12 New Carts!!

For Black Friday my husband and I went to Roberts they had cricut carts 4 for $100. I had some of my Christmas money to spend and was able to pick up 12 carts. I'm really excited to play now just need to figure out the time to do so. Here are the new carts I got Simply Sweet, Zooballoo, Walk in My Garden, Stamping Solutions cart, Campout, Home Decor, Dinosaur Tracks, Hannah Montana, Fabulous Finds, Life's is A Beach, Stand and Salute and Everyday Paper Dolls.
My daughter and I are hoping to find some cricut playtime this weekend. Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I am thankful for my family and friends!! Also thanks to all of you for checking out my blog!!

The Gypsy Spot...

I love my Cricut Expressions and love what I can do with my Design Studio, but Cricut has come out with the Gypsy. A portable way to manipulate cricut cuts. I would love to get one of these and am even trying to figure out if I can afford to get one on Black Friday. Today I noticed on The Gypsy Spot they are giving away a FREE Gypsy! That would be great to win one, imagine all the fun things you could create with one. Head on over and enter to win. I'm going to!!

Crafting... what's that?

Well school is back in session for the kids and myself. Between working part-time, doing my school work and homework, helping the kids, being a mom, being a wife, etc., etc. etc. I seem to not have time for crafting (like many of you). I'm hoping to be better about crafting on the weekends, that's my goal at least. I'm thinking I need to make some sort of rewards system for doing my homework and studying.

Anyway on to the crafting...

I like the simplicity of this card (don't like how fuzzy the picture is though, sorry!!) I used divine swirls cuttlebug folder on the top, don't know what papers I used, love the green grosgrain ribbon, and a prima flower. I made about 10 of these and left them blank as I've needed a card I stamp a sentiment in the lower left hand corner.

I've been working on an a Word Wall for the Kindergarten class that I work in-using the Zooballo cricut cartridge, such a fun cartridge. I borrowed it from my sweet sister-in-law and am thinking I need to buy one of my own, I see lots of potential uses. I love the penguins and the koala. Hope to have this done in the next week and will post pictures too!!

I'm going to be doing some blog candy in October so watch for details on that coming soon!!

Cupcake birthday

I used scraps from my scrap file and even ribbon scraps out of my scrap jar for this card, I love when I do that. The stamps are a Close to My Heart set I earned for free back in April love the cupcake, I also used Close to My Heart inks (don't remember the colors though). I think I even used a sheetloads sketch for this card. This was a fun card to put together.
Schools been in session here for 3 weeks and I think I'm finally getting the routine down. Hopefully now that I'm getting back into the swing of things I can get my crafting mojo back and be able to share more current projects.

I'm really excited I ordered 3 new Close to My Heart sets last night. I can't wait to get them and create!!!
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1 is fun!

I made this invite to my son's First Birthday party back in April! I love the ribbon on this it's from the Dollar spot at Michael's- I think I bought every color they had of this fun argyle ribbon. I cut the 1 out from Plantin cricut cartridge. I used my Numbers Cuttlebug folder to do the background. Is fun, is stamped from a Close to My Heart alphabet. These were fast, simple and turned out very cute- my favorite kind of cards to make.
Watch for next weeks post, I'm working on some blog candy. Can't wait to share!!

Have a great week!!!

This is our Everyday Heroes Bulletin Board. On this bulletin board each student will bring a poster all about them- it will be displayed for a week. I loved making these fun paper dolls, especially the little accessories for the girls. The letters are cut from Mickey and Friends font cartridge, the paper is Daisy D's (I believe) shadowed in red bazzill. I love how this board turned out, I can't wait to showcase our students on it.
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Baby cards...

Thanks for checking out my blog, it's been fun the last week to watch and see how many people have checked out my blog. Monday I had 100 on my counter and now I'm at over 300+. Thanks for checking out my blog and remember I Love Comments!!!

In June I made a few baby cards to add to my stash and for my monthly card swap. The first three cards I scraplifted from Robyn at http://www.mypinkstamper.com/ I loved these cards they were so easy to make.

I love this giraffe stamp it is from Close to My Heart- It's a Zoo set, baby is stamped from a Close to My Heart alphabet but I can't remember the name, the yellow pattern paper is Kopp Design paper that I've had for 9 years just waiting to be used. I think the brown ink and paper are chocolate from Close to My Heart. I cut the scallop circle and circle out with my cricut from the Mini Monograms cart.
The elephant stamp is from Close to My Heart It's a Zoo set, pink pattern paper is Daisy D's, I used chocolate ink and paper from Close to My Heart. The square scallop and square are from Mini Monograms cricut cartridge.

The elephant is from Close to My Heart It's a Zoo set, the blue pattern paper is Kopp Design again. Chocolate ink and paper is from Close to My Heart, square scallop and the square were cut from Mini Monograms cricut cartridge.

This is my favorite baby card I made. I used a sketch I think from sheetload.blogspot.com I don't remember which month though. The pattern paper is Animal Crackers from Close to My Heart, the inks are Close to My Heart I don't remember which colors I used though. The giraffe stamp is from the It's a Zoo set from Close to My Heart, I bought that set just for this card. As you can tell I loved this set for baby cards. I used staples to attach the red grosgrain and yellow grosgrain ribbons to the card. I love this card it was so fun to put together -plus that giraffe just makes me smile- and can't wait to send this card to someone.

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