Does anyone else feel overwhelmed  around this time of year?

Baseball games, teacher appreciation week, 8th grade graduation, all of the field trips for both boys, 8th grade dinner and dance, signing up the youngest for summer school, swim lessons, meeting w/new football coach for high school freshmen, weight training schedule,... 

I'm not listing all of this stuff to brag. It seems we, as a society tend to brag about how busy we are. My big question is, how do mom's or dad's that both work outside of the home do it? I'm baffled. And mostly, in awe of those of you who do all of the above, AND work a 40hr job. My hat's off to all of you who pull it off. 

Oh, and just one lil' scrappy set of tags here. 

 Back of the tag below. Room to put a special little greeting.

    Hope everyone has a fabulous wednesday!

Lots of summer cards and embellishments

Hope everyone had a lovely weekend.

I had a great time making so many new embellishments and summer pretties and cards. We so need summer here. This rain is just too much but it's nice to finally feel the sunshine.

 

 

The tags have been sent to the winners and I will be having another giveaway THIS WEEK! Stay tuned and thanks for stopping by.

~*~



Giveaway WINNERS!

WHOOOO's been a bad bad blogger....

 

Me, that's who.

 

 

Talk about letting time get away from me. And there's no excuse as we're all busy.

 

I apologize to those who were waiting to see who won the tags in my givaway!

 

I have 2 winners from all of the entries on my blog and facebook page!

Lisa Rukin Swift

and

Rebecca Essink

 

Please email me your address to:

laneydalayney@yahoo.com and let me know which one set, of the 3 different styles you would like!

Thank you everyone for particapating and I will be having another new giveaway next week!

 

 





Graduation and school colors....

How was your weekend? We had our first baseball practice, lots of rain and even a bit of snow. Come on spring... we need your sunshine!

 

I've been working on a graduation line of items lately.Cards, scrapbook embellishments, gift bags and another centerpiece paper bouquet. These can all be customizable with your favorite school colors! Take a peek!

 

Love red and black. Funny thing is, I love making OTHER people's school colors. My highschool (ages ago) , our school colors were orange and black. halloween colors. I was never fond of them .  Always thought a bright baby blue and black would look so cool. Oh well, wear your school colors with pride.

What were yours?



MY FIRST GIVEAWAY! Come join me!

Hello fellow bloggers and blog readers! I am announcing my first blog giveaway which I'm so happy to do. I've been working on tons of new tags as the spring bug has caught me, and you know my love of colors.  The backs of the tags have a scalloped rectangle for you to add a short note on.

So....

Here's what you do!

1. Leave  comment below.

2. Become a follower of my blog OR facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/Chucklesandcharms

Thats it! 

 

For every 20 people that do that, I'll give away another set of 4 tags.

If you win one of my set of tags, AND... you also shared this on your blog, OR facebook page, YOU will WIN DOUBLE TAGS. (8)

Hopefully that's not too many steps! So get the word out! More chances of winning. And I've made a heck of alot of tags to give away.

I will pick the winners a week from today!

~Good luck and happy crafting~



Baby buggies, baby buggies, baby buggies....say that fast 5 times...

Tuesday morning and I think I'm still sleeping as I type this. So funny how the days you want to sleep in (like the whole week of the kids spring break) ... you're up at 6am anyways. And then days like today when you have to get up? You could have slept till noon! Ok, well, maybe not noon. I haven't been able to do that for 10 years, but, at least 8am!

 

 

Two shabby chic cards today. Or are they now calling it "cottage chic" ? Anyone know the difference? Well, it's a style that I adore, but have never been good at. I so love all of the paper crafters that do all the shabby and vintage cards and layouts. Here's my "attempt" at it. The lil' babies are cute at least. Hope you have a terrific day!

 



Happy Monday morning~ We had a wonderful week off for spring break. Sadly, in a bout 10 minutes I'll be waking my boys up for school  and it's back to the grind. Baseball starts today for my oldest, and my youngest should be starting swim lessons soon. Funny how fast the hours go by with all the activities!

2 cards, both made from doodlebug's "All boy" line.

Better get my day started! Hope everyone has a terrific week! I will be having my first blog giveaway starting THIS WEDNESDAY so be sure to come check it out !