Happy 9th Birthday~ The Cutting Cafe Number Shaped Cards

Good Morning Everyone!!

This week The Cutting Cafe  DT was asked to showcase

either the 

0-9 Shaped Card Set

or

The Milestone Number Shape Card Set

My son has a birthday party on Sunday for one of his good buddies and the

"9" shaped card was perfect!

This card was so super easy to cut out and so much fun to embellish!

Perfect for a boy!!

Supplies Used:

Card Stock~ Kraft and white 

Pure Poppy~ PTI

Designer Paper~My Minds Eye "Out of the Blue"

Cut Files~ The Cutting Cafe~ #9 Shape Card

Sentiment~ The Cutting Cafe~ Birthday Tags

Dies~ My Creative Time~ Scallop and Stitched Circle

Image~ Bugaboo Stamps~Fireman Number~Nine

Ink~ Distress in the following..

Fire Brick, Wild Honey, Black Soot

Copics~ R24,R39, R20

YR23,YR14 

B14, B16

E000, E00, E30

C1, C3, C10

Extra's~ White gel pen

Glossy Accents

What do you think?

I love the way this turned out!

(I think from now on all of my boy's birthday parties will be shaped number cards!)

So

make sure to head over to 

The Cutting Cafe's Blog

later today to check out the rest of the DT's projects and comment along the way for a chance to win

some files of your own!

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT 

hump day :)

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Entering this into the following challenges:

Cupcake Inspirations~ Photo Inspiration (used the colors)

Paper Pretties~ Rainbow

Paper Sundaes~Circles

My Sheri Crafts~Warm Thoughts (firefighter~hot hot hot...LOL)

Make It Monday~ Link Up Party

The Scrapbooking Queen~Anything Goes w/a little green

Birthday Sundaes~ Get Messy (inking, glossy accents)

2 Sisters Challenge Blog~Anything Goes
Divas by Design~Spots and/or Stripes
Aud Sentiments Challenge~ Happy Birthday

Sending Hogs and Kisses

Hi everyone!!

I wanted to share a quick CAS card for

Here it is....

Isn't that little piggy the cutest!!

This is my first time entering their challenge and you should check out all the talent over at

CAS~ual Fridays

Supplies Used:

Card Stock~ Kraft, White 

Designer Paper~ My Minds Eye~ Love Me

Sentiment~ E.A.D Designs~Country Farm Stickerz

Image~ E.A.D. Designs~Country Farm Stickerz

Twine~Twinery in Cappuccino

Dies~ Spellbinders Label 1

Extra's~ brads from my stash

Coffee bean ink for the edges

Thanks for stopping by!!

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Entering this into the following

The Kraft Journal~ Farm Fresh

CAS-ual Fridays~ Jest for the Pun of it

My Craft Spot~Make Us Laugh

The Ribbon Carousel~Anything Goes

E.A.D Designs Blog Hop~ Cheers to the Chicken

Good Morning Everyone!!!

It is Monday and time for out E.A.D Designs Blog Hop!

Are you excited?

I know I am and hop we offer some inspiration along the way

Before we get this hop started I wanted to send a

BIG BIRTHDAY WISH out to my son~ Casey

He is 11 today...OMG where has the time gone?!?!

Happy Birthday Casey! Hope you have an awesome day!!

(he reads my blog during the day at school....shows his teachers also...LOL

LOVE him and so proud that he wants to show his mamma off)

Ok back to the hop...

You should be coming from

Jenn's  totally awesome blog~

 if not be sure to start over at the E.A.D Designs blog to catch all the wonderful projects and to be entered into this week's giveaway! 

I am back with another home decor project

this one so fun and super easy!!

OMG can you say too cute!!

I used the new Silly Vinyl Noses ~ chicken (would you guess any other..LOL)

and instead of putting them on the bottom of a coffee mug

I found these clearance clear mugs that I thought they would look adorable on.

My husband wanted a mug of his own so I did another

Awww....matching his and her chicken mugs :)

These are the cups we use for everything now...love them and the best part of them all

the vinyl was so super duper easy to put on!

They come with the transfer tape already attached...it is peel and stick!

What do you think...adorable right?

Well as much as I would love for you all to stay and hang out longer it is time to see what the

super talented

Judith

has created!

Thanks for stopping by and always leaving such sweet comments!

Have a GREAT Monday and see you all later!

Hello Cute Chick!

Hi everyone!!

I have a quick post for you all today..my son's birthday is tomorrow 

and we have our family party tonight so I am busy cleaning the house

but had a few minutes in between to get this card together

A CAS one for sure~ see a trend starting?!?!

I have seen all these adorable Market Street Stamps (but I don't own any yet)

and all the great projects made with them so when I happened upon their February Block Party

that had this adorable chick freebie to use I knew I wanted to play along and hey you never know I may even win a stamp set :)

Here is a closeup of this little guy that I printed on my computer and then paper pieced with a polka dot piece of scrap from my stash

I added some Creative Inspirations Paint in Fairy Dust to his belly and crown and beak to add some sparkle

Supplies Used:

Card Stock~ Kraft

White

Pattern Paper~ unknown polka dot from my stash

Image~ Market Street Stamps freebie digi

Sentiment~ Cornish Heritage Farms (the Kim Hughes Collection)  Sweet Spring

Punch~ EK Sucess border punch

Twine~ The Twinery in Lemon drop

Please if you would be so kind as to follow me with the new linky thingy on the side....if what they are saying is true about the old linky not working anymore I would hate to lose all my blogging buddies!

Thanks so stopping by

See you all tomorrow for the EAD Designs Blog Hop!

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Entering this into the following Challenges:

Market Street Stamps~ February Block Party

One Stitch at a Time~ Digi w/ Spring or Easter

Creative Inspiration Paints~Paper Piecing

The Glamorous Side of Scrapping~ CAS w/ Pattern Paper

Docerela Creations~Friendship Card

The Green Blend Award

Hi Everyone!

If you are looking for my Jingle Belles project~ click here

I wanted to share what my sweet sweet blogging buddy Beckie

over at Just B Creative Crazy has given me!

Here are the terms under which this “Green Blend Award” are to be given.

1.  This award is for any co-blogging friend who has helped you develop your blog in any and all ways.

2.  This award is for any co-blogging friend who has cheered you along in your blog building, craft advancing career.

3.  This award is for any co-blogging friend who always stops by and is kind to you. You can count on them to always be one of the great comments at the end of your post.

4.  This award is to be given to 3 to 5 Blends whom you feel meet the listed requirements.

5.  Create a post with the terms of use and publish your Blends of choice.

6.  Blend of choice may copy the award from your blog and proudly post it on theirs.

7.  Blend of choice may continue the kindness by issuing this award to keep the circle forever growing.

I am choosing to pass this award to the following blog...

all have shown such kindness and creative inspiration to me!

1.Sherrie~ Sherrie Crafts with Passion

2.Beckie~ Just B Creative Crazy

3.  Kate~ Scrappers Creative Corner

4. Tami~ Tami's Craft Connection

4. Amy~Amy's Crafting Space

5. Jovan~Card's by Jovan

Thank you ladies for being so kind with your visits, comments and love!

You are all so very inspirational!

Jingle Belles Rock Challenge~Stuck on You w/ EAD Designs

Good Morning Everyone!!

I am so excited to be sharing a card over on 

Jingle Belles Rock 

and sharing that 

EAD Designs is sponsoring this weeks challenge!!

The Challenge ......

"Stuck On You"

 create a holiday card which incorporates stickers or rub-ons (or both!)

Here is what I came up with

I wanted to keep my design CAS to really showcase the 

awesome EAD Designs Stickerz.

Details for my card~

 Card stock~ Kraft and

PTI~Pure Poppy, Whisper White 

Sentiment~ 

EAD Designs Celebrate the Season Stickerz

Twine~

From my stash

Extras~

Irock gems

pop dots for ornament

What do you think?

Want to play along with the challenge?

You do not have to use EAD Designs product but if you have them, flaunt them!

We would love to see how you use them!!

Plus if you play along you can win some EAD Designs goodies!!

Just remember to use some kind of sticker or rub~on.

So Hop on over to

 Jingle Belles Rock

to check out what the other EAD Design DT members created

along with out awesome hosts

Lauren and Stef

Thanks for stopping by!

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Entering this into the following Challenges:
DL Art~ Thankful Thursday
The Kraft Journal~Fantastic Finds (EAD Designs Product!!)
Catered Crop~ Seeing Red

Card for Mason~ Sending Fishy Hello's

Hi Guys!!

I have a card to share that I made for this adorable little man ~ Mason.

You can read all about him  here

My blogging buddy Monica has a challenge up ~ Monica's Creative Madness to make and send this adorable little boy and his family a card of encouragement and I knew I wanted to jump in!

Here is the card I created...

I love fish and know Mason probably does also so I thought this would bring a smile to his face :)

Details for this card are as followed:

Card stock~ PTI in Ripe Avocado, Vintage Cream, Dark Chocolate, True Black

Designer Paper~ Me and My Big Ideas~ Destination Paradise

Stamps~ Cornish Heritage Farms (Kim Hughes) Gum Sweet Spring

Dies~ Tim Holtz Tiny Tags and Tabs

Twine~ The Twinery in Cappuccino and Honeydew

Extras~ White gel pen

Distress ink 

Letter's from my stash

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Entering this into the following challenges:

Monica's Creative Madness~ Cards for Mason

Paper Playtime~ Say it With Sentiment using Pet Image

Little Scrap Pieces~ Use Green

Celebrate the Occasion~Thinking of You

Cricut Creative Cutter Room~ Shape Card

The Paper Shelter~Add a Sentiment

D.L Art~Thankful Thursday

Clearly iStamps~Let's Get Shapely

Die Cuttin Divas~ Favorite Pet

Alota Rubber Stamps~Shaped Card

Scrappy Mom's Stamps~Tag your It

It's Time To Celebrate w/The Cutting Cafe

Good Morning Bloggers!!

It is time to party with 

The Cutting Cafe!

This week the DT will be showcasing projects using either

Party Hat Shaped Card Set

or

Fun With Party Hats

I thought for my card I would do a little bit of paper piecing with the printable stamp set

and here is what I created :)

A fun and colorful birthday celebration card!

So details of this card.....

I used one of the party hats and printed it out using 4 different color PTI card stock

Pure Poppy, Enchanted Evening, Summer Sunrise and New Leaf

then paper pieces all the parts after inking each pieces using  distress inks in

Wild Honey, Fire Brick, Faded Jeans and Peeled Paint

The fun designer paper is from My Mind's Eye~ Out of the Blue stack

I used my cuttlebug and the stars folder for a little embossed texture

For my sentiment I used the Birthday Tags..Printable Stamp set

another fun set from The Cutting Cafe

I printed the stamp out on white card stock then die cut it using 

My Creative Time~ Scalloped and Stitched Circle

a perfect fit!!

So I hope your have enjoyed my birthday card.

Make sure you check out the rest of the DT's projects.

All their links will be posted on 

The Cutting Cafe's Blog later this afternoon

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Entering this into the following challenges:

Little Scrap Pieces~ Use Green

Paper Pretties~ Punches or Dies

Giveaway Alert~ Candy's Craft Corner

Hey bloggers!!

I wanted to pop in to share a HUGE giveaway going on over at

Candy's Craft Corner!

Candy is hitting 400 followers and has some awesome goodies to giveaway!

Want to see what goodies are up for grabs?!?!?

Can you say yummmy??

So all you have to do is head over to my friend Candy's Blog

for all the details and to enter to win!!

Until tomorrow.....

have a great one :)

EAD Designs Blog Hop~ Home Decor

Good Morning to all my crafty friends!

Today is Monday and you know what that means......

The EAD Designs DT Blog Hop!!



If you came from the ever so Crafty Jenn's you are in the right spot

if you want to start from the beginning head back over to

EAD Designs

because you will not want to miss any projects and you can enter to win some goodies of your own!

I am so super excited about today's project...a little home decor spruce up!

So we have this entry way mirror in the hall that was so plain but had been with us forever....

When I saw the

Personalized Family Name Est 2 

I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it!!

Not only was it so super easy to apply..but I love the look of it on the mirror!

My boys said when it was all finished...

"That is so cool...it looks 3D"

I LOVE it!!

The whole vinyl measures 5 x 12

and of course is completely customizable....So Awesome!!

Nothing like adding new life to something that was just there :)

Now time to hop along to Judith's

Thanks for stopping by and have an awesome day!

Happy Birthday Cupcake!

Happy Sunday Everyone!!

I can not believe that I haven't posted anything since Tuesday...

I was busy with Valentine's Day and the kiddos

had a touch of the whatever bug that is going around

and just in alittle bit of a crafting slump....nothing I created was anything I felt was good enough to post and what I have been crafting that I love is nothing that could be shared yet :)

I was in the crafting mood today after a LONG morning of grocery shopping at Walmart~ my least favorite place to go but the best for all their prices...

AnyWhoo

I was going to save this till tomorrow's post but found tons of challenges to enter this into and I have something awesome to share for tomorrow's post...

So here is my Birthday Card

I was "pinning" (my addiction..LOL) and came across a card I really liked the LO of....I took the general sketch of it and came up with this card....

if you want to see the pinned card you can click here

Details for this card are as followed:

Card stock ~~ Stampers Select White, True Black and Pure Poppy

Sentiment~~ EAD Designs ~Birthday Sentiments

Stamps~~ PSA Essentials ~Whimsical Cupcakes

Dies~~ Spellbinders Labels One

My Creative Time~ Scallop & Stitched Circle

Ribbon ~~ Quick Quotes 7/8" Red/White Dot

Extra's ~~ Copic R29,R39, and C3,C5,C7 for cupcake

White gel pen for doodles

Creative Inspirations Paints in Fairy Dust for

sparkles on cupcake (not sure if you can see it in the picture)

OK....now I have a question for all you bow makers....I struggled forever trying to get my bow to look somewhat decent...how do you all do it? Do you tie it on or glue it to your card?

I love the look of the big thick ribbon but tend to shy away because it always gives me troubles...

HELP!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday and see you all back tomorrow for our EAD Designs Blog Hop!

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Entering this into the following challenges:

Cupcake Inspirations~ #148 Photo Inspiration

Paper Sundaes~ Birthdays

Totally PaperCrafts~ #104 Ribbons or Bows

The Pretty Little Ribbon~ Anything Goes w/Ribbon

Stamps R Us~ Anything Goes (entry #2)

Scrapbookaholic by Abby~ Birthdays

Crazy For Challenges~ Stripes and Polka Dots (stripes on cupcake)

CES Challenge~ Spots and Dots

Digi Doodles Shops Challenge~Anything Goes

Inspire Me Fridays~ Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments~ "Happy"

Pile It On~ Sending Happiness

Inky Impressions~ Use Punches or Dies
Creative Inspirations Paints~ Polka Dots
Catered Crop~ Seeing Red
My Craft Spot~ Girly Girly Project



~Happy Valentine's Day~ w/ The Cutting Cafe

Happy Valentine's Day to Everyone!

I hope each and every one of you get to spend it with the ones you love!

It was 15 years ago today that I met my husband....so today holds an extra special place in my heart!

Guess What....

He is so awesome......he bought me a Cameo and I am so super duper excited to get it!!

 Today I am sharing my DT card for

The Cutting Cafe

and

this week the team will be showcasing the

Mini Colored Calendar Cards

this set features 12 calendar printable images measuring 3x4.

Perfect for all your birthday cards, scrapbook LO's and mini albums!

For my project I used the February calendar month and made a Valentine's Day Card

For my card I used My Minds Eye~ Love Me designer paper

This beautiful blue ribbon that I received in a swap~ it was the perfect match...LOVE when that happens!

The Cutting Cafe~ Mini Colored Calendar Card~ February Month

that I printed on white card stock

The Stamp is from My Creative Time~ 100% Sweetness Set

Candies for the corners

and a beautiful red glittered heart from Recollections

George and Basic Shapes Cartridge for the rectangle matting~ cut at 3x 4 1/4

I also distressed all the edges with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink

and put the whole card together on a Kraft Card stock base~ A2 size

Since I posted this card a day early make sure you check out

The Cutting Cafe's Blog

tomorrow afternoon to see the rest of the DT's projects and leave some comment love

to be entered to win any 3 sets of your choosing from

The Cutting Cafe's Store

I hope you like my card!

Thanks for stopping by

and

have a GREAT Valentine's Day!



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Entering this into the following Challenges:

Die Cuttin Divas~ Pick at Least Two Colors (Red, White) ~ George and Basic Shapes for diecut

Docerela Creations~Valentine's Card

2 Sisters Challenge Blog~I Heart You

The Kraft Journal~ Color Me Red

Celebrate The Occasion~Valentine's Day w/Heart

The Ribbon Carousel~ Sketch (Mine was switched around some)

Creative Inspirations Paint~ Inspired by Hearts

Little Scrap Pieces~Anything Your Heart Desires
The Spotted Chick~That's Krafty Thursday
DL Art~ Anything Goes

My Creative Time~ Throwback Thursday Challenge Entry

Hey again :)

This is my second post for today....

if you are looking for the

EAD Designs Blog Hop click here

I wanted to get in on the Throwback Thursday Challenge over at My Creative Time

~this weeks challenge was all about Bugs

and here is what I came up with

I used the Wild Cards Cartridge for the scalloped circle card base

Designer paper from My Minds Eye~Lost and Found Breeze stack

The butterfly cut from Create a Critter~

Peachy Keen Faces for my butterfly~ Simple Sallies Face Assortment

Flowers cut from George and Basic Shapes

Sentiment from My Creative Time~ Follow Your Dreams

punched out using my EK Success oval punch

Distress ink in Gathered Twigs

White gel pen for doodles

brads from my stash

I also used LOTS of foam dots to add dimension to the flowers and butterfly wings.

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Entering into:

My Creative Time~ Throwback Thursday

Paper Pretties~ Use Flowers

DL Art~ Anything Goes

EAD Designs Blog Hop!

Morning Everyone!!!

Hope you all had a GREAT weekend!

It is Monday which means time for this weeks

EAD Designs Blog Hop

You should be coming from Jenn's.....isn't her project just the cutest?!?!?

Don't forget to start at the beginning~ EAD Designs to catch all the awesome projects and to be entered to win this weeks prize :)

I am always scrambling around looking for thank you notes for those last minute gifts and such so today's card will fill one need...LOL

I used 2 sets of stickerz from EAD Designs

Thank You Sentiments and Journaling Cards

A simple to the point card right :)

My designer paper is from Graphic 45 and the music note is cut from

Gypsy Wanderings

all on Kraft Card stock base~A2 size.

Now hop on over to see what the super creative Judith has in store.

Thanks for stopping by...

but before you go I have a reminder

EAD Designs Color Challenge is up and running

All you have to do is create a Black and White project

link up

and enter for a chance to be next month Guest Designer

You have until the 23rd and I would love to see your projects!

(you do not need to use EAD Designs product but if you have them...flaunt them LOL)

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Linking this up to:

Stamps R Us~ Anything Goes

DL Art~Thankful Thursday