Rest in Peace Mrs. FM

Events happen in mysterious ways. I was at my American Cancer Society Relay for Life Team Fundraiser and I was deciding on if I was going to purchase another luminaria. Within the past year, I hear of someone being diagnosed with cancer and they don't have much time to live. To date I know of at least 5 people who were diagnosed with cancer: Ovarian, Colon, Bone, laryngeal, Cervical. Of this list, there are only two living, one was just lost today. She was a loving wife, mother of three, and grandmother of three. She will be greatly missed and always loved. Rest in peace Mrs. FM.

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If you would like to help raise funds for my ACS RFL Team Buck Cancer, you may donate under my sister: Maile Villanueva.  


In honor of Mrs. FM I will be decorating and lighting up a luminaria on May 18.

Luminarias I decorated in honor of my late Grandmother Millie,  a 17 year Breast Cancer Survivor, and my mother-in-law, a 13 year Breast Cancer Survivor.

I'm sorry to greet you all with this type of post, but I felt necessary to share here as an outlet for me.  Life and death happens in mysterious ways and I cannot imagine what Mrs. FM's family is going through.  My prayers and condolences to them.

May you all have a blessed weekend and remember to hug and kiss your mother, mom, mommy, mama...everyone dear to you.

Big Hugs,
Melika 

Hi from Arlynn

Just wanted to share this card with you all!  My friend, Arlynn, was so kind to visit me and my friend's booth at The Salvation Army Craft Fair a couple of weeks ago, she took a picture of my friend and I AND she was too sweet to send us this personal card.  I love it!

Now this is an awesome way to begin the weekend! Have a blessed one everyone and Happy Mother's Day!

Happy scrappin'!

Dream Pop Owl Page

Happy Friday My Creative & Crafty Friends!

Today I am going to share with you an Owl Scrapbook Page. Since it is National Scrapbooking Month, I figured I should celebrate by sharing at least ONE scrapbook page using a page from the Dream Pop Special. =)

I have veered away from scrapbooking about nine years ago 1.) because I decided to go back to school so I had to push scrapbooking aside; 2.) my friends coerced me into a card maker (my friends are gonna LOVE that I put them on the spot! lol.)  Actually, I also learned that card making and for the most part, small scrapbooks are instantly satisfying because they are done in a shorter amount of time.

Most of my older scrapbooks are over 50 pages, are bigger than four encyclopedias stacked, can barely open and close, and are bonded with over ten extenders.  I might be exaggerating just a bit, but I wanted to give you a visual.  I still have scrapbook pages NOT in books AND I have a huge box of pictures that are organized, but have not been touched in over 10 years.

I am really tempted to ditch the old school way scrapbooking and jump on the digital bandwagon.  It's just a click away....

Here's what is new with CTMH's Studio J, which allows you to embed old scrapbooking with the new digital way AND allows you more freedom to position, place, and size your photos digitally.


Anyway, we all know I love owls....

My Scrapbook Page

My husband suggested that I put it on the wall.  I think I will as soon as I find a photo to put in it and maybe a shadow box.

These are the products I used:
Paper: Dream Pop Special
Stamp sets: Poet, Women
Accessories: Paradise Twine, Paradise Flowers, Pink Buttons, Green Buttons
Ink: Buttercup, Lagoon, Sunset, Honey

This year my theme is Womanhood and relearning to be grounded.  When the 2013 Spring/Summer Idea Book had the Poet and Women stamp sets; I HAD to get them.  And while drafting this page; I couldn't help but use these stamp sets for this page-to me they fit perfectly.


Happy scrappin'!

Dream Pop's Bohemian Inspiration

Happy Wednesday My Crafty Friends!

I am just loving the Dream Pop Paper Packet! (Available until May 31, 2013).   I had a very successful creative Monday thanks to my cup of tea and of course, the day off.

Here are a few of the cards I made.  I'm really feeling the elephant paper.

Acrylix Stamp used: Scrapbook Statements-Poets

Acrylix Stamp Set used: Beautiful Friendship

Check out the birthday card I made here.

Happy scrappin'!

Birthday Card

Happy Monday My Creative and Crafty Friends!

Here's Mojo Monday's design for this week:

Be sure to join the fun!  Visit the Mojo Monday Blog Here.

Not only is Mother's Day coming up, but so are many birthdays! So I decided to make a birthday card for a friend with this weeks sketch.  She's lucky too, my other friends received a store cards for their birthdays.  I'm a card maker, but I rarely make birthday cards....

I used the National Scrapbooking Paper Packet, Dream Pop! for this card.  My friend loves bright colors and fun prints so I thought this paper combo would be perfect for her.  I also rarely stamp anything in the inside of cards, but Card Chatter-Birthday Acrylix Stamp Set has perfect sentiments for both, outside of a card and inside with matching fonts and makes sense. In the inside of the card it reads: "and many, many more.

Here are the delicious ingredients I used for the making of the card:

Honey Cardstock 

Corner Rounder

Hollyhock Ink

Slate Marker

Baker’s Twine Paradise Assortment

Pink Assortment Buttons

Sparkles Red, Pink & Purple Assortment

Dream Pop Paper Packet

Card Chatter-Birthday Acrylix Stamp Set

Happy scrappin'!

 

Marker Magic

Hello my crafty friends! 

Do you own any CTMH alcohol based markers and are unsure how to use them? Well, watch this video to learn how.


Happy scrappin'!

Mickey Mouse

Hello my crafty friends!

Here's one of the projects I have been working on:

A friend that almost has a party a month asked me to make Mickey Mouse tags for the treats and cupcake toppers she is going to have at her son's 1st birthday party.  (In fact last night she just asked me to make baseball tags...will share soon!)

The day I was supposed to deliver to her, she asked me to make a "banner"  just like the cake toppers.  I happily accepted!

The Mickey Mouse Pants were inspired my Unique Sense Design.   You may want to check out the Minnie Mouse project I made for my friend last month. :)

Have a blessed weekend!

Happy scrappin'!