Happy NEWS Alert!!!!

It's almost time for the July Release at Claudia and Company, so I thought 

I'd share a few snippet treats with you!!

Tracy Clemente

Sheri Gilson

Tracy Clemente

Sheri Gilson

Oh I can't wait for you all to see the new stamps!!!

Meet us at the CLAUDIA and CO. Blog on Thursday 

morning at 10 AM EST for the Release Hop!!

You will have the opportunity to win a stamp from Claudia and Co.!!  

All you have to do is hop to all 8 blogs and leave a comment!!

A winner who has left a comment on all 8 blogs will be randomly drawn!!

Woo hoo!!

There is also time to join the June Challenge at Claudia and Company and take advantage of the chance to win a stamp from Claudia & Company!!
Look HERE for the Challenge...you have until July 8th~!!!

See you in the morning!!!!

A Crafty Little Place # 45

Hi Everyone!!

It's Challenge Day at

A Crafty Little Place

Recipe:

Paper: Cosmo Cricket - DeLovely Collection

Stamps: TGF GiGi, So Random Sentiments II

CardStock

Ribbon

Buttons

The Design Team used paper from the Cosmo Cricket Paper Collection 

called De-LOVELY!!

The Challenge this week is:

A COLOR CHALLENGE

The Colors in the challenge were inspired by the DeLovely Collection!!!

Hop HERE to join in our De-Lovely Fun!!

Blessings and Hugs -

Mission 4 Macie - Please Read

Hello Everyone!!

I know a lot of the things I post here on my blog are all about fun and crafting!!

Today, is personal...I'd like to introduce you to a sweet and innocent little girl, who loves Jesus and her family with all her heart, who treasures every day, loves smiling, rainbows, dogs, butterflies and ladybugs...a lot like any other young girl...Only Macie has a very rare and hardly heard of, disorder called GLUT1.  Shamefully, I take the fact that I have healthy children for granted...Do you?!?!

Please take a moment to meet Macie

Learn a little about Macie, her family and her Mission:
(click to read)

Sweet Macie is the daughter of my husband's cousin Glenna and her husband John Steele.

They are fighting hard, along side of Macie, for Macie and all the other children who have been diagnosed  with GLUT1 and for those who are yet to be diagnosed.  

They have march in Washington, the have attended Epilepsy Walks and even had the chance for Macie to represent more than 30,000 children in the US with epilepsy as the Epilepsy Foundation of Kentuckiana's Kids Speak Up! representative in Washington, D.C. The Article below is in the 2010 Issue 1 of of The Illuminator (a publication of the Epilepsy Foundation of Kentuckiana):

(click to read)

 This summer, John and Glenna will be hosting the 2010 GLUT Conference in Louisville, Kentucky.

My 13 year old daughter, Hannah will be volunteering at the conference as there is plenty of need there when it comes to physical help.  Hannah also wants to give financially and asked me if maybe I could design a Macie Digi.  I did and here she is:

Macie's Rainbow

I will be selling this Sugar Stick Digi for Macie.

For a donation of $5 you can have her!!

100% of the proceeds will go to

Mission 4 Macie

If you would like to help Macie and all the children with Epilepsy and GLUT1

by donating $5 and getting this digi please go HERE and scroll towards to bottom of the page.

I thank each of you in advance for helping Macie!!

Please feel free to spread the news and post this post on your own blog, if you do so and purchase Macie's Rainbow Digi, Please leave a comment on this post letting me know you spread the word and bought the digi....I will then put your name into a drawing to win your own custom designed digi!!

Blessings and Hugs - 

and

A Crafty Little Place Challenge 44

A Crafty Little Place

Good Mornin' Mornin'!! Hello Sunshine!

Yep, That's from Donna Fargo's song "Happiest Girl in the Whole USA" which is exactly the way I feel lately! I have so many things to be thankful for, many blessings and I appreciate everything God does for my family!!  I am so thankful for is peace and happiness!!

GOD is GREAT...ALL things work together for good, for those who love him!!

 

 This week the ACLP Designers showcased

Lily Bee's Hello Sunshine Paper Collection.

It's so Bright and Cheery and Fun!!

and the wonderful Gwen, created this sketch for us to us!!

 Here's my DT Card:

Recipe:

Lily Bee "Hello Sunshine" Paper Collection

Tea Party Stamp Set- Image and Sentiment

Card Stock

Visit ACLP for all the fabby details!!

♥ and Blessings -

Mo's Digital Pencil - 3rd Thursday Image Showcase Hop

Oh this is my favorite time of each month....Mo Time!!

It's the 3rd Thursday and that means Mo's Digital Pencil's Monthly Blog Hop!

A chance for Mo's Dream Team to showcase some of Mo's wonderful images!!  If you have hopped here from the Lovely Rosette's blog, then you are hoppin' along perfectly!!  If not and you'd like to start at the beginning then our super fab hostess, is where you will want to hop to...

  Shell is our host for this Month's Hop and the theme is Glitter, so we Dream Girls got 

to sparkle and bling it up a little (or a lot)..Hee hee!!!

Here is my card. I used the Adorable...

Angelina's Balloon

I promise the glitter is there, however...GLITTER is Difficult to photograph!!

She is a doll and to get her for yourself 

look here:

Angelina's Balloon

$3.00

Your Next stop in the hop is to the fabulously talented, Kerrtu!!

Enjoy what her and all the other girls have in store for you!!

Happy Hoppin'~

2 Little Elphants

Howdy C & Co. Friends!!

I hope your week is full of fun and blessings...Oh and lots of Stamping!!!

Just wanted to pop in with a quick post to show how nicely Claudia and Company Stamps 

work on Scrapbook Pages!!

Ella the Pink Elephant

I used:
October Afternoon Paper - Ducks in a Row




Sammy the Little Elephant

Sammy and Ella can be found HERE at the DCRU store!

Be sure to check Claudia and Company on Friday when we will have
a new digi release for you!!

I will leave you with a little sneak peek:

See you Friday!!

Blessings,

A Crafty Little Place # 43

A Crafty Little Place

This week we were challenged to  

Create a Man/Boy Card

I made this card for my own Sweet Landon to give to his
Daddy for Father's Day!!

Recipe:

My Mind's Eye - Little Boy Blue Designer Paper

So Random Sentiments - Up and Down Edition

Landon Lollipop Digi Stamp

CardStock

Tim Holtz Distressing Ink

Candy Dots

 Go to

A Crafty Little Place

for all the challenge details and to see the cards that all my

talented teammates have created!!

The Pink Elephant - #71

Hi Everyone!!
Welcome to another challenge at TPE!

I am sooo very excited to introduce to you some adorable, too cute,
must have digis...known as
Baby Buds

These adorable sweetie pies are the creations of the wonderfully talented artist,

Mary Anne Wainright.

With the help of my great friend and her super talented daughter, Krista and

her technically Savvy daughter-in-law, Sheri they have created a family business.

Their new Etsy shop has just opened and believe me

you are gonna love everything you find there!!

The Baby Bud Etsy store is offering a FREE Digi with any purchase

valid June 14-15th 2010 only!
Two randomly drawn winners will each get to pick a digi image of your
choice from Baby Buds!!
Yipppeee!

Here is my Design Team Card:

Hop over and see what the rest of Ella's Girls have for you!!

Aren't there baby Buds ADORABLE!?!?

Blessings-

Happy Birthday Claudia!!!

It's Your Birthday!! It's your Birthday!!

Oh Happy Day to my Sweet Sweet Friend!!

Claudia we have talked about how blessed we feel that God allowed us to not only meet, but 

to also become the great friends that we are!!  

You know I count you as a blessing in my life, but I wanted to tell you again!!

We definitely, no doubt have a friendship that was created in Heaven!!

I pray your 34th year will be beyond blessed with way more than you could have hoped for or imagined!!

Love You Girlfriend!!

♥, Hugs and Blessings-

In honor of Claudia's 34th Birthday Die Cuts R Us is celebrating with a Free Shipping Sale!!

Look HERE!!

Claudia & Company Monthly Challenge #1

Yipppeee!!

Claudia and Company's very first monthly challenge!!

 
Each month on the 2nd Friday the Design Team will showcase our challenge cards and you our wonderful C& Co Friends will have a chance to play along!!

For all the Challenge details please visit the 

Claudia and Co. Blog.

Our June Challenge is a sketch challenge:

Nice, Simple and Fun!!

Here is my card:

I flipped the sketch for my card and used the

Birthday Princess Stamp Set

What a fantastic little set!!

I hope you all find time to join us!!

Blessings and Hugs -