Birthday Card

I've been running low on birthday cards lately, so I decided to make another one. I'm loving this little cupcake image. Unfortunately, the blog that I got it from, Southernbelle, is not longer there....sorry! Anyway, I followed a sketch here: http://mojomonday.blogspot.com/2011/01/mojo-monday-175.html I'm loving her weekly challenges. I think this is my third one. It's a fun blog with lots of talented projects. You should jump on over and see all the fun things!

Birthday Card

Here is a cute birthday card that I did for the http://cookingwithcricut.blogspot.com/2011/01/challenge-15-peachy-keen-sponsor.html and the Pink Stamper's Blog "make something super yummy challenge" http://www.mypinkstamper.com/2011/01/imagine-pink-wednesday.html. At Cooking With Cricut, this is actually two challenges in one because if you do a birthday theme, you are entered into a drawing for some Peachy Keen Stamps and as you know, I got my first set of these stamps yesterday so I was excited to use them again! I love them so far and know that I'm going to need some more so I was excited to see her give away because I get to use my new stamps and have the chance to win some more. It's a win win! Plus, if I followed her sketch, then I also have the chance of winning a cute little birthday set of files from her! Fun fun. So....this is what I made this morning. I was going to give you the link for this little cupcake from Southernbelle's blog, but when I tried to go there, it said the blog had been removed! Darn it! And to think that it's a file that I actually KNOW where it came from! LOL. Anyway, sorry about that! Did you notice my winking cupcake AND a happy birthday stamp. Wow...two in one project! Something tells me you will be seeing more stamps in my future!

Halloween Layout

Hello....over at Fantabulous Cricut, http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/2011/01/challenge-me-monday-44.html, they were doing a challenge to use a cartridge you haven't used for a while. So....here is a layout I did using my paper dolls cartridge. I rarely make paper dolls, but this cartridge used to be the one I pulled out to do everything and was almost one I didn't buy because all it showed on the box was paper dolls. It should have shown all the extras which is where the worth of this cartridge is in my oppinion. It has some really cute images on it! Anyway, I think this page turned out really fun.

Cart a Week Giveaway

I found another fun blog this week, The Busy Bug....well, actually she found me and left me a comment on one of my posts so I just had to jump on over and check our her blog also. She has some adorable things on her blog and even has a giveaway going right now-Cart a Week Giveaway! How fun is that! If you'd like to peak at her projects and maybe enter her blog candy, jump on over here: http://thebusybug.blogspot.com/2011/01/busy-bug-babble-cart-week-give-away.html

Penguin Card

I am super excited! I got my FIRST set of Peachy Keen Stamps today and had to give them a try. So I jumped over to the Peachy Keen Stamps site for ideas and they were having a sketch challenge in monocromatic colors or black and white. Since I HAD to use these stamps tonight, I set out making this cute little penguin card following their sketch and of course using my new stamps. I think these stamps are going to be so much fun! The cricut is great, but most of the time faces don't cut well and have to be hand drawn. With these stamps, it's just a "stamp" away! How fun is that! If you want to enter this challenge, jump on over to http://peachykeenstampschallenge.blogspot.com/2011/01/peachy-keen-stamps-sketch-challenge-44.html and give it a shot! Maybe Peachy Keen will make me a stamper yet! LOL. Now I need some of those cute sayings stamps that the designers are creating....hmmm.....

Ok...so the more I looked at my card, the more I thought it needed "something" else so .... I dug through my stash and found these cute little black flowers and the perfect little buttons to say "hi." Now I think it looks done! You can see the before and after. It just needed that little extra bling...what do you think! LOL.

Stylish Blog Award

Wow! I just got my first blog award. Candice from http://stampinpearls.blogspot.com/ just gave me a Stylish Blog Award. How very cool is that! Thank you Candice! Upon receiving this award I must thank the person(s) and link it back to their blog, inform all the new recipients of their award, and share 8 things about myself.

So....since I've already thanked Candice, I guess I should list 8 things about myself...

1. My pop of choice is Caffine Free Diet Mountain Dew. My husband calls it double unleaded and wants to know why I even bother! LOL.

2. My husband is my knight in shining armour. On the night we met, my best friend and I were in a car accident. My husband stopped, took me to a phone (before cell phones obviously), and stayed with me till the police arrived and the ambulance came and hauled me and my best friend to the hospital. That was over 20 years ago and I still thank my Heavenly Father for him each and every day!

3. My favorite color is hot pink.

4. I've always wanted to go to Europe and hope to with my hubby someday!

5. I am a stay at home Mom and LOVE it! I thought I'd get bored, what was I thinking!

6. I've never really gotten into stamping! Gasp....I know...I've just recently started to remedy that and my first set of Peachy Keen Stamps are on their way.

7. I have a whole bookcase full of scrapbook binders...yep...that's about 3 four inch binders a year for the last 12 or 13 years. My first scrapbook was done while I was dating my hubby and that was WAY before any of the cool things came out that we have now. I hand drew all of my own embelishments....I was scrapbooking before the world caught up to me! LOL.

8. I love to read just as much as I love to scrapbook!

Now to pick 8 blogs to share this award with...this is going to be the hard part because I have seen so many wonderful blogs that people share their beautiful creations on and they are all so gifted that's it's going to be hard to choose only eight! Congratulations and thanks so much for all your inspiration that helps me be a better crafter!

http://cardztv.blogspot.com/
http://dscrapbookingroom.blogspot.com/
http://amandascraftsandmore.blogspot.com/
http://madebymomo.blogspot.com/
http://paperpiecingmemoriesbybabs.blogspot.com/
http://doodlebugmemories.blogspot.com/
http://heather-bittenbythebug2.blogspot.com/
http://designsoncloud9.blogspot.com/

Cupcake Birthday Card

Here is another card I did for some challenges... http://cardztv.blogspot.com/2011/01/cupcake-challenge.html. This challenge asked us to use a cupcake. I love this blog for all of her super cute card ideas! Then on Fantabulous Cricut, http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/2011/01/challenge-me-monday-43.html, their challenge was to use something sweet. And here, http://stampchallenges.blogspot.com/, they challenged us to stamp something sweet. Since I'm not much of a stamper, I just stamped the Happy Happy Birthday along the bottom. (Stamps are not my strong feature, I need to get some clear stamps because I can never get it "straight" and it always bugs me. LOL. That's why you see very few stamped images on my projects. I see all these amazing projects that people do with stamps, but I've never had success with them. I need to take a stamping class and buy some copics and then maybe I'd get better at it! LOL. I did just however order some Peachy Keen face stamps and I'm excited to give them a try and I've been eyeing a few sets of cute animal sentiments from a couple of designers like the Pink Stamper too. Here's to hoping my newly ordered Peachy Keen stamps work great!) It's kinda hard to see but I used stickles on my cupcake and it provides just the right amount of sparkle.
http://paperplaytime.blogspot.com/2011/01/ch-35-anything-party-related.html Their challenge was anything party related. http://kaboodledoodles.blogspot.com/2011/01/challenge-51-bling-it-up.html Their challenge as bling it up... add glitter or something to your project. http://www.mypinkstamper.com/2011/01/its-my-birthday-challenge-and-giveaways.html Anything birthday related as it's her birthday! Happy Birthday Robyn!

On my reader, I found a challenge at http://www.imaginisceblog.com/ that wanted us to use pink, blue and yellow, but now that I go to their blog I can't find the post on that....strange....one of their designers I follow posted about it and it shows up on her blog but it doesn't show up on the actual site hosting the challenge.... oddly enough, it happened to me TWICE as another designer wanted us to use a punch on their challenge but again when I followed the blog from the designer to the site, it wasn't listed there. Is it a full moon out or what???? LOL. I guess I won't be entering those afterall. Lesson learned, make sure I actually follow to the hosting blog BEFORE I include them in my project. That's ok....it was fun to make the card anyway. :-)