HaPpY BiRtHdAy!! Rio

HaPpY BiRtHdAy

Rio

I hope you enjoy your day.

Enjoy this little scrapbook to hold you 13th Birthday memories.

This is what the inside looks like. I left the pages blank so Rio can fill them in with whatever she likes, photos, notes, doodles, or any other special birthday memories.

Here are the details from the orginal post to show you how sweet Rio is:

Betty must have one of the sweetest 13 year old daughters.

 

This post is in Betty's own words from her blog:

Money, a trip, a party, or an overnight stay at Disneyland.... Rio came to me and said, "Mom, is it really really my choice what I get for my birthday?" I told her of course! So she says, "Ok, this year mom, I want money, but can I do anything at all with it? I mean anything I want mom?" Again, I said of course. "Okay, I want my birthday money to be donated to the children of St. Jude's hospital so they can have a special day, or whatever the money is needed for. I don't want to have money to just blow when I can help other kids that can't get out of bed, or go outside. That's what I want for my birthday!"

Of course I was already choking on my tears before she finished her sentence! What a marvelous request, selfless and special! I had a special image made for her 13th birthday, and I have not told her about it, or shown it to her. I am asking for a very special request myself in honor of my daughter's selflessness.

So Betty's special request was to make Rio a birthday card with this image, Rio I hope you enjoy your birthday you deserve it!! 

If you want to see all the other cards that the Simply Betty Design Team made for her you can check them out on the challenge blog ---HERE---

Thanks for looking.

~Patricia~

Also on a personal note just as I share my birthday with my mom in December my wonderful husband and his mom also share a birthday so I would like to wish them both a very Happy Birthday today.

Simply Bettys Birthday Color Challenge

It's Friday and it's time for a new challenge from

Simply Betty Challenges

Our challenge this week is to make a Birthday Valentine Card in the colors Black, Pink and Teal.

I used the very cute Betty and colored her with Copics, I cut her out with Spellbinders and well as my hearts. I also used some awesome skull embellishments from Gloria and if you like them you can get some of these ---HERE---.

My paper is from Echo Park the Be Mine Collection. My Happy Birthday is a die from Sizzix.

Now lets see what you can make and enter your card on the

Simply Betty Challenge Blog

Thanks for looking.

~Patricia~

The Beary Scraps Guest Designer Call

Have you wanted to become a Guest Designer for

The Beary Scrap?

Well nows your chance were are having a call for Guest Designers.

Get all the details on our

Store Blog

 but here is a peek at the Sketch you have to use for your entry.

I hope to see you enter.

Thanks for looking.

~Patricia~

The Beary Scrap's New Sketch Challenge

It's time for a new Sketch Challenge at

The Beary Scrap Challenge Blog

Now what to crafters do when they hook up on facebook? Get silly!

I had posted on my personal facebook page I was making a card for this post and asked what Beary Scrap Critter they wanted to see on my card? Well I was challenged to a Groundhog. Well at the moment there is not a Groundhog in the store yet so I looked for a clip are picture and used some of the pieces from Sidney the Skunk, Tear Bear, and Monty the Moose to make him out of Mulberry Paper.

My paper is from Graphic 45 and I just love this paper. I Inked all my edges with Distress Ink - Vintage Photo I cut my litte tag out with Spellbinders and also Inked with Distress Ink

Here is our Sketch to follow:

Now when I was challenged little did I know that Kimm was also taking on the challenge and if you want to see how Kimm's came out head on over to
 The Beary Scrap's Facebook Fan Page
to see. Your going to want to be a fan to because we have lots of fun coming that way.

Do you want to be a Guest Beary Scrap Designer?
Watch The Beary Scrap Blog for details coming soon.
Thanks for looking.
~Patricia~

CLP New February Challenge

It's the first of the month and it's time for a new challenge from

CLP Challenges

Now I got this card done in the nick of time. If anyone is in the Connecticut area you all know what I have been doing for days. We have had a record setting amount of snow, for January we ended up with 56.9" of snow YES that's just this month. We average 47" for the whole season. I have snow piles in my yard taller than me. We have spent the whole weekend getting all this snow off my roof, there has been a lot of roofs collapsing in our state and I wanted to make sure my roof was safe and after calling all over I finally found a roof rake Saturday morning and the fun began, NOT! But I quickly got my card done for our new challenge and I have to say for not crafting in 4 days I had plenty of mojo to make my card.

I used the very cute Magnolia Indian Tilda and colored her with Copics. All my papers are from Graphic 45. I used some pretty pink ribbon that was a very kind gift from Chelsea. I cut my mat out with Spellbinders and all my papers have been Inked with Distress Ink Vintage Photo. I added some Crystal Stickles to the outside of my mat. I add some pretty Mulberry Flowers and two hat pins.

Look a first for me I actually for once remembered to save my colors and take a picture. All these Copics were used on my Magnolia Indian Tilda.

Now here is the beautiful sketch you have to follow.

Now lets see what you can do following our sketch and enter you card ---HERE---

Here is a peek at all my snow:

This picture show you just how high it is next to my van and all the piles are this way.

You can barely see over the piles to see my van.

You can see it is as high as my deck railings.

This is on the back side over my deck on my garage just to show you how deep the snow was on my house. This is why we had to get all this snow down before the roof gave way. Mother Nature is not done with us yet we are going to be getting another huge snow storm starting Tuesday morning and not stoping till late Wednesday.

Thanks for looking.
~Patricia~