Have Your Cake...

I combined two challenges for this card, Pause Dream Enjoy issued the challenge themed "Desserts" and Paper Playtime issued the challenge themed "Brown".  Chocolate Cake, anyone?  Yes, please!  This slice of cake was cut from Sweet Treats, with Divine Swirls embossed into it.  The lettering on the inside was cut from Lyrical Letters.  I love brown and pink together, so this card was definitely my style!  Hope you enjoy, even if you can't really eat it!

Colors and Flowers

This is my creation for the gofishchallenges.blogspot.com challenge using the pastel colors of blue, yellow, green, and pink and the littlescrappieces.blogspot.com challenge to use a flower.  Again, I used this challenge to come up with another Thank You card I need to send out to family.  The flowers/vase is cut from Kate's ABC's.  I used the Swiss Dots embossing folder for the mat. The craft/pink polka dot paper border was made using the Spellbinder's Edgeabilities dies Classic Scallop and Classic Ric Rac.  I am kind of obsessing over the Edgeabilities right now.  Joann's had them 50% off last week and I have always gone back and forth with buying border punches, but could never commit to them.  These dies are perfect for me!  They take up little storage and you can mix and match them so you have more than just one possible border...genius!  I also chalked around the vase with some ColorBox Cat's Eye Chalk Ink, the Chocolates & Blueberries stack.  Kind of obsessing over the chalk ink too, Michael's had them on 50% off this last week and I bought two stacks.  Super excited to start using all of my fun and new crafting tools this year!

 

Cardz TV Stamps DT Challenge "Baby New Year"

One of my best friends had a baby at the end of December, her 5th boy!  I am so excited for her and her family! For the Cardz TV Stamps DT Challenge we needed to make a baby themed card, so I made this to send to her.  The baby was cut from the Best Images of 2006 Cricut Cartridge that I have, but it's regular cartridge is New Arrival.  I have been searching for a stamp set that has sweet baby sayings, and may just have to give in and buy Cardz TV's.  The stamps I used were from a Studio G $1 set, and the embossing folder is Swiss Dots.  Thanks for checking in!

 

"A Banner Year" Cricut Cardz Challenge

Here is the card I made for the CardzTV Challenge "A Banner Year".  I used the Country Life cartridge for the banner and letters and Accent Essentials for the little swirly images.  I threaded the banner and attached it with two brads in the corners.  This was a different style card than I normally do, but I thought it turned out pretty well.  I have so many people I need to thank in my life that have been willing to help me and my family out at this time, it's the perfect opportunity to use these challenges to create thank you cards.  Hope you enjoy!

Paper Playtime Challenge #1 - Pets

So I don't know if a butterfly necessarily qualifies as a pet, but I love this butterfly!  I think it is the prettiest image!  It is found on the Once Upon a Princess cartridge.  I got this cartridge for Christmas, and I love it!  Especially since I have a baby girl now :)  I printed the "Butterfly Kisses and..." from my computer and tried to find a font that matched my stamp "Birthday Wishes".  I really love how it turned out.  I have also enjoyed decorating the inside of my cards too.  I never really thought of doing that, but was inspired by Mary over at CardzTV (I love her videos).  Anyway, Paper Playtime's first challenge of the year was to create a pet themed card, so this is what I came up with.

 

You Rock! Masculine Card

I am back at it...making cards!  It has been quite the year since I posted last March!  I had a baby in May and then my husband was diagnosed with Cancer (Lymphoblastic Lymphoma) in June.  So needless to say it has been a busy time in our lives and I have only recently been able to get back in my craft room.  My husband is doing okay, he is through the worst portions of his chemo.  It's a 2 year treatment plan and we are almost to the maintenance phase where he will be able to return to work.  The baby is perfect, she is such a blessing and I truly don't think I would have been able to get through this crazy trial without her sweet spirit, she is without a doubt a true miracle.  I have many goals this year, but they all center around being "better".  And one of them is to be a better, more consistent crafter.  I have found that crafting is my escape and I have needed to escape many times during the last 6 months.  I want to get back into challenges and making cards for others.  So here is my first card for my first challenge this year.  It's for the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog and we needed to make a masculine themed card.  I have a nephew with a Birthday this month and thought this would fit the bill.  Hope you enjoy!

St. Patrick's Day/Think Green

Here is a card I created for My Pink Stamper's (www.mypinkstamper.com) challenge from the blog hop on Friday night. Since St. Patty's is on Saturday, it went without saying the challenge would be something to do with this fun holiday. I didn't have a shamrock cut, so I used hearts instead. These hearts are cut from the George cart. And instead of making it a card that could only be used for St. Patrick's Day, I made it a general "Good Luck" card. Hope you like!