Updating of Blog

I made some changes to the looks of my blog and I am committing myself to posting more of my creations and card/scrap related posts. I tried to scrap on Sunday night while I was watching the Survivor finale but my darn cat kept getting in the way, if he wasn't laying on my papers he was messing my Expression so I gave up!

I am attending an all day crop this Saturday and plan on working on cards. So look for an update on Sunday hopefully full of great new cards I made with my Expression and Gypsy!

Cards

Here are some cards I made this past Saturday at the crop I went to in Quakertown. I had a great time and made some fun cards I gave to my mother for Mother's Day. Here they are:

I used CTMH paper and inks, the stamp and punch were SU and I embossed with a cuttlebug folder.

Paper, stamp, ink and rick rack all CTMH and the adorable Hippo is from the new Cricut Create a Critter (CAC) cart.

Cardstock, stamps and ink CTMH, Patterned paper is Basic Grey Kioshi and the Panda is from CAC.

Again paper, stamp and ink CTMH and the Owl is from CAC.

I LOVE Create a Critter

Ok, Create a Critter (CAC) has to be Cricuts best cartridge EVER! I just love it! I am going to a crop on Saturday and I plan on making cards with it ALL day. And just so you know how much I LOVE this cartridge I failed to mention that I am the proud new owner of an Expression. I finally upgraded my baby bug to the E!! Here are two cards I made the other night with CAC. The cat is a shaped card I made by playing with the images and layers using my Gypsy another awesome crafting tool that I am finally getting the hang of using! The mushroom card I scraplifted from an image I saw on mypinkstamper's blog.

Happy Spring

Here are a few things that I worked on this weekend.

The card and the triangle treat box I made for a contest on a blog (see previous post). I used CTMH papers, and cuttlebug embossing folders.

The cat stamps below I picked up at the scrap stamp art tour that was in Oaks this weekend. I just thought they were adorable. I already used the to make a birthday card for my mother in law. I also used my new colored pencils and experiments with gamsol. Fun!

And last but not least, is my kitty -- Sonny. He loves when I get my Cricut out. He likes to watch the paper moving. I was helping Katy with a school project (another great use for the Cricut) and he was helping!

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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!!