Something Beautiful

Good morning everyone! I have to share this gorgeous sight with you that I saw this morning.  I took some pictures of the sun rising this morning.

The tree that sits outside my craft room window

Not really the sun but I still thought it was pretty

Did you get a ton of rain last night??? We did!  Here is a picture of it outside last night, you can see the trees in the picture bending from the force of the wind.

I'm telling you it was crazy!!!  Since we are on the top floor we get to hear it really good too and I LOVE that!

Oh one more thing before I head out to my dentist.  Eric had asked me to make some stencils for him with my Cricut for his work space.  I made them last night and here they are in action!

One says 

"Scrap

Metal

Only"

and the other says

"Caution"

So yea even welders cannot escape the glorious Cricut and all it can do! LoL!

Have a great day today everyone!  I will be back later on with some projects.  I have to go into Michael's today and get some things ready for Open House which is May 19th as well as teach a class tonight.  So take care and thank you again for stopping by.

New Blank Scrapbook Layout

Good evening fellow Crafters & friends!  Hope your weekend is treating you well.  I have begun to sneeze a bit here and there I really hope it's some sort of seasonal allergy and not the onset of a winter cold.  That would stink!

Well Kevin is off at his dads this weekend for the first time since he's moved in.  He said he is having a good time.  I miss him already!  He will be back tomorrow though...he has already text me asking what is for dinner tomorrow. Hehehe.  It was a joke though, he seems to ask that question daily and usually in the morning hours.  So now him asking that has turned into a running joke.

Here is the latest blank scrapbook page I have created.  It is called "Sweet Girl":

I have also been burying myself in the online training for the Certified Scrapbook Instructor.  I have so far completed 8 of the sections having received a 100% in all of them, with 5 more sections to go.  Then I also am to be trained on some Martha Stewart things...so after the 5 remaining, I will start on the Martha Stewart training.  I am learning so much and have already begun to create examples and handouts for my future classes.

Well I am off now to go bug Eric who is playing X-Box. I am so mean...Muhahaha!

Take care everyone and thank you very much for continuing to stop by.  It really means so much to me.

Card #2 for the Summer Card Camp 2011

Good afternoon everyone!  Hope your day is as sunny outside as mine is.

The only bad thing about that though is that inside here I am either freezing or hot.  There seems to be no pleasing Christy in the A/C department.  I'm just like this in the Winter though so I really don't understand why I am like this.  I know I cannot tolerate heat or even just being stuffy inside.

Eric and I went through a ton of clothes last night and it is just a never ending battle with our clothes.  At least my clothes just out of no where double and triple. One might think this is a great thing, but not when you have to wash it all and fold it {WHICH I DETEST FOLDING IT}.  Soooo anyway, we got all our winter and the "these don't fit me anymore" clothes out of the drawers and closets and stored away. 

OK, so about this card I made today.  Jennifer McGuire showed us how to make a card using a transparency.  This is something that I have always wanted to know how to do.  Well the card I ended up using vellum on it instead.  Every ink I used it seemed wanted to smear, not want to dry quick enough, not dark enough, blah blah blah.  So I switched it from a "Get Well" card to a "Just Because" card.  Actually IDK what type of card you would classify this in.  You tell me.

Here is the card front

Inside the card I also have the same orange

paper with the same butterflies stamped on it

using Vera Mark ink

Here is a bit of a close up of the sides

I used a Fiskars border punch and then the sky blue

is Stickles

This is the close-up of the vellum window with

the quote from Emily Dickenson. 

Surrounding it are more Stickles.

Just another full photo of the front



The one thing I was worried about was cutting the window in the correct place.  Aaaaaand, since I really do not have Sizzix dies that cut out these for me {I mainly use it to emboss}, I used my new Cricut 2 & Gypsy with the Storybook cartridge.  You wanna know something really cool?  It worked on the first try!  It cut perfectly centered.  I love being able to see the mat before I cut.  Both the newest Cricut does that as well as the Gypsy which makes crafting even more fun...if that's even a possibility?

Well I must end for now...If you didn't get a chance to see my WEEK 1 DAY 1 card just scroll down or click on this LINKY LINK RIGHT HERE and you will go right to it.

Thank you so much for stopping by again, I love having company!

Take Care Everyone!!!