From Our Roost~ PKS Challenge Entry

O.k  so a little change in plans....

I will be back later with my Cutting Cafe DT Post

but

I wanted to share and get my entry in for this weeks

Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge~ Anything Goes

For those of you that follow my blog...I recently shared pictures of my "Girls"

yup ....my chickens

I have received lots of questions so here are the answers...

We have had these girls for 3 1/2 years.

We started out with 16 and have 9 left :(

~due to age and sickness~

We order our chickens through the mail....yes you read that right online and they get shipped to us at 3 days old. 

They hatch at the chicken hatchery and immediately get boxed up and shipped.

Since they are shipped at hours old they can survive for 3 days without food or water.

They come by USPS and I receive a phone call as soon as they arrive at the post office.

They lay beautiful and yummy eggs!!!

There is nothing and I mean nothing better that fresh eggs!!

I highly recommend if you have the chance to try fresh eggs at least once!

You can totally taste the difference!!

The best part about our girls.....they are so super friendly!

They let my boys pick them up and as you can see from the picture they will come right up to you!

Since they are at the end of their laying time we will be getting more and these girls will be moved into

a new "retirement" home to live out the rest of their lives!

They really are the best pets!

I <3 my Girls!

So that takes me back to my card.....

Here are the details:

Card stock~ Kraft, PTI Dark Chocolate, White and Pure Poppy

Stamps~ Peachy Keen Stamps PK~221 Henny Penny

Peachy Keen Stamps PK~531 Simple Sallies

My Creative Time~Spring Chicken Backgrounds

Cornish Heritage Farms~KH5044 Sweet Spring (Kim Hughes Collection)

Sentiments~ My Creative Time~Hello Spring

E.A.D Designs~ Just Chicken In Stickerz

Cuts~ Cameo (!!) Basket

Dies~ My Creative Time~ Build a Banner

Extras~ Copics 

Gathered Twigs Distress Ink

White Gel Pen

chalk

brads

Thanks for stopping by again.....see you in a bit with another project!

My New Toy... An Award...& A Special RAK!

Good Morning Bloggers!!!

I have alot to share today and this will be post 1 of 2 

so please do come back later when I post my project for The Cutting Cafe.

Ok onto all this fun stuff!!!!!

Look what I got yesterday....

Isn't she beautiful?!?!?

Now the fun can begin....I was playing around last night a bit...had some kinks to work out and

for sure plan to play today!! 

I was having some issues with my images not showing up on my mat...they were there but not that I could see...

Well wouldn't you know with the help of my husband and my 11 year old....that's right my 11 year old they were able to fix it!

I swear to you my son can navigate the computer 100 times better than I could possibly imagine. He told me yesterday that his teacher asked him to help fix a computer issue at school and withing 10 minutes had it up and running....WHAT?? Way to go Casey!!

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Next I want to share this beautiful RAK I received from a very dear blogging friend!

Sonia over at Archiving Angel

sent me this beautiful "B" Stand that she made along with such an awesome tea cup card!

I have it proudly displayed on my desk and it holds my Trendy Twine that I have on spools.

It is so perfect and I will for sure treasure this always!

Thanks so much Sonia!

If you have yet to check out her blog....Archiving Angel make sure to hop over.

She has the greatest tips, tricks and tools. Always sharing the newest and coolest in scrapbooking stuff!!

Let her know also that I sent you!!

I know she would love some new followers!!!

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Ok lastly I received 

 

from not 1 but 2 awesome blogging buddy's ~ or "Blends" as Jess calls us:)

Jessica at Jessica's Craft Shaque

and

Karen at karens-kakes-krafts

 Here are the rules and guidelines for this award:

~Thank the person who gave you this award. That’s common courtesy.  

~Include a link to their blog. That’s also common courtesy — if you can figure out how to do it. 

~Next, select up to 16 blogs/bloggers that you’ve recently discovered or follow regularly. ( I would add, pick blogs or bloggers that are excellent!)

~Nominate those  bloggers for the Versatile Blogger Award — you should include a link to their site for others to see how versatile they really are.

~Finally, tell the person who nominated you 7 things about yourself."

So....

 I am extending this award to some very talented bloggers that I 

am sure you will be delighted in

connecting with yourselves (if you haven't already).

1. Sonia~ Archiving Angel

2. Amy~ Tsuruta Designs

3. Amy~ Amy's Crafting Space

4. Chris~ Get Inspired with ChatterScene

5. Norma~ PinkBlingCrafter

6.Jessica~ Craftin' and Stampin

7. Monica~ Monica's Creative Madness

8.Kate~ Scrappers Creative Corner

9.Jovan~ Cards by Jovan

10. Tami~ Tami's Craft Connection

11. Beckie~ Just B Creative Crazy

12. Karen~ Little Scrap Pieces

13. Shelly~ My Paper Love

14. Margie~ Bella Bug Creations

Now I could go on and on..there are so many totally amazing blogs out there!!!

Please if you are not a follower of any of these blogs you stop by and check them out!

They are top notch in my book!!

Thanks again to Karen and Jessica!!

That is all I have for now.....

Make sure you again stop back later for my

Cutting Cafe DT post!

Happy Hump Day!

E.A.D Designs Blog Hop~ Shamrock Sweetie

Good Morning Everyone!!

It is Monday and time for another awesome

E.A.D Designs 

DT Blog Hop!!

You should be coming from the ultra talented

Jenn

If not make sure to start over at the 

E.A.D. Designs blog

to see all the DT inspirations and to be entered into this week's giveaway!!

One lucky person will win some E.A.D Designs goodies!!!

 Since St. Patty's Day is right around the corner I thought I would make one last card using 

the adorable Ava from Bugaboo Stamps along with

E.A.D Designs~ Irish Sweets Stickerz

Details for this card include:

Cardstock~ Kraft card base (A2 size)

PTI~ True Black, New Leaf & Select White

Designer Paper~ unknown from my stash (used for paper piecing)

Image~ Bugaboo Stamps~ Ava Shamrock

Sentiment~ E.A.D. Designs~ Irish Sweets

Coloring Medium~ Copics

Ribbon~Crinkle (prize won from Karen~ Little Scrap Pieces)

Extras~ Stickles in Lime Green

White Gel Pen

Thanks so much for stopping by!

I hope you enjoyed my card for today!!

Now hop on over to the very talented 

Judith

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Challenges being entered into:

Pile It On~St Patty's Day or Shades of Green

Divas By Design~Favorite Things (E.A.D Designs Stickerz & Bugaboo Stamps)

Creative Cutter Room~ St. Patty's Day

D.L Art~ Thankful Thursday~ Use this quote

"Saint Patrick's Day has come to be associated with everything Irish: 

anything green and gold, shamrocks and luck"

Sentimental Sunday's~ Go Green or Recycle

The Glamorous Side of Scraping~ CAS Sunday w/the color Green

One Stitch at a Time~ Use a Digi

The Pink Elephant~ Layers (3 or more)

Totally PaperCrafts~ Favorite Thing ( E.A.D Designs Stickerz & Bugaboo Stamps)

Frosted Designs~ Kraft

Cupcake Inspirations~ Photo Inspiration

Little Scrap Pieces~ Luck of the Irish
The Kraft Journal~Make it Monday Luck O'the Irish
The Scrapbooking Queen~ Challenge #6
My Pink Stamper~ St. Patty's Day

March Color Challenge!~ E.A.D Designs

Good Morning Bloggers!!!

It is time again for a brand new color challenge over at

E.A.D Designs!!!

Check out these beautiful colors!!

 and these are the coordinating Stickerz~

In a Park

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Here is my card 

Supplies:

Card Stock~ Kraft, PTI Ripe Avocado and Vintage Cream

Designer Paper~My Minds Eye Breeze~ Lost and Found two Collection

Stickerz~ E.A.D Designs In a Park

Sentiment~ E.A.D Designs In a Park

Ink~ Tim Holtz Distress in Gathered Twigs and Peeled Paint

Extras~ Eyelets from my stash, foam dots

Remember everybody that plays is a winner

and will receive a 25% off coupon!

One lucky person will become April's Guest Designer!!

And on a final note....Remember....

I so hope you play along!!!
Challenge runs until March 22nd so plenty of time to link up over at
E.A.D Designs!!

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT day!!

Birthday Card~ St. Patty's Day Card~ and My Chickens :)

Hi Bloggers!!!

I have a few cards to share for a couple of different challenges along with a couple pictures of 

"The Girls" as we call them

Spring is in the air today.....it was a beautiful 63 degrees outside but very windy so nothing could really be done outside without being blown over.

I did manage to get a couple of projects done though...

I recently won a stamp set over at Paper Smooches~ this adorable Party Pals stamp

and I was dying to ink it up.

I made this birthday card!

The stamp and sentiment are both from Paper Smooches

Designer Paper is from Simple Stories (?)

Cardstock is all PTI

I colored the image with my copics and added some Twinery Twine in Maraschino.

The edges were all distressed using my Tim Holtz distresser

I am entering this card into:

Birthday Sundaes~ Birthday card w/ Sentiment

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My next card and gift bag are using the super adorable file Lucky Me and 4 Leaf Clover Shaped Card  from 

The Cutting Cafe

Now I posted my DT project yesterday and if you missed that you can check it out here

but I loved these files so much I wanted to play with them some more

So my card uses the 4 Leaf Clover Shaped Card file

Instead of using the shaped card I cut all the layers and just used the front of the card for this.

I added 

My Creative Time~ Scalloped and Stitched Circle Die to the center along with the Tiny Tag Die in which I put my dollar bin stamped sentiment

I tied it all together with Trendy Twine in Twisted Lime

and added some Diamond Stickles for some Bling :)

I am entering my card into the following Challenges:

Pumpkin Spice~Button, Twine and a Circle

Twine it Up! w/Trendy Twine~ March Challenge

Little Scrap Pieces~ Use a Button and a Bow

Finally my Gift bag is again from the Lucky Me file and I used an envelope for the actual bag!

My fellow DT'er Tmika shared the how to on her You Tube Channel

A very super simple bag tied all together with some fun ribbon I had in my stash!!

I plan on filling it with some treats for my son's teacher!!

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Ok now I just had to share some pictures of 

"The Girls"

It was so nice outside and they were loving life! I was trying to take some pictures of my card when they came to the back door to be photographed...LOL

Aren't they too cute?!?!

On that note I am signing off but will be back tomorrow with a new color challenge for

E.A.D Design!!!

Have a GREAT night!!!

E.A.D Designs Blog Hop~ Just Chicken In

Good Morning Everyone!!!

It is Monday and time for our E.A.D Designs Blog Hop!

I want to send a HUGE welcome to Jenny~ our March Guest Designer!

Welcome Jenny and looking forward to seeing all your creations this month!

Now...

You should be coming from

Jenn's  totally awesome blog~

 if not be sure to start over at the E.A.D Designs blog to catch all the wonderful projects and to be entered into this week's giveaway! 

Last week Emily introduced these super adorable Chicken Stickerz

I <3 them!!

So of course I had to make something with them for this weeks hop

Here is the card I came up with

Supplies Used:

Card Stock~ Kraft

PTI~ Pure Poppy, Summer Sunrise, Ripe Avocado, True Black

Sentiment~ E.A.D Designs~Just Chicken In Stickerz

Image~E.A.D Designs~ Just Chicken In Stickerz

Die Cuts~ My Creative Time ~Hello Spring Layering Egg Die

Stamps~My Creative Time~ Spring Chicken Background

Extra's~ Distress tool, square punch

Ink~Distress Ink in Barn Door, Wild Honey, Peeled Paint

Now hop along to

Judith's 

I am sure there is something amazing over there!!

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT day!!

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I am entering this card into the following challenges:

My Creative Time~Throwback Thursday Cricut-less Challenge

Crafting When We Can~ Animals

Stamptacular Sunday~Text Me

ABC DT Challenge~Springtime Challenge

Jay Gee's Nook~ Challenge #17

The Spotted Chick~ That's Krafty Thursday

Craft Your Passion~ 100th Challenge Celebration

The Kraft Journal~Make It Monday's~ Fun Shapes

My Craft Spot~ For the Birds

Thank You for a Great Season

Hi Everyone!!

I have a quick card to share that I made for my son's

basketball coach.

Their final game is tomorrow  and he has done a GREAT job coaching the team this year

and making sure all the kids had a blast playing!

Sorry about the bad lighting....it is late and dark

and with my poor photo skills this is the best I could do.

That is one thing on my list of to do's this year....become a better photographer!

Anywho here are the detail of this card:

Card Stock~ Kraft, white, black and orange all from my stash

(I am so trying to clean that mess up...but that is for another post...LOL)

Die Cut~ Sports Mania Cricut Cartridge

Sentiment~ E.A.D Designs~Thank You Sentiments

Twine~ Trendy Twine..Halloween 

Ink~ Tim Holtz Distress

Wild Honey and Gathered Twigs

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I am entering this into the following Challenges:

D.L Art~ Thankful Thursday Anything Goes

Ribbon Carousel Challenge~ Anything Goes

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a GREAT night!!