Happy News, Scrapbook page & 2 ATC's

Good evening everyone!  I sure hope your weekend seemed like it lasted longer than mine did...whewww.  I got a lot done though and since I was sick I wasn't able to really craft much so this was a great weekend.

I haven't created a lot of scrapbook pages/albums lately and I have really been missing this, so I decided that since Michael's had BOGO scrapbook albums I would take advantage of the sale.  I ordered up some prints and created  a page the other night.  

I used mainly Echo Park products & had a blast creating this.  

I also created two Santa ATC's for a swap I'm in.

Colored using my Copics and then I put some Martha Stewart glitter on for an added effect.  

Now for my happy news...

As of December 1, 2012 I have been smoke free for 2 years now!!!  I cannot tell you how proud I am to have made it this far.  I love it!  I just wanted to share that news with you all.

Be sure to stop by tomorrow {December 3rd} for a new Stamp Of The Week from Repeat Impressions.

Thanks for stopping by today, take care and enjoy the rest of the night!

And the hits keep on coming...Good hits that is!

Hello my crafty ones!  Hope you're all doing well.  I will start off by telling you that my baby-girl who went to get fixed Monday is doing great!  Thank God.  I had to pick her up this morning {Tuesday morning that is} at 7:30, well I tell you what...I was so excited and anxious to get her that I was there before 7.  I still had to wait til 7:30 though, but it was well worth it. This is funny though, Eric took a picture of her a little bit ago and she looked sooo mad.  I mean I have never even seen her look this way.  Now they did tell me that they gave her an injection of pain medicine that would stay in her system for a few days so that may be what the look was for.  Here is what I am talking about:

mean right!  Now look at her in another picture:

This here is much better. She pretty much slept here the whole day 

Now tomorrow {today rather - Wednesday} is Boogers turn to get fixed

I only have the one cat carrier so that is why different days. So this should be fun catching her and getting her into the carrier.  This cat HATES to be held unless it's on her terms and that itself is a rarity.  She's a sweet kitty, just hyper and spastic. 

While I was sitting here tonight I grabbed an old Cricut cartridge box and sanded it a bit and then painted it:

then added some paper to it:

this is as far as I got but I like it so far.  I do plan to make at least this old box into a card set box.  They are nice because they already have that magnetic closure on there.

I was a very busy person today.  First went to the vet at 7:30, then came home and created 6 cards for Michael's samples for some upcoming classes, worked on the card sets for next Monday's first class at Mt. Pleasant, created 2 blank layouts, organized more in the craft room, the Cricut box, and...I think that is it. No, wait...I also worked on a different scrapbook layout for something else today as well.  Whew, been a busy one!

Here are some of the cards for Michael's upcoming class:

they are all in plastic sleeves.  

Speaking of Michael's, I have some new exciting news.  Last Thursday when I went to another location to get all the furniture, I spoke with the manager there about them needing a scrapbook instructor.  Soooo guess who is now the instructor at not one but TWO STORES now?!  So I will be the instructor at Mason and Colerain.  Two stores both on separate sides of the earth, LoL.  I go into the Mason store tomorrow {Thursday} to meet with the CEM  to get the schedule for June ready!  I will also bring in samples for these classes.  I am so excited! 

Have you ever heard of Swap-Bot.com? it's a place online where you can swap cards and whatever, it's a really neat place.  I was in a swap and it was for bookmarks.  Here is what I received so far:

They are very nice!  This book is awesome to, The Guerilla Art Kit by Keri Smith.  I recommend anything by Keri Smith.  I also have her book "How To Be An Explored Of The World" very good and fun books she has.

OK I must get going now but I wanted to show you where Eric and I hung that word art on the wall:

I wish the words were just a bit larger but I am OK with this for now.

Take care everyone and thanks again for stopping by!

Two New Cards!

Hi everyone!  I wanted to share with you two new cards that I created the other day.  I posted these on another forum but completely forgot to post here!  Opps!  So first off we have a card that I kind of didn't want to post b/c this is a card for a swap and I wanted to wait until the other person received it, but I thought I would post anyway.  You will know who you are when you get it and I hope you like it :)

So with this card "Thinking of You"; I used my cricut to cut out the vase and  the words "Thinking of You", I then applied a small amount of lavender acrylic paint over the vase and let dry, then applied Tim Holtz 'Crackle' on top to give it the cracked effect.  Which I think turned out very nice!  The flowers and the ribbon are two of the items that I received from my swap friend in Finland a few weeks ago.  I was so happy that everything went together so easily!


Now for the next card I used a digi-stamp {copyrighted}, and came up with this:

Using my cricut to cut out the words, and designing a bit more on the digi-stamp, using 6 colored buttons as  the border.  I thought this was too cute and I had been wanting to use this digi for some time now, glad it all came together.

I have been up since around 4 AM and it's now 10 minutes til 9AM and I have been working on my Christmas cards most of that time.  I am creating an easel card using the Sixxix Big Shot, cricut expression, and .... you will have to wait and see what the final cards look like :)  I will hopefully get done with a lot of them today and will post here either today or tomorrow.

Til then, have an AWESOME DAY!  It's snowing here now and I am loving it to the fullest!

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Winter/Christmas Swap!!!

Hello everyone!  I want to share with you all the AMAZING package that I received from Maija in  Finland last week for the Winter/Christmas themed swap. 

These cross-stitches that Maija created for me are so beautiful and I cannot wait to hang them up.  The Penny Black stamps are just to cute also!  The card candy she sent me; well, you will be seeing these on some future cards, you can believe that.

Thank you again Maija for the time and care you put into these items, I love everything!

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Wanted to share with you all about a new swap going on

My newest blogger friend Parsley at Seasons Of My Mind is having a GREAT swap going on now.  You have until October 8th to sign up for this.  Please follow the link I have

provided so that you can all get in on this FANTASTIC SWAP. 

Thank you Parsley for having this and putting it all together!

Tomorrow and Saturday I am attending the CKC {Creating Keepsakes Convention} in downtown Cincinnati.  This is  my first ever convention and I am just thrilled to be going.  I am signed up for two classes for tomorrow.  One is called "Boxer Palooza 2010" and they are a manufacturer located in Portland Oregon owned by a mother/daughter team.  The second class I am taking is called "Cards for a Year"  which is sponsored by Crafter's Companion.  In this class we will make 6 cards, 1 envelope, and 1 gift box + will be given materials to make 6 more cards at home.  I CAN'T WAIT!!!

Still am stalking the mailman for my Slice prize whatever it may be, lol.  I'll let you know

        what it is and how the convention was. 

                        

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