My Special Mini for Stephi (withagrin)

Stephi and I decided to do a mini swap...........decided last year! We took our time, and boy did I ever take my time. To my "Special Stephi " thank you from the bottom of my heart for "being who you are" ~ I hope you will cherish this forever. Love and Hugs to you my Friend, Love, Velma

Sneaky Peek for Stephi (withagrin)

My Beautiful Mini

A huge "THANK YOU" to my friend's that created my beautiful Mini that Bona hosted. You have truly touched my heart. I will treasure each and every page forever. All the details, your artistic talent and your "time". I appreciate each of you................and to my YouTube family~ I appreciate all of you. The gifts I have received throughout 2009 to now, all of your warm and sweet comments~ I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I LOVE my mini.

To My Husband.........

We met 25 years ago.................you are my "best friend", you are my soul mate and my "forever love". The way you love our children is incredible. I love how you take care of me, I love how you are always there for me through good times and the hard times ~ My life started the day I married you. Thank you for loving me the way you do. Happy Anniversary Babe. I love you.

I love you!

You-tube

I DO NOT, AND I MEAN DO NOT... like YOU-TUBE !!! They have changed everything! And since then, I have had so much trouble posting comments to all of you. It's so frustrating, I can't even go in and do the "send message" under the "profile" area. Ugh..................................!

I received my beautiful Mini from Bona, Marie, Stephanie (withagrin), Michelle, Arlene and Ruthie. I wanted to leave more comments and I can't. Tomorrow I will be posting my beautiful mini that Bona was so sweet to host. Thank you Bona and thank you to all my wonderful friends...you mean so much to me! Everything and anything I tried to comment on even the videos of the mini ~ kept telling me "error, try again". So I would hit cancel and do it again and again and the same error thingy would come up.............What's wrong with those people over at U-tube? I hope they have gotten a lot of complaints and will fix it in a timely manner............yeah~ I am impatient!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANGELICA

My Timmy dies finally arrived and couldn't wait to use it on Angelica's birthday card. I waited til last minute and made this card in an hour, drying time and all. I think it's the fastest card I have ever made. I searched and searched for my green leaf vine ribbon, but no luck. I had to settle for the gold ribbon, but I liked how it came out. (I have since then found my green ribbon~ it's an older ribbon and was buried in the closet with a ton of other ribbons) Angelica loved her card~ so I was happy! Birthday Card Tag w/insert using the Timmy Birdcage............thank you Roxy & Samantha ~ Your PaperPantry..............

Messed around after breakfast at World Market. Found some hats and started messing around in the store, laughing and giggling, as usual.

Coming up~ special events and beautiful gifts from, wow, December 2009 to now! I'm way late!!! I'll be back..................Oh, and you guys are the best!

HAPPY EASTER

I am wishing all my family and friend's a wonderful Easter. God Bless all of you. I also want to say, thank you for being a part of my life. All of your warm and caring messages, all of your beautiful gifts you have given me through my crafting journey, or "just because" just warms my heart. I feel so blessed and so special ~ THANK YOU.

A VALENTINE'S TAG WITH UTEE

Here is another tag using the "Samantha Snowflake" UTEE technique. Tag measures 4x8- gold foil scraps- utee with Coffee and Platinum Stickles (and a pink Stickles)- Prima flowers- "Velma Flower"and Prima leaves. I hope you've tried creating the Samantha Snowflake! Enjoy!

Utee Technique Videos

UTEE Technique "Samantha Snowflakes"

This is the Christmas Tag I made for Stephi ~ Withagrin. I know many of you asked me to do a video on it, I've been busy with Life Stuff, so I apologize for it being seriously late! But don't forget, it doesn't have to be "just for Christmas", I will make a tag and post it on my blog, providing it comes out nice. Hope you enjoy my technique!

SOMETHING SO SPECIAL

Would you like to see something so beautiful.........that you can't take your eyes off of it? OMgosh.......it's a "MASTERPIECE", it's truly a work of "ART". And I have a ton of happy tears, because it was created just for me. What have I done to deserve such a wonderful piece of Art? Head on over to Marie's blog..........THE PRETTY PAPER BOUTIQUE.blogspot.com to see what all the tears are about! Thank you a million times Marie! I am in love, in love with what I call a true 'MASTERPIECE'! And coming from you...it means the world to me. Marie, you have truly touched my heart. Love, Ate Velma

Merry Christmas

This is for you Rosemary! I'm posting even though I can't get to my pics from your computer. Thank you for my wonderful Christmas gift and goodies and homemade "flan cake". Yummy.....we all need insulin shots for all the yummy stuff we ate this evening! (just kidding)

Rosie: we will find that paper line, even if I need to make an E-bay purchase! Thanks for searching Gelica! We love you.

Ok, so here's to staying healthy so we can make our Berkeley Birthday Road Trip on the 9th in "2010", Omgosh! Save your money baby!

After the Holidays, we all need to get busy and fill our Christmas minis with our beautiful family pictures.

Stephi, you are in my prayers to get better! I'm thinking of you........Warm Hugs to you.

Merry Christmas to all my friends. Stay Healthy and be Safe. Hugs to all of you ~ may God Bless you today and always.

Love, Velma

BLACK FRIDAY GIVEAWAY

Our beautiful, ever so loving, Stephi is doing a BLACK FRIDAY GIVEAWAY!!!! yEah, and it's going to be a kit! I cannot wait to see who wins! Ok ladies and gents, go over to:

WithaGrin.blogspot.com

Good luck Everyone!

ALCOHOL INKS

Just want everyone to know, or maybe you already know..............PLEASE DO NOT PUT ALCOHOL INKS INTO SPRAY BOTTLES. It must become "toxic" when it hits the air. The spores get into your lungs and can cause you to become very ill. I heard about it, or read it, possibly on Tim Holtz' blog a while back (I read it somewhere~can't remember) This gal was mixing and making homemade ~ this and that, used her alcohol inks in a spray bottle and started misting. She became very very ill. PLEASE PASS THIS ON............................as I don't want to see anyone become sick because of this. Alot of these products are NOT MEANT TO BE MIXED TOGETHER....................please, just be careful when making your homemade things to add to your scrapbooking minis/layouts, cards~ and whatever else you create. Thanks for listening!

DSC Gypsy Market Kit

For my September DSC kit, I used my photos from the August Expo. Here, Rosemary and I met Marie, Arlene and Bona. Rosemary saw them first~ she recognized them from their blogs! Alot of smiles and laughter!

On the front cover, I used Marie's technique~ tearing the cardboard to show the coragated areas. I love this idea! Thanks Marie! (A Pretty Paper Boutique). The thick lace piece from the kit I sprayed with Tattered Angels Mist in Olive with a little touch of Copper mist and used it to hold journaling spots and photos.

Lollipop Flowers

Hi Everyone! gosh, it's been a while huh? I've been busy with this and that, and moving my scrappy space downstairs. Not thinking it was going to be such a large project, I soon discovered I had misplaced alot of things during this process but did carry around my kit from DSC, September Gyspy Market. Also, I was in the middle of trying to perfect my lollipop flowers. I cut the circles out, burned the edges (I learned from RoxyCar1) ~ put in the flower centers...........but still wasn't happy with them, something was missing!

I finally perfected them ~to my liking~ by watching Hope, from MsScrappaperScissors.blogspot.com ~ she did a tutorial on her lollipop flowers and added "stickles"! I am on a stickles kick now, and that was it! I used my stickles and I love how my flowers turned out! Thank you Hope for your inspiration! Your technique is exactly what I needed! My favorite stickles are the cinnamon and the new Coffee! I also love the copper! Take a look! (ok, my "image" thingy is doing it again..........so we wait, I'm so impatient!) Help! what am I doing wrong, as this isn't the first time this has happened)Mmm, still waiting..............