Flower Kaylee

Today's card has another digi, Flower Kaylee, that I just had so much fun coloring up!! I'm sort of in a freckle mood lately too! hehe!! I also used one of the cut files from Some Odd Girl~ Beautiful, Amazing, Fabulous. I was impressed with the difference between a fine point Cricut blade and the regular one. It cut so wonderfully! I am hopeful to use more of these cut files that Some Odd Girl has available!!

Thanks for stopping by and stop by Monday for the showcase of the new release from Some Odd Girl!!

Stamps~ Some Odd Girl~digi~ Flower Kaylee,
Ink~
Cardstock~ SU Call Me Clover, SU Daffodil Delight, SU Pacific Point
Designer Paper~  
Other Goodies~ copics, prismacolor pencils, MFT Stitched Mini Scallop Rectangle STAX, MFT Blueprints 27, 

Foxy Tia

Today's card uses a super fun digi from Some Odd Girl, Foxy Tia! She's all ready for autumn just like I am!!

Did you know that Some Odd Girl has cut files? I didn't until I saw DT member Jo using them! I am excited that I figured out how to use them on my Cricut so today I'm showing the "hello" that was cut from the Loopy Sentiments V4!! so much fun and so many possibilities now!!

Have a fabulous day!

Stamps~ SOG~digi~ Foxy Tia,
Ink~
Cardstock~ Copic Xpress-it, SU Early Espresso, 
Designer Paper~ SU Painted Seasons designer series paper,
Other Goodies~ copics, SOG Loopy Sentiments V4 cut files, MFT Stitched Scallop Basic Edges,

The first layouts of 2017!

I can't even begin to tell you how much fun I had starting my scrappy journey again! I think I might have even caught myself smiling!!

I fought and fought to get decent photos of the layouts but then I just decided it's not worth it. I am a person who likes to share my creations but I'm not going to lose the joy of creating over getting the perfect photo of the creation. 

So these are not the best photos but I think they will still give you the idea of the layout! 

For all of the layouts I made yesterday I used the CTMH Make It From Your Heart series of books. I love CTMH when I'm scrappin! All of these pages use retired papers and accents from CTMH.

The next two layouts go together. I was so pleased with myself that I stamped on these layouts!! I used the SU Gorgeous Grunge for the little "dirt" spots! I enjoyed using some of my embossing folders as well!

Have an amazing day! Sam took a few days off for us to have more family fun so today we're off to see the movie Sing and then tomorrow we're off to the zoo. Of course I plan on getting in some crafty time too!!

See you back here soon!

Kraftin' Kimmie Peeks Day 2

Welcome back for Day TWO of the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps DECEMBER previews!!! Wait 'til ya see the TWO new Moonlight Whispers stamp sets by Annie Rodrigue!! Check out these musical chicks!!!

Today the Krafty Girls and guests are thrilled to share with you....ROCK STAR and ROCKER CHICK!! You'll find so many glamorous creations on today's hop featuring both new images and sentiments from the sets! We know you are just going to LOVE these awesome ladies and be inspired by all the incredible designs!! Each set comes with one fabulous rocker image stamp, plus THREE coordinating sentiments!!

          

For my card today I used the super awesome Rocker Chick!! These new stamps are just so fun and so versatile!! 

Below you will find all the Krafty Girls and Guests who have goodies to show you today and while you're visiting their blogs, be sure to leave some love at each stop because one lucky stamper is going to WIN some $$ to the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Shop!! Woohoo!!!

ALL of our DECEMBER stamps will be available on Saturday night at the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Shop!!! Be sure to join us for an hour of celebrating the new stamp sets, fun and prizes on Sunday afternoon at our LIVE ONLINE RELEASE PARTY!! Come hang out with the Krafty Girls, Guests and me (if I can get off work to be there!)!!

Happy hoppin'!!

Little Orphan Annie

Welcome to another Wonderful Wednesday challenge!! We hope you can play along!! As always....it's ANYTHING GOES!! Break out your Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps and get krafty!!

We want EVERYONE to be able to play along so your submission can use ANY stamp and can be any theme, any style, any design and it can be a card, a scrapbook page, an altered item....you name it!! It must be a NEW creation and you can enter until December 16th at midnight! At the end of the month one random winner will be chosen from all the submissions for the whole month and will receive a $20 Gift Card to the shop!!! What do you think.....wanna WIN?? Let's see your krafty stuff!!

A few reminders, there's still a few days left to get your entries in for the Krafty Guest submission! The whole Krafty team is busy putting on the finishing touches on the December release cause peeks start TOMORROW!!!! Tune in here to check them out! Be sure you've joined the Kraftin Kimmie Krafty Friends fb group so you will be "in the know" for all things Krafty!

For my card today I used Little Orphan Annie. I fell in love with this stamp when I saw THIS card when the stamp was first released. She just makes me happy!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you'll join in the Wonderful Wednesday Challenge!

Stamps~ Kraftin' Kimmie-Little Orphan Annie
Ink~ Memento Tuxedo Black, SU Poppy Parade
Cardstock~ misc white, Copic Xpress It, SU Daffodil Delight
Designer Paper~ A Muse polka dot paper
Other Goodies~ copics, embossing folders, rhinestones, sun cut with Cricut Explore,

Giddy Up Cowgirl

My Belle is obsessed with horses these days and all things cowgirl so I had fun making her a little door hanger today.

Can't wait for her to get home from school and see it! Have a good rest of your day!

If all else fails, add pink, sparkle and a butterfly!

Stamps~ MFT- Western Backgrounds, MFT- PI Cowgirl, Peachy Keen Basic Paper Doll Faces
Ink~ SU Sahara Sand, CTMH Black
Cardstock~ misc cardstocks
Designer Paper~
Other Goodies~ Cricut Explore---using Paper Dolls Dress Up and an old SVG file, prismacolor pencils, copic multi-liner 

Two layouts for today!

I had hoped to get more pages done today but there was lots of excitement. First Sam and I bought our first ever theater tickets! We're going to see War Horse in Omaha this weekend for our fancy schmancy early anniversary date.

Next Sam got another interview with the railroad. He's had to turn down several others but he's going to this one. Crossing our fingers in a few weeks when he goes for it!

And then tomorrow night Matthew will be inducted into the National Junior Honor Society! 

So many happy things!!

Here's my two layouts from today~

Have a super fabulous night full of smiles!

If all else fails, add pink, sparkle and a butterfly

First layouts using my Cricut Explore

I must say, I am totally smitten with my new Cricut Explore! it cuts so nice, is quiet and the software is easy peasy to work with. I've been smiling all night while working on some layouts.

Continuing on with the zoo trip I started the other day. (Yes, I will have a zillion zoo layouts!) 

If you've owned a Cricut before you know how frustrating it was to get a good cut and you couldn't cut things very small. Well, they have fixed those issues by 200%!! The title on the More Desert Dome Animals was cut at 1 inch and on super thin, super old paper and it cut like a charm!

I also love that the software breaks down the layers for you on more complicated images like the cactus and monkey and separates them on the mats so you don't have to do all that tedious work yourself! here's a close up of those~

I am also loving the subscription they have as it has access to many (I think it's 120+) cartridges plus whatever ones you may have bought or will buy in the future. It will also cut SVG files. 

I also had an awesome customer service experience with Cricut as I had a cartridge that wouldn't link. They took care of it, got it linked and were super helpful.

Yup, I'm one lucky, spoiled, happy girl!! 

Have a wonderful night!

If all else fails, add pink, sparkle and a butterfly!

Explore!

I truly am spoiled and I know it! After much research and driving my friend, Kristie totally crazy with my indecision and questions, I finally decided and ordered my Easter/Annivesary/Mother's Day gift...it arrived today!!

I am super excited about this and can't wait to get to learning it!! (if my headache would just go away!!) 

If all else fails, add pink, sparkle and a butterfly!

What a happy day!

For a while now I have felt like something has been missing from my crafting. There have been a few days when I felt happy and content but mostly, I just felt like I was going through the motions.

I put too much pressure on myself~~getting caught up in the whole blogging and social media side of crafting~~ feeling like I should blog every day, keep up with Facebook, yahoo groups, Facebook groups, Ning sites....it's exhausting.

I also find myself falling into the trap of comparing myself to others. Which I know not to do, but I have caught myself lately thinking that I don't color as well as others, or I don't put my cards together as well as others. Stupid, I know.

In my heart I've been longing to get back to my roots so to speak. Scrapbooking. I have so many photos to scrap and you know what, it makes me so happy when I look through my scrapbooks and my photos. But I always get overwhelmed and never know where to start.

So I decided this weekend, enough is enough. I need to do what makes ME happy. In my style, my time and no pressure. I know, this is something I should do all along but I find it so easy to get wrapped up in all the other stuff. So I told myself to just go upstairs, grab an envelope of photos that haven't been put away yet and scrap them.

I was thrilled that the envelope I grabbed had zoo photos! and I scrapped. and I smiled. and I felt the happiness in my heart like I haven't felt in quite a while. 

I used my stamps. I used my Cricut. I used punches. I used dies. I didn't try to find challenges. I didn't look at any sites for how I should make the perfect layout. I had fun.

Lesson learned or should I say re-learned...Do what makes YOURSELF happy!

There might not be as many posts on the blog....might not be as many cards...might be more layouts...maybe something else...but that's okay because it's my blog.

I do appreciate all the love and support from my blogging friends and I appreciate you all continuing to stop by when you have a chance! 

With all that said, here's the layouts I made today.

Have a fabulous night! I think I might start another layout!

If all else fails, add pink, sparkle and a butterfly!

Playing with my Cricut!

I took time yesterday to really sit down and just play with my Cricut and the Cricut Craft Room to hopefully get a little more comfortable with this wonderful tool that just sits collecting dust. 

I must say that I learned a lot and I think that I am a wee bit more comfortable with it now and hope to use it more often now. It really is easy to work, you just have to learn the right settings for different paper.

I only used my CTMH Art Philosophy Cartridge and I made all these. Not a lot for the amount of time but still it was fun to learn and actually make something! I can't wait to get more of the CTMH cartridges~~they really are awesome and have 700 images on each cartridge plus coordinating stamp sets! Oh yeah..awesome blossom!! I've seen some amazing creations done with them all!

I will be using the snowflakes on some upcoming projects but I did turn the tag and circle into these~

They were so simple but I think turned out so pretty! A little glitter and some pearls were all I added! The best part is that I had fun making them and used my Cricut!

Also wanted to share that since it's a new month there is a new CTMH Stamp of the Month! Remember if you spend $50 you can get the SOTM for $5!!

I have my interview at 9:00 am tomorrow (Monday) morning! I'm so nervous and excited all rolled into one! Wish me luck!! Have an awesome day!

If all else fails-add pink, sparkle and a butterfly!
Visit my CTMH site for online shopping 24/7 and for inspiration and ideas!!

Lili's Chalkboard

Even though it's not my week to play along with the Inky Impressions Challenge I had an idea in the middle of the night for a card, so I just had to play along!! Be sure to visit the blog to see how you can play along and to see the other inkettes creations!

I inked up the fun Lili's Chalkboard for today creation. The possibilities with her are endless!! I had to test my Cricut to make sure it works after the move so I used it to cut out the little doily/diecut behind Lili. I really liked how the embossing worked on my last card so I tried that again!

I'm entering this card into the following challenges~

• Sister Act Card Challenges~ Anything Goes
• Craft Your Passion~ Happy Birthday
• Kaboodle Doodles~ Anything Goes
• Challenges 4 Everybody~ Anything Goes

Hope your day is a great one! Sam is off on another interview so I'm crossing my fingers and toes right now! LOL! 

If all else fails-add pink, sparkle and a butterfly!

stamps~ Inky Impressions~ Lili's Chalkboard, TAC~ Tag Tidbits
ink~ SU Pistachio Pudding, Memento Tuxedo Black,
cardstock~ misc white, SU Certainly Celery
designer paper~ scraps from my TAC stash
other goodies~ copics, Cricut-CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge, Cuttlebug argyle embossing folder, rhinestones,

copics used~ skin- R30, R20, E000, E00, E21  hair- E21, E23, E25, E27  jeans- B91, B93, B95, B97 plus a scrap of old jeans dipped in colorless blender for some texture, shoes- E53, E55, E57, chalkboard- G82, C2, C3, C5

Sleepy Time Sophie

Time for my day to post for Sweet Nothings Stamp Company!

I had the hardest time deciding which sweet image to use for my creation today but finally decided on Sleepy Time Sophie--can we just say awww!! So cute!

I decided to make a little tag/bookmark with this cutie as my daughter always reads before bed so I thought this would make the perfect nighttime bookmark.

I decided that wasn't much of a project to share today so I also made a little card too. 

Have a fabulous day!

stamps~ Sweet Nothings Stamp Company-digi-Sleepy Time Sophie,

ink~
cardstock~ misc white, SU Sahara Sand, SU Whisper White,
designer paper~Lilybee Design Head Over Heels,
other goodies~ copics, Cricut- Bags,Tags, Boxes and More, Martha Stewart punch, ribbon, pearls,

copics~ skin- E000, E00, E21, R30, R20, hair- E13, E15, E17 clothes-Y00, Y02, Y11, B12, B14, B16, R81, R83, R85, bear- E41, E42, E43, R30, RV10, RV11, 

What I've been up to

I've been having fun the past few days getting scrappy! Feels so good! Now to keep the scrapping roll going in 2013!!

Enjoy this last day of 2012 and be safe!

Remember you can purchase all your stamping and crafting needs at my Stampin' Up website anytime~ Click HERE to go shopping!!
All items in bold type are Stampin' Up products!

Good books build character

I'll admit it..as much fun as I've been having making my holiday cards, I'm still putting too much pressure on myself-plus it seems that for every one that I get made, I get three more names added to my list to send to so I think I'm going to just take the pressure off myself and go buy some. It's not the end of the world, right?

I will still be creating some holiday cards but not every.single.day, LOL! Onto my creation for today~

I'm in a gift exchange and the name I drew said she was a bookworm so I thought it would be appropriate to make a bookmark for her. My inspiration came from this bookmark on SCS! Isn't that just gorgeous??

Have a fabulous day!

Supplies~
stamps- Bookworm Ruby,
ink- Memento Tuxedo Black
cardstock- SU Crumb Cake, 
designer paper- Bazzill Wayfarer
other goodies- copics, Cricut Tags,Bags and Boxes cartridge, ribbon, staple

Too Cute To Spook

I'm sure the title is throwing you all off...no, I'm not posting a Halloween card. LOL! 

First a little back story--I use to like googly eyes a long time ago but over the years they just started to freak me out. I look quickly and then move on-darn wiggly things! Several friends use them and I adore their projects, I just choose to overlook the freaky eyes.

Fast forward to the past couple weeks where I have joined a new yahoo group and one of the ladies makes amazing cards with--you guessed it--googly eyes. Well, after lots of banter back and forth I decided that I need to make a card with the darn googly eyes to come to peace with the wiggly things. (and she is going to make a card with "normal" eyes..LOL)

So at my craft group this weekend I was kindly given some googly eyes by one of my sweet friends. Sooooo...long story short....here's my card today featuring one cute reindeer, if I do say so myself and googly eyes!! Hence the title...he is too cute to spook me!

I used my Cricut for the reindeer-Create a Critter cartridge and then just added some accents with a white pen and some stickles. My paper is Eskimo Kisses by Basic Grey. I added some bakers twine and a Kaisercraft rhinestone to finish off the card. I must say, I really do like how this turned out, googly eyes and all!

For my layout I used the sketch from iSpy Sketches this week~

Hope you have a wonderful day full of lots of smiles! Hope to see you back here soon! I *think* I have decided to make all my holiday cards this year...a little late start but I think I can pull up my big crafty girl pants and get them done so hopefully my blog will be hoppin' soon with holiday goodness!