Well, I have been feeling really sicky this past week. Since last Tuesday night to be exact. Started feeling better on Saturday, so I took Rachel out to take some pics of her for her senior pic. She was open to me taking them, so I told her if they turned out totally suckie, we would hire someone to take them for her. I think they have turned out not so bad since I am just her mom! She didn't even want to get any taken at all from anyone, but I certainly wanted some. I think that is why she was open to me taking them. Well, here a few of ump-teen million of them. I have messed around with these in my photo programs.. so we will see.... These first 7-9 shots are kind of goof-offs... she was soo funny she stated that she sure was hugging a lot of wood that day... and then on the steps she was all stretched out there and then rolled off and scrapped her elbow!! We had a lot of fun and then I got REALLY sick that evening and sunday I spent all day in bed.... today I feel gloomy and achie... but anyway, here are some of the pics... now remember I also don't have a super duper professional kind of camera, just a good kodak
The goof-offs:



























The more serious:















THANKS FOR STOPPING AND LOOKING...

Testing, 1-2-3

TESTING my signature... THANKS BUNCHES Marlene!!!

WOWZER.... BRAVO to you Susan Boyle!!

Really, someone very dear to me sent this link to me this morning in an e-mail. It is regarding a lovely lady named Susan Boyle and she appeared on Britain's Got Talent. I must say it truly moved me to tears. This video just reflects the world and how we truly judge people by their looks... so sad really when I think about the initial reaction, but so thrilling to see the result of God's true beauty shining through so clearly. Make sure you watch it, it certainly is worth seeing the reaction on Simon's face before, during and after.... WAY TO GO SUSAN! Make sure you look at the words to the song too. ENJOY and I hope it moves you as well! What a wonderful way to start my morning!! Hats off to you!! You certainly are more then a super star Susan!! I am certainly in awe of you; your voice, confidance, humility, your humor and joy; your beauty!! (((BRAVO - Standing and applauding))) So now, go not only forth to dream your dream, but live it!

Susan Boyle - 47-letnia śpiewaczka z brytyjskiej wersji "Mam
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Here are the Lyrics:
I dreamed a dream from Les Miserables

I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high
And life woth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving.

Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used
And wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung
No wine untasted.

But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
As they turn your dream to shame.

And still
I dream he'll come to me
That we will live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms
We cannot weather...

I had a dream my life would be
So different form this hell I'm living
so different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed
The dream I dreamed.

Yes, another domino piece

What can I say? I LOVE making these!! Back in Feb. (I think) I had a post that referenced placing the same paragraph on your blog and offer the same thing and I would make you a piece of handmade something.. LOL... I believe I only had two people that actually posted it on their blog so I made them both each a domino piece. This was the second one I just made and sent out. The other one I posted was with several of the others ones. I made the other one to match Jenn's purse which was very cool and posted on her blog. It was a lot of fun to make them and I hope they enjoyed them. Oh don't worry I will be making more and like I promised when I have time sometime, I will post how I do it.. ugh.. just finding the time... but I am super busy right now getting some other exciting things together and I can't wait till I am past the "small details" of some of this stuff and then I will be back to let the world know what I am doing!! hehehe... I hope you will be soo excited, I know I am!! Thanks for stopping by and I will catch you all later!!

Cuppy Cake Song

Rachel my 18 year dear daughter just loves this song and gets soo excited when she plays this...I love to watch her listen to it...so I thought I would share it with all of you.. it is pretty cute... have a cuppy cake kind of day!

House Mouse Challenge #32 - something sweet

This weeks challenge was to include on your card something sweet, as in to eat or the word sweet..... so I was not sure what I was going to do, then looking through my stamps I seen this Gruffie stamp and thought how cute this would be if he was looking at a cupcake vs. that chipmunk! LOL.. so I taped off the chipmunk and then inked my stamp, removed the tape, stamped and then drew my cupcake... LOL.. so of couse the sentiment of "Hello cupcake" seemed somewhat humorous. I colored this with my colored pencils. I soo love those little square letter stamps. I bought them at Michaels in the dollar bin and I must say they have become one of my fav stamp sets to use on cards, they are truly just he right size for things like this. So.. that's it for me, so thanks for stopping by and taking a peek, and if you haven't checked out the posted videos below, please do so, I am certain you will not be disappointed at all!!

I would have never guessed...

nor would I have thought of this, but heck, what a great idea for a mini book!! LOL.. I don't know about you, but I am headed directly to the bathroom trash so I can give it a try!! LOL.. heaven know's we end up with plenty of these!!

Would you dare join in??

I seen this posted on another blog and I just can't help it... it certainly made me smile and of couse I would join in... why? Because life is way to short to miss out on any innocent fun! Would you?

Now, wouldn't that be something to truly witness unexpected?!

OH MY! these are the cutest Paper Cupcakes

Well, what can I say I still have cupcake's on the mind!! I found these videos while stumbling around the net this morning... mindless I say... but what can I say, I love just looking around and stumbling across things, heaven knows I don't have nearly the time to make all this nor the brain space to keep all the information I find interesting tucked away for later use that is fun, full of nonsense and mind building, so thank goodness I have this blog to place stuff on, plus I love to share all the fun finds such as these! I think I might find time to make some too, sometime!! I think these would be a great craft ideas for a little older child! How fun to maybe make these at a child's birthday party? Lots of fun things come to mind.. so watch the video and I am sure it will inspire you to make one too!! Make sure you watch both videos, because the end result for each is way different, but they are both super cute!!

Easter Cards

These are the Easter Cards I just made. I wanted to make some, but did not want them too complicated so I could make several. I already had some small blank colored cards, so I made an egg template and cut them into egg shapes and I embossed the top 3/4 of the egg with a cuttle bug embossing folder (luv those things!) so with using those they instantly add a big punch of lovely detail and then I just did the rest which was really pretty simple. I added a bible verse on the inside and called them complete! I also made these all from scraps except the cards themselves. Thanks for looking.

Italian Sausage Sandwiches!

Alright, so, my family thinks I am a bit off, might be because I was taking pictures of the sandwiches we had for our dinner tonight! Morgan was like, "Mom, can we just eat 'em!" LOL.. My response was, they look soo yummy and they are one of our favorite sandwiches, so I thought I would take a pic and share the recipe with all of you. I am telling you if you like Italian Sausage, you will not be disappointed. I can't even remember where I first got this recipe I think out of a magazine, but I have been making them for years and it was not a family thing so, that is what I am guessing. So here is how I make them. Although they really don't take very long to put together, they do cook for some time, but well worth it.

This is a recipe I make for a family of 6

Italian Sausage Sandwiches

10 Italian Sausages (but could have a few more)
1, 3 LB spaghetti sauce, I usually just use Prego-Italian Traditional
1 Large Green Pepper, diced up
1 small Onion, diced up
1, 8 oz fresh mushrooms, sliced
10 Hoggie type buns
2 Cups Mozzarella Cheese

Boil, grill or brown italian sausage in skillet. If you boil, boil for about 1/2 hour. If you grill or do by skillet cook until browned. Once this initial process is complete, place some Spaghetti sauce in a large pan (big enough to hold all the ingredients) then add some of the cut up veggies. Add all the Italian Sausages, then add the remaining spaghetti sauce and the rest of the veggies. At this time if you want to try to stir it up gentle you can, if not, place lid on the pot and simmer for an hour. Make sure your simmer is low so you don't burn, stir occasionally. After cooking a full hour take off flame. I usually buy the hoggie buns which are whole, so I cut out the top center part of the bun, kind of make a "V" cut and pull that part out. I then kind of smoosh the insides down a bit so the bun can accommodate the size of the sausage (so it's kind of boat like) LOL. Once I have done that, I spoon in sauce and add the veggies to the bottom, they stay on the sandwich better this way, then I add the sausage and then spoon a little more sauce on top and maybe a few more veggies. I then top with the mozzarella cheese and place the sandwich in the broiler for just a few seconds until the cheese is melted. The picture above is right after they came out of the broiler!! YUM YUM.... I sometimes also make a little of spaghetti, because I always seem to have some sauce left over and it is great over pasta! So, I hope you try this out, if you have any questions regarding this please feel free to email me. I am sure you will love them. This is one of my family's favorite sandwiches!

Welcome our family additions!!

((OK...)) I know what you are thinking! Are you kidding me? Nope I am not kidding you! So, I realize that all you House Mouse Stamp lover's probably really do not adore real mice, although you might adore those stamps, but truly these aren't mice, they're rats!! LOL... now isn't that a bit better!! Well, we have had rats and mice both as pets over the years, but we tend to lean towards the rats mainly now, because they are bigger so if one gets loose, they are a bit easier to locate!! ((((HAHAHA))) So, REALLY I am not sure how to convinence you that mice and rats are really super sweet, but THEY ARE! I have to admit to kissing many a rats and crying when we have lost one. Well, we have lost all our other rats, not in the house hehe but to rat heaven. So, my oldest dear daughter asked if she could go buy Avery an Easter Rat! Now isn't that just the cutest and the sweetest! LOL... So, maybe it's because I have been doing these house mouse challenges lately, that I folded and said sure. Now, here is where the problem came in. I sent my 18 year old and my 12 year old dear daughters to the pet store by themselves with the intention to purchase only one rat, well, upon their arrival home they unveiled 3! Of course they gave me the big ole spill that they saved their little lives, because they were in the feeder rats bin!! Which I guess I totally don't get. These rats are fancy hooded rats, which are raised to be pets... but I guess the snakes don't really care...so of course once I seen those cute little whisker faces, I totatlly fell in love with them!! LOL... So let me introduce you to these 3 lovely ladies!


This is Athena, isn't she just mystical!

This is Rocket, fast and speedy! ((also known as X-ray)) LOL

And this is Louise, a little old fashion, but modern!

Rats really do make delightful pets. I would have a rat any day over a hamster or gerbil and we have had them all. They are smart, truly interactive and we have never had one with a bad attitude or that was hard to handle and we have NEVER been bitten by one. They have all been super sweet. Rachel even had a hairless rat once, now I am not so sure how lovely in looks she was, but she was super sweet and very loving! Well, thats my exiting news for today, so have a rat-tat-tatty kind of day and SMILE; maybe the Easter Bunny will bring you an Easter Rat too!! hehehehehehe

House Mouse Challenge #31 - Bags and Boxes

This weeks challenge was to make a box or bag using a stamp. Well, I am thinking that mine is more a bag... LOL... not really a box, but not really a bag, but closer to a bag then a box!! LOLOLOLOL.... So, I made the template myself, although I have seen things like this before but thought it would be easy enough to do without a template. I took a 11x7 piece of card stock and made my first score (going across the shorter length) at 4.5, then made another score an inch from the first. Then measure 4.5 from the last one and score again, that should leave you with another inch area. So, it should be 4.5x1x4.5x1 = 11(wink-wink). Then I used my fiskars shape it tool and cut the oval out, used a fiskars boarder punch and did the edge that folds over the top. I placed a white piece of card stock behind that design so the white would show through. I added a few flower stickers, as well as the bee. Stamped the little sentiment and the mice and colored them with my mark-it markers. Cut them out and I place the one mouse on a pop-up dot as well as the sentiment. This holds a snack size baggie. I filled the baggie with gummie bears (had those one hand) and then added the little mouse inside the bag with a glue dot. I stapled the baggie to the back and then folded over the flap, punched two small holes at the top and then ran some ribbon through it to be able to carry it. I kind of appears more purse like I suppose!! Well, this really did not take me very long to make so I thought this would be a great thing to give little ones that you might visit at Easter or ones that visit you that you might want a little something for, but inexpensive. I am not usually very good at explaining things, so if I have done an awful job doing so please feel free to send me an e-mail! Thanks for stopping by and looking and happy box and bag making!

Another One Layered Card

I thought since I had to make a confirmation card today I would keep to this one layered challenge that is going on over at the Hero Arts Blog. I wanted the card to be simple, but pretty. I knew I wanted it to be mostly white and you just can't beat those embossing folders for adding so much for doing so little. I used this cute little Hero Arts stamp that I actually won once just leaving a comment months back. I thought it would be perfect for this card. Thanks to my friend Mindy for the "my Faith" mini stamp set! I really have a hard time doing simple, but I really liked how this turned out. I will be duplicating this card again, maybe for a wedding! :O) I probably don't really need to explain this because it is so simple, but I embossed the botton side, stamped by heart and my words. Added my ribbon, then stickled my heart.... yep simple, but lovely and quick! I placed a nice bible verse inside and added the heart in there too!

Thanks for looking!

One Layered Card

In celebration of Hero Arts Birthday Blog, there is major celebration going on over there. One of the challenges was to do a one layered card. Tough thing, I must admit. So, since this is truly a challenge for me I thought I would give it a try.
Soooo.. I wanted a kind of springy elegant card, I guess I have spring fever. I bought this stamp a few months ago and have yet to use it. I guess this is kind of it's unveiling for me. LOL.. It is an ArtCard Stamp called Decorative Birds. I inked my stamp with four different inks. The flowers are a mix of Colorbox Orchid Pastal and Dew Drop Perfect Plum. The branches are ColorBox Lime Pastal and the birds Color Box Chestnut Roan. I actually stamped the image twice, the side on the left was the second stamping and I just did not ink the birds or the sentiment and then just added some more flowers and branches (plus I also flipped the image). After stamping I then outlined the stamped design with a 05 Millennium Zig pen. I then added a sparkly blue chalk for the background/sky. Inked my edges with the lighter pink and brown. Used a threading punch from Fiskars and wove my ribbon through that and added the bow and pearls to finish this off. I would not normally even think to do a one layered card, a little more challenging for me then a layered card, but, I do like how this turned out. I think I will do a fun one layered card now. umm..... off to look at stamps! (also, thanks for making me think outside the box!)

Cupcake Template :O)

OK... my good friend Ami just gave me a site I can upload this and you can now click on this image and it will take you to a much larger picture and then just right click on that image and it should save a nice big/original clear sized download for you... or just click on this post title and it will take you right there also... hope this helps and you can just replace that grainy one!! THANKS AMI.. you're the best!

Cupcake Template :O(

ok... I just figured out that my cupcake template does save the way I told you, but it is not so great as being clear in image. I am soo sorry. Blogger must really resize the pic and so when you saved it even though it appeared to save ok, when you go to resize it/blow it up/expand it; the size it is grainy and probably not clear. So first if you know anything about how I can upload something so someone can download it in it's original size, could you please educate me there with an email. In the meantime, if you saved this and are not pleased with the clarity of the template, please do send me an email and I will email the template to you per your request... so please "do" ask, really no problem and maybe I can get this figured out so future postings of templates will work for you correctly! Thanks.....

Cupcake Template

Here is the template that I made yesterday. I promised I would make a one page template of it for you, so here it is. Please remember this is my original template, so please feel free to use it for your personal use, although I know it is not a complex template I still took the time to make it and then post it here for your use, so please be so kind and give me credit for the template when you use it and if you would please give me a plug and link to my blog your creation if you post a card you have made from it anywhere. I would hope you would honor that. If someone else would like a copy of it, please direct them to my blog to retrieve it and leave me a thanks. It is always nice to get some kind of feedback or just a thanks for sharing. So, I believe you should be able to right click and "save picture as" to your file. Once saved you can open it up in your program and adjust the size. You can also open it up in WORD and adjust the size there too if you don't have a special program. Then just print it off. Thanks for stopping by and I would love to see any creations you have made. If you send me a copy of your cards I would love to post pictures of them here as well as a link to your blog so think about it and I promise to post them here with the my template! ENJOY and remember to come back, who knows, maybe I will post a template every few weeks!! I'm creative that way c'ha know! (((smilie smilie)) PLEASE SEE THE BELOW POST FOR A FINISHED CARD USING THIS TEMPLATE..

Clearly Vintage

I just wanted to do a plug for an awesome blog that is centered around vintage. Cora has lots of nice images as well as a nice vintage stamp line that she sells at her Etsy Shop. I failed to ask her if I could borrow some images to place here to show you, so since I did not ask permission I will just direct you to her blog and on her blog she has her link to her shop. So if vintage is your thing or not; you should check it out and tell her Nina sent you! :O) Her blog is linked in this title, but here it is too: http://www.clearlyvintage.blogspot.com/

House Mouse Challenge #30 - Shaped Card

HEY THERE CUPCAKE! OK.. I must admit, I have cupcake on the brain a lot lately... LOTS!! But that is altogether another future post, I promise! So, this week's house mouse challenge was to do a shaped card. I instantly knew I wanted to do a cupcake... guess because that is what is on my mind lately! (hehe covering mouth giggling) so anyway, I stamped the panda bear from the wheelbarrow ride and colored him and cut him out. I knew I wanted him to adorn the top of my cupcake. I made my own template for this card and I when I get around to it I will make a whole sheet pages of all the pattern pieces and upload it so if you want it you can have it, but that will have to be another day. I actually made my base out of a darker pink heavy paper per my pattern. This way the backside of my card was a pink. The crimped cupcake holder is the same paper, just a seperate piece that was crimped. I did this mainly because I wanted my baskside to have color. Since I had made some individual peices of pattern that were loose like the icing and the cupcake holder I just traced around my pattern paper for the icing and inked it with the dew drop inks and them I crimped my card stock for the holder and then I traced it and then cut my piece. Be careful when you crimp things, you will want to make sure you crimp then cut the piece to fit and I will tell you why. It tends to make your piece smaller because it crimps, thus using a bit more paper... so always crimp first and them cut... that was the paper crafting tip for the day! I also outlined my icing in black sharpie because I wanted my icing to stand out more, plus I wanted to have some swirls within the top too. I chose to add the black and white ribbon to mainly pull it altogether since I used the panda bear, plus it really pops and it adds some weight to the bottom which makes it more balanced to me. It really is a balance kind of thing, that's another thing balance, it truly is a funny thing, it is mainly just something I feel in my work, but there really is a truth to balance whether it be with color or a feel of weight and how it carries your eyes. Then I had these lovely sequins that I bought off Easter clearance at the craft store last year really inexpensively and thought that would be the perfect finishing touch. Although, I wanted to add some little white pearls in the center of the sequins from crafting many years ago I couldn't locate them ((oh well)). I also used the same pattern paper from the icing on the full inside and added my sentiment that said "because you're special". I made this for a friend that just had foot surgery. I am certain she will just love it. OK... Thanks for looking and I promise to have my template here in the next week for you to right click and save to your files... I think I might just add a little hanging tag from the bow that says "for you" or "thinking of you", but here is my pic for now.... so in the meantime... have a cupcake kind of day!

Where does the time go?

Yes, I seem to be asking myself this question a lot lately!! This is my youngest daughter that just turned 12! Wowzer!!! My other daughter just had her 18th birthday, but she didn't stand still long enough for me to get a really good pic of her with her tradtional cake shot!! LOL... the funny thing is with all my children now is that we have to do cake in the evening, when it is dark so we can turn out all the lights and "get" "the full candle effect". Although I must agree it does make for an awesome picture to scrap!! I have a great one of Avery like this too and I can't wait to scrap it... not sure what I am waiting on since I took that pic of him back in September!! Well, just thought I would share a piece of my weekend with you all. Thanks for taking a peek!

House Mouse Challenge #28 - One for the men

OK.. I must admit, I kind of did a real quickie here and because I did want to try this out, but my time for the last few weeks consist of doing things either late into the night or somewhat quick. So... this is somewhat quick, a bit simple, BUT I guess a little masculine. I think the key for making cards for men is truly the colors you tend to pick. I went with brown, red and black; "Manly" colors! LOL.. well, I guess. I stamped my tree and really didn't do another thing to it.. lazy? Then I matted it on the red and used my fancy corner punch and then stamped muzzy, colored him with mark-it markers and then cut him out placed him in front of the tree, glued him down added the chipboard frame (colored a roll of dots on that red) and added the mushroom, drew my little lady bug on that and stamped and matted the hello, added my ribbon and called this a quickie manly card!! I really wanted more of the tree trunk to show in the frame, but it did not work out that way, because I cut too much off one side and had to correct it ((ugh)) LOL... oh well... Thanks for taking a peek!

Some More Domino Pieces...

Here are some more pieces I made from dominos. I have to say I have never made any type of jewelry before or any kind of pieces. I find that these are a lot of fun and leave a lot of room for such a tiny piece for creativity! They truly are a miniture piece of art with wire and beads. I will be selling these so if you see one you would love to have leave me a message or send me an email and I will get back with you. I promise that I will be back with some instructions and pics as with the how to's. Thanks for looking and leave me a post to tell me what you think? Thanks for stopping by and visiting my blog and I ALWAYS love to receive posts/luvins from you all!!







This last one I flipped the domino the other direction and I actually used a paper bead there too. The paper bead is sealed with an acrylic sealer too so it is not soo soft. Thanks for stopping by!

Domino Necklaces

Here is a fun thing to be creative with if you love jewelry or know someone that loves jewelry that would love to receive a unique handmade piece. I stumbled upon domino necklaces while "Stumble Upon"ing on evening and instantly knew I wanted to give my hand a try at these. I thought they would make wonderful gifts for anyone that enjoys wearing jewelry. If you have read my blog at all you seen the 70 domino necklaces I made for a women's retreat. They were quite a bit more simple, but simple is nice (you can see those here). I made these this past week. I really wanted to incorporate beads and wire into them. This first one I made as a demo for my friend Mindy, she asked if I would make her an Asian inspired one in red. Well, I am not sure how Asian it looks, but I think it turned out pretty grand. I stated off with drilling holes through the domino so I had a way of attaching the wire. I then added the alcohol inks which dry really fast on these. I then stamped a small flourish with a archival ink which is permanent. I drew the little flowers which is what I think makes it kind of Asian (hehe what do you think Minday?) and added some small doodling with some dots. Then I heat embossed some gold around the edges and then let that cool. I then sprayed it with a glaze. Then added my wire and beads.


This one I started the same way with the drilling, really no reason in the drilling the holes, I just drilled where I thought I might want to run some wire through. Then I used a denim and eggplant alcohol inks. Once that was dry I used a part of a stamp to emboss the swirls in silver and then added my beads and rhinestone. This necklace I did not seal, so not sure what that means. I wore this one to church yesterday and received lots of compliments on it. It looks great on a short cord necklace with a white shirt and blue jeans!

This one is really simple and I just stamped it in a permanent ink and then colored it with my mark-it bic markers. I sealed it with an acrylic spray and then added the small rhinestones. I thought she was a bit different and love that stamp.
The stamps I used for this stamp and the swirls I bought from The Enchanted Gallery/Blog She has some really unique ones and makes them just the right size for the domino's. Plus she has a lot of good information within her sites. I will be back some time to do a step by step of how I did mine. So, not sure when that will be, but I promise to be back to give you some pics and some how to's.

So thanks for stopping by today and now I must fly to the grocery store, ahhhh the pit falls of life!

Sour Cream Container

Want something fun to add to your Easter Baskets or give to your teachers or classmates? Well, these are perfect little treats you can personalize. I made the one in the picture for a Teacher's Appreciation dinner (which I think are a bit boring) and had them sitting at each of the place settings. Now can you see these with really cute paper! This one is pretty plain per the paper, but I used the fish paper because it was a Christian school and thought it was perfect.

These are super easy!! Just use a piece of 5 1/2 x 4 1/2 piece of card stock or pattern paper. I used pattern paper. Or you can stamp your paper or you might even have scraps this size! Some people use adhesive I personally used Aleene's tacky glue. I use this glue because it dries so quickly and it is easily found anywhere. SOO... you place whatever you want to adhere this with across the bottom of one long ends (5 1/2 side). Since I used the glue I just rolled this over and stuck a finger in both openings and held it for a few seconds and then it looked like a empty toilet paper roll. Next add your sticky strip or glue along one short side which is now the end of the tube (4 1/2). If you are using adhesive place your adhesive down the same time you place your long strip down which will make it a bit easier for you and then roll into a round tube shape and adhere. I used glue so I added my glue to one end after I made the tube and then squeezed the end that has the adhesive/glue on it together. Place the closed end into your crimper and roll up and back three to four times. Add your candy, then turn your container the opposite direction, squeeze that end together and run in through the crimper. Punch two holes in that end, run ribbon through. Punch out a a flower or tag or whatever you want to add and punch a hole in whatever you are adding and run both ends of your ribbon through the holes in your punchout and then tie in a knot or bow. Your container is closed nicely and the recipient can get the candy out without destroying the pouch.

I also did the round text in Word under the word art, bet you didn't know you could do that, did you? So if you want to try it out you open word. From the file menu select Insert>Picture>Word Art. You will then see the word art box. First row, third icon is an arc. Select it. Click ok and you will see the words "your text here". Change the font to whatever you want and type the text you want. Click ok. It will now appear on the page. Highlight your phrase by clicking on it once. Then click on the WORD ART SHAPE icon. It is the blue A tilted slightly, in my progran this appears at the botton of the screen, left side, you may also have a little "abc" instead of the slanted A. click that then select the cirle. It appears flat but just grab a handle and stretch it out to a circle. I found that I had to print it off first to make sure it was as round as I wanted it. I printed off a sheet of these and then used my larger punch to punch them and added them to the center of my punched out flower, which was a whale of a punch one. Have fun and hope this works for you.

Thanks for visiting today!! Hope you all get to craft this weekend!!

Artist Trading Cards

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These are my ATC's that I made for a swap over at scrap.com. It was a mystery swap so we could do whatever we wanted, there was no theme. This is actually my face in all these cards and if you want to know how to start these out to make some of your own unique cards, you can check it out here on my blog. I really had a lot of fun with these and I will probably make some more of these type of cards to swap. They are each a mini piece of art and each one is different as you can very well see. These are all hand drawn and colored with Bic Mark-it markers with some chalks to do the skies. They are all originals; one of a kind. NOW the hard part to this was to figure out which one of these 20 do I want to personaly keep? I will be swapping 19 of them out and keeping just one! oh the decision!! Everyone in my family had their own favorite, but I just can't seem to decide. I think I will keep the "got milk" one, which is the top left one. I laugh everytime I see it with the milk mustache, I think I secretly always wanted to be the "got milk" model! LOL... it was my husband's idea to add the milk mustache, I had "got milk" on her pail, but then he suggested that and I thought, brillent and fun!! and now I get to be the "got milk" model!! LOL... Now, I took this pic inside so it is ok, if you want a closer look at these you can click on the picture and it enlarges it for a better close-up or you can click on that funky code next to the pic, not sure how I got that there or how to get rid of it but it also takes you to a larger pic LOL. Also, if you see white specks everywhere it is because I used a chalk with sparkles in it and that is the sparkles sparkling, they really don't have those specks in real life. I alway like to do the backs up too to my ATC cards and I do these in the program Print Shop 23. This is the back side of these cards.I know a lot of people don't put much thought into the back, but I personally think it just finishes off the card nicely. I guess I just want the whole card to be a piece of art! If anyone reads this and would like to trade a card with me just leave me a note and I would love to trade! These cards will be traded out, but I would love to make some more! Thanks for visiting my blog today and make sure you leave me a note and tell me which one "you" like, I would love to know! :O)