Love is in the air...

Hello and yes I know, what is this like 3 days in a row? Lol  I'm really focused on being in the blogging groove. I really miss all my sweet bloggie friends. 

 I made a card to show you today.  I feel like there is alot going on in the card but I think it gets the point across.  I would give this card to my hubby. Maybe for Valentine's Day or even an anniversary.

The couple is cut from Sweethearts cartridge.

The Heart in the background was cut from the Sophie cartridge.

I used the swirl border punch by Martha Stewart.

The sentiment is from Studio G Stamped with Ruby Red Stampin up

Twine on button is Martha Stewart.

Thanks for stopping by.  Tomorrow I will show you the Valentine's treats I've been working on.

Teacher Spotlight time again.

Hello! I hope everyone has had a fabulous Sunday.  I love Sundays. Sunday is Family time. I don't worry about the house work we all just relax.

If you've been following for awhile you know that I do Teacher Spotlight for the Teachers at our Church in our Primary.  This spotlight is for a male teacher.  I find anything male and crafty to be a challenge.  I had decided to do a plain design with a Tie.  But then I remembered that I had purchased the Missionary Icon's cartridge through the Cricut Craft Room.  This has a shirt and tie.  It was perfect.  His favorite color is yellow so i Incorporated yellow.  I hope it doesn't look to feminine.



I decorate a mini clip board and a mini composition notebook that I put into a decorated gift bag.  Just a little something to let them know we appreciate there time and talent.

Thanks for stopping by to take a look, come back again soon!

2012 Photo Calanders

Hi everyone! Today I wanted to show you what I made for my family this year for Christmas.  It was a truly hectic holiday this year and so I didn't get hardly anything done that I had planned to get done.  I was at Michael's one afternoon and I saw these Photo Calander kits and they were on Clearance from $19.99 down to $6.99.  Our family gets there pictures done every holiday and I try to incorperate the photos in the gifts and cards.  That is what made these calanders perfect.  I picked up several.

Here it is.....

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

This concludes the Calander.  If your curious of what it looks like at the store here you go.  All the embelishments are included all you need is adhesive and photo's.

Thanks for looking.  Come back again real soon!

DCWV Stack-a-holic Challenge

Hello again and thanks for stopping by.  I've totally and completely dropped the ball with my paper crafting and I don't like it at all.  So I decided I'm going to do as many Challenges as I can do.  Well this is the first Challenge that I came across.  It's the DCWV Stack-a-holic Challenge.  You can find it over at DCWV's Blog.

I have found that I tend to make more cards then Layouts and I'm super behind on Scrapbooks so this layout challenge for me was perfect, especially with Christmas just passing. 

With this Layout I used...

DCWV paper stack Holiday Shimmer

DCWV paper stack Christmas Combo Stack

Cartridges used for Santa was Christmas Cheer

Cartridge used for "Santa" was Don Juan

Cartridge used for banner was Just a Note

Ribbon stripe used was from Michael's Holiday Cheer.

Twine is Martha Stewart

Glitter is Stickles

eK Success punch for scallop border.

Thanks DCWV for this great Challenge. It has really gotten my creative juices flowing and that is just what I needed.

Well thanks so much for stopping by and taking a peek. Hope you come back again soon. I hope to be back tomorrow with a fun project I gave for Christmas.

9 Ladies Dancing

Hi and happy Wednesday. I wanted to share a project I did back in December. Our church has an annual Christmas party and this year the theme was the 12 Days of Christmas. Each of the tables had one of the days from the song. I chose 9 for 9 ladies dancing. I got the shall we dance cartridge as a Circle member and wasn't if or when I would ever use it but I kept it just in case. I'm glad that I did because this cartridge was perfect for this project.
I used a #10 can for the base. I used skewers and popsicle sticks for attaching.

It turned out to be such a fun night and to see all the amazing and creative decorations was my favorite part. Now I'm hoping that I might be able to do some thing with this before next Christmas like maybe take out the ladies dancing saying and make it a center piece for a 9 year old birthday party. Hmm maybe, we'll have to see. Well until then it will be hanging out in my craft room.
                                                          Thanks for stopping by!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! I know its a day late but that has been the story of my life lately, late.  But it's a new year and I've decided to be more crafty this year and less late.  The fabulous hubby bought me an iphone 4s and now I feel so organized. I can even blog right from my phone.  So now there is no excuse. 

So if you didn't know our family moved to a new home on Nov. 1 and although I have my own space I just haven't found my mojo at the new place.  I'm not sure what it is but that is my goal to figure it out.  I have a few projects I did over the last month or two that I didn't ever blog so even though there a couple Christmas themed ones I'm going to be posting them soon. 

 I'm so excited to see what this year brings.  I'm also thinking about putting together a "Pages through the ages" Blog Hop. So stay tuned for more information. 

Well I'm off to go make something, wish me luck! I will post it as soon as I'm done.

30 day's of Handmade Christmas gifts ~Day 23

Hello and welcome to day 23 of the 30 Days of Handmade Christmas Gift Giving Blog Hop! If you came here from Jill's blog over at the Scrapoholic then you are in the right place!  If you just stopped by my blog and would like to see the past 22 days of the Hop Jill has them posted on her blog so check it out.

I decided to make a Christmas Ornament. My MIL gave me one a long time ago and said here figure out how to make this.  It was pretty but I just never really did anything with it. Year after year it sat in my Christmas ornament box. I never used it. I would  unwrap it see what it was and wrap it back in paper.  So this year for this hop for whatever reason that little ornament came to mind.  So I went out digging through all of my Christmas stuff and I couldn't find the darn thing for the life of me. So I just went with what I could remember.

Now I was really surprised as to what it was made with.  I used a light bulb, a water bottle cap and a water bottle lid.

First thing I did was  poke a hole in the middle of the bottle cap.

Then I took a piece of wire and made a loop for hanging the ornament.

I then twisted the wire together on the inside of the bottle cap and added some hot glue to help reinforce it.

I then hot glued the cap to the light bulb.

Next you want to hot glue the  bottle lid the bottom of the light bulb.

Using a neutral color I paint the entire ornament. Then let it dry for maybe 10 minutes.

Next I took this Krylon Easy Tack. (The same spray glue I use to re stick my Cricut mats) I sprayed the ornament all over.

Then I took Martha Stewart Garnet Glitter and sprinkled it on the glue and this is what I came up with.

I went to Joann's before I begun the project and grabbed a few different things I thought would work for this project.  I only ended up using a couple of the items for this one.

I used the hot glue gun to attach the trim to the ornament. Now this is what I finished with and I really didn't like it. It was pretty and sparkly but I felt that something was missing.

So I found some ribbon with red and silver and glued it to the top and I think it turned out really pretty.  There are so many options for decorating. You could also take a vinyl letter and put it on then take it off when it was all done to make it a monogrammed ornament. 

Well thank you for stopping by to take a look, I hope that you liked it. Be sure to check back tomorrow on Jill's blog to see who the next blogger is with another fun project.