When Life Hands You Lemons....

It must be kizmet (or maybe an addiction). I was at Walmart today buying formula (last time) and I "happened" to go past the scrapbooking section and saw some of their Lite's on sale. I've had my eye on Block Party but couldn't figure out what to use it for. But since it was on sale.....  Thank goodness when I got home I saw I could use it for Scrapalicious USA's challenge:-) In addition to the Block Party Lite cart I also used some yummy bakers twine from The Twinery, cardstock from PTI, Recollections, and American Crafts. The sentiment is from MPS Fruit & Veggie Punnies set. Thanks for stopping by. Have a creative day:-)

Heartfelt Thanks

I sure must like working under pressure (not) because I'm always scrambling to get challenge cards uploaded before the deadline. So, short and sweet, the cut is from Freshly Picked, the patterned CS is DCWV Whimsy stack & the solid is S/U. The sentiment is MPS Simply Sweet Occasions. A little embossing, ribbon, buttons, and twine and I'm finally finished. Look for my card at the Simply Sunday Challege on the Getting Cricky blog and the Bitten By The Bug 2 challenge. Thanks for stopping by. Have a creative day:-)

Purple Birthday Cupcake

Yea! Happy Weekend everyone! I have a lot to do! Big party on the fourth for my {sniff sniff} one year old to be. Even though I've been through this twice before, I'm getting all emotional. I can't believe how quickly time goes! Well, back to "business":-)

I just had to enter Fancy Framework's Pretty Purple Birthday challenge. I love challenges that require purple:-) I used the Celebrations cart for the cupcake, Stickles to decorate, American Crafts ribbon, S/U PP, and various solids. The sentiment is S/U , also.
Thanks for stopping by. Have a creative weekend:-)

Warmest Wishes

Good Morning everyone! I made a quick card for Challenge Me Monday over at the Fantabulous Cricut blog. I started a card for this challenge but realized there was another crafter used the same cut and CS. Too funny. So I started over and came up with this rather bright card. All CS is from S/U, the sun cut is from the Simply Charmed cart, Traffic Jam embossing folder, and the sentiment is from The Charmed Life set by Scrappy Moms. Oh, yes, Stickles! Thanks for stopping by. Have a creative day:-)

Sweet Blog Award

Thank you my sweet friends! Tiffany at Sparkled Memories, Shelly at My Paper Love, Carissa at Happily Ever Paper Crafter, and Ana at Scrappy Pink Corner both gave me a Sweet Blog Award. With the acceptance of the award I'm asked to answer seven random facts about myself and pass the award to at least 8 other blog buddies.

So here it goes:

Random Fact #1: My favorite ice cream is mint chip
Random Fact #2: I use my turn signal 98% of the time
Random Fact #3: I really wish Pushing Daisies was still on tv
Random Fact #4: I used to be a figure skater
Random Fact #5: I married my HS sweetheart (and still am after 22 years)
Random Fact #6: I drive a black Honda Odyssey
Random Fact #7: I don't own a Kindle

Now I would like to pass this on to:

Juanita at Scraptacular Designs
Peggy at icrea8cards.blogspot.com
Suzanne at Cricut Craftin Grammy
Viviana at Vivij Designs
GiGi at The Cricut Bug
Jessica at Baking Up Crafts
Cathie at Cathies Cafe
Micia at Yellow Bird Creation

Go check out their sites. These ladies have fabulous ideas:-)

Sea you soon!

So let me just tell you, I have a 9 yob. What tv show do you think I've been watching after school for the past I-don't-know-how-many-years?! SpongeBob. Yes, I even know that song by heart! (Not sure if that's such a good thing;-) So, of course the first image that popped into my head for Tacky Tuesday's Challenge was..... SpongeBob. This cart was actually one of the first that I owned. My son had me make SpongeBob and Patrick as big as I could so he could put them on his bulletin board. Wow, there a lot of pieces! Don't try anything too small with this cart. You'll go crazy trying to put glue on all of those little pieces.

I made this card 4.5 x 6 so I could fit a bigger image on it. I have an absolute ton envelopes that fit this size card. (I bought up the entire load of Hallmark envelopes a local pharmacy was selling at a sidewalk sale for $10!:-) Other items I used was various DCWV and S/U CS, Stickles, ribbon (don't recall where), and a sentiment I printed out using SpongeFont SquareType font. Thanks for stopping by! Have a creative day:-)

Guest Designer At Inking It Up Crazy!

I am so honored to have been asked to be a Guest Designer on Kassidy's month long Birthday Bash (ok, truth is I begged her). Kassidy is giving away quite a few gifts just for leaving comments on posts. Even if you've missed a few days, I encourage you to comment on previous postings. She won't be drawing until the party is over.

Today is the day for patriotic inspirations. I was originally going to create birthday invitations because my son will be one (1) on the 4th of July. I decided not to do a "4th" theme for the birthday so I chose to do a layout for the Birthday Bash. I like doing 8 x 8 layouts because they are smaller and not as intimidating as a 12 x 12. I found I can get an 8 x 8 done much quicker and get the same satisfaction as doing a 12 x 12.

Yes, that's a toothpick pinwheel:-)

There is no shadow for the firework cut so I made my own by cutting them at two different sizes so it looks like a shadow (silver paper)

For this layout I used:

• K & Company "Americana" specialty paper
• Stand and Salute Cricut Cartridge
• Independence Day Cricut Cartridge
• Stampin' Up ribbon
• Stampin' Up Fun In The Sun
• Stampin ' Up Simple Serif Alphabet
• Pop Dots
• Stickles