BIRTHDAY CARD FOR FIL!

Hello ladies..It is a cold and rainy day here...great day for crafting. I made this card for my father in law. His birthday is next week. So this was a simple one.


card recipe:

Birthday bash for the presents cut @ 3 1/4"..added pearls and the small tag reads Billy...

Used spellbinders, scrappycat stamps, ms bubble around the page punch, walnut stain by tim holtz, ribbon and hand cut the happy birthday image out.

Hope you enjoy and have a great day.

Joy...blocks!

Hello ladies...I have been wanting to try some different ways of crafting. I used some wooden blocks that my husband had left over...and decorated them with DCWV Holiday Christmas collection cardstock.

I used mod podge, sanded the paper, inked with tim holtz walnut stain, ribbon (which you can see from the side). Embossed the banch ornaments with red and gold embossing powder.

Used twinkle glitter for the wreath, added a pearl cut wreath with Jolly Holidays @ 2 3/4"

Stocking cut @ 2 3/4" with chipboard about 3 times. This is suppose to be the J..but didn't want to use a letter....so I did the stocking as the J.

branch with ornaments (tucked behind the stocking) cut with same cartridge @ 2 3/4"

the "Y" cut @ 2 3/4" with Tear drop.


I painted the blocks with some outdoor green paint that I had left over.

Hope you enjoy...I might make some more of these as gifts....thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful chilly day.

Lilly's birdhouse with alittle cricut.

Hello ladies....Lillian and bob (daughter and husband) made a birdhouse together. She got to hammer in some of the nails and got to drill the bird hole. She loves making things and doing things as a family. She said she wanted stars, butterflies, hearts, and flowers...so I used some vinyl (that I got on clearance for .50 a while back) so I did not mind using it.

I cut out stencils with my cricut ...george and WIMG cartridges....She got to paint them then when it dried, I did another coat...We all had our hands in making this. Thanks for stopping by and Hope you enjoyed.

Carving pumpkins.

Hello ladies....I got another fall layout done..woohoo...I really love how this turned out. This layout is of my daughter Lillian (age 4 at the time = 2 years ago) and my husband. After we went to simmons farm (which was my last layout) we carved her pumpkins the next day. As you can see the pumpkin was as big as her....love it.


I used my design studio to lay it all out.

Cindyloo for the orange background and frame (sorry did not write down the sizes again)

Birthday bash for the banner and letters which I cut out 4 times in different colors.


the black cat is a sticker from K&Company ( I added this because on her smaller pumpkin we did a cat)

Jewels, ms branch punch, white gel pen, and a strip for the pumpkin border on the bottom of the layout with the DCWV Fall glitter paper.

Added some hemp cord to the banner...and another layout done...hehe.

Thanks for stopping by. Have an awesome day!!!

The Great Pumpkin!!!

Hello again...this is my 2nd post for today. THis layout is of my darling daughter Lillian and my husband Bob. This was 2 years ago. We went to simmons farm and my daughter got to pick a pumpkin. She wanted the biggest one there. THis one was the closest one we could find in the patch. She saw it and said "Daddy, you have to get this one" So we did.


Layout recipe:

I used Design studio to lay it out so I did not write down the sizes..sorry...


Pddu for the fence which I inked and added brad leaves and buttons.

Cindy Loo for the corner and the background scallop circle, swirl

George for the rectangle

The great pumpkin cut with Tear Drop...love this cart.

Added some ribbon and a bow and some button leaves, a stamp with white ink around the great in the title. Pinned a journal tag to the ribbon...enjoy.


Thanks for stopping.

O' Christmas tree!

Hello ladies. I know Halloween is coming up but I have been in a christmas mood lately and I needed to get some christmas cards done. So I figured if I get about 3-4 a day completed then I should have enough LOL...hehe.

Anyway this is a very simple card to make...and believe me I need simple to get all these done. I also need something that will mail good.

Card recipe:

Used Ms border punch, a button, some hemp cord, and the cuttlebug tree folder...love this folder. one of my favs. Inside is a stamp " Merry Christmas"...hope you enjoy. Thanks for stopping by. Make sure you stop back for the other post I am about to do.

Tree of life...disney layout / SOUS challenge.

Hello ladies... I made this layout of the tree of life (Epcot in disney) ...love this tree all the animals on carved on it , beautiful. So I wanted to capture the pics the most, but I did manage to make this layout for a SOUS (stuck on U sketches) Challenge....if you haven't stopped by go take a look you can click on my title and it will take you straight there or here is there site....http://stuckonusketches.blogspot.com/

The challenge was to use a tree (diecut) on your layout. Well I think I managed that. I love the simplicity of this one, so you can focuse more on the tree. I used the animal kingdom paper in the background because this tree has all the animals on it.


I used Tear drop cart for the title " TREE (all caps)" cut @ 1 1/2"

TD for "of" cut @ 1 1/4" and Life cut @ that.

Used cindy loo cart for the flower 4 background cut fit to page

Tree cut @ 3 3/4" with CL cart

I cut the tree about 4 times in different colors. then used gel pen to make the veins on the leaves.

I doodled with white gel pen.

Added sticker corners and some ribbon I won on a blog candy challenge. Thanks for stopping by.

Birthday card for our grandmother.

Hello ladies...Well this is the first post for October. It is so cold here, so I thought what a great day to get some crafting done. I also had to make a birthday card for my husband's grandmother. Her birthday is tomorrow.

I have not used these cuts before but wanted to try them and I love how they turned out.


Used Cindy Loo (newer cartridge I just bought): Frame cut @ 4 3/4" in the SEI Chocolat paper ...I love this paper.

Doll cut @ 3 1/2" added some pearls and pop dotted.

I used pearls, tattered rose ink, ms border punch, and pop dots,

inside is computer generated saying. I hope you enjoy and try to stay warm.