Pink, White and Grey Challenge

Hey everybody,
I hope all my northern friends are staying warm. It's be gorgeous weather here this week! I will share some of my adventures from the week tomorrow. Today I want to share my take on the Cuttin and Stampin Challenge for the week.
This is the layout I did for the challenge. If you want some more information about the products I used and to enter the weekly challenge, pop on over to Cuttin and Stampin!!

Have a great Thursday everyone!!
Stay warm, safe and crafty!

DAPHNE

Teresa's First Blogaversary Blog Hop

Thanks for hopping with us today! Today we are all celebrating Teresa's First Blogaversary!! This is your last stop!!

A little over a year ago Teresa began her new blog to celebrate the fact that she wanted a change in her life. And for that change to be permanent came lots of prayer and leaning on God to give her the right answers. The answers He needed to give, not the answers Teresa desired. Well here she is 1 year later and Teresa is a Stay at Home Wife, loving life and doing all she needs to do to create a warm, loving atmosphere for her family!

With this in mind, the theme of this blog hop has been CHANGE! I am sure that everyone can relate with changes in your life. Each of us on this blog hop has shared things that have changed our lives or ways that our lives have changed, whether it be by choice, or having it thrust upon us.

There have been some hopefully inspiring projects today. I hope you didn't miss any of them!

You should have arrived here from Melissa's blog.

If you did not, please hop over to Teresa's blog and start there so you don't miss out on any of the great projects. Besides you need to leave comments along your journey so you can get entered to win Teresa's Blogaversary prize! The winner will be chosen on Monday 1/14.


My life went through some major changes in 2011. In December of 2011 fate brought an amazing man into my life. I was trying to just put one foot in front of the other. I had no idea where I was going. He swept me off my feet. He is my inspiration. He has changed my life in so many ways. I have rediscovered my love of life. I have found out what it is means to really be happy. Every day I wake up next to him I am thankful. Sometimes when changes are forced upon us better things are to come, we just can't see it in the depths of our sorrow.

For this layout I also used one of my favorite lines of paper....Heidi Grace!

Thanks again for hopping along and celebrating the changes in all of our lives.

This is the last stop on your journey! If you missed any of the 10 wonderful projects/blogs, please check out the list below and go back and see what you missed.

BEFORE YOU GO, please leave a comment so you can be included in the prize drawing back at Teresa's blog.

Just in case you got lost or missed someone, here is the list of all of your stops on this journey.

Teresa~ http://freshandrenewed.blogspot.com/

An’Jenic~ http://anjenicgibson.blogspot.com/

Lori ~ http://www.scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com/

Anita - http://scrappyhappymommy.blogspot.ca

Sandy- http://scrapbookblessings.blogspot.com

Miranda - http://www.nanasscrapspot.com/

Sarah - http://itswhatkeepsmesane.blogspot.com/

Michele ~ http://michelescraftroom.blogspot.com/

Melissa ~ http://iamapapermaniac.blogspot.com

Daphne~YOUR HERE!!! END OF THE JOURNEY!

We hope something you seen along the way has inspired you!

HAVE A FABULOUS FRIDAY!!!

DAPHNE

Kayaking with the Manatees this week

Well this week has been fun! Ron and I went out twice on the water in our kayaks at Blue Springs State Park.

We live less then 2 miles from the park and love going over there to hike, kayak and take photos.

This is me in my kayak with a friendly manatee. He kept coming up to my kayak and licking it. This was the first time I've seen a manatee so close! I was shaking it was so much fun!! This was Monday.

On Wednesday we went out of Blue Springs State Park again. This time we used our tandem kayak. We paddled a couple of miles on a new-to-us little river. It was very cool! It was packed with birds, turtles and gators!

We even found 2 nests of gators! We only saw 1 mommy with a couple babies. But one of the nesting areas had easily 15 babies! It was an amazing site. I paddled us quietly past as Ron took lots of photos.

 This was the only manatee we saw on Wednesday. It was a mom and baby. They went under our kayak, but were not interested in checking us out like the cute guy on Monday.

It is great to get out and kayak after spending all day Tuesday cleaning and taking down all the Christmas decorations. Today it was back to cleaning and I am STILL trying get moved out of my old house. So my son and I spent 2 hours over there and finally the first room is TOTALLY PACKED UP!! That is a big milestone!!  Now to get back there next week a couple days and get a couple more rooms all packed up!

Happy Sunday everyone.

I hope everyone had a wonderful New Year. With the new year it is time for many of us to make some New Year's Resolutions. My life resolution is to live every day and enjoy the time with my kids and the man I am totally in love with, something that got lost along the way for me.

But, today I want to share with you all some of my crafting goals for 2013. Hopefully we will inspire you to make some of your own crafting goals and share them with us. 

SCRAPPING GOALS:
* Colorado Trip photos in an album

* Not wait until the last minute to do my Design Team projects

* Birds of Florida album

* Catch-up my Disney autograph album

* Get some of Ron's photos in an album

* Use my Cricut more

* Learn more about my ECraft machine and cutting the 100s of SVG files I own

*Finish up some of the 1/2 finished projects I have uncovered while moving

GENERAL CRAFTING GOALS:
* Sew my backpack

* Make some Kindle and Laptop covers

* Make the shirt I have the pattern and material for

* Complete the 1/2 done projects I have sitting around- I have found a bunch of them during the move in October

* Sew curtains for various rooms in my new home

* Make a sign for the Dog House

Be sure to pop on over to Three Scrappy Gals blog and leave a comment sharing your crafting goals and get entered to win the blog candy!

Have a fabulous Sunday! Get out there and enjoy life!!

DAPHNE

CELEBRATION BLOG HOP!!!!

  Welcome Crafty World,

I am so glad you are here!!
 

 You should have arrived here from CallyAnn's blog. If you have not visited the previous 10 blogs, please head over to http://cuttinandstampin.blogspot.com
and start the hop from the beginning. 

You don't want to miss any of the great projects our Design Team has prepared for you. You are at the next to the last stop on the blog hop. 

The next and the final stop is where you can enter to WIN blog candy.  There are (2) $25.00 gift certificates to A Muse Studio up for grabs.

Daphne here. I have been doing some kind of crafting all my life. I started down the scrap booking road over 10 years ago. I purchased a personal Cricut on the day it was released in Michael's. That was about 8 years ago. I have over 100 cartridges and a gypsy. I love using it, but for this welcome project. I decided not to use my Cricut. But you can be sure I am going to be using it plenty in the projects to come!

I have created a wall hanging/canvas. I first painted the canvas with some acrylic paint. The letters are sketched with a pencil and then I went over them with a Zig brush tipped pen in the color denim. 

The little bird at the top is on a stick. He is an AMuse stamp. I stamped him, cut him out then covered him with Flower Soft so he looks fluffy.

May all your wishes come true!!

SUPPLIES:
Canvas
Zip Marker
Flower Soft
Viva Decor Pearl Pen
Tim Holtz Distress Inks
Helmar Scrap Dots
Beacon 3 in 1 glue
AMuse All For Love stamp set
Prima- Say It In Studs

 

I want to thank you all again for stopping by and being part of our CELEBRATION Hop. 

Your next and last stop is to head back to:
http://cuttinandstampinchallenges.blogspot.com

Don’t forget to leave a comment and head to the last stop on the hop and enter to win blog candy. 

In case you got distracted along the way, here is a complete line up so you can make it to the candy. 

Tammy – http://cuttinandstampin.blogspot.com

Teresa K – www.createenjoyshare.blogspot.com

Janet – http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com

Doris – http://momsbeenscrappin.blogspot.com

Sherri – http://sherri-iloveflipflops.blogspot.com

Pam – http://mzlavr2.blogspot.com

Robin – http://create-a-latte.blogspot.com

Teresa R – http://freshandrenewed.blogspot.com

Kim – http://kimross.blogspot.com

CallyAnn – http://callyanncraftycreations.blogspot.com

Daphne – http://craftyscrapsofstuff.blogspot.com

Blog Candy – http://cuttinandstampinchallenges.blogspot.com

Wrapping up the holidays

I hope everyone had a great holiday, which ever one you celebrate. This year we had a great Christmas. Here are a few photos of our festivities.

 Holiday party at Melissa's

 Christmas Croppin' with some of my Scrappy girlfriends

 Christmas Cook Exchange. Boy were they all yummy!!

 Me and my children. So glad we were all together in my new house.

 Christmas Eve with the man I love. Such a bummer that he was running a fever when this was taken. He didn't get to enjoy the family time.

 My man gave me pink running/hiking shoes! I love to hike and kayak with a girlie flair!!

Now that the dust has cleared I need to get the Christmas decorations put away. I ordered a ton of photos from Snapfish today! Don't miss out on their great 99 photos for 99 cent sale. (coupon code- NEWYEAR13) You can use it as many times as you want. I did 4 orders. I am going to need to get my crafting room cleaned up so when they arrive I can start working on all the fun photos.

Coming up this weekend don't miss out on a fun Blog Hop I am going to be in . It is the debut of a new blog! I will be posting more details in a few days! Make sure you check back!

Have a great weekend. Get out there and enjoy!

Daphne

Design Team Application

I am excited about the possibility of joining the design team for a new blog. I wanted to share some of the wonderful layouts I have done recently.

For this layout I used Graphic 45 paper.  This photo was taken at Epcot by my good friend Heidi. We were there to enjoy the Food & Wine Festival.

 The paper used on this cute November project is from Imaginisce. I moved into a new house in October and I created this as a new decoration for Thanksgiving.

 The paper on this layout is from Basis Grey. This photo was taken on Christmas Day 2011. Ron took me to the Wekiva Springs State Park to go swimming in the springs. It was a lot of fun. We are planning on making this a new tradition. He has been going there on Christmas day for years.

 The paper on this layout is from Close to My Heart. The photo I took when Ron and I were on a short trip to Chattanooga,TN.

I have more to share soon! I have been getting back into crafting slowly, but am picking up steam again!
Have a crafty day!

Daphne

My Wonderful New Life!

Well I took a year off from my blog, but I am back! I have a whole new life so over this week I am going to revamp my blog and get it up to date with my new exciting life. I am slowly getting back into crafting. I spend a lot of time with my boyfriend hiking, kayaking and doing all kinds of outdoor activities. Have a great evening everyone and I will be catching you up on things this week!

What Makes Me Happy

This month our challenge at Crafty Chicas is to share what makes us happy!

My life lately hasn't shown me a lot of happiness. It was very good for me to think about all the things that make me happy. There are lots of things that make me smile and bring me happiness. 

My children are the main things in my life that make me smile.

This was an exercise in finding other things besides them. Each little rectangle is packed with all those things. It is packed with pink. Pink is my favorite color, so I had to include plenty of pink.

I hope this inspires each of you to think about all the things in your life that make you smile.  

Make sure you join our monthly challenge and share those things that make you smile with us!  

SMILE~~ 

Daphne~~

Give Thanks

Well with Thanksgiving right around the corner everyone is thinking about what they are Thankful for.

There are so many things in my life that I have not been thankful for lately, that it is very good to stop and think about the things I SHOULD be thankful for.

So let me say this...I am thankful for my children, my friends, my family and my puppies.

There are many other things too, but those are the biggies!!

This beautiful Cornucopia was cut using the ProvoCraft Cricut using Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge. The Give Thanks was cut using the Designer's Calendar cartridge and the apples were cut using the My World cartridge.

The flowers and leaves are Prima. They are sprayed with Smooch Spritz. The centers are Viva Decor Pearl Pen in bronze.

The letters are covered with a thin layer of Viva Decor Pearl Pen.

BE THANKFUL FOR THE PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE AS YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN THEY WILL NO LONGER BE PART OF YOUR LIFE!!

~~DAPHNE~~

This project is entered in the following challenges:

Paper Patch Craft Challenge

My Sheri Crafts

Corrosive Challenges By Janet

Patches of Pink