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It is WOYWW#217!  This world wide blog hop of crafters desks!  Go here to our lovely Host's Blog :   http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/2013/07/whats-on-your-workdesk-wednesday-217.html and start the hop!!  and may I suggest you actually Read Julia's blog, she is so funny and down to earth, as well as informative! Not much on my desk this morning- it is actually Weds morning here, I didn't write todays' post early.  I was having to much fun last night!!  Dinner, A birthday celebration with three of my Life long friends.  Those are such sweet times in the busyness of every day life!! Here is my desk: It will be busy in a little while!  That binder is my DT schedule for four teams and today and tomorrow I am going to get the month of Augusts requirements done.   See that cart under the desk, that is my Genesis Cutter.  I took all the bins out of that unit, they were those  multi color sliding drawers.  I took them out because they continually slid off there holder and co

The challenge for the Twist of faith this week is Children, you can go here for details and enter your own card; http://twistoffaithcards.blogspot.com/   The purpose of Twist of faith is to enhance a community of card makers with positive quotations, scriptures and family friendly images in a God Pleasing way! Check it out and join in!! This weeks sponsor for Twist of Faith is 'Milk Coffee'   The Challenge this week  is "Children"  I love designing for Twist of Faith, I feel like it is more another  opportunity to teach  about the Love of God as much as I do about making an inspiring card design.  We all do things for a reason including our hobbies/work and if we are Christian and we ask the Lord to bless the work of our hands, it all boils down to one thing, what ever we do, it brings Honor and Praise to The Lord. I work behind the scenes with a fun, funny and fabulous group of  talented women who have turned their Talents over to God and have the same desire; to be

Today is the Friends of Speedy TV Monday Challenge!  Go here  for the challenge: http://mfpspeedytv.ning.com/page/fostv-challenge   If you enter and win you will receive a free set of stamps!!  How fun is that? Today theme is Clean and Simple Challenge #83       This is my DT card using the Daffodil Delight set birthday greeting the set .  I love this 'Happy Birthday' stamp!! This card has one layer of designer paper, one piece of ribbon and two butterflies , pretty simple! I outlined the greeting with black marker to give it more definition on the patterned paper.     I few hints on clean and simple card making. I am loving CAS cards more every day and I am enjoying making them too.    Here are a few ideas for your CAS card making! I think the most important thing is to use really good base paper. 100# paper gives you a beautiful sturdy card.  When it is in the hand it feels heavy, even if you are only making and A2 size card (half sheet)!  Light weights, and thing under 80# f

I made these tonight, something clean and simple, these will be for welcome cards to church visitors, first batch is 24.  They are made on solar white papers, I love solar white!! Having a lighting issue, which wasn't going to get taken care of at 1am!   Those strange lines of color are from the camera... The butterfly has a coat of sparkly light green nail polish over the purple and blue wings.   The background scripture is from Eccl. 3   A time and a season for every purpose.   I hope you are having a great weekend, Thanks for stopping by!! Ginny M    

Today is day 10, 50 more to go.  I thought I was doing really very well until I went out to breakfast with my friend Betty.  Betty is my pastors wife and one of my best friends. I see her at least four times a week  but finding a time to chat is almost impossible.  Today we went out and we were very busy solving all of the worlds problems.  I had mentioned a project I wanted to take on and she was all for it which lead to some discussion on my craft spending fast.  Well I wasn't discussing, I was whining and then she just had to mention a big sale going on at Michael's.  The next thing out of my mouth was "so since it was my birthday last month, how about you go there and by me a trunk full of paper?   Can it really only be 10 days??  Can it really be 50 more to go?  The next thing I said was if you buy me something today I will pay you back in 51 days, I can post date a check, I can wash your car, I'll mow too!!  Pathetic.     Any Way the paper project, since I can

On Fridays it is Tutorial Time on SpeedyTV. Tutorial Time is a group of designers that create a new tutorial for new techniques every week.    Try something fun and learn a new technique! This weeks challenge is a hanging treat box!  Go here:  http://mfpspeedytv.ning.com/page/tutorial-time-on-speedytv   just click on todays' date for the current tutorial!  If you would like to join in on more challenges, Speedy offers a week full of them, there are even prizes to be won!!  Go Here: http://mfpspeedytv.ning.com/page/challenges Here is my finished result for the hanging treat box tutorial: The stamp is from Marks Finest Papers and Stamps set "Mothers Magnolias" Go on over to Speedy TV, give it a try, enter your challenge and you may win this new stamp set!!       One of the things on my list of to do's is  today is to finish my 12x12 paper chop project! Last night I cut most of my stacks,  I did not cut my solid papers because I will use those on my electronic cutter. I

I'm a little late posting today, but the morning is so nice I had to spend some time in my Garden.  My garden consists of a jungle of perennials, they just grow and grow and grow! I have two beds in front of the house, to the left and right of our front steps and porch.  Nothing elaborate and so far no one has come to take pictures to replicate my landscaping for their own homes.  The biggest challenge to my garden  weighs 165lbs and for some reason thinks this is the very best place in entire world to roll.    Here is my garden Foe:   He just looks innocent!       I am blogging about my Word Art Wednesday  card today, you can go here to check the blog out and hopefully enter your own Word Art Card!! http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/   The verse: I suggest you go to the site and down load from there as the image is much clearer.   This is a wonderful blog and it has so much to offer!  I hope you enter in the challenge, make the card, post it and then send it on to someone who h

Today Is the day to start your international work desk blog hop!  Start Here; http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/   At Julia's blog where every week she so kindly hosts' this around the world craft desk tour!   My Desk today :  Fun, clean and simple stuff!    I'm working on two cards tonight, this is my stand up work area and I am making my entry for the CAS Blog, this week's theme is GOLD. I love gold, so this was easy, and it would have been a ten minute card if I hadn't taken 20 minutes to "sand off" smudged liquid pearls!! Here is the card, it is a 5x7 and I used Elizabeth dies for the Koi (Gold Fish).  I used wrapping paper for the gold work!     For more CAS fun go here; http://casology.blogspot.com/     The Next challenge is for a cause near and dear to my heart, Operation Write Home! With this challenge, OWH supplies a card sketch for the card and you choose everything else. http://operationwritehome.org/sketch-challenge-182/   Take a moment to go