Snow Friends

Happy Sunday Friends! I hope you are enjoying your day so far.

I have another busy week ahead of me so I am posting my project today for the week and decided I needed to make another Christmas card while I'm in the mood. Christmas mood you say? I know it does seem rather odd but I try to go along with my creative self when I have these molment because I always tend to be pleased with the results.

Any who, I'm entering this card into the following challenges:
Weekly Christmas Card Challenge #21 - 3 Designer papers, 2 stamps, 1 ribbon, buttons.
ABC Christmas Card Challenge H= Hardware; anything metal

If you want to get a head start on your christmas cards the challenge blogs above are a great way to do it. If anyone knows of anyother Christmas challenge blogs that you'd like share please drop me a note with the link.

Here's my card, what do you think? I'm very happy with how this one turned out.

Hope you enjoy the rest of your Sunday. Thanks for stopping by. I just love it when you visit me. :)



Tag your it!

Happy Friday everybody!!! I bet you are all on the edge of your seats waiting for the Pink by Design Ustream for their new stamp release. I know I can't wait...

Since I've been on facebook I am getting all sorts of invitations to blog hops and challenges. How great is that? I love it! I just wish that there was enough time to do it all. Well since I'm in my craft room waiting for the Pink by Design Ustream, I decided I should enter a challenge.

Well one of my bloggie/facebook friends, Janis of Pause Dream Enjoy has a wonderful challenge going on right now that I am participating in. It's the 52 Tags Week #16 Challenge: Create an ACROSTIC tag using your NAME.

I'm a card girl so I love challenges that get me out of my comfy crafty zone and give me a What? A Challenge. Hehehe so here it is my version of an Acrostic Tag.

What do you think? There's still plenty of time to join in on the fun. Hop on over to Pause Dream Enjoy and play along.

Here's a picture of the whole tag.

I took a close up so you could see the words that I used to create my name.

What I used to create this tag:

Inkessentials Craft tag #8 size

My Mind's Eye Lost & Found 6x6 Designer Paper - this pack has a hole at the top for hanging. I used this hole in the paper I chose and lined it up with the hole in the tag.

Tim Holtz Distress Ink in antique Linen, *ChitChat Verbiages Stickers, and Grunge Letters.

*Since I choose to use the TH stickers I had to work with the words so I took the word inspire and added the "ing" to the end.

Rusty Pickle Whipersnapper trim - burlap trim used, plus the few stray strands that came off the burlap trim when putting it through the hole in the tag.

Black Delta Ceramcoat Acrylic paint - used to paint the Grunge letters

TomBow Mono Multi Liquid Glue

Ribbon from AC Moore

Glue Dots

Brads from my stash

Flowers from the dollar bin from Michaels

Martha Stewart glitter pen in Silver - used to line the Grunge letters and the flowers

Zig Pen in Black

Hope you enjoy the rest of your Friday evening...



I'm your huckleberry

Happy Tuesday!!! I have a busy week lined up but I really need to make some birthday cards so I decided to enter a few more challenges in order to get a few cards made.


I have a dear friend that adores cats of all kinds and loves, loves, loves the movie Tombstone. So I created this card just for her with the help of Pink by Designs Cow Girl UP stamp set.


What do you think?

Here's the inside: It's hard to read but it says Have a tweet day below the happy birthday.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Pile it on - pop it! -Bird, Cage and tag popped with foam tape
Paper Play Time - Say it with a sentiment birthday card theme
Tuesday Throwdown #94 - Recycle Scraps - cat, bird, cage and tag all cut from my scraps.
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #156 - Freebie Week - Stamped sentiments
Crafty Catz Challenge #128 - Animals - Cat and bird
Prairie Fairy Fridays - Anything Goes
Hiding In my Craft Room - Use scraps - cat, bird, cage and tag all cut from my scraps.Drunken Stampers - You're a Krafty One -Kraft cardstock used for card base

Crafty Emma's - Paper Piece It -cage, cat and bird pieced together
House That Stamps Built – birds
Paper Play - Things with wings
Wags and Whiskers - anything goes


Here's what I used:
Cricut Lite Cart Meow
Cat in bird cage cut at 4". I cut the bird cage and the bird out twice just to make it a little studier so I could pop it with foam tape.
SU Basic Black Ink
Hampton Art Metalic Silver Ink
Tim Holtz Distressing Ink in Walnut stain and Frayed burlap
Martha Stewart Glitter Marker in Silver
Flowers, bling and brads from my stash
Foam Tape and Zig marker
My Minds Eye 12x12 Lost and Found cardstock
K& Company 12x12 Cowboy Flat paper
Cardstock used for cat, bird, cage and tag are from my scrap stash.
Kraft Cardstock by - Recollections cut to a 5x7 card
Pink by Design Cow Girl UP and Take the Cake: I'm your huckleberry and Have a Tweet Day
The Paper Company Greetings: Happy Birthday!

 Hope you have a great day and thanks for stopping by.

The Carrot Tree

Happy Sunday my friends!

It's been a while since I've made a card so I thought it was time that I started my Christmas cards. I did not get a chance to make all my Christmas cards last year for my friends and family so this year I am going to make sure that everyone receives a handmade card.

I love the ABC Christmas Challenge because it keeps me motivated and gives me some great ideas for cards.

Here's my challenge entry for the G color challenge this week. I love how it turned out.

What I used:
Cardstock by Recollections: White and Green
Metallic Gold Cardstock by DCWV: The textured Metallic Stack

White Card cut to 5x7
Green cardstock cut to 4.5x6.5
Gold cardstock cut to 4x6
White cardstock cut to 3.5x5.5 then stamped with image

Image stamp by Stampabilites Happy Hoppers by House-mouse designs 2006
Sentiment Stamp by Stampabilites Very Merry Christmas 2008 (both stamps purchased from Hobby Lobby).

K&Company Metalic Gold Ink
SU Basic Black Ink and Glamous Green Ink
Sizzix Powered Sugar Embossing Folder by Basic Grey - on Green cardstock
Ribbon from my stash purchased from Michael's dollar bin
Colored pencils
Star dust Stickles for carrots


Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy the rest of your day!

Drum Roll Please!!! And the Winners ARE...

A big happy hello to all my crafty friends! I have some great news, I made it to 56 Facebook likes!!!!

A big thank you to all my friends and a special shout out to Naomi Edwards for getting me past 55 Likes on Facebook. Whoot Whoot Naomi!!!
You're Awesome girl....


So with out further delay the lucky winner of the Tinker Bell Cricut Cart is:

# 78
Michelle Bowley


And lucky winner number two, of the S.E.I. 12 days of Glitzmas pack, goes to:

#42
Karen Ladd

You have one week to get back to me with your mailing address. If I do not hear from you by 2pm EST by April 19. I will pick another winner so please claim your prize so I can get it mailed out to you this weekend!!!!

A BIG SCRAPPY THANK YOU to all of my wonderful followers new and old for playing along. Hope you all have a wonderful evening and I'll be visiting soon.

Happy crafting...

My new favorite thing to do

Hello crafty friends. Have you been wondering what has kept me so busy last month? Well I've had myself a couple mini vacations. The Hubby has had to work/travel alot lately so I decided that I would take advantage of that when I can and I go with him.

Our first stop was Savannah, GA during St. Patrick's Day. Then I had to go back to work for a couple of weeks so I could take the entire last week of the month off to be with my daughter and her Finance. The Hubby had to work most of that vaca but he did take us to Charleston, SC for a few days for our second stop/mini vaca of the month.

So what is my new favorite thing to do? SMASH!!!! Yep. I'm addicted and it's sooo much easier to get pages and journaling completely quickly.

Here's what I've smashed so far:

Happy crafting.

Happy Easter!!!

Hello all my friends. Just a quick note to wish you all a Happy Easter and many blessings.

Peter Cotton Tail, AKA Boo is going to be very tired tomorrow after delivering all those eggs!

Oh my time sure does fly!!!

Hello all my crafty friends. I know you've all been wondering where in the world I've been, well March was a very busy month for me so I have not had any time to get into my craft room.

I'm hoping to get in there this weekend, I know it will be too late for Easter cards this year. I'm such a slacker.

For some good news, I am soooo close to announcing the winners of my blog candy so please stay tuned...

Until this weekend, happy crafting and I'll be stopping by to visit you soon.