The AMAZING Flowerdisco and her Fabulous Awesome Outrageous Beautiful Totally Crazy Friends!!!!!!!!

Hi everyone! What a wonderful time to be alive :) I feel so rushed crazy running around like a chicken with his head cut off but I feel ALIVE! Isnt that the important part?

Tonight I told my story for about 80-85 men and about 20 volunteers. I was as ready as I would ever be! I am I stood tall (err ok not very tall Im only 5ft LOL but I tried to appear taller) and I just started talking. Before I knew it was over! ! You would think that the more I tell my story the easier it would get but no such luck yet. I do pray that my story will change just one life just one! It would be so totally worth it!

Ok so this is going to be one super crazy busy week for me. First this and then tomorrow I have a banquet for Bridges to Life. End of year fundrasing type thing. After that I have some goodies to drop off with all my friends who work for Lone Star Overnight. They work HARD and its CS week so I am taking them some goodies every day this week! Tomorrow is cookies and other stuff!

Ok now on to the reason for this season...

The ladies did a fab job on these cards this week. Thank you !!!!!

Week 5 Playing with Serenade with Flowerdisco and Friends!

Once again its that time! The ladies did a GREAT job with this weeks selections! I am so jealous :) In a good way! Being part of this group is VERY special. I am learning so many new things and getting new ideas! I am soooooooooo excited!!
The card above is my entry :) I am in LOVE with the new flower soft products! If you have not tried it you should! Its so fun!!! So, I cut my tree and then decided its fall I didnt just want green leaves so I used flower soft :) I mixed a couple of colors to come up with this fall color and I think it worked for me :)

The stamp I used is from a set that I won on a blog hop. The stamp is from Scrappy Moms :) Take the time to check out some of her stamps she has some really awesome collections!


I dont think I have mentioned that I am going to a cricut swarm next week in Houston! I am super duper excited about that! It is 50 cricut circle members and a guest for each member! I understand that someone from Provo Craft is going to come!! WOOHOOOO! I will take pictures and post them when we get back :)

I also am not sure if I have shared the volunteer work that I do in some local prisons. I am doing two projects right now and that is why I have not had as much scrapbook time as I would like to have :) However, I would not give up these programs. I work with an awesome group of vounteers. Each week we work with about 80 offenders. We start our night by having a panelist speak (I also am a panelist). We talk about our lives and share our "stories" with these men and women. First, I only told my brothers story. He was murdered working security in a gas station. Almost 10 years later I went to meet this man and from that I was able to find God and also forgivness for this man and for myself :) What a freeing experience that was!!! So after the panelist speaks we break up in smaller groups. Uusually 9-10 inmates and 1-3 vounteers. In the small groups we talk about our lessons and then the panelist. After that over the course of 14 weeks the inmates have a chance to tell their own "story". We see some of the hardest toughest men and women break down and finally lower the walls and hopefully offer them HOPE once they leave. The end is bittersweet. I am always so proud of the men and women but saying goodbye to them is hard after sharing such intimate parts of our lives. You talk about amazing transformations!!!! I am so blessed to see this happen. Just shows me what an awesome God we have!! So, back to why I am telling you about this. This program keeps me pretty busy between the driving and homework I just have been busy. So forgive me for being slow with things. I am really going to do better next week!!







Hugs to you all!!







Now Check out all the wonderful cards from this week!!! Just click on the names to go see in detail about their projects!




Helen





FLowerdisco











Jessica













Gaby






Abby

Sally

Week 4- playing with Serenade with FlowerDisco and Friends!

Week 4 already?? It's just going by so fast! I remember when I was a child and it seemed so long before Christmas or my birthday would arrive and now it just flies by! I want life to slow down again I dont want to get in older I dont want to do all that Christmas shopping! Anyone else have this problem??

Well for week 4 I had some great ideas but things have been so busy around here when I sat down to do the card nothing went right until finally I just gave up from exhaustion soo... I appologize now :(

This week I had image number 27- a tree branch

My Hoot N Hollar cartridge arrived just in time!

I used the third owl for both little owls cut at 2

the sentiment on the inside is cut at 3 and it is also found on the Hoot N Hollar cartridge " Owl be there for you"

The sentiment on the front " If the branch your standing on breaks" I used the cricut marker and then added stickles

The leaves on the branch were so fun.. gave me another excuse to play with flower soft!

If you guys have not checked that stuff out you should. Its a little thicker than flocking so it gives cuts an even more textured look. I got my first couple of jars from my local Archivers but found some on ebay in kits with insturctions and even some fun examples that I couldnt wait to try!

Sally

http://ohhhsnapper.blogspot.com/

Helen

http://craftingcricutmom.blogspot.com/

Gaby

http://scrapabookaholic.blogspot.com/

Agnes

http://flowerdiscosscraphut.blogspot.com/




Jessica

http://ohhhsnapper.blogspot.com/

Abby

http://scrapbookaholic.blogspot.com/

Serenade!

I hope you are all having a wonderful week so far and I know I am excited again its almost that time for Serenade with Flowerdiso and Friends!! We are on week 4 it is flying by! I love being tested on using a certain image. It is really helping me try new things.

I have been really busy this week with doctor appointments and Vet appointments with my Bosco who is doing great! I even got him a Halloween costume.. I have never done that before but I just couldnt help myself! Last year we sat outside with him and handed out candy and the kids just loved him so when I saw this little outfit I just had to get it!

I have a friend that found out a few weeks ago that she has breast cancer. So I have been working on a project for her. Please let me know what you guys think??!! I know she is having good days and bad ones and I cant even begin to imagine what it would feel like. A few weeks ago some friends had her a hat and scarf party and I know they had a blast. I did not get to go because she lives pretty far and the drive would just do me in. So I am sending a package to her at the end of the week with some things I have picked up for her. I just want her to know how much she is loved and that I and many others are here for her no matter what.

So here is my project... I found this stamp on Ebay and just had to have it! I used flower soft (Love this stuff) to make the bouquets of flowers and then cut the butterfly from the Sentamentals Cartridge.

This project was just in time to enter over at My Sheri Crafts! Its breast cancer awarness month and I just had my first mamogram. Umm those HURT! Im such a baby LOL. I did that on Friday but have not heard anything yet so I am going with it must be ok since I have not heard from them :)

Go check out her challange My Sheri Crafts. Just click on the link!

Week 3- Playing with Serenade with Flowerdisco and Friends!

Week 3 already!! This is going so fast! !!


For week 3 I had image 20. First off I want to say that sometimes its difficult to have an image to work with. Some of these images are not ones I would pick when doing my own stuff so this has really pushed me to use my creative juices!


Image 20 is I think a flower of some kind? haha Well it looks like some kind of flower to me :) I wasnt sure how much I would like this cut until I actually started cutting and adding the layers and colors to it. I must say I will use this image again!!


So here is my take on our journey this week...










The card is cut at 5 X 7 and the flower is cut at 3. The paper is from DCWV linen stack :) I love the colors in this card stuck. All light blues and blue greens.



I just got a couple of the martha stewart punch around the page punches. I LOVE them. This one is sooooooo cute! I have been using it on everything I can find to punch and then some. I think maybe my husbands legal briefs might need to be punched around the edge? What do you guys think??!! I think a judge would LOVE to get a brief that was punched and decorated. hmmm on second thought I better not.. I just got married and I dont want to get divorced already :)




Ok so on with the tour...... We are all so awesome!!! Check out all my new friends and the beautiful creations they have made!!! Please leave us comments its so nice to know that you like or dont like something we do.. Ok please like it LOL!



If you want please follow... I am so excited to have 46 followers!! OMG!!!!!! WOOOHOOOO! PARTYYYY......... I love you all :) Can we make it 50 this week???!! Please share me!!! LOL Do I sound desperate?? LOL





Ok now on to something a little more EXCITING!!!!!!!!!!!!!The ladies of Serenade are blowing me away again!!!! Here are some very talented ladies that want to share their ideas also!

If you click on the names you can follow a link to each posts for the directions and places to leave comments! :) Comments are appreciated by me and I know the others also.. See something you like.. let me know.. see something I could change to make it better.. umm well grrr (just kidding) please let me know :) I am always open for suggestions to better my craft!




Agnes






As usual she has created something so awesome!!! Hard to be in this group.. Everyone is soooooo good!!!!!!!








Abby












Gaby






Helen
















Ohh Snap








Jessica

Playing with Serende by Flowerdisco and Friends!

Welcome to our new series

(copied from Flowerdisco's page)"Playing with Serenade by flowerdisco and friends"

Today it is our first Showcase of the series.
Serenade Creative features are:
Layer and Shadow
You can use it them as follows or any combination you wish:
Base non-shift, Base shift, layer and shadow.


I am so excited about being part of such a talented group of women! WOOOHOOO here we go :)

Please feel free to comment or become a friend! I love making new friends...

When we picked this series we also split up the pages we were to use.

My first Image to use is the rain cloud number 7 in the list. I always look for the rainbow that is often found following a dark cloud!!! So that is what inspired me to do this card...

The card is cut at 5 :) I used the latte pack from DCWV I just love all the dark colors Well its rainy colors!

I wanted to use a new (ok well new to me) idea. I had several packages the cricut markers! They are so simple! Just take out the housing and place the tiny marker inside and thats IT! :) EASY!!!!

Ok so here are the wonderful designs from all the ladies :) ENJOY

Agnes

Abby

Gaby

Helen

Jessica

Sally