@ 9 Months.....

Hi there sweet thangs!!!

I hope you are having a FABULOUS

day!!

Well this is week 2 of SSS

(Simon Says Stamp)

Monday Challenges for me.

YAY!!

This one was a little bit more of a 

challenge for me.

I find letter challenges 

a little tough,

only because I always

want the unique factor 

to find its way into my pages,

and with letter challenges 

I always seem to gravitate

toward the obvious.

Yes I am cool like that.

So I pulled out my CKC January kit

for inspiration 

and there was the "a"

i needed in the form of a big ole

@.

Perfect.

This is my beautiful stepson's wife

pregnant with precious Ara

born January 16th, 2014.

Oh sweet mercy.....

Heidi Swapp's lovely,

(delicious really)

banner.

And my "a".

Yep a big ole @ sign.

LOVE.IT.

Really didn't know what I was gonna 

do with said 

big ole @ sign,

but it is 

perfect

in this LO.

The lovely Alison Kreft camera.

Maggie hearts

&

Heidi Color Shine.

Enamel dots.

Chipboard photo corners.

Yes please.

Doilies,

camera,

beautiful baby belly.

Check, Check & Check.

Oh yes,

this came together 

quite nicely.

LOVE.

COMPLETE LOVE.

For this girl,

and her girl.

Thanks for stopping by,

and do please check out 

Simon Says Stamp

Monday Challenge.

It is the bomb diggity!

Have a Blessed and Beautiful,

Krafty, Kind of Day ~~ 

CKC Members Blog Hop

Welcome y'all!!!

If you are hopping along then you have come here

from the lovely Elaine.

But if not, 

please go to the CKC to start
and see all the wonderful work
you've missed.

The CKC posts 3 challenges through the 

month, 

and we choose which one we want

to do.  

I chose the stamp on PP challenge.

I am not really a stamper.
I own stamps
and stamp pads.
But I am not really a stamper.
So this was a challenge for me,
because I really don't stamp on LO's much.

So.....

I found these boys hanging out.....
get it....
hanging out,
he's on a tree.
Hahahaha.....I crack me up.....
anyway.....
=)

I grabbed the blue box of CKC January Kit goodness
and got to work.

These clouds are from an Amy Tan
paper line.
I had a scrap of it and thought this would look SO cute.
One of the clouds had a little heart on it,
so I decided they all needed hearts.
So I went to work drawing each cloud its own heart.
Ahhhh.....

And then I stamped.
This is a Gossamer Blue Stamp I believe,
and it is in keeping with my heart theme
I had going.
So I stamped it using Heidi Swapps new stamps,
and can I just say.....
I LOVE THIS INK!!!
But I heard it is a limited time only thing.
I hope that is wrong,
or that their so popular that she continues
making it.
It is archival,
crisp,
and
wonderful!

A little sparkling Thicker title.....

Some little birdies,
some more stamping,
tiny staple,
And a cute boy.
Yep.
Perfect.

I have been wondering what in the wide world
I was gonna do with this cute little deer.
Well, here where we hike,
you can almost pet the deer,
they get so close to you.
Almost.
So I thought it was loosely related.
That's all the reason I need.
=)

This hello was a speech bubble from Simple Stories
the Vintage line from last year,
but the little doo-dad that makes this a speech
bubble just looked weird with no actual speech
going along with it,
so I just cut it off.
Now see you wouldn't have even known huh?
Yep, getting the most out of my supplies people.
The most!
=)
Hello mushrooms.

More cute birdies.....
and twine.....
and tiny staple.....

And voila!
I stamped,
I cut,
I oooed
and
ahhhed,
and
I called 'er done.

Thanks so much for stopping by.
Now hop on over to the lovely
Jemma
and see what she's got for you.

And I hope you have a
Blessed and Beautiful,
Krafty, Kind of Day ~~ 

It's the Simple Things

I am having so much fun using up my

January CKC kit.

I love repeating items

like these tags 

and words.

And I am LOVING

vellum right now.

So for this LO

I have THE cutest of subject matters,

Yes, Sir Cuteness himself.

As I am looking at this,

I am realizing there is no journaling

on this page.

Sometimes it is just fine,

but I have a story to tell with this one,

so I will get that on there somewhere.

But this was us taking advantage of 

the Ding-Ding man.

(What we call the ice cream truck =)

He came around well after summer

on a nice warm day,

and Sir Cuteness heard him

and came RUNNING in 

and telling me to grab my money =)

I love him so!

They were out of Ninja Turtles,

so he had to get Spider Man.

He was just fine with that =)

It is indeed the simple things.

 I LOVE mixing my title.

Here you have 2 different yellow Thickers,

and then some tiny letters from....

yeah, I don't remember,

but I love them.

anyway....

This picture is a little dark,

but I'm playing round with picture taking

and lighting.

I really wanted y'all to see

my white Heidi Swapp Color Shine

on this vellum.

It is scrummy y'all.

What is scummy you ask?

Well yummy and scrumptious,

of course.

Sir Cuteness,

you my darling child,

are my FAVE boy!! 

I have started really using my stash lately.

I have so many lovely things 

that just wasn't getting used,

like the sheet of paper that all these words came on.

I started cutting them out and 

Voila!

Used.

On a page.

Novelist of ideas =)

And this is just a close up of our darling Sir Cuteness.

You are welcome!

I hope y'all are using up those kits.

Thank you for your kindness and support.

I hope you have a 

Blessed and Beautiful,

Krafty, Kind of Day ~~ 

100 % FUN!!!

So I asked myself some

questions at the start of this year

about how I wanted to blog 

and what challenges I wanted to 

participate in on a regular basis, etc.

Of course, I want to do a monthly kit 

with CKC blog.  

But I also thought about some of the other

challenges out there 

and which ones really spoke to me

and why.

Well, the one that kept coming to mind

and the one I decided to start trying to do

is the one over at Simon Says Stamp.

It is a weekly challenge that goes up every Monday.

The wonderful Ashli Oliver

is on the design team

and the equally as wonderful May Flaum

heads it up.

So I decided to really challenge myself and 

try to keep up with the weekly challenges.

This week it is an anything goes challenge.

So.....

Yep, what a great time to use

an over size,

big as your head % sign

that goes wonderfully

because of the oversize,

big as your head picture.

This is an iPhone pic 

blown up to an 8x8 

from Persnickety.

Seriously didn't have high hopes

that it would turn out well,

but oh my goodness,

it is FANTASTIC!!!

Look at his gorgeous face.

Our Sir Cuteness as the most beautiful

eyelashes, and I know you can't see them

here, but they showed up SO well 

in this print.

LOVE.

So the % sign is wood veneer,

ginourmous wood veneer!

So at first I thought maybe I'd try

Perfect Pearls to spruce it up.

#epicfailure

So I covered it and embossed it with white.

Better, but still could see the PP

SO I embossed it again with the white

and voila!

I love the outcome!!

At first you don't succeed and all that.

Ya know...

And then of course Maggie.

Have y'all seen her new

Styleboard line coming out soon?

Yes, It will be making an appearance

here on ye ole blog.

I am certain of it!!!

Hey, thanks for stopping by.

Leave me some love

and follow me if ya'd like.

Have a Blessed and Beautiful,

Krafty, Kind of Day ~~ 

PL Week #2 -- Documenting

Welcome!

I hope y'all are doing splendidly.

I wanted to show you my PL Week 2 spread,

and also have a wee bit of a discussion

on something I've seen on a message board.

First off,

I only took 2 pics of my spread this week.

lame.

And as I'm looking at this one,

remembered that I am missing a photo.

double lame.

The reason for this 

is because I put this page together 

and forgot about my title bit 

there in the corner.

So put that together

and then went to put it all in their sleeves

and had lost this picture.

Ummmm......ok

because it was right there with my other pics.

Hmmmmm.....ok.

Well I looked everywhere I could think of,

and it still has not shown up.

So I reprinted and now this sleeve is not blank,

but I still haven't found this pic.

Weird.

I think the studio fairies ate it.

moving on.....

I used bits and bobs from my January CKC kit

on this spread.

I love having my little blue box full of CKC goodness

that has come straight from my stash.

Yes folks, it rocks.

If you don't know what I'm talking about follow the link 

right up there

and check it out.  

It is fantastic!!

So on this page you see my title card 

in the corner with "Wk2" in white sparkly Thickers.

I'm gonna milk these stickers for all they are worth,

and then hopefully find some equally cool ones

to continue my PL this year.  

I like the continuity using a similar title

gives to the overall album, 

makes it come together, if you will.

Sir Cuteness being my personal stylist,

and snow boarding.

Be.still.my.heart.

Then the two written pics you see there

are memory verses I've been working on.

They are my yearly Verse Isaiah 26:3

and my January 1 Verse, Psalm 32:7.

This will be a regular feature in my albums.

Then the bottom right is from my first ever

Persnickety Prints order,

which is also the missing picture.

Hmpfff.....

Then here is page two of WK2.

Now I want to address something I saw 

on a message board,

where a lady asked if everyone documents 

only the good of the week

or if people document the challenging

or not so good too.

For me, 

I document both,

and the reason is 

that life is not perfect.

I want to be transparent here.

I deal with a lot of health issues,

but my God is able.

Sometimes these health issues

disrupt our weeks.

We deal with them

and move on.

I try not to dwell in the land of pain.

It's not pretty there.

So we deal with it as it comes.

It is part of our weeks

a lot of times.

So on this spread we have both.

Some good

and 

some not so good.

Just keeping it real.

In the top right, 

I got to hang out with my girl

this week.

It made me SO HAPPY!!

And top right,

our winter has been winter this year.

In MO, we definitely get a mixed

bag,

but this year winter has NOT disappointed.

And because of that,

our dear Sir Cuteness has been home a lot.

For two weeks, he was home more than

he went to school.  

When he was littler and it was just

him and I

(before the preschool days)

he would have sink play.

Yes I know this may sound kinda strange,

but he LOVED

(and still does apparently) =)

to play in the sink.

He gets the soap out,

and the scrub brush

and here the dish gloves

and goes to town.

He gets himself and everything around

him a wet mess,

but I don't mind.

It makes him so happy,

and I get a clean sink

out of the deal.

Win-Win =)

More of the Persnickety Prints goodness,

and then here is where the

not-so-good comes in.

On Sunday of this particular week, 

my herniated disc started acting up.

I mean like shooting pain down my 

arm and seriously hindering everything.

It was hard to sit, stand, lay.....

Nothing seemed to help.

So my sweet man

went out in blizzard conditions

to get me a sling.  

Seriously so sweet.

So here I am,

bottom right,

hanging out

with no make up,

a tossled mess of hair,

and my sling.

It has been very painful.

But it is now starting to get better.

I'm so thankful.

So yes,

I document our week,

even the things that don't go 

just right.

I really want my PL to reflect our 

lives.  

Our everyday,

loving Jesus

and 

living life,

lives.

It is important to me.

Thank you for stopping by 

and keeping up with a really wordy post =)

I am linking up with Sami

right here.

I hope you have a.....

Blessed and Beautiful,

Krafty, Kind of day ~~ 

Dream Big

Yes I am still doing regular LO's 

as well as PL.

And using my January CKC kit

too.

Here are the girls

and when the Beautiful Miss A sent

me this pic,

I KNEW it had to make its way on a page.

Oh Maggie, Maggie.....

Old Collection

New Collection

no matter,

I love them all.

Can't wait for the new collection to come out.  

I will love it.

I've seen the sneaks.

LOVE IT.

Of course =)

Dream my precious girls.....

Dream BIG!!!

I so believe in you!!

So there you have it.

Thank you so much for coming by.

I hope you have a Blessed and Beautiful,

Krafty, Kind of Day ~~ 

PL.....It's Coming Right Along

Well Hello There....

I am so happy to tell you 

that PL is coming right along

in these parts.

OH MY GOODNESS.....

I love it SO much!!

I REALLY didn't think I would

like it quite this much.

But it is just great.

Here.....

let me just show you 

what's been going on.

I have been using some of my

January CKC kit to work on my pages.

This page is part of my Christmas pages. 

Yes the picture of Sir Cuteness 

that looks less than perfect

is one of the reasons 

I wanted to do PL.

This picture has quite the story,

but it may be one that 

I wouldn't have done a whole 12x12 page 

on.  

But it is just perfect for a PL page.

This page is my first official Week 1 page.

It is a learning process,

and I am really looking forward to seeing

how my pages will differ at the end of the 

year compared to the beginning.

But having said that,

I do love it.

Such a great way to document

and I can still be artsy.

I love that.

I've been watching a lot of youtube videos

and I love the idea of making sure you have

the week # documented.

so I will be including that in my pages.

See that "Wk one"?

Love it.

Lots of Thickers were used

in the making of this page.

Love this picture of Sir Cuteness

and his daddy.

And look at that camera.

Love it.

A little FaceTime action with me boy.

I added some wood veneer.

Check out this oversized arrow.

LOVE.IT.

I used some Heidi Swapp rubons on it.

SO great!

Here is the 2nd side of the LO.

More rubons

and some Amy Tan paper.

And speaking of the lovely Amy Tan,

she is one that I've been watching on YouTube,

and I must say, I really like her PL style.

Sir Cuteness and I went to see Frozen.

If you haven't, 

Oh you should.

You really should.

And if you have a 5 year old to take with you,

it only enhances the experience.

And then this picture.....

Oh goodness.....

cracks.me.up.

Yes, he was in time out.

Hahahaha.....

Some more Amy Tan paper goodness,

and yes I am mixing core kits

with my stash.

 This is my 2014 goal page.

I will need to get the most of the journaling

done, but other than that this page is complete.

I am linking up to thescrapmaster.com

Hop on over there and look at her inspiring

Week One.  

So there you have it.

My PL progress.

I can't wait to do Week 2.  

I am going to be working on organization 

between now and then.

I hope you have a Blessed and Beautiful,

Krafty, Kind of Day ~~