T Stands for Tis’ Lovely!

 

If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
⁴ Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant ⁵ or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ⁶ it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
⁸ Love never ends. 1 Corinthians 13:3-8

I quoted the Bible verse about love today, because of all the quotes that were on Elizabeth's mug. I thought there were a lot of similarities.

Okay, I always think T has to stand for something that begins with T, although I notice on other blogs that is not necessarily true! LOL. But it tis beautiful here today.  I took a three mile walk this morning and evidently a lot of folks thought it was lovely as there were many of us enjoying ourselves on the trail.   It is in the 70s and it is supposed to be in the 80s tomorrow!  Love it!

Besides walking, I have done some crafting to.  I have been taking part in CalvinBall with Alice Boll.  If you remember the comic strip, Calvin and Hobbs, CalvinBall is based on that.  You get points, but the points don’t matter and we make up the rules as we go! LOL. Just lots of inspiration to use stash and to have fun. #scraphappy, #calvinball .   I did a journal page for the Art Journal Journey Spring Forward Challenge, hosted this month by Chris aka pearshaped crafting, and used a lot of the CalvinBall prompts.

This is also for my March Junk Journal challenge for Julie Dear Julie, and the sketch challenge on ACOT.  Our theme was monochromatic for the Julie Dear Julie page. Each page this month will have a different theme, all beginning with Ms.

The burlap is a pocket on the page. I think butterflies and flowers when I think of Spring.  Now that I think about it, there should have been birds on it, too.  Next time!

Now, my ticket for the tea party, TSFT over at Altered Book Lover hosted by Bleubeard and Elizabeth.  Our dear friends that visited last month left this in our refrigerator.  I love iced tea with lemonade.  So fun~

Thanks Shelly and Ray! :)

I have a couple more photos.  I generally photograph dogs on my walks, but last week I photographed cats!  So here is for Bleubeard and Elizabeth and all you other cat lovers.

Aren't they adorable?

Have a wonderful week!  Thanks for stopping by!  See you next time!

T Stands for Totals from CalvinBall

  Create in me a clean heart, O God;

and renew a right spirit within me.
¹¹ Cast me not away from thy presence;
and take not thy holy spirit from me.
¹² Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;
and uphold me with thy free spirit.
¹³ Then will I teach transgressors thy ways;
and sinners shall be converted unto thee. Psalms 51:10-13

These are Bible verses I try to pray each day.

Even though I could still do another project for CalvinBall today, the 31st, I am done.   My total points were 1020.  Right now, I am 14th in the standings.  First place has almost 4000 points!  My totals included 17 scrapbook layouts, 2 journal pages, 25 place setting favors for our Bible study (with help at our church craft day), 1 junk journal project, 21 cards.  I call that pretty good for one month, and there are some things I didn't bother to count.  I call it a good crafty month.

Since I featured this event in a blog post, I thought I would share this two-page layout I did, about the Chinese New Year event we attended.

I used the place mats on the layout as well as the chopstick sack and fortune, and the invitation.

I am in 14th place now, and sinking lower, but here it was in first place at the beginning. LOL Here is proof, a screen shot. 

And again, it was all for fun, the points don't mean anything!

My ticket for TSFT is in the layout photos.  Be sure and stop over at Bleubeard & Elizabeth's at Altered Book Lover.  They are the host of T Stands for Tuesday.

Thanks for stopping by, I don't know what I will feel like after surgery or whether I can stop by and see you, but will try. 

Happy T Day.

Chicken, Chicken!

  Create in me a clean heart, O God;

and renew a right spirit within me.
¹¹ Cast me not away from thy presence;
and take not thy holy spirit from me.
¹² Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;
and uphold me with thy free spirit.
¹³ Then will I teach transgressors thy ways;
and sinners shall be converted unto thee. Psalms 51:10-13

These are Bible verses I try to pray each day.

No, we are not playing Chicken!  I had recently taken a photo with my phone from the car of a chicken, a giant chicken, and had to look up what it was all about?  What is this chicken doing, and why is it so large?  It turns out it is an advertisement for a Chicken Chicken Drive thru soon opening in this location.  I had never heard of it, but it turns out it is the second one to open in this area.  Probably that sign that I didn't notice or include in the photo, tells us this info.  But I had to research when I got home.  Anyway, giant chicken siting! For Elizabeth, it is at the corner of Mosley & 13th.  She has probably seen it already.

We were on our way to eat that day at Copper Oven, one of our favorites.    He ate a Rueben, and I ate a healthy chicken salad, although I helped him with his fries.  And of course, we had lemon with water for our ticket to TSFT over at Bleubeard &  Elizabeth's Altered Book Lover where we all get together once a week to celebrate with our beverages. 

As I ate, this is what I was looking so, I had to take a photo of the pretty mural but had it on movie.  So, I have been down a rabbit hole to figure out how to just have a photo out of it.  Googled and found how to use the snip it on my PC.  Took me a whole bunch of tries.  Now, I have to go figure out where they are and how to delete the ones that were wrong!

You can see it was not busy, because we usually go in the middle of the afternoon when restaurants are busy.  We like it that way. :) Actually, there were two more areas that were full. 

This excursion was back in February.  I do have a photo below of how Spring has Sprung in our neighborhood.   These people even decorated their tree. Most the balls are on the ground however as it is so windy!

 No craft blog is complete without a craft, right?  I watched vidos on the four day Card Makers For Success Summit (CMSS) over the weekend.  One of the presenters gave us some free digitals, as many did.  Then I watched her class and made this card.  Her digital was really for children's cards, but I don't have a need for those at this time. So, I adapted it to be an adult card.  It is a special fold, to be slightly interactive for a child.  I think adults like interactive cards, too.  It just opens a few times.  The crafter was Alicia McNamara of Paper Craft Secrets.

Bottom right is what it looks like closed.  Bottom left is with one part opened, and top is open all the way.  I also submitted to CalvinBall and got 50 points, because if you had less than ten on Twisted G.R.O.S.S Day, then you automatically got 50.  LOL  All just for fun!

I don't know if I will post next week or not, but next Tuesday, I am having Reverse Shoulder Replacement.  My husband says I am going to come out of surgery with my arm on backwards. LOL

I hope not!  I hope it means that eventually I will have less pain and more mobility. Anyway, I am not sure of how much I will be able to blog for a while.  They say 6 weeks in a sling and 6 months for complete recovery.

Thanks for stopping by.  I will see you next time.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

 Create in me a clean heart, O God;

and renew a right spirit within me.
¹¹ Cast me not away from thy presence;
and take not thy holy spirit from me.
¹² Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;
and uphold me with thy free spirit.
¹³ Then will I teach transgressors thy ways;
and sinners shall be converted unto thee. Psalms 51:10-13

These are Bible verses I try to pray each day.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  We really don't celebrate, but this year we were invited to a St. Patrick's Day event at a senior living facility last week.  We were given coins with our assigned number and a piece of paper with the names of places we were to visit, like the library, model apartment, movie theatre, cafe, fitness room, etc.  At each place spread over three stories, we got our paper stamped, deposited our coin and ate a snack.  At one place, we had guitar music and tall green drinks with fancy straws which we got to keep.  The drink was a flavor of Hawaiian punch mixed with Sprite.  The idea was for us to see all these places in their facility, in hopes we would pay them a lot of money and move into it!  Also, they would draw coins out for prizes.  We weren't called, so I guess we didn't win.  They also had a photo op where they took our photos with a lady dressed all in green.  I haven't got that photo yet, and I didn't take one with my phone. :(

I took one photo at the event but first here is one of the fancy straws because you really don't see them that well in the next photo. 

And the drinks were really green, just doesn't show well here, no matter how I tried to fix the color.  This is also my ticket to Bleubeard & Elizabeth's TSFT over at Altered Book Lover.

This particular food was some kind of potato pancake.  Other food was fruit, like berries and grapes.  In the theatre they served a tiny cheesecake thing, and we were there too early for some kind of chicken thing.  The food wasn't all that impressive.  We did get a gold coin that when opened was chocolate.  I couldn't figure out how to open it, and decided it really wasn't anything to eat, but hubby broke it and there was chocolate in it. :)

Today I also am showing a journal page I did for Art Journal Journey, CalvinBall and ACOT Art Journal Sketch challenge.

For AJJ the theme was Home Sweet Home, and on the right side of the page I show that I am thankful for my home sweet home and that it is my happy place, and I do count it as one of my blessings.

I used the 2page sketch as given on A Cherry on Top. For Calvin Ball I think I got 34 points.  Again, the points are just for fun and inspiration. 

Points: 2 pages, star, date, real or faux stitching, frame, heart, polka dot, stripes, sketch, handwriting, film strip, hexagon, circle, grid, coffee or tea, stamp, pink, flower, fussy cut, splatter, butterfly, banner, bling, 2 social media shares, 2 blogs., among other items!  We have over 100 items to choose from for points, and we can double dip which means, the circle with stitched die counts two points, for stitching and for being a circle, except on "no double dipping day".

For the background on my pages, I played with some new Distress Mica Sprays from Tim Holz.  I had picked them up at JoAnn's which is closing.  They were only 20% off though.  I am sorry they are closing, but I sure didn't think they were having much of a sale, and everything was about gone in the store where I was.

All of the items were just in my stash.  So, I just used what I had already cut and stamped.  The top stamp is Paula Best, and I don't even have it anymore, but found it in a container with pre stamped and cut images. I love using up stuff that I didn't want to toss but saved! 

Thanks for stopping by!  Be sure and check out the links above for inspiration.

See you next time.

T Stands for Time for Warmer Weather

 ¹⁰ Create in me a clean heart, O God;

and renew a right spirit within me. 
¹¹ Cast me not away from thy presence;
and take not thy holy spirit from me. 
¹² Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;
and uphold me with thy free spirit. 
¹³ Then will I teach transgressors thy ways;
and sinners shall be converted unto thee. Psalms 51:10-13

The above is a prayer I try to pray every day.

Hello!  Happy Day!   76 degrees F outside today!  I am so ready for warmer weather.  I didn’t go outside though because I have crafted all day.  I have made 16 cards using Crafty Al’s March sketch.  But I am personalizing each one.  I am trying to get my birthday cards made for April.  These are mostly masculine, as I never have enough.  I make mostly flowery feminine cards, so have some of them on hand.  I also am still doing CalvinBall as it is for the whole month of March.

Here are some of the cards I have made today.  All the little details added up to a lot of points for me today.

Can you see they are all one sketch?  Which one is your favorite?

I already know who some of these go to, and one has already been sent.  I also am busting a Graphic 45 6x6 pad of paper I have had in my stash for a couple of years!  By using all these bits and pieces, I am really using stash.  It hardly makes a dent in my “Craft collection “. LOLNow for my ticket to the TSFT party over at Altered Book Lover with Bleubeard & Elizabeth!

From the archives, here is a photo from a dinner on our last cruise.

This was taken on February 14, 2019.  It was a Hawaiian cruise.  It was fabulous!

 Happy T Day to the t-gang!  Thank you all for stopping by. See you next time.

T Stands for Time for CalvinBall

 ¹⁰ Create in me a clean heart, O God;

and renew a right spirit within me.
¹¹ Cast me not away from thy presence;
and take not thy holy spirit from me.
¹² Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;
and uphold me with thy free spirit.
¹³ Then will I teach transgressors thy ways;
and sinners shall be converted unto thee. Psalms 51:10-13

The above is a prayer I try to pray every day.

Yes, it is time for CalvinBall!  Every March in recent years, I have taken part in this great scrapping event.  It is free and like a game!  Most of all it is great inspiration to get you scrapping those photos you always meant to scrap!  The way it works is Alice adds permanent and temporary items to a list, daily.  If you use those items, you get points.  The fun really begins when you see how many of the items you can get on your layout, or a card, or a junk journal page, or whatever craft project you are working on.  Another fun element is that some days the temporary items are removed, that is why they are called temporary!  If you want to make something with that item, you better do it today, because tomorrow it may be gone.  So fun to see how many points you can get!  And March is usually a big month for me to get craft projects done and to use up all that stash!  For example, ribbon is on the list.  I have drawers of it and forget to use it.  This makes me use it!  I do try to use it in a way that helps my page or project.  Here is more information: CalvinBall

As she adds to both lists every day, (and sometimes removes items), by the end of March you have maybe hundreds of items from which to choose and ultimately get 100 points!  So fun!

Here is layout I did yesterday: From the permeant list I used label, selfie, date, washi, ribbon, & frame.  From the temporary list I used green, sloth, white pen, music notes, and because I shared it on two sites, plus my blog, I also got points for a total of 15 points.

I used washi tape with music notes, and that is 2 points because we can double dip, unless it is a day we can't! This layout is a selfie I took when Be Real (a social app our family got me on) popped up and the selfie included Alice on our Zoom that day.  Oh, and we got points for being at the Zoom, too.   Also note, the sloth ribbon!  I have had that in my stash for several years, and it had never been used!  I like it paired with "Enjoy the moment.''  LOL Oh, well, so fun.  I also entered this in the ACOT 1-3-5-7 challenge.  I used one photo, 3 pieces of washi tape, 3 pieces of drywall tape, 5 different printed papers, (using up scraps) and 7 sloths!

You see my ticket to TSFT on my layout?  

Thanks for stopping by and for saying "hi" so I know you were here.

Tea & Scrapping

   ⁶ Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. ⁷ And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7

It is time to post for T Stands for Tuesday, our party held over at Altered Book Lover with Bleubeard & Elizabeth.  First I will show you my submission for **Art Journal* Journey* for Chris's On All Fours Challenge.  I meet dogs on my walk and decided to do a layout about the one I met Friday. 

I am still having fun playing Calvinball.  I received 43 points for this layout, Using items like Washi, a stamp, heart, punch, camera, tag, bird, flower, flowered paper, sticker, aqua, brads, arrow, multiple photos, word phrases, button, twine, bow, label, date, handwritten journaling, birdhouse, bee, yellow, tree, stitching, stripes, dog, and more.  There aren't any prizes for this challenge; it just gets you out of your box and inspires you to use your stash!

Here is the information!  And Chris, the photo is an avocado, not a pear.

Now my ticket to the party! We went out to eat Friday, and oh, my goodness!  I think it had been years since we went to Red Robin.  SOOOO good!  We didn't need to eat for over a day!  Luckily, I noticed the smaller hamburgers on the menu.  I didn't know they bring you fries, like they bring chips and salsa at Mexican Restaurants, then you get another side with you burger.  We got salads, and they were huge!  The fries were hot, and the sauce was wonderful, and that is our second batch of fries, because it is endless fries.  What you see on my plate is what I had left and I was already full.  But being the glutton I am, I ate everything except the rest of the fries.  If you ever go, go hungry!  LOL

I received a gift from one of our bloggers this week.  I will show it next week.

Thanks for stopping by, and for your comments, letting me know you came.  I will see you next time!

Playing CMSS & CalvinBall!

   ⁶ Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. ⁷ And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7

I just have so much crafting I want to do, sometimes something has to give.  Tell me in the comments, do you get all the crafting done you want to do?  I watched some of the videos on the Card Makers for Success Summit last weekend, and tried some of them, while still trying to keep up with making at least one project for CalvinBall per day.  Oh, and junk journaling, and SplitcoastStampers daily challenges, our blog challenges.  I have to just confess; I can't do it all!  And then there is this blog to keep up with.  And life!  Tomorrow I am headed to a wedding, so no crafting tomorrow.

I will share with you the project I made following Jess Crafts on the summit.  I liked this because you can use a lot of stash.  I really kept these cards from this sketch clean and simple, because I entered them in today's Clean and Simple daily challenge at SplitcoastStampers to be monochromatic.

The Jess Crafts sketch uses a whole sheet of 12x12 patterned paper, three pieces of 8 1/2 x 11 cardstock for the bases, and 3 more pieces of 8 1/2 x 11 of colored cardstock for the panels.  My dsp was two sided so I could varry the cards. On 5 of the cards I used some of my hundreds of Project Life Cards.  Stash Buster!!!

And the 6th one, I stamped and colored a Stampendous Bird Image with Copics.  I submitted this one for the challenge at CalvinBall.  I got points for it being a card, for sharing it at two sites, blogging about it, polka dot paper, stamp, stripe paper, sketch, fussy cutting, banner, flower, aqua, gold, sticker, orange. 15 points out of a possible 70 points.  They add points every day.  It is wild.  The points don't mean anything, just using as much as possible of your stash!

Here is the info about CalvinBall:

I am also on my way to the tea party over at TSFT at Altered Book Lover with Bleubeard & Elizabeth.

Here is my ticket:  A card I made several years ago.  I no longer have the image stamp, but I do have the sentiment.  Happy T day.

Thanks for stopping by.  See you next time.

T Stands for Time for Spring!

    23 Search me, O God, and know my heart:

try me, and know my thoughts:
²⁴ And see if there be any wicked way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalms 139:23-24

 Yes, it is time for Spring!  Tomorrow, we begin our new Spring Bible Study and I have made some bookmarks for it.  Almost!  I still have most of the ribbons to attach, yet.  This is also for our SplitcoastStampers Divine Bible Challenge and for Calvinball at Scrap Happy.

 I used a SU! punch to punch 24 white 2"x5 1/2"strips, then 8 each of Celery Green, Almost Amethyst and Pink Passion.  I put the Bible verse stamp in the MISTI stamping platform and stamped all the white ones.  Next, I put the prayer quote stamp in the MISTI and stamped all the colored ones.  The MISTI makes it easy to do assembly line projects.  I stamped leaves on all the white, & the butterflies, and inked the edges of the white.

Next is attaching the ribbon with a staple, and then tying the bakers twine around the ribbon.  I also handwrote the date & event information. Some of them are done as shown below.  I think I will be doing ribbon for a while longer tonight!  Below showing both sides of the bookmarks. I tied the white to the colored cardstock with the ribbon.  

For Calvinball I racked up 21 points for the project.  I can't multiply x 24 however.  But each one has a stamped image, the date, handwriting, butterfly, green, punch, metal (the staple), ribbon, inked edges, scalloped, twine, tag (tag punch), quote, purple. I got a point for cleaning my desk before I started, and for it being for multiple challenges, and for the faith theme.  Also I get points for sharing on Splitcoast with the hash tags and for writing up a post on my blog.  Again, the points are just for fun! You can check out all the fun at:  http://scraphappy.org/calvinball.

Here is my ticket to the TSFT over at Altered Book Lover hosted by Elizabeth & Bleubeard.  It is a card I made in 2014.  It is long gone, but I still have the photo.  I still like that image, SU!, I think.

Thank you for stopping by.  Happy Spring!  See you next time.

T Stands for Time Change

    23 Search me, O God, and know my heart:

try me, and know my thoughts:
²⁴ And see if there be any wicked way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalms 139:23-24

 I still have not changed the clock in my craft room, and I never think to look at the time on my laptop or iPad!  I am old school.  You look at the clock or watch for the time and you take photos with cameras, real ones. LOL

I have worked several hours hunting photos and scrapping.  Now my room is a complete shamble!  And other rooms as well, because I went through boxes and loaded down beds in two different rooms!  I did not find the third photo and am thinking I either imagined such a photo or have seen it in a video.  Now I am wondering if there is some way, I could get a still photo off a very old video?  At least I did have the video put on a CD.  

I will share the page I scrapped with you today.  It is for the Scrapbook Goals Challenge on SplitcoastStampers as well as for the Calvinball challenge, again.  I am still having fun, but the big thing is getting motivated to get a scrap album project done!  Adding all the different elements got me 36 points on this layout.  They add "rules" every day.  Today the added quote, chipboard, button among other things.  I added all of them.  

It is time for my ticket to the TSFT party over at Altered Book Lover with Bleubeard & Elizabeth as our hosts.  I will have to add something from my archives. :)

This card was made in 2012 for the teapot challenge on SplitcoastStampers.

Happy T Day to the T gang.  I am keeping this short as my laptop already has locked up once already, and I don't want to chance it again.  I had to turn off and restart! LOL

Thank you everyone for stopping by and for your comments to let me know you stopped by. 

Have a great week.  See you next time.

T Stands For Day 11 sm

Psalms 37:4-5 "Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.  Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass."


This is day 11 of Calvinball 2019!  So I am still scrapping away.  I also am doing layouts for March Madness VSBN (Virtual Scrapbook Night) on SplitcoastStampers.  I have gotten 12 layouts done so far, and also have done several cards for the Mini VSN (Virtual Stamp Night) on SplitcoastStampers.

On My scrap layout I stamped the title with Stamping Up Bold Line Alpha stamps and then punched out with the SU! banner punch.  I colored in the letters with Distress marker Mermaid Lagoon, then strung them on Washi tape.  I stamped the owls  on the same polka dot paper that I used on the page, with Stamping Up Punch Bunch stamp set,  and punched with the owl punch.  I also punched out black eyes and put on amber rhinestones on them.  I added punched hearts, and a star and backed my photos with black.  These are photos from 1990;  I have a whole box yet of 1990 photos!

I used the Rolling Marble Technique for the background of the card.  I put drops of re-inker in a plastic container that has a lid.  Then I put  5 marbles in and rolled them around to get ink on them.
Then I put a little adhesive on some cardstock and put it in the bottom of the container.  Then put the lid on, and then rolled the marbles back and forth over the cardstock.  I used Pistachio Pudding and Bermuda Bay.  They weren't different enough, so looks one color.
So that is my background!  Then I stamped in Pistachio Pudding this silhouette girl from SU! Easter Blossoms stamp set.  Then added ribbon and enamel dots.

These are my projects; now is time for the part of the post that is for T Stands For Tuesday over at Altered Book Lover.  I am trying to drink more water.  I find that if I put it in a bottle I can at least know if I drank 16 ounces!  If I start early enough, I can get to bottles drank.  Thanks for stopping by.  Happy T Day!

T Stands For March Madness!

Psalms 37:4-5 "Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.  Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass."



I am madly scrapping for March Madness Virtual Scrapbook Night (for the whole month) and for Calvin Ball 2019!  We have challenges every day on the last one!  So far am keeping up, with at least one layout a day since March 1st!  I will show you my latest that I just did today.  There are certain things to use on both the above challenges for points.  These are items such as die cuts, stamps, a certain color, stickers, assorted embellishments, and the list goes on and on.  Both challenges inspire you to  not only get some photos scrapped but to use some of your stash!

  I will just show you two pages that I did today.  I am trying to scrap some old photos that have set in the little white photo boxes too long!

And here is my post for the  T Gang over at Bleubeard & Elizabeth's Altered Book Lover celebrating  T Stands For Tuesday

Dessert one night on our cruise!

Thank you for stopping by!  Have a great week!