Wednesday, March 14, 2012

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!

Monday, December 5, 2011

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.

Saturday, December 3, 2011

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:


Thursday, December 1, 2011

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!!!!

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

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!!

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

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
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

Monday, September 12, 2011

Get Well Soon!



Hi Everyone!!

I can't believe how long it has been since I've been able to post!  We were away on vacation and got evacuated with the hurricane.  We got home just in time for the hurricane to hit.  Our town was flooded in so many areas we could not drive anywhere.  So many stores were closed - including Michaels!!  Just when things were getting somewhat back to normal, we got so much rain all the rivers and lakes in our town overflowed again.  It's just awful.  We've got over 500 people out of their homes!  How are all of you?  Were any of you affected by the hurricane and flooding?   I hope you are all safe and sound!

We are trying hard to get back to normal.  I thought I'd post a little card  I made for my Dad.  I used Create a Critter and the sentiment is computer generated.  I was inspired by a card that Momo had on her blog a while back.  I thought it was appropriate with all this rain we've been having. . .

I am also submitting this for the Bugs, Beasts or Birds challenge at Shopping Our Stash! Check out their blog - there are so many terrific submission on this challenge!

I have missed all of you my wonderful blog friends!  I am glad to be back and will be posting regularly again.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!!!!!