I've had my head in the clouds.....

Hi Everyone!
Wow, summer is just zooming by! I'm trying to enjoy every minute of it. I know my blog has been suffering but I only have 10 more days until my oldest leaves for school :( 
Very soon I'll be using my blog not only for enjoyment but for therapy!
I mentioned I have been playing with my new My Creative Time Stamps so this is just one of the cards I created with the Fly Away With Me Dies. I think these clouds are my favorite of the set.

This card makes me think of summer. Blue skies, puffy white clouds, & pretty green grass!

 Card - 5.5" x 4.25"

Cricut Cartridges - Bloom

Paper - My minds eye & Basic Grey

Sentiment - My Creative Time Fly away with me

Challenges:

Paper Playtime - Anything Goes

Die Cuttin Divas - Anything Goes

Cardz TV Anything Goes

Happy Father's Day

Hi Everyone!
Enjoying your week? It's the last week of school for us so we've been doing lots of end of year parties and yesterday the entire 2nd grade walked over to our local nature park and had lunch and an ecology hunt. It was a ton of FUN! 
So I did manage to put together a Fathers Day card for my Dad. It only took 5 days (hee hee) Every time I stepped foot in my Craft room last week and this week I heard....Mom I can't find...., Mom I spilled...., Mom I'm hungry..., I'm sure most of you can relate :) Well here is my card.

   Card - 5.5" x 4.25"

Cricut Cartridges - CAC (flags) & Wrap it Up (Ties)

Paper - Authentique & My Minds eye (Lost & Found Breeze)

Sentiment - My Creative Time (GC Sentiments)

Hemp Tine - Liz's Paper Loft

Challenges

Go fish - Sketch Challenge with a Fathers day theme using your fav. embellishment (My new hemp twine)

DL ART - Card for a Man

Little Scrap Pieces - Fun Friday - Fathers Day Theme

My Sheri Crafts - Father's Day/Masculine Card

Cardz TV - Make a card for Father's Day

Celebrate the Occasion - Father's Day

More than Favors - Father's Day

 

You make me proud!

Hi Everyone!
Hope you all had a SUPER weekend. Wow, the weekends just zoom by.... 
So I fell in love last week. Do you want to know with what??? BURLAP! LOVE IT! I bought mine from Liz's Paper Loft Boutique  take a minute and stop over and check out all the goodies. I used two of her products on my project.
I made this little bag for my son... I know, I know it has a flower on it but he won't mind :) We are so proud of him!! He will begin a new journey at Chico State in the Fall.   

The Burlap & Hemp Twine is from Liz's Paper Loft Boutique.

Bag - Approx. 6" Tall

Cricut Cartridge - Plantin Schoolbook

Paper - My Minds Eye & K&Co.

My Creative Time  - Rolled Flower Die

Button - MM

Chipboard Sticker - K& Co - Amy Butler

Challenges:

My Creative Time - Throwback Thursday (color challenge)

Cooking with Cricut Graduation/ End-of-school-year

Cardz TV -You DID it!" Make a card for graduation using any cartridge(s) and using any colors you’d like.

Scrapalicious USA - Happy Graduation

Paper Issues - Canvas and Burlap

Jaihart - Link Up Party

Happy Mother's Day

Hi Everyone!
Hope you are all enjoying the weekend! I wanted to post a Mother's Day card I made this week. I have one more Mother's day project to post and I think I'm actually ready for the day. That never happens I'm always making a last minute "something" on the day :) 
So I mentioned that I purchased a few packs of My minds eye paper. The pack I used for my project is called rosy...LOVE IT! I loved it so much that I wanted the paper to be the center. The background paper is 7 gypsies and pairs so well with MME. I inked the "note" paper with Tim Holtz ink and distressed the edges.

I cut the flower using the Cricut Cartridge - Sweet Treats

The leaves were cut and ran through the cuttlebug using distressed stiped.

Stamp - My Creative Time

Brads & Bling - Making memories

Machine stitched

Challenges: 

My Sheri Crafts - create a Mother's Day card/project and add flowers.

The Cuttlebug Spot - Flowers for Mom

More than Favors - Wacky Wednesday #70 - Mother's Day!

Cardz tv - Make a Mother's Day card using any cartridge(s) and using any colors you'd like.

Creative Cutter Room - Mothers Day

Spring

Hi Everyone!
Hope you all are enjoying the weekend. Unfortunately our weather is overcast and a little cold but I guess it's OK since everyone but me is sick in my house. They all have that terrible chest cold. UGH. One great thing is I've had some time to make some projects and catch up on some things. 
Here is one card I made for a couple challenges:
Fantabulous Cricut - April Showers - Make a project with an umbrella, rain or clouds on it.
Cardz TV - April Showers

Card - 5.5" x 4.25"

Cricut Cartridge - Just a Note (I'm not sure why I forget about this cartridge, it has the cutest images on it)!

Paper - Recollections, Momento

Machine and Faux stitching

Stamp - American Crafts (dear lizzy)

Hope you have a GREAT day!

Peter Cottontail is on his way...

Hi Everyone!
I'm sharing another Easter card I designed in my Gypsy. I found a really cool cut on the wrap it up cartridge. It's the fence cut under the tag feature cut at 3.67 H x 3.61 W. I used it as a frame for my little cottontail. The Bunny is from just because cards cut at 5.61 H. 
The eggs are from doodlecharms cut at 3.22 H. I popped up the fence with two thicknesses of foam tape so the bunny can sit behind the fence. Then I only used one thickness of foam tape for the bunny.

I'm entering this in a few challenges:
Fantabulous Cricut - #105 Egg-ceptional Easter Make a project with an egg on it.
Cardz TV - Make a card for any occasion using a frame from any cartridge and using any colors you’d like.
My Creative Time - Use any cartridge (preferrably an older one) & create ANY project of "YOUR" choice

I loved his fluffy tail coming through the fence:) & Emma's stamps were PERFECT for my little card.

Cricut Cartridges - Wrap it Up, doodlecharms, & Just Because Cards

Paper - k&Co, Recollections

Ribbon - Little Scrap Pieces

White Gel Pen – Sakura

Stamp - My Creative Time - Color me happy

Eat Cake....

Hi Everyone!

I have a yummy card for you today, and I'll share my inspiration for this cake too! I came across a few challenges and I just couldn't help myself.  I LOVE chocolate cake!!! 

Challenges:

Reasonable Ribbon #42 is Pink & Brown with Ribbon.

Cooking with Cricut - #74: Birthday - must use cake, cupcake and/or balloons

DL Art - Anything Goes

Cardz TV - Anything Goes

So I was really craving chocolate cake and starting looking through the internet and I found this yummy looking piece of cake. So I decided since I didn't have time to go out and purchase all the ingredients and then bake it, I would use it for inspiration for making a birthday card! 

If you're interested this came from Southern Living and you can click HERE for the recipe. This is on my list of things to bake :)

Card Recipe

A2 Sized card

Cricut Cartridge - Sweet Treats

Paper - M&MBI, Recollections, & MM

Stamp - Studio G

Flocking - Martha Stewart

Glossy Accents

Jute Twine

Paws-atively Precious

Hi Everyone!
Hope you are all doing well and staying healthy. My youngest son has been home sick with such a bad cold & cough. It started with stomach flu on Monday night, YUCK no fun. I think my washer has been going non stop since Tuesday (UGH germs) He is feeling much better today!!
I really wanted to participate in a couple challenges because I so wanted to use the MPS stamps that I won from Sweet June at Simply Elegant Paper Crafts. Stop over and check out her blog for the most fabulous inspiration! THANK YOU JUNE!!!
Challenges:
Fantabulous Cricut - #98 – Fun With Puns
My Craft Spot - Girly Girl! (Lots of pink, frills, flowers, bling - anything that just screams "Girl"!)
Cardz TV - “A Stitch in Time”, make a card for any occasion using real or faux stitching and use any cartridges or colors you’d like.
Crafty Ribbons - "Paws for thought"

Card - 4.25" x 5.5"

Cricut Cartridge - Create A Critter

Paper - We R Memory Keepers, Recollections

Stamps - Peachy Keen PK-451 Wide Eyed 1 1/8 & PK 754 Critter Faces SET A Medium

Sentiment - My Pink Stamper - "Even more punnylicious"

Machine Stitched

Bakers Twine - Pink Sorbet

Embellishment - KI Memories Puffies  - Blooms Pink

Birthday Wishes - Masculine

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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

My Craft Spot - Let's hear it for the boys

Celebrate the Occasion - Masculine Cards

Cardz TV - It's a Guy Thing

Card - 4.5"

Paper - GCD Studios

Cricut Cartridge - Life's a beach

Label - Die Cut - MCT

Sentiment - MCT

Machine Stitched

Have a dazzling Holiday

Hi Everyone!


Hope you all had a fabulous Holiday or weekend. Wow, I had my fill of turkey.... we had a great Turkey day and a very nice weekend with family.  My niece was here for a couple days and boy is she just the cutest little girl! She is 5 months already, time is just zooming by!
Well on to my card, now many of you know if you've been following me that I really love high heels. The higher the better....so in my mind the Holiday can not go by without a great pair of heels.  So I just couldn't pass up making a Holiday card without a great pair of shoes Aren't these just sooooo awesome, I really want a pair!! I know I'm nuts, but I would  wear these!
I'm entering these little babies in a few challenges:


Cardz tv - Cricut-cardz-challenge - Christmas Say it with "S"
Whimsical Designs - Add Texture - Anything with texture
Little Scrap Pieces - Copy-cat-Friday-challenge - Winter Holiday
Fantabulous Cricut - Challenge me Monday - Holiday Cards

Card - 4.25" x 5.5"

Cricut Cartridge - Everyday Pop Up Cards

Paper - Recollections

Dry Embossing - Cuttlebug - Seeing spots

Fur, Ribbon, & Tulle - Joanns

 

Boo! Happy Halloween

Hi Everyone!
Well Halloween is almost here! Lots of parties and parades coming up. I created one more Halloween card to be entered in a few challenges.  I kept all of these challenges in mind while creating this card. I really am enjoying using sketches so I started there. I wanted to create a cute card but now I look at it, maybe it more spooky than cute. 

Hope you all have a great day!

Challenges:

Peachy Keen Stamps - Sketch Challenge
fantabulous Cricut - Create a project with a ghost on it
Cardz TV - Make a card for Halloween using ANY Halloween image you'd like from any cartridge(s) and using any colors you’d like.
The Paper Variety - No tricks just treats - Cute or spooky Halloween project

Card 5.5"

Cartridge - PDDU(ghost), Create A Critter,(moon) & Bloom(black background)

Paper - DCWV, Recollections,Bazzill

Ribbon - Bakers twine, & Yarn

Sentiment - Printed

Glitter Glue

Punch - Martha Stewart

Stamps - PK-493 Everyday Character Face Parts 3" to 4"

You are truly Appreciated - Teacher

Hi Everyone!

Here is a card I made for two challenges.  Fantabulous Cricut Challenge - Teacher Feature - Make a card or project for that special teacher with the color RED on it.

ALSO, Mary at Cardz TV Challenge - Any fruit, any theme, any colors.

Here is what I came up with. Hope you enjoy!

Card - 5.5" 

Paper - KI Memories, From my collection :)

Cartridge - Create a Critter, TBBM

machine stitched

Versamark Ink

Distressed edges

Sentiment - My computer

Kite string