Baby card for Niece

I have a precious niece who is having her third child next week and it's A GIRL!! After two boys, she will really enjoy having a little girl, too. They are naming her after my father's mother which is truly, truly sweet.

The clouds are from Create a Critter, the buggy is from Wrap it Up, the flower stems are from Walk In My Garden and the grass is from Plantin Schoolbook. The buttons are from a button pack at Wal Mart and the Memory thread used in the buggy wheels is from Michael's.

I layered the buggy several times and pop dotted it on top of the card mat. Picture doesn't show colors well but it's several different shades of pretty pinks.

This card style came about from a thread on the Cricut messageboard that showed use of the memory thread http://www.cricut.com/forum/Cricut-Community_postst63367_enabler-alert--a-new-find-for-me----you-must-get-some--really-you-will-love-it.aspx . I bought some and sent some to my sister, challenging her to use it on a card, which she did at http://piecesofjoyhadden.blogspot.com/2011/03/sister-challenge.html .   She promptly finished the challenge, and very successfully I would say, while I just now got around to finishing mine. So, she won this challenge!!

Cricut Cake Giveaway from Mixologycrafts

MixologyCrafts is giving away one Cricut cake and two Cricut cake cartridges. Head on over and register but do it quick! Registration ends tomorrow, Friday April 1 at noon (eastern time)

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Pansy card

This is a pansy card I made quite some time ago using a Martha Stewart Pansy border punch. I used the technique at http://frommycraftroom.blogspot.com/2010/02/bordering-circles-and-oval-with-your.html to make it shaped into a circle and really like this way of using the border punches. The paper was just a scrap in my scrap stash and the image is "Bouquets of Joy" from Clear Art Stamps by Crafty Secrets and is colored with Prismacolor pencils and OSM. I just love this little girl and her flowers! The tag was also made with the MS border punch on each side of a strip of paper and cut to length. I think the sentiment on the tag is from an SU set but don't remember which one. I used small flat-back pearls in the middle of each flower to give it a little depth, put on a circle cut with my Cricut after clipping and putting the border around the circle. Then the entire thing was pop dotted on the purple paper.

Cricut Stampede

I went to the Cricut Stampede this past weekend and I have got to say that ProvoCraft and Creative Critterz put on an amazing event. I had more fun that I thought possible meeting people I've "known" on the messageboard for years. We ate and drank wine and ate and shopped and ate and crafted (very little for my part) and socialized and traded calling cards and ribbon and just had a fabulous time. PC gave away oodles of stuff (I didn't win anything but that's ok...I had a blast) and our Swag bags were full of goodies-from an Old West cartridge to 3 different sizes of Terrifically Tacky tape and Glimmer Mist to a wooden boot to decorate to a deep cut blade housing and two cricut markers, an organizational CD, ribbon glue tape, glue squares and vendor discount codes. The food was enjoyable (along with goodies that just about everybody brought and shared and little pie tarts and cookies in the shape of Texas from Creative Crittez), the giveaways exciting and the bar-b-que and dance with crazy pictures on Saturday was a total hoot. Most of all, I totally embraced the ability to craft and mingle with others who like to cricut and stamp and just enjoy life. There were a few guys there--one gentleman won a $100 gift certificate for his table decorations.

My roomies were Sandy (I knew her from PS Scrapbook in Allen, Texas) and Denise from Lubbock who neither Sandy or I knew. She was so happy that we asked her to room with us that she made us these wonderful necklaces with beads that she handmade (pic to be posted soon!). Everybody was encouraged to decorate their doors and our door won one of the two 2nd Place Prizes!! We each got a $50 gift certificate for crafting supplies and we were totally JAZZED! The pictures do not do the door justice. I now have a totally new respect for people who coordinate events via teleconference because we did our door decorations via emails and that in itself was a bit of a challenge for me to visualize how it would all come together but our marvelous Sandy had the grand idea and it totally worked!

Roomies Sandy and Denise:

Different Pics of our door--wagon train from different states in sizes that got smaller as they moved away from the door, Pennant over the door with our names and calling cards as well as event name and date and Texas spelled out across the bottom, Cricut Girl on horseback with little Cricuts around the campfire (Sandy used feathers for the flames of the fire which was so clever) with all of them having "thought bubbles" with crafting phrases and Provocraft products roaming through their thoughts. Sorry the pics aren't as good as the real product. I am hoping and hoping this event will be held again and if so, I will do whatever it takes to be able to go again!

My calling card...I had to cut out three Texas shapes--one in each color and then cut and glue together. The Cricut head with green blingy was soooo tiny but marked the approximate site of Frisco where the Stampede was held. I made 120 of these littel 3x3 calling cards which were traded with other Stampeders and used for the giveaways. My card was fairly simple but that's how I craft. Some ladies cards were so wonderful that they could only be called works of art.

Granboy's birthday card - Cricut tractor card

Wow...can't believe I've neglected my blog like this. I swear I had more spare time and my house was cleaner when I had two kids at home, worked a full time job that demanded (unpaid) overtime and extensive outside courses and I was team manager for son's Classic League Soccer Team.

Anyway, this is a very quick and very simple card I did for youngest granboy's birthday--he was 4. Pic is a bit fuzzy because I took it with my phone. I used Create a Critter for the cloud and did some doodling, pop dotted it. The tractor was from my new favorite cartridge Country Life and the grass was a border from Plantin Schoolbook. I think CAC and CL are now my all-time favorites. Granboy LOVES tractors so he really liked this card.