I made a card!

I haven't been gettning much of anything done lately. No scrapping, no cardmaking, not much of anything! But this weekend I hosted an all day crop as a benefit for my dd's high school marching band and I managed to get one card done! Not much but at least it was something! The weatherman is calling for a very rainy weekend here is S.E. Pennsylvania so I am hoping to get my mojo flowing and get some stuff done! Here is my card:


Card base: Bazzill cardstock, Scalloped Circle: cut with large size Spellbinders Nestabilities, Butterfly Paper: Basic Grey, Stamp and Ink: CTMH.

Happy New Year!

Another new year is upon us. The time just flies anymore, the older I get the fast time just wisks by me. It is scary!

I know resolutions are almost always broken. But I am going to make a few anyway. Can't hurt to try, right?

First, I am going to continue with my weight loss journey. The last time I was at my weight loss meeting was before Christmas and I was down 15 pounds, I had been down 16 but gained a pound over the Thanksgiving holiday. Can't wait (ha ha) to see what damage I did over the Christmas holiday! Weigh in is on Wednesday.

Second, I am going to cut back to almost nothing on my scrapbook spending. I have so much stuff I could open a store! I am going to finish out my commitment to Shirley's Close to my Heart hostess club, I think that has a few months left. I am also going to continue with my Scrap Room monthly kits but I am dropping all add on's. I of course will have to continue to buy consumables such as adhesives.

I also want to try to use my cricut more in my scrapbooking, actually try to scrapbook more in general. I make so little time for it, it is no wonder I am years behind in scrapping pictures. My once a month crops just are not enough. As for my cricut, I was updating my inventory of cartridges and boy oh boy I have accumulated a lot of them! If I counted right I have 48 of them!! OMG!! So I really need to start making better use of them.

Ok, well gotta go finish de-Christmasing my house. One more thing I want to try to blog on a more regular basis too.

Happy New Year!!

Some Recent Projects

Here are some cuts from my new Cricut Paisley Cartridge. I love the Russian Dolls and the Goddess Cat!! There are tons of cute cuts on this cartridge. Can't wait to play with it some more real soon !

Here is my 2009 Christmas Card. I made three versions -- the green shown below and then I also did a red background and a blue background that matched the circles in the patterned paper. The patterned paper is Imaginesence and so is the adorable little polar bear stamp. The colored card stock is Bazzill. I stamped the bear, colored his scarf in with watercolor pencils and then covered his body with ZIG glue pen and then with Stampin Up glitter dust.

Tim Holtz 12 Tags of Christmas Day 3

Another beautiful tag!

Tim Holtz 12 Tags of Christmas Days 1 and 2

Day One

Day Two

I got busy at work yesterday and didn't get a chance to check out Tim's awesome creations! But as usual they are just incredible!! If you go to his blog his has step by step instructions on how to recreate his tags. http://timholtz.typepad.com/my_weblog/

Tim Holtz !!!

Tim Holtz is once again doing his 12 Tags of Christmas starting next week. If you have never checked it out you have to! Even if you don't attempt to recreate his incredible tag creations it is just really awesome to see the work he does. I believe he has previous years tags archived on his blog you can check them out too!

http://timholtz.typepad.com/my_weblog/

Got Gypsy? I DO!!!!!!!!!!

I got my Gypsy (an early Christmas present) about two weeks ago. I have linked all of my cartridges to it and I am ready to start using it. I am going to an all day crop tomorrow and my G is going with me. I hope to have some pictures of my Gypsy creations real soon!!