Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! Here is the card I did for my husband for today. This is the recipe:
Paper: Bazzill
Cricut cart.: Create a Critter
Glitter: Stickles
Stamps: My Pink Stamper - Happiest Moments & More Punnilicious
Stamp Pad: Versapad-Black
Adhesive: ATG & Zip glue pen

The skunk was cut at 3-3/4. The grass was cut at 1-1/2. This card was so fun to make too and my dh loved it!

Returning with Hope!

I wanted so hard to keep up with my blog but of course Life has to go and get in the way. Usually though when I say Life I mean my back. The last few month have been pretty bad and when the pain goes up so does my depression. And I hate that! I can not tell you, unless you have been through it, how fun it is trying to convince yourself that you can get out of bed. It seemed to take all my strength to get up and get dressed everyday. I am so glad that both my boys are grown and gone so they didn't have to see me that way. It has gotten a little better since then though the getting up part is hard some days.

2012!

I just wanted to tell everyone...Happy New Year!

I can't believe that it is 2012. Wow, 2011 went really fast! Today is also my DH's 49th birthday. We aren't doing anything special today. On Friday we are going to Flagstaff and I am taking him to dinner there. For today we are just sitting around watching football on TV. I'm very upset that they postponed the Rose Parade till tomorrow for football. You can tell I'm not a fan.:) Oh well. Have a great New Year!

Merry Christmas

I wanted to wish everyone...

A Very Merry Christmas!

I hope that all of you are having a wonderful day with family and friends. It is just my DH and I today. He is making a vary tasteful ham with all the regular sides. I can't wait for it to be done. I have already talked to my family and son in California and I miss them all so much. We were suppost to be there this year but money got too tight. We do have plans to be there in February though. I can't wait. I talked to my other son as well. It is so different not having them here today. They grow up way too fast. Well, have a great day and take care!

Christmas card

I thought that today I would put on my Christmas card that I made for this year. I had so much fun making it. I will say it took me forever to come up with an idea for it. I spent hours looking at other Christmas cards on various sites for ideas. I knew for sure that I wanted to use the light post but was very unsure what to put with it. I finally decided on the carolers out sharing they warm cheer under a beautiful holiday decorated street light. This is a side note but I live in a very small town(less then 5000) and one of the things I enjoy the most is when they decorate the old fashion style street lights on the main road, which is why I wanted to use them.

I first used Cricut cartridge Jolly Holiday for the light which is cut at 4". The carolers are from Winter Frolic. They're cut at 3". I so wish I would of had a Gypsy to do this card as I hated the fact that I had to just about everything out twice on the carolers because of the way this cartridge is. I also wanted to change some of the colors around which added to the cuts. Now I am a lot more familiar with CCR so next time I will use that.

Next, I used my Cuttlebug to emboss the background with D'vine Swirls to simulate snow. I caulked the snow on the light post with a Cat's Eye pad in Lagoon. I also added a little more to the book by caulking it with Dark Brown and then I added some music notes that I just drew on. I used my ATG to adhere everything and then I used pop dots to make the carolers standout. On the inside of the card I stamped it with a My Pink Stamper stamp. Here are my ingredients:

-Paper: Bazzill
-Cricut cartridges: Winter Frolic, Jolly Holiday
-Emboss: Cuttlebug's D'vine Swirls
-Ribbon: American Crafts
-Caulk: Cat's Eye, Lagoon & Dark Brown
-Stamp: My Pink Stamper-"Biggie Christmas"
-Stamp pad: Close to My Heart, Black
-Adhesive: 3M, Eksuccess pop dots

I am really proud of this card and I'm very happy with the way it turned out. Of course after it took me so long to come up with the idea for this card that maybe I should get started on thinking what next year's Christmas card will look like now. Lol :) Have a wonderful Christmas and a very Happy New Year!

Halloween Night #11

Boy I am definitely not doing too well at keeping up with my projects, but it has been such a bad week for me pain wise. And on top of that I have these horrible sores on my arms right now that look atrocious. I had one pop up about 4 weeks ago and I went to the ER for it. They gave me a shot of one antibiotic and 2 more different antibiotics to take for the next week because they were so unsure what I had. They took a culture and after a few days it cleared up. I now have 4 on one arm and only one on the other. They were started from one of my cats scratching me then it would turn into huge round sores about an inch across with blisters. When I saw my doctor on Thursday, he gave them a huge name and gave me yet another antibiotic. At least this one good thing about it is I only have to take 1 pill only once a day for 10 days. They are making me sick to my stomach and dizzy. So wonderful :( The sores are looking so much better today, they no longer hurt and the blisters are almost gone. My doctor is sending me to a dermatologist next to see what is going on.

Well, enough of that and on to my project! I had an absolute blast putting this one together. I had seen Halloween banners on various blogs before and knew what I wanted it to look like so I went through my 2 Halloween Cricut cartridges. I went with using Happy Hauntings.


Here is what I used:

• Happy Hauntings Cricut cartridge


• Bazzill cardstock


• Colorbok black glitter paper


• CTMH black sheer ribbon


• Zig 2-way glue pen


• Elmer's adhesive runner


• EK Success pop dots

I decided to use the word "Boo" and wanted a frame around each letter so I went through the cartridge book and picked the Headless Horseman frame (Frame8), but instead of using it horizontal I turned it vertical. I cut it out at 8" and after I glued the two frames together and cut the pumpkin off that would of normally have been on the top (now side). I then cut the capital letter "B" out of the black glitter paper at 4". I was surprised and quite wowed! when it cut so beautifully. I didn't want the o's to be cut according to the size of the "B" so I used the Real Dial Size button and cut them out at 3". After gluing it all together I decided that it needed another color and so I used the Real Dial Size button again and cut the pumpkin, on the same page, at 2" in orange. I used a pop dot to put the pumpkin on with. For the rest of the adhesive, I used the Zig pen to put the two frames together. I then used the tape runner the place the letters on.

After, I took the ribbon and strung it through all the frames and vola! I have a Hallowwen Banner :) I truly hope you enjoy this as much as I did making it. Have a good night!

Halloween Night #6

Hey everyone! Sorry I have been MIA for the last couple days. I suffer from Degenerative disc disease along with spinal stenosis and because of these I have great pain continually 24/7/365. Right now my doctor and I are trying to find the right kind and dose of pain meds as I am allergic to a lot of strong pain relievers. So to make a long story short, the last couple days I was having a lot of break through pain. I hate this as I am completely under the control of pain. Well, on to my project...

For tonight I choose a really cool project that is so fun to use in your home decor. I can't take credit for the idea as this was something that was given to me by members of my church that was part of several activities during an Enrichment night that my church puts together for the women once a month. The jar and candlestick holder were purchased at a dollar store.



































As it dictakes in my photos it only takes the following:

- Glass jar with lid
- Short glass candlestick holder
- Glue (On this sample a hot glue gun was used, but I would probably use E-6000)
- Spray paint in choice of color
- Ribbon
- Various embellishments, as desired

You simply spray the lid and candlestick holder with spray paint. This may take a couple coats. When dry, glue the jar on top of the candlestick holder with desired glue type. At this point the decoration is up to you. You could be as simple as shown in photo or bling up as you choose. When done fill with desired candy!

This could be used for any holiday or celebration. Imagine making one for family birthdays were with each family member's birthday you put in the person's fav candy or items! Or like me for Christmas this year for our friends and neighbors. They remind me so much of the old world street lights that would be lit each night. Enjoy!

Halloween night #3

We are now on night #3 and tonight I did another card for you. I used Mini Monsters Cricut cartridge again as I love this thing! It has so many cute cut-outs and the Card feature is too die for. I cut the witches hat using the Card button at 4 1/2". The card base it's self is 5 3/4" x 4 1/2". I used Cuttlesbug's Seeing Spots on the inner layer which is 5 1/2" x 4 1/4". This was really a quick and easy card to do. The paper is all from Bazzill, and the ribbon is from Walmart. I used purple Stickles on the purple dots and, the Trick or Treat stamp on the inside is from MPS "Spook-alicious" stamp set. I hope you enjoy and have a great night!