Wearing the Green-BBTB2 Challenge

Hello my crafty friends, I hope you are having a fabulous Monday so far. It looking to be a fine day today here in Central PA. When it dries off I hope to start walking on the tractor path and getting out some. Hubby and I did get out for a walk on the road on Saturday, but I don't like walking the road alone. Can't wait till it is warm enough to throw open those windows and doors and let the house air out from the stale mess of winter. Nothing smells as good as a spring rains and the spring sunshine! 

Well as you know Monday brings a new challenge over at BBTB2. Our talented and sweet design team sister Melanie has chosen a St. Patty's day theme for us. I hope you will go check out all the fabulous projects that my design team sisters have for you. I will tell you they are fabulous! Now onto my project. Since everyone is making those card boxes, I thought I'd jump on the band wagon and give it a try too. Yeah, well mine didn't turn out so well. lol So I will have to try it again sometime. I my circle shamrocks on the side flaps came from Designer's Calendar Cricut cartridge as well as the larger shamrocks that is on the front flap and back. The hat came from Designer's Calendar too. I cut it out twice, once in black and once in green and then cut the green shamrock off and glued to the back one. I used stickles on some of my shamrocks. The little shamrocks are from My Creative Time dies and stamps, the tiny one is from the All Around Holidays and the medium sized ones are from Your My Pot of Gold. No my poor card box doesn't look to full does it? I fell short on this one, so will give it a try again soon. lol I hope you will show us your St. Patty's projects using your Cricut too. Thank for stopping by today and visiting with me. I love when you pop over and hope that you stop by again soon. Crafty hugs, Brenda

Anything Goes-Funday Friday Challenge

Hello my crafty friends and a happy Friday to you all! We are off getting hubby's CAT scan. I can't wait to get the results to see how well the chemo is working. We believe it is working and I thank you for tagging along with us on this journey and to say thank you for all your wonderful prayers!! I will let you know how the scan turns out. We will get the results at the next chemo day when we see the doctor. Keep your finger's and toe's crossed and those prayers coming that we get good news!!  Then we are heading home to snuggle our newest grand-daughter that will be visiting. Now how's that for ending the week?! Now onto my project-

As you know if it is Friday then it is time for another new challenge over at Jo's Scrap Shack. This weeks challenge is an anything goes challenge. Our sponsors for this week are Bugaboo and Paper Nest Dolls. I am showcasing Paper Nest Dolls. I pick this cute little image, St. Patty Owen. I colored him using my Spectrum Noir markers, I also used the 3 Twenty stamp set called, Background Builders to stamp my checked design on the yellow card stock. I used a little clover die from My Creative Time as well. I cut my shape out with a SB's die. I hope you get crafty and link up with us over at Jo's Scrap Shack, you may just win some cool prize(s)! Thanks so much for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed your visit with me today and I hope you will come back to see me real soon. Crafty hugs, Brenda

enter this card in Cut It Up Challenge-use green

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What's Your Favorite?! BBTB2 Challenge

Hello my crafty friends, how's your Monday going so far?  Our is starting out very snowy and with another day of chemo. Including today, hubby should only have 4 more chemo treatments to go. That is if all goes well and the treatments are doing what they are supposed to be doing. Praying that it is so!

Ok, today at BBTB2 our sweet and talented design team sister, Mayra challenged us to use our favorite Cricut cartridge. Boy that is hard because I can say that I truly love all my cartridges! But in the end I have to say that I'm loving all the Close to my Heart Cricut cartridges, so I picked the Artbooking cartridge. Now I have to say that this weekend was a crazy one and I didn't get time to work on my project that I usually do. I had company all day yesterday until well after supper and then hubby wanted to go out and eat. So that left me with no time to devote to my project and boy does it show. I'm almost ashamed to post this, but here goes. I used Artbooking to make a layout of my newest grand-daughter. I want to make another page to go with it, but of course I didn't get to it. I will be going back to "spruce" this one up some. It even looks like the one photo mat isn't laying flat which I didn't notice until after I had the picture uploaded. So need to fix that. I also used a Marth Steward heart punch to add to the bottom of the frame. It had a scalloped bottom but it tore when cutting, so I cut it off and added the hearts since this little cutie was born on Valentine's Day! Since this little cutie was born on Valentines Day, so I might put some hearts scattered out on the layout. And I may punch a border to go around this layout. Not sure. But here it is, such as it is right now. Sorry no close ups of anything, I was down to the wire of getting this posted over at BBTB2! lol Now please go see what inspiration my design team sisters have for you. I promise they have something much better for you than I did. Then pick your favorite Cricut cartridge and play along with us, can't wait to see what cartridge you pick! Thanks you for stopping by today and visiting a spell with me. I love when you sit and chat with me a bit. With crafty hugs, Brenda

Floral's-Funday Friday Challenge

Hello again my crafty friends, I'm back with my second post for today. If you are looking for my Cardz TV post, just scroll down. It's time for a new challenge over at Jo's Scrap Shack for the Funday Friday challenge. Our theme this week is Floral's. Our sponsors are Limited Run and Bugaboo. I'm showcasing for Limited Run. I picked a digi called a flower with ladybug. I used the latest Mojo Monday sketch for this card. It a tall and skinny card and I used one of their measurements for the card base. This card went together very fast and easy. My papers are Lola and Luca from the Paper Studio at Hobby Lobby. Love these papers! I put glossy accents on the ladybug, my sentiment is a SU stamp set and my sentiment shape is the Chunky Jar Accessories. I am in need of many get well cards so I will be making more using this sketch. My talented design team sisters have lots of inspiration for you, so check them out over at Jo's Scrap Shack. So find your favorite floral's and make a project, then link up with us. The rules are simple and you can find them over at Jo's Scrap Shack along with what prize is up for grabs. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with! Thanks for stopping by today, I hope you didn't freeze while visiting me in PA, it sure is a cold one again and more snow is in our forecast. Lucky us! lol I know that spring is right around the corner and will come soon. Crafty hugs, Brenda

Cardz TV Challenge-Happy St. Patty's Day!

Hello my crafty friends, it's been two weeks since out birthday challenge over at Cardz TV and now we have a new challenge for you on the cards team. Our challenge was to make a St. Patty's Day card. I think this holiday can get over looked sometimes so I'm glad that we have this challenge. For my challenge I used the Cardz TV stamp set called "St. Patrick's Day". A great set to have for your stash! My papers came from Hobby Lobby the Khloe Lane Paper Studio 4.5 x 6.5 paper pack. I have since changed the inside left of my card because I wasn't happy with how it looked. I didn't take another picture though. Sorry. Now go check out what my design team sisters have made as well for lots of great inspiration. Then link up with to your St. Patty's Day project! You could win a set of Mary's awesome stamps! Check over at Cardz TV for the few simple rules and then get crafty!  Thanks for stopping by and visiting me today and please if you are free come back at 3 pm EST for my Funday Friday post. Crafty hugs, Brenda

Here are the supplies I used for my card:

Cardz TV "St. Patrick's Day" Stamps

Stitched Doily Die

Stitched Chunky Jar Dies

Stitched Oval Die

Fun Stitched Edges Dies

Your My Pot of Gold Stamps & Die

All Around Holidays Stamps and Dies

Glass Etching-BBTB2 Challenge

Hello my crafty friends, hope your Monday is off to a great start. As you know if it is Monday, then it is time for a new BBTB2 challenge! Our talent design team sister Maureen is host this week and she has chosen for us to use any Cricut die cut as a stencil. I decided to use the Gypsy font and George and Basic Shapes cartridge dies for my stencils. I am using a glass jar that is left over from a candle we burned. Yep, I save all my nice glass candle jars to reuse! Some kitchen jars as well, lol. They come in handy at times. I got my monogram from Gypsy font in the B, S, and L. I  made the L bigger than the B and S as I was going for a monogrammed look. I arranged them to my liking and then took an oval outline from George and placed around the BLS. I welded it all together and then cut it out of contact paper. After doing my weeding, I placed my images on the jar with the help of transfer paper. Put my etching cream on and let it do it's thing. Washed it off and this is what I ending up with after taking the stencil off. I made some brown sugar scrub and placed in my jar, it now sits in my bathroom for me to use. I liked it, but DS came out with the jar wanting to know what it was, he thought it was ear wax! Say What?!!! Where would I get a jar of ear wax, silly guy! Someone wasn't using their noodle on that one! Hubby wanted to know what I was making so I told him brown sugar scrub and then he wanted to know what I would use it for. He was thinking along the lines of baking. Uh, sorry but no. lol Can you tell he is spoil when it comes to goodies to eat?! Not sure if this is what will stay in the jar, but whatever I put in it will look great! Now let me tell you my design team sisters have amazing projects to share with you, so go over to BBTB2 and check them out. Then pick out a Cricut die cut that you would like to use as a stencil and get crafty, then link up with us! You know we love when you get your craft on. Thank you for stopping by today and seeing what I was up too. It was a lovely visit and I hope you will come back again soon. Crafty hugs, Brenda

Funday Friday Sketch Challenge

Hello my crafty friends, I hope this Friday finds you well. We have had a nice week with only a touch of bad weather. We even got pretty warm a few days, with a little thunder shower to boot. And the rain smelled like spring!!! Oh yes spring is right around the corner even though we have lots of snow on the ground. I can't wait to be outside a lot!!

You know if it is Friday then it is time for another challenge over at Jo's Scrap Shack. This week we have a sketch. Here is the sketch:

Our sponsors are Stamping Chef and Stamp Art Designs.  I chose a beautiful digi from Stamping Chef to color up this week since my team is showcasing their digi's. I love, love this digi and I had so much fun coloring it with my Spectrum Noir markers. My card base is a 5x5 from white card stock. I used my SB's Nestabilities for my scallop and for my circle. While my digi was in my circle die, I sponged the background with Tim Holtz Antique Linen distress ink. I even use some vintage photo to "water color" a darker color on the "faith" banner. I used some stickles on the candle flames and some glossy accents on the melting part of the candles. My sentiment is from Monday's release of 3 Twenty Stamps called Simple Sentiments. I use the masking technique to split up my words. My wavy sentiment banner is cut from a border die from My Creative Time called Fun Stitched Dies. My darker pink background paper came from the Garden Party DCWV stack. Plain light pink cardstock is my next layer that I stitched around with my black pen.  I didn't use a bow like the sketch has because there just wasn't any room on my card and I didn't think it really needed a bow. I may add some pearls or buttons yet, just have to look at it for a while to decide. lol That's it, such a simple card and simple sketch and I just love how my card came out!  I hope you enjoy it too and find some inspiration here today. Please go over to Jo's Scrap Shack and see what inspiration my design team sisters have for you. The take the sketch and make a crafty card or layout and link up with us! You know we love it when you get crafty with us! Thanks for stopping by and visiting with me today. I always love having company and hope you will come back again soon. Crafty hugs, Brenda