Happy 2nd Blogiversary 2 Me & A Giveaway 4 You

HI Everyone ~ WOW! I can't believe it has been 2 years, well just a little bit over 2 years. I can't begin to tell you how much fun I have had and how many wonderful bloggy friends I have met. Everyone is so wonderful and super talented. I love all the inspiration I get from visiting every one's blogs. I have even had the chance to meet some of my bloggy friends in person and WOW! what a great time we had and it was absolutely wonderful to met them get to spend time with them.
Now for the giveaway. I am giving away a Stampin'UP Punch Bunch stamp set along with a Tim Holtz plain elements. The punch bunch is adorable it has and owl, happy birthday, for you and a welcome baby stamp. Tim Holtz elements have all kinds of designs and you can do just about anything to them. I have painted them, used stickles on them, glossy accents, just about anything, they are very versatile.

Here is a close up of the stamps they are soooo cute!

All you have to do to be eligible to win is:
       
        1. Be a follower
       
        2. Leave a comment on this post

For an extra chance to win post this on your blog sidebar.

So that gives you 2 chances to win. Please leave a separate comment if you have posted the giveaway on your sidebar. The giveaway will be open until September 19.

Thanks again for taking the time to leave a comment and stopping by.

Happy Crafting!!!!!

Paper Playtime Challenge #78 - Red, White and Blue!!

Hi Everyone ~ Happy 4th of July!!! Hope all of you are having a wonderful day and all of you get to see all the wonderful fireworks. We are lucky in the fact we can see them from our front lawn. Yipee!!! I thought I would enter a few challenges for the Red, White and Blue. My Friend Lisa at A Mermaids Crafts has introduced me to Paper Playtime with her beautiful card she made for this challenge.  I absolutely love Lisa's creations she is so AMAZING and very talented. She is an inspiration to us all. Please make sure you stop by her blog and also Paper Playtime, there are some very talented crafters also.

My layout is done with a variety of items. The boy pulling the wagon with the dog in it is from A Child's Year cartridge, one of my favorites. The stars are from a Creative Memories punch I have had for a long time. The plane is from a stamp I have in my stash. The fireworks, frames, photo mates and the flag are cut out from a paper pack I got from Oriental Trading. The Fourth of July is cut from the Old West cartridge. The journaling boxes are from stamps and the watermelons are done freehand. 

Hope all of you enjoy the 4th.

I am also entering a few other challenges. It is always so much fun to stop by other challenges and see everyones fabulous projects!

Little Scrap Pieces ~ Use a Star

Jailhart ~ Sundays are Lovely Challenge #11

IBSIC ~ #15 ~ Red, White and Blue

My Sheri Crafts ~ Challenge #88 "Oh I Love America"

Please stop back by for my 2nd year blogiversary giveaway!!! I can't believe it. Simply amazing, it has been sooooo much fun. 

Happy Crafting!

50th Birthday Mini Album

Hi Everyone ~ Hope all of you are having a wonderful Sunday!! Last Saturday was my sister's 50th Birthday Surprise Party, so I thought I would make her a mini album for the occasion. It was a bit of a challenge to give her a surprise party since she was trying to plan her own party and everyone that was invited had to have some excuse for not coming. We even had to make sure that her boss said she had to work at the time of the real surprise party, just to make sure she didn't show up unexpectedly. Well we pulled it off and everyone had a fabulous time and she didn't have to work. Which was what she said when she realized it was a party for her. LOL!
Now for the mini I made her. I want to let all of you know that my inspiration for this mini came from Mary at CardzTV, she made one very similar for her husband for Father's day. It was gorgeous and the theme was all about his garden that he was growing. I just love all of Mary's projects and make sure you stop by her blog she is amazing!!! Hope you all like it.

Products I used:

New  Recollections paper pack from Michaels - Cupcake Cuties and Lumiere

I used Viva decor on the ends of the ribbons to seal them.

A variety of stamps and stickers I had and I am not sure which brand they are (sorry).

Stickles of course and I used the Viva Decor for the inside to write her name and date.

The Happy Birthday on the cover is something I had in my stash along with the cupcakes.

The flower with the leaves are made from punches by Stampin'UP and I get all of my Stampin'Up products from my sweet friend Norma at Pink Bling Crafter, be sure to stop by her blog she is amazing.

I also accented various stamped items on the pages with some sparkle gel pens I got awhile back from Big Lots. I am telling you that is one of the best purchases I made I use them all the time.

Bind it All, which I used for the first time and it was extremely easy.

All the tags were cut from Tags, Bags and  Boxes Cricut cartridge and they fit inside the pages.

Washi tape, I really like this tape. 

I am also entering this in the anything goes at cardztv.

Happy Crafting!!!!!!

Disney Princesses

Hi Everyone ~ OMG! I can't believe how long it has been since I last posted. Bummer. Hope all of you are having a fantastic weekend. I don't know about all of you, but I would love to have weekends that are longer. Ya! LOL! Anyway, enough about the long weekends. Lately I have seen all of these wonderful Disney projects and they have all been amazing!  A lady that I work with took her little girl to Disneyland and had all of the princesses sign her autograph book, so I thought it was be fun to make the princesses for her book. My husband did the faces on the princesses, I think he did a fantastic job. Hope you like them.

The princess where all made from Happily Ever After  and Dreams Come True cartidges. They were really fun to put together. I tried to match the colors as close as I could to the pictures that were taken with each princess. Ariel came out so close to the picture it was amazing. Anyway I think so.

Hope all of you have a fantastic week

Happy Crafting!!!!

May and Mom's Day Layout

Hi Everyone ~ WOW! I haven't posted in a very long time. Guess I had better step up the pace. LOL! One post a month is not very good. I have don't lots of projects just haven't gotten around to posting them. Life and work sometimes take over. Here is a layout I did for May and Mom's day. I love the paper and all of the fun stamps and embellishments. The butterflies with the bling are just fabulous.

I truly hope all of my bloggie friends have a fantastic week.

Happy Crafting!!!!

Easter Layout

Hi Everyone ~ WOW! I haven't posted in a while, guess I have been busy. LOL!  I truly hope all of you are having a fabulous crafty weekend. I have been working on a baby album and today I was working on the the April/Easter Layout. I think it turned out really cute. I used the Designers Calendar Cartridge for the April and Easter. Love, Love that cartridge. I recently got the Spring Holiday Cards Cartridge and used it for the photo mats. It has lots of cuts that can be used for photo mats. I also used a Stampin'Up stamp set Every Bunny, it is sooooo adorable. I colored the stamped images with my Stampin'Up markers. I just love all of my Stampin'Up products, I get them from my amazingly creative and wonderful friend Norma at Pink Bling Crafter.  I am also entering this layout in Emma's challenge at  My Creative Time Challenge. Emma is so creative and she has such wonderful products. I haven't entered a project in a challenge in a very long time. I am also entering this project in Paula's Wacky Wednesday #68 Challenge at More Than Favors. Love her blog, there is always wonderful projects there. Sorry the layouts aren't very clear not sure what was going on with my camera. Here is my project.

Hope you all like the close ups of the stamps, they are just so cute, I couldn't resist. LOL!!!

Happy Crafting!!!!!

Die Cuttin Divas' Color Challenge

Hi Everyone ~ Today I am a guest designer at Die Cuttin' Diva's. The challenge is a color challenge. The colors are green, yellow, white and black.  What I made for the challenge was a project that is going to be put in a frame.  The saying on the project is one I saw a long time ago and I really liked it and until now I wasn't sure how I was going to use it. This is the project I came up with for the saying.

The background is a greenish paper with speckles throughout it and the size is 6 x 6.  The Cricut Cartridges I used are the following:

Jasmine for the font

Create a Critter for the little bee with the bigger head 

Give a Hoot for the smaller headed bee

Walk in My Garden for the beehive

Paper Pups for the clouds

The bees are so cute. Don't you think?

A big thanks to the Die Cuttin' Divas' for having me as a guest designer.  Be sure to stop by the Die Cuttin' Divas'  and see all of the other great projects.

Happy Crafting!!!!!!