History Project with the Cricut!!!

Hello and Happy Tuesday Everyone!

Can you believe it... it's the LAST DAY

of NOVEMBER!!! WOW in Just

one month we will be in a NEW YEAR!

Boy this year flew by.... Today I have something

to show you that I made with my son for school.

My Middle Son Juston who is in the 10th grade...

Had a History project that needed to get done...

And of course it was due today... So we did it

ALL last night.... It really wasn't that hard since I had

all the things we needed.... Sooo here is the project we

worked on together....

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Well.... Here is one of my Handsome boys! :o)

This project was made for his History class...

They had to make a Shield of Arms....

His small group picked a SILLY NAME!

They are called the FATCAKES! LOL

I laugh every time I say it... My son did not

like this name but the group chose it and so he was

stuck with it... weather he liked it or not!

They also had to be cautions of the colors they used...

As to not take away from another groups Shield Colors...

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Sooo... here is the close up...

I used 3 Cartridges...

Martha Stewart All Occasion for the 2 purple Cupcakes....

Sweet Treats for all the other Cupcakes...

All the Cupcakes were cut at 3" and I used gems, stickles, Ink,

Swirl Devine Embossing Folder and

 of course Dimensionals... to make them POP! :o)

The shield and the letters are from the

Blackletter Cartridge.... Which I didn't have this

Cartridge until I bought the Gypsy during Octobers Special....

The shield itself was cut at 22 1/2" x 11"

and the Letters were cut @ 2 1/2"

Now... I will say this.... I'm still NOT a fan

of the Gypsy!! I know.... I know.... some of you

are saying WHAT???? Look it's a lovely gadget and

it certainly comes in handy for things... BUT

I AM A DESIGN STUDIO GIRL! LOL

I LOVE my Design Studio and CAN NOT

LIVE without it! hahaha

I CAN LIVE WITHOUT the GYPSY! BUT

I am a sucker for a DEAL! LOL

So I will continue to use it... I Mean I have

2 Expressions.... So I'm gonna use my DS and

my Gypsy for my machines... and by the way....

I DID use Both my machines to make this Shield....

I used my Reg. E for the 12 x 24 cuts

and used my PRETTY PLUM E

for all the smaller cuts! :o)

Anyway..... that's it for me for today!

I'll be back tomorrow with this weeks

Cricut Cardz Challenge! I think you're

gonna LIKE IT! :o)

HAVE AN AWESOME DAY!!!!

Theresa

Holiday Penguin....

Hello and Happy Monday Everyone!

I hope you ALL had an awesome Holiday

weekend! I know I did! I want to send a

"Thank You" out to Miislucky for taking

over this past week while I tended to

my family activities! I had a YUMMY

Thanksgiving meal which I cooked myself!

And wonderful Pies.... Which I cooked

myself! And a Yummy Turkey Soup with all

the leftovers which I made myself! See the pattern

here! LOL My kids did help when asked but it was

mostly done by me... Which I kind of like anyway....

I'm one of those people who prefer to do it herself and

keep others AWAY from my Kitchen! It must be from my

Over Organized ways I guess.... But it was great having the

In-Laws here and I did some shopping online and even went

all the way down to our Walmart to get me another CRICUT!!!

I'll show the picture in a second.... But I wasn't planning on going

all the way down to the Walmart..... I decided to just order it

online... but hubby said oh... let's just go! Sooo we did.... it was

like -5 degrees outside.... FLIPPING COLD! Got to the Wally World

and MAN was it busy! We got there at 11:30pm and I just went in and got

what I wanted and went to the register and waited til 12:01AM ...

The lovely Cashier rang me up and out the door I went!

Talk about FAST Shopping!

Yup...That was the only thing I needed from Wally World...

They had nothing my kids wanted so I spent the rest of

the weekend shopping online and putting up ALL my

Christmas decor... Now I just need to focus on making

my Christmas cards! YES.... I have NOT made them yet!

But I will be spending some time getting them done.... Anyway

let me show you my pretty new toys and a card!

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Yup...Isn't SHE PRETTTYYY!

I got the Plum one... I've read that people think

it looks more like Magenta.... But I don't think it does....

It looks PLUM... It's not a dark purple... and the sides look

like a light lilac color... to me anyway.... :o)

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I was trying to get a picture showing you

that it lights up in a pretty purple color...

Sorry about how it turned out... but the color is

LOVELY!!! :o)

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 And here are the 2 Cartridges that come with this machine!

Right now they are exclusive to these Walmart colored

Expressions only.. But I'm sure they will be available

in stores.... that's how Provo Craft is... If there is 

demand for them, then it will be available later down the road... :o)

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  You didn't think I would go to Walmart and not

get me some $20 Cartridges... Did you? LOL

These 3 were the only ones I liked from the

latest Hello Thursday list! I was just happy to get them!

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And YES... This is an Easel Card! I did tell ya I had

2 more to show you didn't I? Well here is one of them....

Card Stock, Ink, Stamp - Stampin' Up

White Glitter Card Stock - DCWV

Designer Paper - Echo Park

Cartridge - Winter Frolic (Penguin) Cut @ 4 1/2"

(Tag) Cut @ 2" I deleted the hole using Design Studio

Christmas Cards - (Snowflakes) Cut @ 4 1/2"

(2x's Each)

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  Here is a sorta kinda side view! LOL

Just so you can see the Popped up

items... like the Beak, Feet, Snowflakes....

Well... That's all I got for today!

I'll be back tomorrow with something.... :o)

Enjoy your CYBER MONDAY!!!

Have an AWESOME Day!

Theresa

Frosty.....

Hello and Happy Tuesday everyone!

Are you all ready for Turkey Day?

I'm super excited to cook as I always

do for Thanksgiving... My Husband's

parents are coming this year.... It will be

so nice to have them come for a visit...

Today will be my last post for the rest of

this week... I have a very busy couple of

days ahead of me... so Miislucky will

be posting some of her crafty things starting tomorrow....

 Here is my card for today! :o)

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Yup...It's another "Stamped" Card! :o)

Card Stock , Ink, Stamps, Ribbon,

Border Punch, Small Oval and Scallop Oval

are ALL Stampin' Up!

Designer Paper is Echo Park

I used Nestabilites for the Larger

Circles and Scallop...

Zig Pens were used for the coloring....

Well I hope you all like my card... :o)

I like these colors together for

Holiday Cards.... Well I guess that's

 it for me.... I just want to wish EVERYONE

a very HAPPY THANKSGIVING! I'll be

back on Monday with some new things!

Enjoy the rest of your week!

Theresa

A SWEET AWARD!!!! :o)

I received a very pleasant, surprise in my Comment Section today! Tanya from http://nonnascraftcorner.blogspot.com/  presented me with the

STYLISH BLOGGER AWARD !

Tanya... what a way to make my day.... THANK YOU!

There area a few rules that go with accepting this award:

1. Thank and link back to the person who awarded you.

2. Share 8 things about yourself.

3. Pay it forward to 8 bloggers you have discovered.

4. Contact those bloggers and tell them about the award.

Thanks Again Tanya at Nonna's Craft Corner! I really appreciate the award, but it really means more to me that you take the time to stop in for a quick visit to my blog and leave a Comment!

Ok...8 things about myself....hmmmmm....

(1.) I LOVE to make CARDS!!! :o)

(2.) I LOVE Stampin' Up Products!!! :o)

(3.) I have 3 Handsome Boys aged 17 1/2, 15 1/2, 7 1/2

(4.) I've been Married to a WONDERFUL, Caring, Loving man for 18yrs.

(5.) I really do LOVE Scrapbooking!!! (Even if I don't display it) :o)

(6.) I'm Glad I got my Sister MiMi Addicted to Crafting so we have

something else to share together!!! :o)

(7.) Christmas is my ALL Time Favorite HOLIDAY!!!!

(8.) I LOVE and Cherish the life I have been given! :o)

I'm suppose to list 8 bloggers that I have discovered...

That one may be a tough one since I don't have lots of time to

blog hop at all... I Know SAD!!! :o(

Here are the ones that I came up with that

do wonderful work! :o)

http://cricutmimi.blogspot.com/ 

http://www.erinleecreative.com/ 

http://beadusenseless.blogspot.com/  (Makes AWESOME Jewlery)

http://nanadonnascarddreams.blogspot.com/ 

http://lezlyes.blogspot.com/ 

http://wwwpapertrail-celticwoman.blogspot.com/

http://dailygracecreations.blogspot.com/

http://cccscraproom.blogspot.com/

Lovely Angel....

Hello and Happy Monday Everyone!

I see we are over 100 Followers....

Thanks everyone for following us...

This week Miislucky should be posting

a huge giveaway... Sooo please be on

the look out for that...

The weekend came and went sooo fast...

This weekend I was painting my Kitchen...

I have taken the before shots..

and soon I will take the after pictures

and will post what I have done....

Let's just say... a Cricut and some Vinyl are involved!

 Today I have a  simple holiday card.... Nooo Cricut...

Just stamping.... It's my other favorite

thing to do... :o) My card was made

using one of the Mojo Monday Sketches...

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 This card is designed from using Mojo Monday Sketch #163...

They have wonderful card sketches that I like

to use from time to time...

Here is there blog if you would like to take a look!

http://mojomonday.blogspot.com/

Everything is Stampin' Up

except for the Rectangle and Scallop rectangle shapes...

Those are Nestibilites....

I think the Designer Paper really made this card....

Well that's pretty much it for me today...

Thanks for taking a look and I hope

you all have a WONDERFUL DAY!

Theresa

Holly Jolly Christmas....

Hello and Happy Thursday Everyone!

Can you believe we are almost to the end of the week

already... I can't! I'm excited for Thanksgiving Day

to come next week but not enough to rush the weeks

soooo fast! LOL I also noticed that we have 97 followers

as of today! I'm sooo super excited about that! Miislucky

and I have discussed having a BIG GIVEAWAY once we

reach 100 Followers! And I think it's gonna happen any day now...

We can not thank all of you enough for coming here to our

blog and supporting us by being followers.... And leaving a

little (LOVE) Comment for our projects!

I really never realized how much fun Blogging was

until my sister decided to do this blog...

So I want to send a BIG THANK YOU to ALL

the Followers and to my Sister for wanting to do this

with me! Ok... enough with the OSCAR Speech...

On with today's card!!!!! :o)

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I can tell how shocked you all are about

it being another easel card! LOL I Promise that

I have 2 more after this and that will be it....

Well..maybe for just a little bit anyway! LOL

Card Stock, Designer Paper, Stamp, Ink (Stampin' Up)

Cartridge - Winter Frolic (Tree) Cut @ 4 3/4"

Lacey Labels (#28) Cut @ 1 3/4"

Assorted Stickles

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Here is a nice close up of the glittered star

which was cut out twice and popped up...

And the center part of the tree was

cut out twice and popped up....

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Here is the side view so you can see

all the added Dimension... It came out

pretty cool... I think! :o)

I loved adding the assorted stickles

to make it look like Christmas lights

on the tree... :o) Well that is it for me this

week! Tomorrow Miislucky will be here to

show you some of her craftiness... :o)

And please stick around and tell

your friends that we will be having

a HUGE Giveaway for our 100 Followers!!!

I know it will happen this weekend while

I'm not on and I'm sooo super excited!

Miislucky will fill everyone in with the details!!!!

Have an AWESOME DAY!!!!

Theresa

(Thanksgiving Card) Cricut Cardz Challenge!!!

Hello and Happy Wednesday Everyone!

Do you know what today is?

Of course you all do! :o)

Today is the Cricut Cardz Challenge over at

http://www.cricutcardzchallenge.blogspot.com/

The Challenge this week is to make a Thanksgiving

card using any cartridges you'd like but only use

the colors Blue, Brown, Orange, Yellow, and White!

WOW! What a Challenge! I'm sure all you wonderfully

creative people out there can do this! I actually had

a real hard time with this one... WHY??? I don't know

for sure except that I think it is because I am now in

"Christmas Card" Mode and thinking of a Thanksgiving

card now has taken my mojo for that holiday away....

I know... Sad... Yeah Right! LOL Anyway here is

the card that I came up with! :o)

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Well this is my card... It's the best I could come up with....

Card Stock, Ink, Stamp, Designer Paper - Stampin' Up

Cartridge - Thanksgiving Cut @ 1 5/8" using my Design Studio

I cut the leaf out twice for a little pop

and inked around the leaf and the

flourish as well.... I hope you all like it....

I was really disappointed in this one... :o(

But tomorrow I will be back with a Christmas Card...

And most likely that is what you will see from

me for the next few weeks.... :o)

So head on over to http://www.cricutcardzchallenge.blogspot.com/

and try this Challenge out for yourself...

I'll stop by your blog and say hi!

Have an AWESOME DAY!

Theresa

Holiday Stocking....

Hello and Happy Tuesday Everyone!

Well... I'm still sick and my nose

hurts from blowing it soooo much....

I have Puffs Plus but when you're

constantly blowing your nose I don't

think it matters what type of tissue you use... :o)

I still think it's a head cold since nothing

really aches or anything... Just real stuffy

and runny! LOL AND of course you

can't have any type of cold without

COUGHING!!! I think that's worst than the

runny nose! It gives me a headache! LOL

Anyway... enough of my SAD COLD.... :o)

Here is today's card!

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Now I know you all can't be SHOCKED that

it's another Easel card! RIGHT? LOL

I told ya I had FUN making these sweet

little gems.... I promise I only have 2 more of these

to show you soon! :o) Anyway.... here's the specks!

Card Stock, Ink, Stamp - Stampin' Up

Designer Paper - Imaginisce (Polar Express)

White Glitter Card Stock - DCWV

Red Holiday Stickles

Cartridges - Christmas Cards (Stocking) Cut @ 8 1/4"

(Frame) Cut @ 3.75 x 5 using my Design Studio

Lacey Labels - (#22) Cut @ 2"

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Here is a side view to show that I cut the

stocking out twice for added dimension.... also

so you can see the inside has white card stock to

make it easy to write a little note! :o)

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Here I just wanted you to see the stickles....

I also cut a couple of piece off of this cut... some came out

funny and others were in places I didn't like...

sooo Chop, Chop it went bye, bye! LOL

Anyway that's my card for today....

I hope you liked it as much as I liked showing it to you!

Have an AWESOME DAY!

Theresa

Yet Another Turkey.....

Hello and Happy Monday Everyone!

I Can't believe the weekend is over already...

I got sick over the weekend... I Know Sad.... :o(

My kids have all gotten sick this past month and

so has my mother but hubby and I tried very hard

to avoid it as much as possible... to noooo avail....

We are both sick now and I think it's more of a head

cold.... Or at least that's what I'm hoping it is.... I really

didn't do too much over the weekend... but managed to

get things done during the week last week.... So at least

I have something to show you! :o)I'm hoping this BUG

won't last to long cause I just don't like being sick and

it makes me not want to do ANYTHING! So let's hope

this thing that I got goes away real fast or my kids

will be feeding themselves for a few days! LOL

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Well Thanksgiving is next week already and I'm looking

forward to eating me some TURKEY!!! YUMMY

Card Stock, Ink - Stampin' Up

Designer Paper - 2010 Autumn Stack DCWV

Cartridges - Thanksgiving (Turkey) Cut @ 2 1/2"

Lacy Labels - (#8) Cut @ 3 1/2"

(#21) Cut @ 2 1/2"

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Here is the side view to show

 my Yummy Turkey leg Popped up...

I was gonna put a sentiment... but ended up liking

it the way that it is.... I think the person I'm

sending this too... would probably get the fact that

it is for Thanksgiving.... RIGHT? LOL

Anyway... that's it for today... I'll be back

tomorrow with another fun Easel card!

I LOVE making those things now... I Know

that design has been out for awhile but I'm

one of the SLLLOOOWWW people who

just finally got around to making them....

I'm sure this too will pass! LOL

Have an AWESOME DAY!

Theresa

Cute Gingerbread Man!

Hello and Happy Thursday Everyone!

I had such a busy day yesterday that I

actually did not make any cards? What's

up with that? LOL I guess I will be working

overtime today to get some more done.... I also

have laundry to do and a few errands and it's

flipping COLD outside.... It feels like WINTER

has decided to grace us with it's presence early!

Our high yesterday was 38 degrees and today is

only going to be 40 with SNOW! WHAT? What

the heck happen to my FALL Weather!

I hope next week will get better.... :o)

We shall see! :o) Well I guess I better

show you one of my cards...Hummm

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How Stinkin' Cute is this Guy???

I just realized I forgot to color in his nose...

Not to worry that has been done since this post! :o)

Card Stock, Designer Paper, Ink, Stamp, Glitter Brads - Stampin' Up

Cartridges - Winter Frolic (Gingerbread) Cut @ 4 3/4" (2x's)

Lacey Labels (Label around the sentiment) Cut @ 1 3/4"

Face Stamp - Peachy Keen Winter Face Assortment Sz. 1"

Ribbon & Signo Gel Pen - My Stash

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I wanted you to see a close up of

the Gingerbread Man cause I did some

Faux Stitching and inking around him... :o)

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And here I wanted to show you his added layers...

Can you believe I've had Winter Frolic for awhile

now and I just FINALLY used it! It has such CUTE

images on it... I hope to make more things with it! :o)

I also wanted to note - that all of my Easel cards

are regular (A2) size... So the front of my card is 5 1/2 x 4 1/4

Thanks for looking and be on the look out

for Miislucky... She'll be here tomorrow with

something lovely to show you! :o)

Enjoy the rest of your week!

And Have an AWESOME DAY!

Theresa

Joy....

Hello and Happy Wednesday everyone!

Boy this week is going by Fast... It's already

the middle of the week... tomorrow will be

Thursday then it's the WEEKEND! You all

know I LOVE the weekends... :o) but I'm not

in any hurry to get the month of November over

with just yet! :o) Today's card is inspired by

the Cricut Cardz Challenge! Design Team

#1 needs to make a Christmas card using the

card Feature from any Cartridge you'd like,

using any colors you'd like... And well I thought

why not play along on this Challenge and this

is what I came up with! :o)

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I'm sure you know which cartridge I used??? :o)

Card Stock - Stampin' Up

Designer Paper - 2010 Christmas Stack (DCWV)

Ribbon, Signo Gel Pen - My Stash

Cartridge - Christmas Cards (Card Feature) Cut @ 4 3/4"

(Joy) Cut @ 7 3/4"

Inside the card (Bow) Cut @ 6"

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I wanted to show you that it was a Card.... 

 I Like to take the card and place it on top of

 Card Stock to make it stand out

a little more... or at least to me it does... :o)

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And as you can see.. I've sorta kinda did the inside...

I didn't want to add to much, because I thought

the card was fine on it's own... Just added a couple of

touches to it.... And I don't know if you all noticed....

I DIDN'T INK ANYTHING!!! :o)

I know CRAZY? RIGHT? LOL

I'm happy with how it turned out.... :o)

Now you guys need to head on over to

http://www.cricutcardzchallenge.blogspot.com/

and try this Challenge out too....

It really is fun to do!

Thanks for taking a look!

Have an AWESOME DAY!

Theresa

GRATITUDE....

Hello and Happy Tuesday everyone!

Today I have a Thanksgiving card for you....

I have to say that I love how this card turned out...

The colors are pretty and I'm really enjoying

the Thanksgiving Cartridge... I'm sooo glad

PC came out with it... It really does enhance

your Fall/Thanksgiving cards! OK... Enough

Chatting... Here's my card for today! :o)

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Card Stock, Ink, Stamp, Ribbon (Stampin' Up)

Designer Paper - Autumn Stack (DCWV)

Cartridges - George & Basic Shapes (Circles) Cut@ 3 1/4", 3 1/2"

Thanksgiving - (Feather) Cut@ 2 1/2" (2x's)

Border Punch - Sunburst (Fiskar)

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Here is the side view to show the Dimension....

The Circle designer paper has foil in it... It shines... :o)

I think these colors are sooo pretty... Anyway...

That's about all I got for today...

I hope you all like my card... I'll be back tomorrow...

Have an AWESOME DAY!

Theresa