Birthday Cupcakes

Hello my crafty friend8nday, then storms came through and brought our temps down low. We didn't even get out of the low 60's on Tuesday with the rain continuing. Today, it was beautiful out though. Nice and sunny, but temps only reach the low 70's. Tomorrow is supposed to be a repeat, then back to hot again. I guess the whole summer is going to go this way. lol 

I made a slimline birthday card. You know I am not a good watercolor but I like trying so I keep trying to get better. I don't but maybe one day it will click or someone will tell me what I'm doing wrong. I used some digital paper I printed and  had left over from other projects for my "wallpaper". Stamped my cupcakes and watercolored them and the cupcake stands and fussy cut the out. Punched a "table" for them to sit on and to add my second sentiment on. Even though I'm not good at watercoloring, I think the card still came out cute. 

As always, I thank you for visiting with me for a spell. Your comments always make my day and I appreciate you all so much. I will be by to visit you as well soon. 

Crafty hugs,

Card Recipe:

Close to my Heart: Cutie Pie stamp set-it was a stamp of the month years ago

My Creative Time stamp set: Wow, So Many Candles

Stampin Up scallop punch

Zigs/Arteza Real Brush Watercolors

Homemade enamel dots-small ones

Nitwit Digital Collection-Bee-lightful for the "wallpaper"

Buzz, Buzz....

Hello my crafty friends! I have a few cards to share today. Trying to get back in the swing of blogging a little bit once again. So one day I wanted to make a few birthday cards. Saw some papers I had printed a while back and had snippets of. Such pretty paper and so summery so I thought lets get some card sketches and make some birthday cards using this paper. Here is what I made. As always the recipe of what I used will be at the bottom of this post. 

As always, I appreciate you stopping by and visiting with me for spell, especially since I have been out of blogland for so long. Your comments always bring sunshine to my life and I appreciate you all so much! I know I have been sporadic with commenting-trying to get things done around the house, but the fall also made my Lupus flare and I get tired so easily. Just haven't gotten my stamina back so to speak. So hopefully once I get that settled back down I can do more commenting. Hope to be by soon!

Crafty hugs,

Card Recipe:

printed paper from a Nitwit Digital collection
bees, beehive and some sentiments-My Creative Time-Bee Happy and Stitched Bees & Beehive dies
honey comb-My Creative Time-Stitched Honey Comb dies
Bic markers to color my bee's, along with a blender pen on the wings (the blending shows in real life so much better than in the photo's)
Nuvo Sparkle pen for some sparkle on the wings

Buzzing by.....

Hello my crafty friends, hope you all are having a great Sunday. Me not so much. I fell yesterday and broke some ribs again on my right side under my breast. Goodness, you'd think I'd learned to stand on my own two feet! Good thing was so many good Samaritans came over to help me as my friend was helping me get up. We were going to go do some shopping at Hobby Lobby. I don't know if I stepped on a stone in the road or what cause my ankle to roll, but it did and I could't recover from it. I just knew I didn't want my head to slam into the curb so I tried to get to the side walk before going down and I did. We shopped anyway, but as the time wore on, it got worse. So got my Motrin and slept in the recliner last night. sigh I need to be wrapped in bubble wrap me thinks! lol Surely don't want to be reporting all my falls to the doctor as they have to report them now and then you are made to use a walker and if it continues they can put you in a home. Not what I want...to young for that! And on top of that, it has been raining since Friday evening...we have gotten at least 6 to 8 inches of rain if now more and it is still coming down like crazy! Water laying all over the backyard and flooding once again in other areas. Our church picnic grounds are underwater as well. But it lies low and when we get lots of rain, it floods. We still have the other hurricane to get through yet, hope it turns and goes back out to sea!!!

Anyway figured it was a good time to share some other cards I had made a while back. As always I will have supplies listed below in the recipe section at the end of this post. 

Printed my papers for this one from a Nitwit Digital Collection. I think they are so pretty and cute!

 Again, all papers were printed from the collection.

 And here is the encrusted jewel technique I did on this heart. I don't know what sentiment I'm going to place in this one yet, so left it blank for now. Was hard to get a good photo of it because of the holographic paper I used in gold. But love how it looks in real life!

I hope you enjoyed these couple of cards as much as I enjoyed making them. Always nice to have a few more cards for the stash as they never last for long do they?! lol But that is a good thing I think!

As always I thank you for stopping by and visiting with me a spell. I'm kinda laid up and can't go to work right now, so the visit is special for me right now. You know how much your comments bring rays of sunshine to my life and right now in this dreary world of mine it is so welcomed!

Crafty hugs,

Card Recipe:
Nitwit Collection: Bee-lightful
My Creative Time (didn't look to see what the name of the stamp set is, so if you'd like to know let me know) for the bee's and sentiments
Glitter paper from my stash, which I am pretty sure is DCWV
Holographic paper is from Walmart I think. Not sure about that though!
Striped Washi tape from my stash and could be SU or could be generic from ACMoore-not sure about that either!
Zig/Arteza clean color markers for coloring
Vintage Photo DI for ink my bee hive and papers in the 2nd card.

Graduation Time!

Hello my crafty friends, I know I haven't been around in a long time again. Lots of mowing to do, a long funk, a combined 90th and 80th birthday party and now shingles. Yes, shingles. Thought I was to young for them but apparently not! Very painful, but I am doing well with them now. And Saturday is the big day for Bret-graduation! So I have his card to share (among other crafty things), which is totally CASED from Pinterest as is the saying on the inside of it. It said the things I wanted too but more elegantly. lol I used my Cricut Explore of course with other supplies. As always the recipes will be at the bottom of this post.

The next card was for my late husband's uncle. His 90th and his sister's 80th birthday are this month and so the family had a party for them both. The first card is "his" card and is totally CASED from Pinterest too, but I can't find the card again to give credit for it. If I ever run across it again, I will put a link in this post. The inside is my idea. The second card is "her" card. I forgot to take a picture of the inside of the 80th card. 

This is a framed shadow box that I made for the Pink Out. I saw one in AC Moore and decided to CAS it too. I'm good at coping! lol But have another one in the works that is all my own idea but using the same design. As you can hopefully see the pattern paper is set lower than the white "love" so that it has depth. 

I have more to share, but will wait for another day as I need to go mow.....again. And then tomorrow late afternoon I'm heading up to Bret's school for graduation on Saturday. So exciting!

As always thank you for sticking by me when I'm never here and haven't been commenting much either. Part is my fault and part is not getting my notifications. But still, I'm sorry for not getting around. I hope to get into more of a routine, but who knows when that will happen. Bret and I will have to get into a routine once he is home to stay and I think he plans on moving out once he gets money saved up. So hard to say what will be around here. So bare with me please. 

Crafty hugs,

Card Recipe:

Grad card:
Cricut Explore and Design Space: Just search for a compass and a grad hat. Compass was a print and I attached it to my card stock layer. The grad hat I cut and layered. Colors are Bret's college school colors.
Typed my sentiment out and attached it to the card stock layer and print and cut it along with the compass.
AliExpress Die for the world
The inside was typed and attached and printed and cut on the card stock base.

90th and 80th card:
The eyes and nose is a stamp set from Cardz TV Stamps. I used the  nose to ink up  only for the mouth and colored it in. I added the "eyebrows" with a marker.
Circle Dies to trace around for the circle of the face.
Once again, I typed out the sentiment and printed and cut the card stock layer.
Inside sentiment was a Fiscar stamp set and the number dies are a My Creative Time Dies.
For the 80th card, the quilt die is a Gina Marie die. Papers from my stash.
Candle is from a My Favorite Things Stamp and Die set as is the sentiment.
Number Dies again are from My Creative Time Dies.

Frame Shadowbox:
Picked out the font I wanted to use and cut out the Love in chipboard and then cut it out again in white to put over the chipboard.
Picked my font again and cut it out of vinyl and placed it the "love" part.
Birds from Cricut Design Space cut in vinyl
Printed and cut my designer paper for behind the "love" and placed everything back in the frame. The digital paper is from Nitwit Collections.

It's Time for Rudolph Days!

Hello my crafty friends and since it is past the 25th that means it is time for Rudolph Day! I love Rudolph Day even though I don't always get to participate each month. My goal is to do just that, but I tend to fall short. Maybe this will be my year....we shall see. Anyway it starts on the 25th of each month and all you have to do is make a Christmas card to play along. There might be a few rules, but just go over and read for yourself. It's a great way to keep adding to that stash of Christmas cards all year long. If I'm not mistaken there are lots of Christmas challenges all year long. I have problems just keeping up with one, so that is what I will stick with. lol 

So my card is a complete CAS from Bev over at Happy Dance blog. (Please check our Bev's blog, you won't be disappointed) I saw her card a few years back and fell in love with it but didn't have that stamp set. Wanted to buy it but never did that either. You can see her card here.  It's the last card before the comments. So I had this digital kit from Nitwit Collections and I knew how I wanted to use this certain image to recreate Bev's card. Bev's card is a CAS card where as mine isn't, but other than that it is a complete copy. sigh Be nice if I came up with my own ideas wouldn't it?!! Anyway I hope you still enjoy this card, I think it came out so cute and I made 6 of them. Might even make some more cause I think it is so dang cute! lol Thanks for the inspiration Bev!!! I used my Cricut and the digital files to print and cut the Santa face, the plaid paper and the sentiment. Easy peasy!

As always I appreciate your stopping by and visiting with me a spell. You always bring much needed sunshine into my life! I am still working on getting by to your blogs as well, so please be patient with me. I know I tend to disappear at times but my life seems to be going in different directions as of now. But I will be around from time to time.

Crafty hugs,

Card Recipe:
Nitwit Digital Collection: Dec. Memoirs