28 Candles Blog Hop

Welcome to Kimi Lash Cremar's 28 Candles Blog Hop. Happy Birthday Kimi!!! I am so happy Kimi invited my daughter and I to be in her birthday hop. My daughter is Victoria and she is a 10 yr old scrapper who is also on the hop list. Sit back, relax and comment on each post for a chance to win.

To celebrate birthdays, I made my very first birthday banner. (Details below.)

If you just happened to stop by my blog, thank you. To start from the beginning of the hop go HERE.  Forgive me, my pictures aren't the best.  I uploaded on my mom's computer and she doesn't have a photo program that will let me crop or brighten the pictures.  I hope to have time later today to fix them at home.

My daughter, Victoria's birthday is May 22 and she will be 11 years old. Her favorite color is blue so I wanted to create her a birthday banner that had blue on each piece. I chose Basic Grey to scrap with. I also used BG naked chipboard letters, Simply Betty Stamps birthday Emo, buttons, handmade flowers, magic mesh, AC ribbon and Copics.  To purchase Birthday Judy or any of her other great stamps and digis check out Simply Betty Stamps.

Want some Candy?  All you have to do is leave me a comment and I will choose a random winner.  Now off to the fabulous Victoria!  Incase you get lost along the way, here is the full lineup:

Kimi & Pamela - http://lovebugcreations3.blogspot.com/
Missy - http://happystampindesigns.blogspot.com/
Tanya- http://scrappinkymomma.blogspot.com/
Michelle - http://www.scrappinwithmybug.com/
Laura - http://lifeasanarmywife-lauradietsch.blogspot.com/
Sarah - http://www.pinkcricut.com/
Candace - http://papercraftsbycandace.blogspot.com/
Sarah W - http://creatingmyfavoritememories.blogspot.com/
Kim - http://rickettscricuts.blogspot.com/
Liz- http://www.mywhichcraft.blogspot.com/
Zeni - http://www.scrappyzeni.blogspot.com/
Erin - http://spantastikreations.blogspot.com/
Anne - http://anniebeescraftroom.blogspot.com/
Gaby - http://www.gabycreates.com/
Karen - http://osebastian.blogspot.com/
Paula - http://www.owlbescrappin.com/
Martha - http://pattisscrapingtime.blogspot.com/
Dianne - http://diannesscrappycreations.blogspot.com/
Kimmarie - http://kimmarieskorner.blogspot.com/ <------- You Are Here!
Victoria - http://victoriascraftyideas.blogspot.com/
Sonia - www.scraps4fun.com
Lisa - http://prettypaperprettyribbons.blogspot.com/
Jennifer - http://kozfam5.blogspot.com/
Nicole - http://creationsbymommy.com/
Amy - http://amydesigns.blogspot.com/
Stacey - http://creatingacraftylife.blogspot.com/
Becky - http://beckscricards.blogspot.com/
Alina - http://neverstopscrapping.blogspot.com/
Haidee - http://created2bunique.blogspot.com/

Thank you for stopping by! Enjoy the rest of the hop and have a great weekend!

Birthday, Valentines and Simply Betty Stamps

Happy Valentine's Day! I just wanted to share a picture of myself and my friend's that came over my house yesterday to help me celebrate my 40th birthday. We had a blast. We ate so much!!! Jana and Alejandra made pork shoulder, spanish rice and empanadas (?), YUMMY! snacks all day and Mark made a huge pot of sauce and meatballs for dinner. OMG It was all so good! For dessert, Alejandra made flan and Sara got an ice cream cake for me. We laughed and scrapped the day away. Amanda brought her 4 month old son with her, he is so cute and my girls were so good with him! I also wanted to share a card I made for myself from my husband as a joke - he never buys cards and I couldn't resist coloring the adorable guy Miller from Simply Betty Stamps. I hope you all enjoy your day!

Bling It On/Card for Rio

Good Morning! Today I am sharing a card I made for Simply Betty Stamps Challenges. The challenge is to use "bling" on a card. I also used the Simply Betty Stamps limited Birthday Rio digi image. Betty created this image for her daughter, Rio's 13th birthday celebration. This is a limited digi image that can be purchased HERE. Rio asked her mom if she can donate all her birthday money to St Jude's Children's hospital. Betty is taking all the proceeds from the sale of this image and also donating the money to St Jude's Children's hospital in her daughter's name. You can read about her selfless donation at Simply Betty Stamps Blog.



You can enter the challenge at Simply Betty Stamps Challenges.

Supplies: Simply Bettys Stamps Rio Birthday Image, Bazzil Bling, I-Rock Bling, Queen and Co. Black Felt, black and grey cardstock, Tag Along Attachment, MS Star Border Punch and Copics

Thank you for visiting my blog. Have a wonderful day!

A Special Image for a Special Girl with a Special Request

This is copied from Simply Betty Stamps' Blog:

Hello everyone! I am hoping to reach many of you on this special post...

My daughter Rio is turning 13! OMG another teen in the house! Two teens+one toddler= disasterous fun... on most days! LOL

Okay okay, so let me tell you about the Special Image for my Special girl Rio with a Special Birthday request we got from her this year...

Every year I ask the kids what they want for their birthday. Money, a trip, a party, or an overnight stay at Disneyland.... Rio came to me and said, "Mom, is it really really my choice what I get for my birthday?" I told her of course! So she says, "Ok, this year mom, I want money, but can I do anything at all with it? I mean anything I want mom?" Again, I said of course. "Okay, I want my birthday money to be donated to the children of St. Jude's hospital so they can have a special day, or whatever the money is needed for. I don't want to have money to just blow when I can help other kids that can't get out of bed, or go outside. That's what I want for my birthday!"

Of course I was already choking on my tears before she finished her sentence! What a marvelous request, selfless and special! I had a special image made for her 13th birthday, and I have not told her about it, or shown it to her. I am asking for a very special request myself in honor of my daughter's selflessness.

The image is now available for $3.00, I am asking you all to purchase this special stamp and help me bring my daughter special birthday wishes by mailing off a card you make with the image to her... but wait that's not all... the $3.00 made from every purchase will be donated to St. Jude's, again in Rio's honor. I am planning on taking her after her birthday to the hospital with the money we raise from this image and her birthday money as requested and giving it all to the hospital!

Her birthday is Feb. 8th, if you all could find it in your hearts to give my little girl that special card my mailing it to her I know it would make her day so special... she is always so grateful of the little things and my hope is to fill that mailbox of ours to the brim with Birthday cards! I plan to gather all cards mailed to her from now until the 8th, and secretly putting them all in the mailbox along with her very favorite chocolates: York Peppermint Patties and Peanut Butter cups! That evening after her birthday dinner I am going to ask her to walk down the street with me to the cluster boxes and have her open the mailbox (I am going to pretend I have not checked the mail all day of course) then BAM! they all pop out at her! Whoohooo! She will be thrilled once she realizes what exactly all those letters are.

Here is our mailing address:

PO BOX 132314
Big Bear Lake, CA 92315

So, would you all be willing to help Rio raise a little money for the kids and send off a card? If so you can purchase the image at simplybettystamps.com under Rio the Birthday Girl digi! She is the first (but limited edition) of six new Emos to come in the future!

Rio Digi: She's the special birthday diva turing 13!! I will run this image for $3.00 until the 8th of Feb. after that she will be gone for good. So please be aware that she will be a very limited edition digi! She may later make a debut in rubber but I am not making any promises, I will try my best if there is enough interest in her to be made into Rubber. Thank you all for your support! And please please please spread the word about this special fund raiser. Thank you all again!
Rio Birthday Girl Digi


I personally think what Rio and Betty are doing is amazing. What a selfless birthday wish. I hope you can all take the pleasure in buying this digi from Simply Betty Stamps for the wonderful cause, create a card to make Rio's day and to have a fun digi girl.

12 Days of Halloween

Simply Betty Stamps Challenges
Around here we don't celebrate the 12 days of Christmas... we give it the old Betty Halloween twist!

Starting October 1st we will be holding 12... that right 12 additional challenges for one amazing Prize at the end of our 12 day celebration!

Each day I will have a different prize, you will have one day to enter each challenge. Now here is the twist... it will be Reality TV style! In the first challenge we will eliminate all but 12 participants to enter into the next round. The second challenge all but 10 will be eliminated... and so on and so on, until only one person remains. That one person will get one amazing prize!!

Each day the prize will grow, I will be adding lots and lots of goodies, from rubber stamps, to papers, to Embellishments! All I have to say is that this will be one mother load of a prize!!! Betcha can't wait to see what goodies you will get, eh?

Check back HERE on October 1st to get started... and please please spread the word!

Simply Betty Stamps DT Call and Claudia&Co. Sketch

Hi All! This week I enjoyed playing around with 2 fun and inspiring blog sites! Simply Betty Stamps and Claudia & Co. Simply Betty is having a DT call that ends on Sept 1. You can find all the info HERE The challenge for the call is to make a funny card. I decided to use School Emo Miller. He has this quirky look on his face and I couldn't resist him. My card has Miller next to his homework that is all crinkled and chewed up... I think he is blaming it on his dog. lol You can find Miller and all the other great Simply Betty images at Simply Betty Stamps


Supplies:
Simply Betty Digi Miller, Bazzill Basics Brown Cardstock, SU White, Blue and Yellow Cardstock, DCWV PP, Around The Block Dog Paper Pin, Stazon Brown Ink and atyouSpica Glitter Pens to color Miller.

I used this awesome sketch from Claudia & Co. I just flipped it around to fit my card.


I get so inspired by both blogs. Oodles of talent out there. Thanks for visiting....