Suzanne Griffin

This is my card for the Color Inspiration Challenge. Sorry the photo isn't better...new camera...and I have no idea what I'm doing or how to use the software. The base is old olive, the face is not quite navy. I kissed the so saffron with swirls of blissful blue then stamped it on the glossy paper. Here is one of the cards we made in our stamp club this month. The words are embossed with Gold Glory and the scallop punch is pretty in pink. This is a card I put together tonight to complete 3 seperate challenges, so I combined them all into one card. They were for techinque, colors and the layout per SCS. I plan to use this as a Father's Day card from his little girl. The colors are Chocolate chip, sage and vanilla. The little girls dress and hat are piece work cut out of sage and pasted ontop of the orignal stamped image then I colored with marker the picture.

Color Inspiration Challenge #10 Kristina has posted her color challenge for us to play with. I'll post the card I'm working on later. Want to play along? This week the colors are: Old Olive, Bashful Blue, Whisper White, So Saffron and Not Quite Navy.

A friend and I are joining efforts to start selling some of our cards. I love making them, it is good therapy for my soul. Yesterday, late afternoon, when I had answered my 1000 th question of the day, over things like "is the brown recluse or the black widow more poisonius?" "Can you take us in an airplane someday?" "Why do they call it an aquarium?" "What are we having for snack time?" I could feel my blood pressure rising and told the kids that momma needed a time out for 10 minutes. I set the timer, assigned Makensie to play with baby and I headed to my bedroom to crash on the bed thinking I wanted to just cry, sleep or scream and didn't care which. But when I got there I saw the Country Living magazine laying there and rather than seeing a wonderfully decorated dining room, I felt like John, from the movie A Beautiful Mind, all the colors were jumping off the page begging me to pay attention to them. So I grabbed the magazine an...

Gabby had her kindergarten graduation last week and she got a Barbie digital camera as her gift. She is always asking me to take a picture of something, so felt this was a good responsible gift for her. Me taking a picture for her, wouldn't be a burden if....we had a camera. Yes folks, we had the disposable camera. I love having one in the diaper bag and my purse, but for good pictures, sorry, it just got frustrating. Plus I would pay $8 to develop a roll only to discover that Allen took 5 pictures of the exact same thing to make sure 1 turned out good, or that one of the kids tried to take a picture of the floor or the teeth of the other kids, or I took 3 pictures of really nothing just so I could take the film in to get developed. Ugh. So this past week, we invested in a camera ourselves. Now hopefully, Wyatt being the 4 th won't grow up to think he was adopted when he was 2 from a lack of pictures proving otherwise. So...of course we've heard a lot of "Sm...

This is our discussion in the Created To Be His Help Meet group this week. You'll soon see why I was hesitant to post. This is a touchy subject and often times it is such an emotional one because so many women, even if they want to, do not have a choice. Whether be it from their husbands lack of support, or the financial situation he has led them into. Often hurt shows up in the form of defensiveness. So please, let us all keep our tongues and manners. Seems it is easy to be tolerant of others views as long as those views match up with our own. I love you guys, I warn you, that if you are mean to me, I'll cry. But since I can't resist putting my tongue to the frozen pole with the triple dog dare...here you go.... Chapter 20-Keeper of the Home Titus 2:5 5To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. Well this was a short and to the point chapter. However my post this week, is not so short, in fact, I th...

The older kids are memorizing the books of the Old Testament. Brian was reciting them yesterday: 1 Chronicles 2 Chronicles Ezra California

At Leanne's during the yard sale last weekend, her brother started a little fire out back to burn some brush in the fire pit. Brian was beyond excited when he found out the plan. "I LOVE fire!" Each time I looked out Brian was helping Neal stir the ashes and fire with his long stick. When he came in to tell me all the details, I noticed a distinct smell. As he turned his head, the entire side of his hair was cinged on the ends, all fragile and curly. Nice.

Me: Sorry guys, the BBQ doesn't look so great tonight. Gabby: It's worse than you think.

Did you know that if one of your kids pulls the trigger on the Fire Extinguisher in the kitchen that it covers everything in a fine sheet rock like dust?