Monica's Crafts



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Cortland, Ohio, United States
I married for 17 years to a wonderful husband who has supported me ever since i have been going blind and deaf. He has been at my side at the start. He helps me with my colors as i do have trouble with colors so i ask him alot which colors go together.We take care of each other as it should.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Gone for 2 Weeks

No posting for 2 weeks. thought i would let you know that there will be no cards or scrapbooking layouts for 2 weeks as I will be going to my moms for 2 weeks as my youger sister kymm is coming for me tomorrow and taking to my moms. I have been wanting to go see my since she broke her hip along time now and she is getting out on the 24-25 of august. while there I will be going to the shepard reunion on my dad's side of the family which i haven't been to in along time and i will be going to my nieces birthday party also. Also i will be celebrating my birthday which i will be 48 at the end of the month here. So i will be back on sept 4th as i have to get blood work for my kidney dr. and for my family dr also. plus i have lots of house work to catch up on since randy will be by himself then. you know guys are when they are by themselves. LOL. So by the times i come back i should have some scrapbooking layouts to scan up for you to see as i will be scrapbooking with my sister and her friend carlina. I am taking my wizard with me and a bunch of paper and pictures and we are going to have a scrapbooking kinda of day at my sisters house. :) wait till you what I come back with. I will be scrapbooking my graduation pictures from high school. lol. of us twins back then. you will lol. when you see these. untill then.

oh, I forgot. when i come back i will announce who won my birthday blog candy that is on here also. just scroll back to find it as you have until august 31 . thank you.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Priscillastyles Blog Candy


here you can win stamps, oodles of stamps by doing what this lady like you so here is your chance to win some stamps from different companies. go now to enter by following what she needs done. :) I did.

Monday, August 17, 2009

Birthday Card for my Twin Sister


here is a birthday card that i made for my twin sister mary. the stamps used are from stampin up as are the sentiments. the cardstock is from Hollo's that is up in Brunswick. the pattern paper is unknown. I used ancient page and stampin up inks to stamp these with.the corner punch is from fiskars. I hope she loves this as I always make her card since our birthday is the last day of august. happy birthday mary. love you very much my twin.

Friday, August 14, 2009

HeartsinTouch



These cards I received from the girls from HIT . the heartin touch group. they are from debby,cecilia s,jackieb,and they sent me these card welcoming me to the group. I cannot swap with them as yet since i do not have heartsintouch stamps yet but in time i will. it all takes patience. don't they do lovely work.??

Birthday from Linda E.


Here is my very first birthday card from linda e. who is a member of stampinandtaggin which on yahoo groups. she sent me this card and she even beat my twin sister who normally is the first to send me one. sorry mary. LOL> thank you linda for card as i love it.

Monday, August 10, 2009

Stampin Up Scissors

Here is the scissors that I was talkiing about in my last post. they are from stampin up and the can cut into the littlest corners really great. With my bad eyes I had to be near my ott light to cut the flowers on the last card as they was tiny but these scissors did a wonderful on the cutting. I sure do love them very much and wondered where was I without them before?? DUH!!! trying to cut things out without them and messing up. lol. Well, if you do not have them then you need to hop on over to Dixie's stampin up website and order you some. just click on site on the right side of my blog.

Dancing Ballerina


This card was done for a 1-1 swap in Rubberstampchat. it was done for Amercian Dance. The stamps i used is from TAC. The hardest part is cutting the flowers that is between the girl and the slippers as it is so small for my eyes but i had to give it a try and get really close to the light to do it. Thanks to my new scissors from stampin up that gets really close. Love them . Thanks Dixie. I will have to post about them next time and show you all what I am talking about because if you do not have these scissors then you need to get them. boy, are they great for these tiny cuts you need get into too. black ink used is ancient page. pattern paper used is diecutswithaview.

Friday, August 7, 2009

Sweet Chicks


These stamps are from TAC and i used markers to colors these in right on the stamps themselves. Then i took a yellow ink pad and went around the edges. I also took 4 square brads. Then I a scrap piece of lemon yellow card stock for behind but i didn't want it to go all the way as i want it just about half. then I stamped sentiment which is from TAC also and from the set also. and took ancient page coal black ink and went around the sentiment and the CS. I made a bow and used a glue dot mini. The patter paper is from diecutswithaview paper stack.

Yummy Apple

The stamp, tag, scallop circle and circle, and paper piercer are all from stampin up. The markers I used are from Impress and stampin up, Impress is from TAC. The leaf paper is a scrap that I used from my scrap basket.I used foam tape to lift the tag and the scallop on the card also.

Thursday, August 6, 2009


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Here is what you need to do:1.Please become a follower.2.Add my candy to your side bar with a link to my blog.3.Then please come back and leave a comment,your comments are very much appreciated.The candy will end on the 10th August at 24.00 BST.

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Monday, August 3, 2009

Recycled Album from CD's from the mail



here is an album that I made from cd's that you get from those cd's you get in the mail. instead of throwing them away i saved them. I have a drawer full of them. I made this album because this lady here where I live at here in cortview village was doing recycling project. she said she needed 2 projects made from recycled materials. as you can see from another post on here i did make a lamb from a recycled tissue box,pudding cup, tissue paper rolls. Now this album from the cd's. the paper on here is from stamping up called bella blue. I used the sticky strips also from stampin up. yes, celia your favorite, LOL, sticky strips the red liner tape you love so well, NOT!!! LOL> Plus i added buttons in blue and white on all the pages glue dots but the back page. I use paper flowers on the front of the album and copper letter stickers that spell album which are from dollar general. the ribbon is stampin up and is retired.i used the cropadile to punch the holes in the cds and it punches the holes like butter in them. so sweet. this thursday i will turn it into beverly as she has the lamb already. so i will let you know how things turn out.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

New Challenge Blog

There is a new challenge blog called Get Sketchy. They are having some blog candy over there and if you would to join in then hop on over there as you have until august 3rd as she is drawing who will win then. just follow what she wants you to do and that is it. she is giving away cosmo cricket paper.

http://getsketchy.blogspot.com

click on this link and it will take you there.