Happy Birthday Stephanie!!!!!

Good morning everyone! Well today is a one of my Lovebug Creations DT sister's birthday, so we all made her a little something.  Here's my card for her:

Sorry the picture is not so great, but I had really bad lighting at the time.

Materials:

Panther Pink rumple ribbon

MCT Stitched Doily die

PKS Princess Faces

I know she would love to have some birthday wishes from some crafty friends, so don't forget to go to her blog and leave her some good wishes!

Stephanie, I hope you have a beautiful day!  

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Good morning everyone! Well today is a one of my Lovebug Creations DT sister's birthday, so we all made her a little something.  Here's my card for her:

Sorry the picture is not so great, but I had really bad lighting at the time.

Materials:

Panther Pink rumple ribbon

MCT Stitched Doily die

PKS Princess Faces

I know she would love to have some birthday wishes from some crafty friends, so don't forget to go to her blog and leave her some good wishes!

Stephanie, I hope you have a beautiful day!  

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Sending Sweet Tweets Your Way!

Good morning everybody!  Today is my day over at 3 Girl JAM.  I have a tweet little treat bag for you today decorated with the beautiful goblin green crinkle ribbon.  I love being able to use this ribbon for just about any project and along with the 3 Girl JAM bow maker, you can't go wrong in making beautiful bows!

I also used Peachy Keen Stamps June Stamp of the Month set and Jaded Blossom's Pattern Kisses and Friendly Kisses stamp sets.

I am also entering this in the PKS Anything Goes challenge.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to go by the 3 Girl JAM store to check all the beautiful to ribbon! Today is also the last day to apply for the design team so get those applications in!

Good morning everybody!  Today is my day over at 3 Girl JAM.  I have a tweet little treat bag for you today decorated with the beautiful goblin green crinkle ribbon.  I love being able to use this ribbon for just about any project and along with the 3 Girl JAM bow maker, you can't go wrong in making beautiful bows!

I also used Peachy Keen Stamps June Stamp of the Month set and Jaded Blossom's Pattern Kisses and Friendly Kisses stamp sets.

I am also entering this in the PKS Anything Goes challenge.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to go by the 3 Girl JAM store to check all the beautiful to ribbon! Today is also the last day to apply for the design team so get those applications in!

Cameo Creations Challenge #2

Happy Valentine's Day!!! I wanted to enter the Cameo Creations Challenge over at Monica's Creative Madness, so I made this super simple cute tag.  This was made for my son's teacher and we attached it to her gift bag.

I used, Happy Heart Cookie from the Silhoutte Online Store, PKS The Cornies, Celebrate It Valentine's Day ribbon and used stickles for the sprinkles.


Hope you all have a wonderful day!!!

Happy Valentine's Day!!! I wanted to enter the Cameo Creations Challenge over at Monica's Creative Madness, so I made this super simple cute tag.  This was made for my son's teacher and we attached it to her gift bag.

I used, Happy Heart Cookie from the Silhoutte Online Store, PKS The Cornies, Celebrate It Valentine's Day ribbon and used stickles for the sprinkles.


Hope you all have a wonderful day!!!

Back to School Blog Hop

Welcome to the BACK TO SCHOOL BLOG HOP! We are all here to back to school by showing you amazing projects that have been designed with the fabulous and amazing eCraft.  .

If you just arrived here from Rosy's blog then you are in the right place. If you just happened upon my blog please start at the beginning over at Raven's blog.  That way you will be able to see all of the amazing
projects and you will have more ways to win.
I received my eCraft a few months ago and I have been experimenting with it a little here and there.  I love that you can look up any files online and just let your imagine run with it.  It's so easy to not have to buy one cartridge for a few images that you like and to just have exactly what you need at the click of the mouse.  I also like the clean cuts that you get from the ecraft.  It's truly an amazing machine!

For this hop I have created a note card gift set to give to a teacher as a welcome back to school gift.  This is great for the teacher to give students little notes throughout the year and to continue encouraging them and making them smile.  The gift set consists of note cards, envelopes and a gift box.  This was actually inspired from a post I had seen at Hand to Paper.  There are a lot of pictures posted below so brace yourself! 

Here's a list of my supplies:

• Mini Note Pad and Card Set and Matchbox file from The Cutting Cafe to make the envelopes and the box (I used Make the Cut software to import the files and cut with the eCraft).  
• The notepads were pdf files that were included with that set and I matted on cardstock.  
• The top of the box was matted with a page from DCWV Grade School stack and Creative Memories cardstock.  
• The flower punch (on the cover and on the envelopes) is from Creative Memories. 
• The For my Teacher stamp is from Joy's Life All Around Sentiment stamp set (I used the masking technique to only stamp the center). 
• Wide Eyed Kids Face Assortment from Peachy Keen Stamps to decorate the flower die cut on the envelope. 

Okay so you probably want to know what you can win, right? As some of you may have heard from this hop this amazing eCraft machine that we are all using is created by CraftwellUSA.com. This company is really amazing, their customer service is fabulous and the products are top notch. Well when they heard about our hop they decided to giveaway (1) One eCraft to (1) One lucky winner (color may vary)!!!  


In addition, I will be giving away a $10 gift certificate to Peachy Keen Stamps.  To be eligible for these prizes you must:

1) Please leave one comment here on my blog (Only one comment will bequalify per person additional comments will not count.)
2) Become a follower of my blog.
3) Stop by eCraft's Facebook Page and like them to see more awesome projects and tutorials.
  
We are also having another blog hop on September 5th. ALL comments left today and on the September 5th blog hop will be eligible to win the eCraft so this will give you more chances to win. (1) One lucky winner will be announced on Raven's Blog on September 10th. The winner will also be listed on the eCraft's Facebook Page  (this is why it's a good idea to like them on facebook!)

All are welcome to hop, however the eCraft giveaway is only open to U.S. entries. Thank you so much for your understanding. Please be sure to comment by August 22, 2011.



Now you can hop along to Craftwell USA and check out more information, videos and projects that can be made with the eCraft!  Hope you had fun hopping and God bless!!!

Welcome to the BACK TO SCHOOL BLOG HOP! We are all here to back to school by showing you amazing projects that have been designed with the fabulous and amazing eCraft.  .

If you just arrived here from Rosy's blog then you are in the right place. If you just happened upon my blog please start at the beginning over at Raven's blog.  That way you will be able to see all of the amazing
projects and you will have more ways to win.
I received my eCraft a few months ago and I have been experimenting with it a little here and there.  I love that you can look up any files online and just let your imagine run with it.  It's so easy to not have to buy one cartridge for a few images that you like and to just have exactly what you need at the click of the mouse.  I also like the clean cuts that you get from the ecraft.  It's truly an amazing machine!

For this hop I have created a note card gift set to give to a teacher as a welcome back to school gift.  This is great for the teacher to give students little notes throughout the year and to continue encouraging them and making them smile.  The gift set consists of note cards, envelopes and a gift box.  This was actually inspired from a post I had seen at Hand to Paper.  There are a lot of pictures posted below so brace yourself! 

Here's a list of my supplies:

• Mini Note Pad and Card Set and Matchbox file from The Cutting Cafe to make the envelopes and the box (I used Make the Cut software to import the files and cut with the eCraft).  
• The notepads were pdf files that were included with that set and I matted on cardstock.  
• The top of the box was matted with a page from DCWV Grade School stack and Creative Memories cardstock.  
• The flower punch (on the cover and on the envelopes) is from Creative Memories. 
• The For my Teacher stamp is from Joy's Life All Around Sentiment stamp set (I used the masking technique to only stamp the center). 
• Wide Eyed Kids Face Assortment from Peachy Keen Stamps to decorate the flower die cut on the envelope. 

Okay so you probably want to know what you can win, right? As some of you may have heard from this hop this amazing eCraft machine that we are all using is created by CraftwellUSA.com. This company is really amazing, their customer service is fabulous and the products are top notch. Well when they heard about our hop they decided to giveaway (1) One eCraft to (1) One lucky winner (color may vary)!!!  


In addition, I will be giving away a $10 gift certificate to Peachy Keen Stamps.  To be eligible for these prizes you must:

1) Please leave one comment here on my blog (Only one comment will bequalify per person additional comments will not count.)
2) Become a follower of my blog.
3) Stop by eCraft's Facebook Page and like them to see more awesome projects and tutorials.
  
We are also having another blog hop on September 5th. ALL comments left today and on the September 5th blog hop will be eligible to win the eCraft so this will give you more chances to win. (1) One lucky winner will be announced on Raven's Blog on September 10th. The winner will also be listed on the eCraft's Facebook Page  (this is why it's a good idea to like them on facebook!)

All are welcome to hop, however the eCraft giveaway is only open to U.S. entries. Thank you so much for your understanding. Please be sure to comment by August 22, 2011.



Now you can hop along to Craftwell USA and check out more information, videos and projects that can be made with the eCraft!  Hope you had fun hopping and God bless!!!

28 Candles Blog Hop

Update:  I am entering this card in a challenge for My Creative Time.  Using Don Juan Cartridge and incorporating the color blue.

Welcome to the 28 Candles Blog Hop! You should have arrived here from the talented and my wonderful friend Liz over at WhichCraft.  If you just happened to stumble up on my blog or are just stopping by to say hi, you may want to start the blog hop over at Kimi's and Pam's from Lovebug Creations.  There are many talented ladies involved in this hop and you don't want to miss any of their creations!

Today is all about celebrating one of my special friend's birthday.  Kimi from Lovebug Creations is celebrating her 28th birthday and she has invited some of her friends to celebrate with her.  I am so thankful for Kimi!  Her an I met through Michelle from Scrappin with My Bug and she gave me an opportunity to participate in my first blog hop.  Since then, it has been all fun and games with her.  I'm so thankful to have met her and to honestly call her a friend! 

For her birthday I made her this card:

Unopened



Front - open




Back - open

I used the Don Juan cricut cartridge, Pink by Design Take the Cake stamps, Peachy Keen Stamps princess face assortment stamps, Erin Lee Creative's My Favorite Things paperstock (blue), Creative Memories cardstock, DCWV birthday green paper. This is the first time that I created an accordion card.  It was a lot of fun to make and I hope my friend Kimi enjoys it! 

Do you think this is it?  Well............SURPRISE KIM!!!! Guess what? there's more than one more project! Look at this cute shadow frame I made for you!  I hope you enjoy it as well!!!  You should be getting both of these projects in the mail soon! ;-)



In the shadow box



Better picture out of the shadow box (no glare, need to practice with that!)

added a little dimension

For the layout, I used a  pattern cardstock from the DCWV Green Stack collection, the celebrate background from KI Memories, the solid cardstock is from DCWV Citrus cardstock collection.  I also used the Joy's Life Wild Life Puns Stamp Collection and the bird is from Imagine Best Friends cartridge.  I embellished it with some layered flowers, stickles and a little bling. 

Now what's a blog hop without some blog candy? Sarah over at Pink Cricut has graciously offered to sponsor this hop for me.  Here's what you can win:

This is the Grow stamp of the month and it retails for $27.99.  I personally love her stamp of the month and to be able to offer this as blog candy is great!  All you have to do is leave a comment below.  You don't need to be a follower, but I would love for you to do so! :)  The blog hop will be going through April 18th which gives you time to go through all the blogs.  I will pick a winner on April 20th to give a little extra time.

Now head on over to the fabulous Erin at SpantastiKreations to see what she has created! Happy Hopping and God Bless!

Kimi & Pamela - http://lovebugcreations3.blogspot.com/
Missy - http://happystampindesigns.blogspot.com/
Tanya- http://scrappinkymomma.blogspot.com/
Michelle - http://www.scrappinwithmybug.com/
Laura - http://lifeasanarmywife-lauradietsch.blogspot.com/
Sarah - http://www.pinkcricut.com/
Candace - http://papercraftsbycandace.blogspot.com/
Sarah W - http://creatingmyfavoritememories.blogspot.com/
Kim - http://rickettscricuts.blogspot.com/
Liz- http://www.mywhichcraft.blogspot.com/
Zeni - http://www.scrappyzeni.blogspot.com/
Erin - http://spantastikreations.blogspot.com/
Anne - http://anniebeescraftroom.blogspot.com/
Gaby - http://www.gabycreates.com/
Karen - http://osebastian.blogspot.com/
Paula - http://www.owlbescrappin.com/
Martha - http://pattisscrapingtime.blogspot.com/
Dianne - http://diannesscrappycreations.blogspot.com/
Kimmarie - http://kimmarieskorner.blogspot.com/
Victoria - http://victoriascraftycreations.blogspot.com/
Sonia - www.scraps4fun.com
Lisa - http://prettypaperprettyribbons.blogspot.com/
Jennifer - http://kozfam5.blogspot.com/
Nicole - http://creationsbymommy.com/
Amy - http://amydesigns.blogspot.com/
Stacey - http://creatingacraftylife.blogspot.com/
Becky - http://beckscricards.blogspot.com/
Alina - http://neverstopscrapping.blogspot.com/
Haidee - http://created2bunique.blogspot.com/

Update:  I am entering this card in a challenge for My Creative Time.  Using Don Juan Cartridge and incorporating the color blue.

Welcome to the 28 Candles Blog Hop! You should have arrived here from the talented and my wonderful friend Liz over at WhichCraft.  If you just happened to stumble up on my blog or are just stopping by to say hi, you may want to start the blog hop over at Kimi's and Pam's from Lovebug Creations.  There are many talented ladies involved in this hop and you don't want to miss any of their creations!

Today is all about celebrating one of my special friend's birthday.  Kimi from Lovebug Creations is celebrating her 28th birthday and she has invited some of her friends to celebrate with her.  I am so thankful for Kimi!  Her an I met through Michelle from Scrappin with My Bug and she gave me an opportunity to participate in my first blog hop.  Since then, it has been all fun and games with her.  I'm so thankful to have met her and to honestly call her a friend! 

For her birthday I made her this card:

Unopened



Front - open




Back - open

I used the Don Juan cricut cartridge, Pink by Design Take the Cake stamps, Peachy Keen Stamps princess face assortment stamps, Erin Lee Creative's My Favorite Things paperstock (blue), Creative Memories cardstock, DCWV birthday green paper. This is the first time that I created an accordion card.  It was a lot of fun to make and I hope my friend Kimi enjoys it! 

Do you think this is it?  Well............SURPRISE KIM!!!! Guess what? there's more than one more project! Look at this cute shadow frame I made for you!  I hope you enjoy it as well!!!  You should be getting both of these projects in the mail soon! ;-)



In the shadow box



Better picture out of the shadow box (no glare, need to practice with that!)

added a little dimension

For the layout, I used a  pattern cardstock from the DCWV Green Stack collection, the celebrate background from KI Memories, the solid cardstock is from DCWV Citrus cardstock collection.  I also used the Joy's Life Wild Life Puns Stamp Collection and the bird is from Imagine Best Friends cartridge.  I embellished it with some layered flowers, stickles and a little bling. 

Now what's a blog hop without some blog candy? Sarah over at Pink Cricut has graciously offered to sponsor this hop for me.  Here's what you can win:

This is the Grow stamp of the month and it retails for $27.99.  I personally love her stamp of the month and to be able to offer this as blog candy is great!  All you have to do is leave a comment below.  You don't need to be a follower, but I would love for you to do so! :)  The blog hop will be going through April 18th which gives you time to go through all the blogs.  I will pick a winner on April 20th to give a little extra time.

Now head on over to the fabulous Erin at SpantastiKreations to see what she has created! Happy Hopping and God Bless!

Kimi & Pamela - http://lovebugcreations3.blogspot.com/
Missy - http://happystampindesigns.blogspot.com/
Tanya- http://scrappinkymomma.blogspot.com/
Michelle - http://www.scrappinwithmybug.com/
Laura - http://lifeasanarmywife-lauradietsch.blogspot.com/
Sarah - http://www.pinkcricut.com/
Candace - http://papercraftsbycandace.blogspot.com/
Sarah W - http://creatingmyfavoritememories.blogspot.com/
Kim - http://rickettscricuts.blogspot.com/
Liz- http://www.mywhichcraft.blogspot.com/
Zeni - http://www.scrappyzeni.blogspot.com/
Erin - http://spantastikreations.blogspot.com/
Anne - http://anniebeescraftroom.blogspot.com/
Gaby - http://www.gabycreates.com/
Karen - http://osebastian.blogspot.com/
Paula - http://www.owlbescrappin.com/
Martha - http://pattisscrapingtime.blogspot.com/
Dianne - http://diannesscrappycreations.blogspot.com/
Kimmarie - http://kimmarieskorner.blogspot.com/
Victoria - http://victoriascraftycreations.blogspot.com/
Sonia - www.scraps4fun.com
Lisa - http://prettypaperprettyribbons.blogspot.com/
Jennifer - http://kozfam5.blogspot.com/
Nicole - http://creationsbymommy.com/
Amy - http://amydesigns.blogspot.com/
Stacey - http://creatingacraftylife.blogspot.com/
Becky - http://beckscricards.blogspot.com/
Alina - http://neverstopscrapping.blogspot.com/
Haidee - http://created2bunique.blogspot.com/

Scrapbookaholic by Abby Challenge #2

Welcome to another Scrapbookaholic by Abby challenge! These two weeks we will be concentrating on anything spring. I've created a sweet little card using a digistamp from Bugaboo Stamps and Pink by Design stamp:

Here's a closer look at the stamp and sentiment:

The digistamp is from the summer peek collection and it's called Flowerpot.  The Pink by Design stamp is the stamp of the month Grow, I used a sentiment and the little flowers from that collection.   I am quickly liking to use image stamps and I'm loving to use water color markers! All I have are tombows but I hope to graduate to copics in the future :)  hehehe!  I also used  and Creative Memories' chalking ink and a little bling on the corners.  Thanks for visiting and don't forget to go to Abby's page to enter your project.  The prize is this week is being sponsored by Abby herself and it's a beautiful 6x6 SEI paper stack and SEI ribbon assortment.  You don't want to miss an opportunity to win!  Thanks for stopping by and God bless!

Welcome to another Scrapbookaholic by Abby challenge! These two weeks we will be concentrating on anything spring. I've created a sweet little card using a digistamp from Bugaboo Stamps and Pink by Design stamp:

Here's a closer look at the stamp and sentiment:

The digistamp is from the summer peek collection and it's called Flowerpot.  The Pink by Design stamp is the stamp of the month Grow, I used a sentiment and the little flowers from that collection.   I am quickly liking to use image stamps and I'm loving to use water color markers! All I have are tombows but I hope to graduate to copics in the future :)  hehehe!  I also used  and Creative Memories' chalking ink and a little bling on the corners.  Thanks for visiting and don't forget to go to Abby's page to enter your project.  The prize is this week is being sponsored by Abby herself and it's a beautiful 6x6 SEI paper stack and SEI ribbon assortment.  You don't want to miss an opportunity to win!  Thanks for stopping by and God bless!

My Rockstar Weekend and Cheerleading Dolls

I can't believe the AMAZING weekend that the girls and I had!!! As most of you know, my 2 girls are in an all star cheerleading team.  This past weekend was the St. Petersburgh World Spirit Federation Championship.  Rockstar took all 5 teams for this competition.  Four out of our five teams got first place!!! The fifth team was a little tinis and they got 3rd, but my gosh!!! What a perfomance they put on!!! I love to watch them dance to their disney songs and just looking at each other to make sure they are all doing the right thing, and they love to shake their butts!!!!  Our Minis won the grand champion (which is the highest score within all divisions in their level) and the Juniors won the Viewer's Choice Award, which was the award for the most memorable and exciting routine.  Not only did these two teams win the additional prizes (not to mention braggin' rights!), but they were given a paid bid to go to a world's competition, which consists of other countries competing along with or national teams.  This is such a great opportunity for them and I am so proud of their hard work and dedication!  I have never seen a group of kids stick together and support each other in the manner that they did during this competition.  To top it off, the parents were incredible! The energy that they had cheering all the kids on was incredible we were the loudest ones in that place.  We were constantly getting comments for our program and for our parents.  My daughter actually heard someone in the bathroom saying "that Rockstar team has to be on steroids or something, did you see how they hit every stunt!?" and then my daughter walks out of the stall with her uniform and they didn't know what to say!  This is not just a team of competitors but they are truly amazing.  And the coaches... my gosh!!! I have never seen coaches that are dedicated, caring, loving, understanding, supporting but at the same time tough, than the three that are at Rockstar.  I am so proud to be a part of the Rockstar family and I will forever be grateful for them opening up their door to me and making me part of their family.  I love each and everyone of them kids, parents and coaches alike.

Well, I've also been talking about some cheerleading dolls that I had been working on for a while.  For these away competitions, the team usually give the kids something memorable to place on their bedroom door.  I offered to make the dolls as something to use for one of these competitions.  Little did I know the amount of time that it would take to do 82 dolls.  But I can also tell you that the look on their faces were absolutely priceless and they were so happy to receive them.  Here's what they looked like:

We have lots of bling and glitter on our uniform so I wanted to make sure that it was included.  I love the Peacky Keen faces too.  They were really awesome for this project.  Hope you enjoy! We have 2 more competitions in the next 3 weeks and a performance at the Marlins game 2 weeks later along with another competition the day after.  So I will be pretty busy, but hopefully I will be able to give you updates on their status during their competitions.  I love my Rockstar Family!!!! God bless everyone!

I can't believe the AMAZING weekend that the girls and I had!!! As most of you know, my 2 girls are in an all star cheerleading team.  This past weekend was the St. Petersburgh World Spirit Federation Championship.  Rockstar took all 5 teams for this competition.  Four out of our five teams got first place!!! The fifth team was a little tinis and they got 3rd, but my gosh!!! What a perfomance they put on!!! I love to watch them dance to their disney songs and just looking at each other to make sure they are all doing the right thing, and they love to shake their butts!!!!  Our Minis won the grand champion (which is the highest score within all divisions in their level) and the Juniors won the Viewer's Choice Award, which was the award for the most memorable and exciting routine.  Not only did these two teams win the additional prizes (not to mention braggin' rights!), but they were given a paid bid to go to a world's competition, which consists of other countries competing along with or national teams.  This is such a great opportunity for them and I am so proud of their hard work and dedication!  I have never seen a group of kids stick together and support each other in the manner that they did during this competition.  To top it off, the parents were incredible! The energy that they had cheering all the kids on was incredible we were the loudest ones in that place.  We were constantly getting comments for our program and for our parents.  My daughter actually heard someone in the bathroom saying "that Rockstar team has to be on steroids or something, did you see how they hit every stunt!?" and then my daughter walks out of the stall with her uniform and they didn't know what to say!  This is not just a team of competitors but they are truly amazing.  And the coaches... my gosh!!! I have never seen coaches that are dedicated, caring, loving, understanding, supporting but at the same time tough, than the three that are at Rockstar.  I am so proud to be a part of the Rockstar family and I will forever be grateful for them opening up their door to me and making me part of their family.  I love each and everyone of them kids, parents and coaches alike.

Well, I've also been talking about some cheerleading dolls that I had been working on for a while.  For these away competitions, the team usually give the kids something memorable to place on their bedroom door.  I offered to make the dolls as something to use for one of these competitions.  Little did I know the amount of time that it would take to do 82 dolls.  But I can also tell you that the look on their faces were absolutely priceless and they were so happy to receive them.  Here's what they looked like:

We have lots of bling and glitter on our uniform so I wanted to make sure that it was included.  I love the Peacky Keen faces too.  They were really awesome for this project.  Hope you enjoy! We have 2 more competitions in the next 3 weeks and a performance at the Marlins game 2 weeks later along with another competition the day after.  So I will be pretty busy, but hopefully I will be able to give you updates on their status during their competitions.  I love my Rockstar Family!!!! God bless everyone!

Stamp Coloring

Hi everyone! Well, it's the end of a long weekend for me and a start of a new week tomorrow.  I'm hoping to get a lot accomplished this week, not just at work but at home and on the creative side.  We shall see how it all goes!  Tomorrow is my Mom's birthday.  She's a very special lady in my life and I just don't know what I would do without her. I love her dearly and I wanted to make her a special card that would express my feelings for her but in my own creative way.   I decided that I would step out of my comfort zone of die cutting and color a stamp.  Never really considered a good artist in this way and I have always been intimidated by it, but I found that it was very therapeutic!! 

When I first discovered Peachy Keen Stamps, I purchased this cute little Natalee stamp but never used it. I decided to make a birthday card for Mom with it and combine it with My Creative Time Mom, You Rock collection stamp.  Here's the final product:

It's a little hard to see, but the card base color is purple and the ink on the sentiment is also purple.  Hope you guys enjoy it!  God bless!!

Hi everyone! Well, it's the end of a long weekend for me and a start of a new week tomorrow.  I'm hoping to get a lot accomplished this week, not just at work but at home and on the creative side.  We shall see how it all goes!  Tomorrow is my Mom's birthday.  She's a very special lady in my life and I just don't know what I would do without her. I love her dearly and I wanted to make her a special card that would express my feelings for her but in my own creative way.   I decided that I would step out of my comfort zone of die cutting and color a stamp.  Never really considered a good artist in this way and I have always been intimidated by it, but I found that it was very therapeutic!! 

When I first discovered Peachy Keen Stamps, I purchased this cute little Natalee stamp but never used it. I decided to make a birthday card for Mom with it and combine it with My Creative Time Mom, You Rock collection stamp.  Here's the final product:

It's a little hard to see, but the card base color is purple and the ink on the sentiment is also purple.  Hope you guys enjoy it!  God bless!!

Happy New Year!!!

Is 2011 really here?  I can't believe how fast another year has passed by!  2010 was the year that I truly involved myself more with crafts and blogs.  I've met a good group of friends that not only have inspired me, but also have encouraged me to move forward.  2011 is the year that I will work on my crafting and blogging skills.  My new years resolution was in fact to craft and blog more this year.  I  have quickly come to learn that this is my way of learning and having fun.  My future goal is to join a design team some where using stamps that I truly love and believe in.

I decided to personalize a journal so that I can jot down my crafty ideas and things to do.  I need to also get myself organize with many other aspects in my life, so I hope it works and if not, then I have a pretty journal!  I used the Hello Kitty Greetings, Don Juan for the fonts and Peachy Keen's Super Simple Eyes and Noses.  The white part was a little challenging because of the whiskers.  I had to manually cute it in order to show the black whiskers coming from the face.

So along with my hopes and dreams, I want to wish everyone a very happy 2011, one filled with much love, happiness, health and success.  Remember that with God all things are possible.
God bless you all!

Zeni

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Is 2011 really here?  I can't believe how fast another year has passed by!  2010 was the year that I truly involved myself more with crafts and blogs.  I've met a good group of friends that not only have inspired me, but also have encouraged me to move forward.  2011 is the year that I will work on my crafting and blogging skills.  My new years resolution was in fact to craft and blog more this year.  I  have quickly come to learn that this is my way of learning and having fun.  My future goal is to join a design team some where using stamps that I truly love and believe in.

I decided to personalize a journal so that I can jot down my crafty ideas and things to do.  I need to also get myself organize with many other aspects in my life, so I hope it works and if not, then I have a pretty journal!  I used the Hello Kitty Greetings, Don Juan for the fonts and Peachy Keen's Super Simple Eyes and Noses.  The white part was a little challenging because of the whiskers.  I had to manually cute it in order to show the black whiskers coming from the face.

So along with my hopes and dreams, I want to wish everyone a very happy 2011, one filled with much love, happiness, health and success.  Remember that with God all things are possible.
God bless you all!

Zeni

P.S.If you could, please share this post with others.  I would like to reach 100 followers and once I do, I will have a give away.  You can also recommend me as a friend on facebook or ask me to be your friend if you are visiting for the first time (ScrappyZeni Pradel). :)

Merry Christmas!!!

I can't believe it, but Christmas is almost here and I'm sick! I am feeling a little better than last night, so when I get home from work today I will hopefully be able to finish all my other gifts.  This past weekend I finished the card gift sets and I wanted to share these with you.  Some of the cards that I included were designed with Peachy Keen Stamps and Pink by Design stamps.  I love the cute little faces from the Peachy Keen Stamps and you can do so much with them to bring your projects to live.  The cards are very simple for the sake of saving time and mass production and I used my cricut sampler and create a critter cartridge for most of them. 

I want to take this opportunity to thank all of my friends and wish them all a very Merry Christmas and a most wonderful new year. I know that this year will bring lots of new friends, fun and entertainment to the crafting blogging world.  May you all enjoy your time with your family and God bless you all!

I can't believe it, but Christmas is almost here and I'm sick! I am feeling a little better than last night, so when I get home from work today I will hopefully be able to finish all my other gifts.  This past weekend I finished the card gift sets and I wanted to share these with you.  Some of the cards that I included were designed with Peachy Keen Stamps and Pink by Design stamps.  I love the cute little faces from the Peachy Keen Stamps and you can do so much with them to bring your projects to live.  The cards are very simple for the sake of saving time and mass production and I used my cricut sampler and create a critter cartridge for most of them. 

I want to take this opportunity to thank all of my friends and wish them all a very Merry Christmas and a most wonderful new year. I know that this year will bring lots of new friends, fun and entertainment to the crafting blogging world.  May you all enjoy your time with your family and God bless you all!