Thank you! Gracias! Mahalo!



No matter what language you speak, the thought behind it is the same! 

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

It turns what we have into enough, and more. 

It turns denial into acceptance,

chaos to order, confusion to clarity. 

It can turn a meal into a feast,

a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. 

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today,

and creates a vision for tomorrow.

                          Melody Beattie

Guylou herself is our host this week. She is a wonderfully creative and has wicked talent!

Her theme this week is Thank You, You're a star! SO...

you must have a star somewhere on the thank you project.

Guylou came up with a few new images that will go very well with this theme...

check them out here!

I chose to use   I felt she went real well with the paper I had decided on

Problem was I had no plain silver/foil look paper...so I made my own!

I embossed it with silver embossing powder and 

I think it matched the foil stars on my background paper perfectly!

What do you think?

I kept the color scheme simple to make the image stand out!
 You can check out all the deets at the challenge blog!
This challenge starts today and goes until September 29th.
Make sure you have a look at all the DT blogs and have fun!

CDAC Progressive Freebie Challenge! (CDACPC3)

HEY HEY HEY that next challenge is ready to start....have you gotten your images yet? If you did not enter the last challenge then you can buy in! Check it out on the CDAC Progressive Freebie site here.

The theme this time around is fall! For those of you lucky people who are starting to see 

some change in the weather...you know what this means....

orange, maroon, deep yellow, sage green....leaves and trees changing...

cactus um nope that's me...no real change in Arizona but you get the drift...FALL!

I used the image Sunflower and Swallowtail by Justinklined. 

I really love this image, you can do so much with it. I printed the image three times, 

cutting the butterfly out of two of them. I colored the sunflower with Copics 

and used the Spica pens for the butterflies...trying to get a bit more depth as well as some shine!

I really hope you like it!

Make sure that you look at all the other DT members....they are listed to the left!
This challenge will continue until the end of the month. Make sure you add your name
and picture/blog specific place on the linky. Make sure you have labeled it cdacpc3.

No card..but I have a story!

Yesterday was my big 4-0 B-day...so last week Dave told me to think of where I wanted to go for dinner...well I have been in the mood for steak so we decided to try this new restaurant called the Bone In. I ate like nothing at all yesterday anticipating a delicious meal! Dave made reservations for 6 at 6, hoping that Tyler, our middle kid would be able to get out of football practice early enough to make it! Since I was off yesterday I was ready and waiting...Jenna was home and ready...Dave was picking my mom up on his way home from work...Tyler called and was on his way...and Brandon called and was going to have to meet us there! I was thrilled! The whole family together...the first time in a LONG time.

OK so Brandon swings by the house on his way and since we were still there we all pile into my vehicle and off we go! We get to the restaurant and OMG the BBQ smell was mouth watering...I was starting to salivate it smelled so good. I get out and go to walk around the back of the vehicle and what do I see???? I tarantula! Yes a HUGE tarantula! Like a dinner plate! OK so it wasn't that huge, but when you hate spiders the way I do, it looked that big. So I casually walk around and walk inside.

We get seated, order drinks and some appetizers and we are all talking...Brandon has applied for the Police Department and had an interview yesterday...and finally we decided we were ready to order. The waitress comes over and starts to take my order and CRASH....BAM...SIZZLE...lightning and thunder all over and ZZZTTTT the lights go out! Because no electricity the fans and exhaust are not working and within a few minutes the place is smoked out. Good smelling smoke mind you, but smoke none the less! So we figure we need to go. It is pouring, the street is starting to flood and no lights anywhere. The place is a ways out so there are no street lights anyway but all of the houses are dark. Some of the traffic lights were out and at one spot the fire department had a street blocked because of downed power lines! Luckily as we drove by our neighborhood all the lights were on. And lo and behold the lights of Village Inn were all ablaze! So we all sit and had a wonderful birthday breakfast! It wasn't steak or prime rib but it was good all the same! Best part the whole family was together and we had fun! Thanks for taking the time to read all about my dinner escapades! HUGS!!!

Christmas in July...errr I mean in September!

This is a card that I made with "Father Xmas Digi Stamp 2" from Scrapper's Delights. I love the vintage look of this guy. I used white fluff for the cuffs and edges of the Santa suit and used Copics to color him. The paper was from a digital paper that I have had for years! Hope you like it!

I added some embellishments that I have had forever! I liked that they had a bit of a vintage feel to it as well.