Holiday Weekend

Hi Crafty Friends,

I hope you have a wonderful long weekend planned with friends and family. I thought I would post a quick birthday card for a little inspiration. I loved using the Tim Holtz stapler to add a little texture to the ruffled paper. The Bo Bunny paper I used is one of my all time favorites for birthday cards.
I hope you like it! Have a wonderful day!!



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Hi Crafty Friends!
Sadly, the summer is soon coming to an end and school is starting for my kids. I just love having them home but I know they are looking forward to school and seeing their friends on a more regular basis 🙂 Maybe the brighter side is that I may be able to create more which is something I really enjoy doing.

I created this card for one of my BFF’s -Jackie- for her birthday. She is SUPER crafty and talented to I really needed to step up my game…I really loved working with the material for the flower. It was a pretty thick white cotton with fantastic texture. I added some glue and glitter as well as rhinestones from Want2Scrap to give it a little bling, cut the card with my Cricut and my Close to My Heart Art Philosophy Cartridge, used my glitter Spica pen to add the sparkly dots on the card,  a Stampin’ Up! Stamp & punch for the sentiment. From my stash I used the leaves and the, red, white and black card stock. I would love to hear your thoughts on this project. If you are interested in purchasing the Cricut cartridge that I used to create this, which is AMAZING I MUST ADD, please click here and it will take you to a friend of mine’s website that can hook you up with it as well as a BRAND NEW AMAZING Cricut cart called Artiste. YOU WON’T BE SORRY!!! Well, your budget might… LOL Have a wonderful weekend and thanks for visiting!

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Hi Crafty Friends!
I REALLY love the summer! I love having my kids home, not having to keep a strict schedule and all of that FUN STUFF and it’s been FUN! I found out not too long ago that my Godson is going to be a DADDY! HOW EXCITING IS THAT? I am thrilled and excited to go visit in September for the baby shower 🙂 This is a card that I created for her to celebrate her pregnancy. I used copic markers and I am not sure of the maker of the stamp. If I am able to find out, I will be sure to edit this  but I know that they are sadly out of business. I hope you have a wonderful day and enjoy some craftiness 🙂 

**** The pregnant woman stamp is from The Angel Company and sadly closed its doors in 2011****
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Hi Crafty Friends!
I am so excited! I have been honored as the Featured Scrapbook Artist of the Week!
 I would love it if you would check it out!! I hope you have a wonderful 
weekend and  are able to get your craft on!


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Happy Sunday!!!

I hope everyone is having a FABULOUS day and enjoying their families and loved ones! I have been trying to get more organized.. it never seems to end but I do see a LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL! YAY! I have created some cards that I have at a friend of mine’s shop Creative U Studios! You can check out her website at http://www.creativeu.net/ She has an amazing store and even in you are NOT in Southern California (where she and I are located) you can stop ONLINE! Isn’t that great! They are SUPER friendly and amazingly talented! Sewing, knitting, crocheting… I just can’t get enough!!  I have copied some of the cards that I put there a few weeks ago to update my inventory. I hope you enjoy the creations and I hope you are inspired to create something yourself this week too! 
Thanks so much for visiting and being a follower. 
Please be sure to leave your blog address so I can be sure to return the favor!!!  
Have a great week!

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I am so excited that my friend Jennifer Priest is participating in an amazing event! The opening of  http://www.craftedportla.com/ For those of you in the Los Angeles area.. Check it out! It will be fun for the whole family! I will be posting some of my new creations next week! Enjoy your weekend!

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Hi Crafty Friends!

MY HOW TIME FLIES!! I thought I would post something since it has been a while. School is out, we had our annual garage sale and I am sick but I had some pictures of a few cards I made for Father’s Day so I thought I would share! I hope you have a wonderful weekend and enjoy a nice Father’s Day celebration with your loved ones!

The top card was made with Stampin’ Up stamps and the bottom card was made with
Close to my Heart Stamps and Stampin’ Up Stamps. Additional supplies I used were Copic markers, Memento black ink, fishing line and my McGill ticket punch.







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Hi Crafty & Creative Friends!
While I was organizing myself, I came across a few Cricut Cartridges that I needed to link to my gypsy. While I did that I thought I am going to organize my carts, update my list and be sure that all of the ones I had were actually linked to my gypsy. I will be calling Provo tomorrow but that is another story! I am excited to say that after a lot of work and help from my son, my list is up to
date and here it is:

3 Birds on Parade
50 States
9 Months 
A Childs Year
A Garden of Words 
A Word Party
Accent Essentials
All Sports
Alphalicious
American Alphabet 
An Ocean of Words
Animal Kingdom
April Showers
Art Philosophy- Close to my Heart
Baby Steps
Base Camp
Batman the Brave and the Bold
Beep Beep
Best of Pixar
Beyond Birthdays
Birthday Bash
Birthday Cakes
Black letter 
Block Party
Bloom
Boys will be Boys
Cake Basics
Cake Seasonal Sampler
Calligraphy Collection
Camp Out
Camping Critters
Car Decals 
Cars – Disney/Pixar
Celebrate with Flourish 
Celebrations
Cheerful Seasons – Creative Memories
Cherry Limeade 
Chore Chart 
Christmas Cards 
Christmas Cheer
Cindy Loo
Classic Font 
Country Life
Create a Critter
Cricut Classic Font
Cricut Decals 
Cricut Essentials 
Cricut Everyday
Cupcake 
Cursive 101
Cuttin Up!
Damask Décor
Designers Calendar
Dinosaur Tracks
Don Juan
Doodlecharms
Doodletype
Dreams Come True – Disney
Dude 
Elegant Cake Art – Martha Stewart
Elegant Cakes
Elegant Edges
Elmo’s Party
Everyday Paper Dolls
Everyday Pop Up Cards
Fabulous Finds
Father’s Day 
Feeling Groovy 
Florals Embellished
Flower Shoppe 
Forever Young
Formal Occasion
French Manor 
Freshly Picked
From my Kitchen
George and Basic Shapes
Gingerbread 
Going Places
Graduation – Happy Graduation
Graphically Speaking
Groovy Times
Handyman 
Hanna Montana
Happy Hauntings
Hello Kitty Font
Hello Kitty Greetings
Heritage
Holiday Cakes
Hoot n Holler 
Indie Art 
Jasmine
Jolly Holidays 
Joys of the Season
Jubilee
Just a Note
Just Because Cards
Kate’s ABC’s
Lacy Labels
Letter Envy 
Life is a Beach
Locker Talk 
Love Struck 2010
Luau 
Lyrical Letters
Martha Stewart – Birthday Cake Art
Mickey Font- Disney
Mini Monograms
Mini Monsters
Mother’s Day 2010
Mother’s Day Bouquet 
My Community
Nate’s ABC’s
New Arrival
Nifty Fifties
Noah’s ABC Animals
Nursery Rhymes
Old West
Once Upon a Princess
Opposites Attract
Ornamental Iron
Ornamental Iron 2
Over the Hill
Pack Your Bags
Paisley
Paper Doll Dress Up
Paper Lace
Paper Play
Paper Pups 
Paper Trimmings 
Picturesque
Pink Journey 
Plantin Schoolbook
Pop Up Neighborhood 
Preserves
Pretty Pennants 
Princess Party 
Printing Press
Pumpkin Carving 
Ribbons & Rosettes
Robotz
Rock Princess
Seasonal Cake Art – Martha Stewart
Sentimentals
Sesame Street Font
Sesame Street Friends
Sesame Street Seasons
Shall We Dance
Simply Charmed
Simply Sweet
Slumber Party 
Snow Friends 
Something to Celebrate
Songbird
Sophie 
Sophisticated
SpongeBob Square pants – Nickelodeon
Sports Mania
Spring Holiday Cards 
Stamped
Stamping 
Stand and Salute
Storybook
Straight from the Nest
Stretch Your Imagination
Summer Vacation
Superman
Sweet Tooth Boxes
Sweet Treats
Sweethearts
Tablescapes
Tags, Bags, Boxes & More
Tags, Bags, Boxes & More 2
Tear Drop
Thanksgiving 
Tie the Knot
Toy Story – Disney/Pixar
Trim the Tree 
Ultimate Creative Series Sampler
Very Merry Tags
Walk In My Garden
Wall Décor & More
When it’s Cold Outside
Wild Card
Wild Card 2
Winter Frolic
Winter Woodland
Word Collage 
Wrap it Up
Zoo Day

With all of these cartridges, I am going to try to
create with a different one twice a month. 
HOPEFULLY, it will be a lot more often 
than that but I wanted to start with a realistic goal. 
I am looking forward to creating and 
learning some cool stuff!   
I hope you have a wonderful week! 


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Do you like PRIMA PRODUCTS? 
Are you in SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA?


They are having THEIR 2012 WAREHOUSE/PARKING LOT SALE!!!  I went today and below are some of the pictures from my adventure! They have a bunch of items including some stamps, tons of flowers, paper and more! If you are in the area, you should check it out! They are open tomorrow, May 12th for the sale from 10-6 and their address is 5564 Edison Avenue, Chino, CA 91710. I hope you share what you scored! Have a great day and Happy Mother’s Day to all of my friends that are Moms! I hope you are celebrated as you should  be on Sunday and every day! 


Below are pictures of the parking lot sale at Prima. There were about 8-10 rows that look like the row on the right.. a lot of great stuff. I would have preferred more white items because I like to color my own stuff but the items I got are AMAZING! I hope you are able to enjoy this sale as much as I did!

                                       
 Below is a picture of the items I bought… Although I did spend $170.00.. There is well more than 3 X that here… Please be sure to share your fabulous buys if you are able to go yourself! Enjoy your day!

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Hi Crafty Friends,
I had a wonderful time at the Scrapbook Expo in San Diego, 
enjoyed some great family time with my hubby, Uncle and boys and fun
was had by all 🙂 I took some great classes with some amazing
products! I am making some Father’s Day cards to put out at the two
stores my items are in as well as thinking about doing some mixed media
creations… Still getting my office together putting on the finishing
touches! LOVE doing THIS! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend
and have some time for yourself! Thank you for stopping by!


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