Happy Halloween Pumpkin Patch with SA by 3L!

Hi friends and a happy Halloween to you (if you celebrate). I'm up over at the Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® Blog today sharing a super cute and fun project! I have a sneak peek here and would love it if you popped over to their BLOG to see it in its entirety!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Wishing you a safe and happy Halloween, one and all!! Until next time, happy crafting!

Cooking With Cricut Challenge #82- National Card and Letter Writing Month!

Happy Wednesday and welcome to another wonderful Cooking with Cricut challenge! It is National Card and Letter Writing Month and so our challenge to you is to create something for yourself or someone else in the spirit of writing letters, the old fashioned way! With the speed of technology today, this may be a true challenge for some, but I remember the good ol' days of pen-pals and enchanging letters with my bff in California for many years very fondly.  Nothing compares!

I made a traditional stationary set for my 4 year old niece, Hannah. Although her letter writing skills may not yet be the most sophisticated, I hope it will encourage her to use her pretty butterfly stationary for whatever her little heart desires, practice her alphabet or even draw a picture! I love the idea of my sister helping her address a letter and sending it off in the mail- signed, sealed and delivered :)

 I made my stationary set with the Tie The Knot cartridge (stationary paper, butterflies, sponged the negative image of butterfly in the corner of each envelope, 2 ea in matching colors with the stationary)

Paper for stationary holder: Webster's Pages "Your Life. Beautiful.", sentiment from My Creative Time

I hope you will join in our challenge this week and inspire someone you know to write a letter! And you might be our next Top Chef if you do! Visit the Cooking With Cricut blog for more crafting ideas and challenge details. Thanks for visiting and have a creative day!

Cooking With Cricut Challenge #81- Card Outreach

Happy Wednesday and welcome to another Cooking With Cricut challenge. It was so awesome to see all the fabulous Easter creations that were cooked up last week--choosing our Top Chefs will be hard! This week's challenge #81 is a card outreach--translation: create an encouraging, thinking of you or just plain happy card for 2 girls battling Cancer. Emily is 6 and Patty is 13, so I wanted my cards to be age appropriate. Here's what I made for the girls...

Emily's card

cartridge used: Paisley

Patty's card

cartridges used: Plantin Schoolbook (roly poly stars), Once Upon A Princess (Rock Star)
stamps from My Favorite Things Ala Mode "Rock Star" set

I love card making even more when it's for a cause! Both girls have a short bio at the CWC blog and if you are inspired to cook up something this week for Miss Emily or Miss Patty, or even both, please visit the Cooking With Cricut Blog for details and mailing info. Wouldn't it be NEAT if these courageous young ladies recieved all kinds of cheerful handmade greetings from crafters everywhere?!! Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day~

Do The Dino Shuffle!

Hello friends, I'm making this card for the Wobble Wednesday challenge #4- Birthday's just in time. My card is also for a little boy named Justin who is battling terminal Cancer and he will turning 9 years old this Friday. I sure hope he likes dancin' dinosaurs! I used cuts from Birthday Cakes (dino, balloons, 9, J) and Plantin Schoolbook (circles) cartridges for my fun triple circle card. I love this card style, just still trying to perfect it :)

 There's that "wobble" action I love so much! YOU can get your Action Wobbles at the Scrapbooking Queen's Royal Shoppe! Thanks to the super sweet Janis at Pause.Dream.Enjoy. for sending them to me in my winner pkg for joining in her 52 Tags challenge!

  Here's a view of the card closed
Circle sentiment and mini dini image from MCT All Around Birthday Time stamp set, paper: AC Cardstock "Primaries" and Echo Park "Note To Self" designer papers

I'm also entering this card for the following challenge:

Go Fish Challenge Blog- challenge #14: Create something Fun or Funny!

Jaihart's Sunday's Are Lovely #8- Month of April

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful day my friends!

Cooking with Cricut Challenge #80- EASTER!

Happy Wednesday friends! Well the countdown is on and only 4 days til Easter Sunday so what better theme for this week's Cooking with Cricut challenge #80! I hope you will pull out your Cricut machine and join us for our Easter challenge! I used my Sweet Treats cartridge to make a cute little treat basket and matching card along with my Swiss Dots embossing folder for a bit of dimension.

stickers from Crafty Secrets, lace trim from Fancy Pants Lilac House collection

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you will visit Cooking With Cricut blog today and see all the wonderful designers Easter inspiration--it's fabulousity!!! Then join in our challenge for your chance to be A Cooking with Cricut TOP CHEF! xoxo

April Showers and Maybe Some Flowers!

Hi friends! I've made a card today for a few challenges and just for fun! I thought this Cricut cut from my Give A Hoot cartridge was so cute--I wish I could give a card to my flower bed! My tulips and daffodils are so darn confused this year, they bloomed a bit early when it became warm and then died when it snowed again, and again...poor things! And poor me--I usually have a beautiful bouquet of fresh tulips from my garden in a vase for Easter--looks like I'll be buyin a bunch from Safeway this year! lol

Anyhoo, here's my card!

This wonderful sentiment is from My Creative Time's "Happy Hunting" stamp set and I love it!

I'll be entering this card for the following challenges:

Oldie But A Goodie- April Showers

Party Time Tuesday Challenge Blog- PTT #62- Flowers

Thanks so much for stoppin' by! Have a GREAT ONE! xoxo

A Throwback Thursday-Royal Digi Mix with an Easter twist!

Happy Saturday my crafty friends! I hope your weekend is off to a great start! Here's my card for this week's Throwback Thursday challenge, episode #366 at My Creative Time and for The Scrapbooking Queen's Royal Digi challenge #7 with an Easter theme of course!

I knew I had to use this furry cutie from Mamie Doodle Designs before Easter and it was perfect for The Scrapbooking Queen's Royal Digi challenge, to make a card with a digi image and Easter theme, ta-dah!  Miss Emma's sentiment "You're egg-straordinary" is from My Creative Time's Happy Hunting stamp set. I cut the scalloped circle card and layers from Wild Card cartridge, an oldie but always a goodie! :)

Thanks for popping in today! Hugs and smiles to all! XOXO

Cooking with Cricut Challenge #79- Make me laugh!

I'll apologize in advance for the advertisement that seems to be the lovely new feature of blogger, whether we want it or not! Ugh...I knew free would eventually come with a price! Oh bother! I digress....

Hello and welcome to another wonderful Wednesday Cooking with Cricut Challenge!

This week we have a Fun! Fun! Fun! theme-challenge #79-make us laugh with an April Fool's Day, funny quote, poem, pun or saying! There are endless Cricut cartridges that fit this bill! I used my "Give A Hoot" and "Sweet Treats" cartridges for my stair-step-fold card below and there's a ton of inspiration at the Cooking with Cricut blog, so grab your favorite funny Cricut cartridge and get cooking!!!

I can't remember where I got this sentiment, but I remember that I loved it, had to have it and never inked it up until this very challenge! Don't forget that Earth Day is April 22 this year and what better reason to celebrate than with chocolate! Stair Step Fold Tutorial HERE             Entering my card for the following challenges: The Pixie Cottage #114-Cuddly Critters

Thanks so much for visiting me today friends! Have a wonderful day doing whatever it is you do! XOXO

Camping and Shopping...2 things I {heart}

Hey hey and happy Tuesday! I'm sharing a tag and a card today, each very different, yet both involve things I love to do---let's hear it for camping and shopping! whoo hoo!!! :D

My camping tag was made for the Pause Dream Enjoy TAG challenge #10-create a tag with your last or next vacation in mind--fun huh! Since I haven't had a legit vaycay in longer than I'd care to think about, I decided to make a tag with my next vacation in mind....hopefully, if the weather holds out for Memorial Day 2012! It usually ends up raining on my camping parade for Memorial Day weekend, but when the weather has cooperated, camping in Packwood WA for the big Memorial Day weekend car show and flea market is great fun. I love strolling through the flea market, sometimes finding a treasure or two, although much of it is the typical junk that common vendors peddle hehe....enjoyable nonetheless and I'm hoping that it will be a warm and sunny holiday weekend this year....with that in mind, here is my "happy campers" vacation tag!

I think I used all but 1 stamp in this fun camping set from Penguin Pants stamps cus I stamped all the little accesories onto the twill and made a little camping scene complets with marshmellows roasting for smores, yummers!!

So actually my next project is not either a tag or a card...I'm not yet sure what catagory it will fall under haha, but I had a great time coloring this sassy diva MADISON ATTITUDE from Kenny K Downloads for the CRAFTY GIRLZ BLOG Challenge # 86- FUN AND GAMES and let's face it, what's more fun that shopping, am I right!

I heated up a bit of liquid applique to her jacket trim in an attempt to create a "faux fur" effect, then added diamond stickles to Madison's boots, scarf and belts. I think I overdid it on her blush, poor Maddy lol!

Look isn't this sentiment perfect for a shopping

diva like Miss Madison?! I think so! It's from

My Creative Time and the set is called Classy and Fabulous, created by Emma who

is a most classy and fabulous lady herself!
I'm also entering my Madison Attitude creation for:
PaperCrafting Journey PCJ challenge #5- Pretty Pastels

That's all for me today and thanks so much for stopping by! Big hugs and smiles!!! XOXO

Cooking With Cricut Challenge #78- Sing A Spring Song!

It's official, Spring has arrived! Too bad Seattle didn't get the memo yesterday...it snowed--snort!

Today, however, is shaping up beautifully, the sun is shining so I thought of a great song that everyone is sure to recognize, BEAUTIFUL DAY by U2.  I'm going to hang up my pretty Spring banner to set the mood for the season and for our Cooking With Cricut Challenge #78-Sing A Spring Song! Won't you come join us HERE and share your Spring inspired Cricut creation too?! The more, the merrier and you might end up being chosen as a Cricut Top Chef if you do so let's get cookin' on this beautiful day!

 SPRING layered letters are from STORYBOOK cartridge, Cuttlebug embossing folder Stylized Flowers

 All of the Spring images are from STRETCH YOUR IMAGINATION and GIVE A HOOT cartridges. Here's a look at each Spring image I made.....

Entering my Spring banner for:

Jill's March Linky Party-Link up your project, let's get to 31!

Papercraft Star Challenge #89- Spring!

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #113- Easter or Spring (with an optional sketch!)

The Poodles Parlour- Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations Challenge #155- Anything Goes

Allsorts Challenge #146- Three In A Row

Paper Sundaes Challenge #112- Photo Inspiration

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog-challenge #2- Ribbons and/or lace!

That's all for me :) Thanks so much for stopping by and have a beautiful day!!!

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

A Frilly, Flowery Spring Tag & A Circle Challenge!

Happy Monday! I made a Spring tag for a new blog I found called Pause Dream Enjoy- 52 Tags! thanks to a new blogging buddy Elaine. She has a blog  full of wonderful creations, Expressions By Elaine--thanks so much Elaine! Pause Dream Enjoy is dedicated to TAG challenges, which = FUN! This week is Frills & Flowers (Challege #8, Week 8) and what better way to celebrate these lovely elements than with Spring! Oh gosh, I can't wait for the warmer days to come--I can feel em, they're right around that ice covered corner! I'm seriously counting down the days til daylight savings time begins again! Ok, here's my tag!

 All cuts are from Once Upon A Princess Cricut cartridge (tag, chick and paper roses)

"Birthday Wishes" from MCT Teeny Tag Greetings best sentiment set ever in my humble opinion

tag base cuttled with Stylized Flowers embossing folder, chick with Swiss Dots, aqua paper DCWV, other: Provo Craft Neutrals paper palette collage pad, sponging Summer Sun SU!, small/lrg oval punches SU!, diamond stickles, prima flowers, teal bling Creative Impressions, velvet, grosgrain ribbon and lace trim all from Joann's

I also made a card for this week's Paper Sundaes challenge #109- Circles! I found this blog a weeks ago and have been hooked on their challenges ever since! I used my current favorite stamp set, MCT's Hello Spring and Fancy Frame stamp and die set, as well as Teeny Tag Greetings for the sentiment on the tag.

Thanks for stopping by! I will be making the rounds for some inspiration today so I hope you peeps have been crafting up a storm! Have a great day!

Monkeyin' Around

Hello friends, today I made my card for the Love's To Crop challenge and Amy's challenge this week is a color challenge ORANGE-PINK-OTHER COLOR. I also joined in my first challenge with Paper Playtime, challenge #68 "Say It With Sentiments Challenge using Pet Images! Now, my beagle Maddie is my fur baby but she can definitely be my little monkey sometimes too! And since the ladies over at Cooking With Cricut looked like they were having so much fun monkeyin around, I chose a monkey for my "pet" hehe! 

I went bananas when I found this super fun sentiment from my Unity Stamps collection!

And I just had to make my monkey wiggle it just a little bit, with another wiggle wire attachment--now this lil guy can shake his "monkey" maker! lol I'm proud to say that my flowers are all veryyy old SU! die cuts and paper primas and some equally ancient epoxy stickers, trimmed them to make tiny flowers in the centers, and made the white flower from a 1" circle scrap. I love using old supplies cus I don't have to be so careful and scared to use them--I'm stingy with my "good stuff" sometimes and crafting seems so much more enjoyable when you don't have to worry about a thing, just free yourself and CREATE! Love it. 

Thanks so much for hangin out! Happy Mardi Gras!!! Homemade Jambalaya for dinner tonight yummm!

Laissez le bon temps rouler!

translation...Let The Good Times Roll! Hello and happy weekend!!! I know it's a bit early to start celebrating Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday falls on Feb. 21st) but when I saw this week's challenge over at A Muse Studio's Challenge Blog, make a card/project with the traditional colors of Mardi Gras, PURPLE-YELLOW/GOLD-GREEN, I simply had to join in the fun! Then I saw the new "Cooking With Cricut" challenge #73 using a really great sketch and Boom! That was all the inspiration I needed. So here is my card for these 2 aforementioned challenges and I hope YOU will join in the fun too!!

In addition to the sketch, you must choose any 3 of 9 different embellishments to add to your card, mine being brads, stickles and fibers/ribbon. The Cricut cut I used is from the Sentimentals cartridge and I found it to be perfect for Mardi Gras theme. "Celebrate" sentiment from MCT Teeny Tag Greetings

Thank you so much for stopping by today! Have a FABULOUS weekend friends!

Happy Weekend, Let's Party!

Hello my crafty peeps, happy Saturday! Here is a fun Birthday Party themed project I made for the Cooking With Cricut 2012 design team call. Of course, my Cricut Expression was the main tool I worked with and also a variety of other supplies.  Just a few ideas for creating your own birthday party masterpiece! Hope you enjoy! And click above if you would like to apply for the new DT too--there's still 1 more day to do so (nothin like procrastination haha!)

**Simple Tip: make your own custom confetti with mini punches and/or small cut Cricut shapes--I call it FUN-fetti!

 3-D flower centerpiece designed with "Sweet Treats", place card party hats and centerpiece sentiment from "Birthday Cakes" (Cricut Cake cartridge)

Clear plastic treat boxes from Denami Designs, small and lg oval punches from SU!, "For You" sentiment Teeny Tag Greetings from MCT

Party hats and flower elements were embossed with Cuttlebug's "Swiss Dots" and "Divine Swirls" embossing folders.

Circle sentiment from "All Around Birthday" and Lollipop Holder Die both from MCT

There ya have it! I hope you've been inspired today, as I always am by YOU too! Enjoy the rest of your weekend, my friends!

I {Heart} Monday!

And how could I not?! With so many fun Valentine's challenges going on right now, I'm spinning with ideas for the upcoming holiday! I must first thank a newfound blogging buddy, Sunshine HoneyBee, who I visited last week after seeing here super cute Valentine treat holder. She shared a whole bunch of current blog challenges including links and I was so inspired by her that I joined in a couple of them too. So, thank you Sunshine HoneyBee!!! You have certainly brightened my crafting world!
Now onto my projects and the challenges I made them for! First is my child's Valentine using Red/White/Pink color combo and any Cricut cartridge. This is for the Cooking With Cricut Challenge #71 at Melinda's Paper Crafting World.

Cricut cartridge "Once Upon A Princess" (cupcake), Stamp sentiment MCT, patterned paper from DCWV "Sweet Shoppe", Cuttlebug embossing folders Divine Swirls and Swiss Dots

Next is my entry for the A Muse Studio Challenge Blog, Valentine Treat/Holders! I don't yet own any A Muse products, but they are so super sweet over there, everyone is welcome to play! I think I see adding some A Muse products to my crafting collection in the very near future!

 Bubblegum Treat Holder Die, Stitched Heart Die and sentiment from MCT, Cricut cartridge "Paisley" (cherries)

Thanks so much for stopping by today! There's still plenty of time to join in the 2 challenges above, just click on the links if you want to play and don't forget to let me know if you do so I can visit your blog and see your super sweet creations!!!

A Wiggle It, Just a Little Bit Fantasy Land Challenge with Getting Cricky!

Wow, just the title alone is a mouthfull lol! This was such a fun combo of challenges, I might even make another one! I made the card below for K. Andrews Getting Cricky challenge HERE and turned it into a "two-fer" using the fabulously fun Wiggle-Wire Tuesday Tutorial provided by Amy at Love's To Crop HERE! You should definitely try a wiggle wire card too, it's super easy and adds a whole lotta wiggly fun to any ordinary card!

Cricut cartridge used for unicorn: Once Upon A Princess; white scroll frame: Storybook; S

And yet another reason I ADORE Teeny Tag Greetings and the AWESOME My Creative Time, this sentiment worked perfectly for the "fantasy land" theme--simply magical!!!

Trying to show you my homemade wiggle wire below--not as sophisticated as Miss Amy's, but hey it's my first! I'll get more refined with some practice hehe :)

Thank you for stopping by today! I hope you've been inspired to join in some fun challenges and try a new technique like I did! Happy crafting friends!

A Hoppy Valentine Pop-Up Card

Happy Thursday friends! I'm pretty sure the groundhog saw his shadow in Seattle, even though the weather has been sunny and fair, 10 days ago we were snowed in so I won't get my hopes up just yet ;) I've been wanting to use up some scraps and the Cricut is obviously perfect for this--Paisley was calling to me, with all of it's fun animals, I chose the cute frog and decided to make it a pop up card for a lil more "ummphh"!

I realized that one of MCT's stamps from the Classmate Valentine's set has this super perfect valentine sentiment to match mr frog! hooray!!!

Circle Stitched Die and Scalloped Die from My Creative Time

 Front view of Pop-Up Card: Stitched Heart Die from 100% Sweetness, My Creative Time

Thanks for stopping by today! Hugs and happy crafting!!!