22!

I won a pack of Stampin' Up paper a while ago and love the colors!

Snow Day

Where oh where is spring? Yesterday there was almost no snow left - and today... snowstorm. It's crazy. So, what better to do when faced with a snow day on a Saturday? Craft, of course.

Amie has a birthday party for a brother and sister tomorrow, so I pulled out the new cartridges, Mini Monsters and Once Upon a Princess.  They are such cute cartridges!

Inside view

Inside view

I had trouble figuring out what to do with these pics, so I decided to use primary colors and my ticket stamp. I found that my Close To My Heart 'Make My Day' sayings stamp fit perfectly inside the ticket! I used the 'Sweet Sentiments' Cricut cartridge  for the lettering.

I won!!! March Prize Package from Die Cuttin' Divas

I am so excited!! I can't believe I won the March prize package from Die Cuttin' Divas by Imaginisce! I just happened to be looking at their site last night for this week's challenge, and noticed their posts of winners for March.

I love that they take the time to create such great challenges and that they comment on the cards that are entered in their challenges!

Thanks again, Die Cuttin' Divas and Imaginisce!

Congratulations to

Karla Yungwirth from Creative Love Affair

Birds

Since it is officially spring, I thought I'd do a little spring crafting and decorating! I have had decoupage glue in my craft cupboard for a while now... but I finally found a use for it!  After looking at the latest Canadian Scrapbooker spring issue, I got some ideas about how to decorate a little wooden birdhouse I purchased at Michaels.  I also got a plain wooden frame and dressed it up too. I can almost hear the birds singing :)

 I used a bird-themed scrapbook paper from 7-gypsies and decoupaged it onto the house after cutting each piece out and shading the edges with Distress Ink.  I also used the Ranger foam pad to apply ink to the parts I didn't cover with paper; the base, perch and trim. (I did that prior to gluing my paper on). Then I painted a layer of clear varnish on and let dry.

 I painted the wood frame with brown acrylic paint, then a layer of crackle medium, and a top coat of white acrylic paint.  After drying I decoupaged the birds and word LOVE onto the frame.  The birds are from the Heritage Cricut cartridge.  I used the same 7-gypsies paper to cut a square of paper from to put in the frame.

Happy Spring!

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge 110

Yesterday really, truly felt like spring! Sun shining, snow melting, children playing.... Thank goodness!

Today is my oldest daughter's birthday :) My baby is turning 23! I can't believe it. I used Karen Giron's Sweet Sunday Sketch for her card and a CC Designs stamp, which I watercolored with Tombow markers.

inside view

Steph opens her card at lunch today



http://kgiron.blogspot.com/2011/03/sweet-sunday-sketch-challenge-110.html



Spring is on the way...I think! Die Cuttin` Divas` Challenge #7

Die Cuttin Divas` spring challenge this week was to make a die cut spring card with a gardening cut.  I wanted to use my new!!! cartridge (see previous post :) and found what I was looking for in the Just Cards Cricut cartridge.  While it still doesn`t look like spring outside, it feels more like it inside now!

inside view

Oh My Crafts order

I am so excited!! I have been really wanting to get some more cartridges for my Cricut, but have not been able to bring myself to spend even the sale price of $49.99 each for cartridges. Well, I found an awesome site to buy cartridges!!! Oh My Crafts has cartridges for $24.99 and I actually got a sale for $17 each.  Plus I found a 10% off code which gave me a further discount.  In total, I got 5 new cartridges for $80 plus $22 shipping/handling.  I went for the 1st class since I was shipping to Canada and I wanted to be able to track it.  From order to delivery it was 2 weeks total.

I ordered Simply Sweet, Heritage, Once Upon a Princess, Just Because Cards and Mini Monsters.

(I linked them to the Cricut website to view the images)

Even Amie is excited!

 I also had to share this very cute dress... Amie was in ballet class until they shut the door and wouldn't allow parents in the class.  After that, she did not want to go anymore, but we had already paid for the recital dress.... Anyway, it came in today and is totally cute.  I guess it's just one of those things.

She calls it her waterlily dress