One Busy Mom!

Okay, I just wanted to share what I have been doing as of lately...this is going to be quick with lots of pictures.  I will give more details on the cards another day when I have more time...you see I am leaving tomorrow with my family for a nice long vaction...so I am very tired and so ready for bed.  But I just wanted to share these card pictures with you all.  All I can say is I have been one very busy Momma in my card making corner for at least two days!  I made a bunch of cards yesterday and a few more today! 

So take a look and enjoy the view!
 

This cute little kitty card is for the people who feed our sweet kitty while we go away on vactions and such.  They are truely a blessing when they have done it for us!

 

This card was made for my Uncle's 80th birthday!  They are having a big party for him but we will be away on vacation, so we will not be able to attend...so I am sending the card with my parents who are going to celebrate with him and his family!  Hopefully the inside won't scare him to bad!  LOL

 

Okay, this one I made for my BIL's B-day!  I hope he likes it I know I sure do! 

I love how it turned out!

 

This is for my SIL's birthday, I love the colors!  Simple on the outside

but fancy on the inside! 

 

This cute little bear card is for my cosins little boy who is turning 2.  It was mostly done with Create A Critter and then some of the baloons inside are done with Sweet Treats.   

 I am entering it in the "Fun With Puns" Challenge at Fantabulous Cricut Blog.

 Here is the inside of my Bear card!

Thanks for stopping in...I will give more details of each card when I get back from my vacation! Yahooo!

I hope you have a day filled with many blessings!

 

Simple Thank You

I have been wanting to make some cards that were simple yet elegant...truthfully it is called procrastination from doing the cards I need to do.  I am just waiting on the perfect inspiration for them to come...and no these are not it!  LOL

Well the first one is relatively simple...I have never done "weaving" with paper on a card.  So I gave it a try.  I didn't know which papers to glue and when to do it, so if you ever do this be sure that you have glue that is repostionable.  Some trial and error is how this got done.  Overall I am very pleased how this one turned out.  Simple yet elegant!


 
I used:
DCWV The Linen Closet Stack (scraps)
Gray seam binding
Brad from Hobby Lobby
Stamp sentiment from Hobby Lobby

This card is a really simple card style to make.  The pinwheel, is so easy to make!  I would like to make another but with totally different papers/colors. 

I used:
K&Company Amy Butler Designer Paper
Blue Cardstock for the card base
Black Glittered Ribbon from Michael's
Cuttlebug Embossing folder (I can't remember the name of it)

Thank you so much for stopping by!  I hope you have a great day!

 

11th Birthday!

Hello everyone!  I hope you all are doing well.  I have been very busy and am going to continue with that weather I like it or not!  Anyways, my youngest daughter turned 11 yesterday.  I cannot beleive that she is 11.  My dad had to point out that in 2 more years she will be a teenager/13!  Uggg, not yet, really!  Where does time go?  Well we had both sets of her grandparents over to celebrate with us.  We had her favorite food, pizza!  Then we had a yummy ice cream cake.  Next she opened her gifts from everyone!  We all had a great time of food, fun and laughter!  The only thing that was hard on her was that she had to stay upstairs for part of the day while I made her card.  Poor kid!  Because our kids are homeschooled, I never really get time without them around to surprise them with anything!  So that is why she had to stay upstairs...like I said, "poor kid!" She has been showing an interest in card making so she got a bunch of things for her to really begin her "Collecting" for her own card making.  So she understands and appreciates the work that goes into my cards.  When she opened her card, she then understood why it took so long! She is so much fun to have around.  She almost always has a smile on her face.  You can always count on her to say or do something silly and make us all laugh.  We are so blessed to have her as a part of our family and I would never trade her for the world!
Well here is some pictures of our celebration and her card.

I used:
Create A Critter Cricut Cartridge
Brown, black cardstock
DCWV The Sweet Stack with Glitter for the background paper
DCWV The Linen Closet Stack for the dog
Sizzix Dots & Flowers #2 embossing folder
I-rock gems
Brown Flocking
All the ribbon is from my stash
Birthday Sentiment is a stamp from Hobby Lobby
Paper Flowers from Oriental Trading Company
Wiggly Eyes from my stash

 

 

 

Thank you so much for stopping by and seeing what fun we had celebrating !

May you have a wonderful day filled with many blessings!

 

Tuxedo Valentine Heart Box

Shhhh, don't tell my hubby about this post!  He never really comes onto my blog so I am taking a risk just sharing this with you all, but I just had to!  I got my inspiration from Pinterest, LOVE that site!  Anyways, I will fill it with some of his favorites goodies!  I am thinking of making something like this for my kids, but I am not sure how to do it without them seeing me do it...Hmmm!  I sure hope he enjoys it!  I don't think I did to bad at all.  I think these would be alot of fun as wedding favors and doing one as a bride/bridesmaid dress and this one for each all the place setting.  Lots of different ideas can come from this!  LOL 

I used:
Plantin SchoolBook for the Heart cut-outs
One of the Cuttlebug folders from Love's in the Air pack
Red, Black and White carstock
Black lettered brads for the buttons
Red ribbon from my stash for the bow tie
Paper flower from my stash

 

Thank you so much for coming by

and I hope you have a great day!

 

My First Quilt Cards

Well hello!  This is my first time ever to make a quilt card!  I have looked at them for a long time and admired them and thought that someday I will make one of these.  Well, apparently that someday has come!  These are pretty easy to make.  My problem is that I don't want to put any kind of label or embellishment on top of them.  My mom has made many real quilts for years.  I don't have the patience to make one of those.  I know the work and hours that goes behind one...so doing a paper quilt is really nothing like the real deal!  LOL  I think it is easy and kinda fun!  They are not perfect but....Anyways here they are!

I used:
DCWV The Linen Closted Stack
The Paper Studio Mirabelle Paper Stack
Spellbinders Nestabilities Lacy Squares Die
Embossing folders  
Ribbon from my stash
Stamp sentiment from Hobby Lobby
Flowers from my stash

Well, thank you for stopping by and I hope you have 

a day filled with many blessings!

Simple Masculine Birthday

This was a simple card I made for our assistant pastor who is such a true blessing and encouragement to us all on how we should live for God and love God.  We ALL love him, including the kids!  He is always ready with a "story" of a blessing from God that he has received throughout his day.  He truly is a man of God/A man after God's own heart!  And we are so blessed to have him with us!

I used:
The Paper Studio Faith paper pack
Spellbinders Shapeabilities Parisian Motifs
Circle cut
Scalloped circle punch
Gold embossing powder
Brown and white bakers twine
Birthday Sentiment from Hobby Lobby

I have entered this in:
DL.ART Thankful Thursday Challenge  - Anything Goes

Thanks for peeking at what I have been busy doing these last few days!

Have a great day!

Musical Birthdays for January

Hello!  It is a cold rainy day here in NE, Ohio.  So even to take pictures of things is kinda difficult for me.  I would much rather have snow or just plain sun, not rain and mud.  Yuck!  Anyways, this card, I actually made two of.  One was made for my niece, who is in college studying music.  She has a beautiful soprano voice and she plays the piano beautifully, too.  She is a very talented young lady!  So naturally I wanted to do something for her that had to do with music.

Also, I made another one almost exactly the same for my wonderful pastor's wife who is our pianist and worship leader.  She is an amazing encouragement to me and a great Godly example to us all.  We are so blessed to have her in our church. 

I used:
DCWV The Performance Stack
White, Red and black Cardstock
Black glittered ribbon from Micheal's
EKSuccess butterfly layering punch (this is such a cool punch)
Birthday Sentiment stamp from Hobby Lobby
Red I-rock gems
I am entering this in:
DL.ART Thankful Thursday Challenge -Anything Goes
Little Scrap Pieces Challenge - Anything Goes

Well thank you so much for stopping by 

and I hope you have fabulous day!

 

2012 Christmas Bulletin Boards

Okay, I know it is well past Christmas but I just am now getting around to taking the pictures and sharing them with you all.  Some are re-purposed reused parts from other boards...but that is what it is all about right?  Most cuts are done with the Cricut!

 With this simple bulletin board, I used my Cricut for the tag and I also used the 

Cricut Markers to write part of the verse, Romans 6:23.  

 This one is a mixture of lots of different cuts from my past bulletin boards, so I am not sure where they all came from.  Sorry!  I love that snowman though!

Okay, this one I do know that the manger scene came from the new December 25th Cricut Cartridge and the smaller stars are from Stand and Salute Cricut Cartridge.  Actually you can't see it but all the stars were covered in white glitter.  They were so sparkly and pretty but they just didn't show up on here...bummer!  

Well I hope you enjoyed seeing these and thank you for stopping in. 

 Have a wonderful day filled with many blessings! 

Rectangle Birthday!

Hello!  I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a great time celebrating the beginning of a new year.  We had a long Christmas.  We started ours out on the Friday before Christmas, with having my parents here for dinner and read the Christmas story from the Bible, and exchanged our gifts to each other,(because they were going to be at my sister's house for Christmas).  So that saved us all from hauling those gifts from home to PA. to back home.  Then we had Christmas Eve at our Aunt and Uncle's home and opened gifts from them and our Grandma.  Then we got up early Christmas morning read the Christmas story, and opened our gifts to each other here out our home, Next we got ready and headed to my in-laws to eat breakfast  and read the Christmas Story and opened gifts from them and my SIL's and their families.  Then we ate lunch and went and visited with Grandma for a little bit!  After all that on Christmas day, we came home packed our suitcases and loaded up the van and went to bed.  So on Wednesday, very early we got up and headed down the road to my sister's home in PA, trying to stay ahead of the "blizzard" that Ohio got.  Thank goodness, we got there just as it began snowing really hard.  So God really watched out for us.  Well, we stayed with them for about two days, had Christmas dinner, and read the Christmas story in their barn, with the horse munching in our ears and the dog making whimpering noises and chickens making some noises,  just to reflect on some of the things that our baby Jesus may have heard when he was born.  Then we opened gifts to each other.  The next day we came home to at least 10"-12" of snow!  We spent the next few days, just laying around resting up from the hectic-ness of Christmas and enjoyed each other.  All this to say, that I got really behind on Birthday cards for people in our families whose birthdays landed right after Christmas and New Year's....

So here is the first of a few that I am behind on!  I really am going to try to stay ahead on card making and maybe have a few extra on hand just in case!  Oh well, at least they are getting a card instead of nothing!  It is the thought that counts right?  I bet you all never get behind on your card making for people, right?   Anyways, I like how it turned out, simple and masculine.  And the paper has just enough shimmer for me to not need to add any.  Anyways, here it is!

I used:
DCWV The Natural Stack
Spellbinders Rectangles
Cuttlebug Clockworks embossing folder
Birthday Sentiment from Hobby Lobby

Thank you so much for stopping in and

may you have a New Year filled with many blessings!

More Christmas Cards

Hello!  I am soooo behind on everything this year including my Christmas cards!  I still have my ton of baking to do by Friday and I just have no motivation at all.  I am in a slump and just can't seem to get out of it!  Well anyways, some people will just be getting their cards very late this year!  As you can tell, I have been kinda busy with them.  Some I made a while ago and am just getting around to posting them for all to see.  I am trying to make cards that are easy to mass produce but somehow I end up making more work fun for my self.  The only problem is that I just don't have the time to get all fancy.  I have a buch of presents to wrap and a few more gifts to buy and of course then there is the baking.

 

I used: 

My Minds Eye, O Christmas Tree Glitter Cardstock

Landscape Stamp from Hobby Lobby

Sentiment stamp from Stampin' Up!

Brown and white bakers twine

Stickles

Glittered snow paint

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I used:
The Paper Studio Classic Christmas cardstock for the "Ornament"
Gold/Silver/White and black cardstock for the background layers and card
Martha Stewart Coarse glitter
Gold/Silver cord
Sentiment stamp fromJustRite

 

 
 
 
 
I used:
My Minds Eye O Christmas Tree Glitter Cardstock for the background and layers
Sentiment stamp from Michael's
Gold Stickles
Brown and white bakers twine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
I used: 
My Mind's Eye, O Christmas Tree Glitter Cardstock
Spellbinders 20120 Heirloom Ornament die
JustRite Stamps
Ribbon from my stash
Green stickles
 

Well thanks for stopping in and

I hope you have a Merry Christmas!