A wedding card, and some EXCITING news!!!

Good morning! I have some EXCITING news that I have been waiting to announce, but first, I wanted to share a card that I actually  made a couple of weeks ago. A good friend asked me to make her a wedding card for a friend, using the colors pink, black, and white, and some kind of a funky and fun cake. So...here is what I came up with:

I used a cake from Sweet Treats, skewed it a bit on my Gypsy so it tilted to the right, and put it on a cake stand from Straight from the Nest. The frame is from Elegant Edges, and the edge punch is a Martha Stewart border punch. Sentiment was a random one from my stash...not sure who it is by. I had a REALLY hard time making the picture show the right color, but it really is a pretty and bright pink! 

So...now for my exciting news!!! I actually have a bunch of exciting things coming up in October - can hardly wait!!! First, I have been keeping it under my hat, but am now free to share, that I was asked to be a guest designer for Scrappy Moms Stamps for the month of October!!!

I also have my guest design week for Peachy Keen Stamps during the week of October 17- 21! And I know I will have a giveway that week also!!!

And finally...October 20th is my 1 year Blogaversary!!! I have had so much fun over this past year and enjoying this journey and all the new friends I have met!!! So I have been collecting a BUNCH of my favorite things to giveaway to celebrate that! You'll have to wait until then to see everything, but I already have a Cricut cartridge, some Peachy Keen Stamps, some Unity Stamps, some paper pads...really a bunch of my favorite things that I use all time and want to share with you!!! So...now you know to be ready for that! I will probably do it the weekend or week after my Peachy Keen guest design week, just because it might get a little crazy otherwise!!!

Enjoy your day today - I might be a little absent in the next day or two, as my husband is having a little minor day surgery today, and will be home the rest of the week! Praying that everything goes well and he heals quickly though! Bye for now!!!

If friends were flowers...I'd pick you!

Hello! I almost didn't make it, but really wanted to enter this weeks Scrappy Mom's Terrific Tuesday Challenge - to use Straight from the Nest. I also added some faux stitching around the edges, which makes it qualify for the Sew Much Fun challenge over at My Craft Spot. Here is the card I made:

I used (of course!) Straight from the Nest, and my Scrappy Mom's stamps for the sentiment. I love this quote!!!

The flowers are the border feature on this cartridge, and I inked the edges, added a rhinestone center, and pop-dotted them from the card.

Inked the edges of the card, rounded two of the corners, and added a Baker's Twine bow to finish it off!



You're OWL-dorable!

Sigh...I really DO love 6x6 paper pads! I love how easy it is to combine pattern paper with them! I finally got around to making this owl card for a friend that had requested it quite some time ago. The final project I got done over my sick weekend!

I also used the Peachy Keen Sketch challenge - I know I took a bit of liberties with it, but hopefully it still works! I just loved that frame shape! I turned it sideways, and instead of using half the frame, I pulled it down and used the whole thing.

Anyway, I used Elegant Edges for the background frame and Straight from the Nest for the owl. Added some machine stitching around the outside edges, a Peachy Keen face to the owl, and a sentiment from My Pink Stamper. Oh, almost forgot...I also pop-dotted the owl from the background just for fun!



The Pink Stamper Design Team Call

Just for the fun of it, I thought I would make a card for the Design Team Call at My Pink Stamper. The challenge was to make a card with the colors green, brown, orange, turquoise, and one other color of your choice. I know how much Robin loves cupcakes, and I LOVE looking at (and drooling over!) all the yummy ones she has made and posted pictures of on her blog! So I decided to make a BUNCH of cupcakes with the colors of the challenge. I added the bright pink color as my optional color - I hope that the ivory cardstock doesn't count as its own color too, otherwise I picked 2 colors! (oops!)

I ended up making a tall card - it is 3 1/2 by 7 1/2. I used the border feature on Straight from the Nest for the cupcakes. I didn't have one of Robin's stamps that worked for the sentiment, so I used one from a set I had by Pink by Design. I ran the one layer of ivory cardstock through my Cuttlebug, pop-dotted the cupcakes, and matted it in brown. Other than that, I kept it pretty simple!



Tacky Tuesday Challenge - Cool Treats!

Well...I have been wanting to do this for a while, and always seem to miss the deadline! This time is close, but I made it in time! I made this for Challenge #8 Tacky Tuesday's. The challenge was to make a project with a cool summer treat, and include the word "sweet" somewhere in the sentiment. I am also entering this in the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge - I Scream for Ice Cream!!!

My ice cream came from the Cricut Cartridge Straight from the Nest. I used lots of patterned paper! The background shape came off of the same cartridge. I inked the edges of everything, added some doodles, and a bit of bling. The little tag I made by just using a Fiskar's corner punch on a scrap of paper and the sentiment is from Scrappy Mom's stamps. Finished off with a little ribbon bow.

Happy Easter!

Since my hubby was gone this weekend at a Men's Advance with the guys from our church, I took the opportunity to catch up a bit on my scrapbooking...so I put myself on a cardmaking ban until I hit my goal! I do my scrapbooking by year, so my goal was to finish the last of 2009...about 25 pages!!! And yesterday afternoon - I finished the last one! So...I rewarded myself by making a quick card last night!

I am entering this in the Inspired Heart Challenge over at Getting Cricky with K Andrews - to make a project about what inspired you right at this moment. The sermon at church yesterday morning was talking a lot about the Resurrection, and that is what Easter is to me! And very little makes me think of new life as much as butterflies!

For this card, I used the Unity Stamp January Kit of the month for the stamped flower border with black Stickles in the centers, and the sentiment came from a stamp in my stash...don't remember what brand it was, but I know I purchased it from Michael's. Added some butterflies that I cut from Straight from the Nest, on the shift key of the phrase feature - covered them with Glossy Accents and glitter. Inked the edges of everything, and finished with some luscious velvet ribbon and stick on red pearls.



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! 



Sharing a favorite scrapbook page...or two!

I usually only post cards on here, but I really loved how these couple pages came out, so I thought I would go ahead and share them here too.

The first one is also for the Cricut Circle weekly challenge. The challenge is B.A.B.Y. - which each stand for something. B=brads, A=aqua, B=butterfly, Y=you as a subject. So...this also includes my kids, but it was as close and I was going to get as a page about me! The brads are hard to see, but are little black square ones on the corners of the photo. The aqua is pretty obvious, I did lots of butterflies (cut from Straight from the Nest), and the pic is me and my two daughters. The label is from Lacey Labels. Added some doodling with my white gel pen, and inked all the butterflies and the label.

This second pictures is just one that made me happy! It is a pic of my husband and daughters - and I love the picture, and really love how the page turned out as well. The label is also from Lacey Labels. I just added some Prima flowers instead of the ones that came with it, and added a computer generated sentiment.



Owl always love you

Good morning! Branched out yesterday and combined two of my favorite things: Unity stamps, and my Cricut! The banner at the top I stamped with my Unity stamp set, then cut out by hand. Added a cute owl from Straight from the Nest - with a Peachy Keen face, of course! - and a sentiment from My Pink Stamper's Tweetie Hoo Puns set. Thanks for looking!



Peachy Keen Faces...with a twist!

Hello! I had so much fun with the card!!! I cut out the little birds, and then realized that I only had the medium size critter faces, and all of them were MUCH too big for these little birds. So...I got a little creative! I used one of the bird faces, but only inked the beak and stamped that on each of them. Then I picked a face from the Princess faces assortment in the right size, and only inked the eyes and stamped them on! So...I kind of built my own face! Worked like a charm!

Used my Cuttlebug on the background, a stack of Prima Flowers, buttons and ribbons, some little jewels set on with my Jolee's heat set tool, and finished off with a sentiment from My Pink Stamper's Tweety Hoo Puns stamp set. Pop-dotted the birds, and the background for lots of texture.

Have a tweet day!