I'm sooooooooooooo excited!!

I am so super excited to announce I have been chosen, along with many other Fantabulous ladies, to be on the Design Team for Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog! This is such an honor and I am soooooooo stinkin' excited I can hardle contain myself!  Yay! 
I will be posting every other week along with the other Design Team members--whom I'm super excited to be playing with!  How fun!  I am really looking forward to this adventure!

A whole lot of green!

I love green... it's pretty much my favorite color and this card looks like my craft room blew up and green was the only color I could find.  I also decided of course it was time to hang out with the lovely ladies over at Stamping 411 to participate in another one of their fabulous challenges-- I just LOVE the challenges these ladies present.  I used a vast array of supplies and unfortunately a lot of what I used is stuff I have had for years and I am not sure of the company :(  I apologize for this but I hope you still enjoy my card!  Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Paper: A whole lot of I don't know :(

Shamrocks--are all stickers!

Punches: SU! Modern Label and circles

Stamp: SU! Teeny Tiny Wishes 

No... the B does not stand for Barn!

Hey everybody!  I hope this post finds you all doing well and having a good day-- no snow here in MN where I am at but brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr it sure was chilly today!  I decided that I just simply had to join in a couple more of the challenges I came acros-- Love the "Get In Shape" Challege over at http://jitterbugginchallenge.blogspot.com/  it provided me with yet another excuse to pull out my Create-A-Critter cartridge-- hmmmm definitely gonna have to hide that from myself!  And I aslso decided to play with the lovely ladies at http://morethanfavors.blogspot.com/ who are hosting the Wacky Wednesday Challenge--it was a farm theme!  So I think my card fits in quite well.  I also just came across the wonderful and  talented K Andrew and decided to add my card to her challenge as well! 

The barn was a little tricky to put together without the use of a Gypsy for welding-- perhaps if my husband is reading this super close today he will see my *hint*...okay not so much a hint as a blantant request for a Gypsy:)  I will be sending this card of to one of my friends who considers herself a "farm girl"  I think I'm about as close to the opposite as one can get!  But I do know she will love this card...okay I hope she loves it.  The "B" on the barn is the initial for her last name...not signifying that B stands for barn :) 

Recipe

Cricut Cartridge: Create-A-Critter cow cut at 1.5 in and barn cut at 3.5 inches

Paper: Random scraps-- I assume most SU! 

Stamp: Martha Stewart set

Punches: Circles from SU! 

You're A Hoot!

Tonight I decided to play along with yet another challenge at http://twoscraptasticgals.blogspot.com/ the ladies are again hosting the Cricut Cartridge Chaos Challenge and the cartridge they are currently featuring is the Paisley cartridge.  This is one of my new cartridges and I sometimes find it challenging to come up with cuts that really call to me!  I of course had to pair this little owl up with a stamp from My Pink Stamper-- love those punny sayings!    I hope you enjoy this card :)  Have a great night!

Recipe

Paper: Almost all SU! the green DSP is from small pack of photo mats from Creative Mems.

Cartridge: Paisley Owl cut at 3 inches

Stamp: My Pink Stamper set

Other Staff: Bling from $ section at Target

Punches: SU! Oval and Scalloped Oval 

So many challenges...so little time :-)

There are soooo many fun challenges out there this week and I had a blast playing with a handful of them I came across while searching some of my favorite blogs!  The Creative sisters Linda and Patti-Lynn at http://lindascreativity.blogspot.com/ had a challenge today to use something that is embossed--I embossed my coffee cup!  Challenge #48 at http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/ was also to emboss!  So I thought I'd would enter this challenge as well :)

Also while I was wandering around the Internet I noticed yet another cool challenge and this was found at http://cricutcardzchallenge.blogspot.com/  The challenge presented here was to use a cup!  So I took a look through my cartridges and found a cup that I enjoyed!  And lastly for this card I also embossed as that was the challenge at http://cookingwithcricut.blogspot.com/  the ONLY cooking I really do is with my Cricut!

Recipe:

Cricut: Lyrical Letters for the coffee cup

Paper: dsp DCWV stack, SU! Sahara Sand solid

Ink: SU! Sahara Sand

Punches: SU! small oval and key tag punch

Stamp: saying is from MorningStar stamps

Other: I used a white gel pen to do some random marks around the card

I love daisies!!!

I suppose it's a little too early to be making cards for Mother's Day but I decided that for another challenge with the lovely ladies at http://stamping411.blogspot.com/ I would create a Mother's Day card using their sketch challenge for the week.  I had to have a new toy to play with so I went out and picked up the Cuttlebug quilling dies-- my oh my soooo cute and fun to play with.  I did have a 50% off coupon so that made the purchase even more worthwhile.   It didn't take long at all to put the card together.  I used some of my neglected nestabilities dies and am pleased with how this card turned out.  Thanks for checking it out! 

Recipe

Paper: SU! paper

Die: Cuttlebug Quilling Die: Daisy, Nestabilities label 1 I think

Ink: Old Olive-SU!

Punch: SU! modern label punch

Ribbon: unknown--I think Target



A simple Thank You

Tonight I am posting a simple Thank You card that I worked on to add to my aunts collection.  I was hoping to do some more crafting and sketch challenges tonight but I am feeling a little under the weather so I did some very simple cards tonight and thought I would post one of them.

Recipe:

Paper: SU! Whisper White

Stamp: A clear set from M's --I think it's Studio G

Ink: Black Stazon and SU Old Olive and Daffodil Delight

Other: Stickles used in the center of the flowers



Whooooooo's Up for Another Challenge?!?

Tonight I decided to take some time to play with the lovely ladies over at http://stamping411.blogspot.com/ and I tried my hand at the Saturday Sketch Challenge.  I must admit these challenges are addicting and I soooo look forward to them each and every week.  I pulled out some old SU! designer paper that I am sure has long since been retired and paired it up with some matching cardstock. 

If you look closely you will see instead of a bow I created a brad... I pulled out and dusted off my I-top and wow... it's so fun and so easy to use.  So I must ask myself--Self...why on earth don't you use this tool more often!?!?!?   I also pieced together the owl which is a punch from SU!-- I tried very hard not to make my owl friend look too terribly cross eyed. 

Recipe:

Paper: All from SU!

Punch: Owl from SU!

Ribbon: Again SU!

Other stuff: used the Itop!



Spring is coming!

I can feel it...I can just tell Spring is almost here!  WOW soooo many puddles today!  I love seeing the ice and snow melting like crazy.  I decided today that I "need" a pair of wellies which is what inspired the card I made tonight.  I just can't believe how warm it was today-- what a glorious day that's for sure :)

I also decided to take some time to play with another challenge.  This challenge was posted over at http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/ and this challenge is for the Challenge #47 Weather Forecast!  And oh baby Spring is soooooo in the air!  The wellies are cut from the Paisley cartridge at 3 inches!  Almost all of the paper is from DCWV and SU!  The pearls are just some random ones I had lying around in a drawere they are from a discount store here in town. 

Recipe

Paper: DCWV and SU!

Cricut Cartridge: the rain boots are cut at 3 in from the Paisley Cartridge

Other stuff: The pearls are no name in an unmarked package :)

I LOVE the plaid paper!  So cute!  Enjoy!

Achooooooo!

Bless you...or excuse me!  Today I spent the day working on a collection of cards for my Aunt.  I typically try to make her some cute cards every now and again.  I have a list of ones that she needs as she sends out tons and tons of notes each month.  Today I worked on some get well cards for her. 

This is what I came up with.  A simple design that I once saw at a Stamping and Scrapping Expo in the Twin Cities--I love attending those.  I always spend way tooooo much money there but I have a great time spending the day with my friend Sarah and her mom!  We have a blast and I look forward to it each and every year.  I hope you enjoy my card for today.

Recipe

Paper: Recollections and the DSP...again no clue--I cut my paper down and didn't keep track :(

Stamps: Lockhart design is what's on the stamp

Other stuff: paper piecing and tissue 

Non-traditional Valentine

Tonight I decided to make some Valentine's Day presents for a few people in the office and a couple to send off to my mom, aunt and sister-- those will need to go off in the mail and will most certainly be late--oops!  As you can see I didn't use the traditional VD colors-- I am thinking perhaps I might put these in little bags with VD toppers--perhaps a post for tomorrow. 
I really love these little calendars and I think the coasters add such a little something to them :)  I had the coasters from M's in the $1 section and the paper...I wish I could remember--it was from some large paper pack but I don't honestly remember the brand!  Yikes I do need to be better about remembering that!  The little rhinestones are also from M's.  And of course the bird....yep you guessed it Create-A-Critter!!  I used create a critter as a way to also participate in Cricut Sisters Monday Challenege and the link can be found at http://pattilynncreations.blogspot.com/

27 Dresses!

Oh my I simply can't believe I have been away from my blog for sooooo long!  I haven't been crafting in the last couple of days either-- work has been simply just way tooooo stinkin' busy!  However, my BFF asked if I would "help" her make some invitations for her nieces baptism. 

I remembered seeing some cute onesies at one point at Splitcoaststampers and decided to use that idea to create a dress.  I believe the pattern for the original onesie started with Lauren http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/  I don't have the specific link to her project but I do know this is the address of her blog! 

I hope these are a big hit with the guests who will be invited to the baptism!

Recipe:

Paper: Stampin' Up Whisper White

Punches: SU! 1.25 circle, two different SU! border punches

Ribbon: Offray I think??!??!

Other Stuff: Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder

Super Bowl Sunday....

Really it's just another Sunday if you ask me :)  I decided to pull out an old Stampin' Up set and created a card to celebrate the Super Bowl...hmmm or just to have a cute card laying around to send.  I think this one would make a great Anniversary card.  I even did a matching envelope...fancy huh :)  Well have a great day!

Another flocking card! A Birthday Challenge!!

I had a lot of free time this afternoon and decided I still felt the need to craft...so I did!  I love a good challenge and often visit a blog called Inkin' It Up Crazy: http://inkingitupcrazy.blogspot.com/ a blog by a wonderfully creative woman named Kassidy.  So I decided to make a birthday card using my Create-A-Critter Cartridge yet again!  I even pulled out my mini sewing machine one more time and sewed around this card too.  I'm still trying to figure out how to get the hang of the sewing--guess I need to keep practicing. 

And of course I had to flock again... I am sooooo addicted!  I LOVE it!  Sooooo fun, sooooo easy and adds just the right tough

This card is for a friend who has a GINORMOUS collection of giraffes!  I hope she likes it....hmmmmmm perhaps it will have to be a super early birthday card as her birthday isn't until the end of August :)  Guess I am waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay ahead of the game!  Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Cricut Create-A-Critter Cartridge: Giraffe cut at 4 in and HB cut at 1.5 in.

Paper: Stampin' Up!

Other Stuff: SU! dimensionals, sewing machine and yellow flocking

A Frog and Flower...Another 411 Challenge

It's Saturday so again another day to join the lovely and talented ladies at http://www.stamping411.blogspot.com/  they are soooo talented and I really enjoy their great sketch challenges on Saturday!  I created a couple of cards--one using my Cricut and the other using some SU! Sale-A-Bration stamps. 

Recipe:

Cricut: Create A Critter frog

Paper: Recollections and the polka dot unknown

Punch: Stampin' Up

Stamp: My Pink Stamper

Recipe:

Cardstock: SU! Old Olive, So Saffron and Very Vanilla

Stamp: SU Sweet Summer set

Ink: Olive Olive, Stazon Black, and So Saffon

Punch: Stampin Up

Other stuff: Random button, SU thread, stickles on bees

Pure Bliss

Ahhh so it's Sale-A-Bration time for Stampin' Up! and I decided I "had" to order a couple of goodies.  So I did...and boy I was not disappointed.  One of the "free" sets is the Bliss set...sooo cute!  So I used that on this card and I was dying to bust open my goodies.  I am not completely in love with this card but I do love the stamp set-- I just need to play around a little more to see if I can perfect it!  I love the little butterfly from this set-- wish there was a punch for it versus having to cut that little bugger out by hand!  Enjoy!

Recipe

Paper: All SU, Riding Hood, Basic Black, Very Vanilla, and SU! DSP

Stamp Set: Bliss-- SU! Sale-A-Bration Set

Ink: Riding Hood, Stazon

Other stuff: Very vanilla grosgrain ribbon and pearl

Ewwwwweee!

So it was back to my Create-A-Critter!  Sorry friends... I thought I was going to be able to stay away from this cartridge-- but NOOOOOO I couldn't :)  So here is a little sheep using my Create-A-Critter.  Take a look at her cute little earrings!  Love em!

Of course whenever I create a little critter I must use my stamps from My Pink Stamper.  I just LOVE how they coordinate with the Cricut Cartridges.  I see that Robyn from My Pink Stamper is releasing some more stamps-- I can't wait to be able to buy some of those!! 

Oh dear it's February!

One would think I would have created calendars back in December or November...but nope it's February and I am still working on these little cuties.  There have been so many blogs around the cyber world showing various ways to create these calendars and that is also where I first noticed that using a binder clip as an easel/holder would be a great idea. 

I think these would make great Valentine's Day gifts and if I get my act together I will be creating some of these for some of the people I work with and I hope they enjoy them-- I think they would be a great addition to their desk!  Guess I should have torn off the page for January!  Opps!  Enjoy!