Pinkalicious Blog Hop Friday!

Welcome!  Thank you so much for joining me for Pinkalicious Blog Hop Friday!  If you have arrived here from Alex's blog then you're in the right place.  If you arrived here on your own tonight, I invite you to head over to My Pink Stamper so you can begin at the beginning and see all of the wonderful projects my fellow designers have made this tonight's hop.

The theme for tonight is Mother's Day - the perfect occasion to make a card.  Especially since I'm not able to spend Mother's Day with my mother { sniff }.  She's just too far away!  And honestly, I'm not always as good about getting the card in the mail as I should be...

The My Pink Stamper set that I used for tonight is Happiest Moments:

Don't you just love the lacy doily in the background?  No, that was not purchased or pre-made.  That was made with my Silhouette SD.  I am so impressed with the quality of the cuts with this machine.  The frame is gorgeous, but it will take you about 3 days to punch out all the little bits - so be warned!  ;-)

Stamp:  My Pink Stamper Happiest Moments
Silhouette Cut:  Lacy Frame
Cricut Cartridges:  Flower Shoppe (flowers & leaves), Winter Frolic (tag), Wild Card (flourish)
Paper:  Stampin' Up!, AC Cardstock
Embellishments:  Hobby Lobby (ribbon & lace), Recollections (pearls), Stickles

Thank you so much for stopping by tonight!  The next stop on the hop is Angela at Simple Creations.  I have also included the entire blog hop order below.  And when you're done hopping, be sure to head back over to My Pink Stamper and join in the challenge!

Robyn

Alex

Andrea

Angela

Carissa

Chelle

Courtney

Cristi

Edna

Helen

Michelle

Missy

Renee

Roberta

Shelley

Tracy

My Creative Time Throwback Thursday Challenge

It's been a little while since I participated in one of Emma's challenges, so I thought I would head over there today.  She does such beautiful work and I find her very inspiring.  Today's challenge is to make a project using an older cricut cartridge, that has a heart on it.  So I took the opportunity to make a Valentine's card for my honey.  I just love it when an idea comes together!  I love tone on tone, and especially white on white.  The beauty of tone on tone is you can play around with different textures and materials to make the elements of your project stand out.

Cricut Cartridges:  Plantin Schoolbook (heart), Wild Card (decorative corners and "Be My Valentine")
Embossing:  Sizzix and Cuttlebug
Decorative Edge:  Coluzzle (blast from the past)
Paper:  AC Cardstock and Georgia Pacific
Ribbon:  generic white organdy (how's that for a description?  ;-) )
Accents:  Stickles, and Darice gems

Merry Christmas to all!

I have been busy for the past three days playing Betty Crocker!  I love to bake and make candy and that is one of my favorite things about this time of year.  This year I made:  peanut brittle, english toffee, chewy molasses spice cookies, shortbread, butterscotch confetti, noodle stacks, macaroons, yum yums, and caramels.  Phew!  Thankfully my daughters were a really big help to me this year.  Usually by the time I am done with all the baking I couldn't care less about how they're packaged up, but my Cricut came to the rescue!  It's just so easy to make something cute, so how could I resist?  I did the cutting, my daughter did the assembling and voila!

Cricut Cartridge:  Wild Card
Paper:  American Crafts MerryMint
Ribbon:  American Crafts

Merry Christmas!

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #36 - Achoo!

The theme for this week's challenge at  the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog is - Achoo!  Get well, being sick, flu-bug types of projects.  Very appropriate considering we have certainly had our share of "bugs" around this house the past couple of weeks.   This is the only "flu-bug" I'd like to be getting this winter!

Cartridges:
Create a Critter (ladybug and "bug"
Wild Card ("flu" and "?")

Embossing:
Quickutz - Polka Dots

Cardstock & buttons:
DCWV

Punch:

Fiskars Apron Lace

Glitter Glue - Studio G

The father of a good friend of ours passed away a couple of days ago.  Something simple and tasteful was in order.

Kids Crafts!

Twice a month I have a group of 8-9 year old girls over for an activity and I thought we would decorate trick-or-treating bags this time.  So I went to my local Xpedx and found some great plain, but sturdy, plastic bags.  I would have liked to have done all the decorating with vinyl, but that would have been a little too complicated for the girls.  So we decorated with paper, vinyl, and permanent markers.  The girls had fun, and I think they turned out pretty well.  I used my Mini Monsters cartridge for the large spiders, pumpkins, and cauldrons.  The little spiders, bats, and "boo" came from the Wild Card cartridge - those were done in vinyl.

Falling Leaves

I just returned from the east and the most beautiful display of fall colors, where I attended a wedding in which the colors of autumn were featured.  They were all an inspiration to me in creating this card.  The leaves are from the Wild Card cartridge.

September 11th Challenge - My Pink Stamper

OK, so I know it's not September 11th anymore, but here is my submission for the My Pink Stamper September 11th Challenge.

MPS Color Challenge - pink, brown, orange, and green

The argyle pattern is from Wild Card, and the orange is from Preserves.  The stamp is from Stampendous.  I'm happy with how it turned out!

Hoooo's Birthday?

I still haven't had a lot of time to play with the Expression.  My husband was playing with a band in the park last night - fun times!  I did take a few minutes to play with Wild Card, one of my Wal-Mart clearance finds. Definitely easier with the Expression, although I'm not sure this cartridge is going to be a favorite.  I like to be able to put more details in my work and there are limitations with this cartridge.  It has some cute images though, and a cute font.  Maybe I just need to work with it a little more.

This is a little more me.  The colors were a bit of a stretch - I love how this turned out, but I usually go for a little less bright (or loud!).