Shades of Green.....

I must say GREEN is one of my favorite colors..
This week over at City Crafter Challenge Blog I am
the Hostess this week... So I decided to go with one
of my my favorite color!   GREEN!
 I guess sense I have lived in the desert
for most of my life, green grass and trees
are so appealing to me.

The pictures above are taken by my BFF

Becca from Patina moon..

If you get a chance, check out here

wonderful pictures on her blog.. Here.

Along with some of her amazing Creations!

Here is my card for this weeks challenge...
If you get a chance you should join in and do the
challenge,  You just might win some goodies,
all you have to do is make a card with the color 

Green!

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Well my MOM is haveing a Birthday this week...

so instead of a card I made her a Tag!

You know how much I love Tags.

This was so much fun to make..

The Picture on my Tag is an Old

Black & White picture of my MOM,

The man with here is my Uncles Brother..

I just love this picture of her, I have it

Hanging in my craft room!

I hope she likes it as well!

Thank you for stoppin by...

I so enjoy reading all your comments

Thank You!

Hugs, Linda

Finally meeting a Wonderful Friend!

Well I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend...
 Mine has been full.  My Mom came down from Arizona
 and My daughter and me took her shopping all day
 and what a great time we had.. Then we meet up with
 my sister and did some more shopping
I can't believe my mom keep up with us..

I was so wound up when I got home I
thought I would do a card Challenge..
So here it is... This card is for two different Challenge.
The first on is a sketch challenge from
 Crazy for challenges
and the second Challenge is for
The Shabby Tea Room....
The challenge is to used warm colors or strips..

So this is what I came up with I just love these little

 House Mouse stamps I just think they are adorable...

 It's been awhile sense I have used them.

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Meeting up with Kirsty

This week I got to meet up with a wonderful Blogger friend..

This is the first time I have meet up with someone I have

meet on my blog... Kirsty is so sweet and we had a

wonderful time.. I just know this is the beginning of

a wonderful friendship.. and many hour of crafting...

Me & Kirsty!

Our husbands are with us..

and even they got along great!

This is the beautiful card Kirsty gave me

She had made it for one of our challenges and

knew how much I loved it!

How sweet!

She also gave me some little goodies from
her etsy shop... How fun!
I fell so lucky!

I still feel a little wound up hopefully I can get calm
down and get to sleep...
Thanks for stopping by and taking a look!

Hugs, Linda

~Tag Tuesday ~

Hello everyone, How is your week going,
I am enjoying every minute of it!  I am one
of those lucky one's that get to be off for the summer.
I am soaking it up and trying to enjoy every minute of it!
My hopes are that you are too!

Well Here is my tag for one of my favorite challenges
Tag Tuesday!
This week Louise has us putting a stamp on
our Tag.. This is going to be a fun one, and
I have already seen some of the Tags They are Great!
so if you have some spare time and are feeling creative
you should play along...

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Well Our little Humming bird has been hanging out

a lot lately.  He is so fast by the time I get my camera

ready he is gone!

 

 

Thank you so much for stopping by and visiting me!

I hope you enjoyed you little stay.

Hugs, Linda

 

City Crafter Challenge Blog - Week #10

Well Let me tell you I have been having a blast seeing
were everyone creates..  If you don't know what I'm talking about
it's a great party going on.. Check it out HERE!

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Well Over at CITY CRAFTER CHALLENGE BLOG
The lovely June is our Hostess this week
and the Theme is a fun one!  PINK, PURPLE & PEARLS!
Thanks you JUNE, I had fun with this one!

OK,  so I know your saying Where are your pearls

Well doesn't the button sort of look like a pearl!

Well in between looking at blogs and hanging

out in the pool and celebrating Fathers Day,

I had some time to play around in

my little room.

Here is a bottle I had a little fun with!

I just printed this label up from The Graphic Fairy,
glued it to the bottle added some glitter glue,
a flower, and gave it a pearl necklace..

I couldn't use those pearls on my card,
Well maybe the tiny ones in back..
But I needed them for my bottle! :)

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Well Thank you for stopping by and taking a look!
Don't forget to stop by and check out all the other
cards the DT have made over at CCCB!

Hugs, Linda

It's A Blog Party....

Karen Valentine is having a little Party, or should I

say a real BIG PARTY!  It's her 2nd Annual

WHERE BLOGGERS CREATE!

So I decided to go to the party! 

I am so excited to see every ones spaces

So here we go!

Here is a peek into my Craft Room!

Or as I like the call it,

MY HAPPY PLACE!

I just love this room, Just listening to music and

being creative here, Makes my Heart Smile!

   It look so clean right now!  But most of the time you

 you can't even see the table top. 

My Bead Lamp is one of many things I just

Love in here!  I got it as a white elephant gift for

Christmas!  One persons trash is another man's

treasure!

I made the Little SIMPLIFY sign.

I just love the way it turned out!

Words to live by!

One of the things  I love to share about

my Craft room is it's frugal cost!

Let me explain.  My two craft

 Tables my husband found

on the side of the road, to be thrown away!

A little paint and I sanded down the top and

refinished it and walla and new craft table for

free!

Also the little drawers

 that my sewing machine is on,

my next door neighbor was throwing it out,

so you know I had to bring it home,

 and  in the craft room it went.

OK I see you eyeballing my Pink Big Shot!

I bought the Pink one because it was on

clearance for about 1/2 the cost.

I think the color is growing on me!

This is the table top of another table my husband
found, He used his handy dandy Saw and cut it in
half,  The other half has all the legs and is sitting on
my patio,  These cubical and drawers were in
 my daughter room.
  When she moved out she didn't want them, 
So in the craft room they went!  Put the
table top on them and I have a another table.
 That little stool
Yep, I'm going to say it again, I came from someones
trash...  I just made that little cover for it!


 

This is the inside of my Closet!

OK I must admit I just Bought these little shelf's.

They are for Shoes. And the cost was less than

20 Bucks.

  So with all the money I saved on furnishing.

I can go to the Craft Store! 

Another one of My Happy Places!

Of Course My Craft Room would not be Complete with

out my Kitty hanging out with me!

So I hope you enjoyed seeing

MY HAPPY PLACE!

Thank you Karen for throwing such a fabulous Party!

Hugs, Linda

A Nice and Relaxing Day....

I have been just lounging around all morning playing in my
craft room.  I have a couple of little projects to show you!
This first one is for this weeks Tag Tuesday! 

The Challenge is a "Man" theme, Which I think I might
have taken the wrong way!  Another Blond moment...Hehe
I just made my tag for a man.  But I did not put a Man on
my Tag...   Either way this is what I came up with.
I really want My Man to use it as a Book Mark so there
are no embellies on it!  That was hard for me.
I really don't think my Man wanted lace on his tag!

I just love this little Bible Verse.  I have it written in a

little book full of my favorite quotes.  I thought it 

went perfect with this Tag!   Yes I know you

can tell I drew that lovely tree.. You can stop

Laughing now.  So now you see why I play

with paper instead of drawing..

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This next card is a Fathers Day card for my Father-In-law.

The sketch is from One Stop Craft Challenge! O.K. I could have

used that man on my Tag but he was already taken. And

I'm sure some of you know were he is from..

Graphic 45..  I just love there stuff! 

I hope you got time too play around and
enjoy the day!
Thank for visiting me and I hope the rest
of your week goes well!

Hugs, Linda

 

A Dream Vacation....

Well were off and running with another fun Challenge over at CCCB!

Kirsty is our host this week and has come up with a fun 

Little challenge,  Are you ready to play!

Our Theme this week is Venice, Beyond the Gondola..

I have never been to Venice but that would definitely be a

Dream Vacation of mine!

So Stop on over to our Challenge Blog and get all the

details to play along with us!

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 The Hubby and I got to take a quick little camping trip with my

In-laws to the Hualapai Mountains, In Arizona.

So you know I have to show you a couple of pictures we

took of our little trip!

We love to take our early morning little walks with our Coffee!

It is pretty quite and sometime you can see more wild life!

This little gal," At least I think she's a gal" was also up early

trying to get a some breakfast in before rush hour started! 

This little woodpecker hung out in our Campsite all weekend

Yes, that is a power pole right in the middle of our site

but we had no power!

How crazy is that!

And of course Lots of green tree's which I love!

So since I can't make it to Venice yet I will just keep on

doing my little Dream Vacation with our

Trailer!

Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek and don't forget

to check out the rest of the DT Card over at CCCB!

Linda

My Favorite Things.....

These are a few of my Favorite things...

That is what Louise over at Tag Tuesday came up with

for this weeks Challenge,  What a great Theme!

Well I did put a couple of my favorite things on my tag!

Can you guess what they are?

I love to put lace on my Tags,

and I also love Flowers,

 and I like to use a little distress

 ink most of the time!

Even though I like to stamp my tags

I also love to look for printed images to

play around with and embellish.
And of course I LOVE to make TAGS!

I must be getting old because when I took a close up shot of the
Heart I cut out,  it was a really bad job!  I didn't even notice
how bad it was till I saw the close up of it.  So I deleted that
close up picture of the heart!

And I just got new glasses.. I don't get it!

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Well I have been packing up the trailer again for a quick

 little getaway..  Another one of my favorite things,

"CAMPING"

This picture was taken last summer on a camping trip, I

know some of you have seen it before,  But this is

exactly what we love to do..... Sit Back and Relax!!

Read a good book, Sit around a camp fire,

drink a little wine... Talk about good times!

It doesn't get any better than that!

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 I will catch up with all of you when I get back

from our little camping trip!

Don't forget to stop by and take a look at all the great

Tags over at Tag Tuesday!  And Thanks for Stopping by

and taking a look! 

Hugs, Linda

Here Comes the Bride....

Well I hope everyone's week is off to a great start.

It's nice and hot here in Vegas,  But it should cool down

a little by this weekend.

Over at CCCB we have another great challenge going on

and our Hostess this week is the very talented Cheryl from

Cheryl June Girl.

  I'm sure by my title you can tell what the theme is!

A Wedding theme!

 So are you getting tired of my doilies yet!

I'm not! You know I had to put one on this card

with this theme!

 

The Little Tag I have on my Card is from Graphic 45.

I just love there paper and all there Tags.

I just love the Vintage feel of this Tag!

You know I had to throw in some picture's of my other

passion..   This is my Mexican Bird of Paradise.. It just

started to Bloom the other day!  Thank goodness this

beauty loves the heat!  and will bloom most of the

summer!

Thank you for stopping by, I appreciate all your 

Wonderful comments!

Hugs, Linda