15 Years ago today..................

the love of my life came into my world. A big bundle of joy at 10 lbs 3 oz and 21 inches long, he was strong and beautiful. Today he remains strong and each time I look at him, my eyes cast upon the most beautiful face i've ever seen. We can swap that word for handsome, given the young man that you have become, but remember that beauty is not a word to describe only the feminine.........think of the beauty of a bold sunset, a majestic mountain, the fierce look of a lion as the sun casts shadows in his majestic mane. You are my beauty.

I can't convey how proud I am of the young man that you've become. I love your assertiveness; the ability to stand your ground when you believe that you are right, the way you say what you really mean.....straight, to the point, but without being hurtful. 

I love that fact that at your age, you are very much your own person. You have a strong mind (and although it can be interpreted as slightly stubborn...lol) and aren't easily influenced by media, labels and peers. You seem fairly comfortable in your own skin; something that some people can strive for forever, but never truly achieve. 

This last year I have watched you mature and grow immensely, this last year  I've witnessed a brighter smile, a higher level of confidence and sense of well being............this last year, I watched you become stronger in your convictions and witnessed you making well reasoned decisions and choices.

I love your sense of humour........... a dry wit that is a little beyond your years. Although your teasing drives me insane at times, I have to admit that you are incredibly funny. I love your laugh, your sensitivity, your knowledge of things that I have not a clue about, your ability to engage in so many levels of conversation. 

I love watching facets of myself, your father, your grandfather and grandma emerge in your personality and only hope that you know that i'm doing my best to raise you  and praying every day that I'm doing a good job. My heart wants to burst with pride when other adults compliment me on what a nice young man you are, because I know it's true and secondly because I take some satisfaction in having had some influence in that aspect.

I Love you!

Although we're having a low key day today, I wish you a Happy Happy Birthday!!!!

Love, 

Mom

Latest Addition

Supplies:

Paper: SU! and bazzill

Stamps: the {Stamps} of Life: talk2me and alpha4mongram

Tim Holtz- Idea-ology adage tickets

Metal Tag-Embossing powder, versamark ink

notebook punch SU!  Brads SU!

Ribbon: Really Reasonable Ribbon

C4C 98-Winter's Dream

Hi everyone and happy Saturday. It's challenge time again here at the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and our challenge hostess Cindy is bring you her last fun challenge for the month. Today we are making Tent Card's. Here is a Tutorial for your  Tent Card!! The only difference in my card is that I made it 4.25" x 12" instead of 8.5".

My card worked up very quick and easy as I used the newly released Flower Soft Christmas Snow Globe Kit. This kit is specifically designed to work with the Flower Soft Snow Globes, however I wanted to think of other creative ideas to use them!  After cutting out the pieces of the kit and assembling the card, I added Polar White Flower soft to the snowy areas on the trees.

If you decide to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project, and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword C4C98. Don't forget to come back here and link it on Mr Linky so that everyone else can see it too.

Since I'm coming under the wire to make this post in time, I'm going to miss getting the team links up, but if you follow the links on my sidebar, you'll see all the Crazie's Creations!

Challenge by AR-Challenge 2 Summer Bliss with a Slice of Orange!

This week, our challenge Hostess Lyn shares this! "

My favorite word is BLISS and my favorite color (right now) is orange...it's summer, it's hot, and it's blissful...! Take it from there girls!"   And I say.....It is hot, it is summer and life has been blissful with our new puppy in the house!!! Had to share one little sneak peek of her, but don't worry, I'll be blogging about her sweetness soon and you'll have to endure my tales of life with Sydney!!!! I used this fun Bag it  Template for my project! Cut it on my Cricut, which makes the project go so quickly!!! The DP on the bag and the ribbon as well as the rub on, on the card is from SU. I pierced the handles to give them a wee bit of oomph! Please play along with us to get the opportunity to win some great loot from Creations by AR. If you're loading your card into an online Gallery, the keyword is AR072811. Please link your project up HERE  on the Challenges by AR blog! Also follow the links on my sidebar to see the fabby DT creations!

SDC35: Red, Yellow, Orange-Let it Sizzle!

Are you ready for a new designer's challenge this week? We are ready to challenge you and today Kaz is your hostess. Here's what she has to say about the new challenge:

"When I took this week for my challenge back in the winter, I thought it would be lovely and summery so I decided to set a colour challenge using the sizzling colours of red, yellow and orange. I should have known better really as I do, after all, live in England. It's been positively Autumnal this month. Rain, wind and grey skies. Yuk. So I'd like you to help us entice the sunshine back to help warm my cold toes!!"

It's been red hot here in Canada though, so Kaz, the theme is JUST perfect for me!!!! For my card, I used Fleur Girl #3,  Splatter Long and Diva. In addition, I had this extra little flower left over from my Sympathy card, so I utilized my Lemon Yellow Flower Soft creation to suit this card by popping a red button into the middle!

My image is coloured with COPIC markers and the Newsprint DP is from Stampin' Up!

Please remember this challenge is a STAMPOTIQUE ONLY stamps week. Create a new creation with your Stampotique stamps and enter it below using InLinkz. Please enter by linking directly to your creation. Only one entry per person. This challenge will close on 8/9/11 at 5 p.m. eastern time.

Join us for your chance to win a $30 gift certificate to Stampotique (good for stamps) as we randomly choose a winner of our next challenge.

Follow the links on the sidebar of my blog to load up your creations on the Challenge Blog and to check out my talented Stampotique Diva's wonderful creations!

Happy Stamping!

Impression Obsession Challenge

I made this fun summer themed card for Impression Obsession's latest challenge, which was to use all IO stamps on your project to celebrate CHA Sneak Peek week and the debut of all the Fabulous images now available in the Impression Obsession online store. You can see all of the new images HERE. For my card, I used Lanterns, which I think is a very very pretty stamp. I don't have any IO sentiments, so I used this MM metal sentiment. I coloured my image with Copic Markers and then added a touch of Pearl Pen to add some dimension to the Berries on the Tree. I love the whimsical look of this tree and the fun patio set under the lanterns.  If you would like to play in the challenge, you have a wee bit of time left and can read about it HERE

Well, I'm off to pick up my son and then we're headed to pick up the latest addition to our Family........wait until you see HER!!!! I'm SOOOO excited!

Happy Stamping!

With Sympathy

Normally, when I create Sympathy cards, they are fairly neutral in colour and tone. This care is a little brighter, but perhaps it conveys a them of brighter days ahead. I created the soft flowers by using my spellbinders flower die cuts, then adding some Sunshine Yellow over the fronts, leaving the border tocreate more dimension in the middle.  The sentiment for this set is from The {Stamps} of Life  Sympathy4you set.  Leaves were made with a SU flower punch and Ribbon from SU as well. Border Punch is from Martha Stewart and I used the Beaded Oval Die from Spellbinders

Have a great week!

C4C97 Shake it up baby!

Hi everyone and happy Saturday. It's challenge time again here at the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and our challenge hostess Cindy has another fun challenge for you. Today we are making Shaker Card's. Here is a Tutorial for your Shaker Card!!

If you decide to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project, and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword C4C97. Don't forget to go back here and link it on Mr Linky so that everyone else can see it too.

For my card, I used this adorable image, Stanley the Snail from Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps. The palm tree and sentiment is from The {Stamps} of Life  July stamp of the month-Island2visit. the little sand dollar embellie is also made with a stamp from this same set. Image is coloured with Copic Markers and the shaker is filled with Ultrafine Sand Flower Soft. Border punches from EK Success.

Check out what's shakin' with my sweet crazies!

• Barbara Anders
• Cindy Haffner
• Jessie Rone
• Joanne Grzelak
• Joycelyn Turner
• Lynda Benden
• Maria Bell
• Silke Kittmann
• Silke Ledlow
• Tammy Hershberger
• Frances Byrne

Have an amazing weekend and Happy Stamping!