Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Sweet Friend



Hi Everyone!


Hope you all are enjoying your day! I have a card that I made for a few challenges. I followed the Photo inspiration over at Peachy Keen Stamps. You have to see what the DT created and you'll love the entries! Fabulous!
Isn't this just beautiful? I just LOVED the pop of blue and bright pink. Here is what I came up with.
Challenges:
Paper Playtime - Anything goes (Stop over, they are having a GREAT blog hop!
My Craft Spot - Anything Goes  Fabulous inspiration this week!

Card - 4.25" x 5.5"
Cricut Cartridge - Walk in my Garden
Paper - Recollections & Provo Craft
Stamps - PKS-487 In Stitches
Sentiment - My Creative Time
Tag - My Creative Time Die
Ribbon - Martha Stewart & Celebrate it
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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Birthday Wishes - Masculine


Hi Everyone!
Wow, Is time going by at lighting speed or what? I can't believe an entire month has almost gone by. Well one good thing about that is it's bringing us closer to spring :) 
I wanted to share a masculine card I made for all those GREAT challenges going on right now. Pretty simple except do you see the gold accents on the wheel? Well I probably should have used brads, but no... I took gold metallic paper and hole punched eight holes and covered them with glossy accents. Sounds easy right?? Well I kept forgetting about them and setting paper, or items down on top of these little hole punches. I think I ended up having to make 19 of them.  I had these sticky, gluey, glossy hole punches everywhere. I even left for basketball pictures this morning and when I got back in the car one was on my car seat? (Wonder where that hole punch was)? The funny stories of crafting that only other crafters would appreciate! Have a GREAT day!
Challenges
Card - 4.5"
Paper - GCD Studios
Cricut Cartridge - Life's a beach
Label - Die Cut - MCT
Sentiment - MCT
Machine Stitched

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Friday, January 27, 2012

Blogaversary 4th week Giveaway!


Hi Everyone!

Welcome to the final week of my Blogaversary! I had so much fun reading all of your comments! Thank you so much!
I'm so excited for the last giveaway.... I hope you will be too!

I'm giving away the Cricut Cartridge - Giant Flowers!
Well if that sounds good to you all you need to do is

Leave me a comment on this post and please include a way to get in touch with you in case you win :)

Spread the word.....  Let all the CRICUT lovers know about the giveaway. Just comment again and let me know you did. 

I would also LOVE it if you become a follower. 

Lastly, my blogaversary will run through the month of January. Come back every Friday to see what the next giveaway will be! Thanks everyone! 
All winners will be announced  February 4, 2012


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Thursday, January 26, 2012

My Valentine

Hi Everyone!

Wow, how is everyone and how is your weather?  It sure has been a strange winter! 
I have a cute little Valentine card for my friends little girl.  She LOVES frogs! I thought I'd pop this is the mail with some treats :) I'm entering this card in a few challenges. 
Hope you all have a SUPER day!

Fantabulous Cricut - Label it (My label is a banner shape)

Card - 4.25" x 5.5"
Cricut Cartridge - Paisley
Paper - We R Memory Keepers - love struck
Bakers Twine - Twinery
Buttons - MM
Sentiment - Printed
Gold Glitter
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Monday, January 23, 2012

Love is in the air

Hi Everyone!

First, I just want to say thank you to everyone for leaving such sweet comments, it's just so super neat and I appreciate them so much! 

Hope you all enjoyed your weekend! We had a great one, somewhat relaxing with only one basketball game and one birthday party. I had some time to organize my space (whew did it need it) and lots of time on the internet.  Do you all know about pinterest? Wow, is it fun! Lots of great tips on everything you can think of...
Hope you all have a fabulous day!

Well here is a simple little card for a couple challenges.



Card - 4"
Cricut Cartridge - Create a Critter
Paper - K&Co & GCD Studios
Ink - Martha Stewart
Bakers Twine
Stamp - American Crafts Dear Lizzy

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Friday, January 20, 2012

Winter Wishes

Hi Everyone!


Hope all is good with everyone! I'm off work today so I've been able to clean and create. Laundry done, dinner started, and 3 projects done! 
I promised myself that I would create more tags throughout the year, so you can imagine when I saw the great 52 Tags in 2012 by Janis at Pause Dream Enjoy just how excited I was.  Stop over for the details but I will be entering this tag in the Week 1 challenge, with a few crafty goals on the back.  Also, there are some other fabulous challenges that I love to enter as often as possible so I followed their themes this week as well.
Hope you are enjoying your day and hope you have a WONDERFUL weekend.


Fantabulous Cricut - Challenge me Monday- Snow Fun - Use a Snowflake or Snowman
Paper Playtime - Tags and include a sentiment - Make a tag or include a tag on your project
My Craft Spot - Snow much Fun - Snowflakes, Snowmen, anything to do with snow


Tag - 5"
Cricut Cartridges - Gypsy Wanderings, Christmas
Paper - Recollections
Ribbon - Paper Mart
Ink - Martha Stewart
Sentiment - printed
silver charm
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Blogaversary 3rd week giveaway & POP Update

Hi Everyone!


Hope all is well in your world! Welcome to week three of my Blogaversary giveaways. Special thanks to everyone that has joined and welcome to all my new followers! This week I'm giving another favorite of mine...OK this was a tough one to giveaway but I do LOVE you all so much and you are so worth it :) 


This weeks giveaway is a 6x6 paper pad from Echo Park.


Well if that sounds good to you all you need to do is

Leave me a comment on this post and please include a way to get in touch with you in case you win :)

Spread the word.....  Let all the paper lovers know about the giveaway. Just comment again and let me know you did. 

I would also LOVE it if you become a follower. 

Lastly, my blogaversary will run through the month of January. Come back every Friday to see what the next giveaway will be! Thanks everyone! 
All winners will be announced  February 4, 2012


Also,  Patches of Pink is having a design team call. You can 

find all of the details  HERE, hurry over you have until 

January 30th. 

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Thursday, January 19, 2012

CWC Challenge Winter Warmies

Hi Everyone!

I saw the challenge over at Cooking with Cricut and it looked so fun! Its a winter warmies challenge. The challenge this week should be all about the way we keep warm during these cold days. From mittens and scarves to Hot Cocoa and more! There isn't one thing in our house that gets more use in the winter than my fireplace. I created this card to look just like my fireplace.  DIY tip.... Last year I painted some old black frames (just the frame no glass) and hung some ornaments in them. This is such an EASY Holiday decor that looks pretty.  You can use old ornaments of different sizes and paint and glitter them, add bows, ribbons, etc... It's a fun project,
OK back to the card, most of the images came from the Joys of the season cartridge and Jolly Holidays. All of it was designed on my gypsy for sizing purposes. The paper was all scraps (yay for me).  Just a fun little card....

Hope you all have a great night and please stop by tomorrow for my 3rd week of giveaways. It's another one of my favorite things!!

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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

ALWAYS You & Me

CLICK HERE FOR WEEK ONE OF MY 1 YEAR BLOGAVERSARY
CLICK HERE FOR WEEK TWO OF MY 1 YEAR BLOGAVERSARY

Hi Everyone!

Hope everyone is doing well. I have another card I made for two of my favorite challenges. Peachy Keen Stamps is having a kick off linky party, hop over and check out all the fun. There isn't a theme this week, but you need to use PKS stamps. Next is Copy Cat Challenge Anything goes. Stop over and link up!

Card - 4"
Cricut Cartridge - Playtime
Paper - DCWV, Recollections
Stamps - PK-451 Wide Eyed 1 1/8, My Creative time (always)
White Gel Pen - Sakura
Bling - K&Co
Ribbon - Raffia

Hope you are off to a great week!
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Sunday, January 15, 2012

You're an All Star


Hi Everyone!


Hope everyone had a super weekend.  Well what a VERY relaxing day we had. It's been quite cold today which is more normal now for this time of year. It did give me time to create more cards and EVEN...are you ready..... a layout! I have never shared one before but will share it next week. I wanted to post a card I made last week for a couple challenges. I just love how this card turned out. I really wanted a vintage looking card so I really inked it up :) I placed a banner on the inside to be used as a pocket to hold a gift card.  You all know I have two boys so this type of card is pretty typical around here. I made this for my son's friends 8th Birthday. The boys really liked the card!


Challenges:
My Creative Time - Throwback Thursday Challenge - Sports Theme (Hurry and head over, you have until the 18th to enter and for a chance to win the entire "New Release"
Celebrate the Occasion - Child's Birthday - I'm just making the deadline it ends in about 5 hours! You have a chance to win a Papertrey ink gift card.



Card - 5.5"
Cricut Cartridges - Boys will be boys(glove) Sports Mania(Ball) Jubilee(Banner)
Paper - Recollections, DCWV
Ink - Tim Holtz
Sentiment - Printed
Gypsy - Welded two shapes together
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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Be Mine

Hi Everyone!

Hope you are enjoying the weekend so far. I worked so much last week and just want to enjoy my 3 day weekend. I was able to create a couple cards and wanted to enter one  in some challenges before I'm too late. I created a Valentine card for one of my boys. Ok, I tried my hardest not to cutesify (I know it's not a word) this card.  I did add some twine but technically it's not ribbon or is it :) Oh Goofy! He just so....so Goofy:)!
Challenges
Fantabulous Cricut - Challenge Me Monday - Masculine Cards You still have one more day to enter.
Scrappy Moms Stamps - Terrific-Tuesday-Challenge- Cartoon Characters - Challenge is open until the 20th and you will be entered to win a SMS of your choice.

Card - 5.5" x 4.25"
Cricut Cartridge - Mickey & Friends,Doodlecharms (hearts), Storybook(Background)
Paper - K&CO, Recollections
Twine - The Twinery
Button - MM
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Friday, January 13, 2012

Blogaversary 2nd Week Giveaway


Hi Everyone!

First, let me just say how wonderful you all are to me! Your comments are so sweet and make me smile! I would also like to welcome my new followers and thank you for joining following along and I do appreciate it!
So now, on to the fun...... my second giveaway is for something that is fairly new to me, but I am absolutely hooked.
   
It's Copic Sketch Markers!!! All I can say is they are pure goodness!

So I'm giving away 3 Copics - I picked colors for Valentine’s Day


R20 - Blush R35 - Coral R32 - Peach


Well if that sounds good to you all you need to do is

Leave me a comment on this post and please include a way to get in touch with you in case you win :)

Spread the word.....  Let all the Copic lovers about the giveaway. Just comment again and let me know you did. 

I would also LOVE it if you become a follower. 

Lastly, my blogaversary will run through the month of January. Come back every Friday to see what the next giveaway will be! Thanks everyone! 
All winners will be announced  February 4, 2012
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Let it Snow!

Hi Everyone!

Well I thought I would make one last Holiday card.  I actually made a ton of these wreaths and used them for decoration on Christmas gifts. When I stopped to figure it out I think I cut over 800 of these branches.  I searched and searched for the MS branch punch and everyone said it was being discontinued.  Then a friend of mine at Joanns (it's good to make friends in the store:) told me they were on order and to place my name on the to be notified list online. Well it turned out I did get notified and ordered it and received it the week before Christmas. Yay, I LOVE it! 
There are some really inspiring challenges, so I just had to participate in a few.

Go Fish Challenge - White on White
The Cuttlebug Spot - Winter Time use texture (my texture is embossed paper and the branch punch)
Made Especially For You - Technique Week(machine embossing) My background is embossed with the cuttlebug



Card - 4.5" x 4.5"
Paper - DCWV
Martha Stewart Branch Punch
Ribbon - Celebrate it
Dry Embossed - Cuttlebug seeing spots
Sentiment - MM Rub-ons
Stickles - Stardust


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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

For you!

Hi Everyone!
Wow, the weather sure has been strange I'm sitting here with the balcony doors wide open and a nice warm breeze drifting in, not typical for January - BUT I'm not complaining!! 
I work all week and this was my only 1/2 day so I wanted to post these little note cards I made as Christmas gifts. I gave a few different sets to friends and family and thought I would keep these as I could use them for various occasions. I made matching envelopes. I stamped/heat embossed a flower image to give the envelope a handmade feel.  
I thought I would enter these in the Creative Cutter Room Sparkle Time Challenge stop over and join in the fun! Challenge ends Jan. 11 so there is still time....



Card - 4"x4" Envelope - 4.25"x4.25"
Recollections, Scraps
Cartridge - Bloom
Glitter Glue - Studio G
Ink - Tim Holtz
Sentiment - Hero art and American Crafts
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Saturday, January 7, 2012

Happy New Year


Hi Everyone!

Hope everyone is well! Let me just say I promise this card looks so much better in person.  I just couldn't get the lighting right, oh well. So, I really wanted to create a card with a clock. I looked and looked through my handbooks and just couldn't find on that suited me. So I decided to use clipart.  I just printed this clock on kraft paper and then cut it out with a circle punch. Hope you like it!
Challenges:


Card - 4.25" x 5.5"
Cartridge - Storybook
Paper - K&Co, Recollections
Ribbon - Celebrate it
Sentiment - printed
Jewel Star - White Blossom
Dry Embossed - Sizzix Embossing plate Flower Vine and Twizzle
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Friday, January 6, 2012

It's my 1 year Blogaversary!

Hi Everyone!


I can't believe it's been one year since I started this fun little blog! Wow, so many friends and so much fun! I am so excited to celebrate. I am so thankful that you follow along and hopefully enjoy some of my projects along the way. So as a thank you I would love to giveaway some gifts.  


Now you can't can't have an anniversary without some bling... so the first giveaway is an
I ROCK & Some Glam Heart rocks!

Well if that sounds good to you all you need to do is

Leave me a comment on this post and please include a way to get in touch with you in case you win :)

Spread the word.....  Just comment again and let me know you did. 

I would also LOVE it if you become a follower. 

Lastly, my blogaversary will run through the month of January. Come back every Friday to see what the next giveaway will be! Thanks everyone!
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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Celebrate - My Blogaversary is tomorrow!

Hi Everyone!


I hope everyone is doing well! You know what....tomorrow is my 1 year blogaversary.  I have some fun giveaways so be sure to check back tomorrow! I thought I would start it out with a celebrate card!  I followed the sketch over at Die cuttin divas. Stop over and enter the challenge it runs for one week.
The second challenge I am entering is Simply Crafts challenge. The January challenge is to use the cupcake cut w/ the heart on it from the Sweet Treats Cricut cartridge.  If you don't have this cartridge you can make any project w/ a cupcake on it. If you are new to this challenge please stop over, Glora and Pam are so talented you just have to check them out!:)

Here's my card...
Card - 5.5" x 4.25"
Paper - M&MBI, Recollections
Cartridge - Sweet Treats
Punch Fiskars Apron Lace
Stamp - Studio G
Glitter Glue - Studio G

REMEMBER STOP BY TOMORROW AND CELEBRATE WITH ME!
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

For a good Girl....

Hi Everyone!


Hope the New Year has been fabulous for you all.  I literally started mine with the stomach flu :( isn't that the pits. Very Yucky!! I am feeling better but still afraid to eat... Oh well, I know it will get better! So I really wanted to join in some of the fun challenges.  I even came across a new one Exploring Cricut they are having their first challenge, stop over and check it out. I created this little "cutie" card for my niece.  She's only 6 months old and just the sweetest little angel ever! 
Hope you all have a lovely day!!


Challenges:
My Craft Spot - Winter Wonderland (must use glitter)
Exploring Cricut - Winter Wonderland
Little Scrap Pieces - Any project New or Old


Card – 5.5” x 4.25”
Cartridges –  Jolly Holidays
Paper – K&Co, DCWV
Ink – Tim Holtz, Colorbox
Stamps - PK-754 Critter Faces SET A Medium 
Glitter Glue - Studio G & Stickles (Stardust)
Punch - Martha Stewart
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