Showing posts with label Papercraftsmagazine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Papercraftsmagazine. Show all posts

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday, You Clown!

Happy Sunday Morning my crafty friends.
I have been working on this creation all week, I pick it up, put it down...
Finally I have finished it;)
See, the girls went back to school this week and I decided to take
a few days off for ME.
Supernatural Marathons, Metal Music, Song Pop, Words with Friends and things I don't
do while they are home.
AND IT WAS FUN!!!!

It started with the  repetition challenge from
and the release of the
earlier in the week.
Digi stamps are from:

This creation is digitally colored in Photoshop, I designed the fold so the creation
would fit into an A2 sized Envelope.


from 
New submission projects are also underway;)  I am a busy gal!

Happy Stamp Day, God Bless!

Monday, April 30, 2012

OWH Sketch Challenge 119


 Here is this weeks sketch from OWH  #119


I have had MOJO issues the past few weeks and simply walked away from my studio for a time hoping something inspiring would come my way quickly.
I did sort and clean and donated lots of crafty goodies to J's Teacher.
I wanted to do this so I had room for new goodies, plus I wanted to try some Practical Solutions from  Paper Crafts special issue.
You can purchase a copy at the provided link

My Sketch Card...

Product used...
Hero Arts OWH clear stamp set All The Time
SU Sahara Sand card stock
Memento Tuxedo Black ink
Marvy circle punch
crimper
PS and printer
digital file


Happy Stamp Day!  God Bless America and our Heroes!


Tuesday, August 16, 2011

So Very Blessed by a Wonderfully Gracious God

ONE YEAR
365 Days

Here is the link to my post 
Driving Accident
(Want to catch up on our one year journey check into the posts following the one listed above.)

Just a quick update on the subject.
Donna is finished with all Dr. Appointments.
Her body has healed and that  is truly a miracle from God.
I have posted this song Hold On for her and I
this is how we made it through this past year...

"I want to see you smile again, give some love to your CrAzY fRiEnDs.
Wipe your tears away those days are through."

"And the stars are up there shining for you.
 Oh how the Father does adore you.
 His lOVE will never change!"

As for myself I continue to have overwhelming anxiety, PTSD, sleepless nights
and constant worry for the safety of our girls.
I can't seem to get the sceene and my reactions to move on out.
When my phone rings, I won't answer, fearful of what is on the other end.
. ( My family has gotten used to texting or PM's on FB.)
Slowly I am coming around to the fact that I am not in control of anything!
Nothing I could have done different on August 16 would have changed the circumstance.
Everything that happens to us is in someway a GIFT from God.
(May take some time to see what the GIFT is but it is there cloaked in the darkness.)

Today I wish to share with you one gracious GIFT God had hidden in the dark just for me.
I figured out I had to do something different to become unstuck.
I found myself with more than my usual level of creativity.
So with the new year and a clean slate I decided to to something big.
"Go Big or Go Home" 
seeing as how we don't know how to do anything small it is fitting don't you think?

I would get so excited when I saw a crafty friend published in my favorite craft magazine
Paper Crafts
I would do a happy dance for them.
Our girls thought I was CrAzY and  they asked me why I did not submit to publications.
I had lots of excuses for not.  But, with the faith they had in me I gave it a go.
!!!!So I started submitting thus arriving here today!!!!
Paper Crafts
September/October 2011
!!!!On your newsstand today!!!!


Pages 69 and 74
are showing off projects I designed.
Woo Woo!

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ONE YEAR 
Exactly 365 Days to the DAY!
August 16 2010-August 16 2011
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I have posted this song for you before you know it as one of my favorites.
I just can't get enough I am always inspired when I listen to it.
TobyMac Get Back Up

"It is never to late to get back up again.  
Maybe knocked down but not out forever..."


I want to take time to thank all of my wonderful family, friends and faithful blog readers that have supported myself and the family through this past year.
  You are all a wonderful God given gift! 
 I love and appreciate each and everyone of you!
Thank you!  God Bless!

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

National Limerick Day

Re-posting from May 12 2011
This is the post that went missing from the 12th to the 17th while Blogger had an aneurysm!  The comments are still lost!  I have held onto it until now I was dealing with what happened during its absence...
I was trying to get in contact with my HS English teacher to thank her for my love of literature. (Notice I said literature and not English as a reader of my blog you know I find any type of structure confining.) I am sure some of you remember the Flash Gordon Paper.  OMGoodness, it made her laugh Hysterically;)  
In the process I learned that my Friend (the teachers daughter) had lost her 17 year old son.
Is it not amazing how God works and knits things like a Limerick day post back to my friend in her darkest hour.  As of yet I have to send a card or give her a call.  I am lucky, our girls were permitted more time in this world when her son was not.  I know how close we were I just can't imagine the crushing feeling of burying your child.  A child one week short of graduating HS. 
 A child full of vim and vigor just as his mother.  
So God Bless you my Friend and I am keeping you and your family in my prayers.

  Remember to tell the people you love that you love them EVERYDAY.  Because no one knows when your last day will be.
So here it is again if you missed it....
Celebrate National Limerick Day!
I love this holiday it is obvious if you know me or have the pleasure of living with me!  My kids laugh hysterically when I  am in a rhyming mood.  
Don't you ever let go and say what comes to mind?  Try it!  You will be amazed.


If you are submitting to PaperCrafts Magazine the have an open submission call for a Card a Day 2012.
I printed off a list of my favorite days I wanted to work with I have submitted some but others are just hanging around.  This is one of those creations...


I printed off the sentiment in Word because I am having issues with my computer!  I plan on getting some word art in photoshop up for grabs as soon as I get this figured out;)


Here is a quick one Jessica and I made up...


There is a girl named Jesse
Her room is very Messy
She did not pick up her shoes
now she suffers the one shoe blues
and her Momma is a bit testy.


My Minds Eye Stella and Rose collection dp and ribbon
Cuttlebug flower dies
PTI cardstock, buttons, felt and bling
Nestabilities lacy circle dies and the Big Shot
computer/printer
Scrap Fabric
embroidery floss


Okay, the MRI scan results are back on my right knee.  Not what the Dr. was expecting.  
What can I say it is ME!
In short my problems are being caused by degeneration, arthritis and my body sending too much fluid to heal the area.  This fluid is getting trapped in the back of the knee were the situation above has done damage and is collecting making movement of my knee difficult and painful.  There is a name for it but I am not going to look it up cause if I do I certainly will have earned a Doctorate Degree!  So I can deal with it or go get an injection directly into the knee cap.  I went and looked it up anyhow and the term is EFFUSION.  Now you can call me Dr. Sara Paschal!   I don't know what the worst of the two evils are at this point.  I know in the past I have different results with injections.  Have been told the more of them you get the less they work.
So no surgery is needed...that is a good thing. 
However to chalk up one more body part to degenerative disease does not make me one bit happy.


Happy Stamp Day.  God Bless.