Birthday Cupcake...

This card was made using Better Together Cricut Imagine cartridge. I put some pink ribbon/yarn I found at Michaels and a black ribbon bow on the top of her head. I am entering this card in the World Card Making Day Challenge.

Materials:

• Cricut Imagine cartridge - Better Together
• Distress Ink - Old Paper
• My Creative Time - Wow! So Many Candles

Butterfly Award

I want to first say Thank you so very much to Karen over at Little Scrap Pieces because she gave me the "Butterfly Award" back in August but I did not see her comment telling me about it until today.

Anyway, I want to thank you Karen very much! So here is what I have to do. I have to pass this award on to 10 other bloggers, contact the bloggers to let them know they have been given this award, show a link to their blogs, show a link back to the blogger who has given this award to me and answer a few questions.

Here we go...

Q1) Name your favorite colour?

It's a toss up...purple, red, & black. In that order.

Q2) Name your favorite song?

Bless the Broken Road by Rascal Flatts

Q3) Name your favorite dessert?

Carrot Cake or peanut m&m's

Q4) What wizzes you off at the moment?

People who think they have something coming to them just because.

 Q5) Your favorite pet?

My two Yorkies of course.  :)

 Q6) Black or White

Black is slimming

Q7) Your biggest fear?

Loosing my kids, hubby or my mom.

Q8) Best Feature?

Hmm...I can cook :)

Q9) Everyday attitude?

I am grateful for what I have and who I have in my life.

Q10) What is perfection?

There is no such thing. No one/nothing is perfect!

Q11) Guilty Pleasure?

sweets

Q12) When you're upset you?

Want to be left alone.


Now the 10 people I am giving this award to...

Cindy @ http://cindybcreations.blogspot.com/
Madison @ http://funkycards.blogspot.com/
Linda @ http://www.lindaspinkcraftroom.com/
Marfa @ http://www.craftingmarfa.com/
Kari @ http://www.kwcarddesign.com/
Stacy @ http://scrapwithstacy.blogspot.com/
Sarah @ http://sarahvaitstamps.blogspot.com/
Denise @ http://lalasworldblog.blogspot.com/
Karla @ http://madebykarla10.blogspot.com/
Missy @ http://quickchickdesigns.blogspot.com/

Trick or Treat...

Since Halloween is right around the corner I thought I would make another card for Halloween and the sketch w/ a twist challenge 61 over at Peachy Keen Stamps

Materials:

• Peachy Keen Stamps - Happy Lashes Assortment
• Cricut Cartridge - Simply Charmed
• DCWV - The Midnight Spell Matstack
• Halloween Twine

There is a great giving away going on over at the Crafter's Companion blog. The entire brand new S.w.a.l.k. collection!!! That's 6 amazing stamp sets.

To enter to win these darling stamps make sure you are a follower of their blog and leave a comment. That's it. Want a second chance to win? Post about our giveaway on your blog or sidebar and leave an additional comment. This giveaway is open to U.S. residents only. We will choose a winner next Thursday September 6th. Good luck!

Happy Halloween...

This card was made using the new DCWV Ghosts & Goblins Stack and embellishment stack.  I think it looks kinda scary. (haha) I love how DCWV has both the paper and matching embellishment stack. I made this card for the challenge over at Paper Playtime.

Materials:

• DCWV - Ghosts & Goblins Stack
• DCWV - Ghosts & Goblins Embellishment Stack 

There is a great giving away going on over at the Crafter's Companion blog. The entire brand new S.w.a.l.k. collection!!! That's 6 amazing stamp sets.

To enter to win these darling stamps make sure you are a follower of their blog and leave a comment. That's it. Want a second chance to win? Post about our giveaway on your blog or sidebar and leave an additional comment. This giveaway is open to U.S. residents only. We will choose a winner next Thursday. Good luck!

Happy Birthday Popcorn Bear

This card image and paper I printed from the Popcorn the Bear Birthday Collection CD from Crafter's Companion. This CD is so awesome. It has so many images, papers, & ideas that you can print with this computer. I am entering this card in the September Sketch Challenge over at One Crazy Stamper.

Materials:

• Distress Ink - Vintage Photo
• Stickles - icicle & dark blue
• iRock
• Popcorn the Bear Birthday Collection CD-ROM

Friends to the End

Another day of using my dusted off Imagine. I am in LOVE with this machine. I love this image from Better Together cartridge. This card was made to enter into the Let's Face it Friday - Sunshine challenge over at Peachy Keen Stamps. For this challenge you had to use PKS faces and a sun in it. I decided I would make the sun a happy sun using my PKS faces.

Materials:

• DCWV - The Lemon Flower Stack
• Cricut Imagine cartridge - Better Together
• Distress Ink - Vintage Photo
• Peachy Keen Stamps - Happy Lashes Assortment
• My Creative Time stamps - Small Talk
• Memento ink - Black Tuxedo
• AWI Wobble

Slugs and snails...

...and puppy dog's tails!

I wanted to share my project from Crafter's Companion Blog.  For my project I wanted to try something out of my comfort zone and make this photo album. I thought it went well with the adorable SWALK stamp.

Here is the first two pages of the album. I used DCWV Baby Boy stack for this album.

This is one of my favorite two pages in the album. I used glossy accents on the turtle just to give is some dimension. I didn't show every page but I think you get the idea.

Recipe:

• DCWV - Baby Boy Stack
• Distress Ink - Vintage Photo
• Cricut Cartridge - Once Upon A Princess
• Inkssentials - Glossy Accents
• Stampin Up - Watercolor Pencils
• Colorbok Chipboard Book

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Happy Birthday with a Cherry on Top

Today I felt like dusting off my Imagine and putting it to use. I am entering this card in to Mojo Monday 208 Challenge, Monday Challenge #26, & Challenge Me Monday #79.

For the inside of the card I used some of the same paper I printed on my Imagine and used an extra cherry. I hate a plain card. :)

Materials:

• Distress Ink - Old Paper
• My Creative Time stamps - Wow So Many Candles!
• Cricut Imagine Cartridge - Imagine More Cartridge

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Popcorn the Bear Birthday Bag

The bag and rosette was made using the Vintage Paper Rosettes SVG Kit from svgcuts.com. I've been wanting to make something using this kit and I decided I would use it for this challenge over at Celebrate the Occasion  - Challenge 31.

 I used Popcorn the Bear Birthday Collection CD-ROM for the image. This CD is great because you can print out matching paper or you can print images. So many different ones to choose from and can even get project ideas with directions.

Materials:

• DCWV - The Shimmer Stack & The Celebration Stack
• Distress Ink - Vintage Photo
• SVG file - Vintage Paper Rosettes SVG Kit from svgcuts.com
• Popcorn the Bear Birthday Collection CD-ROM

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Fall Pumpkins

Good afternoon. I don't have very many Fall/Thanksgiving decorations for my house so I thought I would try my hand and these. I am entering these into this weeks challenge over at My Craft Spot.

I used my hot glue gun and glued the leaves on the pumpkin in random places and sizes all over the pumpkins. After the glue cooled down I used some stickles in different colors in random places all over the pumpkins.

For these cards I used my new stamp set, Small Talk from My Creative Time. I like how you can use up the scraps that you have left over. I also wanted to use my embellishments that match this paper from DCWV.

Recipe:

• DCVW - Harvest Gathering Stack
• DCWV - Harvest Gathering Embellishment Stack
• My Creative Time - Small Talk stamp set
• Halloween Bakers Twine
• Stickles - yellow, gold, orange peel, & cinnamon
• Recollections - Mulberry Holly Leaves 
• Dollar Pumkins from Michaels

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Spooky House

 

This spooky house was a little work for me because I couldn't figure out if I wanted to add some more to it or not. I used the SVG file from svgcuts.com, called Elmhurst Hollow. It really was allot of fun. I think I am going to put it on my kitchen table.

I love how the pumpkin in the window looks scary.

The bat looks like he is flying away from the house. My husband gave me some wire he had in the garage. I hot glued them on to the house.

Materials:

• DCWV - The Ghosts & Goblins Stack
• Distress Ink - black soot
• Stickles - yellow, brown, & gunmetal

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Sixth Grade Scrapbook Page

This is an 8x8 scrapbook page of my beautiful daughter. She started middle school this year (6th, 7th, &  8th grade).  I wanted to show use this new stack I bought the other day from DCWV and I also entered this into the September Stack-holic Challenge over at DCWV.  I usually put at least 3 pictures on a page but for this challenge it was only one and I thought I would make a page just for her. I really love the colors and my daughters favorite color is green so I wanted to use that color.

Materials:

• Distress Ink - faded jeans & vintage photo
• Stampin Up Ink - green galore
• DCWV Stack - All Dolled Up
• Color Bok glitter chipboard alphas
• Recollections dimensional flower

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I Was Made Just For You

This card was made for my husband for our anniversary. It was super easy and I think I was made just for him! :)

Happy anniversary baby I love you!

Recipe:

• Cricut Imagine - Kate's Kitchen
• Distress Ink - Old Paper
• Papertrey Ink - Craft Cardstock

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We Will Never Forget

I will never for September 11, 2001. It was one of the saddest days in America. Still to this day I get teary and mad all at the same time. Although living on the West Coast I only seen the devastation on the television I was really saddened that anyone could ever do such a thing. Such a sad day for so many who have lost a loved one or knew someone who lost a loved one. So many children without a parent because someone so evil could do something like this. So many innocent lives lost.

I want to thank all of the men and woman who gave their life for our freedom. Those who are still fighting to keep this country free, I thank you for everything you do to protect our country.

BFF

I dusted off my Imagine and thought I would put together a cute card. I think that anyone who doesn't have allot of time to put projects together then they should get an Imagine because it takes the guessing out of it. I love the colors and the images are awesome.

 

Recipes:

• Cricut Imagine - Better Together
• Papertrey Ink - Craft Cardstock
• Yellow Polka Dot Ribbon from Scrapbook Steals