50th Anniversary Card for my friend!

Hello again my friends! Tonight I have a 50th anniversary card that I made for some friends of ours from the Lions Club. That has to be like 80 wife years doesn't it!? Hope they like!

I used CTMH Art Philosophy for the card base! love that cart, it has a bunch, I'm guessing close to 50! different card shapes! The metallic paper is from Anna Griffin. The stripe that was used to make the rosette is from her set of "pleating papers" I got from HSN last year, maybe even Christmas 2012. I've been saving it, like everything Anna I have! The embossing folder is Cricut Quatrefoil, my new favorite embossing folder! That just looks good behind everything to me! The frame around the 50 is from elegant edges, and the 50 is from Life's a party cricut cartridge. The ribbon behind the rosette is from Walmart I believe! Thats where I get most of my ribbon these days. You can't beat their price! The "Happy Anniversary" stamp is CTMH's D1539, The Happy couple Occasions stamp set, you can get here!
And while you're there, don't forget to take advantage of the Cloud Nine special, a kit worth $47 for only $15 with a qualifying $35 purchase, and you are then eligible to purchase the Stamp of the Month for $5.00!!

You can purchase them at my CTMH website here!
Thanks for stopping by!! Have a great week!

Hello bloggers!  Happy Monday! Its my day to post on Cricut Fanatics and I wanted to share my new obsession! I love making these little gift enclosure card sets with the purse and I make them for the Azle Lions Club raffle! I love to see the ladies all hoping that they get their number drawn first, because the purse and cards are always first to go! I make all kinds of colors and patterns but this one is my favorite.

The purse was cut on CCR using CTMH Artiste cart at 5.7x10.35 will hold the 3x3 cards perfectly. The doily was stamped and embossed using the CTMH Doily as well as the Celebrate. The butterfly is a MS butterfly punch. These make awesome gift enclosure cards and the little purse can also be used for a small gift or make a few for favors if you are maybe having a bridal shower?! The ladies at Lions love the little purse best! Me too!! All the card were cut at 3x6 using the rounded card on the Artiste cartridge also! Best cartridge Cricut/CTMH made, IMHO! If this cart doesn't have it, you don't need it, I always say!! LOL!

This is the same purse, cut a little bigger to hold the butterfly cards which are 3x4. CTMH Cricut Art Philosophy was used to make these. I used "hide contour" to move the butterflies where I wanted them! So I could emboss the butterfly in white on the front, the stamp also from CTMH. The paper was cut with white Colorbok paper and colored with gelatos! if you haven't tried gelatos, you are missing some fun! You can make any color you want or need!

If you'd like to get your hot little hands on these CTMH items, click on hyperlink! Have any questions, please ask! thanks for visiting today! Have a great week!

Spring Break and "Fancy Nancy's Tea Party"

Hello friends, I'm posting today on the CricutFanatics blog today. If you haven't been to this blog, you need to check it out! lots of talent and inspiration and I'm proud to be a small part of it! They have challenges every month too!

Our awesome library has programs for the children during spring break and summer reading program. This year during spring break they had a "Fancy Nancy's Tea Party" and it was awesome! They had a professional ballerina come in and teach the girls some ballet steps for about 20 minutes and the girls were "Ecstatic"!!! to say the least! One of Fancy Nancy's favorite words I'm told. I never read the books, did you? But my granddaughter will be reading them now!! These are the first 2 pages my DGD and I worked on this weekend. And my DGD being the wonderful drama queen she is, and thats DRAMA with a capital D!, said "Nana, I can feel it!" and she had been complaining about a sore ankle from a fall at school so I asked it her ankle hurt. She places hands on chest and says "No, I can feel the love in those pages"! OMG! I about fell out of my chair! 

The pages are 8x8 and they are from a scrapbook I bought years ago on clearance because the pages were already decorated and I was just started to get into scrapbooking. Now they are perfect for this occasion. The title and the Ecstatic card were from the party. The top pic title as well as the teaparty die cut and tea set was cut using my own font and an SVG with older version of SCAL. The white doily mat was cut using one of the new WRMK mini 8 and matching border punch.The tea set looked kinda plain even though it was cut using DCWV shimmer paper. So I "stickled" them! The tea cup border was cut using Wall Decor at 1". The Tea party invite and balloons and princess was cut using "Best Friends" Imagine cart. I will post more later!! She'll be back next weekend but only for Easter, so it'll probably be in 2 weeks!

The Easter card is an A2 size card cut using CTMH Art Philosophy cart. The cross is from "Wedding" and they were embossed using Swiss Dots and a new AG Pirouette folder. Butterflies were cut using DCWV glitter paper and MS punch. And was glimmer misted with Dazzling Diamonds, of course!

Hope you enjoyed both! Happy Easter! Leave me a comment! I love to hear from you!

Smell better soon!

Hope you are all having a great weekend! Still hot, probably too, right?! I'm in Fort Worth so we're used to it about this time of year! I feel bad for all of you that aren't used to it!
My post today is 2 cards, one for a very dear friend of mine that has been very ill and my DH's auntw who has similar "issues" as well! they both have lymphoma also. My heart breaks for both of them.
Well, since I love PKS stamps, and when they had a sale a week or so ago, I finally caved and got the Skunk Cheer stamps. But there is also a challenge at the Cricut Circle Blog, so I combined the best of both worlds! as well as my Silhouette Cameo and Cricut! a match made in heaven!

The Circle Challenge:
Weekly Challenge #62: Card Sketch Challenge!
The Challenge: Create a Cricut card using the card sketch provided below.
Rules and Guidelines: Circle Blog Challenges are open to Cricut Circle Members only. Your project must be newly created for this challenge and include atleast 2 Cricut Image Cuts. You must submit a project to be entered into the Challenge Prize Drawing. One entry per person, please.
How to Enter: Submit your entry using the InLinkz tool found at the bottom of this post. Please post your full name along with your entry. Entries are due by 9:00 pm MST on Thursday, July 19th, 2012.
Prize: We will select one winner to receive $25 in credit added to their Cricut.com account. Please allow 4 to 6 weeks for delivery from winner announcement.
Winner: The winners will be selected randomly from qualifying entries using www.random.org and will be announced on the Cricut Circle Blog on Friday, July 20th, 2012.
 

I decided to make one with the Create a Critter Skunk image and one with the PKS image. But when I got ready to make the PKS, my black Stazon pad wasn't damp enough! So I scanned in the image from the PKS stamp and Cut and Print with my Silhouette!! woohoo! I wanted the same kind of coloring on the CAC skunk so after cutting with the E2, I used gray and white Perfect pearls! It looks so cool IRL!! The flowers were also cut and printed with Silhouette!!
My recipe:
Cricut E2
Create a Critter Skunk cut with black at 2.75"
Doily and border from 3 Birds
Banner, pink background cut from CTMH Art Philosophy Cart
Black and White background from Slice Black and White Pad
Pink Shimmer paper from DCWV Shimmer Stack
Perfect Pearls - White, Pewter and "pink bubblegum"
PKS Skunk Cheer up set

I think I'll like the PKS best when I get a stamp! Whatcha think?!! thanks for stopping by and good luck to my Circle friends! Have a great week ahead!

Creative Resolutions Challenge!

Happy New year! This is my first post in the new year so I hadn't had a chance to wish all my blog friends a happy new year! The Circle challenge for this week is: Creative Resolutions for 2012! Whenever the New Year rolls around, we tend to do a little self-evaluation and decide what we want to do differently in the year to come. For the challenge this week, we want you to think about your CREATIVE resolutions and record them in some way. Do you want to stretch your creativity in new ways? Maybe you want to try a new hobby or learn something new. Maybe you want to simplify. Whatever it is, get those goals down on paper! Jennifer Yates has a sample of her project below.
Rules and Guidelines: Circle Blog Challenges are open to Cricut Circle Members only. Your project must be newly created for this challenge and include at least 2 Cricut Image Cuts.

My recipe:
Cricut Imagine
Better Together Imagine Cart for frame cut at 7.4 x 11
Blast Off Imagine Cart for numbers cut at 1 x 1.22
CTMH Art Philosophy for banner cut at 6.6 x 1.35
Kate's Kitchen Imagine Cart for "made with love" cut at 2.4 x 1.3
Recollections Chalk Board Paper
Crayola Dry Erase Crayons (They work like chalk and write better!)
Thanks for stopping by and good luck to all my circle friends!