NEW YEAR!!

Well in an effort to come back to my Blog. I have made it one Of my resolutions. I will try to make time to reach out and share what I have been up to more often. I have spent a lot of time over the last year volunteering at 2 animal shelters. I also spent the summer away working at a Girl Scout camp ( I had a blast). I have gone and got Red Cross certified as a Lifeguard and Certified as an Archery Instructor for Girl Scouts. Its been a year of ups and down as most families have but we have pulled thru:)

 My first project I want to show you for the new year is My youngest daughters bed. She had a bunk bed and no longer wanted to have to climb a ladder to get in bed or just lounge . Easy enough i remember browsing on pinterest and seeing people making beds from pallets. I have always thought what a great idea. The search began to find pallets. Unfortunately not as easy as it sounds. After many stores telling me no I finally found one that said sure go ahead and take them:) Thank you Gander Mountain. Although they were larger pallets and not the regular size I could see there potential. I called hubby and he came with is truck as I was driving my jeep and they sure were not going to fit in there.
We loaded them up and hauled them home. Now to design and Build. This is what we made her:)

This is the original size of the pallets on the left we cut them down to 2 equal sizes

We sanded off all the edges that could cause splinters.

She wanted it blue, so Blue it is:)

We used a total of two of the big pallets to create the bed.

We added a lighting system in the bottom base pallets.

This is her finished bed. She has a nice step up and a ledge for storage. 

Great for book bags and dance bags:)

All in all the bed was a hit she loves it. This bed only took 12hrs from start to finish. I started at 8am and finished assembling in her room that night at 8pm. We had a beautiful day so it was a great  work outside project. Paint dried fast which made all the difference:)

I hope you enjoyed my first project I am sharing in 2014. My goal is to share a project each week more if I get on a roll hehe.

I wish everyone a happy and healthy 2014. May all your days be creative!!

 

Time to HOP:)

Welcome to Craft Your Passion Challenges "All Star" Sports Blog Hop!!

If you have hopped over from <Joanna >, then you are in the right place. If you just happened to stop by and would like to join our hop from the beginning, please go to Craft Your Passion Challenges and follow along for a chance to win some AMAZING blog candy along the way and PRIZES at the end.

All Craft Your Passion DT members are going to be playing along in the hop with some very special guest designers.

Each designer along the way is featuring a project that showcases a digital image from at least one of our amazing Blog Hop Sponsors.

What’s more exciting is you can participate too by creating a project and linking it up over at Craft Your Passion Challenges for a chance to win one of several prizes.

 Once you have finished the hop & left a comment for everyone, we would like you to create a Sports themed project using at least one STAR and enter it with our Linky tool.

While you are hopping, be sure to check out the blog candy some of the designer's have to offer you. You don't want to miss out on any of it!

Now for my Project

Next stop by <Alethea> , to see what she has in store for you today.

Remember, once you have hopped to all the stops and left your comments (we will be checking), it's your turn to show us your "ALL STAR SPORTS" project.

Make sure to include a STAR somewhere on your project, and link up your project over at Craft Your Passion Challenges by Midnight CST September 16 to be eligible for the prizes. Winners will be announced on our Monday, September 17th Challenge post.

Time to brush off the cobwebs

Well it has been several months since I have been here. I miss my blog and my craft room very much. I have been struggling with a lot of things in my personnel life that I do not want burden you with but know that I am  well right now and my family is doing great. I stepped down from my design team at CYP but stayed on as their winner coordinator. So please do still go over and check out there weekly challenges there is a whole new team of very talented ladies and I will occasionally Guest Design for them.
 I will be in there upcoming Blog hop in Sept so keep an open for that. I am hoping to start to get back on here on a regular basis but we will see how that goes. Until Then I hope everyone has been creating Great ART!! MISS YOU ALL:)

CYP Monday

Welcome to Our Monday CYP Challenge This weeks Challenge is a Color Challenge.

You want to uses Shades of Green and Purple:)

My project was made a special card it will actually be going to a special little girl. A designer designed the stamp I used for her to be used by artist to make cards for her. She is very sick and all she wanted was to get cards from people. So he made a stamp set and is giving it away to those that will send a card to the girl. I have the info on my messy art desk and when I find it I will post a link. Until then I hope you enjoy my project.

Welcome to CYP Monday. I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. I took my Girl scout troop Camp and had a wonderful time even though we did get rained on :) The girls had a blast and that is all that matters.

Now to this weeks challenge it is Torn or Distressed edges:) I loved this challenge and had fun doing it!!
We have some wonderful sponsors this week to so don't forget to enter your card:)

PRIZE:

PRIZE: 

3 Images of Choice

PRIZE:

Surprise Package worth $10 USD

Now for my card for the week I hope you have a wonderful week and Create great ART!!

CYP 108

Welcome to CYP Monday:) I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. This week have have to wonderful sponsors:

Prize :

3 sets of the winner choice


and

Prize :

$10 Gift Certificate

Our challenge is a texture challenge. Show as much texture on your project as you can:) Enjoy and until next tine create great ART!!

Craft Your Passion Challenge 107

Well This week has been again a pretty hectic one. Unfortunately we lost another one of our foster puppies:(  He passed away on Saturday. Now we have 4 puppies and 4 kitties. I would have to say that is the hardest part about fostering.

It was also my Beautiful Liberty's Birthday yesterday. She turned 9 yrs old. I can't believe it. Time sure does fly by.

Now for this weeks challenge it was a photo challenge.

PHOTO INSPIRED

How does this photo inspire you? Is it the colors, shapes, cupcakes......show us :)

Our wonderful sponsors this week and their offered prize for the winners. So don't forget to enter.

Prize : 

and

Prize : 

3 images from store

I had the wonderful pleasure of working with a stamp from Milk Coffee I hope you enjoy: 

Until Next time create great ART!!

Craft Your Passion Monday:)

Welcome to another Monday well now Tuesday I am so loosing my days. I currently have a house full of foster babies. I have 5 puppies and their mom only a week old a 4 kittens needing to be bottle feed. It's like having an infant all over again no sleep for me. So needless to say I am a little sleep deprived.
I hope everyone had a great weekend. I spent mine volunteering as always:) We had a big adoption event at The local TSC. We did very well for the first time ever going there. We adopted out 5 dogs which is great for a new location:)

Well enough i my yammering Now for my project. We have 2 great sponsors this week

Prize : 

$20 Gift Certificate

Prize : 

$10 US Gift Certificate

Now for our Challenge

Punches & Die Cuts

You need to use at least one punch or die cut 

on the weeks project or it will not count.

Here is my Project:

Craft Your Passion Monday:)

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter weekend. I was volunteer as usually and happy to report that 8 fur babies got new families on Easter Sunday. I wish all the families the best of Luck:)
Now for this weeks  sponsors.

Prize : $10 Surprise Package

Prize : 

3 Images for 1st

2 Images for 2nd

1 Images for 3rd

 Now the Challenge make a shaped card no squares or rectangles.I had the great privilege of using a Kenny K stamp Called Soldier Girl. I love Kenny's images and always have great fun with them. Hope you enjoy my card. Until next time create great ART!!

Craft Your Passion Monday:)

Happy Monday!! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend:) We did a 3 day adoption tent event for the Haven at Petsmart and I am Happy to say we adopted out 43 animals and between all the agencies there 222 4 legged babies found homes:) What a great feeling!!

Now for this week we have three great sponsors this week

Bunny Zoe

Prize :

Prize : $12 Gift Certificate

I had the great privilege of working with an image from a Day for Daisies and 

had a lot of fun making my card 

I hope you have a fantastic day and Create Great ART!!

Craft Your Passion Monday:)

Welcome to another wonderful Monday:) We are Happy to have Delicious Doodles  Back as a sponsor this week. She has such wonderful images if you have never stopped in now is a great time:)
Now for the Challenge:) This week we had to make a monochromatic card. Here is my project Enjoy!

I am so sorry for the lack of posts my life has been pretty hectic. Hopefully I will be back in the swing of things soon.

This week's Sentiment Challenge was sponsored by: 

                                                                 

Our Challenge this week was to create a card with Just a sentiment. Here is my Project:

I am back :)

So sorry it has been so long since my last post. I have been fostering a mom and her puppies and the puppies chewed thru my computer cord which left me without a computer. As anyone know you need one of those to post anything lol:)

Here is my project for our Craft your passions MOnday this week. As this is our 100Th  Challenge we have several sponsors and the Challenge was anything goes. Here are our sponsors:

2 digi stamps

$20 Craft Package

Set of 5 Promarkers

$10 Surprise Package

5 Digis of choice

SweetStamps.com manufactures artistic rubber stamps on cling cushion for use with acrylic blocks. We carry a variety of stamping and paper crafting goodies like our own Shades dye inks, metal embossing plates, embossing folders, cutting & embossing dies (Cheery Lynn, Marianne, Joy! and Nellie's), fine detail embossing powders, specialty cardstock and vellum along with supplies for parchment crafting.

$10 Gift Certificate

$15 Gift Certificate

 Now for my card: