Happy Leap Year Day! 
I’m very excited for my wonderful friend Taylor VanBruggen as she launches her new website today - www.tayloredexpressions.com - a whole new shopping opportunity for paper crafters and those looking to purchase unique handmade cards and gifts.  Taylor has been running ribbon and tape shares on her blog for quite some […]

The Sketch Challenge on SCS today seemed perfect for this notebook I had been wanting to alter for awhile now.  And Embrace Life just seemed to fit the sketch pefectly.

This was a little Mary Englebreit notebook from the Dollar Bin at Michael’s.  I picked up 3 or 4 of them and now wish I had […]

Did you notice my NEW banner?  Isn’t it pretty?  I still love the one Emily made me and plan to rotate it back in at some point, but I’m starting off my second year of  blogging with this new banner made by Michelle Laycock.  Michelle is a fellow DDA and often participates in my swaps.  […]

Are you having a good weekend?  Curt is gone on a camping trip with the guys.  I miss him, but I took a friend to lunch today for her birthday and enjoyed just lingering and chatting for a few hours.  Yesterday when I was out running errands I remembered that I had been wanting to […]

You all know how much I love penguins!  After hearing all about the Imaginesce booth at CHA themed around tropical penguins I was so bummed I had somehow missed it.  Then my friend and club member Debra (dashpaugh on SCS) brought me a sweet little birthday gift of two of their clear penguin images - […]

And the winner of the 2nd Give-away celebrating my Blogiversary…according to the Random Number Generator is….
#3!!!
Linda SS said:
#3 - Sure looks like a fun time was had by all at CHA. The papers are scrumptious! I’m Linda and I love creating cards. I also enjoy dabbling in scrapbooking and am hoping to expand more into […]

It’s the 20th so you know what that means…time for another DD/DDA Gallery Reunion.  This month we’re giving a shout out to our fellow Dirty Girls. 
 Focus: Stamps Designed by Fellow Dirty Girls. -OR- alternate option - use any fellow Dirty Girl’s galllery creation as an inspiration to semi-CASE something of your own
Required Element: Spring […]