Missing Comments

OK, so I was going to pick a winner today, but some of the comments were missing and I had a weird blogger message. I would like to wait until tomorrow to give everyone a chance to leave another comment. I have NO idea what happened. I can't believe this happened on my first giveaway. Ughhh.

Let's try this again. Please leave a comment on this post HERE.

Blooming With Happiness

Hi everyone! I wanted to share something my sweet talented Mom made me. She crocheted me a bag full of beautiful flowers for my cards. She even matched some of the flower colors to my PaperTrey Ink cardstock. I LOVE them! Since I have such a stash of them, I thought I might share a little kit with some flowers, pearls, and matching PTI cardstock with one of my bloggie friends. Just leave a comment on this post with a way to reach you and I will randomly pick a winner this Friday.

Here are cards I made using the flowers...

I really like how this card turned out. I used the Sweet Sentiments #2 set
by My Craft Spot for my sentiment. I love this stamp set! The paper
is by Basicgrey--urban prairie. I used a border punch for a little
detail and *pop* of color behind the white strip. The paper flower
is cut with the Walk In My Garden cartridge. The pretty little crotched
flower is from my Mom. :) Since the background paper is busy, one flower
was all this card needed. I finished off the card with some sewing
machine stitching.

Cuts:

• Walk In My Garden cartridge pg.87
• 2 1/4"  blackout blossm
• Standard A2 sized card-paper from PTI

I hope you've all had a chance to enter this weeks challenge over on the My Craft Spot blog, you can find it here. Be sure to leave a comment on this post for the goodies I'm giving away this Friday. Make it a great day. :)

Bling It Up! Challenge #7

Hey! I hope everyone had a relaxing weekend. I had a wonderful time with my family.  The girls each made me a card for Mother's Day. They even bought me a *cricut cartridge*, that turned out to be an Apple ITouch. Oh, how I've wanted one. I was very surprised!  Now comes the tricky part of keeping my *little assistant*(Sammy) from hiding it, or worse--breaking it. Fun Fun.

Well, today is time for another Monday challenge over at My Craft Spots Blog, and today's challenge is all about the *bling*. A perfect chance for you to use some rhinestones, stickles, glimmer mist, maybe even some glossy accents.  Did I mention the prize...The Sweet Sentiment # 1 stamp set!! Trust me--you want this.:)

Here is my card for this week...

All of my flowers came from the Walk In
My Garden cartridge. It is kind of hard to tell in
the picture, but I added diamond stickles to a couple
of the flower layers. I also *popped* up the flowers
with dimensionals. I kept with an odd number of
flowers for the card. The stamped sentiment is
from the Sweet Sentiments Set #2. 

For the ribbon technique, I ran a piece of crinkle ribbon
through my sewing machine set on the longest stitch
length. After I stitched the length of the ribbon I gently
pulled on the tails of my stitching threads and it gathered
the ribbon right up. From there it was easy to stick
it to the cardstock. I ran a strip of ATG adhesive down
the center of the cardstock and then pressed the ribbon right
on top. I tucked the ends behind the strip of green cardstock
and then attached the green strip to the card base. Leaving
the inside nice and clean. Hope that makes sense.

Cuts:

• Walk In My Garden cartridge pg.87
• 2 "-1/4"  blackout Flower layers
• I also used the flowers on pg. 84, 82 & 85
• Standard A2 sized card-from PTI

I hope everyone plays along this week. It's fun and I LOVE looking at everyones projects. Of course there is always a wonderful prize to win. :) So, go check out the contest here.

Have a great week.

Sweet Baby Boy

I'm back with another baby card. I hope everyone has had a chance to enter a card, scrapbook page/LO, or project for this weeks Monday Challenge at My Craft Spot. As always, there is an awesome prize for the winner, so don't wait, you still have time to enter. :)

For the *SWEET BABY BOY* tag I used the
Sweet Sentiments- Set #2 by My Craft Spot. The
ribbon and twine are also by MCS.

Cuts:

• B is for Boy Cricut Lite cartridge 
• 2 3/4"  Hobby and all layers
• 1 3/4" Thanks oval tag (used gypsy to *hide* thanks)
• Standard A2 sized card

I'm currently working on my Mother's Day gifts. :) Did you know National Scrapbook Day is May 7th this year? Mother's Day and NSD in the same weekend--YES! I am already planning my NSD day...are you? I have a few weeks of my Project Life album that I need to finish. I would really like to make a video, but last time I tried, it was like 20 minutes of bloopers. At one point I had to stop filming because I couldn't think of  the word *paper*. My daughter giggling at me in the background, didn't help either. :)

My Craft Spot Monday Challenge #5

Hi everyone! It's time for another Monday Challenge at My Craft Spot. Today's theme is *Bundle of Joy* basically anything to do with babies.  There is an awesome prize for the randomly picked winner of this weeks challenge--5 spools of Bakers Twine! Click here to see the other DT projects for some additional great ideas. Be sure to play along in the challenge and I can't wait to see what everyone creates.

I created a sweet little girl card for this challenge.

I used the Sugar and Spice Cricut Lite cartridge
for this card. The *Hugs & Kisses* sentiment is
from the Sweet Sentiments-Set #2 by My Craft Spot.
The petal pink crinkle ribbon is also by My Craft Spot.

Cuts:

• Sugar and Spice Cricut Lite cartridge 
• 4"  love shift  base
• 2 1/2" buggy
• 1 3/4 " hugs shift base for sentiment
• 1  1/2" hugs layer
• Standard A2 sized card

OK, so it's time to create a sweet card and get it linked up here before next Monday. 

Have a great week. :)

Just Hopped Into Town :)

Hope you are having a wonderful Easter weekend!

Bee Happy!

Hi everyone! There is a good reason to be happy and excited today...the members of My Craft Spot's design team are being announced, and guess what, my name is on the list. I am thrilled to be part of such an amazing design team. The design team will be showcasing the new line of high quality photopolymer stamps that Kimberly at My Craft Spot has designed. The stamps are easy to use, stamp with a clean crisp image, and contain perfect sentiments that can be used for several occasions. Also, at My Craft Spot you can also find the prettiest hand dyed crinkle ribbon, and beautiful hand dyed twines. There are weekly challenges every Monday--there is still time to enter this weeks challenge. Please be sure to watch for all of the new exciting things happening over at My Craft Spot.

My card today sums up exactly how I feel--HAPPY!

I used my Gypsy to *hide* the bee's face so I could
stamp a face using my Peachy Keen face stamps-
PK-500 Snow Cuties.  I used my sewing
machine and chocolate twine from MCS. The
stamped sentiment is from MCS stamp set-
Sweet Sentiments Set #2. Standard A2 size card.

Cuts:

• Give A Hoot cartridge  pg.37
• 2 3/4"  Bee and all layers 

Enjoy the rest of your week. :)