Put on Your Dancing Shoes Card

I've been very, very busy today.  Since the maid (AKA Mommy) was sick last week, the monster we know as laundry has taken over the laundry room.  Today, my job was to tackle that never-ending job.  So far I've gotten 8 loads washed and put away but I still can't see my floor!  Looks like I'll be back at it tomorrow.  The girls and I also worked on disenfecting the house.  We don't want anyone else to get sick.  We make a game of it to see who can wipe the most door knobs, then the most light switches, who can clean the most phones, then the most toys, etc.  By making a game of it, everything seems to get wiped down twice which means less germies and they are so busy competing that I have plenty of time to do my cleaning!  It seems to work well! 

I still used my kids nap time to get some crafting done.  Here is one of the cards I got done.  This card is a cute little dancing bear made completely from scraps.  I'm still working on Sonia's challenge to use up my scraps.  I do miss my paper pads and my selection of SU paper, but I know once I use up most of those scraps, I'll have a great sense of accomplishment (and some free space to buy more paper...hehe)!  Here is my Twinkle Toes card!

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up! Scraps of CS, Stampin' Write Markers and Scallop Oval Punch
• Scrap Pile striped paper
• Twinkle Toes Cricut Cartridge
• Peachy Keen Critter Faces Stamp Set
• My Pink Stamper Pinka-licious Stamp Set
• Signo White Gel Pen
• Stickles

Challenges:

Peachy Keen Stamps Let's Face it Friday Sew Super Cute Challenge 11

Flaunt It Fridays Ch #4 Twinkle Toes

Scraps 4 Fun Use your Scraps Challenge

Thanks for stopping by today and thank you to all of my followers.  I love hearing from all of you!  

Make A Wish Come True Snail Mail Card

This was in an email I received yesterday from the Pink By Design Newsletter...

Make a Wish Come True

Today we have been made aware of a little boy in Iowa who is fighting leukemia.  We would like to participate in helping his wish coming true by encouraging all of you to use your creativity to make this happen.  Here is what was posted on our Facebook page:

"Max Low is a 12 year old from Neola, Iowa. He has been battling cancer for half of his life. His doctors recently told his parents to enjoy the time they have left with him. His wish is to get 1 million cards. He has currently gotten about 23,000. If you would like to help Max get his wish, please send a get well card to the following address: Mighty Max Low, C/O Greg and Bambi Low, PO Box 111, Neola, IA 51559"

There was an article that was written about him in the Omaha World Herald in 2009 you can see it here

I have been very fortunate to be blessed with my children.  I thank God everyday that besides a few broken bones, my kids are generally healthy.  I could not even imagine the pain this family is going through and my heart and prayers go out to them.  I really wanted to make a card to help Mighty Max reach his Max-a-Million goal!  I am going to enter it into several challenges also to try to get the word out to as many people as possible!  Let's help this kid's wish come true!!

I love this fabulous grass paper and also the cobblestone paper that I found in my scrap pile!  My card became more of a "I want to make you Smile today" rather than a "Get Well" card.  Doesn't the Snail sliding down the sidewalk remind you of Spring!  Here is the little Snail Mail message he is carrying!  I'll include my Get Well Message inside the card so it fits into Max's Goal!

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up! Scrap CS, ribbon and punch for the Snail Mail
• Scrap Pile pattern papers
• B is for Boy Cricut Cartridge
• My Pink Stamper More Punnylicious Stamp Set (snail mail)
• Pink By Design Scripted Year Stamp Set (cherish today)
• Signo White Gel Pen
• Google Eyes

Challenges:

Scrappy Moms Stamps Terrific Tuesday Challenge B is for Boy/Sugar & Spice

The Paper Variety Get Well Soon Challenge

Creative Sisters Monday Challenge #3 Think Spring 

Scraps 4 Fun Use Your Scraps Challenge

GAB Challenges #5 Color Challenge (Now this challenge was to use Pear Pizzaz, Early Expresso, and Crumb Cake but I did not have any scraps in these colors big enough to make the Snail.  I tried to use a green, dark brown, and light brown to fit into the challenge and I hope this is close enough.  If not, please feel free to remove my link for this challenge.  Thanks ladies)

Wow!  One card, 5 different challenge themes!  I hope this gets the message out there and I hope it inspires you to make a card for Mighty Max so he can reach his Max a Million Card Goal!  Thanks for stopping by today!

This card was a top pick at GAB Challenges

Thank you ladies!

Piggy Thank You

This is the piggy thank you I made for one of my husbands employees.  Last week while I was sick, he made a batch of soup and sent home 2 qts with my husband.  This was a huge help because then I didn't have to worry about cooking for the kids during the day and they love this soup!  This man makes the best soup and he does it in huge batches for local Churches and club fundraisers.  I wanted to send him a special thank you so the girls and I made him a piggy(because it was Ham&Bean soup)!  I'm sure he'll love it!

Once again, I am using my scraps of paper from my scrap pile for this card!  I am following the Challenge at Sonia's  Scraps 4 Fun.  The challenge is to organize your scrap pieces of paper and use them up over the next 2 months.  It's great recycling!  Check it out and join in the fun!

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up! CS (Card Base)
• Scrap Pile Papers (gingham and textured pink patterns)
• Animal Kingdom Cricut Cart
• Martha Stewart Punch
• My Pink Stamper Even More Punnylicious Stamp Set
• Google Eyes (instead of buttons)

Challenges:

Jitterbuggin' Go Hog Wild Challenge 

**** The link was closed so I missed this challenge but their new challenge is going to be a lot of fun****

Scraps 4 Fun Use your Scraps Challenge

Thanks for stopping by!

Celebrate the Occasion Challenge #4

I am sooooo excited today!  Do you know why?  That's right, it is my very first Design Team Day at Celebrate the Occasion!  Even though I was quite sick last week, I still made something very special for the occasion!  I could not make it to the craft store so I was limited to what I had on hand (although my mother-in-law did stop by ACMoore to pick up some shamrock pattern paper for me...thanks Mom)!
Challenge #4 for Celebrate the Occasion is St. Patrick's Day and the Design Team has some inspirational projects for you!  I created a 2 page layout for the occasion.

I used my sewing machine to stitch the shamrock paper as well as the photo mats.  I embossed with Divine Swirls Cuttlebug folder on the photo mats and added a strip of green glitter ribbon to tuck my pics under.   

I welded a bunch of clovers from Paper Dolls Dress Up together with my Gypsy to get a clover field for this cute little Leprechaun(Simply Charmed) to dance in. I sponged all the clovers and added some on top of the welded image with different brand dimensionals to get several different layers of clovers.  

Now for the bright rainbow, this element did take some thought.  There is not a rainbow on any of the Cricut cartridges that stretches well across a 2 page LO so I needed to make my own rainbow.  At first, I was going to use buttons, but I did not have enough colors on hand.  I needed to find something (beside paper) that I have a lot of and in several colors.  What did I find....RIBBON!!!!  I ran my tape runner across the entire length of the ribbon then carefully layed it out.  I really like the way it turned out! 

The pot of gold is from one of my new favorite carts, Simply Charmed!  I wanted to give it a full look so I layered it.

and for the Gold inside the pot, I cut the background out with gold paper, sponged it then adhered the top layer and stickled the edges!

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up! Solid Cardstock
• Recollections Gold Paper
• Karen Foster Design Pot O Gold Collage Paper
• Paper Dolls Dress Up Cricut Cartridge (Shamrocks)
• Simply Charmed Cricut Cartridge (Leprechaun and Pot of Gold)
• Country Life Cricut Cartridge (Title)
• Divine Swirls Cuttlebug Folder
• Michael's Ribbon
• Stampin' Up! Ink
• Gold Stickles

I did not make it out of the house to print my pictures but here are Mommy's Leprechauns.

Thanks for stopping by to see my first DT project!  I hope you like it!  Stop by Celebrate the Occasion and check out all the other fabulous Design Team projects and be sure to link up your St. Patty's Day project!

It's A Zoo in Here LO

More than Favors Wacky Wednesday #28 Challenge is Zoo Theme!  I thought this would be a fun way to use up some scraps from my 3 year old's second birthday scrapbook.  She had a jungle party and I had made her an 8x8 book.  I couldn't find the 8x8 jungle pad when I made her book so I had to buy it in 12x12.  This left me with a lot of large scraps!  I saw this as a perfect opportunity to follow Sonia's Challenge to use my scraps up over the next 2 months.  Here is my new Zoo LO made with mostly all leftover treasures from the Jungle scrapbook!  Isn't recycling great!



Products Used:

• Scrap Pile Paper (everything but the blue background which is Bazzill)
• Leftover brads and stickers are most likely Sandylion
• Zooballoo Cricut Cartridge (Monkey)
• Animal Kingdom Cricut Cart (Hippo)
• Create A Critter Cricut Cart (Alligator)
• Sugar and Spice Cricut Cart (Elephant)
• Paper Dolls for Everyday Cricut Cart (Zoo entrance and fence)
• Cuttin' Up Cricut Cart (Title)
• Stampin' Up! Ribbon
• White Signo Gel Pen

Challenges:

More than Favors Wacky Wednesday #28 Zoo Theme Challenge

Scraps 4 Fun Use your Scraps Challenge

Thanks for stopping by today!

Scraps 4 Fun Challenge

Sonia at Scraps 4 Fun is having a fabulous challenge!  She is challenging everyone, as well as herself, to organize those scrap piles and use them up over the next 2 months!!!  Wow, I know I have some forgotten treasures in those piles!  Stop by Scraps 4 Fun to see how you can get started with the challenge! 

Here are my scraps.

I got busy on my piles by scraping a few LOs!  I started by pulling out the newest and largest pieces in my stash as well as the cricut images that never worked out.  Here is what I came up with today.

 (I know this Sketch was a challenge I found last weekend before I got sick.  The doodle was sitting on my desk so I went with it.  I don't remember which challenge blog it is for or if it is still going on.  If you recognize it, please let me know.) 

 

 Here is what my trash looked like when I was done!  I need to stop keeping some of the itty bitty pieces!  I just can't help it!  I must admit that my Cricut did feel a little left out of the fun challenge.  I only used him for titles today.  

Now that I am feeling a little better, I will be working from my scraps for some challenges this week.  Over the next two months, we'll see what I have left!  Thanks for the fun challenge Sonia! 

Emilie's First Post

ym  owl card i mak 4 mmomme.  i hang on the  fridge   4 her11! i like the birdyss.  owl love emilie

My oldest E and I were looking at the My Pink Stamper Feathered Friend Challenge entries again this morning.  After looking at a few, she said she wanted to put her owl bird card in there for everyone to see so here is her first post!  She made this with punches and the SU Top Note Die.

She would love to hear what you think!  Thanks for stopping by!

New Challenge Blog

Birthday Sundaes is a weekly challenge blog beginning March 20, 2011.  The goal of Birthday Sundaes is to build up those birthday card stashes!  I just love to make birthday cards and hope you do too! Types of challenges Birthday Sundaes will be hosting are color, supply, recipe, inspiration & technique challenges incorporated into birthday themed cards.

St. Patty's Day Card

I hadn't intended on spending anytime in my craft area today.  I've got the flu but Mommy's do not get sick days.  I can only lay in bed or on the couch for so long before complete chaos takes over the house and I can only play "who can keep their eyes closed the longest" so many times before they lose interest in the competition.  Plus, I have a 1 year old, which means when she is not napping, I have to be somewhat cognitive.  Thank goodness she still loves to nap!!  I've found that I can keep the two older E's interest for quite some time by showing them all your fabulous projects out in bloggerland (and it is minimal energy exerted by me)!  They especially love the blogs with a Playlist.  They always break out in a dance!  The older girls begged all day to "scrap" so here I am with a post for today.  Since my creative powers are at a minimum, I had to combine one card for several challenges.

After making this, my oldest E kept joking around saying "Mommy, are you feeling lucky?  NOOOOO...You're feeling YUCKY...hehehe"  Thanks for the sympathy sweetie!

One of the things I love to do with my dimensionals is use different brands to get different depths.  I used the Stampin' Up! ones on the POT OF GOLD and ones from ACMoore on the sentiment.  I tried to get a good picture so you could see the difference but it didn't show as well as I would like.  I also love these BUTTON brads!  They are from ACMoore and I love to add them when I want a little button!

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up! CS, Dimensionals and Oval Punch
• K & Company Sleepy Tree Pad for the GREEN CLOVER and striped paper
• Recollections Gold Paper
• Paper Dolls Dress Up Cricut Cartridge
• My Creative Time I Believe in Leprechauns Stamp Set
• ACMoore for the Button Brads, Dimensionals and Ribbon (they are all from the stash...I don't remember the brands)
• Signo Gel Pen
• Gold Stickles

Challenges:
Throwback Thursday St. Patrick's Day Theme, Use any Older Cart
Cooking with Cricut Challenge-19 Double Take (Use at least 2 PP, 2 CS, 2 Embellishments)
Creative Cutter Room Lucky to Have You Challenge, Use the 4 Elements (You must go hop through the DT projects to find them)
Die Cuttin Divas Challenge #5 Sketch Challenge
Paper Variety Color Challenge, Use 50% Green

Wow,  I can't believe I got that all into one post!  My bed is calling!  Thanks for stopping by today!  

Top Chef at Cooking with Cricut



Feathered Friend Card

I'm not feeling too well today!  I am trying to play some of the fun challenges from this week but my bed is calling my name!   I did try to make a feathered friend card for My Pink Stamper's challenge.   It did not turn out as nice as I would have liked but I'm not sure when I am going to crawl out of bed again so I'm linking it!

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up! CS, Ribbon and Punches
• My Pink Stamper Tweetie Hoo Puns Stamp Set
• Simply Charmed Cricut Cartridge
• Tiny Mosaic Cuttlebug Folder

Thanks for stopping by!

Earth Day Card

This weeks challenge # 3 at Celebrate the Occasion is Any Occasion (use the colors GREEN, WHITE, and one optional color).  When I heard green, I automatically thought of Earth Day which is next month!  In going with an Earthy theme, I chose BROWN for my optional color.

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up! CS, So Green Stamp Set and Oval Punch
• K&Company Sleepy Tree Paper Pad
• Create A Critter Cricut Cartridge

If you haven't already, stop by Celebrate the Occasion and check out all the inspiration from Design Team 1 and link up your Green, White, and Optional Color project!  Thanks for stopping by today!

Exciting News!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last week Celebrate the Occasion announced their new Design Team.  I was very excited to see the entire team full of very creative and talented ladies and a few of my good blogger friends.  I was however a bit disappointed that I was not chosen but I did not get myself down about it.  I figured I would just keep crafting and posting away and try a little harder next time.  So I got to work on all the fun challenges out in bloggerland last week and I made sure to submit my challenge entry for CTO "Anything Goes Birthday" challenge.   Well, let me tell you that good things do come to people who wait because I got an email tonight (maybe lastnight depending on when I get this posted) that my submission had ended up in a Spam folder and hadn't been received.  They asked if I was still interested in joining the Design Team!  Of course I accepted it!!!!!  Here is the card I submitted for the Design Team Call.

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up Solid Cardstock, Top Note Die and Birthday Sentiment
• Bo Bunny Double Dot paper
• Create A Critter Cricut Cartridge
• Country Life Cricut Cartridge
• My Pink Stamper Punny-licious and More Punny-licious Stamp sets
• Peachy Keen Critter Faces and Everyday Character Faces Stamp sets
• Signo Gel Pen

I am so excited to be designing with such a talented group and I can't wait to share my crafty projects with all of you!  Be sure to stop by Celebrate the Occasion every Tuesday for a fun new challenge!  I can't wait to see your projects!!

Have a Great Day!