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!

Celebrate more shakers

So I told you I'm on the shaker kick. LOL Here is a birthday card I made and turned the circles into little shakers. OMG what was I thinking??? To keep each of those circles as seperate circle what a PITA but I'm pleased with the way it turned out.



I wasn't happy with the plain "celebrate" letters but I didn't want to shadow them so why not heat emboss them?



I have a zebra stamp from the $1.00 bin at Michaels and stamped that on the letters and sprinkled with clear embossing powder and then heated the powders. I'm really pleased with the way that they turned out.

Thanks for stopping by. :o)

Supplies:
Recollections Cardstock (card base)
DCWV Spring Stack (hat)
Star confetti
$1.00 Stamp
Clear embossing powder
Tinsel pom pom

Shakers!!!!

So I have been on a shaker kick. These are so much fun to make. So I made these cute little purse boxes for valentines day and stuffed them with post-it note holders (pictures to come another day) and yummy chocolate candies. I made them for my mom and her friend and kept them pretty simple cause it was a last minute gift idea.





side view


Shakers are made with acetate, foam tape, and glitter/confetti/micro beads etc.

Thanks for stopping by today!!

Supplies:
Tag Bags Boxes & More (TBBM) Cartridge
Double sided foam tape
Acetate (overhead projector sheets)
Heart Confetti
K&Co Valentine Stack
M's Valentine's Ribbon

Just Because

Well can you tell I'm having fun making my own "paper". Well I had so much fun making the paper for my card I posted yesterday that I had to try another product. Over President's Weekend Michaels was having an awesome sale with an addition percentage off your sale items so I picked up some Smooch spritzers and oh boy am I in love.

It's not really that splotchy ... that's the shimmer being reflected from the flash. Here's a side view



Thanks for stopping by!!! :o)

Supplies:
Hampton Arts Butterfly Stamp
White Embossing Powder
Smooch Spritzers
Ladder ribbon
scraps of paper

Stamping and Embossing

So AllisonF from the cricut messageboard (you can also find her here ..... Allison's Blog sent me this stamp set



she said she wanted to see what I could make with it. So of course the wheels started turning and I'm having sooo much fun with it. As a matter of fact I'm having a hard time putting down my embossing powders. LOL

I made these three cards with this wonderful stamp set and have sooo many more ideas floating around in my head.

Thank you Card


I Love You Card


Hello Friend


Supplies:
White embossing powder
Versamark ink
Cuttlebug
Paper is scraps
Ribbons are scraps
Heat Set crystals

Liebster Blog Award

WOW! I know I have been neglecting my blog lately but I haven't stopped creating. As a matter of fact I have a bunch of projects coming this week. But Jani from Paper Compulsions gave me this wonderful blog award. Thank you Jani!!!!

The Liebster Blog award is given to bring new blogs to light. It's a great way to share blogs that might not otherwise be seen or ones you want to share with others.

Be sure to go to Jani's Blog and check out her wonderful creations (and leave some love too) :o)

As a recipient of this award I must share the love and pay it forward by:

1. Creating a post where you blog about the Liebster award and reveal your 3-5 blog picks.

2. Let them know you chose them

3. Copy and paste the blog award on your blog

4. Have faith that your followers will rally and show their crafty love back out to those you awarded.

So in alphabetical order:

Card Creations by Lorraine - Lorraine

Goody Bag Diva - Allison

With Glittering Eyes - Nadia

Please take a minute to visit these wonderful ladies blog and be inspired by them (and leave them some love too) :o)

Thanks again Jani!!!!

Card Contest

So did you all hear about the card contest PC is having? Well Jinger posted the contest on Facebook and you had to use one of the following carts:

* Wall Decor & More
* Don Juan
* Winter Lace

You also had to use a product by Anna Griffin. All cards (originals) had to be sent to PC by today. Well sure hope mine made it in time ... yep hubby forgot to mail it priority with delivery confirmation .... SOOOOOO I guess I'll never know. LOL And we only had like a week to get the cards done.

I wasn't going to enter because I didn't have any Anna Griffin products but happened to be at Michael's and they had a paper pad on clearance and I just knew I had to enter.

This is what I came up with:







Materials:
Bazzil Pink Cardstock (Card Base)
Recollections Cardstock (Shimmer Black)
American Crafts (Silver)
Anna Griffin - Peyton Stack (pattern/pink paper ... Diamonds and heart)
Cricut Carts:
Wall Decor and More - heart and "love"
George and basic shapes - card base
Cuttlebug
Shrinky dinks (charms)

Got Spirit?!?

Happy New Year!!!

I know it's been a while since I've posted but things have been crazy busy with the holidays and getting "orders" completed but I think things are finally slowing down and can get back to blogging.

So at work we have a spirit team that is supposed to promote a fun atmosphere at work and plan activites. So of course what better way to do that then have personalized T-shirts???



The design was made on my gypsy and then used the freezer paper method to paint them on the shirts.

Materials:
T-shirts
Fabric Soft Paint
Fabric Paint (for the outline)
Freezer paper
Cricut Gypsy:
* 3 Birds on Parade
* Alphalicious
* Base Camp
* Cursive 101
* George and Basic Shapes
* Opposite Attract
* Zooballo

Then the idea came up to have spirit awards. So of course I'm addicted to making shrinky dinks. Takes me back to my childhood. So why not mimic our shirts and came up with these.



The charms at the bottom can be changed for the year/activiy that the awards are for.

Materials:
Shrinky Dinks (Rough 'n Ready)
Alcohol Inks
Cricut Gypsy:
* 3 Birds on Parade
* Alphalicious
* Ashlyn's Alphabet
* Base Camp
* Blackletter
* Cursive 101
* George and Basic Shapes