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A good friend of mine lost his wife recently so I made a sympathy card for him.  These are always the hardest cards to make.  I'm entering it in the Fantabulous Cricut Blog "Birdies"

Front and inside of card.

Hard to see from this picture is the use of green stickles.  

I put stickles on my finger and then rubbed it over the tree branches. 

 It made the card shiny and it looked like little leave buds on the tree.

Inside

The trees are from Wall Decor & More 

The birds are from 50 States

And the "With Sympathy" is from Wild Card

Thanks for stopping by.

Depression

Depression can be very debilitating    I've had my share of it lately.  I'm ready to chuck the whole world sometimes.  My life has had some ups and downs of late and they would probably be minor if not for the depression added on top.  I'm tired and that doesn't go away.

I started having some of this while in Italy.  The depression and almost agoraphobic type behavior.  I couldn't sleep without taking something for sleep.  I could barely get myself out the door sometimes and my only communication with the world was my love for crafting with the cricut.

I still love to craft with the cricut but I have a job that takes so much out of me that the thing I most love for my creative outlet gets left behind in such great tiredness at the end of the day, I don't have the mental energy to do what I love.

I'm working on a wedding right now and here are the invitations I have done.

Seven Ate Nine

You know how old sayings just strike you as funny some days?

My cards seem to have a "bad day" feel to them lately. Hmmmmm.

This one just an old saying and probably not an original card.

Duck, Duck, Duck

Goose

I just think some funny cards to make one laugh from time to time is the best thing to do.  So go ahead and laugh today! 

Busy, Busy, Busy

Okay, this is what I did this week.  I broke my hand.  So that slowed things down, but couldn't stop me.... there was too much to do.  This first one is a man-shower I threw for one of the young men getting married at the campus center where I work.  The mustaches cut from Paper Doll Dress Up so all women would be men for the man shower.

Cutting tools and things from Cricut

 

Tool Tags from Cricut George Cartridge

For Marriage - Keep It All Together

If a screw is loose, Tighten It.

Stick Together

Keep a good balance

Build on your marriage every day

Form a Divine Bond

Remember the Big things are the Little things.

 

Then, this idea I had, just couldn't materialize right.  I've been thinking about it for weeks, but it NEEDS something.  Suggestions are welcome! 

Some things you just can't see with a naked eye.... like faith, hope, love, etc.

This card for a little girl adopted into a family.

A broken hand has made my normal EXTRA flairs so much harder to do. I welcome your comments.

Thanks and have a great day. 

Godzilla

What do we do now??? 

I thought of this card the other day when I was looking up movie quotes on IMDB.  Godzilla had just rampaged the city and the people said, "What do we do now?"  and the answer was........

RUN!!!

Godzilla from Creative Critters, Squares/Rectangles for City from George, Bridge from My World.

Just for the fun of it.  I think this would bring a laugh to anyone who needs some encouragement from their world cracking apart! 

Lower Than Dirt

This get-well card tickled me in my mind.  It almost came out as good as I imagined it would.  Carrots and Vines from Create A Critter Cricut cartridge, strawberries from George.  Grass from Paper Trimmings cartridge.

Inside:

Shoe Carnival

I've had this idea for a couple of weeks and then saw a challenge blog that wanted confetti, so I jumped on it to get it done, but I missed the challenge by one day.  None the less, it is done and I'm pleased with it.  I did enter it in Aud Sentiments Challenge for Summer Colors.

The shoe is from the Wedding Solutions cartridge, the font is from the Circle Exclusive Font Envy cartridge.  The carnival is from the Summer Vacation cartridge.  A word of warning.... those carnival cuts are REALLY intricate and required a great dental tool I use to get all those little pieces out.  

Aud Sentiments Challenge - Summer Colors

Half A World Away

My son is deployed and I think about him every day.  Even when he is half a world away, he's never more than a heartbeat away from me.  I think everyone who has a loved one who is in the military probably has the same feelings. 

My Community Cricut Cartridge for the globe. and Lyrical Letters for the font. 

Reading Lines and Seasons

Reading Between the Lines

All the little birds were flocking to hear the reading between the lines.  You just can't get enough of someone who has that skill.  A good story is always worth listening too.  Happy Summer Reading!

This card for the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge - Something with clouds, umbrellas or rain. 

Birds from Stretch Your Imagination Cricut Cartridge

A card for all seasons.  I used a Marvy Punch with this tree.  Cut rectangles in blue/grey (Winter) greens for Spring, yellows for Summer and orange/maroon for Fall.   An EKSuccess leaf punch, and a butterfly punch.  Ribbon and a swirly paperclip finish off the front.  

Since this is a card for all seasons, it doesn't have a sentiment yet.  Thank you, condolences, birthday, thinking of you.  A time for every season.

This is a Happy Birthday card for a friend.  Create a critter cricut cartridge. The colors aren't popping in this picture like in real life.  Hmmmm.... going to have to figure out what's going on with my camera! 

Have a nice day

Peas and Carrots

I've done a few bit parts in movies, (meaning I was the moving background), but one of the things they tell you do when you are supposed to be talking but making NO noise, is to say mouth "peas and carrot"s over and over.  It looks like you're talking a lot.

These are my peas and carrots....... Like my bit acting....  I don't talk a lot on blogs these days. :0/

PEAS

  My friend and t-shirt designer collinvh did a t-shirt design similar to this.  Got his permission to change it up a bit and make a card of it.  It's going to be a farewell card to my boss.  He's one of the best boss' I've ever had.  Not just another pea in the pod. 

This Spring Thief orginal design was by Ochopika an artist friend of mine.

I borrowed it with permission and changed it up quite a bit. He loved it. 

Collaboration is really great for different mediums. 

That's it for Peas & Carrots. :0) 

Okay, I've been crafting.  And I've been working and babysitting and getting my boss ready to leave and change over to a new boss.  So crafting has been a lot on the back burner but I have done some things. and then I have a rant which I will put at the bottom so people don't have to listen to my rant.  These are my fun crafts:

Cut letters on buckets.  You are my sunshine sign, water globe with a cookie cookie monster.

My rant:  LEAVE MY DIET SODA ALONE!!  I' ve just had one too many lectures lately from people drinking full sugar sodas and juices telling me how bad my diet soda is while they drink their coffee with creamer and sugar.  $#w$#@$  My morning diet soda is my caffeine.  I am near diabetic, so I don't drink sugary sodas of any kind.  I drink water, and tea.  But my diet soda seems to invoke lectures from people that I don't know, don't care to know and think they are telling me something that is going to change my life! My Dr. said it's okay for me to drink diet soda and I DON'T NEED YOU OPINION!  I read all kinds of studies to keep myself abreast of things that are happening with sweeteners and such.  I am informed.  Take your sugar sweetened drink,Frappacino with bugs crushed in it for color, fruit juice and oddly flavored water and GO AWAY!  I get my caffeine my way, you get yours your way and LEAVE MY DIET SODA ALONE!  

Thanks and now back to crafting.

Happy New Year, Welcome 2012

This Christmas was tough.  Christmas morning at 8:00, my husband's baby brother died suddenly of a massive heart attack.  He was only 47 years old.  It's taken a toll on my joy.  The week after Christmas was filed with funeral plans and tears.  That same week, my siblings and I have been planning a 50th anniversary party for my parents.... FOR TWO YEARS.  My husband's family and support was of utmost importance to me so the party took a  backburner and my siblings took over.  The party was beautiful and so well done.  So many people came and congratulated them. I was so happy for my parents, so glad to see so many people celebrate them.  To see they're faces filled with smiles and joy.  Tom and I moved through the evening with automation, exhausted and trying to take it all in.

I have walked in my craft room over and over.  Looked at it and turned around and walked out. But, I'm starting to come out of it and want to craft again.  I thought of this gross humor tonight and so I made this thank you card.  I'm making some nicer ones, but I just thought this was funny.

Hope you chuckle. because that's what I needed to do. :0)  

I love it when people really put thought into something YOU needed or wanted.  If I were a cat, that's what I'd want. :0)

Sorry the picture is not better. 

Happy New Year, All!

50th Anniversary Party

My Parents will be married 50 years in December.  We plan to have some fun at their party.  Music was always big in our lives.  So I made these food trays out of records.

Saw the idea on Pinterest.  Went down to the thrift store, picked up some old records.  Put them in the oven at 350 for 15 minutes.  For the bowl, I used a stainless steel mixing bowl and let it melt down over the curve.  For the lipped trays I used the same stainless steel bowl and let the record melt over the opposite side of the bowl so that only a small amount of the record melted.   This was SO FUN and easy that I can see myself doing a lot of fun things with these.

Working

The campus center I work at has Coffee House on select Mondays.  I made this sign for our sign post in the front of the building.

On the 24th we will have a Student Art Show and Coffee House.  To promote it, several of us had to do art pieces that we could use in promotional advertising (not to be judged).  This is my Cricut Picasso.  I don't care for his cubism work, but let me tell ya folks - it's HARDER than it looks.

This is my face, fragmented with personality.  You can't see but I used the cuttlebug folder with writing on it. Because my face is older with lines in it.  I always wear my hair behind one ear, so only one ear is showing.  My  name is penny, so I used the cent sign for my ear.  I chose the shapes I wanted to use and put them all over the mat then cut the mat several times with different colors of papers on them. I used foam tape and zots to give it some depth and pop which can't be seen on this picture.   I'm glad this project is done! 

Okay, yeah, it's been awhile, but I have been CRICUTing, just not posting.  I have a new job and the learning curve has been steep.

Here we go. First, Ellis, turned 2 and had a cookie monster birthday.  The best part of this is that my husband, dressed up like the cookie monster.  My husband has dressed up for halloween about twice in our 30 years of marriage.  He just doesn't do stuff like that, but for Ellis.... anything.

The little cookie monster head on a tongue depressor is a bookmark and I stamped

"E is for Ellis" on it.

I did a HUGE cookie monster on a Pizza Pan that I made little cookies for.  The cookies had magnets on the back so you could throw the cookies at the cookie monster and try to get them in his mouth.  I forgot to get a picture of it and it was the best thing I did for that day.

 

I made the banner and the hat.  Beth made the food along with some of her friends.  The table was spectacularly filled with wonderful colors and good things to eat besides cookies. 

Happy 2nd Birthday Ellis