Happy hearts day

Happy Valentine's Day. Kiss someone you love (furbabies count). Thought I would do a quick post and show you guys the Valentine's gifts that I made for my children. I made tags for all of them and gave them a little bit of candy and a fun gift.

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All About Me

Today, I am sharing a scrapbook layout that I made from a pre-made kit. Before I got really involved with my Cricut and scrapbooking using a diecut machine, I had bought quite a few pre-made scrapbook layouts from a scrapbook store that has since gone out of business. Part of my "use my stash" goal is to try and utilize some of these pre-made kits. The idea was to use these to get caught up. This kit had the colors I was looking for. It is a layout of Ty's Pre-K graduation. I thought about changing title and jazzing it up but I ended up leaving it just the way it was.

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L-O-V-E

Hi everyone! I hope that everyone is happy because today is Friday! Nothing special planned forthe weekend just the usual. But I have Monday off and will be going for a massage and a facial and then DH and I are going out to dinner for V-Day! I have this paperpad to giveaway, to win leave a comment on this post and you will have two weeks to enter. If you are a subscriber or a follower you may leave a second comment.

The winner of my last giveaway is Julie E! Please email me with your address. My email is under my picture. Also, the winner of the February resolutions giveaway of a box of paper is Lisa from Lisa's Creative Niche! Be sure to email be so that I can mail you prizes to you!

Today's card is a simple one. I used my Bo Bunny valentine paper, pink organza ribbon and cuts from Once Upon a Princess and I think this is from Sweethearts. I stitched around the outside with my white gel pen. It was a CASE but after I made it, I don't "love it". That's a quote from Lily. When she likes something she "loves it" and when she doesn't "she doesn't love it." The other day she was eating her dinner and she told me "I don't love it" mama. She has a dramatic side for sure. Thanks for looking everyone!

Recipe:

Sweethearts and Once Upon a Princess cartridge

Crazy Love DP from Bo Bunny

Pink Organza ribbon - just loose in a drawer

Cherry Cobbler cardstock

Ranger white gel pen

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Somebunny Special

Today's card allowed me to use this cute rabbit cut from Create a Critter and sentiment from Go Green - Pink Design stamps. It's also on an action wobble and I used these cute Peachy Keen Everyday Characters face stamps. I always forget to use these because I have to hide the face features on my Gypsy before I hit cut. I'd love to get more of these but I'm still using my stash!

Recipe:

Create a Critter Cricut Cartridge cut at 3.5

Crazy Love dp from Bo Bunny

Sentiment from Go Green - Pink by Design

White gel pen from Ranger

Chocolate and Blushing Pink cardstock
Action Wobble

Button from PaperTreyInk

White taffeta ribbon by SU

Everyday Character Faces by Peachy Keen Stamps

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Hogs and Kisses

I have been wanting to use this fun sentiment for awhile. I am thinking about giving this card to the secretary at work - she LOVES pigs! Just the cute ones of course. This cut is from the Create a Critter cartridge. If you got a Cricut recently and are overwhelmed by what cartridges to get. I highly recommend this one because you will have a high level of success with this cartridge. It layers nicely and easily, there aren't a ton of tiny little pieces like some carts and there are not just animals on here but other fun cuts too.

This cut had 5 layers. There were 3 layers to the main pig but I only cut 2 and just put some hot pink cardstock behind the ears instead of cutting a whole pig. The other layers were the skirt and the nose. Super easy and cute.I put some stickles on the nose and cheeks because I had the perfect cotton candy stickles and some light doodling. The sentiment is from AMuse art stamps and fit my image perfectly. I added some silver Viva Decor dots on the side of the sentiment because it just looked like it needed something.

Recipe:

Create a Critter Cartridge

Cotton Candy Stickles by Ranger

White gel pink by Ranger

Crazy Love DP from Bo Bunny

SU cardstock - Blushing Bride and Cherry Cobbler

Martha Stewart Valentine ribbon

Heart Border Punch

Farm fun from Amuse Studio

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Blog candy reminders

Hi everyone, I hope that everyone is having a fun weekend! I just wanted to remind you of the blog candy that I have on my blog. To win a Free Bird paper pad, visit here. You may leave a comment on each post for extra chances. To win a box of misc. paper from my cleaning out and paying it forward stash, visit this post.

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Kiss Me

We've all kissed a few frogs in our lifetime - the key is to find the one that turns into at least something that resembles a prince! Today's card uses the Once a Princess cartridge and this fun cut. The dp is Crazy Love by Bo Bunny. I was so proud of myself because I could not find a stamp that said 'kiss me'. Now, I am pretty sure that I have one somewhere....normally, I would see that as a sign that I needed to buy a new stamp set. INSTEAD....I wrote the word - I could've typed in on my computer but at the time my husband had just set up my brand new computer and my work processing program wasn't installed yet so I wrote it. I also was so happy to use this little doodad that fit my color scheme perfectly.

Recipe:

Once a Princess cricut cartridge

Blushing Bride and olive cardstock by SU

White gel pen by Ranger

Candy Cane stickles by Ranger

Modern Label punch by SU

Doodad by SU

Crazy Love by Bo Bunny

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Puppy Love

Isn't this a cute little card? So simple to do. I think this heart is on the Sweethearts cart which I've been using quite a bit but the dog definitely is. I used my Gypsy to make sure that the dog fit in the heart. I used a little bit of stickles on the dog's nose and tongue and the heart embossing folder was a gift from my friend Melissa. The sentiment is My Pink Stamper More Punnylicious stamp set. I started really buying these stamp sets last year to make more cards with my Cricut but then I didn't make the cards that I thought I was going to. That's going to change this year! I added a tiny bit of doodling for an accent and I was done!

Recipe:

Sweethearts Cricut Cartridge

Crazy Love DP by Bo Bunny

Candy Cane Stickles by Ranger

Cherry Cobbler and Blushing Bride Cardstock

White Gel Pen by Ranger

More Punnylicious by My Pink Stamper

Heart Embossing Folder by ProvoCraft

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February 2012 resolutions

Happy February! I don't know about you guys but January was over in a flash. So today is the day we take stock on how we are doing with our resolutions or goals for the year. One of my main goals was to read at least 1 book a month. I am happy to report that I did indeed finish one book and am exactly half way through a second book. I find that when it's been awhile since I've read it's easier when I jump into a book with familiar characters. J.D. Robb aka Nora Roberts has a futuristic series that I have been reading for years. I think there has been over 30 books in this series. I enjoyed it but I did not find the storyline as interesting as past books in the series. Lt. Eve Dallas' partner Peabody overhears a dirty cop and must find a way to bring her to justice before other cops get killed. I just found it a little slow. But yay for me in finishing a book.

Project Life - here are my 3 layouts fully completed for the month. The last layout of the month is just waiting for pictures. What I want to point out is that every single thing on these layouts is from my stash. I used retired SU paper, I printed the journaling onto white cardstock and cut out the sizes that I needed, I used stamps and my Cricut. I also used the horizontal pocket pages from CTMH.

I spent a little bit of money this month but in tracking my spending from last year, I spent 75% less this month than last January so I'm good there. I also tried out for a couple of DT's, submitted some projects in challenges. Still working on eating better but baby steps with that one.

To win a box filled with designer paper (time to clean house) leave a comment on this post. Let me know how you are doing on your goals for the year. I will select a winner next Friday.

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More Cupid

Today's card uses a lot of things that I have been showing you here on the blog lately. All from my stash, nothing purchased recently. The cupid cut is from Sweethearts Cricut Cartridge and doodled with a black pen for some definition. The pink ribbon is from the Martha STewart Valentine's ribbon pack. The dp is from Crazy Love by Bo Bunny. The doily is the same doily from Wilton that I showed you before except I cut out the center of it and I really liked the look it gave this card.

Recipe:

Sweethearts Cricut Cartridge, cut at 3.0

Doily from Wilton

Pink ribbon from Martha Stewart

Crazy Love by Bo Bunny

Blushing Bride and Cherry Cobbler cardstock

Candy Cane Stickles from Ranger

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Cupid Notebooks

I was really disappointed in myself last year that I didn't buy the Cricut cartridge Lovestruck. It now goes for a crazy amount of money on Ebay. However, after looking through some of my many cartridges, I found that Sweethearts had this fun and super easy Cupid. I cut him out at 3 inches and doodled a bit because he seemed to get lost without it and added candy cane stickles to his heart and bow. I used scraps of blushing bride and cherry cobbler cardstock and scraps of "Crazy Love" dp from Bo Bunny and made some fun notebooks. These notebooks came from PaperTreyInk but if you are on a budget or unable to get these, you can buy notebooks from the Office Supply store (come in packs of 10) and have the copy people cut them in half and voila, you have pretty much the same thing. I also used the PTI stamp set Take Note.

Recipe:

Notebooks from PaperTreyInk

Crazy Love DP from Bo Bunny

Take Note Stamp set from PaperTreyInk

Cherry Cobber and Blushing Bride Cardstock from SU

Heart Border Punch from SU

White gel pen from Ranger

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Free Bird Blog Candy HERE

Last week's winner was Sheila aka She's a Sassy Lady. Please email me with your address so that I can mail your prize to you. This week, I have another Free bird paper pad from Authentique to give away. To win leave a comment on this post. For extra entries you may comment on each post until I select a winner in two weeks on February 10.

Have a good weekend!

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Sweethearts

I am almost a month in and am still using my stash. Hope to do a post near February 1 to update you all on how I'm doing and how you are all doing on some of your goals. We all fall off the wagon now and again but we have to remember to pick ourselves up and continue where we left off. As I was looking through my stash for some Valentine like paper...guess what I found. A completely, new never used, 6x6 Bo Bunny paper pad called Crazy Love. I also found some Martha Stewart ribbon that I bought who knows when! So exciting to shop from my stash for these projects.

Now, I will say that I plan on using this paper pack QUITE a bit so be prepared. This cut is from the Sweethearts Cricut cartridge. I totally messed up on some doodling so I covered it with black stickles. The doiley was also in my stash. I had found these in the baking aisle at Joann's and I believe that they are made by Wilton. I just used half of it for this card. So those of you who don't score the dollar spot doilies at Target (I got some of those around here somewhere from last year), check out the cake baking aisle at your craft store. I bought a pack of these for 2 bucks and there are a ton in there.

Recipe:

Sweethearts Cricut Cartridge (cut at 3.5)

Bo Bunny "Crazy Love" 6x6 Paper Pad

Wilton Doily

Martha Stewart Valentine Ribbon

Heart border punch from SU

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Dog Gone!

Here is the card that I am using for this week's challenge at Fantabulous Cricut. The challenge is to use a label. My label is from Elegant Edges and my dog and bowl are from Create a Critter. The paper is retired SU from my stash. The sentiment is from My Pink Stamper. I did a lot of doodling but I think the card needed, thanks for looking!

Recipe:

Create a Critter and Elegant Edges

DP from SU

Ribbon - Paper Trey Ink

Grey, Black, Kraft and White Cardstock

My Pink Stamper

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JillyBean Soup Pre-order

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Best Fishes

Wow, two Princess cards in a row. A huge feat considering what a pain these are to cut. This card is for my niece Kayla who just turned 3. She will now be the same age as my Lily for next 5 months. She got a ton of toys for Christmas but since she will be starting to take dance with Lily, I bought her all the dance gear she needs to get started. The fabulous, gorgeous dp is super glittery and is from my stash - I got it when a scrapbooking store was going out of business and at this point, I just have bits and pieces of it.

Recipe:

Cricut cut at 4.0 Dreams Come True

Bazill and SU cardstock

Midnight blue stickles

White Viva Decor pen

Pink Stamper "More Punnylicious" stamp set

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Sale-a-bration & a Discount

Stop and Scrap is continuing their pre-orders of CHA new releases. Today, it's Bo-Bunny. If you decide to order from them, be sure to use code HEART for a 12% discount.

I made today's card for the Cricut Circle blog challenge to create a "get well" type project. I have to say I am so surprised that I havent' used this Once a Princess cart more often. I was intimidated by paperdolls but this was just so easy to cut. She was cut at 3.5 and I used Peachy keen stamps for her face. The cardstock piece she is propped up on was cut with Once a Princess alos. The dp is retired SU and the sentiment was printed from my computer.

Recipe:

Once Upon a Princess Cartridge

DP from SU

Princess Faces from Peachy Keen stamps

Orange stickles

Swirls cuttlebug folder

White gel pen

Marina mist ribbon

Cherry cobbler & Marina mist cardstock

SU Sale-a-bration starts today! For every $50.00 you spend, you get to pick a free gift out of the Sale-a-bration catalog. There are exclusive stamp sets and paper as well as embossing folders and other fun stuff to choose from. Check out the catalog on my sidebar. While you are there, be sure to get a look at the new Occasions Mini catalog.

I am not sure if I will be continuing my SU demonstratorship. I tend to be my best customer and spend what is necessarily in terms of minimums to stay current and I am trying to scale back my spending. So I am offering a 20% discount until the end of sale-a-bration while I mull it over. You have to email me to take advantage of this offer, US customers only and tax and shipping will be on the amount before the discount.

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Lie about your age

I am sharing a card that I made for my bestest cousin's 40th birthday. I can't believe that she's 40! It feels like we were just at school together, playing basketball and talking about boys. Anyway, I didn't want to make an over the hill card. That would be harsh, especially as I am only 18 months away from turning the big 40 myself. Instead, I made this Belle card using the Dreams Come True Cricut cartridge. It was difficult to cut this sucker and I had to cut a couple of pieces more than once and I totally gave up on the eyes and used blue stickles for them even though I know that Belle has brown eyes. I got this fabulous glitter dp from a scrapbooking store going out of business many moons ago.

Recipe:

Cricut cut at 4.25 Dreams Come True

Wow, So Many Candles - My Creative Time Stamps

Stickles in yellow, diamond and midnight blue

Bazzill and SU cardstock

Don't forget I have blog candy. To win an authentique paper pad leave a comment on any or each post and a winner will be selected and posted this Friday.

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Easy Mini Book

Today, I am sharing a super fun and practical idea from Dawn McVey. I have this problem every year of what to do with old Christmas cards, especially the ones with pictures. I hate throwing them away and then they get thrown into a box and are pretty much lost forever. Dawn shows on her blog to make a quick mini book with them. I have to tell you that this project took exactly one hour, maybe a little less, to complete. I used what I had in my stash and was a great way of using up old Christmas DP and embellishments. Some of the cards that I get have letters in them so I made a little pocket to store them. Basically, you hole punch your cards (I used my cropadile) and create a cover using chipboard, cardboard and I imagine that you could use boxes from Christmas for your front and back covers. Cover with you dp (I used a glue stick), then add ribbon or book rings to bind it together and embellish as much or as little as you like.

Recipe:

Ski Slope DP - SU

Medium weight Chipboard

Bookrings from Office Supply Store

Crop-a-dile

Kraft cardstock

Retired felt snowflakes - SU

Thickers - American Crafts

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Thank you Girl

Today's card uses the same layout as the card before, except I used this lace scallop border punch from Martha Stewart.

Recipe:

Greeting Card Kids Stamp set from SU

Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses DP

Border punch - Martha Stewart

White satin ribbon - SU

Square scallop nestabilities

Holly Embossing folder - Sizzix

Cherry Cobbler Cardstock

Copic Markers

Diamond Stickles

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Authentique Pre-orders

Stop and Scrap is now offering pre-orders of Authentique's new line (s). Use code HEART for an extra 12% off.

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