Family Fun! A Day at the Beach! Vacation Time!

Today is my Design Team Day over at 3 Girl Jam! 

Today I am featuring the Harvest Orange from the harvest bundle set! 

3 Girl Jam Current challenge: Anything Goes + Ribbon

Here is my project as a Design Team Member:

 Another page from my 2011 Mini Album! We had the best day at Pensacola Beach! My Husband and I laughed when we realized we could have been a beach family since we are both from Long Island. We ended up in Arizona and we are now a desert family. We joked about how different our lives would be if we stayed on the island:

Surfing Waves VS Hiking Mountains 

Riding Dolphins VS Riding Horses

Collecting Shells VS Collecting Rocks

Sandy Butts VS Hot Feet

Sand Crabs VS Scorpions

Wave and Seahorse from Life's A Beach Cricut Cartidge

Paper is from Hobby Lobby

Harvest Orange Crinkle Ribbon 3 Girl Jam

All my other dies are from my Summer Fun Hoarded supplies drawer!

Glitter Blue skittles from DoubleClick

Liquid Pearls Pumpkin

Stickles Stardust
Neon orange index card

This week's challenge is being sponsored by:

with a
~a $10.00 Gift Certificate to 3 Girl JAM

Entering into:

Let's Get Trendy: Neon
Amuse Studio: Summer
Delightful: Here comes the sun 
Dl art: Link party
Paper Playtime: Anything Goes
Pause Dream Enjoy: Lay-out
Craft-Room: Summer
Scrappy Frogs: Summer Vacation

Welcome to Florida! The Sunshine State! Father's Day LSP Challenge Time!

It's Challenge time over at Little Scrap Pieces! You have until Friday to link up, so come on over and join us!

Challenge: Father's Day

 

Here is my project as a Design team Member:

I made these 2 pages for my mini 2011 scrap book! I just loved the photos of my Husband with my girls when they caught these fish! 
We traveled from Georgia, to Alabama and decided to go to Florida to visit Uncle. He owns a crazy amount of land that has fishing lakes. It was so hot and sticky, but it didn't matter! The girls were so excited catching fish! 

Wild Card Cricut Cartridge and Create a Critter for the fish and meadow grass
Paper from Hobby Lobby
Tags from deep within my stash
Brads, eyelet, buttons, silver embossing, hemp

Looking forward to seeing your creations!

Entering into:
 Simply Create Too: Father's Day/Male
Cardz TV: Father's Day 
Creative Inspirations: Father's Day
DL Art: link Party
Pile it On: Father's Day 
Pause Dream Enjoy: Lay-out
Paper Playtime: Anything Goes
Fantabulous: Father's Day

Merry Christmas! In June? Yummy Peppermint Candy!

Searched my Paper scrap pile and built my card around my scraps!

Simply Charmed for the peppermint candy
Candy Cane Stickles
Liquid Pearls Petal Pink
Glitter Dots from Recollections
Seeing Spots Cuttlebug Embossing Folder
Spun Sugar Distress Ink
Scrap Ribbon
Merry Christmas Stamp Docerela Snow Fun
Bonus color Skittle Spots from DoubleClick

Entering into:
Die Cuttin Divas: Sketch Challenge
Cuttlebug Mania: Xmas in June
Dl Art: Linky Party
Pin and Tack: Spark your Creativity Now
My Paper Crafting: Letter S (Simply Charmed Cricut Cartridge)
Crafty Ribbons: Circles
Let's Get Trendy: Handmade Embellishment (Hand made skittle) 
Hiding in My Craftroom: Super Scraps

Winner Winner! Blog Candy Winner!

Thank you to everyone that hopped along for the Craftin Desert Divas Blogaversay Blog Hop!

Time to pick a winner!

Thanks to Random . Org

5. Janis said... [Reply to comment]

First of all, love your project and all the details. Second, loved seeing your photos, but scorpions? Yikes! I found one in my bathtub one time when we lived in Georgia WHILE I WAS IN IT! Not fun. Gives me the heebie jeebies. Have a GREAT day! (Cool about hunting with the blacklight.)

May 25, 2013 at 5:08 AM

Congrats Janis!

Please contact me at the above contact me tab with your snail mail!

Thanks SEW Much!! It's Stamp release day at Docerela! Challenge Time!

Today is STAMP RELEASE and new challenge day over at  Docerela Creations!

Yippee!! 

Today's Challenge is : Faux or real stitching! 

Every time you enter a challenge you get entered for a chance to win a stamp set of Docerela Stamps! Say What?? You heard me right! A Docerela Stamp set up for grabs once a month! And let me just say they are fabulous, stamp amazing and work beautiful with embossing powders! 

Today I am showcasing her new  Stamp set Life's a Stitch!

Here is my project:

Embossed!!

Super cute!!

This was such a fun project to make!! No Cricut needed!! 
I pulled out my Tim Holtz paper, distressed and ink with lots of layers. I added real safety pins for texture
Dress form, spool, needle and thread, stitching and Thanks Sew Much stamps Docerela 
 I paper punched and threaded red twine
Liquid pearls
Skittles Latte from DoubleClick
Hemp, Button, pearls

The release!!

Life's a Stitch

 Check out the Shop HERE! 

The Team: 

 

Docerela Creations

Carri  --- You are HERE!
Nitasha

Dulce

Sara  

Sukie 

Entering into:

Let's Get Trendy: Stitching
DL Art: Linky Party 

Happy Father's Day! Vintage Tim Holtz Style Card!

My Dad passed away in 2000, I always miss him more on Father's Day. Anyways I still wanted to make a card in his honor. He was an artist so he would have loved a piece like this.

 I have a funny story to share. My friend was having a yard sale so I gave her a box of stuff and said here this is stuff I don't want anymore. Just a box of stuff. Well a few weeks later I started noticing on a few blogs that sequin is coming back and was super bummed out when I remembered I put a completely full large Ziploc bag of all my sequin in the yard sale box. I figured it had been so long it was never coming back. SO it went back on my list of wants. Well last week a different friend said Hey I have some old craft stuff in my car do you want to look at it before I take it to GoodWill. I told her no thanks I have enough stuff. But she ended up coming over and said just take a look before I get rid of it. And so I did... and there inside her box of junk was my Ziploc baggie of Sequin!! It was meant to be!! LOL I was so excited to have my sequin back. 

So this just adds to my hoarding craft supplies, everything will eventually come back!!

Nut/Bolt from Indie Art Cricut Cartridge
All papers are from Tim Holtz Stacks ALL paper Scraps
3 Girl Jam Cream Ribbon
The Twinery Twine Cappucinno
Black Sequin
Metal Bolt Tim Holz
Metal Staple
New Release Bottle DoubleClick
Distress ink Walnut Stain and Peeled Paint
Happy Father's Day Embossed Docerela Mix Match II 
Cuttlebug Embossing Folder Diamond Plates

Entering into:
Pause Dream Enjoy: Foam Tape
Paper Playtime: 2 or more
My Craft Spot: Dad
Tuesday Throwdown: Embossing
Scrappy Moms: Father's Day
Party Time Tuesdays: Father's Day
Clear it out: Male + Metal ( I have been holding onto my metal staples since 2009. Tim Holtz metal Feb 2011!!)
Perfect Sentiments: Father's Day
Lil Red Wagon: Heavy Metal
Whimsical Design: Vintage
DL Art: Link Party
Paper-Crafting Journey: Masculine
Craftin Desert Divas: Ribbon or Twine
Really Reasonable Ribbon: Masculine
Pin and Tack : Spark your Creativity now
Cut it Up: Father's Day
Let's Get trendy: Sequence

Happy Birthday! Sweet Summer Style!

Summer is here in Arizona! We are expected to hit 111 on Friday! Whoa it's gonna be a hot one!

I gave up trying to get a good photo of this! It just wasn't happening!

Ice Cream Cone from Sweet Shop Cricut Cartridge
Paper from Carta Bella Cool Summer
Happy Birthday Stamp Docerela Birthday Wishes
3 Girl Jam Crinkle Ribbon Baby Bundle
Ice-cream cone embellishments from Sticky Trims
Pink Passion Skittles from DoubleClick
Spellbinders Ovals Large
Stickles Icicle 

Entering into:
Jo's Scrap Shop: Sketch
Pause Dream Enjoy: Foam Tape
Krafty Girls: Anything Goes
Pin and Tack: Spark your Creativity Now
3 Girl Jam: Anything Goes + Ribbon
Paper Playtime: 2 or more ribbons
Amuse: Summertime
Exploring Cricut: Ice-cream

How to delete Anonymous Comments from your blog posts blogger Clean out your Spam Folder! Quick Tip

Today I wanted to share a quick video and step by step instructions on how to delete unwanted comments from your blog posts. There are 2 ways to easily remove them and 1 way to prevent them.

And how to clean out your blogger SPAM folder.

Sometimes Anonymous comments are left on blog posts that usually contain a bad link like this:

Or say you are having a giveaway and it is one entry per person and someone does this:

comment 1:
Thanks for the fun giveaway
comment 2:
Sorry! I forgot to include me email

This can make your comment count inaccurate.  

I hope the video and step by step instructions can help you to remove them.

I have also included a way to clean out your SPAM folder in blogger! Did you know you have one of those??

 

Two ways to delete comments from blogger:

Log Into Blogger

on  your homepage/dashboard

Click down arrow by notebook

Click Comments

Check the box on the comment you want to remove

Delete

This will remove the comment completely from your blog post.

While you are in this area... Look to the left


Click on the spam and see what comes up...

(These comments in your Spam folder are not published on your blog posts)

If it is a blog friend that you know, chances are they left you these comments from an Ipad or Iphone
You can click the comment and select not spam and this will post it to your blog post.

Or if it is bad comments with bad links you should delete them from here and they will never be published and will be gone.


Or

Click on the post

Hit comments

When you see the comment you should see a trash can

click on it

Click REMOVE Forever first

Then delete the comment

To put an end to the Anonymous comments forever:

Dashboard
Settings
Posts and comments
Who can comment?
Click Registered User

Or

click comment moderation and you decide what gets published and what doesn't

Some quick tips:
Never click on the links in Anonymous comments
Never include your complete email address, always add spaces

I hope you enjoyed my quick tip!

Congratulations Graduate! Challenge time over at LSP!

It's Challenge time over at Little Scrap Pieces! You have until Friday to link up, so come on over and join us!

Challenge: Graduate

 

Here is my project as a Design team Member:

Graduation cap from Happy Graduation Cricut Cartridge

Paper from Hobby Lobby

Congratulations stamp from Docerela

The Twinery: Buttercream
Liquid Pearls: Bisque
Recollections Pearl 

Looking forward to seeing your creations! 
Entering into:
Pause Dream Enjoy: Foam Tape 
Craftin Desert Divas: Twine
Hiding in my Craft Room: Die Cut

Happy Birthday Butterfly Card Using all Scrap Paper!

I have been trying to use my scrap paper and my tools that I already have. I noticed I have been buying new things only to find out I already have them! I pulled out my scrap paper pile and found 4 coordinating sheets. You can check out what I do with my scrap paper HERE!  I was able to make 3 of these butterflies using all 3 sheets of scrap paper! Sizzix dies are a great way to use scrap paper!

Butterfly from Sizzix
All papers from Scrap Pile
Glitter paper from Target
Cuttlebug Embossing Folder Stylized Flowers
Distressed ink Peeled Paint
Stickles Stardust
Gems from Micheal's
Ribbon from Bazzill
Ticket punch
Liquid Pearls Pumpkin
Orange Skittles DoubleClick
Button 
Happy Birthday Stamp Docerela Birthday Wishes Set

Entering into:

Pause Dream Enjoy: Foam Tape
Craftin Desert Divas : Twine
Celebrate the Occasion: Butterfly 
Crafty Ribbons: Anything Goes + Ribbon
Hiding in my Craft Room: All That Shimmers
Pin and Tack: Spark your creativity