Thank Ewe card

Good morning!  I have been trying to get some crafting in. I am busy working on my sons' and nieces' graduation invites.  I will have to show you a pic of my desk of all the different parts and pieces.

Here is a cute little thank you card I did. I love this little lady!!

The lamb is cute from Create a Critter 2, I am not sure of the page, as I downloading the cartridge to my Cricut Craft room.  Have you done this yet? Oh my you get the cartridge right away, no running to the store, spectacular!!

The word Thank Ewe is cute from Just Because Cards at 2.50"

Fiskar's punch for the punch under the picture.

Martha Steward Bling

Divine Swirls Cuttlebug Folder

StampinUP Ribbon.

Thanks for stopping by! We really have missed everyone!!

Laurie

A big huge THANKS

Here is a card that Kel and I did Friday nigh in the cave.  Kelly's husband finally came home from the hospital/rehab after a month!! We are all so happy he is home!

Kelly made this for the rehab staff thanking for taking such good care of her hubby.

The paper is all from my stash. Of course we used Divine Swirls Folder, Crinkly Ribbon and the sentiments inside are from StampinUP!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Snow much fun

Happy Friday!!  I hope all our blogging friends in the Northeast are safe!  I have family in NJ and they are still without power.  Everyone is our prayers.

I came across the super cute snowman card on Pintrest and had to give it a go.  Kel came over and helped me with the dimensions (measuring is NOT my strong point).

Here is the recipe:

Accent Essentials Cart - Circles cut at 2 1/2 and 3 1/2
Snow Friends - Carrot, eyes, mouth and little stick arms
Divine Swirls Cuttlebug Folder

We took a piece of 8 1/2 x 11 paper and cut it half and then used my MS circle cutter to make the base circle.

Some sparkly pen throughout the divine swirls and I have a StampinUP! Stamp that says I hope your holidays sparkle with joy.  I will stamp that inside.

Thanks so much for stopping by!! Have a great weekend!!!

Wedding time.........

Good morning!  I had some (necessary) scrapping to do this past week and wanted to share a few cards this week. Here is a pedestal card I did for my niece's wedding.   The wedding was Saturday night, it was so much fun!

Here is  my recipe:

Weddings/Marriage cart for the cake, cut at 3.25
Divine Swirls Cuttlebug Cart for the cake
I used Inkadoo stamps for the swirls on the black paper
White Sparkly Embossing powder
Fiskars Border Punch
Everything else is from my stash

I hope everyone had a great weekend!!  Keep your prayers coming for Kel's hubby, he is still in the hospital.

Laurie

It all started with a Random Act of Kindness.......

Good morning everyone!  I hope you all had a great weekend.  The weather was perfect here in Massachusetts!!  I wanted to share a bunch of cards I made that all came from the card I received from Kelly.  I received the top card from Kelly just because, and I just loved it. I had it sitting on my scrap table, and I thought, I have a ton of Thank you cards I need to make, I am going to scraplift her idea (with her permission of course).

So throughout the week I will show all the different ways I made this card.

This one was pretty simple, I used:

StampinUP Not Quite Navy cardstock
Divine Swirls Folder
StampinUP Tag Punch Set (I love this set)
StampinUp Ribbon
Fiskar's punch along the bottom of the card, hard to see because I wrote the card out before I took the picture.

Have a great day!!!

HIlton Head, SC

I also love this pictures, shows a lot of the men in my life (I have a lot!!).  My dad, my nephew, my brother, my older son and in the back ground my husband and my younger son.  Told you I had a lot of men. We all went on vacation together to Hilton Head, South Carolina.  What a beautiful Island! We had some much fun.  I used SEI En Route Papers and Embellishments.  Fiskar Wave punch, then I cuttlebugged it with Divine Swirls and inked it up.  Done!  I am coming right along with Pa's book!

The Graduate

Here is a fun and super easy Graduation card I did for my boss.  He just finished up his MBA, so I thought I would whip him up a card. I had some trouble coming up with a masculine card, so I turned to YouTube.  I am pretty sure it was  the Pink Stamper that I saw this card on. I tweak it a bit, well we did, Kel was in the scrapcave with me again, so we had a few laughs and made this.  The graduation cap is from the Cricut Cartridge, Locker Talk, as is the word Grad inside the card.  Divine swirls folder was used on a gray metallic paper.  We inked the inside of the folder with a light blue ink, ran it through the cuttlebug.  I had this beautiful, ribbon, almost like twine that we used.  Kel came up with the great idea of making the tassle look real, by cutting them with my Tim Holtz scissors, they really do work well.  I am giving this to my boss tomorrow.  I will let  you know his reaction.  Have a great day and thanks for stopping by.

Terrific Tuesday and a Challenge!!

Good morning, scrappers & crafters! It is another gorgeous day here in New England; quite a difference from the wild weather this weekend. Still keeping the poor people of Vermont and other areas hard hit by Irene in our prayers.

So, on a scrappy message board that I visit, they challenged us to make a layout of Irene and her impact as it was happening, based on a sketch that they posted. Thankfully, there wasn't really a whole lot of mess or destruction around our neighborhood to take pictures of and I was too chicken to get in the car and head over a couple of towns to the beach. So, what's a scrapper to do when challenged and there aren't any fitting pictures?!?! Well, since it was all over the news on every station, I decided to take pictures of the TV!!! You should have seen the look on my husband's face. (He should know me by now!)
This was the end result:

I have had that scalloped paper, letter stickers and rub on quote in my stash forever. The paper looked like a big cloud with wind going through it to me, so I thought it worked. The hurricane flags were punched with a square punch and then I added 1/2" squares to the middle of them. I embossed the middle circle with the Divine Swirls folder, added a couple of swirly stickers from my stash and - wa-la - done!

A Challenge!!

So, I was thinking yesterday that with all this new-ness, it is a good time for a challenge! I will have a nice little package posted tomorrow as the prize. Here are the deets:

Create a LO (any size) that represents "New". It could be a new baby, a new job, a new car, a new beginning, a new house, a new school .... you get the idea!

You do not have to be a follower, but we would love it if you were. :)

Entries will be due Saturday, September 10th 2011 at midnight eastern time. The winner will be chosen from a random drawing on Sunday. 

Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Good news and Thank you card

Good morning all! Thank you for ALL for the well wishes!!! Means so much to me! I made this thank you card for Dawn. She has been so great during these past few weeks, always checking on me and sending me cards! She is a good BFF, so I wanted to make a thank you card!

I used a lot of paper from my stash. I used Divine Swirls for the pink paper, and crinkly ribbon for the bow. The stamp is from My Creative Time. The heart paper is from Heidi Grace.

This is what happens when I make a card, it looks like hurricane hit!!

Onto the good news, Dawn is going to keep the blog going in mine and Kel's absence. With Kel on move number 2 and me starting my new job, Dawn has graciously offered to keep the ship a sailing as they say!! I am sure you will not be disappointed with Dawn's work, and I when I make some creations I will send them to Dawn. I am off to check out what everyone has been working on!