Happy Mother's Day!

Wishing everyone out there a wonderful Mother's Day! Hope you have an enjoyable day. Just thought I would share the card I made for my Mother-In-Law. I made one very similar for my mom too, but forgot to take a pic of it before I gave it to her.

Also, I just had to share my prezzie from my oldest daughter Emily. She made this at school a few weeks ago when the 'clayforkids' group came to their school. They came back on Wednesday to let the kids paint their creations. Unfortunately, Emily was sick on Thursday and did'nt get to paint hers. She was so disapointed. One of the other girls in her class ended up painting it for her. So when she went back on Friday she gave it to her. I thought she might be upset that someone else finished her project, but she was thrilled! I think she did a great job!! The roses and leaves look awesome. Oh...it's a candle holder, cause mommy loves candles so much!

Thanks for stoppin' by :0)

p.s. I totally forgot to thank Nancy for the inspiration for the Mother's Day cards I did. Here is the card Nancy did. Thanks Nancy!

* SCS RAK *

Just wanted to share the beautiful SCS Rak that I received this week. This one comes from Trina aka Beena. Thanks again Trina!

Finally some creative time!!

First off I want to apologize to everyone who checks in regularly. I just realized lastnight that it had been about a week and a half since I last did anything! Wow! How sad is that? But I did finally make it down lastnight. I have 2 swaps that I need to get done this weekend. The first being my 'invite only' Bella swap. Am I the only one who seems to struggle greatly? I had this idea and even sketched it out. When it came time to put it all together? Well frankly, it sucks! I probably spent 2 hours on this one card. It just kept looking like it needed something else, but what? I finally gave up and did another one. The second one took me all of 10 minutes to complete and it is the one I have decided to go with. Go figure...oh well. Anyway, I don't really want to spoil it for anyone that may be in this same swap. So here is the crappy one for ya...I know it's not all that bad, but I don't really like it. I think the main reason maybe that it is not symetrical. I am very anal when it comes to symetry.

Thanks for stoppin' by and promise to be more regular with the posts from now on! :0)

Exciting News!

I have had the opportunity to meet some wonderful people through this 'hobby' of mine called stamping. And with that I have made some wonderful friendships. One such friendship would be with a wonderful lady by the name of Diana Crick. I joined a OSW(One Sheet Wonder) Swap with Diana back in the Fall. We started emailing each other and since have been involved in a few more swaps together. Recently Diana, contacted me about a new business venture in her life and asked if I would join her in doing a tutorial for her website! I was so excited to be a part of it and now you all get the chance to see what Diana, myself and some other talented ladies have been up to!

I introduce you to Diana Crick and her wonderful Scor-pal!

The slightly textured scoring surface is 12" x 12", with a raised fence at the top (ruler markings) and on the left and right side. This aligns your paper for perfect scoring. No more crooked cards!
Grooves are across the board at different intervals. Besides the normal 1/2" and 1" intervals there are grooves at 2 1/8" for gate fold cards, at 4 1/4" for normal A2 cards, and at 3.666" and 7.333" for brochure folding (divides 11" paper into equal thirds)
When you place your card stock on the scoring surface, you are able to do multiple scores without moving the paper. Grid cards, accordion folds, boxes etc are scored in seconds. The score lines result in crisp, accurate folds!
At the 0 to 1" mark and 11" to 12" mark there are 1/8" markings. By proper paper placement this will allow you to score 1/8 " increments such as 1 7/8"
The included scoring tool snaps into place at the top of the unit. It is always at hand. It has been specially designed to fit the grooves so the card stock can not be torn while scoring.
Perfect tool for straight and diagonal line embossing on cards and scrapbook pages! _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The above is taken from the website. Let me tell you though from a creators point of view, this tool is simply wonderful! If you enjoy making projects with different scoring designs and love to work with Designer paper you will love the Scor-pal. I for one was getting quite frustrated in constantly cutting through my DP no matter how careful I was with my scoring blade on my cutter. I really do love working with the Scor-pal. Please go and check out the website and see all the guest designers and their creations!

Thank you again Diana for this opportunity to work with you and the Scor-pal!

Here is another card I did while we were working on the design and measurements...

And now on another note...the couch has finally arrived!!

I had to work all weekend, but lets just say hubby was a busy boy this weekend ;0) Since Friday we got the couch, new blinds for the living room, new blinds for the bedroom, new dresser for me, new dresser for our youngest daughter, new end table for the living room, new bedding for our bed, and knobs for our oldest daughters dresser! We are definitely on a roll ;0) What's left? Well, we still plan to paint the whole house, buy a new lamp and possibly a new tv stand. We had planned to possibly buy a friends tent trailer this year too...we are actually hoping that we don't like it so that we can do some more things around the house now!! But we will see. It has been fun. We have not bought anything new for quite sometime and this is the first time in the almost 17 years that we have been together that our house actually looks like 'grown ups' live here! ;0)

The plan for me tonight is to get down and clean up my stamp room now! Hopefully I will get a chance to share something new this week.

Have a great day and thanks for stoppin' by :0)

Cool!!

This is how I would be described in the dictionary...

Tracy Houghton -- [noun]: A person who has the ability to be invisible 'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Is it here yet????

Okay so this is us today...patiently waiting for our new Sectional to arrive...

Sorry the pic is so dark, but it is pouring down rain here today and very gloomy :0(


On the up side, I also wanted to share some wonderful RAK's I recieved this week. This first one is from Kimberly. Go check out her blog, she has some great creations and an awesome contest right now! We had emailed each other recently and decided to swap some Bella images. She sent me some Grumpabella's and Javabellas. I would show you but I have already started coloring ;0) Anyway, I just love this card that she sent me. It is gorgeous!! Thanks again, Kimberly. :0)

This second one is from Louise Edwards who is from the SCS RAK group that I belong to. Thank you again Louise this card is so pretty. Hubby 'really' like this one too!

If you belong to SCS you can join this RAK group and then if you also have a blog you can join the SCS Bloggers RAK group. Just too much fun!! I must send out some RAK's of my own this week...in addition to completing my Bella Swaps and my new Holiday House Mouse Swaps!! Yikes...I really need to get my stamproom cleaned up in the next few days!

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Check this out!

Found this on Nancy's blog...apparently I belong in 1964!

You Belong in 1964

You are a free spirit with a huge heart. Love, peace, and happiness rule - oh, and drugs too.

What Year Do You Belong In?