Holiday Wishes

Here's another wonderful shaker card using some great Turkish lace to go with it. I love this cute kit, I hope they have something similar in the future.  Today all the teachers are off from school, but the teacher assistants have to do training.  "SIGH" just another day of fun.  NOT.

Glad we will finally be on break after this event today.  Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Be Merry

Here's a hilarious image from the Stamping Bella Oddballs line.  I just love their hilarious images including this reindeer. It actually comes in a set with several other reindeer.  I got the santa on this card at my local Paper Source store.  The sentiment used comes with the stamp.

Hope you have wonderful plans for the holiday.  Hugs, Holley

Let it Snow

Here's the cutest Unity Stamp today that I thought was perfect for the season, though I must say, forget the "Let it Snow" part. As a resident of Texas I am not much a fan of that stuff.  But that snowman was so very cute that I just couldn't resist him!

Hope you are having a great week.  I can't believe there's so little time now before Christmas break.  The kids are getting restless for sure.

Christmas Shaker card

Here's another darling shaker card from Paper Source.  Isn't that a great kit?  I thought perhaps it was kind of expensive at 16.95, but after I made all the cards (it was a card making kit, but I used the end product to make cards) it was totally worth it.

Hope you have a wonderful week!  Here's to three more days of peace (with the kiddos) before Christmas break!

Thanks everyone

Huge thanks to everyone for the wonderful Birthday wishes, the Birthday cards, the sweet gifts I received at school and the cute kids who made me cards and sang to me  Happy Birthday. I felt very special.  Huge hugs to you guys!

Hope you Have a Holly Jolly Christmas

Here's a fun Christmas card, of course you know I wish all of you a Holly Jolly Christmas every year. HA!  I always hated people telling me that as a kid, but now I just find it funny.  Strange how such a silly thing would bother a child huh?

This cute card is for the current contest over at the YSBP Challenge contest. The image comes from Moonflower Digistamps.  We'd love for you to drop by and join in our fun this year!  Come share your latest and greatest creations with us.

It's the big 49!!

Happy Birthday ME!  Yep, it's that day, the BIG 49!!  Of course, I have been telling the kiddos that I am 50 years old for about the last 3 years.  Ha!  So when my actual birthday comes around and they do ask (you know, as polite kids do, ha!!)  I will tell them I am only 49, they are like, but I thought you were 50!  I am like, when you're my age, they are all the same.

Hope you all have a fabulous day.  Eat some cake for me!

Snow Globe card

Here's a lovely shaker box card that I made and I added some gorgeous Turkish Lace to go with it.  I loved the cute kit from Paper Source.

I hope you are having a great week. It's well less than 2 weeks until Christmas break now, all the other teachers and I are on a 7 day countdown, lol!

Trust Yourself

Here's an awesome Unity Stamp today with a great message to go with her.  I think sometimes it is hard to Trust you own judgements and feelings.  But it's important.  This has been a long couple of weeks for me.  Trust Yourself is a good mantra to go with!

I hope  you all have a wonderful Thursday.  Thanks so much for visiting my blog.  I must also say that I am starting to get ready for my February celebration.  SO many prizes are coming,  this is year 10!!!  wow.

Zombie Owl

Loving these stamps over at Miss Rach Stamps new shop called the Dead Sea Toons.  They are just too much fun! I tried to think up a funny saying for this one, but it just escaped me....I know, I know, how can I not think up a zombie saying with the work OWL?

Check out all her other forest animal Dead Sea Toons HERE....plus she has the cutest christmas animal ones HERE.  EEEK, how can you not love these?

Shaker Box Card

Sharing another cute Snow Globe card that I made from a kit by Paper Source.  One nice thing about this kit is that all 12 of the images are different.   So each card that I made is individually unique.  I appreciated that about the kit.

Hope you are having a great Tuesday. Have a wonderful Wednesday tomorrow.

Hugs for Sandra

Hugs and Prayers to my dear friend Sandra Caldwell who is the artist behind this cute stamp!  I just love her to pieces and I hope she feels better soon.

Hugs Sandra.  Here's a little get well card for you, I used some wonderful Turkish lace on it too.  Many prayers.

Guest Designer Em Louise Fairley

Here's a wonderful card that I recently received from Em Louise Fairley.  She was a prize winner back in Feb.  This card she made is just STUNNING.  WOW.  Check out her amazing blog with out projects using piercing, HERE.

Llama Love

Sharing a little Llama Love today!  Here's another project from that cute set of Snow Globe shakers  I got.  This one I actually made first, and into a snow globe instead of a card. I think these would also be cute on a wall or hanging on a tree or something.

TOO fun.  Have a great weekend everyone.  Just two more weeks until Christmas break.

Adore

Here's the cutest Gorjuss Girl stamp. I just can't resist these wonderful images.  This artist is fabulous. I don't know what draws me to them, maybe I can see a little of myself in them, but then my husband is like, how is that possible, she doesn't have a mouth, lol!!

I added some wonderful Turkish lace to it.  I am still planning on a trip to Turkiye this summer.  It will be good and bad as I may facing a change at work as well.  I could very well be leaving for the summer and not knowing if I will have a job, lol!!  EEEK.  Wish me luck though, I just applied to a job I would love....

We Wish you...

Here's the cutest little guy from Notturno Digi Art. I love this artists images, she has all kinds of wonderful clip art.  This cute image came in a wonderful set from her ETSY store. drop by and check out her fun images HERE.  I have several other cute images in this set that I will be sharing with you too!  Keep an eye out.

Cheers, Holley

Merry Creepmas!

Merry Creepmas!  Here's a fun little tree from Oddballs Stamps. I just LOVE their images, esp the girl stamps, but I also have to just LOVE the skull images as well.  Couldn't resist picking up this cutie the last time I was checking out their store.  TOO much fun.

Have a great hump day!

Winter Snowglobe

Sharing a winter theme shaker card today using a kit that I got from Paper Source.  The kit was not for card making, but I commandeered the parts of the kit to make the snow globes and then used resulting globe to make a winter theme card.  It was an adorable little set that made 12 different globes.

Hope you are having a great first week of December. I am happy to be back and  going in school.  Just three weeks until Christmas Break.

Hugs, Holley

I love you this much....

Unity stamps is have a gratitude stamp mini challenge on their facebook this week.  I thought I would enter this cute card that I made for, well, you know!!  He's been so super supportive lately even though this school year as been super stressful.  What a keeper!!

I hope you have a fun Unity card of Gratitude that you would like to enter into the challenge as well.  I am ready to face the next three weeks of school before Christmas break.  Hope you have a great week.

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Sharing this wonderful image from MoonFlower Digi stamps today as we start the new contest at Your Scrapbook Place Challenge blog this month.  I'd love to see you drop by over there and share any creation you make with us.  Our prize will be a goody from MoonFlower Digistamps.

I can't believe we are already in December now.  Just three weeks (or 15 working days) until Christmas break for us and the kiddos.  I think even though we just finished Thanksgiving Break, we are all looking forward to an additional break.  This school year has been particularly hard.

Guest Designer Lynnette

So yesterday I told you about a nice lady and her grand daughter who would sometimes bring me coffee on those very cold mornings when I stand out in front of the school (read it here)  well the other day I found out she is also a stamper!!  How cool is that?!?

I was given a delightful project in time for Thanksgiving, shown below.

She (Lynnette) sells Stampin' Up, so if you don't have a Stampin' Up representative, check out her Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/myalleyshop/  (lol, even if you do have a stampin' up representative, check out her page!!  she has all  kinds of great projects and ideas, teaches classes and sells goodies :)

Happy Day

Sharing this wonderful new image from Sherri Baldy today.  Don't we all love coffee?  I must say I am not a huge coffee drinker, but everyday I stand outside of the school and this dear child and her mother have been bringing me coffee and some of the super cold days!  Now how sweet is that???  I was blown away that some nice strangers would think of me standing outside of the school in the mornings.  Must say, I am very much enjoying that hot coffee on those days.

This darling image you can find at her Besties Shop.  Enjoy checking out all her wonderful products.

Happy Thanksgiving

Wishing Everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving.  I am extremely grateful to be here each and everyday, though somedays I complain, lol.  Thanks to brain surgeries, I am still alive and seizure free!  

What are you grateful for?

You're a deer!

Sharing this adorable animal stamp today from Unity Stamps. I just love their images from artist Tierra Jackson.  She does the most adorable baby (and grown up) animal images.  I just bought a huge lot on Ebay, some of which I already own so they will like be used as prizes in my upcoming celebration (knock on wood), this year it's going to be  HUGE, as I am hitting 10 years!!!

WOO HOO!!!  So if you haven't already marked your calendar, Keep the month of February in mind because it will be prizes galore on Holley's Blog!!  WOO HOO!!

Love one another

Here's a lovely image from Ike's Art that is just perfect for this month's challenge at the Ike's World Challenge, K is for Kindness.  This stamp is "Kindness"  I colored it up using copic markers and added a sweet little sentiment "love one another."

I am also using some lace that I got in Turkieye though not lace I would consider Turkish Lace as it was bought in a scrapbooking type store and not a lace store.  Hope this card makes you feel warm and fuzzy today.  Cheers, Holley