Happy New Year!

This is going to be a really quick post. I just wanted to share my New Year's Resolution with you guys. This year I have decided to push myself beyond my own expectations for myself! What does this mean exactly? In some areas of my life, I am not quite sure, but here are a few that I have really thought about and wanted to share:

Spiritually - I want my relationship with Christ to grow farther and deeper than I could have ever imagined! I want to REALLY live for Christ each and every day. I know I can't be perfect and I will fail at times, I am human, but I want to experience Him this year like never before!

Financially - We are waiting for our house to sell (about 2 more weeks) and after this we really want to get rid of a lot of our debt. This will mean that will probably rent a place to live for a while, but that is ok. We want to be able to be out of debt so that we can do whatever God wants us to do and have more freedom.

Emotionally - I want to continue to fall more and more in love with my husband every day. I want to strengthen and deepen my current friendships and relationships with family. I want to develop new friendships with people I meet this year.

I am just ready to live a life filled with more - LIFE! Not that I have a boring life now, but I just want to experience more and live my life to the fullest. I want to push myself to do things that I never thought that I would be able to do. We all have limits for ourselves set in our minds of what we feel that we can achieve. I want to go beyond that and see what I can truly do with the help of God and find out where He will lead me and what He will teach me this year!

Woo Hoo!

I just wanted to take a quick minute to document that today - 12/11/10 we accepted an offer on our house in TN! We have been praying for this day for several months! God is truly amazing and can and DOES move mountains! It is contingent on the closing of the buyer's house in Michigan and the home inspection, but all should go as planned. We should be house free on or around 1/16/11! Woo Hoo!!!

A Few Cards

Just a quick post with a few cards I have made recently. It feels great to be creative recently! It is most definately my "release" from work, as it has been pretty darn stressful lately!

Enjoy!

This one is my favorite! I made it using some Practicing Creativity stamp sets - Look Up and Key to My Heart!

This one is also made using only PCD stamps!

I made this one tonight (sorry for the bad lighting). I made it using some Basic Grey paper from the Max and Whiskers 6x6 pad and some Jovial brads! The samp is also from BG and it is from their Basics collection.

Have a great night!

PCD Challenge

Wow! It has been a REALLY long time since I participated in a challenge of any kind! Between all the excitement of moving (insert sarcasm) and getting settled in our new lives in PA, there hasn't been much time for anything! So I made some time and made myself sit down and be creative! I figured that Courtney's challenge was the perfect opportunity! She challenged us to make something using any of the Practicing Creativity Designs stamp sets.

I got my inspiration from this picture I took with my cell phone driving back from Hershey one day (well, my husband was driving and I was in the passenger seat):
So here's my card made with two sets from Practicing Creativity, Look Up and Barefoot Summer

I LOVE this hot air balloon stamp! So fun to paper piece and make it any design you want! I stamped it on some fabric paper from American Crafts Dear Lizzy Collection - Firefly Festival, using StazOn ink in Jet Black...

Other Supplies Used:

Paper: Green, brown, white, and blue card stock

Ink: Chestnut Roan (Colorbox Fluid Chalk Ink), Tuxedo Black (Memento), Versamark Ink, Grass (Hero Hues)Vintage Photo (Distress Ink)

Copics: Cadmium Red (R27), Orange (YR68)

Embossing Powder: White

Rub Ons: Tweets - Woodgrain (Studio Calico)

Punch: Postage Stamp (EK Success)

Glossy Accents (Ranger)

Only in Nashville....

Only in Nashville can you see a concert started with a welcome from a few of the TN Titans Players, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, the Titans' head coach - Jeff Fisher, The Mayor - Karl Dean, and The Governor - Phil Bredesen! Only in Nashville will the concert include at least 20 performers including Country Artists, Rock and Roll Legends, Christian Music Recording Artists, a huge Pop "sensation", and a special appearance by an Oscar Award Winning Actress! The concert was called Nashville Rising. It was a benefit concert for the flood victims of May 2010's historic flood in Nashville. It was AMAZING and worth every penny!

The concert was opened by Carrie Underwood..... She sang "Undo It" and "Jesus Take the Wheel" that led into "How Great Thou Art" - AMAZING performance! (If you click the links it takes you to a YouTube video of the performance)

Next up was Blake Shelton....Blake sang "Some Beach" followed by "Hillbilly Bone" with a special appearance by Trace Adkins to help him out on that one!

Lynyrd Skynard was next....They sang "What's Your Name" and "Sweet Home Alabama" - of course!

Next up were Michael W. Smith followed by Amy Grant, Montgomery Gentry, Taylor Swift, Luke Bryan, LeAnn Rymes and Martina McBride! We are just getting started at this point!

At this point there were some presentations of monetary donations made to the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee by several companies.

Then came the hit of the night....ZZ TOP!

The played "Sharped Dress Man" and another song but I couldn't tell you what it was - I don't normally listen to ZZ Top but I will be honest - they were probably one of my favorite acts from the night!

Miranda Lambert, Julie Roberts, Jason Aldean, Billy Ray Cyrus, Miley Cyrus, and Toby Keith all performed next.

Then to EVERYONE'S surprise.....Sandra Bullock made a guest appearance!

Almost 4 (yes, FOUR) hours later, the 2 performers who were responsible for putting such a great event together performed for us as well - Faith Hill and Tim McGraw!

What an amazing event for such a great cause!

Happy Birthday!

I made this card for one of the pharmacy tech's at my store for her birthday (which is today). I love the colors (they were actually my wedding colors)!

In other birthday news, tonight I am taking my mom to a concert in Nashville that is going to benefit flood relief (from the flood that we had back in May) for her birthday and a late Mother's Day gift. We are both super pumped and really looking forward to it!

Supplies for card:
Whte cardstock
Patterened paper: both paterns were from the DeLovely 6x6 pad - Cosmo Cricket
Ribbon: random roll from craft/fabric store
Button: Obscure collection - Basic Grey
Stamp: "Happy Birthday" portion of the "Happy Birthday Friend" stamp from You're Dandy - Practicing Creativity

Happy Father's Day!

I have a few cards to share with you that I have made recently! I have been in the crafting mood so I took full advantage of it. This first card is the card I gave my dad for Father's day. Pretty simple and I hope it was masculine enough for him! I LOVE this tree from Practicing Creativity (well, really this whole stamp set). One of my pharmacy techs at work got married over the weekend and I had been meaning to make a card for his wedding but did not get a chance to do it until right before the wedding. Even though it was rushed, I love the way it turned out! It is VERY simple, but I loved it!

This week is my mom's birthday and another one of my teche's at work's birthday so I hope to have a few more cards to share soon too if I get a chance to make some. For my mom's birthday the two of us are going to a concert here in Nashville on Tuesday night to benefit the flood relief. I am super excited about it!

That's it for tonight. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great night!

Card 1 supplies:

Grey cardstock, White gel pen, We R Memory Keepers Corner Chomper

Stamps: Barefoot Summer - Practicing Creativity Designs

Stickers: Hannah & Henry Letters - American Crafts

Ribbon: Black Double Faced Satin - May Arts

Card 2 supplies:

Kraft card stock, Fiskar's scalloped edge punch, the pink paper is from the Poteeka Souffle paper pack - the Paper Studio

Stamps: Basic Grey freebie

Ribbon: Ivory Twill - May Arts