First watercolor attempt using ZIG Clean Color Markers - PTI challenge

Turn any gift bag into a card hanger.  Love this idea!

Papertrey Ink challenge

Little Ballerina stamp - PTI

Blueprints dies - My Favorite Things

stitched oval dies - My Favorite Things

Rolled Scallop Rose - My Favorite Things

watercolor - Zig Clean Color Markers

Card Hanger die - Soapbox Creations

Papertrey Ink challenge

Blueprints dies - My Favorite Things
Butterflies - Tim Holtz sizzlit decorative strip
Hello - Spellinders
Zig Clean Color markers

Can you tell I'd really like to win a Cameo?

From Shery K Desgins:

http://www.sherykdesigns.com/shop/Promotions/info_6.html

Did you see her cute birdie papers? I made a card with the snoman paper from one of the winter sets - very cute stuff. And tons of free svg files for all!

Wow, another giveaway!

http://www.lovejoypaper.com/2012/02/purge-giveaway.html

Check this site out for a chance to enter and win an awesome scrapbook giveaway! I love the girl stamps, in particular, it reminds me of my girlies.

Karen

Cameo, Cameo, Cameo

Here's another reminder to sign up for a chance to win this great prize.

Hop on over to Shery K Designs and enter today! Pick up some of her awesome digi papers and svg files while you're at it.

http://www.sherykdesigns.com/shop/Promotions/info_6.html

Hope your day is wonderful.

Karen

Did I mention Shery K Designs is having an awesome giveaway???

This woman gives so generously of her time and talent. I have downloaded multiple svg files and free digital paper packs over the past couple of years. She has great sales on already low prices, too, and I've enjoyed the paper packs that I've purchased.
Check it out.
Karen
http://www.sherykdesigns.com/shop/Promotions/info_6.html

Cameo giveaway!

Shery K Designs is having a giveaway of the new Cameo cutting machine. This site has given away countless freebies and has the prettiest digital papers for very low prices. I've purchased multiple sets. :0)

I have the smaller Silhouette SD and I would love to have the Cameo!

Weekly challenge - Cricut Circle

Good Afternoon,
Once I saw the beautiful red, white, and blue striped paper on the Heirloom Imagine cartridge, I knew that it'd make a great base for a July 4th card. My husband has a red Vespa which he adores, so I thought this would make a cute card for him. That's supposed to be me bringing him a basket of stars - too bad I don't have hair like that! So cute!

The stars are from Graphically Speaking, the girl and scooter are from Sweethearts, and the folder is Cuttlebug called Stars, I believe.

Per Carol on the regular message board, I added some makeup to the girl to fancy her up a bit.

Thanks for looking!

Karen

Cricut Circle contest

All right - here's a quick post showing me in my craft space. It's not that I think you care to see me, it's for a contest, and I don't know how to post a picture without doing it from my blog. So sorry.

But, here's a good opportunity to see how messy I am. :0)




Karen

Mom's Day card

Just wanted to share my Mother's Day card - I used the Cricut Mother's Day cart for the floral background mat, and I used a 3-D flower from SVGCuts for the flower. I enjoy using MTC as well as Cricut cartridges. Being able to use both is really, the best of both worlds for me.



Thanks for looking!
KAREN

I had a hard time deciding what to watch yesterday morning...

The Royal Wedding?


Or




these beautful little creatures that were visiting our pond.


Both happening at the same time. Hmmmm.







What do you think I chose?

DeNami color challenge

Good Morning. I've never completed a color challenge before today. I'm so pleased with the stamps that I purchased at the DeNami booth at the Heirloom Stamp Convention in Allentown a few weeks ago. These stamps are absolutely the cutest stamps ever. The sets contain just the tiniest, cutest (did I say cutest?) grouping of four stamps. I bought two of the 4-stamp sets, along with a couple of other very useful, versatile stamps that I had to have. I think I could have bought them all, actually!!





This color challenge featured colors that I'm not normally drawn to, but as I stamped away, I started thinking the combination reminded me of Easter and, of course, the chocolate brown color looked like a chocolate bunny! So, I just had to include some bunny images in my project. I also used a sheep stamp (also DeNami Designs) because it felt springy to me as well. I made the background paper with the Three Line Border stamp (DeNami Designs!). Oh my, this is a great stamp! I've used it multiple times already and will use it lots in the future, I'm sure!

So, here is my project:

Karen

My First Swap

I'm participating in my first swap on the Cricut messageboard. We made altered paperclips.

These are the backs:



It was a lot of fun but took me longer than I expected. I made the background papers and I even flocked the little mouse's pink ear. So cute!

Karen

More Cards

I did one non-traditional Valentine this year but I really don't like it. :0)

I am impressed, however, with how well the Imagine cuts, even at such a tiny size. This is a very detailed cut!


I like this one a bit better. I used the Imagine again to print and cut it out.


One final picture today. I love making my own background papers using stamps. I used this tiny mailbox for our Valentine's party. The kids made teeny tiny mail for it using a punch that I have.

Karen

Pretty ballerina

My daughters have been taking a ballet class and I've really enjoyed watching them twirl around wearing their pink leotards. It's very precious.

Karen

Have You Missed me???

I haven't posted for months because typing gives me neck pain. I've been dealing with this for quite awhile, and the only thing that makes my neck feel better is staying off the computer! I've been creating, though, and having fun, but I miss sharing my things with all of you. I won't be typing much, but I would like to post pictures as my neck allows.


I'm entering my first weekly contest on the Circle Blog. Someone from the message board (sorry, I don't remember the name) posted this lovely sewing machine cut. They layered Glossy Accents on top to give it the appearence of metal. I just had to give it a try! The card is a bit busy, but I've been fooling with it since Friday and I need to clean my desk and get on with other things.

I love the little button border Cuttlebug folder. I cut with the Expression and printed with the Imagine. Had both machines going at the same time. I stamped all three of the pattered papers to make my own.

Karen

Avery's Oktoberfest

Our middle son turned 12 yesterday and we celebrated with an Oktoberfest. It was a perfect October day! We tried various German inspired foods and had a good time with family.

Here's a photo of the unappetizer... I mean appetizer my husband made. That gelatinous stuff is herring. I was a party pooper and couldn't bring myself to even sample this dish. Thankfully, everything else was tasty!
Goulash over spatzel, bratwurst, asparagus with Hollandaise sauce.
These apple turnovers had to substitute for streudel. We also had Black Forest cake.
We got our son an amp for his guitar. I found the perfect cutting file of an acoustic guitar over at Penny Duncan Creations and made him a matching card. http://pennyduncancreations.blogspot.com/ Check her out if you have a cutting machine and MTC or SCAL. She has spectacular files and she offers them all for free. Really awesome!

Karen

My kids have been taking pictures...

I just downloaded a bunch of pictures off of our camera and I'm impressed with the ones several of our children took. Above is a sampling from our 9 year old son.

And above are some from our 14 year old son. Aren't they superb?????

And these from our 6 year old baby girl:

We're celebrating our middle son's 12th birthday today with an Oktoberfest. It's a gorgeous fall day!
Karen

Imagine photos showing problems with certain cartridges

Below is an example of how the cartridges SHOULD be and AS THEY ARE REPRESENTED TO BE. The background of the bird is one of the coordinating paper colors from the Imagine More cartridge. It's a lovely and perfect match.