Blog Candy ~ Just in time for Easter!

Found this blog through Jen at Brain Things blog. Phoenix Crafts , Jen is having her Blog-iversary and to celebrate she is giving away some blog candy!

Run over and check out her blog - she has created some uber beautiful cards and great ideas!

Happy Blog-iversary Jen!

This make makes me smile!

For years I have been telling my daughter "no, you cannot have a dog" and recently told her the only indoor pet she could have was a finger monkey! It is fun for her to imagine owning one and we pretend that we have one on shopping trips andcar rides etc. (yes she is a teenager but we still like to imagine!) Recently introduced to the wonderful world of Amigurumi, I asked a friend to see what she could come up with and this is the end result. (thank you Annette) My daughter is going to love it and I can't wait to see her smile! Isn't she just the cutest thing evah?

Is It Spring Yet?

Snow is melting and I'm still on the strawberry kick! I'm feeling like super scrapper with the Cricut Design Studio! LOL I took the strawberry I created for the card I posted earlier (using the Doodlecharms Cartridge), enlarged it, added some windows and a door and cut it all out with my Cricut! I had never attempted a divided light window on any of my piecings before because it just seemed too daunting but now I have these little babies saved as a .cut file and I'm working on an Easter Egg house now! Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy!

If you are interested in this .cut file, just email me and I'd be happy to email it to you!

Prima Hydrangeas - Love Them!

For years I held off on buying the prima hydranges petals. For some weird reason, the even number of petals on each bloom threw me off. But I just recently got some from Lil Lambs Boutique and I am hooked. I love the way these flowers look when used in bunches and am so happy with the way this little wreath turned out!


And if you haven't tried Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist yet, you haven't lived! I love the way it makes primas look, kind of velvety with a slight shimmer. You can get that at Lil Lambs Boutique also!

Last Snowman of the Season?

I'm pretty sure this is the last snowman of the season but I had to take a picture because I absolutely love the way it turned out. It was so nice seeing the boys working so nicely together! I just love the stick "mohawk" they put on its head and the expression on his face is priceless!

Random thoughts!

First off, it can quit snowing anytime ~ I am totally over it! All I can think of lately is basking in the sun with a good book (I'm dying to read World Without End, Ken Follet's follow up to Pillars of the Earth) and sipping an iced tea. I don't do the fake tan thing but am seriously considering it. I am tired of looking at my blindingly white, fish belly colored, skin! Ahhh the joys of living in the great white north.

I also can't stop thinking about strawberries. They are horrible this time of year and I just want to eat them till I burst! Prolly goes hand in hand with the need for sunshine thing!

I was really TO'd this morning because I was really in the zone on a layout I'm working on (yes it is chock full of strawberries) and I had to stop and go to work! Don't you just hate it when your job interferes with your scrapbooking!

On the topic of scrapbooking I gotta say that I am totally in love with Bo Bunnys Double Dot line. If you haven't picked any of this up yet, take a peek. The texture is delicious and comes in such yummy colors! I get mine from Lil Lambs Boutique. I don't have every color yet but I won't rest till I do!

Strawberry Design Studio Cricut.cut file

I want spring to get here so badly (as I watch the snow softly falling out my window.) Winters last so long up here in the frozen north and I long for the sweet taste of summer strawberries. Since I can't have real strawberries here is the next best thing.

I am so pleased with how this .cut file turned out. I had found a cut file online but the seeds were all seperate little cuts and with my fumbling fingers, I found it impossible to get the seeds off the mat and in the right place on the berry! LOL This one has a black piece to layer behind the red berry, sooo much easier! I used the Doodlecharms cartridge for the berry and welded the words from All Mixed Up. You can down load the .cut file here.

The card measeures 5.5 square and the berry is about 2.5 in tall. I used a combination of Stampin' Up! and Bo Bunny card stocks and Stampin' Up! grosgrain ribbon. My sweet daughter has already ran off with one to send to her BFF!

Thanks DCWV!

When I saw the papers in the Nanas kitchen stack I was so inspired. Here is my first layout from that gorgeous stack!

To see more detail of this fun layout click here!

I've gone Green!

When I got my last shipment of the new Die Cuts With a View stacks, I seriously didn't think they could get any better, but I just recieved the Green stack in the mail today! I was actually sick at work from wanting to come home and scrap (and I only work 4 hours a day)! Made a quick pasta dish for dinner so I could get right back to scrapping! Here's my first layout (actually made 2, one for each of the boys) from this adorable stack, but I see many more in the future. Please to enjoy:

My very first Cricut Design Studio .cut creation!

I am so excited to share with you all my very first creation using just the George cartridge!

Ta da! This cute ice cream sundae is my very first creation! If you would like to use this file feel free to down load it here! I laid it out on four different pages so you can cut each piece in different colors. If you do - please let me know how it cuts for you!

I think it would be even cuter with shading and sprinkles. I plan on using one on a sweet layout for my daughter!

Rediculously Tiny Things ~ so cute!

What is it about itty bitty things that make them so cute? We were just talking in our design group about things being redonkulously tiny or unusually ginormous, and how they make us smile. Lo and behold look arrived in the mail today from my friend Rebecca, this adorably tiny file cabinet! I just love it! And the catalogue that came with it gave my family the biggest laughs! We've found so many things that we must purchase from Think Geek.com!

Thank you Becs for the adorable tiny surprise! You're the best!

Cricut Cards - So Cool!

I watched a video at The Pink Stamper Blog on how to use the Cricut to make cards. I love Robyns blog and her fantastic tutorials! I couldn't wait to try this out myself! I was a Stampin" Up demonstrator for three years and stamped all my cards to this point, but I can definately see many more Cricut made cards in my future.

For your comparison!

When my youngest was born, the minute I laid eyes on him (besides thinking he was the cutest baby evah) I thought he looked like Jiminy Cricket. As he got older the resemblence lessened and then yesterday I took this picture!



And for your convenience

Am I wrong?

A Box in the Mail!

Don't you just love getting boxes in the mail? I just got a package containing 3 of DCWV new stacks! They are fantastic!
I got Nanas Kitchen

Garden Party
La Creme,

I could hardly wait to start a layout and thats just what I did! I am even including a hand cross stitched piece on this layout! So Fun! For a peek at these great new stacks go to http://www.diecutswithaview.com/new.php.

Ready for Spring!

Okay so I gotta say, I am over snow! For a while I was really enjoying the novelty of so much snow (over 60" so far this season). We are pretty arid in this area so thats a lot of snow for us. But this morning on the way to work I had the great white whale (our van) sideways TWICE! Plus driving on the compacted snow and ice is uber noisyand very bumpy! I am so over it!

On a happier note my creative juices have been flowing as the days get longer ~ bad thing is, all I want to do is scrap! My real job is seriously cutting into my scrapping time! Don't ya hate when that happens!

Wow~ This is a first!

I actually completed this layout in one afternoon and I even cooked for my family ~ twice! This one is the "sister" layout to the one I posted a few days ago. I changed the poem so it fits a girl layout and I am tickled with how it turned out! Both these pages were made with the Debbie Mumm Noahs Ark Stack! For a closer peek check it out on Ebay!

Lovin' my Design Studio!

I finished the layout for the poem I listed earlier and I just gotta say - I think I'm gonna get a lot of use out of the Design studio I recently purchased. It makes creating layouts a cinch (the hard part is still all the hand cut paper piecings). Thought you might like a peek at "Sweet Adorable Ewe!"

What a Sweet Day!

Happy Valentines Day Everybody! I hope your day was as sweet as mine. My boys came home with candy and flowers for me and my sons even brought a rose home for their sister! Then after lunch, while having a bit of a ginormous heart shaped chocolate chip cookie we baked for Daddy, we went around the table and told one thing we love about about each person at the table. My sweet, soft hearted Sarah actually welled up while we were talking! What a blessing my loving family is to me. What a great day this has been and to top it off I get to scrap tonight!

Inspiration!

So I am home again today - Rick made it out of the yard with the kiddos but recommended I stay put! Didn't have to tell me twice!

So I was playing with my Cricut Design Studio (which I love, by the way) and was cutting out some scalloped squares in white. All I could think of sheep, these silly boxes reminded me of sheep! So I stopped the layout I was working on and started a layout called "Sweet Adorable Ewe" and came up with this poem to use on it.

Adorable you,
Our sweet little boy,
Knowing you’re ours
Brings incredible joy!

The sound of your voice,
Your soft tousled hair,
Your breath, oh so sweet
As we rock in our chair.

A true gift from God,
We know this is true,
Amazingly sweet,
Adorable you!

Isn't it crazy ~ this morning I was stumped as to what to make and scalloped squares started the creative juices flowing again!

Digging Out

I think I'm calling this photo "Digging Out"! This is the second round of snow blowing and shoveling my boys have done today!

Mother Nature has seems to be off her meds and can't quite decide what she wants to do. It was 38 degrees and pouring rain yesterday and today it looks like this! They actually called a snow day for the kiddos and they are enjoying it (except the shoveling part)!