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This is my second post for today, scroll down for my first one. I recently received two blog awards, thank you so much! I love admiring all the blogs out there and I'm so flattered that someone likes my blog! My first award comes from Dana Newsom , be sure to check out her wonderful blog! With this award I'm given the chance to tell you three things about myself and pass this award on to 5 other bloggers. 1. I love paper crafting (obviously, hehe). I started paper crafting about 11 years ago and haven't looked back since. I became a demo a few years ago because I love to teach women how they can use their creative side! And as my Blog name suggests, it really is my therapy, I won't say it's cheaper than therapy but we'll let my husband think it is... 2. I'm a bit of a perfectionist, ok I admit, I'm just plain picky. It's probably best if most if my friends and family don't realize just how picky I can be! It drives my darling Husband crazy some d...

Say whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? Lol, ladies we can all relate to how childbirth can be. While you're in it, you're miserable, swearing you'll never do it again. But once you're done you already start dreaming of your next bundle of joy. Well that's how painting is for me, you swear you're done painting for a very long time, but it doesn't take long before you volunteer to paint claiming that it's actually kinda fun. Fun? Yeah, ok. Our contractor finished putting up all the trim and doors yesterday for the entire basement, so that meant we had to paint everything before the floor guys come (they're here right now, wohoo!). Only a few more days and it's done. DONE! I feel like I should shout that from a roof top, lol. So my card today is a bit of a remake from one I did a while back using the Because I Care stamp set. I love using the Music Notes wheel to make my own music sheet dsp, so easy! Stamps: Because I Care, Something to Celebrate Paper: Basic Bla...

Right now it's so peaceful outside, but if I look at the local weather they have a blowing snow warning in effect. Ack, we're expecting the snow and wind to come any time now. I was getting a little spoiled with the warm temps, even the kids commented on the springlike weather we've been having. Today's project has no stamping on it, none. How did I manage that, lol! I saw this free box template over at My Time Made Easy and couldn't wait to try it. It's a SVG file for the cricut, so fast and easy and I was super impressed with the detail of the file! It's meant to hold hot chocolate pouches but mine ended up too small for our hot chocolate, I made the box with the same dimensions so I guess the USA has smaller pouches. But all I would have to do is resize the template and it would work great. Paper: Kraft, DSP-Prima Other: Rose Red Ribbon Have a great day! Tina

It's such a beautiful day out there today, the snow is melting! But Mother Nature must be laughing at us as she prepares to give us another blast of winter tomorrow. I love winter but I think it should be shortened by a month! As I said yesterday, I finally had nothing on the agenda other than... nothing! And nothing leaves me more time to stamp! That's a good thing, lol. This card is a complete case from Laurie Schmidlin, (gosh that woman is talented!) although I can never get my case to look as good as hers but I sure have fun trying. I grabbed our Newsletter print dsp, sponged a little Baja Breeze and Crumb Cake to age the map a little. I ran the edge of my scissors along the hemp twine to fluff it up a little. Stamps: Plane & Simple, Winds of Grace Paper: Soft Suede, Very Vanilla, DSP-Newsletter Ink: Baja Breeze, Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake Other: Hemp Twine, Brads Thanks for popping by! Tina

Hi everyone, it's been a while hasn't it?! Life has been a little busy in our home, something that I plan on changing soon. I'm excited for the next two days, I have no plans other than to stay home and stamp!! Well I'll have to do some cooking and cleaning but you get the idea, lol. I made this card this afternoon, I haven't used this set in a while and thought it was fitting. Stamps: Refuge & Strength Paper: Crumb Cake, Baja Breeze, River Rock, Very Vanilla Ink: River Rock, Black Other: Button, Linen Thread, Taffeta Ribbon Thanks for stopping by, have a great day! Tina

Hi everyone, I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend! We're finally getting a bit of a break in the cold temperatures, it'll be short but sweet! Plus we're making fast progress in the basement, in 3 weeks I'll finally have a finished basement. With kids it's really nice having that extra space, especially if they have their friends over. I made this card a few days ago but just haven't gotten around to posting it so here it is! Thanks for stopping by! Tina

Lol, I think we would all agree that any man married to a stamper is probably poor! We're in the midst of finishing our basement and that's where I've had my stamping area, but I had to move it all upstairs for the next month. Into our bedroom to be exact, much to the thrill of my poor husband. He was helping me bring some of my stuff up, only the stuff that I can't live without (yeah right, it pretty much all had to come up). Well I don't think he's ever really noticed the size of my stamp collection, but he does now, hehe. He did ask if I use all these stamp sets, well I couldn't lie. So being the man that he is, he does the math right away on how much money I could sell them for, and he's shocked. I thought he might have a panic attack, but I explained that they are my babies, all earned, and you don't just give away your babies! And I don't even have that many stamps, some have over 1,000! I'm still far from that many! (((whispering))) bu...