Harvest Blessings

First let me apologize for neglecting my personal blog. I've been so busy posting my projects over at Paper Craft Weekend Challenge that I've forgotten to post my projects over here. I'll try to do better from now on ;o)

For this challenge it was a fall photo challenge.


I decided to get out my stamps and markers and make a simple fall card.



Supplies:
Bazzil
Sweet n Sassy Stamps
Stazon Ink
Promarkers
Seam Binding (aka Crinkle ribbon)
Alcohol ink (to color the seam binding)
nestabilitites

Enter to win

Who doesn't like free stuff? Well now's your chance to win the Tim Holtz Kraft Core stack signed by Tim himself

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Twine, Twine, Twine

Over at Paper Craft Weekend Challenge the Sunday Challenge is to use twine, also known as baker's twine. So this is the project I came up with



For additional close up pictures hop on over to Paper Craft Weekend Challenge

We even have more BLOG CANDY up for grabs over there. Who doesn't like some candy?!?!

I did use my cricut on this card. I used the Martha Stewart Elegant Cake Art Cart for the scallop across the top and Elegant Edges for the edge along the bottom.

Embossing tutorial

I did a tutorial over on Paper Craft Weekend Challenge on how to heat emboss your projects. Here is the project I made for the tutorial



There's some other great examples over there. Also, we have some blog candy up for grabs so be sure to hop on over for your chance to win.

Thanks for visiting today.

It's beginning to look ....

Like Christmas ;o). Those that know me know the I LOVE Christmas. If my hubby would let me I would have my Christmas tree up all year round. So it's no surprise that at random times of the year I'll pull out Christmas products and make a project with them. For my first Sunday Challenge over at Paper Craft Weekend Challenge I challenged everyone to use glitter. To read more about the challenge heard on over to Paper Craft Weekend Challenge. Here is the project I made for the glitter challenge



This was the first time I used promarkers with stamps and boy am I in love. If you haven't tried promarkers yet and are looking for a good quality marker to color your stamps with I highly recommend them. They are a cheaper alternative to copics. I purchased mine from Carpe Diem and although their shipping is slightly high they are still cheaper then other places. I have also heard that some Joann's are carrying a 12 pack in their "fine arts" section but I haven't been lucky enough to find them their.

Be sure to join us at Paper Craft Weekend Challenge and Challenge yourself with us.

Thanks for stopping by.

Challenge Yourself!!!!!!

Allison and I are thrilled to announce our new challenge blog – Paper Craft Weekend Challenge! You can expect a challenge with a project to inspire you every Friday and Sunday. The only rule we expect you to stick to is having fun! We are not going to limit ourselves to one type of machine or project – so get your materials and get ready to use your stuff (instead of just collecting it – not that we aren’t guilty of that too). There will be some tutorials along the way – and it wouldn’t be any fun if we didn’t have friends occasionally stopping by – so please come join us and get ready to get your craft on!

Flame Free Party ......

If you could take a moment and visit my friend Kymberlee's blog The Paper Midwife and make a donation. Kymberlee's two daughters and grandchildren lost everything in a horrible fire (which you can read all about on her blog). She is even offering a raffle for a Cricut Imagine! With every $5 donation you get a chance to win the Imagine - and the more you donate the more chances you get! So you get the chance to help some really deserving people out and perhaps be rewarded yourself in the process! Please re-post this on your own blog or Facebook if you can!!!!

Thank you for your kindness in helping these families after such a tragedy!!!!

Fun in the Sun - Florida

Over in the Cricut Circle the Circle team will be traveling from CHA Chicago to Ohio for a circle swarm. Well they decided pose a challenge to the circlets to create a banner that represents your state. So of course I did Florida ;o)



Here's a close up of the dolphins. They have glaze on them to look like real dolphins.



Here's a close up of the charms. The charms were cut on the cricut using shrinky dinks and then shrunk in the oven. I {heart} shrinky dinks. Then I attached the rings to them.



Supplies:
Birthday Bash Cricut Cart
Luau Cricut Seasonal Cart
Splish Splash Cricut Lite Cart
Life's a Beach Cricut Cart
George and Basic Shapes Cricut Cart
50 States Cricut Cart
Gypsy Wanderings Cricut Cart
Sandpaper
Recollections shimmer paper
Recollections Cardstock
Fun Flock (on the palm trees)
Action wobbles
Google Eyes
Brads (Oriental Trading Company)
Findings (rings on the charms and boat)

Can I get your name please ......

So since we are talking about calling cards .... AllisonF (on the cricut MB) and can be found here Allison's Blog host online Swarms in conjunction with big circle events such as the Stampede in Dallas and the Utah meet-up. So of course to get the full experience we do calling card swaps with everyone. So here are the two that I made

First ever online swarm calling card




Online Stampede

Ring, Ring, Ring ....

Calling Cards .... have you heard of these?!? Well over in the Cricut Circle when you go to a meet-up you bring calling cards to exchange with other cricuteers. Also, the calling card is your "raffle ticket" for the prize drawings. So when I was fortunate to go the Florida Meet-up I had to do something "spectacular" and so why not use my favorite animal .... Butterflies. So I cut them all out the weekend before the meet-up (yeah way to procrastinate).

Can you guess how many butterflies are in here ....



another view


Give up ......

864 butterflies later this is what I came up with .......



Supplies:
Cricut Serenade Cartridge
Bazzil Cardstock
K&Co
Corner Rounder

Many Thanks

My sister asked me to make a thank you card for her and she didn't have any specifics gave me free reign to make whatever I wanted sooooo I love making easel cards and think it's a great way for people to display their card. So this is what I came up with ...



Side View


Supplies:
Cricut Gypsy (card base)
Cricut Cartrige - Walk in my Garden
Heat Set crystals
Paper - Recollections (Michael's Brand)
Christmas Ribbon - Celebrations (Michael's Brand)
$1.00 Stamp (probably from Michael's)

Happy Mother's Day

So Nadia with all of her amazing talent made this beautiful card and bucket Flower bucket and card with some really amazing 3-d flowers. I loved the look of the flowers and decided that these would be gorgeous on some Mother's Day cards.



I inked all the edges of the card layers and then hand stitched each card {gasp}. Yep I need a little sewing machine. Hmmmmm gotta find a way to convince hubby that I need another "craft" toy. LOL


Materials:
Cricut Cart Mother's Day Bouquet
Tim Holtz Distress Ink
Cuttlebug All-in-one Thank you set
DMC Thread
Adhesive Backed Perals
Versamark Ink
Pebbles, Inc. Chalk

I'm Back!!!!

I'm Back ;o) I know you've all been wondering what happened to me. Nope I didn't drop off the face of the earth just took a break from blogging. I've still been crafting and photographing and got lots of good stuff to show you. so for tonight I'll share a few pictures with you.

I had the opportunity to go to Flamingo Gardens which is a botanical garden and wildlife sanctuary. The photo ops are awesome!!! It's really a beautiful place. So all of these pictures are from there.









Thanks for stopping by today. Be on the look out for some upcoming crafty posts!!!!

Hummingbird Card

So here was a quick fun card I made. And can you believe I didn't use my cricut {gasp}. I know hard to believe. LOL I used the Faux Bleach tutorial from splitcoast stampers as well as the Crimped Diamond Tutorial


Supplies:
Recollections Cardstock (card base)
Shimmer Ribbon J's $1.99 Ribbon
White Embossing powder
Alcohol Inks
Humming Bird stamp - Inkadinkado
Crimper

Stylish Blogger Award

I feel so honored to be given another blog award.



Thank you so much Kate! I was so honored when I received a note from Kate that she had something special for me on her blog. So I ventured over there and she had this wonderful blog award for me. You can check out her fantastic work at Sassy and Scrappy Kate.

So the rules of this award are that I tell you 8 things about myself and share this award with 8 fellow bloggers.

1. I love being crafty - that is my super stress reliever.
2. I LOVE photography.
3. I sleep, eat, dream papercrafting.
4. Pink, teal, purple are all my favorite colors (I even have the Pink E).
5. I don't have any kids, human kids that is .... we have a cute little furbaby named Rocky (you can see him on my sidebar).
6. I met my husband online. We just celebrated our 4 year wedding anniversary
7. I haven't even started scrapping our wedding album yet.
8. I love my job - my "real" job that is.

I am now passing this fabulous and stylish award to the following (in no particular order):

Shirley - Okieladybug Scrap N more
Diane - Capadia Designs
Dawn - Scrappy RN
Mya - Cricut Inspiration
Maria - Stamp Cut Create
Laura - Laura's Piece of Paradise
Diane - My Time to Craft
Nadia - With glittering eyes

I hope you all can take some time to check out these ladies and leave them some blog love. They are so talented and really wonderful women as well!