Monster Be Mine

I have yet another Valentine's Day Card for you today.  Here it is:

Again, I couldn't decide between flash and no flash...I wish I could find a happy medium.  Anyway...I got all of the cuts for this card from Lettering Delights' Monster Love SVG Set.  I really love this set because the little monsters are just so cute!  I cut everything using Make-the-Cut software.  I also got to use my Cuttlebug for the very first time today.  I just got the Cuttlebug V2 a few weeks ago, but it only came with one embossing folder that I haven't had much use for yet.  Since I don't have a craft store anywhere around me, I couldn't just go out and buy some.  Thankfully, though, I just got a whole bunch of folders in the mail the other day, and I've been itching to use one!  I chose Spots & Dots to jazz up the front of this card.  Then I added a pretty bow, and my little card was all done. 

I'm entering this in MTC and Me's challenge in which we were suposed to use the Monster Love Freebies Bundle from Lettering Delights.  I'm also entering this in Die Cuttin' Diva's Love is in the Air Challenge and More Than Favors' Wacky Wednesday #25-Valentine's Day Challenge. 

Well, I hope you like my card.  Thanks so much for stopping by!

Start Your Engines Layout

I'm so excited that Amanda's Crafts and More is having biweekly scrapbooking challenge.  I love this, because I really need to be motivated to work on some scrapbook pages, and challenges really motivate me.  :o)  The first challenge is an "anything goes" challenge, so I was free to work on the next layout in my Magic Kingdom album.  Here's the layout:

All of the cuts on this layout came from the Cars cartridge.  The car is actually blue in the movie, but I made it red to match the car my daughter was driving.  I also replaced the hood decoration with racing stripes.  I just love these pics, especially the one at the top left (isn't her expression the cutest???), and I'm so happy I finally got them in the scrapbook.  I also love that the pic of the back of her head shows that her sunglasses say "Follow Your Dreams."  So apropriate for her little adventure...she had been wanting to drive on her own for so long!  Well, I hope you like this layout.  Thanks so much for visiting! 

And the Winner Is...

Wow!  I went to bed last night with 99 followers and woke up with 107!  How exciting!  Well, like I promised, I chose a winner of the giveaway this morning.  I used random.org to help me.  Here's what the random number generator picked for me:

So, the winner is....Chrey!!!!!

Chrey said... 20

Hello again! I shared your blog on my blog :) Here is the link to my blog...
http://chreyscraftcorner.blogspot.com/2011/02/pretty-paper-pretty-ribbons-giveaway.html

Thanks again!

February 8, 2011 6:24 PM 

Congratulations, Chrey!  I'll be e-mailing you to get your mailing address.  Thank you, everyone, for supporting me and my little blog.  I really appreciate it!!!

I also want to thank Shelly for also awarding me the Stylish Blogger Award!  Wow!!!  Thanks so much!  I'd like to invite everyone to check out Shelly's blog, My Paper Love.  She has some really cute projects on disply there!  Kristen and Rachelle also passed this award on to me, so if you'd like to see who I passed it on to, click here.

Miss You Berry Much

Hey, you!  Did you know I'm having a 100 follower giveaway?  Read all the juicy details here.  :o)

I have another card for you.  I decided to make a "Miss You" type card today.  There are just so many people, both family and friends, that I miss like crazy.  Being part of a military family does that to you, especially when you live an ocean away from everyone.  So, I made this card to send to my mom and dad.  I also made the card for a couple of challenges.  Scrappy Moms Stamps is having a Simply Charmed Challenge, and My Pink Stamper wants us to make something that makes us happy (at least that was one of the choices).  It definitely makes me happy to think of the smile on my mom's face when she gets this little card.

This card is a 5.75" square.  The bowl of strawberries is from Simply Charmed, and the circle is from Birthday Bash.  I added some stitching lines, buttons, ribbon, and a computer generated sentiment, and viola!!!  All done!  I hope you like it...I can't wait to send it to my parents!  :o)

Luv Bug Card

Welcome!  Did you hear that I'm having a 100 follower giveaway?  To read all of the details, click here.

Today I have another card for you that I made with a couple of challenges in mind.  Paper Playtime is having a "use a cupid or a heart" challenge, and Creative Cutter Room is having a challenge called Love Bugs.  So, I made this card to enter in both challenges:

This is an A2 size card.  I got this little luv bug from the Birthday Bash and added some hearts from Create a Critter.  The paper is all from my scrap stash, and the sentiment is from My Pink Stamper's Buggy-Punnies.  I added some ink (Tim Holtz Distress Ink...Barn Door), a couple of ribbons, some brads, and some buttons, and this simple little card was all done!  I hope you like it...thanks so much for stopping by!

Sylish Blogger Award!

First of all, have you heard that I'm having a 100 follower giveaway?  Read the details here.

I'm so honored that another bloggy friend has given me the Stylish Blogger Award!  Rachelle over at Rachelle's Place passed this award on to me.  :o)  So grateful, Rachelle!  Thanks so much!  Rachelle has some beautiful cards on her blog...you should really go check them out!  Kristen over at Craftin' with Kristen also passed this award on to me a little while ago.  If you'd like to see who I passed my award on to, click here.  :o)

Valentine's Day Treat Bags

Hey, have you heard that I'm having a 100 follower giveaway???  Check out the details here.

Whew!  My daughters and I have have been working most of the afternoon to get together their Valentine treat bags for school.  I cut, doodled, sorted candy, and stapled, and they glued everything and filled the bags.  We had a lot of fun making them, and I think they turned out to be really cute!  Here they are:

 My fourth grader is in a very anti-pink stage right now, so pink hearts were out of the question.  We settled, instead, on two shades of blue.  I did sneak in some pink cheeks, though, to tie the bags in to the toppers a little more.  Thankfully, there were no protests from my little pre-teen!  ;o)

I got the winged heart from Lettering Delights' Cupid SVG Set, and I cut it out using Make-the-Cut and my Cricut.  It looked awfully plain, so I added a little face...I think it looks much cuter now!  I created the sentiment in a table in Microsoft Word, and I was able to print six to a page of 8.5 x 11" cardstock. 

This is Madison's teacher's bag.  It just has extra candy, some truffles, and LOTS of red pens.  Believe me, he NEEDS red pens...he's always misplacing them, it seems.  :o)  I think there are 40 in there...he should get a kick out of that (and maybe be able to keep up with them for a while).

My first grader is much more pink-friendly, so we decided to go with a heart from Simply Charmed.  

I decided to hide the faces on the hearts and draw them in later to save a little paper (and gluing).  Also, the hearts are pretty small, so the faces are just TINY.   I used the same table in Microsoft Word to create the sentiment; I just changed the alignment and name. 

Taylor's teacher also got extra candy and truffles, but I made her a little Post-It note cover that you can read about here.  

Well, I hope you enjoyed these treat bags.  I decided to enter these into a couple of challenges.  Crafting with Christina is challenging us to create a Valentine's themed project, as long as it is not a card, and Crazy About Cricut is having a Thankful Thursday Challenge in which we are to show our classroom Valentine's treats.  I thought these treat bags would be perfect for both challenges.  I hope you all have an awesome Super Bowl Sunday!!!  Thanks so much for visiting!

Oh, and don't forget to check out the details of my giveaway here.