month 
Nicole totally outdid herself with projects and brought this adorable pizza box filled with valentine's idea... Too cute! We always work with a new technique each month and this month was everything markers - from colouring images, to applying to stamps, to striping ribbon - so many cute ideas!! Here's a link to the instructions for this
proje
ct:)
The theme was 'blessing'. I altered a tin to make a blessing box for her to store momentos and notes that remind her of how blessed she is in. Inside the tin, I placed an altered notebook for her to write in. I also made an explosion mini-album... inside it are reminders of blessings in her life (I'll post this with a link to instructions on another day). And last, but not least, I made an acetate box (using this week's Splitcoast tutorial) that I filled with heart-shaped Reese's Peanut-butter Cups! ...afterall, every girl needs a little chocolate:) I'll post links to project instructions in the next few days....
While we were away, Les took me to a few scrapbook shops:) I take him to guitar shops when we travel and he has started reciprocating with scrapbook shops for me (and he never even complains when I do a second walkthrough each store!) At Scrap-a-lot one of the things I got was a Making Memories Blossom & Button Jar, and so you know I had to use it as soon as we got home. This little valentine was inspirted by Kristina's...
This is a thank you card I made for the sweetest worship leader I know who more than bent over backwards including us in her group's conference plans.
So kind:)
I made the card on the weekend for our friend Caren's birthday... In recent years she's redeveloped a fondness for pinks and recently I saw her with some kraft cardstock, so that's where the colour inspiration came from. 
The design took some inspiration from several tree cards that I have loved over the last few months like Linsday's, Mary's, Tessa's, and Lisa's:) The Season of Friendship stamp set is so versatile!
The 6th picture in this folder for me was this picture of my daughter the summer before last when she finished reading all the Harry Potter books! My girl loves to read!!
This week a coworker who works in another area, on another floor, dropped by my office with a little something for me to let me know that she was glad that I was 'here'. It was so sweet, I wanted to do up a note in response. I so loved this note idea that I posted yesterday that I drew my inspiration from there. I used the bella rose paper with contrasting pink and red because colours remind me of her:)
rs in the pictures aren't truer - they are taken at night so in artificial light and the pink alm
ost looks white in them.
I adjusted the colour setting on my camera but this was the best is could do
:)
So, Five things I am addicted to (hope I won't need a support group, but here goes...)
1. My husband - much like Tanya, I really do *need* to be with him:)
2. My sweet daughter! My whole life I wanted to be a mom - and though it appears that I can't conceive one the traditional way, God enabled me to give birth to my dolly a little over 6 years ago - and trust me, it isn't easy to give birth to a 7 year old (she was 7 at the time), but it was and is totally worth it!
3. Starbucks - ok, ok - I'll admit it, it's an addiction;) Going to Starbucks is like a mini-vacation for me from the bustle of life! ...my favourite drink - a grande caramel machiato with no fat and sugar free vanilla:)
4. Paper crafting - I love having a creative outlet. I wish I had more time to create somedays, but overall I'm so grateful to have found some time for me in this way:)
5. Music...there's always a song going through my head...and there's almost always some sort of music in my home from my hubby playing guitar, to me cranking up the tunes while I'm cooking... I love to sing:)
And five things I really really do not like (well, here goes, I'll just get it all of my chest!)...
1. I totally agree with the first one on Tanya's list - I do not like stress....
2. The second one I'll say is much like the first...pressure - I do not like to be under pressure...
3. I don't like it when someone throws guilt or a guilt trip on you. It's manipulative - plain and simple. Recently a pastor told me that 'guilt is not from God - because He can't give you what He doesn't have - and God doesn't have guilt.' - I'm still pondering that one:)
4. Judgment - I try to not pass judgment on others, but I'm sure I fail at this one all too often myself. Recently, I really felt judged by some people in my personal life - and the fact is that they didn't have all the facts and so what they were judging me for wasn't even true. It hurt me a lot.
5. Turnips - (this one's a little lighter), but I still don't like turnips, brussel sprouts or liver - I didn't like them when I was a child and I still don't today! Oh - and you can add parsnips to that list - yuck!
day and I've afraid it's still not completely finished, but the deadline is today, so here it is...my valentine's box inspired by the movie Casablanca and the Cinema Saturday movie & colour challenge. This week in addition to taking inspiration from the movie, we were to stay within a black, white and grey colour pallete and add only one additional colour of our choice. Since Casablanca is in black & white and has this sort of vintage feel to me, I chose to add brown as my choice.
Kristina's card was totally a valentine, so this card has a completely different feel.
I
had a hard time with Kristina's colour inspiration this week - I'm just not much of an pumpkin and ruby person and so my supply stash showed it, so I'm not all that happy with my card, but I did have fun playing along and pulled out my 'love matters' stampset which is one of my favourites but hasn't been used in a long time!
It's been a long while since I've been able to participate in Kristina's Colour Inspiration, so I just had to take a few minutes after supper 
tonight to 'play' along:) I was also feeling particularly inspired today by this card on the Stamping Cafe blog - so I took inspiration from Kristina's colours and Kiara's design and this is what I came up with...
