LOVE and a ***giveaway***!!!

What?!? No stamps and no crinkled ribbon? I must be sick! haha. No, I was just having some fun challenging myself! 

Getting ready for Valentine's day, I think that we should definitely have a giveaway!!!! Why? Because I would like to shower love on YOU! (get it? That's why there is an umbrella on the card. But I couldn't fit the whole "showering love on you" on the outside so that will go on the inside of the card.)

Recipe:

• Cricut Cartridges: 
• Sophie™ (Cricut Circle Exclusive)
• Everyday Pop-up Cards™
• Patterned Paper: Echo Park Paper: Yours Truly™
• Solid Cardstock: 
• Echo Park Paper: Yours Truly™
• Bazzill Basics in Beetle Black™
• Vellum: PTI
• ATG tape
• Black Pen
• White gel pen
• Stickles in Diamond™
• Sentiment Stickers: Echo Park Paper: Yours Truly™
• Brads: My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Rosy "Ordinary" Brads™
• Foam dimensional tape

I am giving away an ENTIRE collection pack of Echo Park Paper Yours Truly!!! 

I picked this up at Shop Pumpkin Spice HERE! If you don't win, make sure to pick it up! It's darling! :) 

Please leave a comment to win! I'll pick the winner in a week or so. So check back to see if you have won! If you are international, I just ask that you pay the shipping over what it would cost  me in the states. If that's okay with you, then enter away! :) 

Holly Jolly

HELLO!!! It may seem like I have TOTALLY fallen off the face of the planet, but the last week has looked like this: We made the decision last Monday to rent out our house to some AWESOME people. We had been considering this anyway since you know the size of a house I live in (450 square feet) so the timing was just a little moved up. They needed to be in by the following Monday (this past Monday). So we talked about it Monday night, agreed on a rental price Tuesday, and signed the lease on Wednesday night. We packed up and moved out in 5 days flat! It was insanity.

On top of that I got selected for Jury Duty (of course!) AND I got picked for a criminal trial. Luckily it only lasted 48 hours and it was a hung jury. But it definitely made the crunch time a little more crunched. 

After a busy weekend and moving everything into a second storage unit, we packed up our two cars an headed down to Monterey (where I am now) to hang out with my parents while we figure out what we are going to do next. I can't share what's going on with my husband's work yet, but let's just say that our options are international - which could be a fun adventure! 

I must admit, I really enjoy routine and "normalcy" and nesting in my home so I feel a bit lost, but I also feel excited about the adventure ahead and can't wait to see where it takes us!

Now, onto my project.... :) 

I made this for my Pumpkin Spice post for this week! 

I also made this for the Cricut Circle Blog Challenge: Monochromatic and use one of our Circle Exclusive Cartridges. There is the TINIEST green line in the striped pattern in the background paper for the tree, but I hope it doesn't count! I was working hard with this challenge to make "monochromatic" not look monochromatic. I wanted to show how you could still make it more fun. And since neutrals don't count, I incorporated a lot of them in! 

I took this pic on the wood pile outside of my mom's house. I helped cut and stack all of that wood! :) 

Recipe:

• Cartridges: 
• Sophie™
• Elegant Edges™
• Patterned Paper:
• Echo Park Paper: Season's Greetings: Small Poinsettias™(red on tree)
• Echo Park Paper: Season's Greetings: Swirls™(filigree background neutral layer)
• Echo Park Paper: Season's Greetings: Journaling Cards™ (stripped tree background)
• Echo Park Paper: Dots and Stripes Christmas: Sleigh Ride Small Dot (red polka dot)
• Echo Park Paper: Season's Greetings Brad Assortment (red brad at top) 
• Ribbon from Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Ivory™(Please tell her I sent you!)
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Winter Treats and Sayings™