No Cats Allowed

Another thing I dreamed about.  The living room for the birds.  I made the couch and the chair in George and drew in the lines.  The birds are from the Easter 2010 and Lyrical Letters.  The Chandelier is from Home Decor.  The bird house and Sunflower from SYI. Bird house cut at 5"  So everything else had to be sized way down in DS.  It was so fun imagining what to put in a bird living room, I imagined they would grow sunflowers for seeds. 

Shake Things Up

Today, I needed to shake things up a bit and so I didn't do any cards.  I did use the cricut to cut a chipboard label and some paper.  But, I decided to do some quilling and some ribbon embroidery today.   I haven't done quilling since I was in junior high, but I had some quilling paper from a kit I received a while back and a pattern for the embroidery.  The embroidery was done on broadcloth then wrapped upholstery style around some batting and mounted on a green box that I had.  I did the quilling around a frame that I cut on the cricut and then put in a picture of DH and me.  It is nice to shake up the crafting mind a bit.  I'm also going to do a clay project this week.  A whole other mess of the crafting world I do.  Oh, the DH does not like all my messes. :0)

 

Flying High

Lisa from NJ is on the design team at Fantabulous Cricut a new challenge blog.  The theme this week is to use the Cut of a Balloon and the Word "Birthday."  I decided I would try and this idea came right into my mind.

 

The balloon is from Beyond Birthdays cut at 3" - three times
The Basket is from George Shapes cut at 2.5" - three times
The clouds and sun are Chipboard.  Cut a small piece of fringe ribbon for the basket.
Happy Birthday is on Beyond Birthdays cut at 1.5 and shadowed.
The flourishes are CMTH stamps
The little boy is on New Arrival and I just made him hair and a T-shirt (hand cut)
The top layer of the basket and the top layer of the balloon I fan folded and inked
for depth.  I punched holes in the second layer of the basket to string the ribbon through
Likewise on the second layer of the balloon (always hide the mechanics).
Papers are Bo Bunny.

Practical Scrappers challenge this week is to use Chipboard and I love it when they try to get me to use up my supplies because I keep forgetting about this huge bag of chipboard pieces that I have.


Challenges:
Practical Scrappers - Chipboard    ♫
♫Fantabulous Cricut - Balloon Cut/Word "Birthday"    
Challenge 103 Celebrations - Cute Card Thursday
Cricut Cardz Challenge - Child's Birthday 

Tip-toe through the Tulips

 

This card made with Walk In My Garden, embossing folder, glazing pens, bug stickers, pop dots, ink and ribbon. This card just made me happy.  The sun is shining and I'm hoping to see the tulips and daffodils popping soon!

 

Participating Challenges

Pretty Simple - The Crazy Challenge

Anything Goes - Paper Cutz Challenge

Pastels - Pile It On Challenge

Spring - Cricut Cardz Challenge 

The Pink Elephant -Spring

White on White Hello

 

This card made with Lyrical Letters.  Embossing folder. "Friend" is shrinky dink cut on cricut. 

Pearls,Ribbon, Stickles, pop dots and inking.

   

Butterfly - Charisma Cardz Challenges

Sympathy Simplicity and Fly High Kite

I know this dove is often used for Christmas or Easter but I thought it made a nice sympathy card too.  It was VERY simple.

 

On a card I posted above with the balloon, I had extra of the words Fly High,  so I decided I would just do a kite card and use of the words and bits of ribbon that I had.  This is what came out.  It's not much, but it will be cute for someone.

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I decided I would just add it to this post because I don't want to enter it in any challenges and I don't want to make another post for today.  So this card is actually made on March 16, 2010, but I posted it with yesterday's post.  Just in case someone gets confused. :0/  Like I tend to do.

B O L O G N A

We went to Bologna this weekend.  Along with all the wonderful sites to see (we acted like tourists in our own backyard), we got to see some big baloney.  Bologna is called mortadella here.  Whatever you call it, Oscar, Meyer, B-O-L-O-G-N-A.  This is a lot of baloney!

 

  

No cards today because we were sight-seeing, but I'm working on a white on white card.  Another for my continuation in different techniques in 2010, I've never done a card all of one color.  It was the competition for Practical Scrappers.  I missed the challenge, but I'm challenging myself anyway.

Have a great day!

Hobby Heresy and voicing my opinion

Well, I had a post here, but I changed my mind about posting it here.  I have another blog that is my daily bible scripture reading and my thoughts about it.  So, I posted it over there instead.  I'll just let this be my craft blog and I'll let that be my bible blog. 

Flower Me

I've done this flower before, but it is so easy and effective so I did another one this weekend. Flower from Walk In My Garden, Brads from the Brad and Eyelet Outlet.  Stamped sentiment.

Mother's Day/Spring

I've been working on this card for my mother -in -law for Mother's day.... which is this Sunday, March 14, in Europe.  Ever have one of those cards you work on and work on and you just never like it?  This is one of those for me. It just didn't turn out the way I envisioned and it frustrated me.

I used the cricut card feature on Stretch My Imagination to cut the base.  I added 2 layers of square cut outs for depth.  I cut out the mom and mother words by layering on the words in DS and cutting them out.  The flowers are cut from an EK Success punch, the swirls are from Lyrical Letters and a CTMH stamp.  Friend is cut on the cricut with shrinky dink material and shrunk. Flower brads for center of flowers and ribbon I had on hand.

 

Cricut Cardz Challenge - #6 Spring
Cute Card Thursday - Celebrations - Celebrating Mom
Sophisticat challenges - Flourish and Bling
I LOVE CUPCAKES Blog ~Challenge 81 Flower Power
Charisma Cards ~ Add a Butterfly
Paper Cutz Challenge - Anything Goes

Healing the Heart

This card I made with Lyrical Letters and George in DS.  The heart is framed on the LL cartridge, I printed 3 at 3 inches and layered them.  I don't have the wild card cartridge which has a bandaid on it, so I made my own in George and  layered it.  The background paper embossed with Script embossing folder on cuttlebug. The sentiment is a stamp from Clear Dollar Stamps.

  

Good Morning Sunshine

Working on some Cricut Fairy Cards and I came across this quote that reminded me of a coffee mug I once had and loved  The coffee mug had a sunshine with the words, Good Morning, Sunshine on them.  But then I found this quote, "Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with."  I couldn't resist making a card to go with it!

 

The coffee mug was made with George in DS, Rounded Square, oval and the moon. The coffee mug on the front is cut twice and layered.  The top layer is curved and popped up with pop dots.

Computer printed sentiment. Paper from Paper Studio.  Ribbon I had on hand.

Digital Art

I haven't gotten into the Digi art much. I'm so happy with my cricut and paper layering. But, my son and his wife drew me some digi pictures and I'm putting them up here for you to see. If you want to use one, email me and I will send it to you to use. If you make something with it, please link it to me.
All artwork designs of Austin and Brooke Light

 

I got this award from two people!  Wow!  

OhhSnap at Ohhsnapper

and

the wonderful PinkE  whose work I completely adore

The rule:  Write 10 things about yourself others might not know and pass the award on to 10 others.  There are lots of people I wanted to pass the award on to, but I tried to find people who didn’t already have the award.

Ten things about me:

1.        I live in Italy.  Living here is harder than I thought, learning the language is tough, but I’m living the journey and learning everyday about an exciting culture.

2.      I get to go back to the U.S. in 18 more months.  Truly the greatest country in the world.

3.      I am a new grandma and am excited about it!

4.      My mother is only 17 years older than me.  My baby sister is 11 years younger than me.

5.      I love and miss my dog, Koda, a yellow lab, that I had to leave in the U.S. with my son and his wife.

6.      My husband is retired from the Navy.  He doesn’t miss it.  I do.

7.      I love to craft with paper and polymer clay.  Cards are my biggest passion.

8.     I’m a certified wedding and events coordinator.

9.      I have three wonderful sons who blessed me with daughters when they married.

10.  I love the Lord, My God, with all my heart, soul and strength.  I am truly blessed.

Ten places I am passing this award:

1.  Katie’s Cucina – This girl can COOK!  She has some delicious recipes and I’ve tried some of them.  http://katiescucina.blogspot.com/

2.  Crystal at “Crystal’s Crafty Creations”.  A mom with motivation.  She has a great art-ability. http://crystalscraftycreations.blogspot.com/

3. La at “look at La’s”  http://4boysisjoy.blogspot.com/  She does incredible cakes and has an incredible “crafty mind.”  A favorite place for me to visit!

4. Kandi at Krafty Kandi Krafts http://kraftykandikrafts.blogspot.com/  Go see her site it has some wonderful cards and layouts.  She has a great eye for color!

5. Karen - An Aussie with a great sense of humor and design. http://beingkaren.blogspot.com/

6. Definitely  one of my favorite sites. Nikki, the crafty navy wife. http://scrappinnavywife.blogspot.com/

7. I’m a wedding and events coordinator by trade when I am home in the U.S. so I was tickled to find this spot and add it to my help for brides list.  Great site! http://weddingswiththecricut.blogspot.com/

8. Racing Grandma is just starting her blog site, but she’s got some really interesting similarities in tastes as me.  http://racinggrandmacrafts.blogspot.com/

9. Ruth has some really great work and always has a great list of blog candy going on! http://gedalovitch.blogspot.com/  I love the name of her blog.

10.  Kathy at I {heart} scrappy stuff.  She has a fun sense of humor and some neat takes on stuff.  http://iheartscrappystuff.blogspot.com/

Sweet Pea

The challenge at Just Buggin' was to use one of the Card Elements on a cricut cartridge so I tried this one from the New Arrival cartridge.  Honestly, it was so easy to do this card that I'm embarrassed.  Maybe that was the point!  You can put together a card in no time at all using some of the features.

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The sweet little basket is from the Easter 2010 cartridge and it was very cute and 

easy to put together!   

Chalks and Inks - Practical Scrappers  

Use a Card Element - Just Buggin'