LOVE GROWS HERE Shop & Hop with Laura's Loft!!!!

Hi everyone!  We're having a Love Grows Here Shop and Hop at Laura's Loft and we're thrilled to have you with us!  If you've arrived here from Linda's blog, YAY!  If not, you can click there the PREVIOUS button above to stop back by!  If you've just discovered our hop, there's a link below to get you back to the beginning!

We're having two amazing deals this month at the Loft as well!!  All Christmas stamps are marked down 45% off!!  Plus, get $10 off your $75 purchase with coupon code 10off75!

We've gathered some amazing talent from our DT members today and I'm sure you will love what everyone has created.   

I'm featuring a fabulous stamp set today from Laura's Loft, CAS-Ual Fridays Lovely!  I'm also using the same Curtis Background that I used yesterday.  I wanted to showcase that you can use the same stamps for girly cards and masculine cards!

I also liked the idea of a "love" card that wasn't all red and white and romance!

This card also uses the Curtis Background, as well as the Tag Buddies I featured yesterday.  This was my spin on GIRLY with the same background. I like stamps that work for several projects!

We're once again having a fabulous contest on Instagram!

There are several ways to enter and the more comments you make in the different social media platforms, the more entries you earn! It is required that you comment on each blog in the Hop.  After that, you are encouraged to like and comment on our Facebook page, tag on our Instagram post and pin on Pinterest, as well as share on your own pages. The participant with the most entries wins the fabulous prize package! How cool is that!?!

Next on the hop is Valentina!!  Be sure to visit, she has some gorgeous creations in store for you!

If you get lost along the way, here's all your stops in order:

Laura

Deana

Jasmine

Robbie

Emma

Sue

Kim

Linda

Lisa <----YOU ARE HERE!!!

Valentina

Thanks so much for looking and happy hopping.  Laters!!!

CAS-Ual Fridays with Laura's Loft!!!

Happy Wednesday all!  I'm here with a special post today with Laura's Loft and CAS-ual Fridays!!  This is a really special release with Laura's Loft as there's a brand-new Girlfriends collection releasing today!  These stamps and dies were previously only available to Stamps of Approval memberships, so it's your first chance to get them!!

I created this card using the Curtis Background from the Girlfriends Collection.  I'm also using the Tag Buddies Fri-Die!  Check back here tomorrow to see another project using the same stamp in a different way!

Now I know it's called the Girlfriends collection, but I thought it would be fun to use the items to make a masculine card!

Be sure to visit everyone else in the hop to see their amazing creations!

Laura - Deana - Jasmine - Emma - Sue - Kim - Linda 

Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting!

**NEW BEGINNINGS** New Challenge with Creative Moments!!

Happy Hump Day!!  It's our first challenge of 2016 at Creative Moments and our theme is New Beginnings!  Weddings, babies, you name it!  Of course you can always play Anything Goes, but why not challenge yourself to craft outside the box?  Our lovely sponsor is QKR Stampede and I'm working with Wedding Cake.

Just a few challenges:

• Inspiration Destination - #66 Anything Goes
• Artistic Inspirations - #147 Anything Goes
• Sweet Stamps - Anything Goes
• Not Just Cards - #28 Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp Monday - Something New (New wedding, I used new markers and new cards) 1/5
• Word Art Wednesday - #217 Anything Goes 2/5

Be sure to visit the blog to see what the rest of the DT have created.  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

**SKETCH** New Challenge with Crafty Creations!!

Welcome to our first Crafty Creations challenge of 2016!!  This fortnight we have a Sketch challenge for you!  Check out this fun sketch!

Our lovely sponsor is SLS Lines and I'm working with Pretty Girl with Roses.

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Inspiration Destination - #66 Anything Goes
• Artistic Inspirations - #147 Anything Goes
• Sweet Stamps - Anything Goes
• Not Just Cards - #28 Anything Goes
• Word Art Wednesday - #217 Anything Goes 1/5

Be sure to visit the blog to see what the rest of the DT created!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

800 Posts

I was gonna say 800 cards but I'll bet that even though some posts are tags or ornaments or even a shadowbox, there's a good possibility I've shown more than 800 cards.  Some posts have more than one card and one time there were four so...anyway.

I'm so proud of myself because I've stuck with this.  The only things I've ever stuck with are crafting and music.  And vampires.  And Friends reruns.  Okay I'm on a tangent the point is, I've been at this for awhile and I love it, and I'm hoping to keep at it for awhile longer.

My card is Twilight-themed because aren't all my important posts Twilight themed?  I received an amazing Twilight stamp set for Christmas, so I made this.

More than a few challenges for this one!

• DLArt Linky Party
• Inspiration Destination - #68 Anything Goes
• Artistic Inspirations - #147 Anything Goes
• Sweet Stamps - Anything Goes
• Not Just Cards - #28 Anything Goes
• Scrappers Delight - #51 Anything Goes
• Scrappy Land - #33 Anything Goes with a Die They Sell (Spellbinders)
• Brown Sugar - #181 Movie Madness 1/2
• Craft Your Passion - #295 Anything Goes 1/3
• Creative Ladybirds - #11 Anything Goes 1/3
  Julia Spiri - #9 Anything Goes/Monotone 1/3 
• Where The heART Is - #5 Anything Goes 1/3
• Vintage Stampers Challenge - #40 Anything Goes/Use your New Stash 1/3
• Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes with a Die 1/3
• Simply Papercraft - #21 Anything Goes 1/3
• Create and Inspire - #37 Anything Goes 1/3
• Scrapbook Stamp Society - #83 Anything Goes 1/3
• That Craft Place - Anything Goes 1/3
• 613 Avenue Create - #159 Anything Goes 1/3
• Creative Fingers - #100 Anything Goes 1/3
• Pixie Snippets Playground - #212 Anything Goes 1/3
• Morgan's Art World - #1 Anything Goes 1/3
• Eureka Stamps - #176 Pile It On 1/3
• Come and Get It - Embossing 1/3
• Hiding In My Craft Room - #234 Embossing 1/3
• As You Like It - Favorite Project (obviously this--it's Twilight and 800 blog posts!!!)
• Crafty Calendar - Something New 1/3 (new stash!)
• Cardz 4 Gals - #13 Something New 1/3 (new stamps!  New paper and glitter too.)
• A Bit More Time To Craft - #12 Anything Goes 1/5 
• Penny's Paper Crafting Challenge - #260 Anything Goes 2/3
• Word Art Wednesday - #217 Anything Goes 4/5
• Stamps + Fun = Creativity - #270 Anything Goes
• Inky Chicks - #61 Anything Goes
• Ruby's Rainbow - #120 Show Us Something New (new stamps!)

Thank you so much for looking and sharing this journey with me.  To the next 800 posts!  Laters!!

**ANYTHING GOES** New Challenge with Crafting From The Heart!!

It's a new challenge at Crafting from The Heart and as always our theme is Anything Goes!!!  Our lovely sponsor is Aurora Wings and I'm working with Stars!

My first card to enter into challenges this year!!!

• DLArt Linky Party
• Inspiration Destination - #66 Anything Goes
• Artistic Inspirations - #147 Anything Goes
• Sweet Stamps - Anything Goes
• Not Just Cards - #28 Anything Goes
• Word Art Wednesday - #216 Anything Goes 1/5

Be sure to visit the blog to see what the rest of the DT have created!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

2016 Goals and Accomplishments

To see how I fared with my 2015 goals, click here.

Randomness

1. Watch Glee Entire Series
2. Watch Roswell Entire Series
3. Watch all five Twilight movies over five nights
4. Watch all five Twilight movies in one night
5. Watch Veronica Mars Entire Series
6. Watch VM Movie after finishing series
7. Watch both versions of BD1 in the same night
8. Watch BD1 & BD2 in the same night
9. Watch Gilmore Girls Entire Series (completed 3/30/16 while sobbing--can't WAIT for A Year In The Life!!!!!!!!!!)  (And two more times throughout the year woohoo!!)
10. Organize SU stuff by theme
11. Organize punches--toss bad ones
12. Use an entire 12 x 12 paper pad
13. Use an entire 6 x 6 paper pad
14. Use 2 8 x 8 paper pads
15. Hang all your posters/prints
16. Watch all of Charmed
17. Finish one of your scrapbooks - ANY one of them!!!
18. Start Christmas tags in January and make at least 12 over the year--KNOW WHERE THEY ARE!!!!!!!
19. Watch the following movies:

• Better Living Through Chemistry
• Friends With Kids
• The Lifeguard
• No Strings Attached
• People Like Us
• The Romantics
• The Runaways
• Struck By Lighting
• The Switch 4/16/16 B really cute!
• Table For Three
• What If 1/1/16 REALLY CUTE B
• When In Rome
• You Again 1/24/16 SO STUPID D

19. Read 25 books this year

• The Sound of Gravel
• What Was Mine
• The Choice (SO.  GOOD.)
• This Raging Light (WOW.  AMAZING.)
• First Comes Love (good but annoying)
• Don't You Cry (good, but not a great ending)
• Luckiest Girl Alive (good, but she was demented, but a product of her environment)
• Talking As Fast As I Can (I READ it as fast as I could, amazing)

Movies Watched Per Week:

1. What If (B - SUPER CUTE), Serendipity, God awful crap Louie picked
2. SCREAM, Moonstruck, Dirty Dancing, Sleepless In Seattle
3. Sleepless In Seattle, Dirty Dancing, 13 Going on Thirty, SATC
4. Spy (B, HILARIOUS), 27 Dresses, Sleepless In Seattle, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
5. You Again, Sleeping Beauty, Grease, Dazed and Confused, Sleepless In Seattle
6. SATC
7. 27 Dresses, Devil Wears Prada, Safe Haven, The Notebook
8. 27 Dresses, Notting Hill, Magic Mike XXL
9. Serendipity, Magic Mike, Drive Me Crazy,
10. You've Got Mail, Practical Magic, Two Weeks Notice
11. SATC x 2, Sleepless In Seattle
12. Serendipity, Sleeping With The Enemy
13. SATC, Clueless, Serendipity, Pitch Perfect 2, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, Sleepless In Seattle x 2, You've Got Mail
14. You've Got Mail, Dirty Dancing, Sleepless In Seattle, The Incredibles
15. Dirty Dancing, Romeo & Juliet, Practical Magic, Maid In Manhattan, Sleepless in Seattle, The Switch, Pitch Perfect 2, Batman VS Superman (A-, SO GOOD)
16. The Wedding Planner, Deep End of the Ocean, Sleepless In Seattle, Mother's Day (B-, it was cute but I didn't like a lot of the cast and I don't like movies with huge casts), Dirty Dancing, Breakfast Club, Gone in 60 Seconds
17. Catch & Release (A, LOVED IT despite Jennifer Garner!), Roman Holiday, Never Been Kissed, Captain America Civil War (A, best Marvel movie yet), 10 Things I Hate About You, Serendipity, Man From UNCLE, It's Complicated, Romeo & Juliet
18. 10 Things I Hate About You, Catch & Release, The Incredibles, Rattatouie
19. SATC, Catch & Release, Grease, Sleepless In Seattle, An Affair To Remember, Scream 3, Devil Wears Prada, Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood
20. Sleepless in Seattle, Fifty Shades of Grey, Man From UNCLE, Catch & Release, Beautiful Girls, Jurassic World (which I STILL don't get like the rest of the world does!!!), Friends with Benefits, Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood
21. Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3, H:20, Dazed & Confused, The Choice C, because it was SO VASTLY DIFFERENT from the book.  I mean WHY???  And I hated the guy.), Sleepless In Seattle, You've Got Mail
22. You've Got Mail x2, Sleepless In Seattle, Magic Mike, Forces of Nature, Finding Dory (A, SO CUTE!!!), Dirty Dancing
23. Dirty Dancing, 27 Dresses, Practical Magic, You've Got Mail, Center Stage On Pointe (I'd give if a B-, it was a lot like the first one), Full Out (SO LAMELY DONE C-)
24. Twilight, You've Got Mail, The Lucky One
25. ------
26.  Magic Mike XXL
27.  Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Loser
28.  Loser, Finding Nemo, Man from UNCLE, 
29.  Moonstruck, 13 Going on 30, 
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35. Sleeping with the Enemy, 27 Dresses, Truth About Cats & Dogs, Friends with Benefits, Dirty Dancing, Moonstruck
36. You've Got Mail, 
37. You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, Dirty Dancing, Brooklyn (HBO, B), 
38. You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, A Perfect Murder, The Ugly Truth, Spy, Clueless
39. Dirty Dancing, An Officer & A Gentleman, It's Complicated
40. Cruel Intentions, 
41. 27 Dresses, Mr. Right (Netflix, D, awful movie), In Time
42. Maleficent, Tiger Eyes (C+ it wasn't bad for Lifetime)
43. Practical Magic, The Accountant (C - SO DARK), Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates (D-, horrid even if Zac is hot), Room (C, done well but so hard to watch couldn't watch again), Pitch Perfect, 10 Things I Hate About You, Man From UNCLE
44. 2 Horrid Unwatchable Lifetime Movies, Parts of 3 indescribably awful Hallmark movies, Must Love Dogs
45. Dirty Dancing, 13 Going on Thirty, The Lucky One
46. Dirty Dancing, Elf
47. Dirty Dancing, Sleepless In Seattle
48. Dirty Dancing, Practical Magic, Toy Story 2, Elf, Love The Coopers, 13 Going on Thirty, While You Were Sleeping, Romy & Michele
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50.  The Grinch, Serendipity, Miracle on 34th Street
51. The Lucky One, Pitch Perfect, Serendipity, The Santa Clause x 2, White Christmas, Elf x 3, A Christmas Carol, The Santa Clause 2, One Magic Christmas, You've Got Mail
52. Miracle on 34th Street, White Christmas, Beastly, The Sound Of Music (I'll give it a C because it was SLOW but it was good), SATC, 

Craftiness

Creative Goals:

1. Ten Design Teams
2. Make 400 Cards
3. Make All 12 TH Tags of the Year
4. 500 Challenges Entered
5. 100 Linky Parties Entered
6. Finish Craft Room Decor
7. Twilight posters matted and hung
8. Canvases finished and hung
9. Make red, black & clear bracelet for yourself

Cards Created By Month
GOAL: 400 (35 per month)
Actual/YTD

Jan: 21
Feb: 24 (45)
Mar: 29 (74)
Apr: 16 (90)
May: 20 (110)
Jun:  32 (142)

Jul:  23 (165)
Aug: 16 (181)
Sep: 23 (204)
Oct: 18 (222)
Nov: 26 (248)
Dec: 17 (265)

INK UP All Those Stamps!!! (met 12/1/16!)
Goal: 250
Actual: 272

Swagbucks:

Whole-month Bonus: 8 months out of the year (2)

$75 goal per month

Jan. $250

Feb. $75

Mar. $75
Apr. $50

May $100

Jun.  $75

Jul.  $75

Aug. $75

Sep. $75

Oct. $75

Nov. $150

Dec. $125