"Happy Easter"

This is an Easter basket I created for The Collectors Cut's weekly challenge. I drew the Walk in My Garden, Printing 101 and Groovy Times cartridges to create this.







I used white cardstock and Glimmer Mists again for this challenge. The flower pot was cut from Core'dinations cardstock. I backed the leaves with a scrap of paper from the Green Tea stack from DCWV.

A close up of the flowers ...



Thank you for looking!

summer banner

Here is this week's project for The Collectors Cut. I drew the Dinosaur Tracks, Lacy Labels and Pooh & Friends cartridges for this challenge.



I cut the letter pieces & backs from Dinosaur Tracks, the flowers from Lacy Labels and the butterflies from Pooh & Friends.



I used large pop dots on the letters pieces & butterflies and small pop dots on the flowers.



All papers are from DCWV's Green Tea stack. The glitter glues are from Creative Imaginations and Studio G. The ribbon is from Michaels' Celebrate It! line.

Thank you for looking!

"peace, love & music"

I created this page for my weekly project for The Collectors Cut. I drew the Nursery Rhyme, Rock Princess and Fabulous Finds cartridges this week and really wondered how I was going to make them work for a masculine page. This is what I came up with ...



I used Fabulous Finds to create the library pocket and Nursery Rhyme for the black base on the front of the pocket. The remaining cuts are all from Rock Princess.



I used pop dots and mini black brads on the guitar for a bit of dimension.



All solid cardstock is Bazzill Bling and the patterned paper for the pocket is from Creative Imaginations.

Thank you for taking the time to look!

anniversary card w/ pocket envelope

This is the project I came up with for this week's project for The Collectors Cut. I drew the Sweethearts, Once Upon a Princess and Hello Kitty Greetings cartridges for this week.

This is the front of the pocket envelope that was cut from Sweethearts. I used my Gypsy to cut only the silhouette and heart to place in the openings. I backed the openings up before I glued the pocket together.



I used pop dots on the silhouette.



This is the front of the card. I used Once Upon a Princess for the card base as well as the star-flower shapes. I used the cuts from the pocket envelope here.



The left flap is raised here. The "I LOVE YOU" is from Hello Kitty Greetings.



This is the card opened completely to show all of the cuts together.



All of the papers for this project are from Basic Grey's Eva collection.

"one goofy dog...

and we love you for it!"

Here is this week's project for The Collectors Cut. I drew the Easter 2010, Mickey & Friends and George & Basic Shapes cartridges for this week.





I cut the "medallion" shape from Easter 2010. The heart charm along with "one" and "dog" are from George. "Goofy" is from Mickey & Friends.




I cut the grass from Easter 2010 and the leaves from Mickey & Friends.



All patterned papers are from Reminisce's Shades of Autumn line. The green & red cardstocks are from WorldWin and the orange cardstock is from Core'dinations.

"hear ye hear ye"

Here is my project for this week's challenge at The Collectors Cut. I drew the Daisy Chain, Happily Ever After and Alphalicious cartridges and had to make myself turn them into "boy" cartridges.





I chose the trumpet/banner cut from Happily Ever After and centered the letterslater from Alphalicious on it. The "golden" cardstock is from Core'dinations and the green cardstock is from WorldWin. I used Sahara Sand VersaMagic chalk ink to tone down the brightness of the trumpet.

The outer frame/border was created by welding cuts from Daisy Chain on my Gypsy. I used gray cardstock from WorldWin with Slate, Graphite and Dew Drop Glimmer Mists.



The shield and sword were also cut from Happily Ever After. I used gray cardstock from WorldWin with Graphite Glimmer Mist and Midnight Black VersaMagic chalk ink. The sword handle is cut from the "golden" Core'dinations cardstock.



Happily Evey After was used yet again for the stallion. The brown & black cardstock are from WorldWin, I used Martha Stewart flock (this is the first time I've gotten to use flock LOL) and then I used Viva Decor's Anthracite Pearl Pen for the hooves.



The patterned paper for the background and mats is from The Luxury Stack from DCWV. I used my Jumbo Java VersaMagic chalk ink on the mats.

Thank you for looking!

Please stop by The Collectors Cut later tonight see what the Kimi, Laurie and Tracy have made.

I'm a stylish blogger!

I have won The Stylish Blogger Award! I have been remiss in one post in particular because Jessica gave me my first award at the beginning of the year. I'm sorry Jess!! I won this award again this past week from two more gals ... Vanessa and Lisa.
THANK YOU GALS!!


The rules of this award require me to:
1) Thank and link back to the wonderful Gals that gave me this award.
2) Share 8 things about myself.
3) Pay it forward to 8 fellow bloggers.
4) Contact those bloggers and notify them of their award.


Here are 8 things about me:
1) I have been married almost 14 years to a WONDERFUL man and I have a WONDERFUL 11 year old son!
2) I became a stay at home mom 11 months ago after being in banking for 18 1/2 years.
3) I am a collector of too many things! LOL
4) I live in the same city I grew up in after being adamant at a younger age that I wasn't staying here. LOL
5) I lost both of my parents in 2008 to cancer. Dad passed away January 9th from lung cancer and Mom passed away September 23rd from colon cancer.
6) I REALLY dislike cleaning! (I still do it though LOL)
7) I have tried all kinds of crafts but have found my true crafting love lies in papercrafting.
8) I truly enjoy reading!

I am forwarding this award to the following Gals:
1) Tracy
2) Kimi
3) Laurie
4) Faith Abigail
5) Cammi
6) Cassie
7) Peachy
8) Laura

Thank you again Jess, Vanessa and Lisa!!

my spooky son ... Halloween 2010

I created this page for The Collectors Cut Challenge #9. I drew the Doodlecharms, Indie Art and Mini Monsters cartridges this week and I automatically thought of Halloween with this combination.



I used Mini Monsters to cut the fence from black cardstock and then sprayed it with Cinder Glimmer Mist. I cut the skulls from Indie Art out of cream cardstock and used Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint & Sahara Sand VersaMagic chalk ink to give them a little texture.



I cut the spiders from Doodlecharms on black cardstock and covered them in Creative Imaginations Lucky Black glitter glue. I decided to have them "climb down" from strands of embroidery floss to look a bit realistic.



I used pop dots on the spiders and skulls for a bit of dimension. I used papers from Basic Grey's Eerie collection and Little Yellow Bicycle's Frightful collection.

Check out The Collectors Cut tonight to see what else has been created.

Thank you for visiting!

"miss you"

Here is this week's project for The Collectors Cut. I drew the Pagoda, Cindy Loo and Winter Frolic cartridges to use and was quite worried about what I was going to create with these cartridges. I was able to use one cut from each cartridge for this project.

I opted to do a 12x12 canvas so that i can eventually use a shadow box to display this in my living room. This is one of the last pictures we have of my parents before they passed away and I wanted to do something special to showcase it.



The flourish frame was cut from Winter Frolic using the border feature and welded on my Gypsy. The flower layers were cut from Pagoda and "miss you" was cut from Cindy Loo. I used white cardstock and Glimmer Mist for the cuts again this week. The canvas was "colored" using alcohol inks and a foam blending tool. The pearls and bling are by Recollections.





Here are close-ups of the flowers.







Thank you for taking the time to look!

Check out The Collectors Cut tonight to see what else has been created for this week's challenge.

The Collectors Cut challenge #7

For this week's challenge at The Collectors Cut I drew Mother's Day 2010, Paper Pups and Tags, Bags, Boxes & More. We decided to alter mini mailboxes and I chose a spring theme for mine.





All of the cuts were made from white cardstock. The color is from various Glimmer Mists, a Viva Decor Pearl Pen and a few pearl-headed pins.





A few of my extras along with my trusty hot glue gun and Zip Dry Paper Glue.



I used Tags, Bags, Boxes & More to cut the multi-petal flowers, Mother's Day 2010 for the 6 petal flowers and Paper Pups was used to cut the butterflies.









close-ups









Stop by The Collectors Cut blog tonight to see what Kimi, Laurie and Tracy have created.

"you are my sunshine"

I made this card for my son for Valentine's Day. All of the pieces were cut using my Cricut and Just Because Cards cartridge.







The card base was cut from paper by Tim Holtz and the sun layers were cut from My Mind's Eye papers. I used Creative Imaginations glitter glue and Michaels $1 bin bling for sparkle.