CFU Friday Sketch #1

This is my first attempt to make a card from a sketch. I have a lot of practicing to do! Oh, and sorry the picture isn't in very good focus. Click here to go see the sketch challenge and participate! Once again, I used paper scraps from my paper bin, so I can't tell you the name of the paper. I made the flower and the word "smile" with Cricut Cartridge - Walk In My Garden. I added glitter glue to the "smile" and ends of flowers. The purple ribbon is from some spools my Mama gave me a while back. I hope you participate in this challenge! Leave a comment with a link to your creation so we can all hop over and check it out on your blog or photo album or wherever! I always love your comments! Don't forget to hit the "Follow" button for my blog. Have a fun weekend!!

TAGS!

Good Morning to You! I made some tags this morning just for fun. The paper I used came from my scrap bin, so I'm sorry I don't know the name of the paper pack.

The girls all came from DJ Inkers art...
I LOVE DJ INKERS!!

I cut the tags using my Cricut Cartridge Plantin Schoolbook and using the shadow feature.

The edges of the artwork and tags were inked using Stampin' Up! Old Olive and Lovely Lilac.

I added ribbon or jewelry to the tags just for fun.

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More crafts a little later!!

The Artistic Stamper

Click the photo above to check out The Artistic Stamper June Blog Candy Giveaway!

Make sure you scroll down her page to look at some of her projects. Her inking technique has such powerful results! I wish I could do that!!

Kodak ESP 9 All-in-One Printer Giveaway!

Check out iheartfaces by clicking here for an amazing giveaway - Anyone can enter to win the awesome $299 Kodak All-In-One-Printer!! Hurry! Ends today!!

Otherhood, LLC

Here is a great site for you to check out! They are having a Tourance Tote Bag giveaway that ends June 23, 2009, so be sure and hop on over there by clicking here.

I love these tote bags! I am so picky about the pocketbooks I use. They have to have zippers. They have to have pockets. They have to be the right size to fit all my stuff.... and these totes are all of that and so much more! Look at them. They are gorgeous!

Free Fridays!

Yesterday I started a list of blogs offering Blog Candy for you to check out. Today I'll continue that list as much as I can while also trying to post more crafts a little later on.

Please visit all of these sites and enter to win their Blog Candy. Not only is the chance to win fantastic, but each of these artists are so unique and their work is just so amazing! I know you will enjoy blog hopping as much as I have!!

Have a FUN Friday!

Stamps, Paper, Scissors, and Donkey Smiles!

Click the image above to go to Stamps, Paper, Scissors and Donkey Smiles and enter to win this blog candy! Look at all the new stamps! Oh my gosh! I'm drooling!!!!!

My Paper Adventures

I'm trying to help you all out by showing you where some great Blog Candy is... but more than that, these ladies have TALENT! Click on the picture above to go to My Paper Adventures Blog Candy page and enter to win!!

Happy Anniversary, Sue!

Happy Anniversary to Sue! No, not a blog anniversary, her 17th Wedding Anniversary! Click on the pic above to go to her site and enter for a chance to win this blog candy! Hurry!!

The Craft Table

Martine is celebrating becoming a Stampin' Up! demonstrator by giving away a lot of Blog Candy! Click here or the picture above to see how you can enter to win!

More & More Blog Candy!

You have got to check out this blog by Mel. Click the picture above or click here to be taken to her blog.

Make sure you scroll down to see older posts. All of her cards are so creative and beautiful! And they are each so different! I could spend hours on her blog!

Don't forget to enter for her blog candy drawing. Good luck!

More Blog Candy!!

Check out "Going Buggy" and the huge blog candy she's giving away! She has lots of links to other blogs that are also very creative and cool! Awesome! The picture is from her site!!

Kati & Ryan

Here is a scrapbook page I did today for another one of our daughters. This is Kati and her boyfriend, Ryan from November 2008. They are so cute together!! I used Fiskars Adhesive tabs, Glitter glue, and My Mind's Eye Everyday Tango paper. I used Cricut Cartridge Home Accents for the word LOVE. The top of the exclamation point (yellow triangle) was from the cut out from the "V". The circle was from my scrap paper from another Cricut cut. I love comments! Leave a link to your latest project so we can all hop over and check it out!!

Ultrasound Layout Page

We are so excited that we are becoming gradnparents for the first time! I took our oldest daughter, Keri, to her first OB appointment yesterday. They did an ultrasound of our precious little bundle of joy! So tiny!! Here is a scrapbook layout I did this morning. The letters were cut out at different sizes with Cricut Cartridge - Plantin Schoolbook. The grass was cut out using Cricut Cartridge Home Accents, and the flowers were cut out using Cricut Cartridge Walk In My Garden. I used DCWV Once Upon A Time for the lettering, flowers, and double matting for the picture. The background paper (love it!) is My Mind's Eye Everyday Tango... (I have gotten so much use out of this one HUGE paper stack!!) Pop dots to pop up the flowers, Fiskars adhesive tabs for the photo matting, and Zots small glue dots to adhere the lettering and grass at bottom. More projects to come a little later on... stay tuned... I have a lot of catching up to do!

1st Grandbaby Picture

I'm so sorry I've been so quiet these last few days. It's been wildly crazy at our house! I'm working on some crafts, so I'll try to get those uploaded today before we go out of town again.

Here's the 1st picture of our first Grandbaby!! I know you can't see much of anything. It's just the awesome thought that that is our grandbaby growing in there. Blows the mind.



I hope you all have been having a very good week. I can't wait to spend some time on line catching up on everyone's blog.

I love all the new friends I've made, links you leave in your comments, and finding someone new is following my blog.

Do something fun! And smile!!

Got Great News Today!

Today, Tom (my hubby) and I found out we are going to be grandparents! How exciting is that!! It's funny, because neither one of us feel old enough to be grandparents. We're still 17 in our minds. :)

I can't tell you how happy we are. We love our children... and now we'll have grandchildren to love to!

I hope everyone reading this gets some form of good news today too.

Tip Junkie!

Go check out Tip Junkie by clicking the image above or by clicking here!! Get some ideas, share some tips, and enjoy their grand giveaway! Wooo-Whoooo!!!!!

Dzyner's Blogoversary Candy Giveaway

Click here to visit Dzyner's blog and enter to win her blogoversary candy! She's a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, so be sure to stop by her etsy too! (I love Stampin' Up!) Have a fun day!

Happy Monday!

Our screened in porch is finished! How wonderful it is to sit outside and grill, read, talk, swing and NOT having to swat at flies and mosquitoes constantly!

I made a butterfly card this morning using some of our screen scraps. I cut out the butterflies using Cricut Cartridge Walk In My Garden (blackout feature). The card is very rough right now. It needs some more finishing touches, but I think you'll get the idea from the photo.


I also made a 4th of July card. I cut out 1 inch squares using Cricut Cartridge Plantin Schoolbook for the tablecloth. I cut out ovals with that cartridge too, then cut them in half for the watermelon. I just drew in the ants. The sky is plain so I'm still brainstorming how to make that look a little better.

Thanks for all the comments over the weekend! I have a lot of catching up to do with all you guys! Have a fun day!!

Doggie Umbrella Card

This card is so cute!

Check out this YouTube video to see how to make the cutest doggie and umbrella friendship card. Perfect for those days it's "raining cats and dogs". :)

Click here for the link to YouTub.

Click here for the link to her blog.

She used Cricut Cartridge Paper Pups. I don't have that one.... There are so many cartridges I want to get! I wish the prices would come down already. My coupons always say "not valid on Cricut products."

Have a Fun Friday!!