Praying tree....

WARNING: (Another Long Post) :o)

Hello and Happy Tuesday everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful

Valentine's Day Yesterday! Well...

I barely made it back home to get to

my son's school for his party! But I made it!

We decided to have a Valentine's Day

Breakfast and left early enough to eat

and head to do our taxes.. Well, We got there early...

and I warned the hubby they won't take us early

and guess what? I was RIGHT! LOL

In fact we ended up waiting 45 minutes before 

our tax gal took us! Then I had to run to the store and

get a couple of items and home we went...

Showed up at 1:55pm got all the things I needed

for the class party and the kids loved it! :o) They thought

the arrows were cool and the bingo game was great

and I gave it to the teacher afterward and told her to keep it

for herself or for another teacher to use... I mean

I laminated it so it should last a long time! :o)

I also forgot to mention that I had told you on Thursday

that I need to make 24 "Hello" cards for the MIL...

Well I got only about 14 done over the weekend...

 and when I was making the arrow pieces I HAD to

use my Gypsy....  Now you all have heard me say

 it's not my favorite tool... I had to use it because I let a friend

borrow my Sweethearts cartridge and she hasn't return

it just yet.... so luckily I have it linked to my

gypsy... well I was having difficulty with using that

darn thing and I did eventually get my pieces cut...

but then I realized I had asked for the Gypsy 

A-Z DVD by Above Rubies Studio for Christmas 

and I did get it and thought....Hummm

maybe I should take a look at this thing!

Well after some time watching the

video I learned a few things about my Gypsy I didn't know...

Sooo then I spent a little time

creating some things in it and felt a

little better about owning this thing!

Now I'm not in LOVE with it yet... but

I'm starting to have a fondness for it! tehehehe...

I showed my hubby what

I had learned from the video that I didn't know

and he said he was glad to see I'm at least trying to use it....

Sooo there is still hope for me yet! LOL

Now today I need to make some type of

snack for tonight cause I'm having a

Stampin' Up Party... You all know

How much I LOVE Stampin' Up...

And I still have to make 16 cards

by Thursday for my card swap... and

I still have 10 more cards to make for my MIL!

Soooo I have a lot of work ahead of me still....

Heck I'm just tired after reading all of this myself! hehehe

Here's a card for ya! :o)

Everything is Stampin' Up

Cartridges - Lacey Labels (Frame)

#50 Cut @ 5" with Shadow

Heritage (Tree) Cut @ 3 1/2"

with the Shadow feature....

Well.... I think I've rambled on

long enough for the past 2 days... :o)

I thank you for reading my silly posts

and coming here to look at my cards!

I'll be back tomorrow and I hope to

see ya here! Have an AWESOME DAY!!!

Theresa

Happy Valentine's Day!!!!

(Prepare to read a long story & Several Photo's) :o) 

Hello and Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!!!

Ahhh... Love is in the Air.... Or maybe I just

tooted! LOL.... I've had a busy weekend that

I didn't get much in the crafting department done...

I mean I got stuff done but not the stuff I

would rather get done and post for you! :o)

I found out on Wednesday that I had to help out

in Hunter's second grade class... when I actually

only volunteered to make/bake something for

his class.... apparently 3 of us parents volunteered

to bring in something but never said we would

be in charge or plan the party... Usually the teacher

does that.... but my son's teacher doesn't and since no

one actually volunteered to be the Coordinator the 3

of us kind of got stuck.... and since I'm one of those

people who don't mind taking charge (bossy) LOL

I pretty much called the other 2 parents and we planned

it out and now I need to be in his class at 2pm.... Well

I also have scheduled to get my taxes done at 11am...

Now most of you have heard me say we live faarrrrr

away from things... well... Our taxes are done in another town about

45mins. to an hour away..... and you know tax people...

they never start on time! hehehe

I had planned to go have lunch with the hubby as our Valentine's day

treat since we were going to a bigger town.... but because of the travel

distance we are going down there and doing the taxes and coming right

back up here so I can be in the classroom on time! I made bingo cards

for a game and used my brand new

Your Story to laminate them.... this way

I can give it to the teacher to keep for next years

 class or the next and so on! :o)

I cut out about 182 3/4" hearts for the bingo game....

then luckily I saw over at Everyday Cricut with

Guest designer Carrie from Greenbean's crafterole

A cute project that the kids can put together themselves...

which is this cute "Love Arrow" Craft using a pencil

and so I cut out the hearts and the arrow feather part....

and I have some removable glue dots so the kids can use the

pencils when they're done playing with them....

and then I baked pan cookies to take for the treat!

Well... now that I've Bored you

to death! :o) here are a couple of pictures....

I used the Spring Holidays Cartridge!

Everything was cut @ 3"

Hunter picked out the Lady Bug for

the girls in his class and he chose the scallop

border as well.... I added

some Faux Stitching to them...

For the boys.... Hunter chose the

really cool skulls... and the stamp border...

 This card stock had the dots already on them...

 I believe it was from Echo Park...

I used the (To: & From:) Stamps

from joyslife.com... The set is called

"All around Sentiments Stamps"

And Hunter signed them before I

put the boxes together!

The 3" boxes fit (2) snack size candies perfectly!

Once I got everything cut out... it was

fairly easy to put together!

Here is my very last Valentine's Day card!

Cartridge- Love Struck (Couple) Cut @ 2 1/4"

George & Basic Shapes (Circle) Cut @ 2 1/2"

Border Punch - Fiskars (Treading Water)

Black Card Stock, Stamp, Ink - Stampin' Up

Designer Paper, Sticker border - Basic Grey (Bitter Sweet)

I want to wish you all a very, very

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!

and I hope you get to spend a little

quality time with the ones you love!

I'll be back here tomorrow with

more to share and a card to show!

Have an AWESOME DAY!!!

Theresa

Love Birds....

Hello and Happy Thursday everyone!

This week has gone by sooo fast yet

again! I'm looking forward to the
weekend to get some work done... For
some reason all week I've kind of
slacked off from doing cards...
I had a request to make 24 "Hello"
cards for my MIL and I've totally
been slacking off! I did get about 4 done
when normally I would have them all done by now....
Not sure why I'm getting a little lazy... I did make
Valentine's for my youngest sons class... :o) 
Soooo.... Here's today's Lovey Dovey Card! :o)

Card Stock, Ink, Stamp, Scallop Border Punch - Stampin' Up

Designer Paper - Basic Grey (Bittersweet)

Cartridges - Mini Monograms (Circle) Cut @ 3"

(Scallop Circle) Cut @ 3 1/4"

Celebrate with Flourishes

(Birds) Cut @ 1 1/2" w/ Shadow

Signo Gel Pen for the Faux Stitching

Well... I believe that is it for me this week...

I do have one more Valentine card to show you

plus the Valentine's I made for my youngest boys class...

I'll post those on Monday... I want all of you to have a wonderful

weekend and thanks for stopping by to take a look!

Have an AWESOME DAY!!!!

Theresa

Cricut Cardz Challenge # 61

Hello and Happy Wednesday everyone!

Today is a fun Challenge over at

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

we are to make a Valentine's Day Card using

any Cartridges, and the colors blue, green,

and white ONLY! WOW! Talk about a challenge...

This one was another one of those I had to think

about since common colors for Valentine's Day

are red, Pink, white, even browns,blacks.... Sooo this

is what I came up with! :o)

This is a 4 3/4" Square Card...

Card Stock, Design Paper, Ink, Brads - Stampin' Up

Cartridges - Simply Charmed (Hearts) Cut @

1 3/4" and 2"

Disney Best of Pixar (Mike) Cut @ 3 1/4"

Face Stamp - Peachy Keen (Monster Face) 1"

Signo Gel Pen

The outside and inside sentiment I came with

on my own and used my Word program to

type and print.... I used the RGB codes for

the Color Not Quite Navy from Stampin Up...

Ribbon is from Papertrey Ink

 I really like how this turned out for this particular challenge...

I also have a question for you... My 15 1/2 yr. old son wants

to give a young lady he likes a Valentine... I told him to

give her this card... He thought maybe it was to childish...

But since they are not dating or anything and he just wants

to let her know he likes her... don't you think this card would

be perfect for that? He asked me to put this question up

here and to see the response... You know "MOM" doesn't

really know anything.... Soooo we are asking your opinion...

Please let me know in the comment section....

I hope you all like my card and I can't wait

to see what you come up with for this Challenge...

Head on over to http://www.cricutcardzchallenge.blogspot.com/

and check out what the other Design Team members

have created and take the challenge yourself

and I'll make sure I stop by your blogs to say HI!

Have an AWESOME DAY!!!

Theresa

Hugs and Kisses....

Hello and Happy Tuesday Everyone!

I hope your week is going great so far!

Mine is just going... The Little Guy is sick

yet again.... I swear he gets sick wayyy more

than my other 2 boys... It just seems like every

 other month he catches something from

some kid who should be home when they

are sick and yet they come to school

anyway... tends to get my son sick all the time....

I guess he just has a terrible immune system... :o(

Anyway, They also have  the day off today because

it's Parent Teacher Conferences... Soooo

I'll be going to that as well.... I'll stop rambling....

here is today's Lovey Dovey Card! :o)

Card Stock, Ink, Stamp - Stampin' Up

Designer Paper - Cloud 9 (Chocolate Chalet)

Ribbon - My stash

Cartridges - Sweetheart Cut @

2 3/4" w/Shadow

George & Basic Shape  (Circle)

Cut @ 3 1/2"

Signo gel Pen for the Faux Stitching

This is a 4 3/4" Square Card

Well that's my card for today!

I'll be back tomorrow with

a Cricut Cardz Challenge Card!

Have a Super AWESOME DAY!!!

Theresa

Hearts....

Hello and Happy Monday everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

I was having a great weekend until I seen the

Superbowl score.... Not a fan of the Packers....

You know the old rivalry thingy with the Packers

and Chicago Bears... Was really Hoping to see the

Steelers beat them but to noooo avail... Oh well.... :o)

Sooo I'm gonna post some Valentine's cards this week

since Valentine's Day is Next Monday... And I'm gonna
put this in the My Pink Stamper Challenge....
Her Challenge is to make something spring like or what 
makes you Happy... well you all know What makes
me happy is making CARDS! Any kind of card! :o) Enjoy!

Card Stock, Stamp, Ink,Window Punch - SU

Designer Paper - MME (Be Loved)

Cartridge - Create a Critter (Double Heart)

Cut @ 2" (2x's)

(Small Hearts) Cut @ 1 1/4" (6x's)

Well I hope you like it... I'll be back tomorrow

with another lovey dovey card! LOL

Have a Super AWESOME DAY!!!

Theresa

Birthday Bug...

Hello and Happy Thursday Everyone!

The weeks are flying by... I can't believe

we are already into February and Valentine's

Day is just around the corner! Now if only the

weather would warm up... Boy that would be GREAT!

I had someone ask me to make some children's cards

as well as Sympathy.. So I thought I would post one of the

kid cards I made... Using my Gypsy to design it as well... :o)

Ok... Granted... I'm making simple designs using my gypsy...

you have to give me some props for using it at all right? :o)

Card Stock, Ink, Stamp, Window Punch - SU

Design paper - DCWV (Celebration Stack)

Cartridge - Birthday Bash (Lady Bug) Cut @

4" and in the booklet it shows the ladybug

holding the #4 but since I don't put numbers on cards

that are requested... I thought it would be fun to

have her holding a group of gifts.... I used the

Card Feature and cut the presents out @ 2 1/2"

I used a Fiskar Border punch as well...

I thought this came out really cute... Let me know

what you think! I'll be back here on Monday...

So enjoy the rest of your week/and weekend...

Have an AWESOME DAY!!!!

Theresa