................And through the woods Christmas Card

.....to Grandmothers house we go
----------oops undated link to card using the same cut----------
I have had my Cricut Christmas Cards cartridge for a couple of months now and have left in sitting on my desk because I wanted to make one of the these cards.  Well yesterday I finally got around to it.

I chose a blue snowy looking background paper.  I cut the rest of the card from pearl like cardstock.  Cuttlebugged the light blue frame with D'vine Swirls to match the background paper.  The "village" in the background I inked the edges of the building to give it more definition.  Pop dotted the carriage and horse.   This cartridge sure makes cards fast and easy.
Funny because I just stopped by at the Cricut Diaries blog and she made the same card.  Great minds think alike, but check hers out same card but different.  I may have to steal her snow idea and add it to mine LOL
Thanks for stopping by would love to hear your comments.

A Green version of my Christmas Card

Last week I posted a picture of my Christmas card in red & gold.  I like to make all my Christmas cards (50) mostly all the same so I don;t get confused from year to year LOL.  So here is a green & silver version of my 2010 Christmas card.

A refresher in case you don't remember the red one.

I will probably make several of both, but which one do you like better?
Let me know, thanks for stopping by.

Hello Teapot card

After winning my set of 148 ProMarkers from Enfys at Going Buggy I finally got a project made using them.  And I have to tell you I love coloring with them, they blend incredibly well and the color spectrum is vast, click HERE to see a color chart. 

 The image is a digital image from Whimpsy Stamps  if you are looking for some great digital images check them out they have some fabulous designers, they also sell rubber/clear stamps if you prefer that.   I colored the Teapot using Yellow, Soft Lime, and Primrose starting with the darkest on the outside then Soft Lime and finally blending back into all the colors with Primrose, finally I went over the middle area with the blending pen to make sure it was all blend and to remove a slight bit of color.  I used the same method for the rose/flowers using Mango, Peach and Oatmeal for the blending.  Now I had this beautiful Teapot colored and was trying to figure out what kind of card I wanted to use it on then at My Sheri Crafts the challenge this week was to make a "Hello" card, it was the perfect fit for this teapot.  The hello is cut from Cindy Loo cartridge.
I mounted the cut out teapot on a piece of peach paper and them cut around to leave a border.  The card is 5 1/2 inch square, and the green background paper is from K&Company.  I pop dotted the teapot to mount it on the card.
Here is a close up of the flower

I had a very hard time getting a picture that showed the true colors.  I covered the flower with Diamond Glaze.  You can't see it but I printed the image on Cryogen White paper from Paper Temptress it is so pretty it has a slight sparkle to it that you can see through the coloring.  This paper is great for coloring with alcohol ink markers, they blend very smoothly and hold the color so it doesn't bleed outside your lines, very slight blending out the back of the paper, but that was probably me adding too much color.  Still learning how to use these markers but am very please with how this one came out. 
Thank you so much for stopping by and I would love to hear what you think of my first project with my ProMarkers.

Stylish Blog Award.........Thank You!

WOW, I am so honored to receive this blog award and I could not believe it when I received it TWICE.  Thank you Charlotte at A Liitle Bit of Detail and Angel at Owl Bee Scrappin for thinking of me and awarding me this badge.  I sure hope you don't mind that I combined these two and pass it on that way.  I always am very delighted when someone enjoys my creations enough (and this case stylish) to give me one of these rewards.

Ok so this is how this award works, I love the part about telling 8 things about yourself as they makes it possible to learn more about each other.

1. Thank and link back to the person who awarded you this

2. Share 8 things about yourself

3. Pay it forward to 8 bloggers that you have recently discovered

4. Contact those bloggers and tell them about their awards

 

8 THINGS ABOUT ME.....................

1)  I am married to the most wonderful man that spoils me rotten

2)  I am unable to work because of a spinal cord tumor, however that made it possible to work on my cards all day :)

3)  I love making cards and have been for 15+ years and have a paper addiction LOL

4)  I have 2 grown children and 4 grown step-daughters

5) We have 9 grandkids and some great-grandkids

6)  I have a great-granddaughter to arrive in January (this will be the first from my children)

7)  We love to travel, and no matter where we go the road somehow leads to Las Vegas

8)  Love to sit out on our front deck in the evening and have a glass of wine!

Now for the bloggers I would like to pass this award to, some are not newly found but they are all fantastic and worth checking out:

 

 Cricut Couple

Melissa Made 

Going Buggy 

Tiffany's Garden 

My Sheri Crafts 

She's A Sassy Lady 

Frosted Designs 

Paper Temptress 

 

 

Red Hot-Chili Happy Holidays

This will pretty much be my Christmas card this year.  It is made following a sketch at Mojo Monday.  I twisted it up a bit with the bow being at the top of the chilis.

I had bought this string of Chili stamp years ago with the intent to use it on my Christmas card, I means 10+ years.  Well finally it will make in onto my Christmas cards.  It is a Comotion Rubber Stamps stamp, they unfortunately are no longer in business.    It is stamped and heat embossed with Stampendous Red Dragon embossing powder, it is sparkly.   
The inside (not done yet) will say  "CHILI? Warm Holiday Greetings" I was pretty happy when I found that just last year I believe.  

Thanks for stopping by and would love to have you drop me a comment :).

Diamonds are a Man's best friend ?

This card went together very fast for me (about an hour) that in itself is amazing LOL.  Not much Cricut just the diamonds from George.

Lots of Cuttlebug, well some...........I Cuttlebugged the red & purple diamonds with Argyle folder and the background paper with a checked foldr that came in one of the sets.  The card is 5 x 6 1/2.  I thought it made a great male card.  Thanks for stopping by.

Sparkly Christmas Tree

This was a fast simple card but it has a lot of impact!  I made it following a sketch this week on RAQs Challenge.  This is one of those cards that wakes you up and says "wow I, didn't remember that cut being on that cartridge".

This card is 6 1/2 x 5 inches and the Christmas tree is cut at about 6 inches.  It is cut from Lyrical Letters cartridge.  In Design Studio I added a small box for the trunk and welded it to the tree.  I cut this from red paper and glittered it with Martha Stewart garnet glitter.  Yesterday I buried covered in glitter.  I had my fan on when I glittered Oops!, not too smart LOL.  I then mounted the tree on a piece of paper from My Mind's Mine Christmas tack that I got on Sunday at Michaels.
Thanks for stopping by and hope you like this simple fast Christmas card.  Anything fast tihis time of year is great.

Big Girl Panties

Thanksgiving day is my daughter's birthday and she will be 39, wow she is old,  not me LOL!  Although her card has nothing to do with the Thanksgiving theme (I am sure she will glad it doesn't) it does fit into "her" theme.  I made this card following a sketch this week at RAQs Challenge on the Cricut message board, I thought the sketch fit into this perfectly or vice-versa.

The "outfit" is mounted a 5 x 7 piece of charcoal colored paper that has a slight weave like pattern on it.  The outfit opens for the card, which you will see later.
Now I bet you are wondering what does this have to do with a birthday, well once you see the inside you will understand.

I bought this stamp a while back with my daughter in mind.  It is a phrase she uses now and then plus it fits her personality.  Now isn't it cute how the cards goes with the stamp?
Using my Gypsy I set up the base for the card by using a rectangle from George and welding the panties from Paper Doll Dress Up.  Here is how it looked on my mat.

I folded it so the top matched just above where the panties are, I also cut out the same size panties from plain white(2) and red polka dot paper.  I trimmed the front above the panties to look like a waist line and glued on the black polka dot paper on the top and trimmed it the same.  After that I cut the oval using my Nesties to make the neck.   I glued the white ruffle ribbon on the bottom of the legs then glued the red polka dot pantie onto a plain white one to hide the ribbon I had wrapped around the corner.    The "buckle" is a button that I wove ribbon through then attached around the back and covered it up with the other plain white pantie.  The buttons are actually buttons that I cut the back off of and glued down the front.  Here is a picture before I mounted the card onto the charcoal paper and before I put the buttons on.

I just love how this turned out, I think it is so cute, and believe it or not it only took me about 4 hours total.  That is lighting speed for me.  LOL 
Well thanks for stopping by and let me know what you think.  Sorry if I bored you with all the details I am not very good at that part.

They Arrived!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My Promarkers (BIG smile)

I am still so exciting about winning a complete set of 148 Promarkers from Enfys at Going Buggy last week I can hardly believe it. Thank you thank you! :)  Well when they arrived yesterday it was amazing, now I am really overwhelmed look at this box of markers!.................

OMG, that is a lot of markers, now I have to put them all away in these handy little holders that Letraset Promarkers sent me along with my markers.

What a job, there are so so many colors and trying to get them organized into the correct color families was a feat.  Some look green but should be in the yellows, Oh my, I guess I will print up Promarker Color Chart and follow that.  If you want to see the colors click the link above.  Here are all the markers in the holders, now there are 13 holders and I have to figure out where to store them.

I kind of like the holders, they each hold 12 markers so when you are working on reds you can just grab your red holder.  Now let's face it, it may be kind of hard to have ALL 148 markers on your desk at one time YIKES!  They even sent me 8 extra markers, they were duplicates of some of the colors, I will have to contact them and see if that was an error and if I need to send them back.  Talk about sending, wow what fast service from the UK.  I won on Monday 11/15, they shipped them on Tuesday 11/16 and I received them Friday 11/19 that is impressive!  So if you want to order some you will know what kind of service you will get from Letraset.  You can also order them from Carpe Diem  that has them for $1.49 each.
Now keep this in mind that I need a lot of practice with coloring using alcohol markers but here is my first coloring job, it is not finished and I will put it on a card but wanted to show you the vibrant colors these markers have.  I love these markers they go on smooth and quick, now they are not refillable like Copics but with the price of $1.49 it is far cheaper to just buy another marker then to buy a bottle of refill.  Also when you get a new marker that means a fresh nib/tip every time.  Makes a lot of sense to me.  Without further ado...

Enfys at Going Buggy has some videos on coloring with the Promarkers, it appears may be I should watch them again and again.  LOL
If you are in the market for Copics, check out these markers, they are fabulous and a lot more inexpensive, you can get 3 of these markers for the price of 1 Copic, that means more colors in your collection :).
Would love to hear your comments and/or tips on coloring with these.
Thanks for stopping by.

WOW check out ths blog Candy

Boy Angela at Angelwood Crafts is giving away this fabulous blog candy for her birthday.  If you are a fan of coloring with Copics or Promarkers (can't wait till mine come) then you will love this package with all the stamp images.  Just take a look at it you will want to sign up for this one for sure.  Check out this pickture.

Here is a list of what is in it.

Magnolia stamp - Tilda With Birdcage
Magnolia stamp - Dangling Tilda
Magnolia stamp - Wedding Singer Tilda
Inky Impression stamp - Cowgirl Lili
Sweet Pea stamp - 1 stamp unmounted from Plate 21
Sugar Nellie stamp - Blossom
Bildmalarna stamp - Wedding couple
Paper Makeup stamp - Swirlie tree
K&Co Mat pad - Berry Sweet
K&Co cupcake embellishments
Cookie cutter button embellishments
Various colored stick on gems