eebeads.com/ideas/655_braid.html?source=pinterIdea





















This is eebeads bracelet. Made by Allie in customer service. Nice-right?



I really loved the colors and after looking on Etsy for the seeds beads at a $1.00 a bag. I got to work.

Here are the pretty beads I used.

 

 

I used 2 colors of peach and a pink with gold bugals. Very pretty colors.

Here is my bracelet I think I will take it apart and redo it. I needed to add jumprings to the clasp and did not. Also the clasp is a new item I have not used and not sure of using it also.

Thank you for looking.

Crafting Hugs,