Birthday Champ!

This birthday card is one of my favorites! I made it for a very special little man who is also a die hard Yankees fan! In fact, he taught me everything that I know about baseball! He is turning 10 (DOUBLE DIGITS!) today and I thought that a little paper look alike of him in a Yankees uniform would be right up his alley.  Yes, the boy made out of paper came out pretty darn cute (if I do say so myself!) but it still doesn't hold a candle to its "real life" model! Anyway, here it is and.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY FAVORITE LITTLE YANKEES FAN!!!!
I am entering this card in a challenge at One Stop Craft Challenge where the challenge this week is "Anything but Square"
I hope you enjoy this card... I put an extra special dose of love into making it! :-) 

Tie dye brightens any ol' day!

Well, this week's challenge at Fantabulous Cricut is to use the color YELLOW in a L/O or card.  The truth is that I often use yellow as the base color of my cards.  I find it is a very inviting color and always conveys a sense of cheeriness that is, in my opinion, of utmost importance for a good "just because" or "get well soon" card.  This card is 5x7 inches, so I have a nice amount of room to work with.  All of the paper I used was from my stash, but I think my absolute favorite element with this card is the "Tie Dyed" paper lace circle which serves as a mat to my sparkling butterfly "in flight."  I cut it from the paper lace cartridge on white paper and then used three separate distressing inks to give it that oh so groovy tie dyed look that I love so much!  I really loved making this card (though I think I should have done a little more with the ribbon other than just making a bow with it... but oh well, I am still learning.) I also really like the sentiment that I had in my stash, but I don't love the "handwriting" look to it.  I think it looks a little messy... but I just loved the sentiment too much to not use it!  Anyway, like I have said before... each card is a learning experience, and boy, what great time I am having learning!!!! :-)

Pink, Lime and White Birthday Card

Hi Everyone!

I haven't posted for any challenges recently, but A day or two ago I found two blogs that I liked and I just knew that I could make a birthday card to fill the requirements for both by making this sweet Pink, Lime and White Birthday Card!

The first blog is Birthday Sundaes and the challenge is to make a card with the Pink, Lime and White color scheme. And the second blog is Fantabulous Cruicut where the requirement is simply to make a birthday themed card.  I desided to go with this colorul easel style card.  And this time, I even stamped an envelope to coordiate with the card.  As I have mentioned before, I am relatively new to the crafting world, so each challenge is teaching me a lot as I create my submition.  Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy my card! I know that I for one LOVED creating it (these colors are some of my absolute favorites! Though, I am waiting for a purple theme to come up one of these days because it is my most favorite color of all!)

Anyway, enjoy, and I look forward to submitting more entries in the coming weeks!

Cupcakes are always a good idea!

Hello everyone out there! Well, I decided to create a new card this week, mostly because I went on a little scrapping shopping spree and bought myself lots of new papers, stamps and embellishments and wanted to see if I was inspired to do anything with my loot!  Well, the funny thing is that with all of my new goodies I really just ended up doing a very super simple design.  I think I just had TOO many choices! :-) Anyway, once I created this card I looked around and found that sure enough, it fits the requirements for a challenge at Craft your passion challenge. The challenge states that you must include text on your card or L/O, and I figured why not join in!

Anyway, I hope you all enjoy it! :-)

Life is a dish best served cold - or at least A La Mode!!

This week's challenge on Fantabulous Cricut is to make a card or layout with the theme of ice cream.  In general I am not the HUGEST fan of ice cream - as my family likes to put it, I am a "Social Ice Cream Eater." Now, although I myself am not such a lover of this chilly treat, so many of my closest family and friends are.  And so I dedicate this week's project to all of them;  my family and friends who, without ice cream, would simply be lost!

I used my "Sweet Treats" cartridge for the two ice cream sundays and used glossy affects on the "hot fudge to give it that really ooey gooey look (which did not translate as well in my photo but looks FANTASTIC in person! 
I am a real newbie at all of this but as I continue to work on different projects I feel and see my work getting better and better! I wish I could do more challenges per week!!!! :-)

My very first post... Yikes!

Hi everyone!
OK, so I am totally a newbie at this whole Blog-scrapping thing, and I must admit that I am a little bit nervous! I am used to scrapping, but putting it up on the web for actual PEOPLE to see... well, that's a whole different story! So, why am I doing this, you might ask (and rightfully so!) Well basically I just received the most fantastic birthday present from my Brother and Sister-in-law about a week or two ago... yup you guessed it... a CRICUT!!!! I was sooooo excited! I had become familiar with the cricut through my cousin Michelle and while at her house we started scrapping our latest trip together to Disney World.  As most of you out there must know by now... once you go Cricut, you don't go back! I was absolutely in love with this machine! But still, paying for a cricut wasn't in the "budget" at that time.  So I moved on and basically put scrapping aside for what wound up being about eight months! Then just days before my birthday my Brother and Sister-in-law handed me this wonderful box, inside of which was what I like to refer to as my "Dream Machine!" Anyway, short story long, I got a cricut, started googling all about it an came upon a fun and fantastic blog called Fantabulous Cricut wherein they held weekly challenges for people to participate in.
So here's how is works: They supply the "theme" for the week.  You are required to make some sort of paper craft inspired by the theme and you must use at least one cut on your project with the cricut.  Other than that the skies the limit! So here I am, setting up a scrapbooking blog, a blog that essentially serves the same function as my parents refrigerator always did; a place to hang up my artwork (no matter how bad it is) and make people smile! So - here goes nuthin'!

Now, admittedly, the theme for this week was "camping and the great outdoors" but for I don't have too many cartridges yet, so I had no real animals to cut out. More importantly though, I am not really an "outdoorsy" kinda girl.  This pretty much sums up my feelings about the outdoors and "wilderness."

So in case you were wondering, the cartridges that I used were George and Basic Shapes (for the sparkly flower) and Everyday Paper Dolls for the clouds, grass and raindrops.

OK. so that's my entry, hope you like it (although, it is about as far from "camping" and I could get and still feel like it was OK to post! (Come on, ya gotta have a sense of humor about these things :-).... Right????)