Cooking With Cricut Challenge #77- Let's Celebrate St. Patrick's Day!

Hello and happy Wednesday!

This week is our Cooking With Cricut challenge #77, "St. Patrick's Day" but of course! It's coming up this Saturday and I, for one, cannot wait to put my corn beef brisket into the crock pot and let those wonderful aromas fill the air all day long!

I've made a couple final St. Paddy's Day cards to send off today and if you feel lucky, you'll join us for this festive challenge over at Cooking With Cricut for your chance to be one of our Top Chefs!!! And see all the fabulous inspiration from the rest of the design team!

Thank you for visiting me and have a wonderful day!!! :)

Card features Cricut cartridges "Once Upon A Princess" for the Lucky Girl/horseshoe title and "Storybook" for circle clover negatives 

 My 2nd card features the new Digital Stamp from PapercraftingWorld.com called Lucky Bear in Circle. Grab yours now, just in time for St. Patrick's Day! "Storybook" cartridge for scalloped circle clover borders and scalloped circle frames

Groovy Tuesday!

Hey there! I've been a little lax on blogging the past few days, sorry! I plan to catch up this evening to see what everyone's been up to. I had some time to play with my new MFT Al'a Mode stamp set called Groovy Girl along with some of my new Prima paper, flowers and trim--yummyness! I will enter this into a few challenges at the bottom of my post.

 Isn't she darling! I especially love that coloring her does not overwhelm me! This set comes with 5 totally groovy sentiments--so much fun!

Beate's EASEL CARD TUTORIAL

Entering my card for:
PCJ challenge #4- Anything Goes
A Muse Studio Challenge Blog- "Bloom Where You Are Planted!" (create something with flowers!)
Simon Says Stamp!- Anything Goes Challenge
AllSorts Challenge #145- Say It With Flowers!
Totally Papercrafts Challenge #107- My Favorite Things
Hotshot Craft Blog challenge #5- Ribbons
Jellypark Challenges- National Craft Month Challenge 3/9-3/21 (use your fave crafting product-mine is my new Prima paper roses!)
ABC DT Challenge Blog- SpringTime Challenge (ends 3/24)

Spring Has Sprung!

Well maybe not officially, but it's certainly official over at SplitcoastStampers because tonight is the first 5 challenges for the Spring Has Sprung VSN (Virtual Stamp Night)! I joined in 2 of the challenges so far and intend to finish the rest for tonight, then I'll be all ready for Saturday's VSN--10 Spring challenges and a whole day full of Spring stamping inspiration and fun! Hope you will play along too! We have until Monday to submit our challenge creations for prizes! Itt's a breath of fresh, Spring air!

This is my card for Challenge #1- "Here Comes The Sun" translation: make something using the SUN as your inspiration!

 Challenge #5- "Rain, Rain Go Away" translation: make a sympathy card

Thanks for stopping by! I hope your weekend is off to a fabulous start! xoxo

Mishmash Thursday :)

Hi, hope you're day is going great! I have a mix up of things to share today! First my card for Feb.Unity Stamp Co. monthly blog challenge- Hearts with NO Red or Pink! I personally have an abundance of heart images/paper and embellies that I don't use nearly enough throughout the year so this challenge was super inspiring for me! If you're not familiar with Unity, you should be! Angela M is the owner and an absolutely amazing lady who I happen to adore. She offers a prize valued at $45 worth of Unity goodness for 1 lucky winner so I hope you will grab your Unity or Ippity rubbah and play along HERE!

Earth Day is coming up on April 22, so I inked up an my Unity set called Eco Chic. I love this fun little set so much! The hearts and flourishes are cut from Give A Hoot cartridge, sentiment die from MCT "large fancy label die" and cuttled with stylized flowers and swiss dots folders for a bit of texture.

 I made another card just for fun because this sweet little cutie was available for FREE from Milk and Coffee Stamps blog! This company is new to me and I'm loving their images, so pretty and full of whismy! Plus since they offer some darling digi's for free, how could I not try them out! :) Thank you ladies at Milk and Coffee Stamps for your generosity and inspiration!

I'm getting a little better coloring hair! Not so much on the dress, maybe next time haha ;)

*****Thanks so much for stopping by, it makes my day you know!!!*****

Oh and I want to share this info with everyone who might be interested in a fun event coming up....

IT'S A "SPRING FLING" VSN! 

Join us Friday, March 9th and Saturday, March 10th for 2 fun-filled days of Spring craftiness with SCS! 15 fabulous Spring themed challenges sure to get your creative juices flowing! I have the privelege of hostessing the challenge on Saturday night at 10pm EST and I can't wait! I'm so super excited to share my challenge and to join in all the others for a weekend of Spring stamping and fun + lots of prizes of course!!! You can check out the details HERE and get started by preparing you VSN shopping/supplies list, which will get you organized and ready to stamp away when the challenges begin (although you will probably already have most supplies on hand). I love VSN for many reasons and one is the excitement of having only 45 minutes to complete each challenge--trust me, after participating in VSN you will have a sense of accomplishment, feel inspired and have a nice stack of Sping creations completed! Be there or be sqaure!

 1st challenge starts at 5 PM EST tomorrow

I'm A New Cooking With Cricut Designer & CWC Challenge #76!

Hello and happy Wednesday! I've been bursting at the seams with anticipation to tell my crafting friends and blogging buddies some exciting news...and the day has come to reveal it! Yay, I'm absolutely overjoyed to share with you that I've made the "Cooking With Cricut" Spring/Summer 2012 Design Team!  I can't wait for all of the fun to come, starting right now with our Dr. Suess Birthday Celebratsion and Reading Across America CWC challenge #76! Dr. Suess and reading are two of my most cherished childhood memories and I hope my niece and nephew will appreciate the joy of reading as much as I have over the years. My niece, Hannah is 4 years old and at the perfect age to begin her own wonderous journey with reading and with Dr. Suess--PaperCraftingWorld.com makes it super easy with the brand new cutting files and digital stamps--adorable and fun don't even begin to describe them and I just had a blast playing with them and making this Dr. Suess gift for Miss Hannah! It includes 10 of my favorite Dr. Suess stories...

 Thing 1 and Thing 2 adorn the oversized gift tag I made and aren't they adorbs?! These guys are available pre-colored or black/white to color yourself! Either way, it's oodles of fun!

When she finishes all of them, my sister can award her with her reading certifcate (from Plantin Schoolbook Cricut Cartridge) stating "I read 10 Dr. Suess books in 2012!" I hope Hannah enjoys it as much as I did making it :)

This totally cute image is a digital stamp also available in color or black/white and it's great for working on coloring---still practicing ya know but that's why the pre-colored images are alos a fantastic choice! ;)

Thank you for visiting me and allowing me to share my happy news with you today! I hope you will visit Cooking With Cricut this week and join us for our Reading Across America/Dr. Suess Challenge #76! and to see the rest of the DT's super fun creations!!!!  Have a  wonderfully creative day!

Spring Blooms For Sis

Hey there my crafty friends, I hope you are having a wonderful Sunday. I pulled my card together rather quickly so I could get it into this week's Gina K. Designs-StampTV "Mix It Up Monday Challenge" on time. The challenge to create something with black, white and 1 other color made it easy as 1-2-3! Here's what I came up with using Gina K. Designs Spring Blooms stamp set and now my little sister's Mother Day card for this year is done!

Cuts for card all made with "Just Because Cards" Cricut cartridge; base cuttled with divine swirls embossing folder, butterflies are K and Co. by Brenda Walton, sponged in bashful blue from SU!, baby blue patterned paper from DCWV.

I'm also entering this card for:

Craft Your Days Away Challenge #40- Mother's Day Cards

Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog- Spring Is In The Air!

Thank you stopping by today!!! xoxo

The Luck O' The Irish!

Happy weekend! Today I'm feelin' very lucky and it's because of this oh-so-fabulous St. Patrick's Day image from Sassy Studio Designs--can you believe this cutie, "Lucy Leprechaun" was free for 24 hours?! I picked her up at the SSD PaperCraftPlanet Fabulous Freebie Friday 3/2 Challenge! Leapin Leprechaun's! I was so excited to get her and color her this morning, what fun! (even if it did take me 3 hours to do so lol) Thanks to Kate for sharing the info, what a sweetheart! If you weren't able to grab this lovely lass you can still join along in the fun using any Sassy Studio Designs image :)

This image is great for practicing my coloring, although I ruined her hair by using way too much dark brown--my attempt to remedy it was using the tip of a blending pen with white craft ink to create some "highlights", I guess it sorta helped but the only thing I'm really happy with is how I colored her shoes lol! She's adorned with her sparkling emerald jewerly and ready to celebrate! :)

If you're making St. Patty's Day cards/green inspired cards, here's a few challenges you can join that fit this festive theme!!! xoxo

Sassy Studio Designs Fabulous Freebie Friday & Challenge 3-2-12 LUCKY CHARMS!

Go Fish Challenge #12- CREATE A ST. PATRICK'S DAY PROJECT!

Little Scrap Pieces- USE GREEN

The Queen's Royal Digi Challenge #6- ANYTHING GOES & A BIT OF GREEN!

Krafty Girls- FEELIN' LUCKY CHALLENGE #2

Card Makin Mama's Challenge #40- LET'S SEE SOME GREEN! WITH A COLORED IMAGE

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