Patches of Pink - December Post and Link-up Party!

Good morning! It's time for my December post over at Patches of Pink, as well as a link-up party! We are doing - what else? - a Christmas Theme! Here is my card:

I am so excited about this card - as I tried a totally new technique for me! I cut out the ornament with my Cricut using Simply Charmed and hiding all the contours on my Gypsy. I then used it as a mask, inked the edges with Tim Holtz distress ink, then stamped a background stamp from the November Unity Kit of the Month in red ink.

I then cut the top of the ornament, inked the edges, covered it with Glossy Accents, then Martha Stewart coarse glitter. Added some Baker's Twine, and a sentiment from the same Unity stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by! Make sure and head on over to Patches of Pink to link-up your own Christmas creation! Can't wait to see what you make!!! I LOVE this time of year!!!

I am also entering this in the challenge over at Paper and Such - clean, simple, and quick Christmas cards! 

My Creative Time Design Team Call!

If you are looking for my 1 year blogiversary click HERE or scroll down. Still 2 more days to enter the giveaway! 

I was so excited last night when I saw that Emma over at My Creative Time is having a Design Team Call. I LOVE her sentiment stamps - and use them ALL the time! I have a couple of favorites that I have made with her stamps, but the post said it had to be new, just for this DT call. So, I pulled out my Cricut and stamps, and whipped this together early this morning:

I used Simply Charmed for the cupcake, inked all the layers and added some faux stitching. Added a Peachy Keen face - because I am still addicted to Peachy Keen stamps after last week designing for their blog!

I used a die from My Creative Time to stamp my sentiment on, and added some Baker's Twine. Also pop-dotted the cupcake and sentiment tag from the background for some added fun.

Thanks for stopping by, and thanks Emma for a chance to be on your Design Team! I'm sure no matter what they will be amazing, and I can't wait to see who you pick!

And here, just because I can't resist, are a couple of my FAVORITE projects using Emma's stamps:

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Cricut 360 - Challenge #6 - Refreshing!

Good morning! And welcome to another week with Cricut 360! This week, as we are going through the HOT days of summer (well...some of us are...) we were challenged to make something refreshing. For some reason, penguins and snow popped into my head! Make sure and click HERE to visit Cricut 360 and see what the Design Team has made, and link up your own creation for a chance to win this weeks prize!

For my card, I started off with a 5x5 card base, and cut a frame from Elegant Edges. Ran part of it through the Cuttlebug, and stamped my sentiment on the bottom where I didn't emboss it. The penguins are cut from Simply Charmed, and I added a couple of cute Peachy Keen faces to them. Added some Baker's Twine, and some doodling with my white gel pen.

AND...couldn't resist putting them on an Action Wobble!!! They look so cute wobbling together - like they are dancing!

It was really hard to get a picture of them both moving together...

So I also did them each individually so you could get an idea of how much they move!

So thanks for stopping by to visit! Hope you are having a great week and enjoying your summer!



Mother's Day Gift #2 - Chocolate!

Okay...here we go with post number 2!

This one I am entering in two challenges as well: Creative Cutter Room's Design Time Thursday Challenge, to use all of the required elements from the Design Team Member's blogs, and Flaunt it Friday's - Cindy Loo, anything goes!

For this kit, the letters also were cut from Nursery Rhymes, welded together on my Gypsy. The mushrooms are from Cindy Loo, and the sunshine (with the cute Peachy face) is from Simply Charmed. I inked the edges of all the cuts, except the words. Added some Crinkle ribbon, LOTS of Prima flowers, buttons, stick on pearls, and some faux stitching around the edges.



Mother's Day Gift - Chocolate!

Hello! Guess I will be posting a LOT today, since I finally am getting caught up on some stuff and have a few challenges to post for...some of them ending today! Been working on Mother's Day gifts and such for a Craft Fair that I am doing this weekend. Been busy getting it all ready...amazing how much work it takes to prepare!

Anyway, this is the first of THREE that I have already completed. I am thinking of them as Mother's Day gifts, but really, they could be for just about anything: baby shower, birthday, bridal shower, anniversary, or just because! This first one I am entering in Peachy Keen's LFIF Mother's Day Challenge, as well as Scrapbookaholic by Abby's Challenge #4 -  Mother's Day with faux stitching.

Sorry for all the pictures - wanted to give plenty of detail! The words came from Nursery Rhymes cartridge, welded together with my Gypsy and coated in Glossy Accents. The strawberries, and bowl of strawberries is from Simply Charmed, and have Peachy Keen faces on them. Also put a bit of Glossy Accents on the eyes. I notices after I took these pictures that I forgot to color their tongues - so I DID take care of that! The strawberries and bowl are pop-dotted for dimension. Added some ribbon and faux stitching with my Sakura Glaze pen, and there you go!



Mother's Day Rainbow card....

I'm still having fun doing Mother's Day cards, and for some reason when I saw this sentiment, I just couldn't help but picture the rainbow from Simply Charmed cartridge with it...and LOTS of glitter!!! I am also entering this in the Paper Playtime Challenge #41, because I used pink and glitter, and in My Creative Time's Throwback Thursday Challenge by using an older cartridge and the color green somewhere in the project. It is also based on the sketch challenge over at Peachy Keen's Challenge blog.

For this card, I got the background image from Gyspy Wanderings, stitched around the edges, and ran it through my Cuttlebug. The rainbow was, of course, from Simply Charmed, with the sentiment from Emma's stamps and a Peachy Keen Face. Inked the edges of each of the cuts, and then added glitter over the rainbow colors, and around the outside edges of the card. Added a sheer ribbon bow along the bottom, and then pop-dotted both the background shape and the rainbow - so this card has a LOT of dimension!

Thanks for looking - and hope you have a sunny day!!!



Mom's are the glue...

I FINALLY got my first set of stamps from Emma at My Creative Time and before I even had them I was full of ideas for how to use them. I got the "Mom You Rock" set, so I will be working on lots of Mother's Day cards in the near future. This is the first one that I just HAD to make last night, 'cause I couldn't wait!!! I am also entering this in the challenge over at the Creative Cutter Room, to show what I feel lucky to have in my life right now - and I feel so lucky (or blessed!) to be the mom of my two wonderful children, and to have my own mom be a part of our lives!!!

The card base came from Wild Card (another often forgotten cartridge for me!), and the rest of the cuts came from Simply Charmed. I hid the face on the notebook paper and the glue, and added a Peachy Keen face to my glue bottle. Did lots of inking and doodling, pop-dotted the glue bottle, and added a Baker's Twine bow along the side. The sentiment is for course from my new set, and the picture doesn't show it very well, but I put Glossy Accents on the glue, the little red part of the bottle, and the eyes on the Peachy face.



Tacky Tuesday Challenge - Hip Chick

I really wanted to make this card for the Tacky Tuesdays Challenge, so I managed to sneak it together early this morning! I love how it came out!

The challenge was to use the chick from Simply Charmed, and the sentiment had to include the word "chick" in it. So I cut the sentiment from Straight from the Nest, then added a Peachy Keen Face to the chick by combining the eyes from the Wide Eyed Kids Assortment and the beak from the Critter Faces. I love combining parts of two different faces to come up with something new and cute! I added the flower to cover up an ink smudge I made (oops!) and then my 7 year old daughter suggested the necklace - and I LOVE how that idea worked! Cut the card shape from Lacey Labels, welding two together with my Gypsy. Added some Baker's Twine in a bow with a button, some stick on pearls, and some doodling around the edges. Fun, fun! 



I (heart) you banner

There were a few different challenges I wanted to enter all at once, so last night I made this cute little banner to surprise my daughters with when they wake up this morning. I'm going to let them hang it up in their room. I'm sure they will be SOO excited, and I can't wait to see their faces!

The first challenge was over at Made by Momo, and it was to use the colors hot pink, black, and white and use at least 1 heart. If that wasn't obvious already!

The second challenge was at Crafting with Cristina, and it was to make a Valentines themed project - but NOT a card! That made it a little tougher for me, since cards are definately my favorite thing to make!

The last challenge was over on the Cricut Circle blog, and it was to make a banner, with at least 3 Cricut cuts.

So I cut the banner from Birthday Bash, as well as the scalloped circles and the letters. The heart came from Simply Charmed, just without the face showing, and I cut the top white layer by welding together two different size hearts. The little cupids are from the Sweethearts cartridge. I added Glossy Accents to all the black parts of the cuts, icicle Stickles to the center of the heart, and black Stickle dots to the edges of the white scallops and the white part of the heart. Did some doodling, and then strung it together with Baker's Twine. Oh yeah...almost forgot...also pop dotted the I (heart) U part as well!



Happy Day...and Sympathy

I didn't notice until I was posting these, just how OPPOSITE they were! The first one is all happy, and the second one is sympathy! Guess that is how life is though, the happy mixed with the sad.

So the first one I was just playing with some stamps I had in my stash, and coloring with my Prismacolor pencils. Then I put the yellow frame around it (which is the negative cut of the Groovy card I made the other day!), and added a frame. Before I knew it, I was cutting out a happy sunshine (from Simply Charmed) and adding a Peachy Keen face, and some grass from Zooballoo. I added Glossy Accents to the grass and the rays on the sunshine, added LOTS of faux stitching, a little ribbon from my stash, and LOTS of bling with my Jolee's heat set tool. The grass and the sunshine are also pop-dotted from everything else for texture.

The second one isn't my favorite, but I figured I would share it anyway. Feels like it needs something, but I can't put my finger on what it is! Anyway, I used one of the tag shapes from Once Upon a Princess, and the flower came from Cindy Loo. The side border is a Martha Stewart punch. The frame on the inside is actually the shadow to the frame on the front, but I didn't like it there when it was all finished. So I cut a little off the top and bottom to make it fit better, and put it on the inside. Added some ribbon and a sentiment from my stash (not sure who it is by...) and a bit of doodling to finish it off.



So many thanks! Peachy Keen "Let's Face it Friday" Challenge

Good afternoon!!! I am really excited about this card - because I was able to accomplish two things that I wanted to accomplish - enter the Peachy Keen "Let's Face it Friday" Challenge, and use my Simply Charmed cartridge for the first time (the cartridge I am giving away on Monday morning SEE HERE FOR MORE INFO!)

Besides using Simply Charmed and Peachy Keen faces (Dolly Dumplins face assortment), I also used a sentiment from one of my Unity Stamp sets. Added some ribbon a bit of doodling on the leaves, and an edge along the bottom from one of my Martha Stewart branch punches. I think it came out really fun - and I LOVE the colors on this one! Thanks for looking - and feel free to join in on the fun HERE! There is a great prize as well!



Giveaway - tell me a story!

I had no idea what I was starting when I began this blogging journey about 3 months ago! It began as something to help my husband out with his college course, and the website he had to build. Since then - it has turned into something that I have SOOO much fun with! And I can't believe how many people have followed me - so...I wanted to thank you all! I recently was able to purchase the cartridge Simply Charmed for a GREAT deal, and since it is one that I had been wanting for a long time ( because it is so great for using with Peachy Keen Stamps!!!), I picked up an additional one to share with one of you! This is brand new - in the package!

 

I would like to get to know you all better, so what I would like you to do is leave a comment on this post, telling me the funniest thing that has ever happened to you in your crafty life! It can be something that happened with a project you were making, or at the craft store where you were shopping, crafting with a friend, or whatever! I will pick a random winner on Monday morning (1-10-11), and ship this out right away! (U.S. only please!) 

I look forward to reading all your stories!