Eat Dessert First Birthday

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!!!

Dad's birthday

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!

Father Daughter Ball 2007

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!

Changito Birthday and the BUG BLOG HOP Winner!!

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!!

Martini Birthday!

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!!!

Altered Over the Hill? card for the Cricut "Show us your Best" contest

As some of you must already know Cricut had a "Show us your Best" contest in which the winner gets 3 carts of their choice and their project will be featured in the next Cricut infomercial. So...I took the design of the card that I had the most fun making and coincidently the most carts used! In the original design I used 5 carts but I decided to make some changes to this version which I ended up adding another cart to the recipe! I used the CDS and there was one cut that I made that I had to change the cart 5 times!

Here's the recipe for this version:
Cricut carts: AE, Celebrations, Cuttin' Up, Doodlecharms, Doodletype and Opposites Attract (strangely enough I didn't use anything from Beyond B-days).
Stickles: Xmas Red
Blossoms: Making Memories Jumbo Daisy Spotlight
Various rhinestones and self-adhesive gems
Cuttlebug: D'Vine Embossing Folder
Ribbon: Offray Stripe Red-Bk and red ric-rac
CS: White, Black, Red, Brown, Metallic Papaya, Neutral Tan
DPs: DCWV The Glitter Stack











For the rest of the pictures that I did exactly the same for this project and also of the different inside of the card design, click here.

TFL!

Over the Hill?

Talk about cutting it down to the wire...I had to have this card in the mail this morning in order for it to get to my dad in time for his 60th b-day...I was literally finishing the envelop a few minutes before the mail person came by...what a rush! Anyway, my dad is turning 60 and if you knew him you would never guess it, as like I said in the card, he's in better shape than I am!

I think I used more cartridges on this card than any other single project:
Doodletype, Cuttin' Up, AE, Beyond B-days and Celebrations!!
I used the CDS and there was one cut that I made that I had to change the cart 4 times!
But I think this was the 1st project (I think) that I've done that I didn't use any stamps, inks or chalks, but couldn't stay away from MM blossoms, ribbon & rhinestones. :)

And dad's favorite color is red, do you think I used enough?...