Been Sick :(

Hi all, didn't want you to think I completely dropped off the face of the earth, but me and both my kids have been sick all week. Not fun :( But I am starting to feel better and am hoping to get a full day of crafting in tomorrow! I hope you all have been well...and safe. Lots of prayers for all those affected by the tornadoes. Hugs....

TT-Brads or Eyelets

This week's Tuesday Throwdown challenge is to use brads or eyelets. I have been really short on crafting time so my card is super simple and I choose to use brads. Be sure to hop on over at play with us this week!

On a more personal note, some of you may remember me mentioning that we are in the adoption process from Ethiopia. Well, last week we received the much anticipated and long awaited permission to travel for our first trip!! This trip is to appear in court to consent wanting to adopt our little boy and we will have to chance to meet him, but sadly, are not allowed to bring him home yet. Hopefully it will only be a few weeks before we get word that we have permission again to travel after we come home from this up coming trip, and finally be a family of 5! We leave May 23rd and get home May 31st...so not to long at all! We are very excited and I've been really busy getting everything lined up and ready for us to go. I'd so appreciate prayers for our safety and for favor with the court hearing, that we pass the first time. If you have kids be sure to give them a big hug...it all goes by so fast! Thanks for stopping by:)

Flower Power Blog HOP!

Welcome to the Scrapbook Pal Flower Power blog hop! Be sure to start back at the Scrapbook Pal BLOG, become a follower and leave a comment here to have a chance to win a Cricut cartridge of your choice from the Scrapbook Pal store!

For my project I decided to create a LO using hand made roses and a big focal point flower. I love this picture of my daughter all dressed up and quietly eating a snack on the living room floor:) I used the Cindy Loo cartridge for all my cuts, it's definetly one of my most favorite cartridges.

I used the Frame cut on page 30 to frame my picture and used Scor Tape and glitter to bling it up a bit. For the large floral image that frames the frame :) I cut the Flower6 on page 56 at 8". I then cut the layers for it. For my little roses I cut the small flower which is a layer piece on page 52. I cut 3 flowers for each single rose. I held them all together with a small brad and then crumpled and squished the petals in the middle of the flower together to hide the brad and used a drop of hot glue to hold it together. Then the remaining layers I crumpled and formed around the center. I love how they came out and were so easy! For the vines that the roses are on I cut the border on page 54. For my finishing touches I used Liquid Pearls in Bisque to tip all the roses and berries on the vines and Liquid Pearls in opal to paint my large floral piece. I also embossed the leaf on the large floral piece using Swiss Dots and used the white Singo pen to embellish the flower tops.
Be sure to hop on over to all the DT's blogs to see what they have created and leave a comment to win your choice of Cricut cartridge from Scrapbook Pal!
Happy hopping!
Amy Crockett
Tomi Ann Hill
Cheryl Walker
Leah Cornelius (that's me:)
Jamie Cripps
Crystal Butler
Tammy White
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TT-Polka Dots

This week's challenge over at the Tuesday Throwdown blog is to use polka dots! I love polka dots so this was pretty easy for me:) We have another great sponsor this week, hop on over and join in to have a chance at winning a faublous prize. Thanks for stopping by!

Easter Gift Bags

I've never made gifts for Easter before, but want to this year. I probably should have started on these a couple weeks ago...I did two tonight using my Cricut and Plantin School Book to cut the bags (with fit to page on) and then inked up some PTI stamps and used a couple Mat Stack dies. The pretty leaves were also cut with a PTI die and then stamped with the cooridnating stamp set. I plan on making some White Chocolate Lemon Truffles. Doesn't that sound divine? I haven't made them before, just found the recipe today, but I'll let you know how they turn out. They sound super simple to make and I can't wait to taste one! I went with a bit broader sentiment than just "Easter" because we really do have Easter to celebrate EVERYday:) Thanks for stopping by!

A quick share today:) This was for the CAS challenge on SCS for last week? Gosh, I can't even remember for sure now! LOL Anyway, I colored up Bella and Baby from Heart Song Designs and pulled my colors from the inspiration picture they had up. Hope you are having a good weekend so far! I am off to do a bit of birthday shopping for my son, can NOT believe he is turning 5!! hugs....

TT-BLING!

What girl doesn't like some bling? That's this week's challenge at the Tuesday Throwdown. I colored my image with Copics and added some rhinestones for my bling. I also used an embossing border that has been sorely neglected! Felt good to use something that I kind of forgot about. Be sure to hop on over and join us this week! Thanks for stopping by....

Enjoy the Moment

I played along over on SCS this week with the sketch and colored up one of the newer images from Heart Song Designs called Strawberries and Flower. I colored it with Copics, pulled out some BG paper and a few neglected brads and kept it more clean and simple. I occured to me that I can use some of the frame stamps I have to create my mat for my sentiment instead of having an actual paper cut die for a mat. I'll probably be doing this a lot for awhile:) Hope you have been having a good week, thanks for stopping by!

Faith Cards

I wanted to make a few encouraging cards for a friend and got to use the lovely Pink By Design stamp set called Faith. The different fonts in this set are great too. I used a couple of Cricut cartridges for my cards and really like how they came out. Here's what I did.

For the butterfly card I used the Sentimentals cartridge. I love the butterfly on this cart and cut it at 2". I also cut my card base so that it had a decrative edge using the card feature on pg. 71 and cutting it at 4 1/2" so that it would fit into a normal envelope. This cut makes a square card which is a nice change. I embossed the butterfly with my Cuttlebug and Swiss Dots embossing folder and used a Sakura Clear Star gelly roll pen to give it a little shine.

For my flourished bird card I used the Give a Hoot cartridge and cut the bird at 2 3/4" and the flourish at 1". It's nice how quickly a card can come together with just a couple of really pretty cuts.

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TT- Spring!

Sorry for the late post! Went to bed really early last night which is unusual for me and forgot to post! This week's challenge over at the Tuesday Throwdown is SPRING! I am SO ready for consistent warm days:) Our sponsor this week is Robyn's Fetish and my image is Primitive Birdhouse. I colored it with Copics and added a die cut button that is stamped as well as stamping the scallop border. I hope you'll come on over and join us this week, thanks for stopping by!

Heart Song April Release

Today is the April release for Heart Song Designs! Want to win the entire release? Go hop on over to the inspirations blog and join in our Spring Showers blog hop for a chance. My card uses the Pretty Parasol image colored with Copics. I hope you'll come hop with us! If you want to purchase the entire April release bundle you'll save $6! The entire release is only $20.00, now go HOP!