Happy New Year!

Happy New Year Everyone!!!!!

So... How many of us took the challenge last year to share daily positives?

Here are a few positive things I learned during the 2017 Year. --- I learned that joining the world of working mom's and Grandma's was not a profitable adventure for me or my family. As much as I enjoyed the independence I missed my home life more and parted ways on a positive note.

 --- I also learned that even as good as you are at time management, when you are not the only one in charge of your time you have no promise.



Other Positive Things:
*** Our Pennies for Heaven Jar (Donated to Charity) ~ $36.20
*** Weight Lost over year ~ 22 pounds
*** We added another granddaughter
*** We reached our temple goal
*** We crossed several more fun things off our bucket list
*** Still part of a bowling league .........lol!!!!!

And as most of you know as part of my new year make-over I always start the year out with a new SMASH BOOK/ART JOURNAL/THOUGHT CATCHER. This year I am using the YM/YW theme scripture on the front, along with "Strength & Stillness" as my "one word" challenge and my "Focus Word" for the year. I am using "Strength" as my "one word" ~ This word means so many different things to me. On a daily bases, I pray and seek for that "Strength" from my Heavenly Father and I choose "Stillness" as my "Focus Word" so as I focus on those quiet times, I am able to feel and hear of those things that my Heavenly Father has asked of me and will be able to gain the council and strength to be of best service to my family, friends and community.

The Book I am choosing this month for "Book Club" is a book entitled "Strength & Stillness" by Patricia Holland

CAS369 - Lucky Birthday

Just had to make-over a few lucky charms as part of our "try a new Technique" challenge. When you use a die cut piece or parts of one as your focal point, try setting it against a solid white background to help make it pop. 

Creating a Layout... SC#2

On Saturday, I signed up for 24 free scrapbook classes at scrapbook.com, just to see what they were all about and to use them as a jump start for me to get back into the swing of things. Tonight was the 2nd class, which was to create our first layout. So I combined Thursday's Split Coast Scrapbook challenge with class and this is what I came up with... "Memories at Lake Isabella"

Mellow Monday... Casing VSN!

Your challenge today is to take your favorite card from VSN and case it using a different color combo.

Mellow Monday... President Pride

Today is a Mellow Monday Holiday... So I thought it would be fun to create something festive for the center of my "Entry Way" table. I wanted to stay with the President's Day theme. So here is what I came up with.



Your Challenge for today is to create something "True True! Red, White & Blue"



KEYWORDS: APMM08,

Mellow Monday... PUNCH POWER!

Today, I attempted to clean up my desk after the major VSBN and all my Valentine Crafting this past weekend and as I set there looking at all my scraps and wishing for spring, I grabbed my punches and went to work. I used my punches to create some spring like accents that can be used later for scrapbook pages or cards.

So the challenge today is to use your punches to make at least four different accent pieces. Then the bonus will be to create a scrapbook page, a card or an altered item using your accents.

Mellow Monday... Contest Time

Being the Manager at my work and trying to get my employees excited about our new "Plated Desserts", I decided to start a little contest with them all. We are having a  2 in 1 Contest... The first part of the contest is to see who sells the most new desserts and the second part is to see who has the highest check average. In coming up with this contest I decide to make a CONTEST BOX for them to drop their cashier reports in. I used our new "No Fair Funnel Cake' dessert as my inspiration..

• No Fair Funnel Cake dusted with powdered sugar and served with strawberries, vanilla ice cream, strawberry puree and whipped topping.

Here is my Contest Box:

So your challenge today is to find something on your menu and use it as your inspiration. As a bonus: please share both the menu item and the recipe...


KEYWORDS: APMM06

Mellow Monday...

Mellow Monday... Monday Mini's

Since I was still semi-down because of my hip issues, I decided to use up some of my favorite scraps to make some quick and easy mini's. I challenged myself to use only three solid colors with one DSP and one kind of accents. Here are a few of my favorites...

 

Your challenge is the same as mine... use only three solid colors with one DSP and one kind of accents.

KEYWORDS: APMM04

Mellow Monday...

This was a mellow weekend for me. All I felt like doing was setting around and soaking up the heat from my fireplace and stamping. So being like the sponge that I was I decided to try making my cards for my friend's Asian Elegance Swap. Using the SCS Saturday Inspirational Challenge "Nail Designs" as my inspiration and being in the mood for some technique practice, I sponged the background for my cards. Then the technique challenge for today was to try silhouette stamping and that fit right in with the image that I was stamping on my cards. SO There you have it... A very mellow MONDAY!

So today, I challenge everyone to be a mellow sponger and sponge a card or layout background...

Keywords: APMM03, IC267 and TLC308 if you add a stamped silhouette

Mellow Monday... Tags!

Knowing that Monday is a work day for me and knowing that Monday is my favorite day to stamp and be lazy... I have decided that this year I am going to have Monday's be my MELLOW MONDAY days. There will always be a challenge, you just never know what the challenge is going to be...



KEYWORD: APMM01

All about Tags & Techniques... Your challenge is to pick your favorite Technique from 2010 and design a tag that you can use later on a card or scrapbook page. This is simple... All you have to do today is make the Tag!

Here are mine...