Happy New Year

Happy New year to all of you and I hope that your holidays

were spent having lots of fun with your families and friends

and I hope that you got a little crafting done too :)

Alot of people are picking a word to gear their ambitious life

to this year in 2014 and I thought about it for along time

and decided my word this year is:

"SIMPLIFY"

I have been working hard at my house to purge and clean

and simplify my life so that i have more time to do the

fun things I want time to do.  Kind of like a vacation but not.

I really want to make more quality crafting projects to 

share and get alot more published and of course spend time

keeping in touch with friends and traveling too.  So there it is.  

Oh and eat healthier and exercise more so that I can feel better

 doing all these things in my day to day life this year.

I am happier already just talking about it!!

Today I am going to share a card I did for my sister's 

birthday with a printable from LOTV.  I have lots of

stamps to use so I thought i would do a quick card with

one of my favorite dies this last release called 

Majestic Labels Twenty-five S5-189.

 I used the Lily of the Valley paper pad for

my papers and added more colored pencil

to the image to darken it a bit and add some greens.

The word sentiment is from them too and you

get a whole sheet of wonderful sayings.

The matching pearls are from Want2Scrap and 

they are having a huge sale right now so you might

want to get in a quick order for them.  Best adhesive

bling on the market for me! I Love all of their products.

So that is it for today.. but check back I will have

a fun card I did for Butterbee Scraps and I will have

some giveaways too this week... Thank you to all

of you that leave comments for me... I love meeting

all of you from around the world and seeing what you

create too.  It's amazing and really special!

Hugs and Smiles to all of you!

Teresa