Stinkin' Cute

My new Cricut Imagine has arrived. I was surprised at how big and heavy it is. I have not had much time to play with it. I did make 3 quick cards--this cutie is the only one left. I already gave away the others. One went to my parents, who were amazed that it was a handmade card!

For this card I flooded a background shape with a design, cut it out, & also cut out the medallion. Used a stamp from My Pink Stamper/Robyn's set and tried out my new Viva Decor pearl pens (love them). Finishing touch--the trusty white pen!

HAPPY halloween

I cannot believe Halloween is right around the corner (and that means Thanksgiving and Christmas are close behind---yikes)!!! I stumbled onto a fun challenge site and thought I would play along with their challenge this week. Papercraft Star has a card challenge this week and while I don't do many cards or stamping, I thought I would whip up a quick spooky one to get me ready for the scary season ahead!

Armed Forces Day

I finished this LO today. We had such a good time at the Armed Forces Day parade in Bremerton in May. Living in a Navy community, our military events and celebrations are really done right!

Bee Happy card

I am going to be doing some scrapping demo's at Michael's in a couple weeks as part of my SDU "job". This card is one of the demos I will be doing. I made up a sample to make sure I knew what I was making! I added a few extra details--I love my white pen and I thought the card needed some rhinestones!

new card

On the Scrapguy's blog today, he featured a wonderful card. I had to scraplift a couple of ideas from it--the pleated paper and tying a ribbon through a button. I had not tried those techniques before. Very easy and effective. I ended up making 3 cards since they were also fast to assemble. I will put sentiments on them when I use them. Thanks, Scrapguy!!!!

Intensity

I love this photo of DB! It was taken at a baseball tournament this summer by a dad from another team. He emailed it to us. The beauty of the internet! I used a sketch from Sketchy Thursdays to help me complete the LO.

Happy New {school} Year

The kids went back to school this week. Boy did the 10 weeks of summer fly by fast. I took my traditional first day of school pictures and Sketches! {by tamara} had a great challenge sketch that fit my pictures. 300 dpi was offerring a free digi kit "Hittin' the Books II" & I thought it was a perfect kit for my photos.