Two Bugs and a Crafting Junkie...

A Very Simple Valentines

2012-02-17T20:56:00.003-05:00

Just a quick post of a very simple Valentine's card :)

Recipe:
-Cardstock: DCWV Christmas Glitter Stack, Bazzill Basics Piglet
-Patterned Paper: DCWV Love & Wedding Stack
-Stamps: The Cutting Café 4 Piece Set of Cupcakes, Inkadinkado Dawn Houser Four Point Love
-Prismacolor Pencils: PC946 Dark Brown
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox Rose Coral, Merlot
-Chalks: Pebbles Inc. Pearlescent Chalks – Shimmer
-Blossoms: Brides Table confetti Embossed Red Shimmer
-Misc: Adhesive, Gamsol, Marvy 1314 Marker No 64 Plum, Swirl Heart Ribbon

I also thought I would share the very beautiful assorted colored roses I received, they smell so nice :)

I hope everyone had a very happy Valentine's Day :)

Another Birthday Cake Keepsake Album

2012-02-01T15:43:00.016-05:00

Here's another Birthday Cake Keepsake Album that I made for the 1st birthday girl, Braylee.

This is the 1st chance to be able to make one for a girl so I got to get really frilly :)

Here's some pics of it before I added the pictures of her 1st Birthday party and then able to add the finishing embellishments:

Here's the final product:

Enjoying very much her very own birthday cake:

Recipe:
-Cardstock: Bazzill Basic Mud Pie, Piglet
-Patterned Paper: Sandylion Kelly Panacci One of a Kind-Pink, Argyle Sweater-Pink, Floral Crochet-Pink, Daisy Stripes, Mini Daisies-Green, Floral Crochet-Cream
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox Dune, Pink Pastel, Warm Red, Dark Brown
-Rub-ons: Scenic Route Paper Co "Birthday Rub-On Words"
-Blossoms: Prima Flowers, Making Memories Mini Blossoms, Prima Flowers Honeydew
-Stickles: Lime Green
-Wood Flourishes: Kaiser Mixed Flowers and Kaiser Borders
-Rhinestones: Studio 18, Various
-Misc: Button, DMC Floss 469, Crop-A-Dile Tool, Silver Eyelets,Embossing Powder, Ribbon, Black Chipboard, Adhesive, Glue Pad, Rings

TFL and feel free to leave comments, would love to hear from you :)

Ornament Chocolate Holders

2012-01-13T10:40:00.012-05:00

Hi there, here are some holiday gifts I made for some colleagues & family.

I got this idea from Renee Cooper who was the Customer Spotlight in the Sept 13th Cricut Chirp newsletter. She made these really cool pumpkin crates using the ice cream cone cut from Sweet Tooth Boxes and I thought this cut would make great ornament crates.

I made a whole bunch so there's a lot of pictures ahead. At the end of this post are the instructions and materials I used:

I filled them with Mini Hershey Kisses or Dove Dark Chocolates.

For a family member I put a gift card in it by standing it up in the chocolates.

Goody mix:
-Cardstock: White Glitter, Brown Glitter, Bazzill Brown T9-943, Bazzill Basics Rain Forest
-Patterned Paper: Bazzill Basics Glazed Christmas, DCWV Glitter Christmas Stack 2007, Debbie Mumm Holiday 2008, SEi Alpine Frost, My Mind’s Eye Festive & Frost Signature Christmas Short Stack with Glitter, , DCWV Glitter Christmas Stack 2008
-Stamp: CTMH No Peeking (Tag, To & From)
-Stickers: Jolee’s Boutique Snowflake Repeats, Holiday Time (Wal*Mart)
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox Prussian Blue, Blue Iris, Dark Moss, Deep Green, Creamy Brown, Chestnut Roan, Dark Brown, Merlot, Maroon
-Punch: Martha Stewart Artic Snowflake
-Cricut Cartridge: Sweet Tooth Boxes – ConeLy1 & ConeLy2 cut at 9 ½”
-Misc: Tops to real ornaments, Black Pigment Ink, Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Ribbon, Button, DMC Floss 519, DMC Floss 300, DMC Floss White, Crop-A-Dile Tool, Black Eyelets, Rhinestones, Red Jingle Bell

TFL!

Christmas Gift Tags

2012-01-08T14:49:00.012-05:00

I hope everyone had a very happy holiday season!

Here's some more holiday gift tags I made a couple friends to use when they give their very yummy holiday treats to family and friends. This time I stamped them on a 3" circle piece of white card stock and adhered them to some ornament shaped card stock which I used George and Basic Shapes to create using 1” and 3 ½” circles and a 1” x 1 ¼” rectangle:

Baking Ingredients:
-Cardstock: Bazzill Brown T9-943
-Patterned Paper: Bazzill Basics Glazed Christmas
-Stamp: Stampendous Fluffles Baking, CTMH No Peeking (To & From)
-Punch: Martha Stewart Doily Lace Edge
-Prismacolor Pencils: PC924, PC949, PC911, PC941 PC942
-Cricut Cartridge: George and Basic Shapes – 1” and 3 ½” circles and a 1” x 1 ¼” rectangle
-Misc: Adhesive, Gamsol, Black & Silver Pigment Ink, Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Ribbon, Crop-A-Dile Tool, Silver Eyelets

And here are some wreath tags I made last year to attach to my own holiday "treats":

And I attached them to these really cute candy containers I bought at Michaels which I filled with some Cherry Hershey Kisses:

Trimmings:
-CS: Bazill Basic “Palo Verde”, Capers”, “Mocha Devine” and “Ruby Slipper”
-FCI: Colorbox “Dark Moss” and “Deep Green”
-Stickles: Burgundy
-Prismacolor Pencils: PC988 Marine Green and PC941 Light Umber
-Cricut Cartridges: JOTS - Wreath with the base cut at 2 ½” and the Holly (Base Shift) cut at 2 ½”

Hope you like!

:)

Old project - B-day Boy Keepsake Album

2011-12-12T19:00:00.008-05:00

Sorry I've rarely been posting...I finally did some crafting but still haven't taken pictures of it yet. It's another Birthday Cake Keepsake album and I realized I never posted this one. This is one I made for a friend of mine that adopted a baby boy:

Hope you find it yummy!

Cake Mix:
-CS: Doodlebug Design Glitter Paper “White Sugar Coated Cardstock”
-PPs: Deja Views Fresh Print Blue Raspberry collection “Blossoms”, “Paisley”, “Brown?”, Sandylion Kelly Panacci “One of a Kind Blue”, Paper Pizzazz “Blue/Brown Dots”
-Rub-ons: Scenic Route Paper Co "Birthday Rub-On Words"
-Blossoms: Prima Got Flowers? And Hero Arts Spring Art Flowers
-Distress Ink: Tim Holtz “Vintage Photo”
-Wood Flourishes: Kaiser “Mixed Flowers” and “Borders”
-FCI: Colorbox “Ice Blue”
-Glitter: Stampendous “Crystalescent Glitter – Blue Ultra Fine”
-Misc: Ribbon, Black Chipboard, Adhesive, Glue Pad

Baking Up a Batch Just for You!

2011-11-09T19:31:00.005-05:00

Last year I made some tags for a friend of mine that likes to give her very yummy baked goods as gifts to friends. So I thought this stamp of Fluffles from Stampendous would be great to make tags:

Here's the back:

Baked Goods:
Card Stock: Bazzill Basics Palo Verde, Mocha Devine and Ruby Slipper
Stamps: Stampendous Fluffles Baking
Stickers: Jolee’s By You Snowflake
Misc: 1/8” Eyelets, Crop-A-Dile, Adhesive, Prismacolor Pencils, Colorbox Black Pigment Ink, Embossing Powder, Hot Gun

TFL!

Eat Dessert First Birthday

2011-10-14T18:56:00.006-04:00

I know, it's been forever since I've made a post. I haven't been doing too much crafting lately but I have a few things that I've done that haven't posted yet. Here's one...it's a birthday card for my dad. As usual it's really hard to make a card for a guy without getting to frilly so I'm pleased how this came out.

The stamp I used is perfect for my dad as he LOVES frosting!

Cake & Frosting Mix:
Card Stock: Bazzill Basics Tropical and Evening Surf
Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox French Blue, Prussian Blue, Blue Iris and Dune
Cuttlebug: Happy Birthday Embossing Folder
Stamps: Stampendous Fluffles the Cat - Full Fluffles and All Night Media - Happy Birthday in Presents
Prismacolor Pencils: PC1054 Warm Grey 50%
Stickles: Yellow and Xmas Red
Markers: Marvey 1314 #46 Crimson Lake and #24 Beige
Cut-outs: Making Memories Shimmer Jigsaw Swash Blue
Misc: Black Pigment Ink, Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Adhesive

TFL!!!

A great friend's Birthday

2011-02-13T07:35:00.005-05:00

Another quick post...here's a card I made for a very good friend of mine:

Recipe:
PP: DCWV Rustic Stack and Kelly Panacci Cream Daisies
FCI: Colorbox Wisteria, Chestnut Roan & Creamy Brown
Stamps: Stampendous All Good Things (N138) and Birthday Brackets (SSC132)
Cricut Cartridge: ZooBalloo Card feature cut at 5” welded to a base rectangle
Misc: Rhinestones, Purple Ribbon, Adhesive, Pigment Ink, Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Eyelets, Crop-A-Dile

TFL!!!

Happy Birthday to Scott!

2011-02-11T11:07:00.004-05:00

Happy Birthday to Scott! Just a quick post as a I have million projects to catch up on and I'm on a 4 day weekend and one day is already taken up plus Sunday.

Recipe:
-CS: Bazzill Basics Mud Pie, TPC Navy Blue
-PP: Kelly Panacci One of a Kind Plaid Shirt (RMKSCB38) and One of a Kind Blue (RMKSCB46)
-FCI: Colorbox Chestnut Roan & Creamy Brown
-Cricut Cartridge: Lyrical Letters & cut at base 2 ½”, cut with Jack Sprat feature at 2 ½”, Scott cut with Connected feature at 1 ½”
-Misc: Adhesive, Cardboard, Gems

Off to do another birthday card for a friend...TFL!!!

A Birthday with the Horses

2011-01-29T07:37:00.010-05:00

Hi everyone-

Here's another LO that I've done that haven't been able to get around to posting until now.

This was Alyssa's birthday in 2009 and her gift from her Grandma Page was a training session at the horse farm right across the street from her (Grandma Page) and her own Christmas Tree Farm. She definitely enjoyed it!

So here they are:

These two patterned papers are from the DCWV Once Upon a Time pack and I took an x-acto knife and cut around the swirls of golden hair and tucked the pics underneath. Note: I just cut around the areas that I would be be tucking the pictures, not all of it. It's fun being able to have papers that have a design that you can use this technique:

Have a great weekend and TFL!

Alyssa’s B-day 09 (Horses)
CS: Bazzill Basics “Ruby Slipper”
PPs: DCWV Once Upon a Time
Blossoms: Heidi Swapp Florals Pink Glitter
Misc: Adhesive, Button and DMC Floss

Thanksgiving Place Cards

2011-01-07T17:03:00.004-05:00

Got them done on time but a bit late on posting, which I have a lot to share. Stay tuned...

Turkey Stuffing:
CS: TPC “Cranberry Smooth”, TPC “Green #1 Texture”, TPC “Brown #1” , TPC “Black Texture” and coredinationsFoundations “Fudgicles”
Stickers: Provo Craft Alphabilites Pixie Serif Black
FCI: Colorbox “Chestnut Roan”
Cricut Cartridges: Doodlecharms – Apples cut at 1” and Baskets cut a 1.75”
Misc: 1/8” Eyelets, Crop-A-Dile, Adhesive

TFL!!!

My own scrapbook of Chase

2011-01-02T17:43:00.008-05:00

I finally have gotten around to making a scrapbook of my nephew, Chase, just for my very own.

Recipe:
CS: Bazzill Basics “Mud Pie”
PP: Kelly Panacci One of a Kind Blue Theme Pack
FCI: Colorbox “Dark Brown”

TFL!!!

Want to see what I got for Christmas!!

2011-01-02T17:33:00.002-05:00

Two baby girl kittens, click to see a little photo album...

It's All About Me Birthday

2010-12-18T11:08:00.004-05:00

I'm back into trying to finish my in-laws scrapbooks and I was going through what I had completed and came across this LO that I forgot to post. Of course the birthday girl has to have all the attention as it's all about her. :)

Cake Mix:
-CS: Bazzill Basics “Ruby Slipper”
-PPs: DCWV All Dressed Up Glitter Stack, The Luxury Stack Pearlized & Metallic and Glitter Cardstock Stack
-Stickers: Jolee Boutique “All About Me”
-Blossoms: MM Dark Pink Daisy, Heidi Swapp Glitter Florals White and Prima Got Flowers?
-Rhinestones: Best Occasions Rhinestone Accents “Flourishes”
-Misc: Rhinestone Brads

TFL!!

Baby Braylee Katherine Buber is here!

2010-12-03T14:53:00.009-05:00

She's here! My fiance's son and girlfriend had their baby girl. Before the details, I want to know something...just because I'm engaged to a man who just became a grandfather, does that make me a grandmother????? She couldn't have waited until the end of next week, then I would at least be 40!

Here are the details:

Born at 5:37 PM 12/2/10
Weighing at 4 lbs 13 oz
Measuring 21 inches

She's doing excellent, we were not able to hold her because she's a preemie and needed to stay on the warming blanket and under the heat lamp. But she took her 1st bottle in front of us with no problem.

Don't worry about the tubs in her nose, it's not pure oxygen, it's the same air in the room. She can breath on her own, they just have them in as a precaution due to premies lungs collapsing and the walls stick together. All it's doing is pumping the air in and out to keep her lungs constantly working.

Here's the card I made them:

Baby Formula:
CS: BB Brandywine, DCWV Glitter White & Silver
PPs: Heidi Grace Designs “Baby Girl/Buggy”, Colorbok “16972 Rose Stripe”, SEI “Chocolat”
Rub-ons: Cloud9 Memories
Cricut Cartridges: New Arrival – Buggy cut @ 5.5” with a shadow base
Misc: Rhinestones, Heart Button, Adhesive

TFL!!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

2010-11-23T17:55:00.002-05:00

I just wanted to wish everyone a very HAPPY THANKSGIVING and if you are traveling, be safe!

YEAH, I MOSTLY WON!!!

2010-10-04T19:39:00.002-04:00

Hey there, a lot of you have been wondering if my lawsuit against my horrid neighbor has gone anywhere…well I FINALLY rec’d a decision today and I won mostly what I was looking for. Some of you have already rec'd an email from me, for those that haven't heard the great news, my lawsuit against my witch of a neighbor is close to being fully over. I finally rec'd a decision from the judge.

1. The tree has to come down (actually the word used was removed, so I believe she has to dig up the roots as well).

2. The fence and any other plantings have to be lowered to 6’, no other plants or trees can be planted that will grow over 6’ tall
I was a bit disappointed that the fence doesn’t have to come down completely but it was more important that the tree does.

3. No vehicles are allowed to be on the southern portion of the lot I live on that would be done out of spite.

4. The boundary line as been decided that my surveyor is correct and not hers

5. The right of way “easement” is now defined and located, this one I’m disappointed about (but again glad the tree is coming down and she can’t have anything grow over 6'). The decision for the easement is that it is 8’ wide but unfortunately 7’ of it is on my property (putting it a foot away from fence) and only 1 foot on her property. This one I was very surprised about, because of the defininition of the easements in our deeds is ambiguous, the burden is supposed to fall on her and any available land she has is supposed to be used as part of the easement. So since he made it 8’ wide, 4’ of it should be on her property because she has that available and then only 4’ would have been on my property. I was hoping to be able to move my fence over making my yard 5’ bigger, which doesn’t seem a lot but actually is.

Anyway, I’m pleased with the outcome and glad it’s finally almost over. She has 90 days from 9/28/10 to remove the tree and lower the fence and trim any plantings over 6’.

She may appeal in which she has 42 days to do so from 9/28/10. Even if she does she will not win and the decision will be quick and I’ll have my view back next summer!

Ever since the lawsuit has started she hasn’t harrassed me to my face as I’m sure her lawyer highly advised her not to. I would just get the loud conversations that were meant for me to overhear. So now that she doesn’t have to behave, let the full harrassing re-commence…

Hope all is well with everyone!

60th Birthday Cake Card

2010-09-05T19:36:00.010-04:00

Hi everyone...I hope all of you are enjoy the holiday weekend. I am, the weather has been great so far.

So my mom turn 60 this year and of course I wanted to make a special out of the ordinary card for here.

Check it out:

I used George and AE to weld the layers of the cake, very simple, but if you would like to make one and save some time email me at nikkiduey@yahoo.com for a copy of the cut file. Put BIRTHDAY CAKE CARD in the subject of your email.

Cake and Frosting Mix:
-CS: Glitter Paper, Bazzill Black, Basic Bazzill “Tropical” & “Blue Calypso”
-PPs: BoBunny ”Alissa So Cute”
-Rub-ons: Scenic Route Paper Co "Birthday Rub-On Words"
-Computer Fonts: CK Bella at 24 pts
-Edger Punch: EK Success Candles
-Cricut Cartridges: George, Accent Essentals – Scallop frame cut at 3 ¾” and Celebrations

TFL!!!

Forgotten LOs from Halloween last year

2010-08-25T12:02:00.005-04:00

Hey there, long time no posts. I came across some pictures of some LOs I did that I thought I posted. And since we are coming on up quick to Fall/Halloween I thought I would share them with you:

Pumpkin Guts:
Halloween – Pumpkin Carving
-CS: TPC “Espresso” and DCWV “Green #1”& Texture Neutrals
-PPs: Just Jinger 8x8 Premade Page Spread “Halloween” and K&Company Halloween Specialty Paper Pad
-Cricut Cart: PDDU for the spider cut @ 6”
-Misc: White Gelly Roll Pen, adhesive

Halloween – Fairy Costume
-CS: TPC “Espresso” & “Gold Textured” and DCWV “Green #1”& Texture Neutrals
-PPs: K&Company Halloween Specialty Paper Pad
-FCI: Colorbox “Dark Moss”, “Creamy Brown” and “Chestnut Roan”
-Chalks: I’Kandee Pearlescent Shimmers
-Prismacolor Pencils: PC938 White and PC943 Burnt Ochre
-Stickles: Lime Green
-Cricut Cart: PDDU for the cauldron & broom cut @ 9”
-Misc: Fuzzy yarn, adhesive

TFL!!!

Mother's Day

2010-06-04T12:22:00.008-04:00

Sorry for being away so long! I'm trying to catch up on email, posting, facebook, etc! Thought I would make a quick post before I'm off to gardening.

Here are the cards I made my mom and grandmother for Mother's Day:

And here's the one I made my grandma:

Recipes:
Mom’s Card
-CS: BB “Guacamole”
-PPs: DCWV “Violet Squiggle Posies”, Autumn Leaves Rhonna Farrrer
-Stamps: Inkadinkadoo “It’s Your Special Day”, My Sentiments Exactly “Love Stamp”
-Blossoms: Prima Flowers “Maize”
-Chipboard letters: K&Company “Smitten”
-Misc: Adhesive, Thread, Ribbon, Pigment Ink, Embossing Powder, Heat Gun

Grandma’s Card
-CS: BB “Snapdragon”
-PPs: DCWV “Pocket Full of Turquoise”
-Stamps: Inkadinkadoo “It’s Your Special Day”, My Sentiments Exactly “Love Stamp”
-Blossoms: Prima Flowers “Daisy Mix”
-Misc: Adhesive, Thread, Pigment Ink, Embossing Powder, Heat Gun

TFL and always feel free to leave a comment!

Dad's birthday

2010-05-08T15:50:00.004-04:00

Here's a card I made my dad:

This stamp is perfect for my dad as he loves extra icing on his cake :)

Cake Mix:
-PPs: Deja Views Fresh Print Blue Raspberry
-Embossed Paper: Love, Elsie “Jack & Abby Cupcakes”
-Stamps: Inque Boutique “Birthday Fun” and Inkadinkadoo “Go for the Icing”
-Prismacolor pencils: PC949 Metallic Silver and PC946 Dark Brown
-Stickles: Cinnamon
-Misc: Gamsol, Glossy Accents, Mini Pot Dots

TFL!!! And please feel free to leave a comment!

Life's A Beach...summer is not too far away

2010-04-23T11:50:00.007-04:00

I know it's barely spring but with the really nice days we've had and the plants all coming back to life I feel like summer is not too far away.

So I thought I would share the summer LOs I did during the winter for my in-laws scrapbook.

These surf boards are actually made with a rubber stamp of flower petals from Inque Boutique:

59 days to the 1st day of summer!!!

Recipe:
-CS: Bazzill Basics “Mocha Devine”
-PPs: My Mind’s Eye Cowabunga “Summertime Boy” Cool Flowers Dude Paper and BoBunny Ella Collection
-Stickers: Jolee’s Boutique “Title Waves”
-Stamps: Inque Boutique “Petals”

TFL!!! And please feel free to leave a comment!

Get Well!

2010-04-20T13:50:00.003-04:00

Just a quick post...a get well card for my sister-in-law's mother:

Recipe:
-CS: Bazzill Basics “Guacamole” and “Mudpie”
-PPs: DCWV “Pink Stripe”, Autumn Leaves “Rhonna Farrer”, Sandylion Kelly Pannaci “Floral Crochet-Pink” and “Floral Crochet-Cream”
-Stamps: Inkadinkadoo “Get-Well”
-Prismacolor Pencils: PC924 Crimson Red and PC988 Marine Green
-FCI: Ice Jade
-Ribbon: Michaels Dashes Dotes & Checks
-Misc: Adhesive, Gamsol, Glossy Accents, Thread

Love to Scrap!

2010-03-19T12:11:00.007-04:00

Here's another LO for Scott's mom's scrapbook, this is Alyssa's 2008 birthday and as you can tell very happy to receive a baby Cricut. :)

I love these self-adhesive crytal embellishments but they are so hard to take off the plastic sheet and get it onto the paper. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do it?

Recipe:
-CS: Bazzill Black, DCWV White Texture, MM Smooth Poppy
-PPs: Karen Foster Design “Love to Scrap”
-Rhinestones: Michaels Recollections
-Cricut carts: Stamped for Love cut at 2” shadowed and Opposites Attract for “to scrap” base feature at 1” and “2008” upright feature cut at 1”

TFL and feel free to leave a comment!

The Butterfly Place

2010-03-17T16:27:00.005-04:00

Hi, how's everyone doing?

I'm not sure if I posted the fact that I've been putting together 2 sets of scrapbooks, one for my fiance's mom & step-dad and another for his dad & step-mom. Well I've been working on LOs all the way back to 2007.

This one I did a very similar one for Scott's mom but this one has some slight differences and different papers so it gives it a whole new look! This one is for his dad's book:

Recipe:
-CS: TPC "Sable", “White Texture” and BB “Navel”
-PPs: DCWV Posies Glitter Print “Violet Squiggles Posies”, “Petite Sunrise Posies” and DCWV Old World Stack
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox "Creamy Brown", "Dark Brown", "Chestnut Roan", “Amber Clay” and "Olive"
-Pearls: Me & My Big Ideas Clear Rhinestones
-Flowers: Prima Flowers, Gartner Table Confetti Flowers Embossed White Shimmer
-Fonts: scrapNfont.com "CK Curly" at 36 pts
-Cricut carts: WIMG for the snail cut at 2" with a shadow and TBBM for the Tags @ 3 3/8 with shadow

TFL and please feel free to leave a comment!

Someone turned 50 and a couple awards

2010-03-14T10:43:00.007-04:00

Here's a card I made for one of my aunts that turned 50 although maybe she's not really 50 since she's a leap year baby ;p

I also rec'd 3 awards from some very very talented ladies that I will show you further down this post.

I love this Squeaky Baker from Whipper Snapper, he's so fun to color in with prismacolor pencils and gamsol:

Recipe:
-CS: DCWV “Smooth Poppy” and Bazzill Basics “Bitter Chocolate”
-PPs: SEI Chocolat Nougat
-Stamps: Whipper Snapper "Squeaky Baker"
-Prismacolor Pencils: PC943 Burnt Ochre, PC941 Light Umber, PC946 Dark Brown, PC929 Pink, PC924 Crimson Red, PC937 Tuscan Red, PC1034 Golden Rod, PC1003 Spanish Orange, PC1005 Limepeel, PC911 Olive Green and PC949 Metallic Silver
-Rub-ons: Scenic Route Paper Co "Birthday Rub-On Words"
-Blossoms: Prima Flowers Daisy Mix
-Cricut Cart: Celebrations for 50 tags cut at 2” and Lyrical Letters for Ann Marie cut at 2” and welded
-Misc: Adhesive, Gamsol

And onto the awards, this one I received from two very talented ladies, Stacey and Marina, please check out their blogs as they both are very inspirational. This award is something I would give them!

This award comes with rules, I have to I must share 7 exciting things about myself, which I can't really say I have anything exciting about myself, so I will incorporate this with the next award that has a similar rule. I also need to share this with award with 15 wonderful bloggers.
First I would give them back to Stacey and Marina and the other 13 go to these amazing ladies: Enfys Cashmore, Sharon Caudle, Carole Lowe Beath, Shelly Bobrowski, Regina Easter, Jane Sossie, Susan, Julie, Glee, Donna, Tracy, Kazan and Laura

The next award is also from Marina. She also gave me the Sunshine award that I've already received from another very talented and inspirational lady, Susan.

The rules to this one are to list 12 things about myself, here goes...
1. I’m engaged to an amazing man named Scott
2. I was born in upstate NY but raised in MA.
3. I LOVE the Twilight Saga
4. I’m also into the Harry Potter series
5. My favorite author is Dean Koontz (right now I'm reading his latest book, Relentless)
6. I miss being on the BBTB design team (when I left due to way too many things on my scheduled I had to stop crafting for awhile).
7. If I had to choose a food that I had to eat the rest of my life, it would be sushi
8. Last movie I saw in the theater was this weekend, which was Remember Me. I highly recommend it.
9. Favorite TV show right now is Private Practice
10. I love paper
11. I love so many rub-on, but hate trying to apply them
12. I would love to learn how to use Copics

Please leave a comment on my card, I love reading...

Thank ewe!

2010-03-12T13:15:00.007-05:00

Hi, just a quick post for a quick card I made to thank my fiance's dad and stepmother for their Christmas gifts. Yes I know it's March but we didn't get to get together until February and I haven't been able to post anything because my computer completely crashed on me and I had to send it out for service. Until today I've been without a computer since Feb 28th! It's back and up and running :)

That adorable sheep is from The Cutting Café Ewe, Ladybug, Pie & Heart background set printable stamps.

I ran it through the Cuttlebug's D’Vine Swirl Folder:

Recipe:
-CS: Bazzill Basics “Brocade”, “Vintage Pink” and DCWV “White Texture”
-PPs: DCWV “Posies Glitter Print”
-Printable Stamp: The Cutting Café Ewe, Ladybug, Pie & Heart background set
-Cuttlebug: D’Vine Swirl Folder
-Stickles: Cotton Candy
-FCI: “Merlot, “Pink Pastel” and “Maroon”
-Cricut Cart: Cuttin’ Up cut at 1” base welded with CDS and AE for the frame
-Border Embossing Punch: Fiskars Eyelet Lace
-Misc: Adhesive, Ribbon, Thread

TFL!! and please leave a comment, I love reading them :)

Great foster kitty and an Award!

2010-02-27T08:40:00.005-05:00

I rec'd an award from a extremely talented lady, Susan Edwards, she is such inspiration you must check her site out!

Here's the award:

So I'm giving it to 6 other extremely talented ladies:
Here are the rules:
Please share some sunshine with your friends by:
1. Placing the Sunshine image on your blog or within your post.
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Here's just a quick post on a quick LO I put together for the scrapbooks I'm putting together for Scott's parents. This was Zachary, a stray that we took in but unfortunately after 4 mos we realized it was never going to work out with my other cat, Tyler, so we had to find him (Zach) a new home. We found the best home for him with 2 other cats and dog and the ALL get along, so Zach is very happy in his new (not so new anymore) home and Tyler is happy with him gone! ;p

Recipe:
-CS: TPC “Espresso”, “Sable” and Mi-Teintes “Stygian Black”
-PPs: Karen Foster “Cat Tracks”
-Cricut: Cutting Up cut at 2” welded
-Misc: White Gelly Roll Pen, adhesive

TFL and please leave a comment, I love to read them!

40th Birthday Cake

2010-02-21T10:42:00.008-05:00

Well, I made one for my nephew, Chase, who turn one at the beginning of the month so I decided to go much further in age and made a birthday cake keepsake book for Scott for his 40th birthday.

I used the same rub-ons that I used on Chase's cake, I really like the style of these from Scenic Route:

I went to CVS and used their Kodak Kiosk to make 2x3 pictures so I could fit more in the book:

I love these wood flourishes from Kaiser, they fit so perfectly on this layer of the cake:

Cake Mix:
-CS: Bazzill Basics “Mud Pie” and Craft and Craftin Glitter Paper “Coffee”
-PPs: K&Company Tim Coffey “Fall Script” and “Fall Gold Leaf Scroll”,
K&Company Ancestry.com “Teal & Dots & Swirls Glitter Paper” and “Brown Swirls Glitter paper”
-Rub-ons: Scenic Route Paper Co "Birthday Rub-On Words"
-Distress Ink: Tim Holtz “Vintage Photo”
-FCI: Colorbox “Celedon”
-Glitter: Stampendous “Crystal Snow – White Ultra Fine”
-Blossoms: Prima Mulberry Paper Flowers Teal, Prima Got Flowers? Brown and Prima Artful Collage
-Wood Flourishes: Kaiser “Borders”
-Misc: Ribbon, Rhinestones, Black Chipboard, Adhesive

TFL and please leave a comment, I love reading them!

Father Daughter Ball 2007

2010-02-13T14:32:00.013-05:00

Every year at Alyssa's elementary school they would have a Father Daughter Ball and this one is from 2007 which was the 2nd to the last one. Unfortunately Scott forgot his camera to the last one. :(

Here's two LOs I did at 4:00AM on Thursday because I couldn't sleep...yes I was cutting those intricate flowers at 4 in the morning!

Hope you like...

Those flowers that are partially framing the picture is what I cut out of a beautiful SEI paper that is from the same collection of the two papers I used for these LOs:

Someone decided to take a bite out of her cupcake right before getting her picture taken...I thought it was too funny leave out of the LO:

Isn't she like a princess:

I cut the wings on the butterflies to tuck the picture under:

Recipe:
-CS: BB “Mudpie”
-PPs: SEI Chocolat “Nougat”, “Praline” and “Cherie”
-Blossoms: Gartner Table Confetti Embossed White Shimmer
-Cricut Cart: OA cut at 1” base welded
-Misc: Rhinestones, adhesive

TFL and please feel free to leave a comment, I love them!

He's 40 today!

2010-02-09T20:12:00.006-05:00

Well the day has come and Scott is now 40 years old! Is he feeling it? Yes he is! Well, I'm only 10 months behind him and I'm already feeling it.

Here's the birthday card I made him. I just love this owl from Cornish Heritage Farms, I've been wanting to use him forever and finally got to now.

Some pop dots for some dimension:

Recipe:
-CS: TPC "Espresso", Bazzill Basics "Mocha Devine", DCWV "Brown #2" and The Glitter Stack
-PPs: DCWV The Rustic Stack
-Stamps: Cornish Heritage Farms "U R A Hoot"
-Primsmacolor Pencils: PC945 Sienna Brown, PC103 Mineral Orange, PC1058 Warm Grey 90%, PC935 Black and PC949 Metallic Silver
-Stickles: Black and Frosted Lace
-FCI: Colorbox Creamy Brown, Chestnut Roan and Dark Brown
-Cricut carts: Mickey Font cut at 1" base with a shadow for 40! and 2" for Scott
-Misc: Adhesive, Pigment Ink, Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Gamsol and Pop Dots

TFL and feel free to leave a comment!

Somebody turned ONE!

2010-02-05T07:07:00.019-05:00

My very adorable nephew, Chase, turned 1 this past Monday. I can't believe it's been a year already!

Last year I took a fun class at my LSS where we made a birthday cake keepsake book so I can't take credit for the idea of this book but the cake decorating part is me (although we used some of the same rub-ons but I placed them in different spots), so some scraplifting.

Anyway here it is, just needs completing once his parents pick out their favorite pics from the b-day party and I can put them in book.

This is two stamps I combined together. I masked the sentiment on the Fluffles baking stamp and replaced it with the other sentiment from another Stampendous stamp (thought it was perfect for this project):

Here's the Money Card:

And the Birthday Card:

Cake Mixes:

Birthday Cake Keepsake Book:
-CS: TPC Denim, DCWV Glitter Stack, Bazzill Dark Blue
-PP: Kaiser Cocco line: “Cinnamon Sugar”, “All Spice”, “Periwinkle”, "Mocha"
-Stamps: Stampendous “Fluffles Baking” and “Whipped Up”
-Rub-ons: Scenic Route Paper Co "Birthday Rub-On Words"
-Prismacolor Pencils: PC949 Metallic Silver, PC924 Crimson Red,
PC997 Beige, PC940 Sand, PC941 Light Umber
-Distress Ink: Tim Holtz “Vintage Photo”
-FCI: Colorbox “Chestnut Roan”
-Rhinestones: Michaels and Hero Arts
-Blossoms: Prima Nursery Tales Collection Vintage Style
-Dew Drops: Robin’s Nest “Hydrqangia”
-Stickles: Tim Holtz Distressed “Faded Jeans”
-Wood Flourishes: Kaiser “Mixed Flowers” and “Borders”
-Misc: Ribbon, Black Chipboard, Adhesive, Mini Pop Dots

Money Card:
-PP: Kaiser Cocco line: “Mocha"
-Cricut: Opposites Attract cut @ 1” welded
-Edger Bunch: EK Success "Candles"
-Misc: Rhinestones, Adhesive

Birthday Card:
-CS: TPC Denim, DCWV Solid Indigo
-PP: Kaiser Cocco line: “Periwinkle”
-Stamps: Stampendous “Changito Birthday” for happy b-day!
and Stampendous “Cupcake Numbers”
-Prismacolor Pencils: PC949 Metallic Silver, PC946 Dark Brown,
PC942 Yellow Ochre

TFL and please feel free to leave a comment!

Crown Birthday Girl LOs

2010-02-02T04:26:00.006-05:00

Just a quick post on some very overdue LOs...

This is Scott's daughter's b-day from 2007, she's going to be 12 next month, that will make 3 years of b-day LOs I'm behind...

Cake Mix:
-CS: Bazzill Basics “French Silk” and DCWV The Glitter Cardstock Stack (Pink)
-PPs: SandyLion Kelly Panacci “Floral Crochet-Pink” & “Daisy Stripes” and DCWV All Dressed up Stack
-FCI: Colorbox “Chestnut Roan”, “Rose Coral” and “Rouge”
-Stickles: “Burgundy” and “Diamond”
-Kaiser Wood flourishes “Border”
-Rhinestones & Faux Pearls: Michaels
-Blossoms: Prima fleur Nursery Tales Collection Vintage Style

TFL and please feel free to leave a comment!

OK! Back to some scrapbooking! - Hayride & apples!

2010-01-28T07:47:00.010-05:00

I've been working a little here and there in between cards on catching up on scrapbooks for the in-laws. Here's a couple LOs to a day we spent apple picking. These pictures are from the Fall of 08, that's how far behind I am! And these are just for Scott's mom and husband, I still have to make some LOs of this event for his dad and wife.

The ticket with the apple bucket is from one of the BBTB's challenge I did when I was on the team, you can see it here.

Even after all the pies I made I was still able to lose all the extra weight I had on me when these pictures were taken :)

Another bucket full of apples:

Haystack time!

Apple Pie fixings:
-CS: MM Smooth Cranberry, Bazzill Basics “Black”, “Tangelo” and “Ruby Slipper”,
TPC “Espresso”, “Caramel” and “Gold”, DCWV Brown #2 and Green #1
-PPs: DCWV The Fall Stack 2008 & Glitter Stack 2008
-Stickers: EK Success Sticko Label Lingo "Autumn" and
Colorbok Alphabet Stickers 5/8" Slim
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox Creamy Brown, Chestnut Roan,
Amber Clay, Bisque, Moss Green, Merlot and Cocoa
-Computer Fonts: scrapNfonts CK Kolette at 32 pts and LDJ Fantastical at 24 & 36 pts
-Cricut Cartridges: Doodlecharms for the basket cut at 2 1/2", apples cut at 1" with
shadows and Mickey Font for the ticket cut at 2 5/8"
-Misc: MM 1/8" Brown eyelets, Sakura Gelly Roll Black Pen, Adhesive

TFL and please feel free to leave a comment, always love to read them!

Happy Valentine's Day - BBTB2 Contest

2010-01-25T07:10:00.011-05:00

Hey there, if you've been on my blog in the last week or so then you've already seen this card in the post below, as I also used it for Taylored Expression Sketch Challenge #98. It started off to be my entry to the Bitten By The Bug 2 contest but thought I would combine it with another challenge.

The BBTB2 contest was to make any valentine's project, using any cut from any Cricut cartridge but you had to add purple in the color theme. I really liked that idea because it's the color theme in my downstairs bathroom and a little bit in my bedroom but with much more latte color. For some reason I've liked that color combo for home decor for awhile.

Since this will Scott's Valentine's card I made a matching box using the Stationary Box with a Frame Top from The Cutting Café designed by the very talented Regina Easter. Her set comes with 4 different tops, the frame (the one I used), circle opening, rectangular opening and a solid top.

So here's my entry in the BBTB2 contest:

Scott's favorite candy bar is Snickers, just in case you were wondering ;p

With masking tape I used the same stamp as the inside of the card, I just stamped each word separately on the tags (also, those really pretty diamond pins were given to me by a friend of mine, Tracy Gough all the way from England, thanks again Tracy!):

Inside of the card:

Most of you know that I love to embossing my stamping images:

Back of the card & envie:

The greatest stamp for card makers!

Love Mix:
Most of it is listed in the post below, but here are a few extras:
-Stamps: Inkadinkadoo "Happy Valentine's Day", MSE! "Love Postage" and MSE! "Back of Cards Set"
-FCI: Colorbox "Warm Violet"
-The Cutting Café Stationary Box cutting template
-Misc: Pigment Ink, Embossing Powder, Heat Gun

Happy Valentine's Day with TESC98

2010-01-22T06:06:00.007-05:00

Hey there, finally I was able to get back to making a card based off of one of Taylored Expression Sketch Challenges. This week is #98 and it was really fun to work with. I decided to combine this with the latest Bitten By The Bug contest (which is a Valentine's project using purple in it) so you will see another post of this with a matching bag or box for some Valentine's gifts.

Here is the TESC98 sketch:

And here's my take:

This really cute ice cream image and sentiments are from Taylored Expressions Sprinkled with Love stamp set. It has a bunch of really cute yummy desserts and other sentiments. I'm really looking forward to using the mug and swirly steam on another card.
I used Glossy Accents on the ice cream dish to make it look somewhat real glass, which is REALLY hard to see in the picture:

I always loved this die cut from Cricut's Stamped cartridge:

So anyway, wish me luck on being picked to being in TESC's Top Crop.

Recipe:
-CS: Bazzill Basics "French Silk" and "Bouquest", Mi-Teintes "Stygian Black"
-PPs: DCWV "Love", "Gold Script Designer", Olive Script" and from The Mat Stack
-Stamps: Taylored Expressions Sprinkled with Love
-FCI: Colorbox "Chestnut Roan", "Dark Brown" and "Merlot"
-Prismacolor Pencils: PC946 Dark Brown
-Sakura Glaze Pens
-Stickles: Xmas Red
-Cricut Cart: Stamped for Love cut at 3" with a shadow and AE for the Scallop frame cut at 3 3/4"
-Misc: Marvy Liquid Applique, Heat Gun, Black Pigment Ink, Glossy Accents

TFL!

Wreath Thank You

2010-01-16T12:11:00.011-05:00

Happy weekend everyone! I'm doing the usual trying to catch up on stuff. :)

Here's a thank you card for Scott's mom and step dad for their generous Christmas gifts plus my birthday present.

If you haven't read before on my blog on how they have a cut your own Christmas Tree farm. Carolyn, Scott's mom, makes many many wreaths, swags, mailbox cozies and kissing balls using prunings from all the different trees they have, scotch pine, concolor, scotch pine, fraser, balsum, korean fur, etc. And real berries and rose hips from her own bushes. And every year she lets me make a 24" wreath for my parents and a 36" for myself. Did you know that between all the different trees you use to make a 36" wreath is about an entire tree! And she also lets me bring home a bunch of prunings to fill my window boxes. This one is outside my dining room window:

Here's the wreath I made for myself, besides the ribbon everything on this wreath is real and those berries are actually rose hips. For those that do not know what those are, they are the bud that is left behind on a rose bush if you do not cut the blooms off:

And a mailbox cozy:

So onto the thank you card...I thought I would make it with a wreath from JOTS:

As always, I just love stickles!

These are some great computer fonts from scrapNfonts, CK Bella & LD Dirty Drusillus

Wreath prunings:
-CS: Bazzill Basics "Bouquet", "Snapdragon", "Palo Verde", "Safari", "Mocha Devine" and "ruby Slipper"
-PPs: Creative Imaginations Sonnets "Terra Cotta Paisley" and "French Poetry"
-Fluid Chalk Inks: "Dark Moss", "Olive" and "Yellow Ochre"
-Stickles: Burgundy
-Prismacolor Pencils: PC988 Marine Green
-Cricut carts: Winter Woodland for the fonts cut @ 1 3/8" with a shadow
JOTS for the Wreath with the base cut at 6 1/4" and the Holly (Base Shift) cut at 5 1/2"
Beyond Birthdays for thank you cut at 2" with a shadow
-Misc: Gamsol, Thread, Sewing Machine, EK Success Edger Punch "Snowflakes" for the flap on the envie (not pictured), Adhesive

TFL! And feel free to leave a comment as I love to get them...

Wine Thank Yous

2010-01-12T19:19:00.009-05:00

Hi everyone, I hope you all had a great and safe New Years!

I'm finally getting around to some thank you cards after the holidays. Here are two that I made for some friends that gave me some wine for Christmas. Actually when I was making them I realized one of them I didn't get a bottle of wine from, but she's a big fan of wine so I thought the card would be appropriate for her anyway.

The other one I was making for I receive an excellent bottle of wine! It's a CA wine which I'm not usually a fan of but it's from Napa Valley. And it's a strange mix of Zinfandel, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon. I was REALLY surprised at how good it is as I've never been a Zinfandel fan at all! I highly recommend it...It's Ménage à Trois bottled by Folie à Deux Winery in St. Helena, Napa County, CA (www.menageatroiswines.com). The friend that gave it to me came across it from friends of his that live in CA and discovered this very delicious combination for a red wine. So now we are on a quest to find it at a local liquor store here in New England. ;p

So it was definitely appropriate to make them a wine bottle shaped card that I got from The Cutting Café designed by the very talented Regina Easter. I love working with her designs. This particular set comes with 5 circle sentiments, 2 regular sentiments, 6 toppers and an envelop.

I decided to go a step further and make the envelop a very very thin wine bottle gift bag, perfect size for a card. I'm actually very pleased with myself in designing it and got some great use with the Scor-Pal. I'm very sure I'm not the 1st person to figure out how to make one but I was just impressed how quickly I did it.

So here they are:

The Thank You images used as the bottle labels are stamps by Hero Arts from their Collage and CardArt collections:

A little spot for the personal note:

It's just a very thin wine bottle gift bag:

Grape Blends for the guy's card:
-CS: TPC "Sable" & "Espresso", Mi-Teintes "Stygian Black" and Nicole Crafts Natural Stock Paper
-PPs: DCWV "Gold Script Designer" & "Olive Script"
-Stamp: Hero Arts Collage Thank You
-Ink: Versafine Vintage Sepia
-Fluid Chalk Ink: Colorbox "Creamy Brown", "Chestnut Roan" and "Dark Brown"
-Misc: Ribbon, adhesive, eyelets, Crop-A-Dile, Scor-Pal

Grape Blends for the girl's card:
-CS: Bazzill Basics "Mocha Devine" and Nicole Crafts Natural Stock Paper
-PPs: DCWV Once Upon a Time "Palace Throne"
-Stamp: Hero Arts CardArt Thanks Phrase
-Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
-Fluid Chalk Ink: Same as above plus "Merlot" (appropriate, huh?)
-Misc: Same as above

TFL!! And off to make my other thank you cards...

More Twelve Days of Christmas

2009-12-31T09:21:00.011-05:00

Hi, I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and about to have a very Happy New Year!

Here are some boxes that hold 12 miniature Hershey candy bars that I made using Regina's The Cutting Café's Candy Box.

I made a bunch of each of these to sell as Christmas favors or gifts for people to buy. My finance's mother owns a cut your own Christmas Tree Farm, so every year we go up to help out and she suggested that I bring some of my stuff to see if it will sell. I did sell a few...not including the ones she bought. ;p

Here's a picture of us getting our freshly cut tree:

I had made a couple of these boxes last year for myself to give as dinner favors and gifts to friends and colleagues.

Regina's boxes are always fun to work with and with this particular box there also comes templates to cut out the candy wrappers if you want to use them to cover the Hershey wrappers to make it more custom.

So here they are...

This paper is gorgeous, huh? It's from SEI in their Alpine Frost collection (glitter stack):

I went a little Americana on this set (paper from DCWV The Fall Stack 2007):

I really like this music paper I got in a stack from My Mind's Eye "Festive & Frost" Short Stack with Glitter:

Other materials:
CS: Bazzill Basics: "Tropical", "Capers" and "Mocha Divine"
Glitter CS: DCWV
Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox "French Blue", "Celadon" and "Olive"
Punches: Cuttlebug Ice Crystal Die & Embossing Combo and MS Alpine Snowflake
Cricut Cart: JOTS for the Holly cut at 1 1/2"
Misc: Red Rhinestones, Red Ribbon, Adhesive

TFL and HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

NEW CRAFTING STATION FINISHED!!!

2009-12-24T10:48:00.005-05:00

YEAH it's finally finished!!! Well it's been finished for a couple of weeks already but this is the 1st time I've been able to get around to posting anything.

I've done a few projects but forgot take pictures before I gave them away so I can't post them, oh well.

So here's my new crafting station. I finally have my hallway and guest bedroom closets back! ;p

Pretty much most of the goodies you see on the memo boards and two of the wall units were all hiding in the closets that I completely forgot I had. It was like Christmas for me finding all this stuff...

Now let see how clean I can keep it, yeah right!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO EVERYONE!!!

Grandma's Birthday

2009-11-21T15:16:00.008-05:00

Hey there, here's a quick post to show you the birthday card I did for my Grandma...

Recipe:
-CS: Bazzill Basics "Brandy Wine" and "Vintage Pink"
-Patterned Paper: K&Company Brenda Walton "Madeline"
-Stamp: Stampendous' "Happy Day Topper" and "Homemade Topper" and Inkadinkadoo "Marvelous Birthday"
-Prismascolor Pencils: PC937 Tuscan Red, PC1009 Dahlia Purple, PC1005 Lime Peel and PC942 Yellow Ochre
-Stickles: Pink
-Punch: MS Doily Lace Edge
-Misc: Gamsol, Black Pigment Ink, Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Adhesive

TFL!!!

Congrats on a long overdue promotion

2009-11-13T13:50:00.005-05:00

Hi there and Happy Friday!!!

Here’s a card I made my fiancé for a promotion he just got that has been way overdue!!

Just a simple card using Cricut’s Beyond Birthdays & Cuttin’ Up cartridges. Using the CDS I welded the shadow of the Congrats to the Base of the Card.

Using Beyond Birthdays I cut the Congrats at 5 1/4” and You Did It at 1 7/8”. For Scott’s name I used Cuttin’ Up and welded the letters using the cartoon and shadow features, cut at 1 7/8”.

Here’s a pic of it with the back side of the envie:

And here’s with the front of the envie:

And of course I had to do a little on the inside:

Celebratory Recipe:
-CS: Bazzill Basics “Mocha Devine” and “Palo Verde”, and a shade of orange Bazzill CD
-PPs: DCWV “Once Upon a Time” stack
-Fluid Chalk Inks: “Chestnut Roan” and “Amber Clay”
-Cricut Carts: Beyond Birthdays and Cuttin’ Up

TFL!!

PS - My new crafting station is done, I just need to organize things and take pictures to show you. Stay tuned...

Lots of stuff - Overdue B-day Card, Updated pic of my nephew, Soon to have a new Crafting Station and finally back to posting

2009-11-04T08:19:00.018-05:00

Hi everyone, sorry I've been so quiet, things have been very busy this summer and unfortunately not much too time to craft. :(

But anyway, I did get to doing a birthday card for my Aunt Joan, but of course it was a belated and I'm posting it much later than I made it. I made it mid-October and her b-day was at least two weeks prior to that. Oops! But at least she like it. :)

I actually used one of Taylor's sketches (#86) but unfortunately didn't finish it in time so I didn't fully stick to the sketch. I also used one of her stamps which is the Happy Birthday sentiment from her really beautiful Fresh Flowers set. You really should check out her store, Taylored Expressions, she has beautiful stamps that are unmounted so they are extremely reasonably priced and they come with an EZ Mount cling cushion AND they are already die cut, unlike SU! (which are great stamps too, but you have to cut them out yourself and mount them on blocks).

So anyway, here's the card:

Just love Stampendous' Scrumptious Shoes:

Here's the inside, the scrolly frame is from Cricut's Storybook cartridge with some doodling I did with a white gelly roll pen and some rhinestones:

And here it is again showing the back of the envie:

Scrumptious Recipe:
-CS: Bazzill Basics "Brandy Wine" and "Rain"
-PPs: K&Company "Brenda Walton "Madeline"
-Stamps: Stampendous' Scrumptious Shoes "Sundae" (just the shoe) and Taylored Expressions "Fresh Flowers Set" (Just the Happy Birthday sentiment)
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox "Celadon"
-Prismacolor Pencils: PC943 Burnt Orchre, PC950 Metallic Gold, PC914 Cream, PC949 Metallic Silver, PC1005 Lime Green, PC928 Blush Pink, PC925 Crimson Lake, PC930 Magenta, PC916 Canary Yellow
-Ribbon: Offray "Kendra Lt Pink/Opal"
-Punches: MS "Doily Lace" edge punch
-Cricut: Storybook "Vine" (pg 51 of the manual) cut at 2 1/2" and the letters at 1" using the Shorty/Holes feature
-Misc: Black Pigment Ink, Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Adhesive, Gamsol, Rhinestones, Pop dots, Thread

PS - My DF is finishing my new crafting station today, FINALLY!!
He started it last summer, had all the materials but ran out of time. We both have the day off today and plan to not stop until it is done.
Currently this is what I have had been using, look at that tiny workspace! ;p
This is in my upstairs hallway:

This is one of the closets I've been using that is in the room that my NEW USER FRIENDLY station will be (No longer in the hallway!), I've also been using the hallway closet. All of this will be part of and/or in my new workstation:

So stay tuned for pictures of my NEW USER FRIENDLY crafting station!!!

And while I'm at it I would like to share a current picture of my cute nephew, Chase (sadly this is only the 2nd time I've had a picture of him with me), I plan to have more!:

TFL!!!

Happy B-day to a great sister-in-law

2009-07-26T09:40:00.012-04:00

Here's a birthday card that I made for my amazing sister-in-law. I had the hardest time getting pictures to show the true colors of the papers and everything. The picture with the envie is the closest I could get.

Anyway, here's the cover:

I love this cupcake from a Hero Arts Clear Design Cupcakes set (which the sentiment above is from) and I just love stickles which I covered the wood flower from Kaiser:

The paper I used is double-sided which is so great when making cards to have such a pretty background on the outside and inside:

This sentiment is part of a stamp from one Stampendous' Scrumptious Shoes (I LOVE those stamps):

And here's the envie:

Cupcake mixture:
-CS: The Paper Co "Antique Rose" and Bazzill Basics "Tutu Pink"
-PP: K&Company "Classic K Mango Paper Pad"
-Stamps: Hero Arts Clear Design Cupcakes and Stampendous' Scrumptious Shoes "Birthday Cake" (just the sentiment)
-Prismacolor Pencils: PC928 Blush Pink, PC930 Magenta and PC946 Dark Brown
-Blossoms: Prima Flowers and Kaiser Scrapbook Wood Flourishes "Mixed Flowers"
-Cricut Cartridge: Tear Drops
-Stickles: Pink
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-Misc: Flower Rhinestones, Gamsol, Black Pigment Ink, Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Mini Pop Dots, Adhesive

TFL!!

Happy Father's Day

2009-06-21T17:46:00.006-04:00

Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there. Just a quick post to show you the card I made my dad this year.

I stamped this on the antique rose cs and cut out the DAD to make it pop a little:

Recipe:
-CS: Bazzill Basics "Mudpie" & "Iced Cocoa" and The Paper Co "Antique Rose"
-PP: Momory Box "Brandywine - Fully Ripe"
-Stamps: Stampendous "Dad Words" and Technique Tuesday "Family Circle by Ali Edwards"
-Misc: Adhesive, Fluid Chalk Inks, Colorbox Black Pigment Ink, Embossing Powder and Heat Gun.

TFL!!!

Birthday for my brother...AND THE WINNER OF THE BBTB BLOG HOP...

2009-05-27T09:59:00.007-04:00

Hi, I'm sooooo sorry that I haven't announced the winner of the Bitten By the Bug Blog Hop with one of Regina's printable stamps from The Cutting Café.

But 1st, of course I have to show you the card I made for my brother for his b-day. As you all know it can be very difficult to make a card for a guy as we all like to embellish our cards with pretty stuff. I think I may have done an OK job in keeping it guy like:

Recipe:
-CS: Bazzill "unknown color name" and Bazzill Basics "Mocha Devine"
-PPs: 7 Gypsies "Savannah Collections - Telfair"
-Stamp: Inkadinkadoo "Happy Birthday Flourish"
-Fuild Chalk Inks: Colorbox "Amber Clay" and Chestnut Roan"
-Blossoms: Prima Fleur "Nursery Tales Collection - Vintage Style"
-Cuttlebug: D'vine Swirls
-Cricut Cartridge: Storybook cut @ 1 1/2" using the Shorty feature
-Misc: Black Pigment Ink, Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Adhesive

OK, so now onto the winner!

JILL is the winner!!!. You have just won the Big Holiday Words printable stamp set. Please leave me a comment to this post with your email address so I can send you the files or send me an email at nikkiduey@yahoo.com with your email address.

Please respond by Sunday, June 7th or I will have to pick another winner.

Using random.org here are the results:

4th of July LO...another BBTB Blog Hop

2009-05-18T08:00:00.000-04:00

Hey there! I've gotten a bit of a jump on the summer holidays and getting some LOs done for my future in-laws. I used this week's Bitten By the Bug challenge which was to use the Frame from the Storybook cartridge (page 56 of the manual). Also, as part of the challenge, Regina has so generously sponsored the Blog Hop we are having this week. For my challenge I used the 4th of July from her Holiday Big Words printable stamp set from The Cutting Café. And this set is what you could win for the BBTB Blog Hop!! Lots of stuff you can do with this set!

For those that have never done a Blog Hop, it's a piece of cake! All you have to do is leave me a comment on this post and I'll enter you in the contest to win the Holiday Big Words printable stamp set. And then you can go onto to the next blog, which you will see who, later on in this post, who is also giving away something from The Cutting Café. Have your posts into me by Saturday, May 23rd (midnight EST) and I will announce the winner on Sunday by using random.org.

So here is my creation:

Here's the frame from Storybook:

And this is one of the printable stamps from the Holiday Big Word set. I printed the larger print on colored card stock and adhered it on top:

And a spot for some journaling:

Fireworks:
-CS: Bazzill Basics "Ruby Slipper" & "Mocha Devine", The Paper Company "Primary Blue" and DCWV Glitter Stack
-PPs: ProvoCraft "Juniper Stars on Fossil" and DCWV The Summer Stack (2008)
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox "Blue Iris", "Chestnut Roan", "Merlot" and "French Blue"
-Stamps: Stampers Anonymous Teresa Collins "Memories" and The Cutting Café "Holiday Big Words"
-Stickers: Jolee Boutique Photo Corners "Blue Daisies"
-Cricut Cartridge: Storybook for the decorative frame cut at 7"
-Misc: Adhesive, Dew Drops

OK, now leave me a comment, then go on to the OH so very talented lady, Enfys, and see her amazing creation and then enter in her Blog Hop contest and see another link to another blog. Hop away!!!

Life is Good for a Graduate...BBTB Challenge

2009-05-16T15:32:00.009-04:00

Here's a LO I did for a BBTB challenge months ago but never got around to posting. The challenge was to use Life is Good from Graphically Speaking. I used Alphalicious for the other lettering which I welded together with CDS and added a shadow.

For the cap I used a tutorial that I came across and can't remember where so I can't give credit were it is due. Sorry! It uses George and Basic Shapes.

I though it was really cool how the school did the senior pictures. They did some with proper attire and then some with what teenagers will wear. We really liked how this picture came out and so did AJ, so it became the one for that pose. So I thought I would use this challenge and picture for another scrapbook page from my future in-laws:

I inked the edges of the cap with Frosted White pigment ink:

Recipe:
-CS: DCWV "White Texture" and MM "Smooth Cranberry"
-PP: SandyLion "Graduation Caps - Clear Foil"
-Cricut carts: Graphically Speaking for Life is Good cute at 3 1/2" and
Alphalicious for Senior Year 2009 cute at 1 1/2" welded with a shadow and
George for the Grad Cap; triangle @ 2 3/4" and a cylinder at 1 3/4"
-Misc: DMC Floss #902, Colorbox Frosted White Pigment Ink

TFL!

Mother's Day Cards

2009-05-06T21:59:00.015-04:00

Time just flies doesn't it! Mother's Day is this weekend and I'm finally finishing my cards for my mom and my Grandmother. One of them was using this past weeks Bitten By The Bug challenge which was to use the Vase and the word Mom from the Beyond Birthdays cartridge. You should see all the beautiful things the girls did with this challenge!

Here's mine, which I kind of made it into a shaped card:

I also used a printable stamp from The Cutting Café from Regina's All About Mom set. It's a really great set with a BUNCH of great stamps (you'll see a few more that I used on my Grandmother's card:

I cut out a butterfly and some of the flowers from the gorgeous SEI paper:

Here's the back where you can see I welded the Vase, Mom and a rectangle together using the CDS:

I really like this stamp, I'm not sure who it's by, I used at my LSS during a workshop. I stamped it a bunch of times on different papers to have a few on hand ;p:

And as always with the matching envelop. The leafy ribbon was left over from the workshop I took, it's really pretty but doesn't photograph well.

And here's the card I made my Grandmother, using 2 more printable stamps from the All About Mom set at The Cutting Café.

These are actually two separate printable stamps that I imported into Inkscape so I could print them together on the same paper:

I just love anything scrolly!:

Using Inkscape again I was able to delete everything except the blossoms so I could print those on a separate piece of paper without wasting to much of it:

And of course I always have to jazz up the inside:

Mother's Love:
-CS: Bazzill Basics "Guacamole", "Fussy", "Piglet"
-PPs: SEI Chocolat Cherie and Basic Grey Porcelain "Chintz" and "Chatsworth"
-Printable Stamps: All About Mom from The Cutting Café
-Cricut Cuts: Beyond Birthdays for the Vase cut at 5 3/4" with a shadow and the word Mom cut at 1 1/8" with a shadow all welded with a rectangle from George. And the scallop is from AE cut at 1 3/4" with a shadow

-CS: Bazzill Basics "Palo Verde" and "Tropical"
-PPs: K&Company "K-Ology Peabody" Scrap Pad to Go and MM "Noteworthy Audrey"
-Printable Stamps: All About Mom from The Cutting Café
-Rubber Stamps: Inkadinkado "Handmade with Love"
-Misc: Pigment Ink, Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Satin Ribbon

TFL and Happy Mother's Day to all you moms out there!!!

Changito Birthday and the BUG BLOG HOP Winner!!

2009-05-03T09:49:00.008-04:00

I want to thank everyone who gave me their advice on what they use to adhere letters without having all those frays or wasting all that time trying to remove them. It seems I've completely missed the boat on this Zig 2-way glue pen. I've picked one up and my next project I'll be giving it a try. So I have used Random.org to pick out the winner of the blog candy I'm giving away for the Bitten By The Bug's 1st Bug Blog Hop. But I'll get to that in a minute.

First I wanted to share with you a quick card I made for my Dad's birthday...

I love the Changito stamps from Stampendous:

I used my Cuttlebug for this cool Birthday Combo Die/Embossing folder:

And of course the envie:

Recipe:
-CS: The Paper Company "Classic Red" & "Brushed Cotton Black and Bazzill Basics "Iced Cocoa"
-Stamps: Stampendous Changito B-Day
-Primacolor pencils: PC925 Crismson Red, PC946Dark Brown, PC941 Light Umber and PC1005 Lime Peel
-Ribbon: Offray
-Flowers: Prima Floral Embellishements
-Cuttlebug Folders: Happy Birthday, Exclusive Celebration Stamp and Birthday Wishes Combo
-Cricut: Beyond Birthdays for DAD cute at 1 3/4"
-Misc: Gamsol, mini glue dots, adhesive

AND now for what you have been waiting for...the Blog Candy winner is...Mary Jean!!!

Congrats Mary Jean, please leave me comment with your mailing address or send me an email me at nikkiduey@yahoo.com. Please do so by Sat, May 9th or I'll have to go with another winner.

Here is what Random.org computed:

Thanks for playing!!

Puppy Dog Tails...BBTB Challenge & BUG BLOG HOP

2009-04-27T19:50:00.017-04:00

Some very fun and exciting news going on over at the Bitten By The Bug site...we are having our first BUG BLOG HOP in which some of the design team members are giving away some yummy Blog Candy, like myself this week. This is our 1st hop and there will be more to come!

So 1st I will show you what I did for challenge, which was to use ANY cut from the Doodlecharms cartridge BUT using the border feature. You should go over to the BBTB site and see all the wonderful things that the other DT members did.

I decided to use the cute puppy face and make a card for my nephew for his Baptism that was held this past Sunday.

I kind of made it into a shaped card with the 1st puppy face and welded the words to it.

I used the Cuttin' Up cartridge for the words:

Isn't he a cutie (although not anywhere near as cute as my nephew):

I just love these frogs I cut out from some PP from Cloud9:

With the envie:

And I just had to add a good amount of that so cute PP for the flap of the envie:

BUT here's the real cutie! At 10 weeks old and only getting cuter!

Now for the really cool thing...the BUG BLOG HOP...here is the candy that I'm giving away:

-Self-adhering stamps by Inque Boutique see d's, it's a set of 7 stamps and comes with a stamping mat
-Colorbox's Chianti (Red) Pigment Ink
-Stampendous Embossing Powder - Clear Transparent
-Best Occasions Vellum Quote Romance Pack
-Sweet Treat Ribbon

I'll be using random.org to pick the winner...all you have to do is leave me a comment on this post and help me out with a problem I can't figure out...I use Herma Dotto's Dispenser using their removable adhesive which I love how easy it is to apply BUT my problem is it's such a pain to clean the edges of the cut image from having little "frays" of the adhesive. So my question to you is what adhesive or more importantly what method do you use to adhere letters/images from one card stock to another card stock without having all the little "frays" show up around the edges?

Once you've done that, I will enter you in the drawing and then you continue on with the hop by going over to Penny Shuberg's blog and see her so very cute project done for the BBTB challenge and also see what she has for Blog Candy to give away!

Please leave your comment to this post by midnight EST Saturday, May 2nd and I'll will announce the winner on Sunday. Thanks!

OH, and if you have the same adhesive problem I have just leave me a comment that you came and visited my site so I can enter you in the drawing. :)

Recipe:
-CS: Bazzill Basics "Iced Cocoa", "Cinnamon Stick", "Safari" & "Mocha Divine" and
The Paper Company "Pastel Pink Texture" & "Navy Blue"
-PP: Cloud9 Design "Sparkle Baby Boy Frogs"
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox "Rose Coral", "Creamy Brown" and "Chestnut Roan"
-Cricut Carts: Doodlecharms cut at 3" using the border feature and Cuttin' Up cut at 1" using the shadow and cartoon features (welded in CDS).

TFL!!!

The Squeaky Baker makes another delicious b-day!

2009-04-16T07:46:00.009-04:00

He's done it again, he's made another mound of very yummy desserts with a cupcake on top for someone to have a delicious birthday!

I love this stamp, it's too fun to color in with prismacolor pencils and gamsol. I also love working with Deja Views Paper & Punch-out Tablets.

Here's a birthday card I made for my cousin, Rebecca, who just turned 17.

Isn't he too good!

Jazzing up the envie:

Love the punch-outs!

Dessert Mix:
-CS" The Paper Company "Plum Tree" & "Burgundy" and Bazzill Basics "Snapdragon"
-PPs: Deja Views Paper & Punch-out Fresh Print Plum
-Stamps: Whipper Snapper "Squeaky Baker" and Rubber Soul "Delicious Birthday"
-Prismacolor Pencils: PC943 Burnt Ochre, PC941 Light Umber, PC946 Dark Brown, PC929 Pink, PC924 Crimson Red, PC937 Tuscan Red, PC1034 Golden Rod, PC1003 Spanish Orange, PC1005 Limepeel, PC911 Olive Green and PC949 Metallic Silver
-Fluid Chalk Ink: Colorbox "Merlot"
-Punch: Fiskars Treading Water Edge Punch (on the flap of the envie, not pictured)
-Misc: Adhesive, Mini Pot Dots, Gamsol, Lime Ric Rac

TFL!!

Easter special at The Cutting Cafe!!

2009-04-11T16:37:00.003-04:00

Happy Easter everyone!!! I hope everyone has a very special Easter with your friends and families!

I just wanted to let you know about a great Easter special going on over at The Cutting Café.

Go on over and see all the great things you can make with Regina's awesome designs and at an amazing prices!

Finished Easter Card Set & Gift Box

2009-04-03T18:38:00.008-04:00

Well I finally finished the 4th card and gift box for the set 4 Easter cards with Gift box that I put on my Etsy store.

I used my favorite gift box to make using Regina's Box for Quarter Fold Cards from The Cutting Café.

Here's the 4th card:

I had already used this theme on a pillow box that you can see here.

Just love this kitty that can be a bit devilish:

And of course a matching envelop:

And here's the gift box that would be perfect for some very yummy Easter candy and/or chocolates...and then give to someone as a gift.

The 3 other cards are here (they are the 1st 3, the 4th one I made for my Grandmother).

If you would like to purchase this set, click here.

Easter Candy:
-CS: DCWV Green #1 and White Texture, Bazzill Basics Ruby Slipper
-PPs: BoBunny Ella Dot
-Fonts: LDJ Jester at 24 pts and DB Critter Doodles @ 175 pts character "C" for the kitty
-Prismacolor Pencils: PC939 Peach, PC928 Blush Pink, PC1051 Warm Grey 20% and PC1052 Warm Grey 30%
-Misc: Adhesive, ric rac, blossoms from stash, q-tip, chipboard, mini pop dots

Blossoms and Blooms

2009-03-27T08:30:00.004-04:00

This past weeks Bitten By the Bug challenge was to use the word spring from the Stretch Your Imagination cartridge. You should go over and see all the very cute and pretty things the other design team members did.

For my project I used this really cool item from The Cutting Café. Regina really knows how to make some great boxes and card holders. This one is her Greeting Card Holder which can hold 4 quarter fold cards with envies (2 on each side). It can also be used for other things like in my case I used it as a seed packet holder.

And when you open it up you find the seed packets or cards or whatever you feel like putting in it:

This is the cut from Stretch Your Imagination:

Seeds:
-CS: TPC "Pink Pastel Texture", "White Texture" and Bazzill Basics "Passionate"
-PP: SEI "Chocolat Cherie"
-Cricut Cart: Stretch Your Imagination the word Spring at the base shift feature cut @ 3 1/2" with a shadow
-Computer font: LDJ Jester @ 30 pts
-Misc: Adhesive and chipboard

TFL!!!

Some Bunny Loves You!

2009-03-23T21:49:00.015-04:00

You must go over to the The Cutting Café to see the cutest Easter printable stamp sets that Regina has made. They are sooo cute! You can see them here.

Here are 4 cards that I made using, I think, something from each of the 3 sets available. These will be available on my Etsy store once I make the Quarter Fold Card Holder for them. Stay tuned for that showing hopefully tomorrow. ;p

Here's Some Bunny Loves you that is from the Easter Sentiments set (the bunny is from a doodlebat called DB Critter Doodles):

I got this gorgeous blossom and button (and quite a few more and ribbon) from Regina for my birthday, she's so sweet!!

Isn't he the cutest (this doodlebat set has the cutest critters!):

And of course the matching envie:

Peeping out to wish you a Happy Easter!
This darling little chick, egg and flowers are from the Easter Set 1:

Doesn't he just crack you up, pun intended?:

A chick just for you!
Here's another darling little chick, egg and flowers that are also from the Easter Set 1 and the 1 1/2" circle sentiment is from the Easter Sentiments set:

Easter Blessing to You!
The jumbled words (I love Regina's Jumbled Words printable stamps) are from the Easter Set 1 and the sentiment is from, you guessed it, the Easter Sentiments set:

This one I'm sending to my Grandma so I personalized the inside a bit:

Recipe in the Easter Basket:
Card 1:
-CS: Bazzill Basics "Ruby Slipper and DCWV "Green #1"
-PP: BoBunny "Ella Enchanted"
-Doodlebat: Bunny from DB Critter Doodles at 200 pts using the "L" character
-Prismacolor Pencils: PC993 Hot Pink

Card 2:
-CS: Bazzill Basics "Bouquet", "Ruby Slipper", DCWV "White Texture" and TPC "Plum Tree"
-PPs: Daisy D's "Maybe Baby Collection - Hugs and Kisses" and DCWV Glitter "Violet Squiggle Posies"
-Primacolor Pencils: PC942 Yellow Ochre and PC918 Orange
-Misc: Purple Rhinestones, Table Confetti Flowers

Card 3:
-CS: Bazzill Basic "Berrylicious", "African Daisy" and DCWV "White Texture"
-PPss: BoBunny "Ella Butter Blossom", "Ella Dot" and Daisy D's "Maybe Baby Collection - Hugs and Kisses"
-Primacolor Pencils: PC942 Yellow Ochre and PC918 Orange
-Misc: Purple Rhinestones

Card 4:
-CS: TPC "Burgundy", DCWV "White Texture" and MM "Smooth Grapevine"
-PPs: Colorbok "Rose Stripe" and Paper Pizzazz "Faded Pink Flowers
-Stamps: Inkadinkado Handmade With Love
-Misc: Pigment Ink, Embossing Powder and Heat Gun

TFL!!!

Martini Birthday!

2009-03-22T11:43:00.007-04:00

Today we are celebrating my fiance's father's b-day who happens to love martinis so this is the perfect stamp for him! ;p

Now, you know how you always try to plan on getting your projects done on time but of course you either get interrupted with something else or it takes much longer to do...well I figured I would be able to finish his card this morning before we had to leave by noon by getting up around 8ish. Well I wake up at 5:00AM for some reason and can't get back to sleep as much as I tried. So I'm going through my to do list in my head and all of a sudden I realized that I'm using Glossy Accents to make the martini glass look real and how it takes a bit to dry, ah!!!

Now, I'm the kind of person that likes to sleep to 9ish on the weekends if I can, so getting up at 5:00 became pretty brutal after an hour or so as my eyes are burning because I'm also the kind of person that doesn't get to sleep until midnight or 1:00AM.

So I get up and get started right away and here it is.

Glossy accents for the glass:

Martini Mix:
-CS: Bazzill Basics "Capers" and "Palo Verde"
-PPs: K&Company Scrap Pad to Go "K-Ology Peabody" and Deja View Fresh Print Blue Raspberry Pad
-Stamps: Sparkles N Sprinkle "Max in a Martini Glass" and Stampendous "Birthday Topper" (on the inside of the card, so I couldn't get a good picture of it)
-Misc: Adhesive, Glossy Accents, Mini Pot Dots, Fluid Chalk Inks

TFL!!!

What Easter Bunny?...BBTB challenge

2009-03-17T12:30:00.008-04:00

Hi, happy St. Patrick's Day everyone! As you will see with this post I've already moved onto Easter. This was my Bitten By the Bug challenge this past week which was to use the purple pillow box from the Wedding Solutions cartridge. Go on over the the BBTB site to see all the beautiful creations made by the other DT members (you'll get some more inspirational Easter eye candy).

Also, stay tuned to some more Easter cards using some funny and cute printable stamps from The Cutting Café.

This devilish kitty is a doodlebat from DB Critter Doodle which you can get over at scrapNfonts.

This font you can get from scrapNfonts as well, it's called LDJ Jester:

Basket of Eggs:
-CS: DCWV White Texture and Bazzill Basics Mudpie
-PPs: SCWV Posies Glitter Print "Petite Sunrise Posies" and "Violet Squiggle Posies"
-Fonts/Doodlebats: LDJ Jester at 24 pts and DB Citter Doodle using the "c" character at 175 pts
-Prismacolor Pencils: PC939 Peach, PC928 Blush Pink, PC1051 Warm Grey 20% and PC1052 Warm Grey 30%
-Filling: Hershey's Mini Chocolate Eggs
-Circut Cartridge: Wedding Solutions cut at 7"
-Misc: Adhesive, Red Line tape gamsol and cotton ball

Sending Positive Thoughts

2009-03-15T12:06:00.018-04:00

There are two people that I know that are going through a very tough time right now with chemotherapy, radiation and/or surgery due to a very unfair cancer they have. Why does it have to be the good people? So here are a couple pocket and tag cards that I made that hopefully will give them a little smile.

This 1st one is for the mother of friend from the Bitten By the Bug design team...

I added a couple drops of Glossy Accents to give that fresh morning dew look:

Inside the attached tiny card:

It's a little hard to read but it says Laugh Often, it's a cut from the Beyond Birthday cartridge, I've used it twice now and have discovered that from now on I should stick to a solid cardstock to make it easier to read:

Does this help you see it?

I didn't have to but I embellished the back of the tag because I made a boo-boo when I cut the tag, for some reason I thought I needed two and I used this great double-sided paper so I figured I might as well us it!

This one is for a friend of mine at work who finally had to take a leave of absence due to the toll of the treatments has had on him. It's a good idea to do that so he can focus on getting healthy and spend time with his wife and children.

Now I tried to keep this as manly as I could but I used a double-sided patterned paper and loved the olive side but the other side has a pinkish color to it, so I added as much brown to the rest of it:

Inside the attached tiny card:

Brown buttons, brown ribbon think it helps to make it more manly??? I don't know...

I decided to make the same boo-boo I made with the other one and embellished the back of the tag on this one too ;p

Hopefully a recipe to help cure cancer:
-CS: DCWV "67# Burgundy" and "Brown 2"
-PP: K&Company Scrap Pad to go "K-Ology Peabody"
-Stickers: Déjà Views "Wonderful Words Alphabets"
-Stamp: Inkadinkado "Get Well"
-Primacolor Pencils: PC925 Crimson Lake and PC988 Marine Green
-Ribbon: Offray "Kendra Light Pink/Opal" and "Kendra Yellow/Opal"
-Circut Carts: TBBM - Pocket cut at 11 1/2" blackout feature and the Tag cut at 6 1/2" also using the blackout feature and the smaller tag at 5 5/8" just the base feature
Beyond Birthdays - Laugh Often cut at 1 1/4" with a shadow
-Misc: Adhesive, Pigment Ink, Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Glossy Accents, Stickles "Star Dust", Rhinestones, DMC Floss and Buttons

-CS: Bazzill Basics "Mudpie", TPC "Double-sided Mulberry Chocolate/Tan" and DCWV "Brown #2"
-PP: K&Company Scrap Pad to go "K-Ology Peabody"
-Stickers: Déjà Views "Wonderful Words Alphabets"
-Stamp: Inkadinkado "Frames & circle Icons"
-Ribbons: Offray "Ggnar Stripe Cream Brown", Sweet Petites "Grosgrain Brown" and Sheer Tan from stash
-Misc: Adhesive, Solvent Ink, DMC Floss and Buttons

TFL!!

Another Aunt's Birthday this time with Scrumtious Shoes

2009-03-14T14:55:00.010-04:00

I thought this stamp would an appropriate image to use for my Aunt Diana, who just celebrated a birthday. I do love these Scrumptious Shoes by Stampendous! Especially since they are fun to color in with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol.

Isn't this shoe so yummy!!!

I popped up the frosting a little to give it some dimension:

My very good and generous friend, Tracy Gough, sent me these gorgeous pins with gems on the tips (I added a few more):

And of course I always have to embellish the inside:

Recipe:
-CS: TPC "Pastel Pink Texture"
-PPs: K&Company Scrap Pad to Go "K-Ology Peabody" and Anna Griffin Pink Playing Boys
-Stamp: Stampendous Scrumptious Shoes "Birthday Shoe"
-Primacolor Pencils: PC988 Marine Green, PC946 Dark Brown, PC994 Process Red, PC928 Blush Pink, PC1078 Black Cherry and PC1029 Mahogany Red
-Ribbon: Offray Sheer "Thelma Pink"
-Misc: Adhesive, brown thread, sewing machine, black pigment ink, embossing powder, heat gun, gamsol

TFL!!

Grilling LO...kinda for the BBTB...I've been tagged

2009-03-07T09:30:00.012-05:00

OK, I starting working on my Bitten By The Bug project on time but ended up getting interrupted by lots of stuff and wasn't able to get back to it today. Bad, bad, bad design team member!!!

This is another LO I did for my future mother-in-law...my promise to make her a scrapbook of her grandkids.

The BBTB challenge was to use the "laugh often" cut from the Beyond Birthday cartridge. You really should go over and see all the beautiful things the other DTs did with this challenge!

Here's mine:

This is a really fun cut, great for using on a card to cheer someone up:

On this really cool designer paper by Flair Designs "Hot Off the Grill" there were these really great images and off course when you do a LO you end up covering some great stuff, so I cut out these images where I placed my pictures, matted them on some dark CS to make them pop:

Now onto a different topic, I've been tagged by Donna, who is a very talented lady and a fellow design team member on The Cutting Café. I'm to post the 4th pic in one of my files and explain it. So here it is:

This is my adorable nephew, Chase, who is now 5 weeks old, isn't he a cutie!?!?!

Now I'm going to tag...Glee, Becky, Cindy and Claudia. Must check out blogs for some really great inspiration!

:)

TFL!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

2009-02-26T18:38:00.019-05:00

A couple weeks early to say Happy St. Patrick's Day! but you know being a crafter you have to start projects a bit earlier than usual. ;p

Here is a set of cards & matching gift box I made with this amazing printable stamp set made by the very talented Regina for her The Cutting Café.

All the clovers, jumbled words, lucky me frame, flower pot and circle stamps are from her huge St. Patrick's Day Printable Stamp Set and I didn't use everything! There's actually more!

I absolutely LOVE this shimmer paper by Heidi Grace!

I love the design of Regina's clovers:

Here's one of the circle stamps from this set which you can use a 1 1/2" punch with it:

I printed the Lucky Me frame and then cut out the frame from some gold cardstock and I just had to cut out more clovers from this gorgeous shimmer paper:

And another one of the circle stamps:

I printed a couple of the Jumbled Words stamp together on a PP and then cut out more clovers with this gorgeous shimmer paper (can you tell yet how much I love this PP!) and added a few rhinestones:

And of course I just had to add another big clover with, yes you guessed it, the gorgeous shimmer PP and also some rhinestones:

I printed the pot on some PPs and CS, but them out and popped them up:

I combined the flower pot of clovers with part of one of the circle stamps:

And the matching gift box I made holds all 4 cards and matching envelops. This also can be found by Regina from her Box for Quarter Fold Cards template/cutting file.

Lucky Pot of Gold:
-CS: Bazzill Basics "Capers", "Palo Verde", "Safari" & "Curry Spice"
-PPs: Heidi Grace Shimmer Paper "Harvest Row/Mini Floral", Anna Griffin Ivory Floral and Kelly Panacci "Mini Daisies-Chocolate"
-Fluid Chalk Ink: Colorbox "Yellow Ochre"
-Primacolor Pencils: PC1005 Lime Peel
-Ribbon: Sweet Petites Grosgrain Moss and Offray Simply Sheer Willow
-Misc: Gamsol, Gold & Moss Green Rhinestones, Gold & Brown Thread, Sewing Machine, Adhesive, Chipboard, Mini Pot Dots & MM Sticky Squares

This set is available on my Etsy store here.

TFL!!!

Birthday for an Aunt...and Taylor's Sketch Challenge #56

2009-02-22T19:04:00.010-05:00

My aunt (who just celebrated her 25th anniversary with my uncle) is celebrating her birthday this week. She was born on Feb 29th, so does she get a birthday this year??

I did this based on Taylor's Expressions Cupcake Challenge #56. You don't have to use a cupcake (although I usually do when I participate in one of her challenges) just as long as you go along with the sketch, which this is #56:

You really should check out her challenges, they're a lot of fun!

So here's my take on the sketch:

First time I got to use the cool clear stamp set from Stampendous:

Just a little embellishment to the inside:

And of course a little more embellishment to the envie (on both sides):

Cake Mix:
-CS: The Paper Co "Antique Rose" and Bazzill Basics "Tutu Pink"
-PPs: Sandylion Kelly Panacci "Daisy Stripes" and "Floral Crochet-Cream"
-Stamps: Stampendous "Feminine Friends" perfectly clear stamp set
-Cricut carts: Storybook for A & M letters @ 1 1/2"
Opposites Attract for the rest of the letters welded and cut at 1 1/2"
-Misc: Adhesive, Colorbox Black Pigment Ink, Embossing Powder, Heat gun, mauve thread and sewing machine

TFL!!

25 Years - WOW!

2009-02-21T17:43:00.010-05:00

My favorite uncle and his wife just celebrated their 25th anniversary and are still happily married, WOW! So for making a card for them I thought that it deserved a card on both sides. Not sure what I'm talking about? Hopefully the pictures will...

This is the back, or could be the front...just depends on which you like better:

I used CDS to weld the numbers to the back of the card and then again for the decorative frame to another back and then adhered the two backs together.

If you choose to have the 25th side as the front and you are able to look around to the back, this is what it looks like:

My sentiment to them is on the other side of the above black frame.

Those of you that know me...I can't make a card without a matching envelop:

Although I have to admit the above statement is not entirely correct, I didn't make envies for the thank you cards in the below post. ;p

Silver Confetti:
-CS: DCWV Black and The Glitter Stack and Making Memories "Poppy"
-PPs: Sandylion Kelly Panacci "Friendship Word Plum"
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox "Warm Red" and "Merlot"
-Punch: Fiskar's Heart Border
-Cricut carts: Storybook for 2 & 5 cut at 5 1/2" with a shadow
Opposites Attract for the "th" cut at 1" with a shadow
Beyond Birthdays for "Happy Anniversary" cut at 1 3/4" with a shadow
-Misc: Michaels Faux Pearls and adhesive

TFL!!!

Thank You

2009-02-14T10:27:00.008-05:00

Here's a couple thank you cards I made, in which I did a test on myself to see if I could make each card within 30 minutes. I did this because I'm so picky and always changing my original design so it winds up taking me hours to make one.

They came out simple but I'm pleased with them:

Isn't this flourish frame stamp gorgeous! It's by 7Gypsies and then I added the sentiment from Lockhart Stamps:

Recipe:
Card 1:
-CS: MM Smooth Grapevine and TPC Plum Tree
-PP: K&Company Scrap Pad to Go "K-Ology Peabody"
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox Wisteria, Dune and Olive Pastel
-Stamp: Inkadinkado Classic Expressions set
-Blossoms: Colorbok "Family Blessings" and Prima's Got Flowers?
-Rhinestones: Jewelry Essentials
-Misc: Versafine Black Onyx ink, Colorbox Black Pigment Ink, Ranger Embossing Powder, heat gun, adhesive, MM Rhinestone brad, red marker

Card 1:
-CS: Bazzill Basics "Capers"
-PPs: ProvoCraft Slab XI and Deja Views Fresh Print "Plum"
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox Deep Green, Warm Red and Merlot
-Stamp: 7Gypsies "Nottinghill" set
-Misc: Versafine Black Onyx ink, Colorbox Black Pigment Ink, Ranger Embossing Powder, heat gun, adhesive, Sheer olive ribbon, red marker

TFL!! And Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Someone special birthday

2009-02-11T11:05:00.012-05:00

Here's a relatively quick card I made for DF for his birthday that was on Monday. I'm please with it as it's so hard to make a card for a guy without making it too embellished and frilly. ;p

Such a cute stamp from Stampabilities, his name is Maxwell:

A bit of stitching around the stamped image and the Say Cheese deco paper:

Inside of the card, appropriate paper, huh?:

Recipe:
-CS: Bazzill Basics "Lily Pond", "Desert Marigold" and TPC Black
-DPs: DCWV Glitter Stack, Paper Pizzazz "Say Cheese" and "Green Lines"
-Stamp: Stampabilities House-Mouse Maxwell Say Cheese
-Primacolor Pencils: PC939 Peach, PC945 Sienna Brown and PC1003 Spanish Orange
-Fluid Chalk Ink: Colorbox "Dune", "Yellow Ochre" and "Olive Pastel"
-Computer doodlebat: DB Borders-Birthday using the character "Y" @ 55 pts
-Cricut carts: Mini Monograms for the Smile cut at 1 1/4" with a shadow and Scott cut and welded at 3 1/8", 2 1/2", 2", 2" and 2 1/2" with a shadow/blackout
George for It's Your Day cut at 2 1/2" with a shadow
-Misc: Adhesive, gamsol, yellow thread, sewing machine

Chase has arrived!

2009-02-02T19:37:00.010-05:00

Baby Boy Duey is finally here and no longer needs to be referred to that, he now has a name...Chase John, so his nickname is CJ (so very cute, plus I love the name Chase)! But he's even cuter than his name! He was born last night, February 1st at 11:45 PM and weighed 6 lbs 1 oz and measured 18 3/4". Everything thing went very well for both mommy and baby, exhausted but doing very well. So here's what you really want to see...the cutie himself!!!

BIG YAWN!

Brand new proud daddy:

I wasn't able to get a picture of baby and mommy because between everyone taking turns holding baby Chase, by the time he could have been handed over to mommy the doctor came in to do a follow up. So I'll get some (many actually) when they get to go home on Wednesday.

1st time and very happy Grandma:

1st time and also very happy Grandpa:

1st time and excited Auntie:

Now I gotta get to work on that baby book!

Have a great evening everyone!
-Nikki

And the matching b-day card to the coffee gift box...

2009-01-25T18:22:00.012-05:00

I made a couple thank you cards today (which I'll post later when I get a chance to take some pics of them), but I wanted to first share with you the matching birthday card that goes with the little coffee gift box I made for a friend of mine, which you can see here.

I used these adorable cupcake and circle word printable stamps from Regina's All About Cupcakes set (it's a HUGE set of all sorts of yummy goods). You really should check out this set over at The Cutting Café, as you will see all the really really cute, pretty and adorable creations from Regina and the design team who will give you all sorts of inspiration!

So of course to make it matching to the coffee gift box I made, I used the same papers and ribbon:

What's great about Regina's printable stamps is you can just print them right on some decorative paper and cut them out! I popped up the frosting a little on mine...

I love this cupcake circle word:

And I used on the inside a very appropriate stamp by Rubber Soul:

Cupcake Mix:
-CS: Bazzill Basics "Mudpie"
-PPs: My Mind's Eye Bohemia Blossom "Angel" Small Damask, K&Company's Scrap To Go "K-Ology Peabody" and Anna Griffin Ivory Floral
-Stamps: Regina's The Cutting Café "All About Cupcakes" and Rubber Soul "Delicious Birthday"
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox "Dune", "Merlot" and "Dark Moss"
-Misc: Adhesive, Chipboard, Satin ribbon

TFL!!!

Get well and get pampered

2009-01-24T20:26:00.011-05:00

A friend of mine had her tonsils out so I thought I'd give her a little gift to get a little pampered with a manicure and foot soak.

I used this great Box with Dividers designed by The Cutting Café's very own Regina.

With the dividers that Regina designed for this box they worked very well for the gift certificate in one of the sections, a baggie of sea salt in one and a bottle of OPI nail polish called Rosy Future with two smaller baggies of sea salt in the 3rd section:

Here's a really pretty stamp by Inkadinkadoo that I stamped a couple times to pop up the rose:

I put the stamped image on this tiny card I adhered to the top of the box and used ribbon tied in a bow to keep it closed. Just untie the ribbon and the card opens to a little message:

And here's the other rose I cut out from one of the several stamped images I did:

Medicine:
-CS: Bazzill Basics "Brocade" and "Witch Hazel"
-PPs: Anna Griffin
-Stamp: Inkadinkadoo "Get Well"
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox "Dune", "Merlot" and "Olive Pastel"
-Stickles: Diamond
-Primsmacolor Pencils: PC925 Crimson Lake, PC1005 Limepeel
-Misc: Versafine Black Onyx ink, Gamsol, Adhesive, Mini Pot Dots, Sheer White Polka Dot ribbon, cellophane baggies

TFL!!!

Coffee and friends are the perfect blend

2009-01-22T19:47:00.008-05:00

Here's something from the latest so cute box set that Regina has designed...you can go to her store The Cutting Café and see some really cute ideas of what can be done with this box set. It's from her Cupcake Holder set, which I do plan on making another one for cupcakes, but being a huge coffee fan and a friend's b-day coming up, I thought this would be a cute gift. Plus I wanted to think outside of the box. ;p

I used one of my favorite coffee stamp set from Inkadinkadoo and the ink I used is called Coffee Bean (how appropriate, huh?!?!)

The fonts on the tags are not stamps, I used Juice ITC and a doodlebat from DB Fancy Fringe. Also, don't you just love the pebble brads?!?!:

Brew:
-CS: Bazzill Basics "Mudpie" and "Truffle"
-PPs: My Mind's Eye Bohemia Blossom "Angel" Small Damask
-Stamps: Inkadinkado's "Coffee Expressions"
-Pigment Ink: Brilliance "Coffee Bean"
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox "Creamy Brown" and "Chestnut Roan"
-Brads: MM Dark Pink Daisy Jumbo Blossoms
-Cricut cart: TBBM for the tags cut at 2 3/8"
-Fonts: Juice ITC at 22 pts and DB Fancy Fringe 1 at 30 pts using the character "K"
-Misc: Adhesive, Mini Pop Dots, Zots, Cellophane Candy Bags, Satin ribbon

TFL!!

Anyone looking for Prismacolor pencils?

2009-01-21T12:45:00.002-05:00

Hi, I'm looking to sell a set of 48 brand new Prismacolor pencils. The wrapping is off but nothing in it has been used. The reason I'm trying to sell them was because right after I got them I decided to get the 120 pencil set. They are the Prismacolor Premier pencils that work with gamsol (my favorite technique for coloring).

I'm looking to sell them for $45 which includes shipping, except overseas. I can ship overseas but I'll need to charge for shipping.

Leave me a comment if you are interested!
:)

I'm a little sad today, but I'll cheer up with a Heart BBTB Challenge

2009-01-19T10:52:00.011-05:00

It's Monday and back to work (that in itself will make you sad! LOL) and it's after a weekend that went way too fast (as always!).

Since New Years, little by little I've been taking down the Christmas decorations and putting them in one of our spare bedrooms...but finally yesterday we did the deed and took down the the little house village in our master bedroom:

This is a very large shelf that leads up to our attic, see that tiny door, that's how we get into the attic. This little village is so pretty and gives off the prettiest glow at night when we go to bed. We have it set up on a timmer to go off at midnight, as I'm sure most of you crafters are up with me at that time or later. ;p

Well of course that had to come down in order to be able to get to the attic to put everything away even though it's something that would be pretty to keep up for the winter, like some of the snowmen that I keep out.

And to make it worse we took down the tree and the large village houses under it. :(
Now it's so bare!! We put our tree in the corner of our livingroom where there is a closet to the water heater and the side door. If it wasn't for those doors we would put a peice of furniture there so it wouldn't look so pathetically bare. I know, after a 2-3 weeks it will look back to normal...

So to get some cheer back I thought I would share my Bitten By the Bug challenge! Usually I don't get to post this until Monday or Tuesday night, but I thought I would sneak some time out of work and cheer myself up. Especially since a collegue of mine just stopped by and told me how excited she was when she was watching TV yesterday and saw the Cricut infomercial with my card. Oops, I forgot to tell a few friends here about it! Been extrememly insanely busy here at work that I haven't had much time for socializing...

So anyway, this week's challenge was to use one of the hearts from the Wedding Solutions cart. Which I don't have yet, and eventually should get since I'm hoping in the somewhat near future I will be able to start planning my wedding and this cart would be great for my scrapbook. So first I would like to thank the very talented Regina for sending me a PDF version of the cut so I could import it into Inkscape and then import that into Sure Cuts A Lot (SCAL) and cut it out on my Cricut (this one was a bit too intricate to cut out by hand). Thanks Regina!!!

So here's my project:

I also used Regina's Heart Bag cutting file (minus the heart cut out):

If you want to see a version I did with the heart window in the bag, click here. And if you would like to purchase this cutting file, go on over the The Cutting Café where you can purchase this and many other very cute bags, boxes, shaped cards and printable stamps designed by Regina. There's also a gallery of all the things you can do with these files showcased by the very talented and creative design team members.

I decided I wanted a few layers for this card so I used the words Love from the Stamped and Beyond Birthdays carts:

The letter U is from the Alphalicious cart using the Shortstack and Shadow features:

A little machine stitching:

And with the envie, using the Heart border punch from Fiskars:

Love Potion:
-CS: Bazzill Basics "Carob", "Malted Milk", "Quick Sand" and "Ruby Slipper"
-PPs: DCWV Love & Wedding Stack
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox "Creamy Brown", "Chestnut Roan", "Dune" and "Merlot"
-Pigment Ink: Colorbox "Frosted White" (dabbed onto the red CS for the love words)
-Stickles: Diamond
-Template: Heart Bag from Regina's The Cutting Cafe
-Cricut carts:
Wedding Solutions for the Heart cut at 2 1/2" for the card and 2" for the bag.
Stamped for the word Love cut at 3" for the card and 2" for the bag both using the shadow feature.
Beyond Birthdays for the scripted word Love cut at 2" and 1 3/8" both for the card.
Alphalicious for the letter U cut at 2 1/2" for the card and 2" for the bag both using the shortstack and shadow features.
-Misc: Brown thread, sewing machine, ribbon, Fiskar's Heart border punch and black gelly roll pen

A place for cards and a Lovely Award

2009-01-15T19:12:00.010-05:00

At the bottom of my blog I had some pictures of this tag that I made quite awhile ago for the desk trunk that I gave my DF for the cards that I make him. I thought I would turn it into a post. I made this right after I gave him a Valentine's card (last year) he said to me that he was going to need a box to safely store my creations. I found this great desk trunk at Michaels...and of course I had to add a tag to it...

The pocket tag and the other tags are all from Cricut's Tag, Bags, Boxes & More cartridge.

I love this paper from Deja View's Fresh Print Blue Raspberry:

Unfortunately you can see the edges of these alphabet stickers but I so love the look of the letters (also from Deja Views from their Wonderful Words letter stickers):

This is a rub-on on from one of my favorite designers, Kelly Panacci:

So with some fun ribbons, buttons and a key you have a great tag for a trunk! And with the pocket tag you can leave little love notes every once in a while...or a honey-to-do-list... ;)

I also wanted to share with you the award that I received from my friend and a very talented lady, Sonia. Thanks Sonia! I'm very honored to be able to display this on my blog:

Have a great night!

Is that a snail? Ewww!

2009-01-14T09:51:00.011-05:00

Here's my project for last week's challenge over at the Bitten By the Bug. It was to use the snail from the Walk In My Garden cartridge. It's a really cute snail. You should go over to the BBTB site to check out all the amazing creations from the other DT members.

There's this place a couple miles from my home called The Butterfly Place. It has the most amazing butterflies flying around in this really pretty atrium. It also has a learning center where you can see each stage of the "birth" of a butterfly. And they have more creatures than just butterflies.

So I once again I took the BBTB challenge and used it for the scrapbook I'm making...

Recipe:
-CS: TPC "Sable"
-PPs: Autumn Leaving "Epiphany-Life Is" and DCWV Old World Stack
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox "Creamy Brown", "Dark Brown", "Chestnut Roan", "Olive" and "Pink Pastel"
-Pearls: Michaels
-Flowers: Colorbok
-Fonts: scrapNfont.com "CK Curly" at 36 pts
-Cricut carts: WIMG for the snail cut at 2" with a shadow and TBBM for the Tags

TFL!!

Next Holiday...Valentine's Day...& 2S4U

2009-01-10T17:20:00.015-05:00

It's been a long time since I've participated in a 2 Sketches 4 You challenge...something I can't believe I don't do every week with their really great and fun sketches to work with!

Since I'm always doing things at the last minute I decided to jump over all my to do projects and go right into Valentine's Day. Especially since Regina over at her store The Cutting Café came out with a really great Heart Bag.

So I got to it and made one to give a little gift to my DF and a matching card to go with it.

So I'll start with this really cut bag. I took a really pretty pink patterned paper by Anna Griffin and I printed Regina's Valentine Big Holiday Words printable stamps on it:

I also used one of Regina's Circle Word printable stamp:

I love Regina's bags and boxes that have windows!

And here's the matching card that I made using Kazan's sketch for this week's challenge. Here's Kazan's sketch:

On this I got to use this beautiful printable stamp frame designed by Regina, it comes from another great set of hers called Valentine Borders which are the perfect size if you want to make a quarter fold size card:

I pulled the Valentine word from the Big Holiday printable stamp set:

I'm really please how this set came out!

Matching envie:

A borrowed quote from Sophocles for the inside of the card:

Candy:
-CS: DCWV's The Fall Glitter Stack, Bazzill Basics "Tutu Pink"
-PPs: Anna Griffin from her pink collection and ivory collection and DCWV's The Christmas Glitter Stack
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox "Chestnut Roan, Rose Coral and Warm Red
-Flowers: Prima Got Flowers? and Gartner Brides Table Confetti Embossed Ivory Shimmer
-Rhinestones: Michaels and MM Rhinestone brads
-Punch: Fiskars Heart Border Punch
-Ribbon: Light Pink Ric Rac
-Template: Regina's The Cutting Café "Heart Bag"
-Printable Stamps: Regina's The Cutting Café "Big Holiday Words", "Circle Words" and "Valentine Border"
-Misc: Pink Rhinestones, adhesive

TFL!!

Looking for tutorials on Copics??

2009-01-07T18:26:00.003-05:00

I just came across a very talented person who does the most beautiful work with Copics! She has these great tutorials, especially these ones where she stamps a flower on a card and cuts around the petals on the edge of the card and then stamps the image on the inside of the card on the other side of the flower. Then she does a beautiful job coloring them in with copics! Her name is Melanie and is a stamp designer/illustrator and Senior Design Team Member for Gina K Designs. You should go over to her blog, Hands, Head and Heart and see the amazing things she does. AND she's doing a giveaway of Copics!!!! The winner will win a brand new box of Copic Ciaos AND you get to choose which Box...A, B, C, or D! That is so amazingly genereous!!!!

Hurry and get over to her giveaway (plus you'll get to see a great blending tutorial), it's only open until Thursday night!

Award from a very very talented lady!

2009-01-03T23:03:00.002-05:00

Hi! I just received this award from an extremely talented friend of mine, Tracy. You must go over to her site and see all amazing things she creates! You'll find her extremely inspiring.
Thanks Tracy for the award!

But there are rules to this award, you have to list 5 addictions and 5 of your favorite bloggers. This is very painstaking as I have way too many talented friends to choose from but here are the 1st 5 that came to mind (If Tracy had not sent me this award she would be on this list)...
Sharon
DeeDee
Kim
Enfys
Carole

And my 5 addictions...
1. Lattes...almost any flavor
2. This time of the year, Christmas decorations, but I was very good this year and didn't buy anything new (family members reading this are probably fainting in shock) ;p
3. Crafting!
4. Buying crafting goodies, but amazingly I've been keeping myself at bay to the point that I almost faint when I walk out of a crafting store with only stuff like adhesive and no pretty papers or new exciting tools.
5. FOOD!

Have a great weekend!

Also, like my new background??? Look out for a new header soon as well. :)

AMEX Gift Card Holders

2008-12-31T11:12:00.013-05:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Today we are having a pretty big snow storm...perfect day for crafting...the forecast was 3-6 inches but it's now noon and we've already gotten at least 5 inches and the snowflakes are getting bigger!

So anyway, I got this idea from a very good friend of mine, DeeDee...she made this great money or check holder with a 6 1/2" sq envelop. I didn't have any of those so I had to make mine from scratch, plus I needed to alter the size for the packaging of an AMEX Gift Card. She has a great tutorial over on her site here.

I also used some great New Years printable stamps from Regina's New Years Printable Stamps Sets 1 and 2 from her store The Cutting Café. You should go over to the designer team site to see all the amazing things you can do with these really cool printable stamps...check them out here.

Here's the 1st one which I made using the circle stamp from Set 1 and the balloons from Set 2:

I LOVE these balloons! And the stars and swirly things around them...

Confetti mix:
-CS: DCWV Glitter Stack "Black" and "Dk Red"
-PP: Black Market Paper Society "Ebony Ealabater Singing in the Rain"
-Prismacolor pencils: PC925 Crimson Lake and PC949 Metallic Silver
-Stickles: "Yellow" and "Star Dust"

And the 2nd one I did, I used 3 of Regina's New Years printable stamps from both sets...the Happy New Years frame, the Celebrate Hat and the Framed Sentiment:

I love this Happy New Year frame...it's also perfect to use to surround the edges of a quarter fold size card:

Confetti Mix:
-CS: TPC "Gold"
-PP: ProvoCraft "Juniper Checks on Fossil"
-Gems: Self-Adhesive from Michaels
-Fluid Chalk Ink: Colorbox "Creamy Brown"

TFL!! And be safe if you are going out for the New Year's Eve parties! :)

More Scrapbooking...A day at the beach...BBTB Challenge

2008-12-30T13:29:00.011-05:00

Hi, last week's Bitten By the Bug challenge was to use the CIRCLDOT from Mini Monograms, so once again I decided to take advantage to use the challenge to do some work on my scrapbook for my soon-to-be MIL.

You should go over to the BBTB to see all the really great creations that were made using this challenge.

Here's mine:

Sand:
-CS: Bazzill Basics "Blue Calypso", "Rain" and "Tropical"
-PP: Paper Adventures "Baby Blue Scroll"
-Fluid Chalk Ink: Colorbox "Celadon"
-Stickers: Joann's Craft Essentials "Fancy Flops"
-Font: LDJ Fantastical at 46 pts
-Rub-on: Generations "Quotes - Travel"
-Cricut: Mini Monogram cart CIRCLDOT cut in various sizes using CDS

TFL!

Christmas at home 2008

2008-12-28T11:57:00.003-05:00

Hi, I thought I would share a few pictures with you of my holiday decorating and some pictures of the kids opening their gifts. It was a full house at my house, but it was great...it was with my amazing parents, my brother and lovely SIL (with a bun in the oven), my fiancé’s two children and my fiancé’s wonderful mother and stepdad.

First we had the kids, just the four of us and then everyone else showed up between noon and 1:00.

I'm so bummed out though, I can't believe this but I completely forgot to pull out the camera after everyone showed up!! So I have NO pictures of them this year AND I was going to have my dad take a picture of the four of us in front of the tree. Well the good thing is, I have a tripod and we have the kids again this weekend so I'll still be able to get that shot.

So anyway, here's some pictures that I hope you enjoy...

My fiancé’s mom and step dad own a cut your own Christmas tree farm. It’s a lot of fun to go up and help out. My soon-to-be mother-in-law makes the most beautiful Christmas wreaths, swags, mailbox cozies and kissing balls. Here's a tree from their farm with my large house village:

And she lets me make a wreath for my parents and one for myself and here’s the one I made for myself. It’s a 36” wreath and it takes an entire tree to make it!

And here’s the mailbox cozy:

Here's my little house village, which is located in my bedroom...that little door leads to the attic, kind of cute huh? We have it set up on a time for the lights to go on late afternoon to midnight.

Last year we put the artificial tree out on the deck of my bedroom, this year we didn’t get around to it but I thought I’d share this one as well.

Presents!

My fiancé and his son AJ:

And here’s one with Alyssa.

I'm a bit of a Disney nut, this is only a fraction of the Mickey Mouse Christmas decorations I have...

And the stocking were hung:

:)

Christmas party favors

2008-12-26T10:04:00.015-05:00

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! Mine was a full house and very nice, except for the fact that a few of us had bad colds, myself with a 2 degree temperature. But it was still very nice. :)

You've already seen some of the favors I made for my family in early earlier posts but here are the last 4 that I had to make.

The 1st three were made using Regina's Candy Box cutting file from her store The Cutting Café. This box is PERFECT for holding 12 mini Hershey bars. One I made was for my darling SIL who is a chocoaholic so this was a perfect one for her. The 2nd one was for my soon-to-be wonderful mother-in-law who loves mint chocolate and luckily for me this year Hershey came out with mint mini Hershey bars, including white chocolate! And 3rd one was made for my great manager.

And since this holds 12 mini Hershey bars I decided to go with the Twelve Days of Christmas Theme...Regina being as creative and smart as she is, she included in this set the perfect measured rectangles to make your own wrapper for each chocolate bar.

So here are the ones using the Candy Box and the paper is from K&Company:

I love this paper from SEI from their Alpine Frost collection:

Originally I was going to put everyone's names on the favors but I decided at last minute to do place cards.

I got these so too cute ornament place card holders from Michaels for only $1/pair, are they not gorgeous?!?:

This one I filled with Hershey's mint truffle kisses. I also used Regina's Christmas Circle printable stamps for the tag. This gorgeous paper is from K&Company.

This favor I made using Regina's Long Window cutting file from her store The Cutting Café.

This one was for my brother being the coffee junkie that he is (as well as myself):

This stamp is from one of my favorite stamp sets...CTMH Coffee Shop and I got to use my prismacolor pencils (PC946 Dark Brown & PC911 Olive Green) and the gamsol technique:

Here's another stamp I fell in love with this season from Inkadinkadoo's Snowflake Trail set:

TFL and happy holidays!

Back to some scrapbooking

2008-12-24T12:48:00.010-05:00

It's been awhile since I've done a scrapbook so I'm trying to do a couple pages here and there. I took advantage of being able to do a couple pages of pictures from Christmas last year with this past week's Bitten By the Bug challenge. The challenge was to use the gifts from the New Arrival cart. You really should go over and check out the beautiful creations made by the other design team members.

ALSO, don't forget that the BBTB is having another contest sponsored by Krista and Penny from SweetArts Paperie. They have put together an amazing kit, check it out here. And because of all the hustle and bustle going on for the holiday magic the contest has been extended to 1/10/09!!!

So here is my creation on this week's BBTB challenge (the gifts from New Arrival are on the 2nd page:

I so love this gorgeous paper from SEI:

I LOVE this Cuttlebug Embossing & Die combo Ice Crystal:

Wrapping Paper:
-CS: Bazzill Dark Brown and Dark Maroon
-PPs: SEI "Alpine Frost" collection and DCWV The Christmas Stack 2007 and DCWV The Christmas Glitter STack 2008
-Cuttlebug: Ice Crystal Combo
-Punch: Martha Stewart's Arctic Snowflake
-Stickles: Burgundy
-Fonts: SNF Classy Charm at 20 pts and DB Frilly Frames @ 400 pts (character "R")
-Cricut: New Arrival cart for the Gifts cut at 4"
-Misc: Adhesive, Mini Pot Dots, Buttons

TFL and Happy Holidays!
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