Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Fred She Said Honey Bee Showcase!

Good Wednesday mornin' to everyone! After that long weekend last week I am ready to get to the end of this week! 

We have been SO blessed that Fred She Said has decided to sponsor us Honey Bees!!! We got to pick out a couple of our favorite Christmas digital stamps and I just love this Christmas Cardinal! Wanda showed a great tutorial on how these beautiful images could be used during our Monday Motivation


Alright... I admit it... I don't enjoy coloring very much. I really enjoyed it as a child. Maybe I just got colored out! So I was thrilled that Fred She Said makes pre-colored images of their digital stamps. This is one such image.

I just printed it out on my computer twice. I cut out the cardinal, stuck it to some white card stock, popped it on top of the other image, and added glossy accents.

The image really does all of the work on this card. 

Products:
Digital Image: Fred She Said Christmas Cardinal™
Paper: My Mind's Eye: I Believe "Thin Stripes Glittered Paper"
Ribbon: Paper Trey Ink: Satin: Dark Chocolate™
Stickles in Christmas Red™
Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Winter Punnies™
Ink: Momento in Cocoa™
Adhesive: Glue Arts Extreme adhesive squares™ (for the bow) and Glue Glider Pro with Perma Tac™

Fly on over to Betty Bee's Buzz and see what the other Honey Bees have created for you! Also, there is  a giveaway going on from November 15- December 15th and you just have to leave comments!

I decided to enter this into Wee Memories Challenge #33- use ribbon! :) 

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Sunday, November 28, 2010

Want2Scrap Blog Hop!

Happy Monday to everyone! :) 


Passionately Artistic is teaming up with Want2Scrap for this fabulous blog hop! 

Here's how the owner of the Passionately Artistic blog describes Want2Scrap bling: 

Want2Scrap Scrapbook Manufacturer is proudly sponsoring the Passionately Artistic blog hop! 
Let me tell you, the line of rhinestone bling and embellishments they currently have is fabulous. 
Seriously! If you just can't stop yourself from putting bling on anything that doesn't move, you need to go visit them. Want to know the best part? Their prices are really great too.

I have to say their adhesive backed bling is really fabulous. It even stuck to my glitter paper below! I used the LeCreme Baby Pearls.


Make sure to leave a comment on this post and all of the other hoppers' posts as two of the blogs have hidden prizes and you have to have left a comment on all of ours to find out which ones! 

There are TWO grand prizes which are $25 to Want2Scrap! One will be announced on the Passionately Artistic blog and the other will be announced on the Want2Scrap blog on December 18th!

This is a fabulous way to jump start our 12 days of Christmas celebration starting on December 1st. So join us then for some more fun, inspiration, and Christmas gift giving ideas!

One Christmas Tradition:

In the family that I married into (LOVE them) we get little silly gifts for each other and write poems about them. We read the poems out loud and then the person has to guess what their present is.

The first one that my husband gave to me was a pasta measuring tool. There are little holes of different sizes that says how much pasta goes through the hole to feed x amount of people. (Maybe I should take a picture of this tool as well so you don't think I'm crazy.) --- You see, when we were dating, I used to make WAYYY to much pasta for just the two of us! It was really embarrassing. So this was a perfect and funny gift. I hope you are enjoying reading the other Christmas traditions along the hop!


If you just found us, hop on over to Passionately Artistic to begin the hop. 

If you got here from Dana's blog, you are on the right track. Now head on over to Melissa's blog and see her fabulous album!! 

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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Flour, Sugar, Brown Sugar - Home decor project

This project was really fast! 

I did this for the Honey Bee Showcase over at Betty Bee's Buzz. We Honey Bees (the DT) use the tutorial presented on Monday to come up with something that is inspired by the tutorial for Wednesday. 

This week I decided to do a home decor project. 

This was my first time working with felt and I did it so that this would qualify for one of the Cricut Circle contests going on. I had a great time with it and I think I will definitely be using it again in future projects! 

OUT FOR PUBLICATION!!! :)

Recipe:
Jars from Michaels
Cuttlebug
Cricut
Vinyl: EAD Designs™ (of course!)
Cartridges: Straight from the Nest™, Cake Basics™
Embossed felt from Michaels
Card Stock: Paper Trey Ink: Ripe Avocado and Spring Moss™
Embossing folder: Perfectly Paisley™
Scissors
Adhesive: Glue Arts Perma Tac™
Ribbon: Paper Trey Ink Perfect Match in Ripe Avocado -Saddle Stitch™

OUT FOR PUBLICATION!!! :)


Now pop on over to Betty Bee's Buzz to see what the other Honey Bees have done using Betty's tutorial!

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Sunday, November 21, 2010

My Best Friend Kourt's cards and blog awards! :)

So, I am beaming with pride - these are cards from my best friend Kourtni (yes, she is also named *Courtney*).

She wanted to show some support for my new DT (Artful Delight) and wanted to play along with the sketch. I've already warned Leeanne (owner of Artful Delight) that her interpretation was a little... artistic. :) I'm so proud of the way she incorporated all of the elements and made it her own.

Here is the sketch:


Here is her card:
So the title and the holly leaf are easy to get because they are in the correct location. The snow is the strip that goes across the bottom. The North Pole sign is the square and the white embossed snowflakes with the rhinestones in the middle are the 6 boxes. I told you it was artistic! 

She also made this card that day:

Check out her faux stitching and you can't see it that well here, but COLIN is done in white embossing powder (we rubbed it in the versa mark and added the powder) and then she used the blue stickles on the bottom half of the card to look like snow since he is a winter baby.

And here is a picture of the two of us laughing - as always :). The blinds are down in the middle of the day because Kourt had her eyes dilated. So the pictures were a little dark, but she was crafting anyway! :) 

Now, I was given this blog award from Julieta a while ago. THANK YOU!

I was also given one by Jen today (THANK YOU) and that has instructions as well. Here it is!

1. Thank and link back to the person who awarded you this (done).
2. Share 8 things about yourself.
3. Pay it forward to 8 bloggers that you have recently discovered
4. Contact those bloggers and tell them about their awards

8 things about me... hmm.. okay...
1. I am married to the most wonderful and handsome man a girl could ask for and I feel lucky everyday.
2. *When I grow up* I want to be a Hello Thursday girl and a My Pink Designer!!... maybe a Cricut Circle DT member, but I'm not sure yet. :)
3. My favorite color is olive green.
4. I'm aware that my blog URL has a punctuation error and it drives me crazy every day but all the blog names I wanted were taken. I made a decision to have a punctuation error and I wish I didn't. But sometime I will upgrade and you better believe it will be grammatically correct. 
5. I'm a redhead... naturally... I didn't used to like it but now I am finally starting to appreciate it. I think this is mostly because my husband loves it and because we are the last ones to lose our hair color. The average is around 70 years old! 
6.  I LOVE flowers.
7. I am a fiercely loyal friend. I often get my feathers ruffled when someone treats one of my friends poorly. I get the "momma bear" syndrome. 
8. I confess I used to thing that blogging was dumb and I didn't get why people did it.... now that I have "met" some of the nicest people out there - I can't tell you how much of an advocate of blogging I am now! You girls are the BEST and I appreciate your encouragement, support, and friendship every day. THANK YOU.

8 blogs... hmm.... 
Minta: http://mintascreations.blogspot.com/
Cristi: http://scrappin5littlecupcakes.blogspot.com/
Carol: http://carolssweetcreations.blogspot.com/
Emily: http://coolcricutcreations.blogspot.com/
Denise: http://lalasworldblog.blogspot.com/
Christy: http://sammysayshi.blogspot.com/
Denine: http://pumpkinspiceblog.blogspot.com/

These ladies are getting the blog awards because they are always there to encourage me. There are many more that I would like to give out, but this will have to do for now. Thank you so much!


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Imaginisce Sketch Challenge

I had a really tough time getting pictures of these as it has been raining for days. So the colors look washed out to me. :( They will have to do though! 

You all know I don't normally do layouts, but I was making this for another thing... and didn't like how this came out compared to what I was going for. It's so busy. It didn't have to be. Some of the other ladies made it much simpler, but of course I went over the top. Anyway, it's for the Imaginisce Sketch Challenge. I did more work than I would like to admit on this for 2 days. There is a lot of detail once you start to look at it. Okay, enough talking, here it is:





Recipe:
Paper: Imaginisce Cottage Christmas™ line - everything but the white paper which is Bazzill Diamond White card stock
Ribbon: Imaginisce Cottage Christmas™
Chipboard: Imaginisce Cottage Christmas™
Snow Flowers: Jolly™
i-rock and hot rocks - Crystal™
Rub-ons (title): Imaginisce Cottage Christmas Season's Greeting Rub-on words™
Cartridge: Cake Basics™
Embossing: Snowflakes™, D'vine Swirls
Glitter Glue: Studio G™
Button Twine: Paper Trey Ink™



I'm not ready to show it just yet, but here is a sneak peak of the layout that I decided to go with instead. They asked that it be very "me" and the one I decided on is much more "me" :)


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Friday, November 19, 2010

It's a Boy!

Happy Friday! 


The challenge was to use black, blue, and one other color. It was also to use the Life's a Beach cart, but I don't have that, so you were allowed to use one other cart. I chose Cake Basics™. I was thinking of cartridges that had an umbrella on them so that at least it could have been found on Life's a Beach. 


I made this card in 25 minutes - which is basically a record for me. It usually takes me about an hour a card because I can't commit to something and have to change it around. I had an idea in my head for this one and just executed. It was a really nice feeling that I am going to try to repeat. :)

Recipe:
Cartridge: Cake Basics™
Card Stock: Paper Trey Ink™"Spring Rain", "Enchanted Evening", "True Black", and "Lemon Tart"
Design Paper: KaiserCraft: Iris
Stickles in "Waterfall" from Artful Delight's November Kit
Glossy Accents™
Half "pearls" by Imaginisce + i-rock™
White Gelly Roll™ gel pen

This card also qualifies for Kim's Off the Wall Craftiness Challenge. Here is the inspiration photo:

Have a fabulous Friday!

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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Artful Delight Shape Card

I have been having such a great time on the design team for Artful Delight! The ladies are fabulous and Leeanne is so fun to work with! So, on a recent flight to North Carolina I designed this on my Gypsy™ and I am so glad that Leeanne likes it! :) 


Recipe:
Artful Delight November Kit
Gypsy™
Cartridge: Winter Woodland™ (the font) 
Brads: My Mind's Eye: Madison Avenue "Happily Ever After" Decorative Brads™
Glossy Accents™
Paper Trey Ink Lavender Moon

Design Notes:
I used Glossy Accents™ where the lavender cracks are. I used the Stickles that came in the kit to dot on all of the polka dots. Finally, I used a hot glue gun to attach the flowers to the card. I used my acrylic stamping block to help keep it upright for the photo - that is definitely a downside to shape cards. ;)

Here is a photo flat on the table:

Have a beautiful day! 

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