Flaunt It Friday Time!!!

Hi Everybody!

I love when it's my teams turn for Flaunt It Friday!!  The FIF teams are the best at showing different ways to flaunt Cricut cuts!  This time the challenge to make something with the TAGS,BAGS, BOXES & MORE cartridge and the cut choice this week is Match2 (Box), page 65.  I had never tried this cut before, I had heard it was complicated, but Joy over at Everyday Cricut did a great tutorial on this cut.  I made mine in MINUTES.  And using this beautiful Graphic45 paper I didn't have to embellish hardly at all!  So here are the details:

• TBBM = matchbox cut @ 6"
• Graphic45 paper
• Stampin Up! ribbon
• various Pink By Design sentiment stamps
• plastic is from the Cricut cartridge packaging!

Super quick and simple, but pretty.  I'm gonna finish making some cards to go in it, and will be giving this to my mom for her birthday today!!!!  Happy Birthday Mom!!!!!!!  TFL, and don't forget to head over to Flaunt It Friday to show us the way you flaunt this cut!

My First Pink By Design Design Team Day!! PLUS Flaunt It Friday!!!

Hi Everybody!
Ok, I'm so excited for today, I think my head exploded!!  It's Pink By Design day!!!  I was so honored when Sarah chose me to be on her design team.  To be on this team with such talented ladies is intimidating, but awwwwwsome!!  So this time, I got the Easter set to play with.  OMG, there are sooo many cute sentiments in this set!  Here's what I came up with for my sneek peak:

*Elmo Party cartridge = egg stand (cupcake holder turned upside down)

*B is for Boy Cricut Lite cartridge = sentiment mat and oval

*Pink By Design Easter set

*Peachy Keen Stamps = Laffy Taffy, Critter Faces (medium), Make a Monster Face, and Everyday Character Face parts

*StazOn jet black ink

*Stickles

*chalks

*Hard to tell in the picture, but she has red Stickles on her lips! 

*I know his "hair" is a little funky, but since I had no feathers, I had to make my own!  I took the cotton off of a q-tip and then colored the cotton with yellow food coloring.

*I colored his beak with an orange Zig marker, and colored his cheeks with chalk.

*Naughty, naughty!!

PLUS, today is team one's turn for Flaunt It Friday!!  The challenge for team one was to flaunt the lips from the Indie cartridge.  So here's how I did that:

*Don't those lips look egg-cellent??? I'm sorry, but it's like the law that you have to say that pun when working with eggs!

So there are my projects for two teams I am SO very proud to be on.  Don't miss Sarah's Ustream event tonight! Click here to go to her Ustream channel and RSVP for the event!  And while you're waiting for Sarah's Ustream, head on over to Flaunt It Friday to show us how you flaunt those lips!  The ones from the Indie cart that is!!  And if you don't have that cart, there are lots of lips on different Cricut carts to use instead:o)  TFL, and hope everyone had a chance to craft today!

Thank You Blog Hop and Flaunt It Friday!!

Hi Everybody!
Hopefully you just came from Theresa the Scrapbooking Queen, and checking out her AMAZING project.  If not, head on over to see Raven from Love 4 Stamps to start this hop from the beginning :O)   Ok, so let me make the introduction.  Everybody, meet my new blog.  New blog, meet everybody!  First I want to thank Theresa from the bottom of my heart.  She is the other person who made this blog-over possible, and gave me a gift when we hadn't even known each other that long.  Blogging, and crafting are ALL I do in my spare time, so to get such a gift just really touched me.  So when our hop hostess Raven from Love 4 Stamps asked me to be in this hop, I definitely said yes!!!!  I wanted to thank Madeline for what an absolutely amazing job she did on my blog-over.  I told her what I wanted, and she did that and more!  My family and crafting are everything to me, and for her to incorporate that so perfectly into my blog design was priceless :o)  Ok, so onto the project! Raven wanted us to incorporate our blog design into a project.  So I highlighted the family, and love aspect of my blog.  

I also had a design team challenge for Flaunt It Friday today, and the cut we were to highlight worked perfectly with my project!  Well, the chosen cut was a dog and cat facing each other from the Paper Pups cart using the border feature.  I don't have that cart (what???!!!), so I substituted with the two squirrels that are facing each other from the Give A Hoot cartridge.  So here's what I came up with:

*B is for Boy Lite cartridge = acorn

*Twinkle Toes cartridge = heart and layer

*Give A Hoot  = squirrels

*pink Stickles

*white gel pen

*paper from my stash

*Pink By Design Love Always stamp set
*hearts embossing folder

*When I saw this saying, I knew I HAD to get that stamp set!  Love it!!

*I added some pink Stickles around the inside of the heart :o)

*It's kinda hard to tell from the picture, but I embossed the top with the little hearts embossing folder.

*I just cut some white cardstock for the inside pages of the album.

But wait, don't go yet!!  THERE'S BLOG CANDY!!  Would you like to win some stamps from Cosmo Cricket, Blackboard embellishments, and some chunky glitter?!?!  Here'sa what youra gonna do:

*Leave a comment :o)

*You don't have to become a follower, but if you do, you won't be sorry!! I promise!!  You can get a second entry if you become a follower.  Please just leave a SEPARATE comment telling me you already are (yay!) a follower.  If you decide to become one, please also leave a SEPARATE comment.  

Thank you! Don't forget to head over to Flaunt it Fridays to create your project, and be entered to win a Birthday Bash cart!! Now head on over to see Erika- http://cricutlove1.blogspot.com/.  And here is the lineup in case you get lost:

Raven- http://love4stamps.blogspot.com/
Ruthie- http://septemberninth.blogspot.com/
Theresa- http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/
Jennifer- http://crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com/
Erika- http://cricutlove1.blogspot.com/
Kristin- http://kristinscraftykitchen.blogspot.com/
Angela- http://creativecraftin.blogspot.com/
Melissa- http://www.melissastampingvoila.blogspot.com/
Michele- http://www.nowstampthis.blogspot.com/
Zeni- http://www.scrappyzeni.blogspot.com/
Madeline- http://theshabbyvanity.blogspot.com/



Flaunt It Friday Hello Kitty Hop - My first being on this DT!!



Come join me on Friday January 7th at 12:01 am!! This hop will stay open all weekend long. We will be Flaunting (featuring) the Hello Kitty cartridge. This blog hop is going to big a big hit since everyone love's Hello Kitty...well at least I do! This is my first hop as part of this Design Team and all the new designers will be on the hop. Please feel free to help us spread the word on Facebook and on your blogs! Have a great day we are so excited to show you how we like to flaunt it!