Monday, January 31, 2011

SweetHeart Blog Hop Reminder!

Just a reminder! Join us for the SweetHearts Blog Feb 5th!



The Fabulous Line up!!

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Valentine's Day Treat!

Enter my Birthday Blog candy HERE!!

Enter The Creative Cutter Room Love Bug Challenge HERE!
Here is the inspiration photo I used for my card!:

It was from February's Good HouseKeeping Magazine, Don't these look sooo yummy!




Cupcake Cake is from Smiley on the Gyspy
Paper is from Target
Heart Blocks Cuttlebug Embossing folder
Ribbon from Bridal Inspirations



Entering into: 
The Pink Stamper: Something Super Yummy

The Cuttlebug Spot: Inspired by Advertisement

Paper Cutz: Valentine + Cupcake

Card Creations by C: Anything Valentine 

Paper Sundaes : Valentines

Forever Friends


Enter my Birthday Blog candy HERE!!

Enter The Creative Cutter Room Love Bug Challenge HERE!
 

Paper Pups was my first cartridge! I memorized the book because I only owned this one and Accent Essentials!




 Paper Pups and I used my Gypsy to black them out for the background.
Prima Flowers
Paper from My Minds Eye
Stamps from Scrappy Cat - Friendshp
Entering into:
Flaunt it Fridays: Paper Pups

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Thank you Card

Enter my Birthday Blog candy HERE!!

Enter The Creative Cutter Room Love Bug Challenge HERE!
 
 


 
 
I used for the first time Provo Craft Cuttlebug Die Cuts! This flower cut so cute! I stamped the face with Peachy Keen PK640
 
All papers were from scraps!
 
Entering into:
Cooking with Cricut: Follow Sketch + Birthday
 

Happy Birthday Card


Enter my Birthday Blog candy HERE!!

Enter The Creative Cutter Room Love Bug Challenge HERE!
 
 
Love this little caterpillar!



Create A Critter for the caterpillar
Diamond Plates CuttleBug Embossing Foler
Peachy Keen PK640 
Diamond Stickles

Entering into:
Peachy Keen: Sketch + twist

 Frosted Designs: Monochromatic Challenge!!

Friday, January 28, 2011

Hug! Valentine!

I Love you this much!

Super cutie!




All papers from Scraps! Yippee! Frog and heart from Paisley
Diamond Stickles
Bubble Cuttlebug Embossing Folder

Entering into:
ScrapBookaholic: SEI Love

Scrappy Mom: Sweetheart (Don't have so I used the frog from Paisley)

Cricut Cardz: Valentine for a child

More than Favors: Brown, green and pink

The Sisterhood of Crafters: Anything Goes

Pile it on: Love is in the air 

Enter my Birthday Blog candy HERE!!

Enter The Creative Cutter Room Love Bug Challenge HERE!

Two new techniques!

Yippee!! I attempted two new techniques! 

The first attempt was making my own flower embellishment! I love how super this flower came out and I used scrap material from some old curtain material!

Thanks to Frosted Designs for posting a great tutorial!

And my second technique was the chalkboard technique. You ink your stamp with white ink on dark cardstock and then use chalks to color it. Now here are my excuses on why I think this would have come out better; {gasp}... this is really my only flower stamp! And it was really only the outline and I have cheap white ink that dried to quick!
But I still like it!

Thanks to Queen Kat for posting this new technique challenge!

Stamp from Sassy Sistah




Enter my Birthday Blog candy HERE!!

Enter The Creative Cutter Room Love Bug Challenge HERE!

Thursday, January 27, 2011

It's Challenge Time!!

It's challenge time over at the Creative Cutter Room!!

I hope you will join us in our first challenge! You have the chance to win the Jasmine Cricut cartridge!! Yippee how great is that!!


The theme for this challenge is: Love Bug

Here is my Design Team Project:

 Love Bug is cut from Simply Charmed
Sentiment is computer generated
Then using center point the heart was cut out using Plantin Schoolbook
Paper from Target
Ribbon Joann's
Action Wobble
Diamond Stickles
Swiss dots Cuttlebug Embossing Folder

Here is a quick video to see my Love Bug In Action!



Thanks for stopping by! Carri

Submit your project here!!





Or head over to Creative Cutter Room to submit your project! You have until February 9th!

Here is a list of the other Design Team members, have fun and check them out for more inspiration!

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Happy Birthday Card

I am off from work today because my Daughter has a field trip so I am sneaking in some crafting before I head up to the school to meet her!






I used Create A Critter for the cupcake and my Gypsy to hide the face and the cupcake lines.
I ran the icing through the divine swirls cuttlebug folder, added stickles and the cupcake wrapper through the paper crimper.

Birthday paper is from Target and ribbon was from a swap!

Entering into:


Cardz TV: Cupcake 

Paper Playtime: Party Related

Two Scraptastic Girls: Create a Critter

Monday, January 24, 2011

Happy Birthday Owl Card!

I just love this owl cut from Paisley!




Entering into:

Crafty Creations: Birds + Polka Dots + green


And I received a Stylish Blogger award!! 

Thank you to: 
Janice at Cricutology


In order to continue, I have to post 8 things about myself and pass along to 8 bloggers:

1. I drive an hour to work and an hour home from work.
2. If I think of a card design while I am sleeping, I wake up and cut it.
3.  I don't like to listen to music while I am crafting but I blast it in the car while I am driving.
4.  I don't like ice-cream.
5. I got married on the 4th of July
6. My favorite candies are swedish fish
7. I grew up in New York
8. I want to learn to crochet

And passing it along to:
4. Michille at Holy Cricut!
5. Glenda at Glenda's cards
6. Kim at Scrapin' Mom
 7. Carlene at me N Miss Pink Cricut
8. Lena at Lena's Crafts

Thanks ladies! I hope everyone enjoys!

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Friendship is organically grown!

I have had this card lay-out in my mind for weeks!! I just have not had a spare minute to do it!

Until the perfect challenge came along!





My Sheri Crafts: organic

Wee Memories: Anything Goes


Create A Critter for the Carrots
Divine Swirls Cuttlebug Folder
Stamp from My Favorite Things
Paper from the Flower Stack
Peachy Keen PK640 


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Saturday, January 22, 2011

Busy Cleaning my Craft Room....

I am busy cleaning my craft room... so it is the perfect time to squeeze in a one hour lay-out challenge! Sure why not!!

Here is the sketch from Practical Scrappers:

Here is my entry:


I used perfect pages Glamour Girl


Ok Ok so here is my still completely upside craft room!
Ahhh..... to clean or to craft.....
Don't worry I still have my beautiful shelves!
Packed so full!!
Eight minutes to spare!

Happy Birthday Princess!

You can never have to many princess birthday cards!






Paper Doll Dress up for the Princess
Happy Birthday stamp from Stampin' up
Heat embossed with glitter embossing powder on stamp and crown
Happy Birthday Cuttlebug embossing folder
Dress is cut from Glitterstack DCWV
Peachy Keen PK640

Entering into:
Made by Momo: Princess

My Creative Time: Paper doll + embossing


Glitterbabe: Anything goes + glitter

Friday, January 21, 2011

Valentine's Day Treat Box using Tags Bags Boxes and More!

This was only my second time using Tags, Bags Boxes and More, I think it is because I don't have the book so I don't know what anything is!




 I REALLY liked making this because I used so many tools!
I used my Gypsy and Tags Bags Boxes & More
Plantin Schoolbook for the X & O
Target Valentine Day paper
Peachy Keen PK-640
Heart Punch and Acetate Paper
Valentine stamp Studio G
I cut the glitter hearts out of paper
And I picked up this awesome Ek Success Tag punch for $10.00!
I glittered around it and added bling.



Entering into:
Staying Crafty: Valentine theme + must be a holder/container

GliiterBabe: Anything goes with Sparkle

Frosted Designs: transparency

Peachy Keen: LFIF XOXO

Really Reasonable Ribbon: Ribbon + Heart

Pile It On: Anything goes


Here is the same cut that I used for the MAG Challenge with no other cricut cuts:






MAG : Nut Cup Tags bags boxes and more