Chocolate Covered Strawberries - Yummmmm!!

We had a bridal shower for my niece and my daughter-in-law made these delicious chocolate covered strawberries.  They were a hit with everyone, very decorative and quite delicious!

Ingredients:

• Fresh Strawberries
• Wilton Lollipop sticks
• White styrofoam ball - cut in half
• Basket
• White Chocolate
• Sprinkles
• Shredded paper

Shall We Dance

My grandchildren are my heart and inspiration.  My dearest friend Linda gave us a bag of dance costumes that her granddaughter had outgrown.  My granddaughters had a ball, laughing, singing and dancing and posing for photos.  We had so much fun laughing with them and taking pictures and movies.  Here is a double page layout of some of the photos we took.  Click on any picture to enlarge.

I got the idea of using the larger filmstrip from a post on Okie's blog here.  I really love the layout she did of her daughter.  I have the Sizzix filmstrip die, but the frames are just too small and I liked the size of the filmstrip frames on Okie's scrapbook page.

Ingredients:

Shall We Dance - Cricut Cartridge

Stickles - Cotton Candy

Recollections Paper - Pink, Black

K and Company - Paper Doll Stack

Scrap N Easel

Film Strip Die Cut - Downloaded from - http://cricutsoftcuts.blogspot.com/2007/12/film-strip.html



It's Your Birthday Card

When I saw this post on the The Paper Boutique blog, I knew I wanted to try to make this card.  Linda Kaiser has a video here, where she explains in detail how to make this card.  She provides the sizes of all layers and explains how to get the most out of the "Just A Note" Cricut cartridge on your E2.

Here is the card I made by following along on her video. 

The supplies I used are:

• K and Company Specialty cardstock
• K and Company Adhesive Gems on the "a" in Birthday
• Recollections Paper - Various Colors
• Stickles - Cotton Candy and Diamond
• Studio G Glitter Glue - Yellow

The photo below shows the back of the card. The birthday cake and the phrase fold in to the front.  Click on the photo to enlarge.

The photo below shows the inside of the card.  I wasn't going to show this because I didn't get the paper glued on evenly, but here it is anyway...  If I were going to give this card to someone, I would re-do the inside. Click on the photo to enlarge.

Please take a look at Linda's blog The Paper Boutique.  She is a very talented crafter!

Orlando Circle Crop - April 8, 2011

I know this post is pretty late, but I finally got to it!  I was lucky enough to attend the Circle Crop in Orlando, Florida on April 8, 2011.  It was hosted by Shantaie Fowler and we all had a great time.  It was the first crop I have EVER attended and I loved it.

I took a lot of pics and wanted to share them here on my blog.  These are pics of some of the decorations around the room and also tables where the crafty creations of Shantaie, Cindy and Charity were displayed.  Click on any photo to make it larger.

  

Here are some pics of the awesome calling cards that were made by attendees and exchanged through out the day. I am amazed by the creativity of all these ladies.  Click on any photo to make it larger.

These are photos of the calling cards that I made.  Click any photo to make it larger.  Here are the supplies I used to make the cards:

• Calm Seas - Stampin UP! set
• Shells - Definitely Decorative - Stampin UP! set
• Tim Holtz - Distressed Ink - Various Blue colors
• Tim Holtz - Embossing Ink
• Tim Holtz - Blending Tool
• Embossing Powder - White
• Heat Embossing Tool

Here are photos of the cards I made for the card swap.  The only requirement for the swap was to incorporate a garden theme in the card design.  Click on any photo to make it larger.

Here are the supplies I used for Spring Has Sprung:

• Imagine More - Cricut Cart - Paper for Flower Stems
• Lori's Garden - Cricut Cart - Background Paper
• Freshly Picked - Cricut Cart- Flowers
• Ashlyn's Alphabet - Cricut Cart- Tags
• Glimmer Mist - Lemon Mist, Viva Pink
• Smoochie - Mixed Berries
• Glitter Alphabet Stickers - Recollections
• Core'dinations Cardstock - Vintage Collection
• Kraft Paper - Recollections
• Bazzill - White Paper
• Eyelets - Recollections
• Bamboo Cord

Here are the supplies used for Happy Spring:

• Bloom - Cricut Cart - Flowers
• Silhouette Fern - Hero Arts - Wood Stamp
• Happy Spring - Hero Arts - Wood Stamp
• Embossing Powder - Dark Green, Purple
• Heat Embossing Gun
• Recollections Adhesive Gems

Here are the supplies used for the Bloom card:

• Freshly Picked - Cricut Cart - Flowers
• Bloom - Cricut Cart - Bloom
• MS Seasonal Cake Art - Cricut Cart - Grass
• Walk In My Garden - Cricut Cart - Wheelbarrow
• Flowers - Sizzix Embossing Folder
• Cuttlebug
• Stickles - Green (B & O in the title)
• Core'dinations Cardstock
• Kraft Cardstock

Supplies used for this Spring Has Sprung card.

• Digital stamp (tiffanydoodles.com)
• Core'dinations Cardstock
• Recollections Adhesive Gems
• Hanna Montana - Cricut Cart - Butterfly
• Walk In My Garden - Cricut Cart - Flower 

Supplies used for the Tulip Shaped Card:

• Bloom - Cricut Cart - All
• Citrus Stack - DCWV
• Bazzill - White Cardstock
• Recollections - Black Cardstock

  

A Day at the Beach

The photo on this page touches my heart.  It was taken during a family mini vacation in September 2010 at Cocoa Beach, Florida.  I love how the girls (cousins and friends) were enjoying the waves, which were breaking right in front of them.

Click on the pic to make it larger.

 

Here are the supplies I used:

• Core'dinations - Vintage Collection for the background
• DCWV - Fun In the Sun stack patterned paper for matting and the left and top border
• Martha Stewart paper borders for the strip above the journaling
• Martha Stewart Swirling Lace border punch
• Cuttin Up Cricut cartridge for the title (cut at 1 and 1/4")
• Glossy Accents on the title
• Heidi Grace epoxy stickers
• Jolee's Boutique embellishments
• Me and My Big Ideas - Soft Spoken embellishments
• Spellbinders Nestabilities - Deckled Mega Rectangles-Small



Christmas 2010

The minute I saw this layout I knew I was going to scraplift it!  I thought it was so cute and it had so many details.  The layout was designed by Melin and I first saw it here at the Cooking With Cricut blog, and then again here on the Tuesday Treats blog where Melin was a guest designer.  Check out more of her designs here.

I did change a couple of the cartridges used, but overall, the L/O is almost identical to hers (except of course for the photos).  What a talented crafter she is!  So here is my copy!

Click on each photo for a larger view.  Here is the two page layout:

 

This is page one:

 

 

This is page two:

 

 

Snowman Christmas Card

Well, I finally made a card!!  I totally scraplifted this card from one of Jennifer McGuire's HOLIDAY THINKING INKING CLASSES at Two Peas In A Bucket.  Her videos are amazing.

This is probably only the third card I have ever made and I am really happy with how it turned out.  Ok, if you look close enough there are a few mistakes, but overall I love it.

The background was a piece of white cardstock that I stamped with Distress Ink using an acrylic block (but no stamp).  Then using the same color of ink, I stamped the snowflakes using a StampinUp stamp.  The snowman was cut from the Cricut Seasonal cartridge - Christmas Cards

Here are the supplies I used for this card:
-  White, Blue, Green Red and Brown cardstock
-  Distressed Ink - Broken China
-  Archival Ink - Jet Black
-  Acrylic block
-  Snowflake stamp - StampinUp "Frosty" set
-  Sentiment stamp - Recollections stamp set from Michael's
-  Cricut Expression
-  Christmas Cards - Seasonal Cricut Cartridge
-  Peachy Keen - Christmas Character Face Assortment - PK-480
-  Jelly Roll Pen - White
-  Black Marker
-  Red and Pink Chalk

As I mentioned above, Jennifer McGuire made an amazing series of videos called Holiday Thinking Inking and this idea was scraplifted from one of her videos, Holiday Thinking Inking Week 2: More Distress Inks.  You can check out both her series of videos by clicking on these links:  Thinking Inking and the most recent, Holiday Thinking Inking.