A couple cards to share!

I haven't done the Card-A-Licious Challenge for a few weeks so here is my card for it. The cardalicious challenge 10 was to use a circle (this paper has lots of circles - dots are circles, right? and there are circles in the square), a flower, and something sparkly (w of the flowers are sparkly!). Patterned paper is Me and My Big Ideas, the square is cut with the mini-monograms cricut cartridge, thanks is from the cricut stamped cartridge.






I've been toying with the idea of applying for the 2 Sketches 4 You design team (applications are due tomorrow night at midnight mountain time). Both Laura and Kazan do a sketch and to apply you need to do a card for each. I made several versions for Laura's sketch ~ here are 2. I e-mailed pictures of the some of them and she and her friend helped me decide which one to use (I will show it off later!). I love the internet ~ who would have thought that people in Houston can help me Oregon make that decision! Love it!

Thanks uses pattern paper from Me and My Big Ideas, Thanks cut from the cricut stamped cartridge. Flourish is a quickutz revolution.



The 2nd card is an 11 year old birthday card that either my daughter can use for a birthday party (she will be 11 and all her friends are turning 11). She loves it when the card says the age on it. The paper is from my stash. Happy Birthday is a quickutz revolution and the "1" candles are 2 X 2 Quickutz.The patterned paper is from my stash.

With the help of my friend Gertie from work, we finished the scrapbook for my boss. It turned out great and everyone was quite impressed. Now I'm ready to tackle getting the 2009 calendar and album done for my parents and then move on to finish something else!!!

A beautiful girl in Orchestra! And 2 Sketches 4 You (Kazan Sketch 15 and Heidi Bonus Sketch - Week of Dec 8, 2008)

This has been a very busy week! My daughter Shaina had her Orchestra Concert on Tuesday night. They played 3 songs and she got to introduce one! She is 10 and in 5th grade but I think she looks so grown up when she is all dressed up! She did awesome! My parents came back through here to see the concert (they had been in California seeing my sister and her kids). Then on Wednesday, Shaina was part of her school choir that performed at the state capitol. Our state capitol is always decorated beautifully for the holidays and it was nice that my parents got to see that concert too. I also got to show them around the capitol and the decorations! They left today because the weather is looking like it is going to get cold and snow. Shaina had her regular choir concert tonight and did awesome! Next week it is a band concert for my son!




I really liked the sketches this week at 2 Sketches 4 You! I thought they had very clean lines. For the bonus sketch (Heidi's), I used Cosmo Cricket paper that I got as a gift for being one of the first 50 shoppers the day after Thanksgiving at Scrapbook Fever (Salem, OR). The Merry Christmas and holly leaves are from the quickutz revolution 2008 holiday gift set. I used a fiskars border punch and embosser for the redish paper (it was really sticking so this was a lot of work today!).

Kazan's Sketch also had really clean lines. I used this paper from the 2007 DCWV Christmas Glitter Stack, the snowflake is made from DCWV glitter paper and the Don Juan cartridge for the cricut. The lace was used to tie up the cosmo cricket free package that I got the day after Thanksgiving!

I still don't have my christmas cards done! I have more letters to cut out and I need to take a picture of my kids! I can't believe I actually started part of them in July and still don't have them done! But this weekend I will have some time because my daughter is going to Sunriver with her friend's family and my son is inviting another boy over to hang out. We also might have snow this weekend! I like it a lot better when it snows on the weekend on not weekdays!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Laura's Bonus Sketch for ScrapStreet.com

This is my take on Laura's bonus sketch @ scrapstreet.com! These are kind of card/tags! I needed to make 12 card/tags for an upcoming award thing at work. There were 12 people who were an integral part of upgrading our accounting system and we are buying them bags with our agency logo and then we will tie these on the bags. I will have the director, deputy director, and my boss sign the tags and then we will have cake and a little speach! Can't do much when you work in state government! But I did something similar (with a different style card/tag) for a group of people who had worked on a project for more than a year and even though it wasn't a big expense, it was recognition and they loved it! So, I just knew Laura's bonus sketch would work and I replaced the 1/2 circle with a star! And I'm really liking the word Bravo (have you noticed!). Maybe it is the way that it cuts out on the Cricut (which of course I'm loving!).

The patterned paper is scraps (lower one DCWV Glitter Stack, upper one Basic Grey) from projects where I made 8 X 8 books and used 12 X 12 paper. There are only 3 women on the project so I will give them ones with flowers and the guys ones with stars!

Cards for 2 Sketches 4 You Design Team

I had not posted these cards anywhere. I didn't get on the design team (there were way more talented people) but it really helped me to think outside the box! The "fall" card was for Kazan's Sketch. And the Halloween card was for Laura's Sketch.