Baby Boy Mini Album - Brag Book

Hello all my crafty friends. I found out recently that my husband's friend had a visit from the stork and he delivered them a new baby boy!

So naturally I had to make our friends one of those cute little mini books that my friend Kim showed me how to make.

What do you think?

This is it until next week. I have company coming tomorrow for the holiday weekend so I have to get busy cleaning. I hope you all have a wonderful and safe Memorial weekend. I'll be back next week to play along with some more challenges and to stop by and check out your wonderful projects.

A Thing of Beauty Award

I just received A Thing of Beauty Award from Jessica over at Chick-n-Scrap!

Thank you, Jessica for giving me and my blog this wonderful award.

If you haven’t been over to Jessica’s at Chick-n-Scraps go visit her blog.
She is such a talented lady and I love stopping by to see what she’s scratched up.

The Rules for the A Thing of Beauty Award:

Share 5 things about yourself (1 of the listed items must be something about your craft).

1. I adore my cricut.
2. I own a gypsy but I don’t use it. I need some hands on lessons.
3. And just like Jessica, I would definitely rather craft than clean.
4. I love going to the Creating Keepsakes Convention every year.
5. I would love to go on a Whale watching cruise someday. I’ve never been on a cruise.

I'm passing this award on to these five amazing women:

1. Sandy O at Paper Transformer
2. Tami B at Tamis Craft Connection
3. Stephanie at My Ink Well

4. Tracey at Garden of Grace

5. Jovan at Cards by Jovan


Please stop by their Beautiful blogs and check out their fabulous projects.

Hope you all have a great evening. I'll have something new to post soon.

Wall-E B-day Card

This was fun and challenging at the same time so I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Cricut Card Challenge #75 - make a masculine birthday card using something with wheels.
Die cuttin' Divas weekly challenge 15 - Masculine Cuts.

Recipe:
Best of Pixar - cut Wall-E at 5"
Black cardstock for base of Wall-E from Recollections
DCWV Metallic Stack used for parts of Wall-E
ColorBok carstock used for Wall-E's tires
SU Not Quite Navy cut at 5 1/8 x 4
Card from Best Occassion Textured cardstock cut at 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 then scored down center

Google eyes from AC Moore
Cuttlebug folder - Traffic Jam
Brad from my stash
Studio g $1 stamp from AC Moore - Make a wish
black zig pen for details
Tim Holtz Walnut Stain distress ink used for metallic parts on Wall-E

Guitar Hero Birthday Card

Okay this was just way too fun to create and I love how it turned out. I'm entering this card in the Wacky Wednesday Challenge #38 - anything goes.

Hope you like it as much as I do:

Recipe:
Campin' Critters cart - cut bunny at 5"

Best Occassions Textured cardstock and American Traditional Designs textured cardstock used to cut out bunny and notes.

5 x 7 card in vanilla card from AC Moore.
Patterned paper from my stash so I'm not sure what paper pack it came from.

Cuttlebug Folder - Traffic Jam
Cut 4 x 4 1/2 square from Light blue cardstock from The Paper Company

Black Zip pen used for details on bun
Jelly roll white pen used for teeth on bun

Google eyes from Hobby Lobby
Brad from my stash
Tim Holtz Walnut Stain distress ink

Happy Birthday Animal Card

Good morning! I'm entering this card in the Queen of my craftroom Animal Challenge. The challenge is to make a card with an animal on it. I saw the sheep in the Birthday Bash cart and just had to cut him out.

Recipe:
Birthday Bash - cut Sheep at 3"
Happy Birthday sentiment from Stampendous Birthday Brackets set
The card was cut from SU cardstock
Cuttlebug folder - Swiss dots
For the sheep I used some scrap paper from my never ending pile of scraps
The patterned paper behind the sheep is from DCWV The Crafty stack
Tim Holtz Walnut Stain ink
Brad from my stash

Monster Birthday Card

Hello all my very talented and crafty friends. I hope you have had a great week so far.

I finally made it up to my craft room this afternoon to make a birthday card for my other nephew Tanner. His birthday is still several months away but they always seem to sneak up on me.

I'm entering this litte monster in two challenges today.

Whimisical Wednesday Challenge - Make a shape card. Well as you can see I made a monster shaped card and this is my first ever shaped card and I'm pretty darn proud of myself.

Beety Bee's Challenge - Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. For the something old I re-used the white and black cardstock from my scrap stash to create the monster. The something new is the shaped card technique that I tried for the very first time. The something borrowed was the idea to use buttons behind the google eyes to add a little more demension. This idea came from Disney Dreamer Designs. Melissa used this technique on a Bee that she put on my wonderful birthday card that she made for me. Isn't she clever? For the something blue I added two blue buttons behind the moster's google eyes.

Here's the recipe:
Mini Monsters Cart - cut 3 monster card shapes, using white and black cardstock. For the 3rd shape use DCWV Guy Stack patterned cardstock.

Stampenndous Birthday Brackets Clear Stamp Set - Stamp Happy Birthday on inside of card.

Tim Holtz Distressing Ink in Faded Jeans - Use to ink edges and detail to monster and use for B-day seniment.

Glue dots - used to attached buttons and google eyes.
Buttons from my stash
AC Moore - 7mm Google eyes

That's it for now. I'm off to AC Moore tomorrow from 10 -6pm to crop the day away with some of my friends. I'll have more projects to post soon.

Have a great Friday.

Cricuit-Tastic Award

Hi everyone I was having issues with blogger so I am just now getting back up and running. I was so surprised to see that I recieved an award from Cindy Lou at ScrappinC! She gave me the cicuit-tastic award. I am so honored to receive this award from her. Please stop by her blog she is scrappin amazing!

The rules for this award are:

Your Blog has been deemed Cricut-tastic!
Wear this Badge proudly on your Blog and share it with friends! Since Cricut is 5 years old and they have an E2 out share this award with 10 people that you think have Cricut-tastic Blogs!

You also have to tell 5 Cricut Related things about yourself:
1. I have the expression cricut machine and would love to own the E2 someday.
2. I am working on cutting out at least one image from every cart I own.
3. My husband is a cricut widow. :) Poor hubby.
4. I used to cut images for my daughter until I bought her a cricut expression for her college graduation present.
5. I love buying Disney carts and can't wait to see what will come out next.

Cricut-tastic award winners ....... these ladies are SUPER CRICUT-TASTIC!
Melissa http://www.disneydreamerdesigns.blogspot.com/
Cathie http://www.creativecutter.org/

Bobbi Jo http://www.sweetsassydiva-gspot.blogspot.com/
Tami http://www.tamiscraftconnection.blogspot.com/
Lori http://www.scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com/

Lena http://www.lenascrafts.blogspot.com/
Cindy http://www.snoflaks.blogspot.com/

Ellen http://www.cardmonkey-business.blogspot.com/
Susan http://www.cricutforbeginners.com/
Jessica http://www.thecreativestamperspot.blogspot.com/

Stop by and check out their blogs you'll be glad you did. A BIG Thank you to Cindy Lou of ScrappinC for my lovely award. I will display it proudly.

I'm still here

Hello my bloggy friends. I'm still around, I've just been busy with the Charlotte Arthritis Foundation Walk this week. We had a nice turn out even though it rained. I was also having blogger issues but I seem to be up and running again. Whaaa Hooo!

I need to make another b-day card this week so I'll be visiting the challenge sites.

Thanks to everyone for stopping by and leaving me your wonderful comments on my Deer B-day card. I just love hearing from you.

Hope you have a great rest of your Sunday and I'll be back this week with something new to post.

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #8

I'm finally starting to get caught up after being on vacation. I still have several blogs to go visit from the Disney Pixar Blog hop and slowly but surely I will visit you all.

Today I'm participating in the Birthday Sundaes Challenge . The challenge is to make a birthday card using 3 different embellishments and 2 patterned papers. How fun is that! I need to make a birthday card for my nephew Parker so this happened to be the perfect challenge for me. Here's what I came up with.

How to:
Camping Critters Cart - Cut deer at 4"
The darker color paper on the deer came from Bazzill Basics Paper in French Silk. For the rest of the deer I used my scraps.

The patterned paper is from DCWV The guy stack and Recollections Autumn 8 x 8 paper pack.

My Pink Stamper More Punny-licious set - Best Fishes
Stampendous Birthday Brackets set - Happy Birthday

The google eyes and waves are from my stash. I used waterfall stickles for the fish.

Glue - pop dots, tombo liquid glue, Zig glue pen and glue runner
Ink - Tim Holtz disstressing ink on tree and SU soft suede for sentiments and boarder around card.
Tim Holtz disstressing tool used on tree.
Marvy Markers used on deer, fish and grass
Martha Stewart boarder punch used for grass

I'm really pleased with how this turned out and can't wait to send it to Paker. Hope you are all enjoying your day.

Happy Mother's Day!

I am wishing all my new and old followers a very Happy Mother's Day. I hope you have a great day today.

I'm spending my day with my friend Kim along with a few other ladies. We are going over to her house for a cook-out. She made a theme party for us today and we have to wear sun dresses and sun hats. Well the only hat I own is a baseball cap from Disney. Not really appropriate with a sun dress so I'm going out to see if I can find a sun hat to go with my dress this morning.

I promise I will post something soon.

Have a wonderful relaxing day...

Winner of my Disney Pixar Blog Hop Candy is....

Hi everyone I know you are very excited to find out who won the candy so I won't delay the suspense... And The Winner is:

Scrapper 69 - Theresa!

Scrapper69 said...
Both of your projects came out sooo stinkin' CUTE!!!! I Love anything made with Disney so this was fun to see... :o)
Theresa

Congratulations Scrapper69! I will be contacting you for your mailing address so I can get your candy in the mail to you soon.

Thank you every one for participating in the Disney Pixar Blog Hop and leaving me such wonderful comments.

I'm back

Hello my crafty friends. Wow I am very excited that I have so many new followers. Please be patient with me I'll go visit all of your blogs within a few weeks so I can follow you as well. Thank you everyone for leaving me such kind comments on my projects. I'll be announcing the winner of my candy this Friday morning so stay tuned.

I'm hoping to have a project for you this weekend after I get caught up a bit and get back into my routine from being on vacation.

Here's a new picture of my grandaughter. I was so lucky to have captured her beautiful smile.

Hope you enjoy the rest of the week.

Disney Pixar Blog Hop

Welcome to the second Disney Pixar Blog Hop!

You should have arrived here from Susan's Blog. If you just happened to come across my blog and would like to start at the beginning please go to Shawn's blog by clicking here so you don't miss her project and the awesome blog candy she's giving away! You can also enter to win the Grand Prize of the Gypsy by finding the two blogs that have a Hidden Mickey (see details at the end of my post).

I am so excited to be participating in my very first blog hop! A BIG thank you goes out to Shawn and co-host Melissa for giving me the opportunity to participate in this wonderful hop. For the second time we come together to celebrate our love of all things Disney, which includes the Pixar family of characters.

My projects today showcase both Disney Classics and the Best of Pixar.
So first up is the Disney Classics. I really wanted to make the Cheshire cat from this cart so I decided to put him on a card.

I wanted to use the classic Disney colors so I made him red and black. Hope you like it.

Recipe:
Cheshire cat cut at 4" with the paper company cardstock
Patterened paper from DCWV Summer Dream Stack
Cuttlebug folder - Divine Swirls
Stamp from My Pink Stamper More Punny-licous
Ribbon from Michaels

Next up is The Best of Pixar cartridge.
For those of you who are already followers of my blog you get to see another version of my basket using the Best of Pixar theme.

I made the Basket first then I choose to decorate it with the Monsters, Inc. characters. I'm very pleased with how this turned out so I have several pictures to show you all the sides.

Recipe:
To make this a little challenging for myself I decided to flock Sulley after cutting him out at 3 ¼”.
Mike and Boo are cut at 3 ¼” too. I added some silver scales to Boo’s outfit using a Martha Stewart glitter marker since the piece of paper were just too darn small to work with.
Roz was cut out at 3 ½” then I added sparkles to her chain on her glasses and her blue hair.

The Paper Company Cardstock was used for characters and base of basket.
Patterned Cardstock used:
Nana’s Nursery – Baby Boy
DCWV – The Fun in the Sun Summer Glitter Stack
My Mind’s Eye – Deena’s Penny Lane Glitter Cardstock

Cuttle Bug Folders:
Spots and Dots
Tiny Mosaic Texture

Glitter Gel Roll Pen
Tim Holtz Distressing Ink – Broken China, Bundled Sage, and Milled Lavender.
Foam tape
Inkadinkado – black chalk ink
Recollections – My Little Monsters clear stamp set

CANDY ALERT!
Before you go, I want to thank you for coming to the blog hop by offering you a chance to win some candy.

I'm giving away the same stamp set and one of the cuttlebug folders that I used to create the Monsters, Inc. basket along with some other goodies. Also the lucky winner will get the Monsters, Inc. basket too!

To enter for a chance to win my blog candy:
1.) Become a follower, if you are not one already.
2.) Leave me a comment with your blog address or email if you don't have a blog. Comments must be submitted by Sunday, May 1st by 11:59 PM EST to enter.

That's it and now I send you off to a very talented lady
Kristal of Getting Cricky.

Don't forget you can also enter to win the Grand Prize of the Gypsy by finding the two blogs that have a Hidden Mickey.

RULES FOR GRAND PRIZE GIVE-A-WAY: Make sure to stop by all of the blogs on both days of the hop for your chance to win a Gypsy, donated by ContainYa Crafts, Maker of Scrap'n Tote & Scrap'n Easel. There will be two blogs, one on each day of the hop, who will have a special "Hidden Mickey" in their post. I am so happy that my blog was selected to be the Hidden Mickey Blog for today. If you are looking for the hidden mickey from yesterday you might want to check HERE.

To enter to win the Gypsy, simply send an email to cricutsearch@gmail.com and tell us which two blogs you found the Hidden Mickey on. All entries must be in by midnight on May 1st, and the winner will be announced May 3rd at the following blogs www.ScrapnToteBlog.com, http://craftychicsblog.blogspot.com/ and http://www.disneydreamerdesigns.blogspot.com/


Here's the line up for today in case you get lost along the way.

Shawn http://www.craftychicsblog.blogspot.com/
Diane http://www.capadiadesign.com/
Susan http://www.cricutforbeginners.com/
Tami http://www.scrappinrabbitdesigns.blogspot.com/ YOU ARE HERE
Kristal http://www.gettingcricky.com/ NEXT STOP
Jessica http://www.thecreativestamperspot.blogspot.com/
Kaye http://www.yesterdaystomorrow2011.blogspot.com/
Cathie http://www.creativecutter.org/
Bobbi Jo http://www.sweetsassydiva-gspot.blogspot.com/
Jamie http://www.jamielanedesigns.blogspot.com/
Kim http://www.uscrap2.blogspot.com/
Melissa http://www.disneydreamerdesigns.blogspot.com/

The winner of my blog candy will be announced on Friday May 6th using random.org so please check back if you want to know who won!