Some Good Things I have found lately,

Here are some GOOD THINGS I HAVE FOUND LATELY. Be sure and Email me at NancywithaJones@Gmail.com if you know of a online small business (can be a store that also has online services) a you tuber, a Blogger, Or anyone that has something good they are doing that You would like to see me add to my GOOD Things I have found lately just click on that link and tell me about it. Thank you ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MY FIRST GOOD THING I want to highlight.I have already told you a little bit about before but it was just the facebook group. NOW they have the website going. It just got up and running and they are adding products to it. It's called CREATIVE FOR LESS THis will take you to the sign up page. she will have many pre orders on there soon. The site literally just got finished and put up this past week.THey are adding things and working out stuff on it so please be patient. They are getting product in and adding it. This is not all that they will carry not even close. so keep checking back!! sign up so you can be notified. You can still join the facebook group to get updates and notifications also. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My Next Good Thing I have found is THE COZY ANTLER.. This is a boutique like setting for T shirts of all occassions. Owned by my cousin (she is so beautiful I must add!!) Brandy Robertson It is mostly adult T shirts but she sometimes has kids and youth shirts also.She has other accessories on there also. The T shirts are just so cute! she has sports and funny phrases, tv show phrases and characters, Christian phrases and images and so much more. I got a very cute 4 leaf clover shirt for St. Patricks day. She has like every holiday cute shirts even the Holidays you dont think about. Here are a few examples:

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you can see all these and more as well as other accessories on her Group page at The Cozy Antler ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My friend Debby Hamilton" HEY DEBBY!!" introduced me to this You tuber That I REALLY LIKE. You probably have already heard of her. SHe has a growing audience every day. she shows detailed tutorials of simple hacks on how to do things and more advanced things also. It's called Redefined Kreative They do videos on Facebook and you tube every day. oh also INstagram. YOu can follow them on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube to be sure you don't miss anything. I save my favorite videos that I want to go back and look at again. Here is their page with lots of videos and tutorials on it. you should be able to find something fun to do there. I just love it!. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My Last but NOT LEAST Good thing I have discovered through good friends is a online store that is really good. You may know about it already. Im just oogling over her stamps AND she carries my favorite glue. (Bearly Art precision Glue) its called MAYMAY MADE IT I will be honest with you, I found the site a little bit hard to understand at first, but when I found that product list to search from I was good. It made it so much easier or to type in the search bar what I was looking for. She has a lot of product! I just love the Christian stamps that she has. AND you can sign up for stamp of the month and get the CHristian stamps or get the regular non Christian but very cute stamps. Im debating on getting the Christian stamp club. I send out a lot of cards and uplifting messages to friends that are sick and have cancer and other diseases to cheer them up and encourage them. They have some good ones with bible verses, They also have some good ones that arent biblical that are super cute as well. She has my BEARLY ART PRECISION glue also. SHE carries the Bundle for the glue also you cant just get that everywhere! She also carries The Art glitter Glue. I know lots of scrapbookers and cardmakers like that. She has lots of paper packs also I love me a good paper pack so I can make my own kits. She carries Mintay paper line!! thats hard to find other than etsy so thats awesome! I have been filling my cart with stuff (I have to wait till we get Bella's Graduation paid for) and then let it sit till summer when I can purchase stuff again. I will need my glue though. Her store is like a hidden treasure. It has so much good stuff. Well I hope you have checked out these places on my Good Things I have found lately. I try to bring you interesting and Good places that maybe you don't know about or have heard of. Im always on the search so if you know of good sites or you tubers doesnt have to be scrapbooking but I would like for it to be some type of art. I would love it if you sent them my way to feature in my Good things Ive found. Thank you and you never know you just might end up with a happy from me for the referal and a shout out!!

Some New Challenge Pages

So, I have been trying to do some of the daily challenges over at Scrapbooking The Day Away. I did a few this week but (show me your shocked face) Im running out of Photos!! I KNOW right??!! Ive been scrapping like crazy and I am caught up with Bella on her photos. Im actually telling her to take some pictures for me to scrapbook please. Yeah that works so good too I get the great response of a ::sigh:: and Oh mom!she will send me maybe one photo of her sitting on a rock or something and think that should last me a few months! Not hardly darlin'. SO I am going back and scrapping all the out takes of Christmas and other pictures that I really wasn't intending to scrap. BUT I have no more so I have to scrap them. Here are a few of the last photos I have to scrap these are also challenge pages I will list the challenges That I did. The first challenge was: *scrap a page using this tutorial (50 points) [per finished page] *use your left over scraps (50 points) [per finished page] *use more than 3 colors (25 points) [per page] *journal on your page (25 points) Well I didnt do the tutorial. AND I am not keeping up with the points. (it stressed me out and I was losing my creativity and was finding it hard to do the challenges when I was trying to keep up with the points and all so I just started doing the challenges for fun forgetting about the points and it got better. I did use my scraps use 3 colors and I journaled although its hidden on the tags behind the photo.

The hidden journaling says: I got Bellas senior portrait ( the big framed photo) for Christmas. I cried and cried. Hidden journaling says: oh Bella, I do not know what came over me, I’m sorry you got frustrated with me over my crying. I do too know what came over me! Thinking of you all the way back as a tiny little girl holding your daddy’s hand going to k4. Watching you excel in school and make friends. Fighting with you over homework and studying in grammar school. Watching you make great study habits in jr high and then high school. It seems it all went by so fast. You grew up on me in a blink of my eye. I know I took tons of pictures but I wish I could have been there for everything. I love you my Girl!! So much!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This next Challenge I think I had the most fun with! Your challenge today is to scrap a page using as many things on this list as possible: - Card stock - Patterned paper - Stickers - Embellishments - A title - Journaling - Something shiny - 3 of something - The color pink - Something shiny - A triangle - An animal - An item that you have fussy cut - A heart I used every single thing on here!

This was a fun challenge! I loved it..I also had new paper to play with so that made a difference too haha! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here is the next challenge *scrap a page (25 points) [per finished page] *do all of your scrapping in the middle of the page (50 points) [per finished page] *use 2 or more photos (25 points) *use stars or hearts on your page (25 points) [per star or heart used] I sorta did the challenge. I put my pictures in the center of the page. my paper was started in the center of the page but drew right. I did use 2 photos. I added stars cut out to the bottom and used a star paper background.

The Journaling talks about how these three started out 4k together at Jackson Creek Christian Academy (in a small church) and went there till 3rd grade till the school diseminated, then these three went on to Cottage Hill Christian and stayed there all the way to seniors as they are now. They will graduate together this spring. I love that! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This was actually the first challenge number 14 but Im putting it last. Its just how it fell on my page. Here is the challenge Your challenge today is to: *scrap a page (100 points!!) [per finished page] *use something you love!! (A picture you love, paper you've been hanging on to, a favorite embellishment etc.!!) (100 points) [per item you love] *use stripes, circles, squares AND a heart (100 points) [per finished page]

You can hardly see my square and stripe (same thing) because of my pictures. Its there though. I used washi tape as my favorite embellishment. a big circle. The journaling talks about how Bella was inducted into the National Honor Society and how proud we are of her. she worked really hard for this. Those are the challenges I did this past week. Im digging through old photos to get more to go with the rest of the challenges. so hopefully I will find some. Ill post more when I get some done. Hope you all have a great week Nancy

Simple Stories LOVE!

OK so I know Valentines Day has passed, BUT, I didn't get my Valentines goodies from the original seller I ordered some from (they are shipping to me today) I know right? My friend Brandy Baucom Came to my rescue the week before Valentines day, and let me purchase some of her Simple Stories Valentine Card Kit, Paper Pack and Chipboard embellishments.THANK GOD! Without that I would not have had anything for John and Bella or anyone. I had no valentines stuff! SO I got it the day before Valentines day! Yeah! I was creating like a crazy woman. But here's the thing. The love card kit (shown below) was so easy and you just punch every thing out of the preforated lines. Everything you need is there. except adhesive of course. It was so easy. I made all of them in no time.

They were so easy to make really fast, AND they are SO ADORABLE! SO, I got them from Brandy Baucom she has a Facebook group called CREATIVE FOR LESS She is working on getting the website up so we all can purchase stuff again (long story)discount prices, (Good stuff, less money we all love that right?) so,if you click on the CREATIVE FOR LESS and join the Facebook group, You will be immediately notified as soon as the site is up and running.(which will be soon.) She will have scrapbooking supplies, pre orders, all kinds of fun things for your crafting needs at discounted prices. I want to thank her for letting me purchase these Simple Stories sets. She really came to my rescue! I am enjoying it. I got the card kit from her and I spent Saturday night whipping them up having so much fun. I added my own Pearl bling to the flower centers. That was not included with the kit. Also of course the adhesive was not included. Here are some pictures of my favorites.

So Those were really fun to make. I highly recommend them. If you see them, Buy them for next year. Actually you can use them anytime. They don't say Valentine on them. You can do them your self or do them with your kids to pass out to friends or family members. They are not hard to do at all. They make quickly. Ok Next:

I also got this Simple Stories Sweet Talk paper pack and I got the chip board stickers to go with it.

I made 2 layouts for the daily challenges at Scrapbooking The Day Away. Here is the First one I did. OH let me tell you. Scrapbooking The Day away in the daily Challenges They are keeping up with points and whoever gets the most points by the end of the month gets a scrappy prize, Everyone is having so much fun with it. SO give it a try. The points were stressing me out and messing with my scrapbooking. It completely turned me off and I couldnt get motivated to scrap. I was confused and had no mojo. so I am doing the challenges like before for enjoyment and the actual challenge of it, not for the points. It was driving me crazy trying to keep up with all that. So here is my first page I did this past week. The challenge was use Red pink and white and use embellishments on a page.

The title *that was part of the challenge too we had to have a title) is "You're Still The One" The journaling is some of the song lyrics to the Shania Twain song " Still The One" As you can see I layered several sheets of the paper on this layout. so I could get my pink, red and white on here. I used lots of embellishments from the chip board embellishments, The sticker sheet that is in the paper pack and some left over from the card kit. (yeah don't throw those away!!) I added pink and white bakers twine to the tag (right hand side, middle towards the top) and tied it in a bow, I also added (its hard to see in this picture, but in real life you can see it good) Wink of Stella, glittery goldy colored, glitter to the hearts in the title. Here is my next page I did for another challenge:

I just loved this photo. It is a little blurry and I couldnt blow it up to 5 x 7 so I just matted it double and used it anyway because I just love it so much. It shows LaLa kissing Charley (and he is being kinda grumpy as usual to her) They are like an old husband and wife. Odd couple. They are so funny! But they are so sweet! OK The challenge. THe challenge was to make a Heart background I think it was supposed to be all over your page, and you had other choices like one great big huge heart. and then maybe 3 hearts? a title and journaling maybe. Im looking for it. I can't find it. Oh well its making alot of hearts for a background. this is my interpretation of it. I did a grid style heart back ground with two borders top and bottom with the title lining the bottom. I didn't use a lot of embellishments I thought the hearts were statement enough that it didn't need anything. Oh and by the way, if you look closely the punched out hearts are from hearts paper. SO there is lots of hearts. I added the layered piece of paper on the side to kinda back up to the mat of the photo some and then I double matted the photo. The Journaling tells about their relationship with our household, all of us! They are very much loved! I have VERY MUCH enjoyed using Simple Stories Love Cards and the Paper Pack and chipboard. I still have plenty left over of the paper pack to make cards or some more layouts.. OR save till next year and make valentines. Hopefully next year I will not get my supplies so late Special Thank yous to Brandy for coming to my rescue and getting me some Valentines day stuff! Hope you have a wonderful Day and you get to do something crafty! Nancy

Good Things I have found lately

Ive been looking all over the interweb and locally for inspiration and people with multiple talents. I think I found her. My Friend Becky waters Thackston. She is the owner of "Art from The HEart LLC." she makes all kinds of cute things. here are just a few.

YOu can find these and SO MUCH MORE!! At her facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/BeckysArtfromtheHeart She has so much that is just beautiful and cute and funny and some serious I love it all!!Valentines, St Patricks Day, Easter and etc. GO check her out tell Becky, Nancy Jones sent you from her blog! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Another GOOD THING I have discovered lately is The Nifty Scrapbooker's (Jonathon Paul) You tube subscription. OH he does so much with ink and stamps and cards. He has a lot of tips that help you with your card making and scrapbooking too! he is an ENABLER too! you tube videos show me these great products that make it easier and I just have to have them!! Here is his latest youtube videos He does a great job. Here is my favorite on Stenciling. It really taught me alot. look at his other videos and tutorials subscribe and like them please. You won't regret it he has great tips and ideas. Im learning a lot! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here is something my friend Robin Nester Calhoun told me about. Creative Memories "Refer a Friend" Share your love of Creative Memories today and start earning FREE SHIPPING for you and your friends and family who are new to Creative Memories! ~~ Know someone who would love our premium scrapbooking products as much as you? Make sure you spread the word with their new Refer A Friend program and in a few easy steps you’ll both get rewarded.Creative Memories has acid free and lignen free products. if you have any questions or comments you can contact Robin Nester Calhoun She is a Creative memories consultant. I know lots of those! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here is another friend of mine that has an AWESOME you tube channel. She has so many tutorials and demonstrations of things (she is an enabler too) so much fun and so many fun products. YOU HAVE to watch. Her name is Leslie Prinkki. Check out her you tube channel She has a lot featured on there. YES and new stuff coming up all the time. GO SEE HER you wont be sorry. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My last good thing I have found this time is my Friend Ricky who has the You Tube channel Bromero Cards. Beautiful cards to see and lots of talent. love the videos. good stuff there. you need to go see them for yourself. such a great job. talk about enabling. ugh so good. entertaining as well. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So there you have it. The GOOD things I have found recently around the web. IF you have a good thing or know someone who has something good. (small buisness doesnt have to be scrapbooking but I prefer art but doesnt have to be, Email me at Nancywithajones@Gmail.com to tell me to check it out. I love highlighting new businesses and scrapbook stores or related businesses. so keep your eyes out. Ill mention your name if you send it. Thank you!

National honor society induction

Hey Yall! This last Thursday night , Bella got inducted into the National Honor society! We are so happy and proud for and of her. I was so excited that I got to go. with strict instructions of course. I had to wear my M95 mask at all times, sit in the back away from every one, not linger afterwards, shower after I got home. so we followed the guidelines and i was happy, tired last night and today wore me out! but so thrilled to get to be there for my Bella here are some photos from the night

This is the whole group of inductees for this year.

This is Brayden, Bella and Dustin.. They all started school together at Jackson Creek Christian in 4k and when that school dissolved they all three moved to cottage hill and continued thier education all the way to seniors.

we couldnt get a good picture of Bella getting pinned during the ceremony. people were everywhere and it was just a messs. So we got Brayden to reenact it afterwards and pin Bella so we could get a picture. (his mom wanted a picture of him pinning also) We are so proud of Bella and all the kids. There are some really smart kids at this school. (cottage Hill Christian) They work hard to achieve all these honors.