APRIL 26, 2012***THURSDAY*** DL.ART THANKFUL THURSDAY CHALLENGE***

Good Morning Friends,

I sure have a lot to be thankful for.  For one, I have a Sponsor for today's challenge.  I am so excited to have one of you win the CRI-Kits kit of your choice regular & neon, metallic, glitter or pastel palette set, including magnetic pen holder.   These are really fun to play with

As you know my challenges last for 16 days , you will have until May 12, 2012 at 11:59 to enter your project, leave a comment and mention my  post and challenge on your blog with a link to this post so others may join in on the challenge,
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MOTHER'S DAY using a pen or a marker of some sort.

 I played around with the pens and found that I could get about thirty -six to 48 images like this out of one pen. If the image is more intricate I would imagine you would get less.  If you look close you can see the glittery effect. I really like them and enjoyed working with them.  The little deer image is from Cindy Loo. I haven't quite decided what I am going to do with these images, but you will be the first to know .

So, After I played around, I figured I would make another Mother's day card. This is black paper trey ink paper and I used the silver metallic pen. You can see how well it reproduces on the black. Anything you can cut with the cricut you can draw with the pens.  There is a technique you can use for drawing with the pens and then putting the blade back in and then cutting. I think that would be more easily explained in a video keep your eyes peeled that may be coming up soon. My Happy Mothers day below is from Floral Embellishments, cricut cartridge. This is the first time I have used this cartridge.

Then,  I used the pen to draw the lattice work  and then put the blade in to cut it out. The image is  from the letter envy cartridge.

 Then the finale,  putting it all together. My card stock and ribbon are Paper trey ink. The white paper is Bazzill. The pearl is liquid pearl white opal. I really like the way it came out it has a nice formal look

I hope you enjoyed this post and I am looking forward to seeing your creative design and entry in this challenge.

Challenges:
Simon says:Anything goes


Have a Blessed day, Diana

APRIL 11, 2012***WEDNESDAY***SHOP PUMPKIN SPICE- A LAYOUT....***

Happy middle of the work week day!


It is my "HAPPY" design day, for Shop Pumpkin Spice.

I got 2 of last months "BOY CRAZY KITs" and boy, am I crazy about them.  Even though it says boy crazy I wanted to show you, how versatile it can be. I made a layout for my little 3 year old niece. She is so adorable. She called me on the phone a couple of weeks ago and I was really surprised because I don't see her that often (it has been 6 months). I'm watching the flights now, so I can go see her and the rest of the family of course.
Onto my Layout. I used coredinations for the main layout and the dark tan. The bright patterned papers  are from Echo Park A boys life. The lighter papers are from my minds eye Madison Ave.
I used the Cindy loo Cricut cartridge for the flourish at the top left. The letter "S" was cut from letter envy. The yellow polka dot flower was cut from the Mothers day bouquet 2010. The circles were cut from the basic shapes on the imagine machine.

If you like the products you see here,  go check out the shop. The products are very good quality and great prices.
We also have a challenge going on right now, until the end of the month for a chance to win May's kit.
If you purchase  the April kit and use it for your project, you will get a second entry

Challenges:
A muse studio: Anything but a card
Delightful Inspiration: Sketch
CC:Letter envy 
Have a great day,  thanks for stopping by Diana

MARCH 26, 2012***MONDAY***I LOVE YOU BUNCHES......***

Good Afternoon Friends,

Did I ever de-hoard today! I got rid of some  things I really don't need.  These are things that aren't even worth giving away.

In the mean while I was doing all that, I had my cricut cutting and now, while I get  dinner going, I will get some exercise in.

I did get a smile on my face today after yesterdays heavy day.  Thank you my dear friend Cely for wishing me that it truly did happen.
Here is a card I made for a few challenges.

Isn't that just the most adorable little deer?
BBTB2: Flourish
Fantabulous: sweet animal
Stamping sisters in Christ: Everything



PTI-cardstock
Liquid pearls
MPS: Lunch box thoughts
ink Versamark
DP's ELISE (IC)
Buttons:little red cottage

FRIDAY- ---EVENING-- -----------------LOVE-----------------------Flowers, flourishes R,B&W.

Hi All,
This is a late post for me today.  Your probably wondering--- am I sore from the training session?  No, I'm not. The trainer called last night, said He wouldn't be able to make it.   I didn't really want to work out that hard any way. So, had a great date with Hubby for lunch and now I'm back to work.Finished my card now I'm posting it
.I made the flower from Mothers day bouquet put it together on the gypsy the sizes for the petals range from 1.59 down to 1. I added a brad from making memories.  The cross and  heart are from Indie arts the Love is from opposites attract and the flourish is from Cindy Loo. Four cartridges to make this card

Believe it or not this card took a long time. I used my gypsy, Cricut E-2 and Imagine. I love how this card came out. I dedicate it to the LORD. This card was inspired by the "BIBLE" The greatest Love story ever, my challenge to make it as clean and simple as possible

Card stock PTI  Pure black
Red AC card stock  Red & White

Paper play Challenge (Click Here): THEME: make your own flowers
CFC#18: THEME(Click Here): Black, White, and read
Frosted Designs (Click Here): THEME: Flourishes
Clear it out Challenge:

My Favorite you tube tutorial that I have made ---Clear it out
(CLICK HERE)

Saturday--------GUEST DESIGNER SPOT- -----My Sheri Crafts------this is a sneak peak of the top right hand corner of the layout

Happy Saturday Everyone,

I am so excited to share with you that I was chosen last week to be guest designer at my Sheri crafts and the challenge this week is VACATION. To me vacation (equals) = you need  a layout to preserve the memory of the fun time.   I had really wanted to do a layout anyway, so I decided to do one for a trip we took to Paris for my birthday, one year.  I just love the summer in Paris cartridge, it has such elegant shapes and they remind me of that birthday.  This is a 12x12 scrapbook page.

 In the top right hand corner of this layout I chose to place an envelope, which I made with the MS scoreboard from Tim Holtz ideology paper vintage shabby stash , I added a Prima (recollection copy) flower as an accent. I then,  laid a strip of stamps from various places in Parisover  the envelope, this is from Graphics 45 Curtain call

 When you open  the envelope you will see lined paper for journal ling- that to is from the graphics 45 collection

 On the bottom right I used Tags, bags, boxes and more to make a mirrored tag.  The latches are from fabulous finds and cut from Coredinations paper, the frame (ready for a photograph)  is from Cindy Loo and cut out of DCWV paper stack . There is also a journal-ling tag that can slide out in either direction.

 The arch is cut from coredinations and the paper company card stock

The Eiffel tower and the lettering for Paris are both cut from coredinations card stock the lettering is from Storybook  and the Eiffel tower and the arch are from "Summer in Paris Cartridge"

Here is the layout in its entirety-- I can't believe I used 5 cartridges on this, but it is a fact.

I hope you enjoyed this project, I had so much fun making it and it really brought back the memories of the fun birthday.



Have a great day! I cherish every comment thanks for visiting my blog.

THURSDAY-- Getting Crickywith K. Andrews

 The beginning of the card

 The two pieces cut from the imagine

I started working on this a few days ago, it is for the getting Cricky with K. Andrews  challenge (click here), but I really didn't know what I wanted to do with it. It is using the gel pens with the Chomas gel pen holders in the cricut. I used Cindy Loo and I made the blue image and that was it, it just sat there for a few days. Well, today my neighbor e-mailed me that his girlfriends father passed away  Tuesday and the funeral is today.  I thought this would make a beautiful sympathy card. I colored in the negative spaces with a blue metallic pen. I printed two pieces of paper from the Imagine cart. one 4" and one 4.2. Using an A2 vintage cream card stock and some ribbon I put it together.  It is interesting what gets the creative juices going.  I had to cut the gel pen image by hand -- Now I know why I love my cricut machines.

MORE---- THURSDAY

I needed to make my mother- in- law a Mom's day card The one with the Gazebo I sent to my mother, I put "DO NOT OPEN UNTIL MOTHERS DAY",  Do you think she could wait? No, now I know where I get it from.

So If I'm making a card, I might as well see where the challenges are Right?
 This will fit nicely in Fantabulous Cricut Challenge  (Three Flowers)  & Flaunt it Fridays( Cindy Loo)
I also entered it in Die Cuttin' Divas ( Mothers day)

The card is 5x7 PTI stampers white
The blues are AC card stock
The image is from Cindy Loo
The flowers are from Songbird
I used a lighter shade of the same hue of the blue
I used stickles and a pearl to add some bling

TRI-FOLD CARD

I wanted to experiment tonight, I had so much fun doing the tri-fold card last time, I decided to try another, I put the white on the kitty with a Sakura gelly roll opaque pen. The orange stitching is a new type of gelly roll pen that is suppose to glow under black light  (I don't know for sure, I will have to take their word for it  I don't have a black light). I put dots for his eyes with black glaze pen. The papers are all from DCWV 2010 summer stack.

The card itself is on AC card stock cut 8 1/2 by 12 and then scored at the 4" and the 8" marks.
Hope you enjoy thanks for coming by my blog.

SYMPATHY (in Blue) CARD

Our dear friends father passed away. I made a card for his mother and I will be making one for him also so here it is.

Recipe:
Vanilla Cream Card stock: Paper trey Inc. A2 size
Core' dinations two types of blue
Stickles: Star dust
studio 112:  adhesive gems
inkadinadoo stamp from greetings
ColorBox chalking ink:  Blue
and Cindy Loo cartridge
On the inside  I put a piece of 100% cotton stationary and a border in matching color (Core' dinations) & design (Cindy Loo cart)  according  to the outside

I'm noticing Studio 112 popping up all over, I thought it was a particular store brands line, but I'm seeing it at a lot of different stores so check it out.
Thanks again for all the comments and for stopping by my blog.