Birthday Goodies and a Candy Winner!

Hi!

I hope your week is getting off to an inky or scrappy start! :)

As promised, I'm back with a few pics of my birthday goodies along with what I got for Mother's Day AND...............my Birthday Blog Candy Winner!

First off, here's some beautiful cards I got for my birthday...

These card are from my kids, my hubby and some dear crafty friends :) thank you so much!

Now, hubby did good this year....I asked for stamp $$$ and he delivered! LOL

Then as I was in Kirkland's before my birthday supper, I found this beauty!!!

 (sorry for the wonky pic) This gorgeous piece of wall decor is going on my dining room wall. I fell in love with the giant chipboard letters and how they were decorated. When my mom saw this she said "that's you". :)

Mother's Day

This cute card is from my kiddos. They are so sweet. The plant behind is an indoor mini rose bush. I've been wanting one of these for a long time. I got this beautiful pink one for Mother's Day!

My Sweet Mama 

 Along with me giving my mom a Mother's Day card....she gave me one too!

I think she did a lovely job! thank you Mama!

NOW

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the winner of my birthday blog candy is.........

Here's her "PILE"!

There's stuff on top of stuff. To see the complete list of things included in her pile go here.

Congratulations Diane! I hope you enjoy your Candy. :)

Thanks to everyone that left a comment! I appreciate you.

Have a great day!

Until next time...

Blessings...

Melina

Happy Mother's Day!

Hello!

Happy Mother's Day to you.

...and Happy Mother's Day to my Mama. I love YOU! :)

I am sharing with you today a project I wanted to "take on". I'm not a big "altered item" crafter. Cards and Scrapbooking are mostly it. But, there was an idea that popped in my mind for our "Church Mamas". Many of you know my husband is a Minister. We Pastor a small church in a neighboring town. We are a very close knit bunch of folks. Last Mother's Day I got each of our Church Mama's a small jar candle. This year though, I wanted to give them something, by me. I am working even harder than usual this year at the old saying "Better to give......". I want to be a blessing. A song popped into my head as I thought about this...."If you want less lonely and a lot more fun, need satisfaction when the day is done, throw your heart wide open and GIVE IT AWAY" (Gaither Vocal Band, Southern Gospel).

So, I went to work. Here's what I came up with. Mind you it is small, but it is made by me for the wonderful ladies that do so much for me and my family.....

 I got mini composition books and decorated them using a couple different packs of Stampin Up! designer series paper, some white satin ribbon and a stamped image (lucky limeade ink) punched with oval punches.

Then, they had to have a pen to go along with the notebook so I used matching designer series paper to fill the pen and attached a sheer blue polka dot ribbon to the top.

 I had enough of the paper left (I got my measurements down to a science to keep from wasting any of it.....I'm a paper hoarder! :) to make chipboard flower magnets to go with the notebooks and pens. I used my Bigz L Fun Flowers Stampin Up! die to cut the chipboard and the paper (ran through the Big Shot). I used 2 circle punches for the middles and added a flat back pearl to each. I sanded the edges of the chipboard with a sanding block and then inked all the edges with Soft Suede ink and my sponge dauber. On the back of each magnet I wrote "Happy Mother's Day 2012".

Then, I added all three (1 magnet per baggie) to a goody bag filled with life savers and a small box of assorted chocolates. Yummmmm

I tied the bags up simply with white baker's twine.

I hope the Church Mamas like them!

I'm not original, I know. These have been done before and you've seen them LOTS better :)
But, it's my way of showing our church family how much they mean to us.
I learned that even though it was a size-able task, as far as the amount of things to cut and assemble....it was all worth it.

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a great day!

Until next time...

Blessings...

Melina