Princess Happy Birthday

This is my Shop Pumpkin Spice post for the day! I hope you enjoy it! :) 

When I was making this card late one night, I couldn't help but think, "What would Shantaie Fowler do?". It was definitely inspired by her style which I sometimes share! I added sparkle to the tops of the towers and Glossy Accents to all parts with roses on them. The ribbon treatment was definitely inspired by her! Check out her blog if you haven't! She's a super sweetie. 

Recipe:

• Patterned Paper:
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Breeze "Fun Day" Borderline Paper™ (brown background)
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Blush "Sweet" Eiffel Paper™ (writing background)
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Sunshine "Two of Us" Lovely Paper™ (newsprint background)
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Blush "Better" Blossom Paper™ (light pink)
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Sunshine "Lovely" Sewing Paper™ (light turquoise polka dot)
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Blush "Favorite" Party Paper™ (tone on tone beige)
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Blush "Sweet" Bouquet Paper™ (pink floral)
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Birthday Crazy™
• Ink: Memento in Rich Cocoa™
• Button: My Mind's Eye: Indie Chic: Saffron "Dreams" Decorative Buttons™
• Stickles in Diamond™
• Glossy Accents™
• Imaginisce Colored Foam Tape in White™
• Cricut Cartridge: Wrap it Up™
• Ribbon: Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Tickle me Pink™
• Twine: PTI

Mom's Birthday Card

***I am away on vacation right now in a place that doesn't really have internet, so forgive me if I don't get back to you if you have any questions! We are sneaking in a pre-baby mini getaway in the Santa Cruz Mountains (the redwoods). It's absolutely gorgeous!***

Happy Father's Day to all of the FABULOUS fathers out there including my dad and my husband (father to be!)!!!


I made this for my mom's birthday. She is a gardener and when I saw this kit, I knew this was JUST perfect for her. 

I totally fell in love with this Simple Stories line and quite literally have been waiting for it to come out for months! So I was tickled! 

I used the Artful Delight June Sketch below:

Recipe: Artful Delight June Kit (there were a few more left when I typed this up! Go check!)
Cartridge: Country Life
Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Birthday Crazy™

Fashionably late. Hope it was great!

***Note: I am SOOO sorry, but I am getting super spammed with super bad stuff. So I have turned on word verification TEMPORARILY and will be taking it down in a week or two - hopefully weeding out the anonymous spammers. I hope you understand! I personally hate word verification, so it won't be up long!***

Hello! This is my Shop Pumpkin Spice post which means I got almost EVERYTHING on this card from Shop Pumpkin Spice! It looks like she is sold out of one of the On the Bright Side Paper Pads, but the other one is the one I have used more anyway! I love them both. 

I had a GREAT time making this card and actually spent two days working on it (of crafty time... I didn't stare at it the WHOLE day. lol.) So I am really pleased with the result! I hope you like it too! 

I chose to use the two different embossing powders on this card and line them up - a tricky thing, but it was really fun from concept to execution. 

***SORRY! Taken down for publication in Cricut Magazine - the December issue!***

Recipe:

• Patterned Paper:
• My Mind's Eye: On the Bright Side - One 6x6 Paper Pad™
• My Mind's Eye: On the Bright Side - Two 6x6 Paper Pad™
• i-rock by Imaginisce™
• Hot rocks in Pink, Black, and Clear™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Birthday Crazy™
• White Gel Pen
• Brads:
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found 2: Breeze "Everywhere" Decorative Brads™
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found 2: Sunshine "Sunshine" Decorative Brads™
• Card base: Canvas Corp Square Cards with Envelopes™
• Cartridges:
• Sweethearts™
• Everyday Paper Dolls™
• Create-a-Critter™
• Cuttlebug Folder: A2 D'vine Swirl Emboss Folder™
• Ribbon: From Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Light Teal

Artful Delight Sketch Challenge - Happy Birthday

I made this for the Artful Delight sketch challenge for March! 

I LOVE Artful Delight and they put together some GREAT kits! They are having a Design Team call right now as well as this sketch contest where you could win April's kit! Be sure to check it out! I loved being on Leanne's DT and  highly recommend trying out! 

Recipe:

• Cricut Cartridge: Elegant Edges™
• Patterned Paper:
• Echo Park: This and That: Graceful "Dots"™ (brown)
• Echo Park: This and That: Graceful "Bingo"™ (teal dots)
• Echo Park: This and That: Graceful "Journaling Cards"™ (light teal grid)
• Echo Park: This and That: Graceful "Flower Vine"™ (paper grid)
• Echo Park: This and That: Graceful "Border Strips"™ (pink polkadot)
• Echo Park: This and That: Graceful "Teal Damask"™
• Brad: Echo Park: This and That: Graceful Decorative Brads™
• Seam Binding: Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Angel Wings
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Birthday Crazy™
• Ink: Momento in Rich Cocoa™
• ATG tape™

And since SO many of you were SO sweet to my husband with all of your encouragement on his race, here is a picture of him just before the race and then just after with his finishing medal! I am SOOO proud!!! He did great! He finished either 46th or 47th out of 500!!!

Phil's Birthday Card!

***Don't forget to check out and enter into the Clip It Up Ribbon Organizer giveaway! You can read about it here! I'll choose a winner on Friday! :) ***

I made this for my best friend's (Kourtni's) husband's birthday. It's not for a little while yet,but I hope he likes it! :) 

I've been missing doing shaped cards... You might see some more coming out of me in the next few weeks. :) 

Everything here is from Shop Pumpkin Spice except for the "28" stickers. LOVE SPS!! The links are in the recipe below to the specific products. 

Recipe:

• Cartridge: Wild Card™
• Cricut Craft Room (file available upon request... if I can figure out how to send it! haha)
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Birthday Crazy™
• Patterned Paper:
• My Mind's Eye: Good Day Sunshine "Seaside Stripe Paper"™ (blue dots)
• My Mind's Eye: Good Day Sunshine "Writing on the Wall Paper"™ (red dots)
• My Mind's Eye: Good Day Sunshine "Bold Dots Paper"™ (multi colored dots)
• Solid Cardstock: Bazzill Basics in Wheat™(card base)
• "27" Basic Grey Basics Micro Mono Stickers™
• Button: My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Sunshine "Memories" Buttons™(this one is "backwards")
• Twine: My MInd's Eye: Lime Twist: Out of the Blue "Playful" Twine™
• Ink: Momento in Rich Cocoa™

I am linking this up to the Cricut Circle Magazine Challenge: to use a sketch in the magazine or off the blog. I used the one in the intro to the magazine. As I don't know what we are allowed to share from it and what we aren't, I am not posting it here. :( sorry! 

Pumpkin Spice Blog Hop ***Giveaway Alert***

Today we are hopping along!

You should have gotten here from the Shop Pumpkin Spice blog and I am the first on the hop! Hop around to all of the (5) girls. We each have a giveaway so make sure to leave comments!!!! 

Our theme for this hop is Echo Park so you will see us all using whatever collection we felt like using! I chose Victoria Gardens and Dots and Stripes Metropolitan. 

Recipe:

• Cartridge: Pagoda™
• Patterned Paper:
• Echo Park Victoria Gardens: Honeysuckle/Pink Blossom™ (solid light pink)
• Echo Park Victoria Gardens: Journaling Cards™ (pink and white damask)
• Echo Park Victoria Gardens: Wild Rose/Bluebird™ (solid dark pink)
• Echo Park Dots and Stripes: Metropolitan: Leaf Small Dot™ (green and white polka dots)
• Echo Park Dots and Stripes: Metropolitan: Leaf Large Dot™ (stripes for flower stem)
• Solid Cardstock: PTI (white) and Cricut (dark green)
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Birthday Crazy™
• Ink: Colorbox in black
• Martha Stewart Crystal Tinsel Glitter
• Foam Dimensional Tape
• Ribbon from Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Angel Wings (please let her know that I sent you if you order from her! Thanks!)
• White Gel Pen

 And THIS is a sneak peek at Lenae's kit this month! Hop along to go check out her spooky kit!!! It's going to be FABULOUS! It's called, "I've put a spell on you!" Isn't that so cute!?!

Make sure to leave a comment on this post to win.......

My Pink Stamper: Friend-tastic! I chose this stamp set because I miss my best friend Kourt SOOO much since she moved away! So I'll be using it to send cards to her and you can use it to send cards to your friends too! 

Now hop along to my sweet friend June's blog!!! 

My Mind's Eye Newsletter 2.0

I promised you the other project that I made for the MME Newsletter and here it is! :) 


Don't forget tomorrow is the My Pink-alicious Blog Hop! Come back as I think I will have a prize for you!


Happy Birthday

The links to the My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found: Breeze products are where you can pre-order them. Keep checking and I'm sure the links will be up soon! :)

Recipe:

• Cartridge: Christmas Solutions™ (This cartridge is retired, but I'm sure you can still find it somewhere! I love it!)
• Patterned Paper:
• My Mind’s Eye: Lost and Found Two: Breeze “Precious” Train Paper™
• My Mind’s Eye: Lost and Found Two: Breeze “Everywhere” Correspond Paper™
• My Mind’s Eye: Lost and Found Two: Breeze “Everywhere” Mirrors Paper™
• My Mind’s Eye: Lost and Found Two: Breeze “Fun Day” Borderline Paper™
• Brad: My Mind’s Eye: Lost and Found Two: Breeze “Everywhere”
• Cardstock: Off-white, olive green, and brown. 
• Foam Dimensionals
• Sentiment Stamp: My Pink Stamper: Birthday Crazy™
• Crinkled Ribbon: Kris Swain’s Etsy Store in Ivy (please tell her I sent you!)
• Ink: Momento in Dark Cocoa
• Stickles in Diamond

Instructions:

1. Using the Christmas Solutions Cartridge, cut the present at 3” out of “Fun Day” Borderline Paper™. 
2. Cut the out of off white paper. 
3. Use the present to trace around it on olive green cardstock to create the blackout for the present. 
4. Add the off-white pieces - pop dotting the bow.
5. Cut a background piece of “Everywhere” Mirrors Paper at 5 3/8” x 4 1/8”
6. Cut two pieces of brown cardstock at 3.25” x 4” and 3.5” x 2.75”.
7. Cut a corresponding piece of “Precious” Train Paper at  3 1/8” x 3 7/8”. 
8. Cut a corresponding piece of “Everywhere” Correspond Paper at 3 3/8” x 2 5/8”. 
9. Adhere corresponding pieces to the brown cardstock. 
10.  Ink around edges of “Everywhere” Mirrors Paper.
11.  Adhere to card base.
12.  Stamp sentiment with the brown ink on the “Everywhere” Correspond Paper layer.
13. Tie a bow with the crinkled ribbon around the same layer.
14.  Adhere the “Precious” Train Paper layer at an angle to the card base.
15.  Next adhere the “Everywhere” Correspond Paper layer.
16.  Add the brad to the center of the bow on the present. 
17.  Adhere the present using foam dimensional tape to the card.
18.  Using Stickles in Diamond, stickle the ribbon of the bow. 
19.  Give it to someone on their birthday! :)

My Mind's Eye Happy Birthday Hop and **HUGE Giveaway Alert**!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the My Mind's Eye blog which is celebrating it's 2nd birthday! To celebrate they are giving away one of EVERYTHING from the CHA release! It's such a huge giveaway!!! Check out the blog for more details! 


You should have gotten here from Tamara's blog. If not, start at the beginning at the My Mind's Eye blog and hop in order! :) 


Be sure to copy down the words as you go along because you will need to email them to Amber in order to have a chance at that grand prize! Also, be sure to leave comments on each stop as well as the MME blog so that you could also maybe win a collection of your choice! AND there is my giveaway too!!! 


This is also a "word of the month" post so my word is CELEBRATION! Since I will be at CHA when you see this, birthdays, 4th of July, *hopefully* hitting 1000 followers, AND being a My Mind's Eye Guest Designer this is definitely a month to celebrate for me! And maybe for you! Scroll down to see the prize I am giving away!  

Sweet

Recipe:

• Cartridges: 
• Cake Basics™ (cupcake)
• Birthday Bash™(tag)
• Patterned Paper:
• My Mind's Eye: Life of the Party "Sweet" Bon Bon Paper™(both stripes and polka dots)
• Key: My Mind's Eye: Stella and Rose: Hazel "Lovely" Bits and Pieces™
• Brad: My Mind's Eye: Stella and Rose: Gertie "Delightful" Decorative Brads™
• Sticker sentiment: My Mind's Eye: Life of the Party "Be You" Accessories Sheet™
• Stickles in Diamond

Happy Birthday
This is the birthday card I made for my co-father (he's my father in law)'s birthday! 

Recipe:

• Cartridge: Nifty Fifties™
• Patterned Paper: 
• My Mind's Eye: American Made "Petticoat Plaid Paper" (blue plaid background and red polka dot)
• My Mind's Eye: American Made "Words of Devotion Paper" (red stripe)
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Birthday Crazy™
• Stickles Platinum and Yellow™
• Glossy Accents
• Raffia from Michael's

Make a Wish

Recipe:

• Patterned Paper:
• My Mind's Eye: Hip Hop Hurray Girl Theme "Party Time" Paper™ (banner background)
• My Mind's Eye: Hip Hop Hurray Girl Theme "Happy Day" Paper™ (blue polka dot)
• Die Cuts: My Mind's Eye: Hip Hop Hurray Girl Accessories™ (make a wish, label, and cupcake)
• Stickles in Diamond and Turquoise. 
• Crinkled Ribbon from Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Dusty Rose™
• Foam Dimensionals
• Black pen

To CELEBRATE I am going to giveaway the boy Hip-Horray collection by My Mind's Eye! Leave a message on this post and I will pick a winner in about a week! I'll announce it here on my blog so be sure to check back here to see if you've won! If you are international, I just ask that you pay the shipping please. :) 

Now hop along to Trisha's blog! Don't forget to leave me a comment for my giveaway and write down my word so that you might be able to win the HUGE prize from My Mind's Eye!