With Sympathy

Hi Everyone!

I hope that you are enjoying your weekend.  I've been really busy with work lately, but I wanted to take a moment to share this card with you.  This is a sympathy card that I made for a close family friend who recently lost her husband.  I hope she finds some comfort in knowing that we are all thinking of her.

The card base is made from kraft card stock, I then layered it with this beautiful paper from DCWV Garden Party Stack, and the lace border was made with my EK Success border bunch.  The ribbon is from Michaels.  I added two sweet Prima flowers and dressed them up with an antique brad from Stampin-up.  I stamped the K. Andrews sentiment in Chocolate Chip ink from Stampin-up.  I also used two other sentiments from this K. Andrews sympathy set on the inside.  I made the envelope using my Martha Stewart score board,  This is the first time I made an envelope with the corner tool.  It was easier than I expected.  I will definitely use this more often!  The dimensions are slightly larger so there is plenty of room for a card with some dimension.  I also lined the envelope with some pretty paper from the K&Co Designer paper stack to make it a little more special.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Hi Everyone!!

How are you?!  It has been such a long time since I've posted on my poor neglected blog.  I've missed all of you my bloggy friends!

So much has happened, busy with family, busy with work and a new craft room thanks to my wonderful hubby!   I have a few decorating touches to finish off my little space and then I may post some photos.  I am all moved in to my new space and have begun working on some new projects . . .  at long last.  

Today I have a St. Patrick's Day card to share with you.  I started with a DCWV pale green card base and added some lovely paper from the DCWV Mango Frost cardstock stack and Bazzill basics.   The shapes are from Cricut Caftroom basics and Celebrate with Flourish lite cart.  I used my Fiskers corner punch on the card base and added a little bling with Stickles Patina and Firefly.  I hope you enjoy!

I am also entering this card at Cricut Cardz Challenge #104.  Check out all the terrific projects posted here, there is a lot of inspiration!

Have a great St. Paddy's day!

Thank You and Winner!

Hi Everyone!


Happy Monday, I hope your week is off to a good start!  I would like to thank everyone for joining us in the Sophie blog hop, especially Michele for hosting!  It was so much fun!!


Today I have a Thank You card to share.  I made this with the Teresa Collins Baby Boutique Imagine cart.  I love this cart, it is so versatile!  All the paper, except the black card stock, is printed with my I.  I used Glossy Accents and glitter to highlight some of the detail.   I hope you enjoy!

I appreciate all the wonderful comments from everyone. A huge thank you to you for hanging in there till the last spot in the hop to visit my blog!

Brenda is the lucky winner of the Blackletter cart!  Congratulations Brenda, I will be e-mailing you.

Sophie Blog Hop

HI Everyone!  

Welcome to my first ever hop - the Sophie Blog Hop!  As Cricut Circle members we are so excited to share projects made using the Cricut Circle Exclusive cartridge Sophie!!  If you are interested in learning more about the Circle you can check it out HERE.

This wonderful cartridge has some amazing images and features!  Hop along with us to explore the Sophie cart and gain some inspiration!!  If you don't have this cartridge that's OK, many of these projects are great inspiration for using images on other cartridges as well!

I made this card to share with you today. All the paper is printed using my Cricut Imagine, including on the inside of the card!  I had so much fun making this card.

Before you move on to our other bloggers, please leave a comment on this post for a chance to win a Blackletter solutions cartridge!!!!  You do not have to be a follower of my blog to win, but I would sure love it if you were!  Don't forget to leave me a way to contact you if you are the winner!  I will announce the winner on Monday evening.  At that same time, I will also be posting another fun project so you may want to stop back anyway!

If you started at my blog first, leave your comment and head on over to Michele's blog to start at the beginning.  Enjoy! 

Here is the entire line-up for today:

1. Michele -  www.michelegreen.com 
2. Tammy - www.scrapcavecreations.com 
3. Jen from Confessions of a Scrapaholic - http://scrapaholicjen.blogspot.com 
4. Liz - http://liz-lavendarandroses.blogspot.com
5. Paulette - http://scrapalette.blogspot.com  
6. Megan -http://peacockpaperie.blogspot.com 
7. Maria - http://stampcutcreate.blogspot.com 
8. Brenda - http://happyscrapper64.blogspot.com/ 
9. Diane - http://dianesdribble.blogspot.com/
10. Sharon - http://designsbysharon.blogspot.com 
11. Alma’s Pink Life - http://almabrooksblog.blogspot.com  
12. Rexann - http://ibecircled.blogspot.com 
13. Cindy - www.inlovewithpaper.blogspot.com 
14. Marie - http://craftelicious.blogspot.com <--- You are here. 

Birthday Boy!

Hi Everyone!

Hope you are all having a super week!!!!  I cannot believe that it's December already!  Where does the time go?

Today my son had a 8th birthday party to go to so I made this quick card for his buddy.  The card is from a set I picked up at Michaels with matching envelopes.  I used the Space Party cartridge and DCWV All About Boys stack for the base layer.  He just loved this card!  I hope his buddy did too.  I  am testing out the new camera that Santa is bringing me for Christmas - have to do quality control before Santa wraps this up right?!  I really love the picture quality.  The photo is a little flat so you can't see that the robot is popped up using dimensionals. . .  need to learn how to use all the features.  I think I'm in love with a Rebel - a Canon Rebel that is!

I also have some exciting news to share with you.  This Saturday I am participating in my first ever blog hop!!!!  We are featuring the Sophie cartridge.  The line-up is amazing - I hope you will all stop back by and join in the fun.  I have a special giveaway for one lucky visitor!

Thanks for stopping by.  Hope your Friday is spectacular!!!!

Get Well Soon!

Hi Everyone!


I hope you are all having a GREAT week!  Things here are hectic as usual.  I cannot believe that it is Thursday already!


The weather here has been beautiful, just what we needed after that early snow storm last week.    This weekend promises to be another beautiful fall weekend and I am so looking forward to it!


Today I am sharing a quick card that I made for a co-worker who was in a car accident.  She was all bruised up and broke her nose.  I felt so bad and wanted to cheer her up.  I am happy to report that she is feeling much better now.  It has just taken me a while to post this.  


This card was the first time that I tried "Perfect Pearls" and I have to say I really liked them.  I had so much fun, I was looking for other things to use the pearls on!  LOL!!  I used the metallic pearls to stamp my sentiment in place of ink.  The card base is 6x6 kraft card stock from my stash.  The larger shape is cut with my Cricut Imagine using a lilac paper printed from the Vintage Damask cartridge.   The small shape is cut and embossed with my Cuttlebug and the paper is also printed on the Imagine from Vintage Damask.  I inked it up with Cosmic Copper from Tsukineko and added some copper bling with my Imaginisce I-Rock.  The ribbon is from Michaels.  Inside I used Autumn Leaves clear journaling stamp  to give me some straight lines for my message, which I desperately need to avoid having the inside look like the leaning tower. . .


Thanks for looking everyone and have a great day!!

Happy Birthday!

A little birdie to great you. . .

on your special day!

Hello Everyone!!!


Hope you are all well.  It has been so long since I have had a chance to post.  My poor craft room sent out a search team. . .  It's been utter craziness here with work and the beginning of the new school year, soccer, basketball and all the activities that start in September . . .  


Just a quick post to share a card I made with Pagoda, one of my favorite Cricut carts.  The colors are inspired by the beautiful fall colors that are suddenly showing up on all the trees around here.  I was going for a zen look (lol!) with  just pop of color on the red bird.  The photo was taken with my phone so it's not that great, but    I think it captured the feeling I was going for.  I inked the edges with my Copics, used lots of pop dots, ribbon from Michaels and Glossy Accents on the bird.


Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope you all have a terrific week!


I am entering this in the following:

Birthday Sundaes-Fall colors birthday card

Card Cupids-Create a card with a decorative punch

Terrific Tuesday Challenge

Link Party: youhadmeatcraft.com
Anything Goes 
Papertake-Use 3 different shapes
Crafty Cardmakers- Anything Goes

One Stop Craft: #152 Anything Goes

Paper Play: week 40 Autumn Colors

The Hybrid Chick Card Caravan: #3 Autumn