Exciting News ....

So I just had to share my exciting news with you all. I have been chosen to be on a Design Team. I am now a designer for the Sugar Sweet Paper Treats Blog. Come check us out at http://sugarsweetpapertreats.blogspot.com/




Thanks for sharing my excitment with me!!!

Happy Birthday Easel

So I wanted to make an easel card. But of course I had to make it with the cricut. Soooooo I created a cut file using the Cricut Design Studio. This is the first easel card I made (please excuse the paper clip it didn't want to sit on the easel LOL)





Heart - Lovestruck
Flowers - PSB
Squares - GBS
Card base - GBS made in DS
Butterfly - MS punch punched twice (top layer vellum colored in alcohol ink)
Butterfly border - MS PATP
Birthday wishes - Studio G stamp
Swirls and Asian Bundle for the embossing.

Some of the flowers are on pop dots

Get Well

Here's a get well card I made. I loved this card design when I saw it on the MB and figured there has to be an easy way to make it in Design Studio. I love the way this turned out.

Advice Cards

Someone I work with is getting married and requested I make her some advice cards that her and her fiance's family could give them advice and encouragement. The request was that they were pink, black, and gold. No flowers. And must have bling. This is what I came up with ...



The card base (pink and black) are from the cart From my Kitchen
The swirl is from home accents

Flower card

So I totally Failed at MPS NSD Challenges. It seems like any time I sit down to get creative something happens. I only completed 2 of 12 BUT I plan on going back and trying a few of them "after the fact" but that being said. Here's my card for the Flower or Springy Item



Flowers from Wedding Cart
Vase and welded flower from Walk in my Garden (I know it's hard to see in the picture but it's clear acetate).

TFL

Baby Monochromatic

Here is a baby card I made for the MPS Monochromatic Color Challenge.



Everything is Pink :o)
Card Base - from New Arrival (NA) cut from DS using "hide selected contour"
Baby - NA
Embossing - Fiskars plate in the CB

Happy {belated} National Scrapbook Day!!

So yesterday was National Scrapbook Day. I didn't get to participate in all the festivities as my family was in town from North Carolina. However, they have gone back to NC and today I'm trying to catch up on some of the "challenges" today. So keep a watchful eye out. Have a great day!!!!!

I've been Chirped again :o)

So I've been chirped again. How exciting is that. LOL



Here's the link as well http://www.cricut.com/newsletters/volume.aspx?ID=250

Thanks for sharing in my excitement.

Beagle Time

So it's been a while since I've posted my baby so here's some new pictures

Sad Hurt dog :o(


Rocks and Kitty (this isn't to recent but I just love this picture)


No he's not spoiled or anything

Another Thank you Card

I loved the card shape I made the other day (the celebrate card) and had some "extra" cuts left so I whipped this up

Thank you Card

So I posted this card over on the cricut MB in anticipation of course of posting it on my blog and someone had asked me if I saw the challenge on BBTB2. Which I hadn't been over there since the most recent challenge was posted on Monday {gasps} I know I'm really far behind. So I had to see what she was talking about and well it looks like I was ready for this challenge and didn't even know it. HA HA HA

So here was a quick thank you card I came up with



card base made in DS using From my Kitchen
Thank you from Lyrical Letters
marquee using nesties "label One"
Inked around the edge of the card and then dusted with shimmer chalks (although you can't really see it in the picture).
buttons from WM in a package

Celebrate

Stephanie over on the cricut MB had asked if I could help her with a card base similiar to a card she saw. So of course I had to test cut it and tinker with it so I figured why not turn it into a quick card so I decided on a birthday card

Dragonfly Birthday

I was asked by a woman at work to make her a birthday card for a friend of hers but it had to have a dragonfly and had to be earth tone colors. So here is what I came up with.



Inside

Butterfly Birthday

I have been making sooooo many birthday cards lately. It will be nice to start something new next week for my scrappy/crafty vacation weekend. But in the mean time here is a birthday card I made for one of my dear friends (Hi Rach!!!!!).



Close up of tag


Another view


Card base was made in DS using GBS and Graphically Speaking (GS)
Butterflies were made with the MS monarch butterfly punch. The top layer is vellum colored with alcohol ink (something I really love to do lately). LOL
Ribbon is from M's
and the Birthday tag is cut from my nesties Labels 9 and the stamp is from Stampendous.

Enjoy!

Dragonfly Birthday

Here is a birthday card I made for a friend at work. It's also for Robyn(mypinkstamper)'s color challenge



The card base was cut using design studio. The base is from GBS and Graphically Speaking.
Dragonflies were cut at roughly 1 3/4" and 3 3/4". The top layer is vellum colored with alcohol inks. The shadows were cut using bazzil cardstock
The marquee's were cut using nesties labels 9
Happy birthday is from the stampendous perfectly clear stamps "Two you" set. Stamped using black versamark ink

thanks for stopping by!!!! :o)