Birthday Girl Card

Happy New Year everyone!! Hope ya'll are safe and having a good time whatever you're doing. I brought in my new year in bed with my husband and Mr. Jax (our cat). We watched the ball drop on TV while I glued the last of the birthday cards I wanted to finish tonight together. Super exciting, right?! LOL Anyway, here it is. To be honest, I'm not really happy with it :( I think my lack of sleep is finally catching up to the creativity center in my brain!

Bug Birthday Card

This is a card I made for another one of my friends daughters. Her name is Carly, AKA Carly Bugg, which is why I went with this cute lady bug from Create-A-Critter. The bug on the inside is also from that cartridge. I typed up and printed the "Happy 2nd Bug Day" on my computer.

Birthday Card

Hi everyone! It's New Year's Eve!! And since my husband is off of work today I am hoping **fingers crossed** to get caught up on my crafting to do list :) Here's a birthday card for my friends sweet little girl that I finished last night. Everything was cut from the Lifes A Beach cartridge. We've got a lot of baby birthday's in the month of December so I'll be back later with a couple of more to share with you. We've also got four mommies expecting!! :) so I'll be making some "welcome baby" or "congratulations" cards for them pretty soon too :) I hope you all have a fabulous day and a wonderful New Year!! :)

I was a very good girl this year :)

Hi everyone! Now that the dust is starting to settle, if only just a bit, I've got a little more "me" time on my hands to catch up on here :) I wanted to share with you guys what I got for Christmas this year. My husband really went all out and got me everything I wanted and more :)
When I first got my Cricut I basically took over the empty kitchen cabinets to hold all of my crafting supplies. It wasn't a bad idea since they were empty, but it was a little annoying always having to pack up and move whatever supplies I was using into the dining room and moving it all back when finished (leaving it out is simply not an option with a two year old running around the house). Soon the idea hit me to convert my corner desk in our master bedroom into my own little craft corner, where I can have everything at an arms reach away, and still have a way to guarantee J.R. (my son) couldn't get into. Most of my Christmas presents were to help me complete this project, and I must say, I am loving it! :)

First, my most favorite Christmas present this year, my new laptop! :) My husband got it so that I can hook up and use another Christmas present, the Cricut Design Studio :)

  aren't the flowers on it just sooo pretty?! :)

 Next is my second favorite gift, which he let me have a little early, my new pink storage cart :) We found this on clearance at Office Depot for $40!! :)

This 3 bucket set I found on clearance while shopping one day with my cousin Yvette down in Ocala. I didn't know what I'd be using them for when I bought them, but I sure am glad I did :) They are now housing all of my punches, gel pens, zyg two way glue sticks, scissors, and other crafting tools :)

this is a really cute gift I got from my cousin Yvette to help personalize my craft corner.

Here's some of the storage space in my desk that houses my cartridges, paper, buttons, ribbon, cuttlebug, and other supplies; and on top of this shelf you can see the bottom of my new printer, yes, another Christmas present :)

And last but not least is another great gift that's not shown too clearly in this pic. It's my new pink floor lamp :) I love it because you can have one or both lights on at the same time (you can't see the top light in this pic, but it goes straight up), which when using just the reader lamp, allows me to stay up crafting after my hubby goes to sleep without bothering him :)

Along with all of this wonderful stuff I also received two packs of cardstock, a new corner punch, a few new stamps and ink pads, and two new cartridges! :) Thanks for stopping by. And I sure do hope everyone's Christmas was just as wonderful! :) 



More Glitter Ornaments

Hi everyone! I promised a while back to post pictures of the other ornaments I was making for my family this year, so here they are. I didn't get pics of all of them, but I did get enough pics to include all of the new colors I used this round :) For the family that was celebrating Christmas at our house, I individually wrapped them and gave them out Christmas Eve. I had them fill up the "empty spaces" in our tree that everyone kept kindly pointing out to me, lol, and I think everyone really enjoyed it :)

These were for my sister-in-law Jennifer, her husband Warren, and their two kids, Autumn and Devin

                                       

This one is my sister's. Her favorite color is purple :)

my mother-in-law Sally's

my father-in-law's



A Birthday Card

I decided to make a birthday card for my cousin, and I took the opportunity to try out a few new things :) The first is the swirly flowery looking things (sorry, I don't know the correct name for them), which were surprisingly easy to make. I will try to find the link to the blog video I discovered them on and post it on here later. This is also the first card I used craft floss to help dress up the buttons :) Thanks for stopping by :)

Sorry about the flash, the stamp says "Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live."  :)

Since it's been a while I decided to go ahead and enter it into the following challenges this week:

City Crafter Challenge Blog~week 37 **anything with a stamp on it**

My Time Craft Challenge~121 **make a project using something brand spanking new to you on it**

Party Time Tuesdays~#27 **anything birthday related goes**

Christmas Cards~first batch

My husband and I have always sent out family photo Christmas cards, but this year, since I received my Cricut Expression Christmas present from my mother and sister a couple of months early I decided to hand-make all of our cards. The final tally was somewhere around 70, so I just made multiples of a few different styles. I've been wanting to share them with you all, but didn't want to chance their recipients seeing them early. There are quite a few photos, so they'll be split into two seperate posts. Merry Christmas all! :)

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Christmas Cards~second batch

Here are the rest :)

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