A Servant's Heart & Mickey Mouse

This past Saturday I meet with some of the youth on Texas Street in Redlands to pick up trash. There were 13 youth that showed up to help. I am proud of those that woke up early this past Saturday to help keep the community of Redlands looking beautiful.

There were many cars that slowly drove past us and stared. I'm sure they were thinking that these kids had gotten in some sort of trouble and had to do community service but I am glad to know that they were there just to be a servant to our community. A servant's heart is priceless! Way to go N'Focus!!

We must have picked up about 8 full bags of trash. There was more trash than I thought out there. It took us about an hour and a half to complete our task. In the end I think that Texas Street looked so much nicer!

Picture: Stacey, Roberta, Melissa White, Selena, Lindsey, Lauren, Alison, Melissa Nava, Nathan, & Patricia.

Not Shown: Estephan and Rose


After I got done with the trash pick up I got changed and headed for Disneyland. I just love Disneyland and my annual pass is about to expire so I need to get my last couple of uses out of it. I will definitely get a season pass again but not until the new year.

My dear friend Chris went along with me. Just the two of us. It was a nice day and I had fun just admiring the Halloween decor, getting on the rides, and enjoying a day with my friend. Thanks for coming with me Chris!!

This Saturday is World Card Making Day so I will be prepping for my card class this week. I will try to post a sneak peak of the cards we will be making so make sure to check back. Have a great Tuesday!!

Frankie

This is Frankie, I made him last night. I copied the idea of making him from Split Coast Stampers. I've seen multiple ideas making this Frankenstein and just had to copy the idea. I think he is so cute. I used my new Big Shot Top Note Die, Circle punches, Tab punch, Green Galore, Basic Black, Whisper White, and Elegant Eggplant Card stock.

Last night was the first night in a while that I actually didn't have anything to do. So I relaxed, made dinner, did some studying, made this card, and even read a chapter in my newest book "Sunset" by Karen Kingsbury.

I will be going to Disneyland tomorrow, yea!!!!!!! My pass is about to expire next month so I need to get my use out of it within the next month. Just pray that its a nice and cool day. Hope you have a great weekend!

Youth Work

As many of you already know Eric and I work with the youth in our church. We feel that this is where God wants to use us at in our church, so this is the ministry in which we pour our lives into.

This weekend we had a youth revival with Bro. Jacob Pereida. We had a great time this weekend with powerful services each night. Bro Jacob preached messages that moved each person to a new level with God. Thank you Bro Jacob for allowing God to use you! It was a blessing to have you here this weekend.

I also want to thank each and every adult that that attended our youth revival and for being here to support N'Focus Youth Ministry. Your love and willingness to support the youth is greatly appriciated.

N'Focus, lets keep living for God! Keep that spirit of prayer that you had this weekend and lets continue to grow! I love all of you!!!

Stamper's Showcase

Well here is the other page that I had submitted to the Stampin' Up! Contest. It was featured today in the Stamper's Showcase on the demonstrator website. I'll find out who the winner was of the contest next month when I get my Stampin' Success magazine (demo magazine.) The pictures on this page are of my niece Jaiden. I miss her so much! She is just so adorable.

I used my favorite stamp set; Always. This was originally a two page spread but the contest was only calling for one page submissions. I used this layout for my scrapbook class this summer. If you haven't seen this page before, hope you enjoy the idea.

Stamps:
ALWAYS STAMP SET
Paper:
CARD STOCK 12 X 12 TEXTURED IN COLOR 08-09
CARD STOCK KIWI KISS 8 1/2 X 11
CARD STOCK RIDING HOOD RED 8 1/2 X 11
CARD STOCK WHISPER WHITE 8 1/2X11
DESIGNER SERIES PAPER BELLA ROSE
Inks:
STAMPIN WRITE MARKER OLD OLIVE
Accessories:
RIBBON GROSGRAIN OLD OLIVE 5/8 INCH
PUNCH SCALLOP EDGE
STAMPIN DIMENSIONALS
SNAIL ADHESIVE PERMANENT

Created by:
Rose Castillo

Featured Scrapbook Page

I submitted this scrapbook page for a contest that Stampin' Up! was having. I actually submitted two scrapbook pages. I didn't win but they did have this page featured on the Demonstrator website. I wish I could have won but I am at least happy that it was good enough for it to be featured ont he demo site. Maybe my other page will show up soon.

CRAB & COMPANY STAMP SET (108559)

Stamps:
CRAB & COMPANY STAMP SET
Paper:
CARD STOCK KRAFT 12X12
CARD STOCK 12 X 12 TEXTURED IN COLOR 08-09
CARD STOCK WHISPER WHITE 8 1/2X11
CARD STOCK REAL RED 8 1/2X11
CARD STOCK CAMEO CORAL 8 1/2X11
CARD STOCK SO SAFFRON 8 1/2X11
CARD STOCK NIGHT OF NAVY 8 1/2X11
CARD STOCK REALLY RUST 8 1/2X11
Inks:
CLASSIC STAMPIN PAD BASIC BLACK
CRAFT STAMPIN PAD NIGHT OF NAVY
CRAFT STAMPIN PAD WHISPER WHITE
Accessories:
WHEEL SANDY SHELLS
STAMPIN EMBOSS POWDER CLEAR
ON BOARD LOTS OF LETTERS
STAMPIN DIMENSIONALS
SNAIL ADHESIVE PERMANENT
Created by:
Rose Castillo

Stamp Club

Every second Tuesday of the month is Stamp Club. Right now I have 5 ladies signed up in this club and we meet each month to do some stamp projects, share, laugh, and just have fun. If you've ever even considered joining stamp club I invite you to join us one month with no obligation to join or order to see for yourself just how much fun it is to be apart of Stamp Club.


The rules are simple if you decide to join the club you will be making a 6 month commitment to the club and the only thing required of you is to spend $25.00 a month on Stampin' Up! merchandise. Every month I will provide a couple of projects for you to complete while learning new techniques. This is a great way to slowly build up your craft items. You will also have to option to host one of the club dates at your home and receive the hostess benefits, which always include at least a hostess level one stamp set and minimum $15.00 in free merchandise. If you do decide to join us next month please make sure to RSVP your attendance so I will have enough projects for everyone!




I need to get some pictures of my current stamp club so you can see all of these great ladies! The pictures to the right are the cards that we made this month. We embossed the Live with Passion Card and we made a spinner on the Happy Halloween Card. You can actually spin the monster and on the other side is a pumpkin. Hope you enjoy the ideas!


Have a great evening, I am off to singing practice for next weeks youth revival at our church. Fun!

License

I've decided that I would like to try and get my license to drive our church bus. I will mostly be using it to drive for youth events since at this time in my life we are working with the youth at our church, Hope Center. I'm a little fearful about going through with this but I think that it will be a good step. I rode the bus to church for many years and I am very thankful for a church that believes in bus ministry. I wouldn't have had a ride to all those church services and youth activities if it hadn't been for the bus or van. I don't know where I would be today if it weren't for God and this church.

Well I will appriciate your prayers as I study to get the license to drive the 25 passenger bus. I believe there are about 3 or 4 different test that I will have to complete in order to drive so it might be a few months before it comes to pass but I am looking forward to doing this.

Have a great weekend! Oh and Stamp Club members don't forget we have Stamp Club this coming Tuesday at 7:00 PM at Maria Villarreal's house (my Grandma's).

Labor Day

I have been rather lazy today. Although I was busy the rest of the weekend so it was nice to have this extra day to relax.

Saturday I got together with my Grandma to finish up that scrapbook we were creating for her co-worker. We are finished and it only took us about 10 hours of work time. Maybe a little less, that is an estimate. I think that the book came out rather nice, if I do say so myself! I hope that they like our work. For the most part I think that pages all came out really nice. I'm sure after pictures are added they will all look great. Hopefully my grandma's co-worker doesn't choke when she hears how much this book is going to cost her. Although my grandma kept on warning her that it could get expensive. She said that is was fine so we went forward with the project. Did I mention that Roberta and Stacey came over on Saturday also. They were working on their own scrapbooking and cards. It was great to have their company. Thanks for hanging out girlies!

I've made a couple more pages using my quickutz but I'm not sure what pictures I am going to use just yet. I started a Halloween page, I am so ready for fall, my favorite season of all time! All I need to do now is get some Halloween picture developed and place them on my pages. I'll have to make sure and do this before my next quickutz class so I can take them and show them off to everyone!

Oh, just a reminder you can now begin ordering the Big Shot and the exclusive die cuts from Stampin' Up! Contact me for more info.

Well have a great evening. Bye!