Frugal Fridays

Good Friday morning! Let me tell youu, this may have only been a three day work week, but having a 4 day Weekend spoiled this chick! Fridays are one Of my favorite days of the week not only because of the beginning of the weekend, but it is also my grocery shopping day with my momma! You see, I am a couponer! Now before you start thinking it, no I am not "extreme", but I have always enjoyed clipping coupons to save a little here and there on itmes my family needs anyways! On Fridays, after work, I pick mom up and ER stop by to get Abby, then off we go... Normally it takes me 3 stores to get the best savings, but they are all close together, so it is not a matter of wasting more gas than I am saving at the store. How much do I save? Normally I will save enough to treat us to a dinner at applebees or such without noticing the money gone! I like eating good for free, how abou you?
Enough of that already, here is my Little creation to show you today:

This little number is made with stampendous stamps (hey there cupcake), Papertrey Ink card stock and inks, buttons of course, and a little lace to top it off! I followed the sweet sketch Wednesday sketch challenge for this week and the colors are from the fun and fabulous color dare challenge blog. perhaps the most exciting aspect is that one of my favorite challenge blogs, Fab 'n Funky is have a DT call along with their challenge this week! Eek! Love them, if you've never checked them ouut, you simply must!

Be sure to stop back by tomorrow, I have an awesome, yet easy craft project to share with you for Simply Saturday!

Much love & God Bless You,

Fun-ly Friday

I'm actually excited to go in and get my work day over with!  When I get home, my loves will be waiting and the weather man says we may be snowed in this weekend!  Ahhh - time to play with paper!

Today is Fun on Friday at Christian Paper Crafts and I can't wait to show you what I made.  You see, if you've ever visited my blog, you know 1) I almost always have a brown or kraft card base, 2) bright colors are WAY outside of my comfort zone!  But look below:

(Cardstock: PaperTreyInk; Designer Paper: Basic Grey; Stamps: PaperTreyInk - Love Song, PaperTreyInk - Background Basics-Music; Misc: buttons, cuttlebug, lace trim)

What's even wilder is that I am actually tickled with it!  A real oddity for me and my creations!  Along with the Fun on Friday Challenge at Christian Paper Crafts, this card also falls under the Color Dare challenge for this week, Fab n Funky's challenge, and the wonderful sketch is from Sweet Sketch Wednesday!

I hope your weekend is as lovely as you are!

God Bless You,

Weekend Creations

Hope you are having a wonderful weekend.  Here are my cards I have to show you today.

First up is a Christmas card for mom and dad...shhh, don't tell.  The Fun on Friday challenge at Christian Paper Crafts on Friday was to make a card using a photograph.  I decided to combine it with a couple more challenges, like the Bible Verse Thursday challenge, the sketch challenge at Sweet Sketch Wednesday, inchies to represent the challenge at Tuesday Throwdown, and the wonderful color challenge at Color Throwdown to get what you see below:

 (Paper: PaperTreyInk, BasicGrey; Ink: Close to my Heart; Images: PaperTreyInk; Accesories: Cuttlebug)

Next up is a little card that I did for today's Clean and Simple challenge at Christian Paper Crafts.  By combining it with the awesome sketch at 2 Sketches 4 You and adding the colors from Color Dare in, I am so tickled with the cute response!

(Paper: PaperTreyInk; Images: PaperTreyInk; Ink: Close to my Heart; Accessories: bling, ribbon)

God Bless You,