WOWZIE Look what I received in my mail box yesterday .. I got a Beate Johns creation Beate & I along with many other bloggers joined the blog rak club on SCS. If you have a BLOG we want you to join too , You must 1st be a RAK member on SCS Its FREE and its FUN so why not ? Beate card is so much more beautiful IRL and I love the way the cho chip just pops out at you on her card . Your can view Beates Blog HERE scroll down to end of her blog posts and view what she used for her card she sent me. Thank you so Much Beate for my very 1st blog RAK ! Something pretty funny happened yesterday and I will share that with you all in a couple days stay tuned ..
I want to share Something you may want to listen to online today at 1:30pm -3:30 pm eastern time zone. Today BOB DUTKO will be talking about WHY Jesus remains will NOT be found in this so called Coffin that James Cameron has so called "Found" .. You wont want to miss this exciting Top 10 reasons .. Once you click on the Bob Dutko link above scroll down until you see LISTEN NOW and remember to tune in at 1:30 pm Eastern time TODAY . Did you know that this stuff James Cameron has located was actually found over 27 years ago .. Seems to be just another whoop La that the Media wants you to think that maybe Jesus didn't ascend full body to Heaven after all . If thats the Case then the Gospels are wrong . and don't you find this ironic that his so called "BIG" find is right around Easter time.. Christians Don't be mis lead.
Alot of exciting things coming up this week Saturday is our pot luck and Q&A time with the pastor we may be calling to our church, Hubby and a hand ful of other men have been remodeling the parsonage for our future Pastor and his Family with new cabinets and dry wall in the Kitchen , New outlets to GFI, Carpet , and painting Its pretty exciting to see whats happening The deacons and their wife's will be taking this pastor out to Breakfast Saturday morning ..I am excited because My hubby is a deacon and you know I am his wife so you all know what that means ? I get to see and met this man and his family at Breakfast instead of waiting for the evening Pot luck YAHOO ! cause you all now my patience level is not to high with exciting news like this . Thank you all for your kind words about Jessie's poem yesterday .. I think I may take Barb Mann's comment and use Jessie's poem for a Christmas card next year .. that is such an awesome idea .. why did I think of it ? DUH...
Major news on the home front with Hubby getting a job .. But we want to wait for more details so stay tuned for this Major development . Please keep us in your prayers that everything goes as planned and Its God will .. Have you ever realized when you have God in your plans and everything goes so easy and smooth you know it must be from God ..Thanks so much for your prayers & I Promise I will try and not keep you all in suspense for to long .. Thanks for peeking in today.. and I will see you all tomorrow .
Happy Stampin!















.. Today I am feeling kinda yucky .. seems I got this terrible cold
and I think today will end up being a very lazy day of vegging out on the couch and napping
. I wanted to post a special treat for all of you today , and show you all the cards I have received from alot of you for my scissor charms and or my retired sets .. Thank you all so Much.. your goodies are Fabulous! and you all brought a smile to my face
. Last night church was canceled due to weather so Hubby and I spent some time shredding all kinds of things that needed to be thrown away . Like car , House, bank , insurance , medical statements .. Now a days you can never be to safe. Have a Marvelous Monday and enjoy all the goodies I have received Please note you can view a larger image for your viewing pleasure just by clicking on the image .. Thank you from the bottom of my heart
! You all ROCK! 












. I received more beautiful cards and goodies from all of you with your payments for my scissor charms . WOWZIE just gorgeous and you all made my day thinking of me when mailing your works of art to me .. Today I am going to sign up for the bloggers RAK list .. whats that you say ? well everyone that has a blog signs up
! So stay tuned for some fabulous cards I will be posting in the near future girls and if your a blogger why not join us too.. The more the merrier . who knows maybe a few will receive one of my famous scissor charms and a card .. we will see .. GO sign up right now ..
This will help all of us get in the mood and maybe this Winter thing will hurry up and pass over us . well its the thought that counts right ? Have a wonderful Saturday and I will see you tomorrow 



and she was such a huge help to us, Plus her helping freed me up to be able to clean other things
.. today we are hanging things on the walls and finishing up the small things ..Like hooking back up our Tivo .. Poor Bowzer didn't know what was going on when all this started yesterday morning ..
.. NO more pitch black outside at 5:30pm YAHOO Spring is right around the corner .. Gotta Love that ..
Love her color combo she used for my card she sent me .. You Truly made my day a happier One .. Thank you so Much Jacqueline ..I am sooo blessed to receive all your hand made creations from all of you .. stay tuned , There's more to come .Jessie must have been bragging on my scissor charms at school cause , Yesterday one of Jessie school teachers even bought a scissor charm ..




? I'm so glad you asked Hee! Hee!
You see my friend Gina had purchased a bunch of cuttlebug envelopes and well the one your looking at today on my project is one Gina ordered 2 of by mistake and she asked me if I would be interested in having it Well for just over 5.00 who could refuse right ? NOT ME!! I figured this just may be the one thing that may help me get over the urge of wanting to buying the machine .. Well Let me just say I think It has made it worse cause Know I Love Love Love the embossing envelopes , and well ... I can only imagine how much easier it would be to actually have the machine to used the embossing envelopes, Until then I must do it
takes pitty on me and just happens to give me one Hee! Hee! so until my hubby gets back to work doesn't look like this stamper will get a cuttlebug machine ..Please pass any info on to me if there happens to be a list to sign up to receive a free machine OH pretty please .. Hee! Hee! So until that day ever happens I will be content on using my 1 single cuttlebug embossing envelope
Joann's online has a coupon for 50% off 1 item today check it out 
) This oldie technique is called Joseph coat New technique cause instead of applying ink from ink pads with dauber I used SU! Markers .. Using Glossy Cardstock take 2-3 coordinating colors and just scribble all over your glossy cardstock.. leaving very little white showing once your done scribbling run your embossing buddy over top of the glossy with Marker scribble . Then take a solid image stamp and ink it up with versa mark and stamp over top of the marker scribble In my example I used the large flower from "Think Big" set once you get your images stamp the way you want apply clear embossing over top of your images and tap off any extra back into the embossing jar .. Then heat set with your heat gun. For the next step I did find it easier to take my brayer ( rubber attachment or foam attachment ) and run your brayer over Black ink pad and apply the brayer and run across your glossy CS back and forth adding more ink until you get the coverage you want .. ( Note : you should only be able to see the images that were clear embossed ) You can also use your black marker if you don't have a brayer for this technique it works great also . just scribble the black marker all over your piece of glossy instead of your brayer . Once you have applied the black ink in either fashion and the black ink has dried , take a tissue and buff your glossy cs . The embossed images will pop out at you with your scribbles of your 3 coordinating colors underneath. How cool is that ? Dawns side note ..Black ink will stain your rubber brayer attachment Which because of this it is always a good reason to have 2 rubber attachments one set aside just for your black ink projects and one for all your other ink choices . for my color choices with my marker scribble I used orchid opulence , Lovely Lilac, and going Gray .. I used the "Happy" stamp from Polka dots and paisley set ( coming out on March 1st ) and the circle "Day "stamp is from Think Big set I used both the 1 1/4 and 1 3/8 circle punch for the "Day" and popped it up on a dimensional . I really love this oldie but newbie technique . doesn't this project look cute with my purple blog back ground ? Love Love them purples. Well tonight I am going to be stamping again with some more friends 















Yesterday didn't stop there either, Last night Hubby was playing around with his youth group and went to kick a ball and slammed his foot into the concrete .OH my Jessie said Dad went right to the floor and was in so much pain and swelled up immediately and of course this would happen the last 5 mins of class last night .. so 2 1/2 hours later Hubby lets me take him to the ER ( get this 1 hour in and out .. yup Can you believe it ? Praise GOD !) so I thought for sure he had broke something you know my hubby is not one to complain but he said the pain was out of this world and on a scale from 0-10 ( 10 being the wost) he said it was a 12 and yes with tears welling up in his eyes .. Well He Strained the top of his foot .. YUP you guessed it right in the same spot he was having problems with before same exact spot BUT a whole lot worse .. OUCHIE!!
I swear My hubby is a kid stuck in a mans body and who would have thought such damage could happen from just kicking a ball ? Go figure .. So if t=you could be so kind and say a little prayer for him we would appreciate it ..




I have received from my friends.. This post is way over due. Gina sent me this card when we got the news of my hubby being laid off Thank you Gina .. Gina used a technique using coffee filters .. This card looks soo cool IRL I thought the coffee filter was Mulberry paper ...Love it . You can find what Gina did here at Erika's 








































#7 My daughter makes these wonderful cabbage rolls filled with hamburger, sausage, rice, garlic, onion and spices. They are cooked with sauerkraut and hot red peppers - I love to eat them cold for breakfast. Dawn - thanks for sharing so much - I learn lots from you.