New blog candy - There She Goes Clear Stamps

Well, I just finished blog hopping this afternoon, hoping to win a very cute set of stamps. It's from a company I've never heard of but boy do they have some really darling clear stamps!

Head over to There She Goes clear Stamps blog in order to win the stamps I want to win. Drawing is over on Saturday!

Laters Gators!!

New blog candy!!

Check out this blog. I love her cutesy dragons! She has blog candy to celebrate 100 fans on her Facebook page! You GOTTA check it out!

http://www.bemusedart.com/blog/2010/04/15/blog-giveaway-100-facebook-fans/comment-page-1/#comment-12633

More new cards!!!

Hooray! I made two more cards yesterday! Hooray!!! That makes a total of Three cards this month! Oh my...that's like a record for me or something. LOL!!!

The owl card was made for a certain little girl, my niece Zoe. When I went back to Guam in January, I met her for the first time. I loving teased her by calling her 'Zorie' which is Chamorro (the native language of Guam) for flip-flops. Only because Zoe and Zorie sounds alike! Well....when I returned home to Colorado, I found some candy, in a box shaped like a Zorie! It was too adorable and I had, HAD to buy it for Zoe. The box is pink with owls on it. Hence, the reason why I made this card! I really love the inside!!! I hope Zoe likes it!!!

Whenever I'm anywhere new....I always have to look for any stamping/scrapbooking stores. While I was on Guam, we went to the Chamorro Village (it's like a little out-dooor market area. Lots of vendors with a lot of touristy stuff). Well...I found a stamp place and of course, bought stamps!!!

So, for my Hafa Adai card, I'm sending this card to a cousin here in the states, along with lemon powder (from Guam). I think the next time I make this card, I'm not going to use pink CS. I used pink because I colored the plumeria pink. Oh and talking about plumeria....the flower in the inside is a plumeria. It is one of my fave flowers on Guam!

Thanks for looking and laters Gators!!!

Owl Card:

DS: Heart Stripe (The Paper Studio)

CS: Brown, pink and white (from stash)

Stamps: Owl & sentiment (Twit Twoo by Kelly Panacci - SandyLion

Ink: Stazon - Timber Brown

Markers: Copic Sketch (Sephia, Sand), Sharpie (Orange), Twinklette (Pink)

Ribbon: Misc. from stash

Sticker: Misc. from stash

Hafa Adai Card:

DS: Palm Trees (The Paper Studio)

CS: Brown, pink and white (from stash)

Stamps: Jungle Hut, Hafa Adai, Plumeria from http://www.vividjungledesignsguamdirect.com/home.html

Ink: Stazon (Timber Brown), Cat's Eye [ColorBox] (Ice Blue)

Markers: Copic Sketch (Veronese Green, Pink, Golden Yellow, Warm Gray No. 1, Skin White), American Crafts Glitter marker (Green)

Blog Candy Alert!!

This is for Ciao Copic Markers!!! Yahoo!!! If you love, LOVE coloring in images and have not tried copics, you need to try it. You will be soooo amazed!

Go to ABC Toys and Crafts for the chance to win!!

FINALLY got Crafty!!

Yahoo!!! I FINALLY got Crafty!!! On The Pink Stamper blog, she is giving away blog candy (a Cricut cartridge: Create a Critter). The challenge is to create a card, using your Cricut with the colors: green, pink and black. Well....we all know I love, LOVE pink and green and black. So, with the chance to win such a cute Cricut cartridge, I thought I'd make a card using my fave character, Hello Kitty!!!

Here's the recipe:
Cricut cartridge: Hello Kitty Font (Hello Kitty image) and Hello Kitty Greetings (butterfly)Spellbinders: Scalloped Ovals
Cuttlebug folder: Swiss Dots
Stampin'Up! stamps: Three Thoughts (sentiment) Fresh Fillers (background on green CS)
CS: misc. from my stash
Ribbon: misc. from my stash
Ink: Memento: Tuxedo Black (sentiment), Adirondack: Pitch Black (background)
Stickles: Eucalyptus (Hello Kitty image), Yellow (Butterfly)



Thanks for looking and...

Laters Gators!!!

Cards I made today!!!

I *FINALLY* got crafty today!!! Yahoo!!! LOL!!!

I made two cards today...for January birthdays that I'm late for already. For both the cards I made, I used my Cricut. I used the Wild Card cartridge. It's a cool cart. The only problem I have with it, is when cutting the matching envie, sometimes you need CS or DP that is larger than 12x12. Now where do you find paper larger than 12x12? LOL!!!

Gift card:

CS - Misc. stash, probably from the Paper Company (Joann's)

Fiber - from stash

Eyelet - from stash

Stamps - both SU: Small Sayings (hat & inside saying), Tagger's Dozen (tag)

Ink - SU Pink Passion & Glorious Green

Cupcake card:

CS - Misc. stash, probably from the Paper Company (Joann's)

DS - American Crafts: The Glorious Fleece #39888

Stamps - Inkadinkado: Birthday Cupcake (on the front) and SU: A Little Birthday Cheer (inside saying)

Ink - SU Pink Passion

Stickles - Yellow (on the candle flame)

Smooch Spritz - Gold Glow

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Hugs!!!

Happy 2010!!!!

Hey Everyone!!!!

Sooooo.....I've been MIA for like, FOREVER!!! I'm going to try, *TRY* to be better this year and craft and blog!!!!

Anyways...shortly I will post some cards and blog a bit!!!

See ya laters!!!!

I won Blog Candy!!!

Oh my goodness! I won some blog candy!! I can't believe it, Yay for me!!!

Check out Renee's blog. It was blog candy celebrating her son graduating from Explosive Ordinance Disposal Tech School (Air Force) and her and her DH 25th wedding anniversary today! Happy Anniversary!

Here's my winnings!!! Yippee!!!

Hugs & Thank you Renee'!!!

Blog Candy for you (me) and two of our friends!!

So, on one of my blog hopping I found this blog, where she's giving away three blog candy!
The only thing you need to do is leave a comment on her blog, link back to yours, where you pick to of your friends to surprise with blog candy!!

It was hard to pick only two of my friends. But I picked Becky and Sheresa. They both need a pick me up.

It'd be great if I (we) won and my friends got great Happy Mail!!

Enjoy!

Later Gator!!

Blog Candy Alert!!!

Hey Everyone!!!

Head on over to Pink Gem Designs blog. They are giving away some awesome blog candy to celebrate their new April releases!!!

Check it out!

FINALLY posting!!! Got cards!!!

Hi All!!!!

So sorry that I have not posted anything in such a long, LONG time!!! Been too busy. Life gets in the way!!!

Anyways....here are some cards I did lately!!!

Here's a Tilda card.
I did this for a swap in a group I'm in. It's a Purple and Yellow card swap. I used my Cuttlebug, D'vine swirls folder (one of my favorites) and my Rectangle Nesties (love my Nesties and have more on my wish list!!). I used my Tilda with Rose stamp. The "Love" is from 'All You Need Is Love' by Technique Tuesday. I used my SU markers to color. When I win the Lottery, I'm going to buy me Copics!! LOL!!! You can't tell, but the rose was stamped twice and attached with a pop-dot to stand out. And I used Yellow twinklette for her wings. Cardstock is from The Paper Studio (I think).
Another Tilda card.
For this Tilda card, my friend Becky sent me the image. And since I needed to do an Easter card for another group, I decided to use the image. Again, I used my SU markers to color. The DS is from Rusty Pickle - White Chocolate Bunnies (Velveteen Rabbit). Card stock is from The Paper Studio (I think). The flowers are from Prima 'Iced Got Flowers? (Summer Sun - yellow - and Rosy Red - pink). I used the real mini brads, I think it's from Queen & Company. The word stamp is SU, All Holidays.
Scraplings - birthday
For another group I'm in, I participated in a Birthday scrapling swap. It was the first time for me to do a swap like this. And I had fun doing it! I used a Studio G Mini clear stamp set for this. I used scraps in my scrap bin. The wording is "You're only a kid once, but you can be young for a lifetime". I used my SU tag punches for the word. The flowers are Flora Doodles, Purple Passioin Mini Florettes by Petaloo. In the inside, I have "Happy birthday" stamped in there.
Pop-up card.
On March 21, two of my friends and I went to a pop-up card class held by our local library. In one of the groups I'm in, I am participating in the Birthday club. And one of the April ladies birthday is coming up. And I wanted to do a pop-up card. She liked Yellow and Hunter green, so I used those colors for her. I used my D'Vine swirls embossing folder (CB). Then, I used a new CB die (well, new from last year), Birthday Wishes die. The DS, I don't remember who made it, I cut the presents from it. Green CS is Handsome Hunter from SU. The Yellow CS, I don't know. The "Celebrate" stamp is from That's Jazzy Stamp Dreams. It was stamped in Handsome Hunter ink (SU). I don't remember how I came across her blog, but she was giving away stamps to celebrate her opening. The balloon stamp is from SU - Birthday Whimsey, stamped with Ballet Blue and Elegant Eggplant ink pads (SU). I used Pastel Blue & Lavendar Scrapbook stitches from Making Memories for the string. The birthday cake is from 'You Take the Cake' from MFT. It was stamped twice - first in the same yellow CS. Cut and used Yellow Stickles for the candles. The second time was stamped on beige CS, colored with SU markers, Certainly Celery and Glorious Green and Green stickles. I used pop-dots to pop out the cake.

I Hope you all enjoy my cards!!!

Hugs!!

Free Stamp!!!

Yep, you heard right, FREE stamp!! Go to this blog. Here's her website. Check it out!!!

Queen & Company

Check out Queen & Company's typepad - new CHA releases and they're going Green!!!!

http://queenandcompany.typepad.com/queen_co_indulge_your_cre/2009/01/the-queen-goes-green-cha-releases-yay.html#comments

Some cards

So I'm getting back into the groove of things. I went cropping last night and worked on cards. Since I was so bright and left my container of clear stamps, I had to work with what I brought - which was some stamped Tilda images from my friend Becky. I must say, that I'm really loving those Tilda stamps from Magnolia.

This card I did for a challenge on one group that I'm in. It's a color challenge, Brown and Orange.

The CS are from The Paper Company. I used markers to color the image, Copic (Skin White) and SU (Barely Banana, Creamy Caramel, Ballet Blue, Brilliant Blue & Really Rust). I used Creamy Brown Cat's eye to distress the cream CS - which I used my new Nesties - Large Scalloped Rectangle.

The sentiment stamp is Heidi Grace Winnifred Street birthday, stamped in SU Chocolate Chip. The flowers are: Brown (on the bottom), Bazzill Primula, Orange (from my stash) and Heidi Grace Printed Flowers. You can't see it, but I have bling on Tilda's shirt (yellow for her button) and on her pants (blue for the button). The bling is from K&C. And you can't see this too...but I used Star Dust stickles for her wings.

This card, I just did, because again, I left my container of clear stamps at home (I never said that I was the brighest bulb in the pack!!): Friends are flowers in the Garden of Life

CS from The Paper Company. For the Tilda image, I used my Large Scalloped Rectangle nestie and used Creamy Brown Cat's eye to distress it. I used my Copic marker (Skin white) and SU (Summer Sun, Bashful Blue, Pretty in Pink, Pink Passion, Yoyo Yellow, Glorious Green, Close to Cocoa, Barely Banana & Cameo Coral). I used Yellow Stickles and SU Crystal Effect for the flower. And used Star Dust stickles for her wings.

The sentiment which says "Friends are Flowers in the Garden of Life" is a stamp that my friend Chrissy gave me for Christmas and stamped in SU Basic Black ink. I used the smallest scalloped rectangle nestie for that and used the Creamy brown cat's eye to distress it.

The PP is Adornit Carolee's Creation - Sister's Collection, Dozen of Daisies. I really like this paper!!!

Thanks for looking!

And...later Gators!

Bunnie Blog

I started a blog for my angel Buddha and my Baby Girl Brigit. I will try to get on there often.

I had created a Mulitply page for Buddha, before Briggie and did not get on there much.

So, now I will make time to get on there and capture my babies tails!

Check it out. I'll have my Buddha tails and pics. And add Briggie tails too!!!

Oh...how to get to Bunnie Tails? Go to View My complete Profile. And look under, My Blogs.
Hop on over there!!!

I love you Buu-Buu, my Angel bunny.

I love you my baby girl, Briggie!! It's you and me now Baby-doll!!

My Halloween Prize

My most favoritest place to go cropping here in Fort Collins is Capture. In the month of October they had a promotion - Bring a Friend to class or crop. We got lucky and as long as we went to a class or crop, our names got put in the drawing.

The drawing was for Halloween goodies from Little Yellow Bicycle - their Frightful collection. And if you truly know me, you know how much I LOVE Halloween!

Anyways...I won the drawing!!! Yippee!!!!! Second time I won a Halloween prize from them! The first time was a Halloween Finished in A Flash kit - won during the regular crop night door prize drawing.

I'll have to post pics of my latest win laters. I was so surprised to have won all those goodies. Suzanne and I were talking and she said there is easily close to $100 worth of things! Oh me, Oh My!!!

I'm also on their blog...check it out!

Laters Gators!!

Blog Candy

While on the subject of blog candy, take a look at CraftyC's Crafting Library. She does EXCELLENT work and is giving away Blog Candy!!!

Take a look, you won't be disappointed!

Laters Gators!

Amazing Paper Grace and Blog Candy

I'm going back in time on this because it has been FOREVER since I've blogged.

I have a new found love since staying at home, looking on-line at various blogs - craft blogs that is. I can't believe all the Creative people out there! Oh my goodness! I have a hard time remembering to check all my fave places.

Anyways...I had found out about this one blog via one of the Yahoo groups I'm in. I've checked out this lady's blog every so often. I decided to check out her blog again, to see her new creations. I got there at just the right moment because she had announced she was giving away Blog candy!

What's Blog Candy? That's where you go and check out that person's blog. They usually have a question for you to respond to or have you link their blog to your blog and they pick a winner from all the responses.

Well...I posted my response on this lady's blog. I checked back at the appropriate time and found that I didn't win! :(

Then one night, I decided to check out her blog again, as I remembered she had some cute things on there that I could make for Christmas gifts. I saw that the person that she had drawn earlier and that she had pulled another name. Guess who's name she pulled? Yup, yup. It was mine!!! WhooHooo!!!!

What did I win? I won a set of Nestabilities - Star shapped. Nestabilities are the newest toys that I am loving. Yes my Cricut can do some cuts like the Nesties...but not completely. But with the Nestabilities, you can cut AND emboss!!!!

AnyHoo...that's it for my Blog Candy post. Oh...check out Amazing Paper Grace - Becca does such AWESOME work!!!

Laters Gators!!!

Doing the Happy Dance

So, living here in Colorado makes me listen and remember songs that deals with Colorado (gotta love my new home state)!!! And during the holiday season, I LOVE hearing this song by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band called Colorado Christmas.

I finally decided I needed to buy that song. I looked high and low on I-tunes and could not find it. I've even gone to Wal-Mart and other stores looking in the music section for it. Ohhh...I just couldn't find it. I was even getting a little desperate and was going to check with some of my friends to see if they had it.

Then last night I remember Wal-Mart had music down-loads and thought I'd check there. I was doing the happy dance when I searched and found my song on there! Ohmigoodness!!!!

I finally bought it and down-loaded and am listening to it as I type this. I'm soo, sooo HAPPY!

Sooo...that's my story and I'm stickin' to it!

Laters Gators!

It's SNOWING!!!

I love the weather here in Colorado. Yesterday we got a little snow. It was enough to color the ground white and slicken up the roads in time for going home traffic in the evening.

Watching the weather report last night, they predicted we'd get a little more. The temps were going to drop down very low though.

Imagine my surprise to wake up and have Brent tell me he might be snowed in!!!! We had at least 8 inches in front of the door. It's still snowing!!!!

This is a nice amount of snow, we're getting here. My girlfriend, who lives in Severance - a few towns over to the east of Fort Collins, got some snow over the weekend and we didn't (at least us in the west side of Fort Collins).

It is pretty nice to see the white stuff. Good thing I was smart enough to get my grocery shopping done on Monday. Not that I had planned it that way, I just got lucky. I'll have to remember to check out the weather report daily and plan my days.

Well...that's it pancit!

Laters Gators!