Binky Blossoms

2012-02-15T10:00:00.001-05:00

Hi everyone and I have some Amazing News to share with you all today!

I will be on the New Design Team over at Whimsical Designs and I'm one of the Whimsical Wednesday Design Team Gals! There will be Wednesday challenges (the current "Colors Of Love" challenge is extended till Feb. 29 by the way so hop on over there and check it out!) I am so excited and honored to be on this Fun Team. So make sure to stop by ALL the Amazing Design Team and check out their blogs and show them some Love! So much Talent and Inspiration with ALL these Gals!

1. Esther: http://forthejoyofcreating.blogspot.com/
2. GiGi: http://thecricutbug.blogspot.com/
3. Heather: http://heather-p.blogspot.com/
4. Margie: http://bellabugcreations.blogspot.com/
5. Michelle: http://mumoftwoblog.blogspot.com/
6. Monica: http://scraps2treasure.blogspot.com/
7. Nanne: http://nannes-creations.blogspot.com/
8. Shelly: http://cardsbyshelly.blogspot.com/
9. Sue: http://heartandsoulcrafting.blogspot.com/
10. Theresa: http://binkyblossoms.blogspot.com/

So be on the look out for our first Design Team post in the soon to be near future, you won't be disappointed!

Also make sure to check out all of Stephanie's new Stamps over at the Whimsical Designs Shop.

Until Then................

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

Happy Valentines Day!

2012-02-14T17:29:00.000-05:00

I just want to wish every one of my Wonderful Followers a

Very Happy Valentines Day!

I treasure each and every one of you!

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

Image is from Vintage Holiday!

You've Got Mail!

2012-02-10T00:00:00.004-05:00

Hi Everyone and Happy Friday! Today is Stuck On U Sketches Die Cut Challenge reveal day and the challenge is "You've Got Mail"! Now I have a little story for you today (not long but I want to share, lol) Well you know those cute little mailboxes that alot of gals are decorating. Well I seen them at Target and had a few in my cart and at the last minute I put them back, I have soooooo many things that I buy with the good intention of making something with them and then they just sit so I thought these little mailboxes would be another one of those things. Well as you can see they sure would have come in handy for this challenge, lol! And since I didn't have any I had to make one of my own and I have to say I really like how my mailbox came out!

Well I used the Create A Critter cartridge and cut @ 6". Now I wanted it to open and had to do some freehand cutting and needed some hinges to make the door open and found them on the Cricut Sampler Cartridge (they were cut @1"). (The paper is My Minds Eye too by the way).

Pretty neat huh, how it opens! Now I added some pop strips to give it some dimension, and to be able to put my "Mail" into it. I could even add a gift card or some cash also. And the flag actually works! I used a brad to make it go up and down! And the stamp is one from Whimsical Designs called "With Love".

Now here's a view of the open mailbox and the little card ("mail") that I made. It's from the Cricut Sampler cart also and cut @ 4 1/2". And the little heart is a Martha Stewart punch.

And here's a closed version with the little "Love" note.

And last but not least, you know I had to add a handmade flower! Well at least a couple of flowers. The larger rolled flower is from the Flower Shoppe cart cut @ 3" and the smaller flowers are punches from EK Success that I used my stylus to make them dimensional and give them some curve, the leaves are a punch from Emaginations, and of course had to add some bling centers.

Now I sure hope you join us over at the SOUS blog for the "You've Got Mail" die cut challenge. The challenge is open for two weeks, it hast o be a new creation, you can use ANY Die cut machine and please add a link back to the Stuck On U Sketches blog (others may want to play along). Hope to see you there and have a great weekend. Hope you get to do some crafting and wonder what the weather will be this weekend, they say we are expecting snow sooooooo, it may be cold and perfect for crafting! Have a good one!

((Hugs)) and Take Care, Theresa

Sweethearts Tag With BBTB2! (Pic Heavy!)

2012-02-06T10:00:00.037-05:00

Hi Everyone and it's Monday again, can you believe it! Time sure flies! (Don't forget to check yesterday's post to see who the winner of my blog candy is too) Well today Our Design Team Sister, the Talented and Sweet Shelly picked the tags from the Sweetheart's Cartridge and I decided to make a little mini tag book. It measures 6" x 4" and it's a fun little Wedding Mini. I love this cart (I really need to use it more, heck I need to use ALL my carts more, lol) there are so many cute images on it, if you don't believe me make sure you check out the BBTB2 Talented Design Team and see all the Cute projects they did. Well I had no reason to make this so it was just a fun little project, but now I have a little gift in case someone gets married, they just have to add pictures! And since there are so many pics I'll try and keep it short and sweet (well at least I'll try, lol!) I'll put sizes and page #'s form the book, in case your interested.

Here is the front cover, all the tags were cut @ 6" and I used my fun packing tape glitter technique (If your interested, check it out HERE) on all of the tags for all the sparkle (which is Martha Stewart Glitter) image is on pg. 65 and the little embellishments are some Creative Touch sticker/dies, similar to Jolee's.

Pages 1 & 2, the Heart Couple image is on page 40 and the cute saying is from Whimsical Designs Sentiment Stamps. I'm also adding this to the Whimsical Designs Wednesday Challenge "Bring Out The Old" and the "Old" that I used are the Charms, the Sticker Embellishments, Metal Saying, the Lace (it's some Vintage lace In my stash) and I hate to say this but the Sweetheart's cartridge, I've only used it a couple of times, even tho I Love it, and I've had it for a couple of years.

Pages 3 & 4, Mr. & Mrs. pg. 63 and a few more fun embellishments.

Pages 5 & 6, Rings pg. 63, WOW, what a Rock that is, lol! More Embellies and of course, some Bling!

Pages 7 & 8, Wedding Cake pg. 64, Yummy! More fun Embellies!

Pages 9 & 10, Off to the Honeymoon pg. 65, What Fun, love the little Turtle Doves watching over them!

And last but not least, the Back Cover, Happily Ever After, from the Storybook Cartridge cut at 3" and layered with, what else, more Bling!

Here's a couple of little charms I made and added for some more Fun!

And the whole little Mini in all it's glory fanned out! This was so Stinkin Fun to make and now someone needs to get married so I can give it away, lol!

Well now don't forget to join in the fun Sweethearts Tag challenge with us over at BBTB2, link up with the Linky, just a few rules, if you don't have the Sweethearts cart use a tag from any cart, it must be a NEW creation (no back linking) and please give us a Shout Out to link back to BBTB2 (we would Love to have more friends join in!) Easy Peasy, hope to have you join in the FUN! You could win our Great POW (pick of the week) Blinkie to add to your blog (along with braggin rights of course!) You have two weeks to enter, so what are you waiting for, Get To Creating!

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

I Have a Winner!

2012-02-05T16:40:00.000-05:00

Okay, So Sorry, Like I said it's been awhile since I did a blog hop where I had to pick a winner (LOL) so without any more nonsense...............................

Here's my pick (I did use Random.org but, and as usual, I'm rushing, lol)

Scrapping Girl said...

What a gorgeous layout! (the baby too!!) I love the pom pom trim on the little girl's dress!

I just got the Kate and Nate's ABC's for Christmas too and haven't done anything with them yet. I'd love to see projects with both carts for inspiration.

January 30, 2012 2:18 PM

As soon as I here from you Scrapping Girl I'll get your goodies out to you, My e-mail is:

mccadesmom@gmail.com

hope to hear from you soon. If I don't here from you within the week I'll pick another winner!

((Hugs)) and have a great rest of the weekend!

Theresa

BBTB2 Blog Hop and Baby Carriage Challenge!

2012-01-30T11:00:00.082-05:00

Hi Everyone and Happy Monday! Well it's the end of the month and that always brings a Blog Hop over at Bitten By The Bug 2 and today is just that day! Now if you got here from the So Talented and Sweet Susan's blog your on the right track but you can always start at the BBTB2 Blog if you ever get lost.
Well today Carole picked our challenge for the Hop and she picked the Baby Carriage from New Arrival (and Oldie but a Goodie!) Well I don't have that cart (gasp!) so you know the rules, if you don't have that cart you can use any cart with a Baby Carriage on it and I used Kate's ABC's, and Nursery Rhymes for the saying. I just got the Kate's ABC's cart at Christmas time and all I can say is "Why did I wait so long to get this, lol!" (then of course I had to get Nate's ABC's too, lol!) It is such a Cute cartridge and you will be seeing more from me using it! Well I finally made me a Layout (yes, it's been awhile for that too, lol!) I had some fun with this and used some of the new papers and tools that I got for Christmas also. The border is punched with the Martha Stewart punch, the flowers are handmade with a couple of EK Success punches and the butterflies are another MS punch. And of Course the Star of the layout is my Darling Grand Daughter Molly the day she was born! Isn't she Gorgeous!!!! She's 8 years old now (and still Gorgeous!) So you can see I'm a bit behind on scrapping my pictures, lol! (Shame on Me!)

Here's a close up of my Cute Little Molly and the cutie with the Baby Carriage (it's kind of hard to see that cute little pom pom trim on the bottom of the little ones dress!). The image is cut @ 5" and you know me, it's got some layers and pop for some added dimension.

(Had to sneak in another close up of Molly, lol) and also the pretty flowers with some added bling (of course, you know me, lol!)

The saying is from the Nursery Rhymes cart cut @ 2 3/4". Did a bit of doodling and added another MS butterfly ready to drop off a cute little bundle!

And as I was creating I decided to make a card to have on hand because you can never have enough go to cards for those baby showers that seem to sneak up on you, so now I'm ahead of the game (for at least one card, lol!) This image is cut @ 4" and a few MS butterflies and another handmade flower added to my tag shaped pre-made card.

Well I sure hope you join us for this fun challenge and of course the Blog Hop! If you started here don't forget to hop over to the BBTB2 blog and start at the beginning but if you've already been hopping your next stop is going to be the Amazing Julie's blog. And don't forget to enter our challenge, just link up with the linky on the main blog, you have two weeks to enter and you can win our Cute POW (Pick of the Week) Blinkie to add to your blog, along with bragging rights, just remember it had to be a NEW project (no back linking) and we would love to have you add a link to the BBTB2 blog, (others may want to join in)! =]

Now I have some blog candy I'm giving away, (I probably throw some more goodies in there, I've been doing some cleaning, lol) all I ask is that you be a follower and please leave me a comment telling me what projects or things you would like to see me post! I kind of feel like I'm in a rut and maybe you all can spark my curiosity to new endeavors or give me some new ideas or trends that are out there that I'm not aware of. Thanks in advance and enjoy the hop!

((Hugs)) and Take Care!
Theresa

"Snowman" Snowglobe Challenge over at SOUS!

2012-01-27T02:01:00.000-05:00

Hi All and welcome to a Fun Friday Challenge with Stuck On U Sketches Die Cut Challenge this week and we are celebrating the "Snowmen" in our lives, lol! Yep the challenge this week over at SOUS is to use "Snowmen" (and I'm sure you could give him a Snow "Girl" if you like!) for you projects. I have a warm spot in my heart for Snow people and have been collecting them for quite awhile and have quite a few but I always seem to find more, lol! I actually wanted to make these for my Christmas cards this year but lo and behold I never did get Any cards done this year (shame on me!) I originally wanted to make a snowglobe card and had been inspired by a gal on the Cricut messageboard named Sharon and you can check out her blog and her snowman post here. (Yes I totally believe in giving credit where credit is due, kind of like Karma, lol!) I like how it turned out and who knows I still may make some more and use them this Christmas, lol! Well the card is 5 1/4" tall and is a tri-fold card and opens three ways. I created it on Design Studio (I still haven't used the Cricut Craft Room, I like new technology but it takes me awhile to get into it, lol!) I still like my DS!

Here's a view of the card opened. I used George and Doodlecharms for this card, Doodlecharms is always a cute, go to, cart. I welded then cut the snowglobe @ 3 1/2" and the snowman is cut @ 2". You can use any shape you want to weld onto the rectangle base and I chose to use a rounded corner rectangle from George cut @ 5" and stretched a bit to fit the size I wanted. And the Cute little Snowman is welded and 2". Now for the actual snowglobe I re-used a cartridge clamshell and hand cut a circle and then embossed it with the cuttlebug snowflake folder.

Here's a close up of the little Cutie! I ran him through my little Xyron machine and glittered him with Martha Stewart glitter to make him sparkle then used black bling for his coal eyes and buttons and used some twine for his scarf.

Now here's the close up of the Globe with the embossed plastic clamshell. Now the snowflakes are also a Martha Stewart punch and also added some bling (You know me, love the bling, lol)! Added some more twine and a little bread tag (yes an actual bread tag) with a snowflake added on it!

And here's one more picture of the closed up tri-fold card for you to see in all it's cuteness!

Now don't forget of the great blog sponsor goodies up for grabs Stephanie with Whimsical Designs is our sponsor this month and you could win this awesome prize of ALL of her stamps ($60 value) but remember you have to play to win so lets see your NEW "Snowmen" creations and link up to the Stuck On U Sketches linky. You have two weeks to enter for this challenge and the more challenges you enter the more chances you get to win. So Good Luck!

I hope you all have a Great weekend and get to do some crafting done and hope to see your Adorable little "Snowmen" creations! Remember I love the little snow people so I'm really looking forward to seeing all your cute creations and don't forget the Amazing Design Team, Wow, so much inspiration and talent with all these Ladies, make sure and check them all out, you won't be sorry!

((Hugs)) and Take Care,
Theresa

I Like Your Style BBTB2!

2012-01-23T11:00:00.016-05:00

Hi Everyone, It's Monday and a new challenge day over at Bitten By The Bug 2! Today is Jeri's day to pick and she chose the Dimensional Flower from "Bloom" (Row 4, Key 10) Well Bloom is one of my favorite carts and you all know I LOVE Flowers so of course I had Fun with this one! Now remember if you don't have the Bloom cart, you can use Any dimensional flowers from Any cart with flowers, and there are Plenty of them (another fav and fairly new one is the Flower Shoppe cart too, and now the newest is Giant Flowers!)

Well I have been on a roll with the Easel cards lately haven't I, lol! Well here's another one! For my Frame I used Sophisticated (pg. 71) cut @ 4" and stood it to go vertical other then horizontal. I did a couple of layers (as always) for some added dimension. And don't you just love the Vintage Image! It's not a stamp (but sure would be a great one, don't you think) it's actually from Graphics Fairy! She always has great Vintage images. You should check her blog out!

Well Jeri wanted us to use dimensional flowers and I had to add a few Roses I made with the flower cut from Bloom. Now there are plenty of tutorials on YouTube if you would like to learn how to make them, just type in How to make Paper Roses. I even think Tim Holtz has a tut using his grunge paper. Added a few leaves made with a punch and then inked with Quick Quotes Powderpuff Chalk Ink Green With Envy. I also used Pink Cheeks QQ ink on the flowers and the rest of the card.

Now I used my Spellbinders nesties (Labels Four Small) to cut out my sayings. Now I used an older Stampin Up Stamp for the Sentiment called, wait for it.......................

I Like Your Style!

Here's a close up of the Flowers, Dimension, And of course had to add some Bling!

Well I sure hope you join us over at BBTB2 and don't forget if you don't have the Bloom cartridge you can use Any cart with Flowers, just make them Dimensional AND it has to be a NEW creation, You could win our great POW (Pick Of The Week) Blinkie to add to your Blog, along with braggin rights! Now make sure that you also check out the Design Teams Projects. They are always so inspirational and so amazingly talented!

Have a Great Week!

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

Quick Quotes Sneak Peeks combined with Spellbinders!

2012-01-19T00:01:00.054-05:00

Hi everyone and today I'm sharing the last of the new paper releases from Quick Quotes that will be at CHA this year and I can say that these are my FAVORITE!!! It's called "One Fine Day" and I Love, Love, Love the colors and designs on these! I will definitely be getting more of these papers, I have a few more ideas that I want to do with them, along with my Spellbinders Dies!

Yes I used my Spellbinders Grand Caliber Die Cut Machine along with some great dies to create this Gorgeous Easel card!

It's a pretty big card (6" x 6 1/2") and 5" when opened and in Easel position and it is a non-traditional Baby Card! (How's that for thinking outside the box, lol!) I used by brand spankin new die, Spellbinders Creative Book Pages for the basic card shape and then added some of the "pages" for the popped layers along with using the Spellbinders Labels Four Small to showcase my stamped saying. I also inked everything with Quick Quotes Mocha Mama Powderpuff Chalk Ink

Now here is a view from the top so you can see the pretty flowers, Birds Nest Stamp (which I colored with Colored Pencils and Gamsol) Bow, Bling and all that Dimension!

Here's a pic of the birds nest stamped image. It's a stamp I've had for quite awhile and I just love it! I forgot I had it but since doing some cleaning and reorganizing I found it! Now I don't have any Copic markers (Yet, lol) so I still do it the old fashioned way with colored pencils and Gamsol (Mineral Spirits) I stamped the image with Staz On Ink and then colored with my Prismacolor Pencils, it doesn't have to be perfect, you can leave some white peeking through, and then you just use a blending stump and Gamsol to "blend" the colors. You dip the stump in the gamsol and then touch it to the colors and they blend (almost like water colors). I'm going to try a paint brush next time I do this, just curious how it will work!!!! You need to keep dipping your stump into the gamsol and may need to use a couple of different stumps because you don't want the colors to smear into each other, but that's it! Looks pretty good and since I've Never used Copics I can't compare, but I will take the plunge one day, I just don't need another obsession at the moment, LOL!

Now here's a close up of the Spellbinders Labels Four Small Die along with a little added Bling!

Here's a close up of the gorgeous flowers with, of course, some added Bling!

And last but not least one last picture at another angle to show you some of the dimension and those gorgeous papers!

Well I sure hope you all enjoyed the sneak peeks from CHA and the new Quick Quotes Papers and all the fun we had with our Grand Caliber Machines (Thank You Again Spellbinders!) I love all the gorgeous colors and so much versatility with each line (One Fine Day is my FAV so far, lol) Which ones are your favs and what will you be creating with them once you get your hands on them?! Please, do share with us!

((Hugs)) and Take Care, Theresa

**(I'm also entering this into the challenge over at Whimsical Designs: Anything Goes! You have two weeks to enter!)

(Products used: Papers: QQ One Fine Day, Ink: QQ Mocha Mama, Grand Caliber with Creative Book Pages and Labels Four Small, Bird Nest Stamp: Anita's, Stamped saying: Cloud 9 Design, Colored Pencils: Prismacolors, Flowers: Petaloo, Prisma and Recollections, Bling: Hobby Lobby, Bow (Ribbon) Wright's)

Winter Fun With SOUS!

2012-01-13T00:01:00.007-05:00

Hi everyone and how about some Winter Fun! We finally got some snow today after some rain which means ice and that means no school here today! Well at least it's Friday and now McCade gets a three day weekend! I worked yesterday so I'm taking today off so that worked out good since I don't have (or like) to drive in it! =] Well I think I'll be doing some scrappin today since I love to craft when it's stormy outside! And if we get enough snow I think we'll go outside and have some "Winter Fun"! Also over at the Stuck On U Sketches we're having some Winter Fun also. Yep how perfect is that, couldn't have timed this better then to have a "Winter Fun" challenge!

Well I've been seeing lots of these Twisted Easel Cards lately and just had to try one. I've made the traditional Easel cards before but like the "twist" these have. It's a 5 1/2" x 4" size so it's a basic card size and then when it's standing open it's a perfect size I think. I used the Winter Frolic cartridge, love this cart, so many cute images on it. I just got it at the black Friday sale and I can't believe I waited this long to get it! I loved this cute little Bunny on ski's, (he's popped with a little spring so he wiggles, hee hee!) I'm NOT a skier at all, I've tried and just don't like it, lol, I don't like to be cold and wear all the binding clothes to stay warm. Now I do like to sled and in our backyard on our land we have some Great sledding hills and we take the 4-wheeler out and drag the kids back up the hills once they sled down them (so the big kids get to play in the snow too, lol!) so they get to sled down and then sled Up also, lots of Winter Fun!

Here's another view of the card and you can see more of the dimension of the wiggly Bunny. Everything is popped and had to add a bit of 'Frost" on it with some "Crystal" Stickles.

Another view, you can see more of the frost and of course had to add a bit of bling! =] I also did some embossing on the hills and then inked them with a light blue ink to bring out the texture.

And here is a great view of all the dimension.

Now I sure hope you join us over at the SOUS blog, we also have a Great Sponsor to go along with the challenge this month from Stephanie from Whimsical Designs and she has some of her stamps this month ($60 value):

Now you just have to create a NEW project to upload to the SOUS link sharing some Winter Fun with us. You can also enter ANY of the other challenges for the month and it gives you more entries. Also hope you visit the Design Team gals, they are sure enjoying the Winter Fun challenge and they are always inspiring so make sure you check them out and show them some love.

((Hugs)) and Take Care (and stay Warm!) =]

Theresa

(Cartridge: Winter Frolic, Embossing Folders: Devine Swirls, Swiss Dots, Snowflakes, Pattern Paper: Recollections, Cardstock: DCWV & Colorbok, Bling: Hobby Lobby, Ribbon: Ofray, Flower: Prima, Plastic Rose: Recollections, Stickles: Crystal)

QQ CHA Sneak Peek with Summer Samba and Spellbinders!

2012-01-12T02:01:00.006-05:00

Hi everyone and I have another CHA preview to share with you! It makes me all warm and makes me think of Summer which is kind of crazy when it's saposta be Winter right now! Well I don't know about you but we've had a pretty mild winter in my neck of the woods with only one day of snow so far. Don't get me wrong, I like the snow but I'm not a big fan of driving in it, LOL!

Well I have a layout to share with you today! This is using the new release from Quick Quotes called Summer Samba! And like I said before it reminds me of Summer! Love the bright cheery colors and I just had to add the cute pictures of my little man on his first trip to the beach! I also used my Spellbinders Grand Caliber Die Cutting Machine and of course some Spellbinder Dies! The ones I used on this project are, Sprightly Sprockets, Labels Four SM, Classic Scalloped Circles LG, and Dahlia.

For some added dimension I fussy cut the flowers on the QQ Summer Samba paper and popped it after inking it with QQ Powderpuff Blue Hawaiian Chalk Ink for added depth.

For my Banner I used one of my Spellbinder Labels Four SM Die and folded them over a piece of blue and white twine, added a flower and of course can't forget the bling!

Now what do you think of my Sun!? I made it with 3 different dies! The yellow is Spellbinders Sprightly Sprockets, Red is Spellbinders Lg Scalloped Circles and the New QQ Vellum Quote is cut with the Dahlia Die, inked with QQ Blue Hawaiian Chalk Ink, another flower and a touch of bling.

And here's a close up of the fussy cut Summer Samba papers popped and some added bling.

Hope you liked the new QQ Summer Samba papers and are making plans on what your going to be making with them once they are released! Hope I've inspired you and look forward to see what you create.

Extras used were minimal: Bling: Hobby Lobby, Flowers: Prima, Twine: Lily (Sugar N Cream) & Pop Dots.

Have a Great Day!

((Hugs)) and Take Care, Theresa

BBTB2 Walk In My Garden Challenge!

2012-01-09T11:00:00.001-05:00

Hi Everyone and as always Mondays are always a new Bitten By The Bug 2 challenge and today there is a new challenge using an oldie but a goodie cartridge! This was one of the very first cartridges that I got when I got my 1st Baby bug back in 2006 (but I may have bought the cart in 2007) The cartridge is "Walk In My Garden"! And Carole picked the cute little Caterpillar to use! Well I had some fun with this challenge, I have a friend that lives in another state and I'm going to be sending this to her. I haven't seen her since I moved from Vegas and haven't had a chance to chat with her all that much either, you know how life just does that to us sometimes! But I sure hope she gets a kick out of it! (She loves flowers too!)

I'm trying to get into the winter here but we sure haven't had much of one here in Kentucky and only had one day of snow so far but it was gone the next day and we've been having days in the 50's and 60's, not really much winter so why not think Spring, lol! I love Sunflowers and this is an all time favorites of mine from alot of the carts. I made the (card) Pot @ 4 1/2" so it's a nice size card. The little Caterpillar is cut @ 1 1/2" and everything is popped and has a few layers! I did some embossing too and inked everything for some added dimension and depth.

Here's another view of the dimension and Oh yeah, I can't forget those cute little googly eyes on the cute little Caterpillar!

And yet another view of all the dimension and layers!

Well I sure hope you join us over at BBTB2 for the fun Walk In My Garden Caterpillar challenge. Now remember if you don't have the WIMG cartridge you can use any cart with a Caterpillar on it, but remember, it MUST be a NEW creation and link up with the link on the BBTB2 Blog. You could win our great POW (Pick Of the Week) Blinkie to display on you blog, along with bragging rights of course! You have two weeks to submit so hope to see you there! Have a Great Week and make sure you go check out the Designers creations, they always are so creative and inspiring so show them some love and Check Em Out!

((Hugs)) and Take Care, Theresa

Quick Quotes and Spellbinders!

2012-01-08T02:01:00.006-05:00

Hi everyone and I want to say a belated Happy New Year to everyone!

Well I have a fun card I made (shhhh, it's for my Dear Daughter, lol) and I had the privilege of getting to use some of the new releases for CHA from Quick Quotes and the paper lines I used is Dreamscape! I also got to use my Grand Caliber from Spellbinders that all of us gals on the Design Team were lucky to receive from Spellbinders (Thank You Spellbinders for an Amazing Machine!) Now I used a couple of Spellbinders dies for this card, the Scalloped Edge Frame with flower accents, Sprightly Sprockets (designed by Donna Salazar), and Ribbon Banners on this card. Some of the sprockets I used I turned into flowers, pretty cute huh, and versatile (how's that for thinking outside the box, lol!) I also inked everything with Very Berry Powderpuff Chalk Ink and popped everything for some extra dimension and some added pizzazz! I used some yellow ric rac to bring out the yellow in the dreamscape papers and the stamped image is from Cloud 9 Design.

Here is a side view of the card for a better view of the die cuts and dimension.

And yet another view of the dimension!

Well I know you are all going to be pretty excited for the new releases for CHA, we are going to be highlighting them this month so make sure you come back to get your sneak peeks and we will also be highlighting our Spellbinders Grand Caliber so keep your eyes peeled on the Quick Quotes Blog for all your Inspiration!

((Hugs)) and Take Care, Theresa

Wishing Everyone A Very MERRY CHRISTMAS!

2011-12-25T00:00:00.008-05:00

I just want to Wish You A Very Joyous Merry Christmas to You and all Your Lovely Families! I hope you all are making Wonderful memories!

I want to say “Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays”! I have a couple of fun, "non-traditional coloredl" Christmas cards to share with you this wonderful Christmas day! They are also on the Quick Quotes Blog. Very “JOYful”, lol! Well all the pattern papers are from the December Club Q Kit and I used Bloody Mary Powderpuff Chalk Ink to ink everything, Cardstock is from DCWV. Now I had picked up some of these glittered Christmas Ornaments from Wal-Mart because I loved the color and thought it would look cute on a card or a layout and who would have known it would be perfect with the December Club Q kits! I used a Martha Stewart punch for the layers on my trees then just cut them into tree shapes and staggered them on my card and added a few pop dots for some added dimension. The little village is also a Martha Stewart punch and with a added sparkly star, some bling and some ribbon, I have a very “JOYful” card!

And my second card was inspired by these fun Sparkly Bow Ornaments that I also got at Wal-mart that I thought would look great on a card or layout. And what a perfect topper to my Martha Stewart punched and layered tree! Designer papers are from the December Club Q kit which I inked with Bloody Mary Powderpuff Chalk Ink also the cardstock is from DCWV, added my great Bow and another gold bow and then used a couple of other Martha Stewart punches like the village, ornaments and snowflake ones, added a bit of bling to the snowflake and done!

Thanks for taking a minute out of your day and stopping by. Have a Wonderful and Blessed Christmas to You and your Families!

((Hugs)) and Take Caare,

Theresa

"With Sugar On Top" Baking for the Holidays Challenge with SOUS!

2011-12-16T00:01:00.152-05:00

Hi Everyone and How Are You? Are you ready for Christmas? Have you did any Baking? Well if you are (or did) hope you take some pictures and join us for this weeks challenge over at the Stuck On U Sketches Die Cut Challenge because this week it's all about "Baking For The Holidays"! We all love homemade cookies and it's just not Christmas without them! What are your favorite ones? Mine are these Italian waffle cookies called Pizzelle's that my Mom used to make and they just smelled sooooo good, vanilla and anise, oh so Yummy! My mom used to use a waffle iron that you needed to use over a flame for y-e-a-r-s but then progressed to an electric one which is what I still have and use. I still have her OLD waffle iron and it's very dear to my heart!

Well enough about cookies and on to the challenge!

Well as I said, this weeks challenge is Baking for the Holidays and I used one of my favorite cartridges, From My Kitchen. This was one of those carts that I HAD to have when it came out and I still love it! Part of my inspiration to this layout is these fun little buttons that I've had for quite a while (think I got them at Michael's at least 5 years ago, lol) and just HAD to use them on this layout. They were Perfect for it and really adds a bit of whimsy, don't you think!? Well as you can see I made a two page layout and I added one of my secret hidden journal spots again. Can you guess where it is?...............................................................

Yep In The OVEN! Open the door and that's where you can journal! Cute huh! Well the Oven is cut @ 5" and welded two of the cuts together using Design Studio to make the "inside" of the oven.

And what about a fresh percolated cup O' Coffee to go with those cookies. I cut the coffee pot @ 2" and the oven mitts are cut @ 2" also.

Here's a better view of the left side of the layout. The Gingerbread cookies are cut @ 5" and there is a boy and a girl (can't have one without the other, lol). Had to have a Bowl (cut @ 3"), Mixer (cut @ 3") Rolling Pin (cut @ 3 1/2") Eggs (cut @ 1") and the Canister (cut @ 3") to mix up some yummy cookies!

And a view of the right side of the layout. Oven is cut @ 5", Coffee Pot @ 2", Oven mitts @ 2", Pot Holder @ 2", and the saying is from Winter Frolic and cut @ 4". Now after seeing the saying on this post I think I should have put some of that sugar glitter on the word sugar in the saying. I may have to do that later and I'll update it and let you know, what do you guys think, Sugar or no Sugar, lol!?

Here's a close up of the Gingerbread cookies, had to add some blingy gumdrops and icing ric rac, pretty Yummy don't you think!

A close up of the mixing utensils and kitchen gadgets. Added a bit of embossing on the bowl also.

And a close up of these cute little gingerbread buttons, spatula and baking tray along with a close up of the coffee pot, oven mitts and pot holder. Oh yea and all the papers are from various Recollections paper stacks (with the exception of the photo mat pattern paper, those are some older DCWV) from Michael's I got a few weeks ago, they were 60% off for the deal of the day, pretty good huh, couldn't pass that one up.

Well I sure hope I've inspired you to do some baking and join us over at the SOUS Blog for the "Baking for the Holidays" Challenge! Link up with the Linky button on the blog and make sure you check out my Awesome Design Team Sisters Yummy "Baking" Projects, Amazing as always and So Inspiring! Let me know what your favorite cookies are for the Holidays and maybe if I get a chance to make some Pizzelle's this weekend I'll post the recipe and some pics. And if you have a good recipe, I'm always up to share, lol!

Happy Baking and Merry Christmas!

((Hugs)) and Take Care, Theresa

Glittered Poinsettias with Quick Quotes

2011-12-14T02:00:00.009-05:00

Hello Everyone and Merry Christmas! Do I have a Fun Layout for you today! I just have to say I LOVE the way this turned out! It’s a pretty simple layout but I bet you can’t imagine where I got this GREAT Looking Glittered Flower paper from!!!??? You can’t guess, ....................................................................................................................................?????

Well I made it! Now I know your asking, “But how, Theresa did you make this paper”!? Well for those of you that get the Club Q Kits you can probably figure it out! But for those of you who are sitting on the edge of your seat, you give up, well here it is, lol!

It is the negative, throw away paper from the flower cutouts!!!!!! Can you Believe it, LOL! I just hate to throw anything away and I almost did but as it was in my hand I thought what if I do my Packing Tape Technique on this? So I did! And it turned out Awesome! Don’t you think? You never would have known it was almost trash, lol!

Well the rest of the layout was fun also. I used the December Club Q kit papers Very Merry! I added some lace to the glitter paper border and inked everything with Amaretto QQ Powderpuff Chalk Ink . My photo mats are double mounted and also have some gold sheer ribbon added for some interest. I also added a blingy snowflake to the centers of the glitter flowers. And the crowning glory is the popped great Christmas Quote!

Now I do have to say the pictures really just don’t do this layout justice! It really is a gorgeous layout in real life, lol! (and I don’t say that just because it’s mine lol!) so I just had to give you another close up of the glittered poinsettias and another view of it too!!

My extras were minimal; Cardstock: DCWV, Snowflake Punch & Glitter: Martha Stewart, Bling: Hobby Lobby, Ribbon and Lace is from my stash.

Have a Very Merry (Scrappy and Crafty) Christmas

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

We always Need Tags with BBTB2!

2011-12-12T10:00:00.000-05:00

Well Hello Everyone and welcome back to another Bitten By The Bug 2 Challenge Monday! We had a really nice time off for the Thanksgiving Holidays and now all the Gals from BBTB2 are back! And we have a Fun, get in the mood for Christmas, Challenge for you this week. This week Lori has picked ANY Tag from the Winter Frolic cartridge. Now remember if you don't have the Winter Frolic cart you can use any tag from any cartridge.

Now as you can see I made a few tags, lol. They are between the sizes of 3"-5" so they are pretty simple. You can never have enough tags and I always seem to run out and of course, then can't find the leftovers from the previous year, lol! These were really simple, just the various tags with the shadow cut and then I used my much loved Packing Tape Technique to give it a little sparkle and then stamped the To: and From: and added a bit of jute for the tie on string and done!

Well I sure hope you join us for the challenge. Just remember, it has to be a NEW project and if you don't have the Winter Frolic cart you can use any tag from any cart. You'll have two weeks to upload to the Link up link and you could win our Fun Blinkie to add to your blog, along with bragging rights. Make sure you check out what all the other Design Team Gals did, always amazing those Gals!

Have a Great Day and I'll have more later in the week to share with you!

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

A Very Merry Christmas Cards with Quick Quotes

2011-12-08T02:00:00.002-05:00

Hey Everyone, Theresa here and are you ready for Christmas? Well I’m still working on it and that means I still have a few more Christmas cards to make so I thought why not get a few done with our Fun new Club Q Kit . Well I made 4 cards out of the December Club Q Kit. I love these Frosty and Fun papers and Love how these cards turned out. I used the Amaretto Powderpuff Chalk Ink to add to the distressed edges of all the images. These are all 5 x 7 size pre-cut cards and all the Very Merry papers are from the kits along with the great Poinsettia flowers. Very few extras and the last card has a cute poem about Santa’s Magic Key.

1st card so Simple and Pretty with just a few extra blingy snowflakes and a great bow!

2nd one, Love the silhouette singers and the gorgeous poinsettia and a few more blingy snowflakes!

3rd one is a true "gift" (lol) another gorgeous poinsettia with some bling and a bit of lace!

And last but not least this is for those of us that don’t have a fireplace for Santa to comedown. This has the “Magic Key” that only Santa can use to let him in the house, the poem was computer generated and then I used my Grand Caliber to cut the label out with the poem for the card. I’m also attaching one of the many poems that are available for the Magic Key Poem, and the actual one on the card I made:

This key is very special, you see!
It won’t work for you or me.
Hang it just outside your door
then go to bed and worry no more.
Close your eyes and close them tight ‘cause,
“Santa Claus is coming tonight!”

Extras used:
Cardstock: DCWV
Grand Caliber with Label Die
Snowflake Punch: Martha Stewart
Bling: Hobby Lobby
Key: JoAnn’s
Stickles: Crystal
Ribbon and Lace: my personal stash

Well I sure hope your more ahead of yourself and organized then I am, if not then you know exactly how I feel, lol! One good thing is that for some reason, it always seems to get done and if it doesn't, nobody seems to notice or miss it, lol!

Well thanks for stopping by and I'm sure we'll be seeing each other again!

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

O'Christmas Tree Challenge with SOUS!

2011-12-02T00:00:00.001-05:00

Hello Everyone and can you believe it's almost Christmas!!!!! Boy this year sure did FLY by! (Means I'm getting old, lol!) Well Stuck On U Sketchs is having another challenge today and the theme is "O'Christmas Tree"! Quick Quotes Blog is also having a Christmas Theme Challenge that I'm going to post this in. Well I made a Shaker Tag for the challenge with my Tree inside. I used the Winter Frolic Cartridge that I just got at the Michael's Black Friday. Can you believe I didn't have this fun cartridge (not that I didn't want it, lol!)

I have many plans for this cart and you will be seeing more projects done with it in the coming weeks!

Well I used a tag that I made at Quick Quotes Private Reserve (tons of FUN so if you ever get a chance you need to go!) I was helping with the make and take for this and I just kept seeing a shaker box instead of a luggage tag, lol! So that's what I did with it! Turned it into a shaker box. I added the lace border with a Martha Stewart punch and also a few snowflake punches. I added some "snow" on the inside along with some glass beads and silver sliver glitter and of course had to add some bling! Also a pretty gold bow and what do you think of my little Christmas bulb charms/beads, Cute Huh!

Well I sure hope you join us with this Christmas Tree challenge, just remember it has to be a "New" Challenge and you have two weeks to upload your project to the linky button! Hope to see you there!

((Hugs)) and Take Care, Theresa

Quick Quotes 3 Day Blog Hop, Come Join the FUN!!!

2011-11-27T01:00:00.000-05:00

Ready for a Quick Blog Hop!? I sure hope so because Quick Quotes is having a Fun Quick Spur of the moment, 3 day Blog Hop! Today is the Second day and if you missed yesterday make sure you stop by and leave the other Design Team Gals some love with a comment, and on the Main QQ Blog and you'll have a chance for the blog candy that's up for grabs yesterday too. Today we have the Miss Morgan Paper line and 2 ink pads (love this ink) up for grabs! All you have to do is leave a comment on each of the blogs in the Hop and then back on the Quick Quotes Blog also. The winners will be announced on Wed 11/30 on the main QQ Blog. Don't forget to stop by tomorrow too when there's some more Goodies up for grabs!

Well I have a Fun layout for you today that I started at the Atlanta GA Private Reserve. If you ever get the chance to go to a Private Reserve you should go, it is soooooooo much fun, you won't regret it!

These are some of my ALL Time Favorite papers that QQ makes (as you can tell from some of my past projects, lol) this is from the Cherry Truffle Line and the time banner is from the November Club Q Kit.

(I even did my Packing Tape Technique but this time used black glitter!) I also used the QQ Midnight Confessions Powderpuff Chalk Ink on the banner and the layout for some added depth. And a Fun embellishment I added are some actual clock parts for a photo corner with a touch of bling! How fun is that! Also a bit of Black Bling and some Picot Ribbon with some bows in the corners and even a spot to do some journaling.

Now I do have to say, I Love this saying:

Time stands still for no one,

Embrace life's moments and dance with them for these moments become your Life!

I always try and tell myself to get the most out of each day (even tho sometimes there seems like there's not enough time in a day, lol) as I get older the time just seems to fly by every time I blink! I just can't believe that another year has come and gone, were has the Time went!

Well I sure hope you enjoy the Quick Quotes 3 Day Blog Hop. Just remember you must leave a comment at each stop on the Hop and also at the main QQ Blog to be eligible for the Prizes. Now you don't have to be a follower of my blog to win but I sure would love it if you feel I've inspired you to feel free to follow me along with following the Quick Quotes Blog. Now your next stop on the Hop is the Amazingly Talented and Sweet Adora, I'm sure she'll have something Wonderful for you! Have Fun!

((Hugs)) and Take Care, Theresa

Happy Thanksgiving!

2011-11-24T03:00:00.003-05:00

I want to wish All of You and Your Family a Wonderful and Happy Thanksgiving!

White Space Challenge over @ Quick Quotes

2011-11-23T00:01:00.025-05:00

White Space, what do you all think of White Space??? Well I'm not a big fan of it, as most of you all know I love to add as much as I can on my layouts and projects! But the challenge over at the Quick Quotes Blog is to use "White Space"! Everytime I see a white space layout I always think " Wow, I can do that and it will be quick and easy"! WRONG!!!!!! This was a Challenge! Even picking a picture was a challenge, lol! But I have to say I actually like the way it turned out and keep telling myself, "what took me so long"!

Well I used this Adorable picture of McCade when he was almost 6 months old (now 11 yrs), I took a whole roll of black and white pics and I love all of them (so I have more)! Well I used some of the papers and embellishments from the October Teresa Colloins Club Q Kit. I also used a plain piece of white cardstock and used my homemade shimmer mist to stencil a doily onto the cardstock because I just couldn't use and all white paper for a white space challenge, lol! You can see a bit of the shimmer on the picture below and it does look a 100 times better in person but you can see some of the shimmer here.

I also added some of the chipboard and cardstock embellishments inked with QQ Midnight Confessions Powderpuff Chalk Ink and to bring out the orange from the photo mat I used some of my Prisma colored pencils and Gamsol to add a bit of color to the chipboard pieces (I don't own any Copic markers, so I still do it the old fashined way, lol). I love the way the subtle bit of color pops and brings out the photo mat and gives a bit of color to a pretty monochromatic color scheme.

I also added a saying from a Fiskers, Cloud 9 Design stamp about the blessings of little boys to love and I have to tell you McCade is a little blessing to me (keeps me young!) And of course had to add some bling, the bling strip is from the kit and the extra bling is some from my stash. Some sheer ribbon, and that's it! Pretty simple but what a fun and "Challenging" Challenge, lol!

So how do you all feel about "White Space"? Do you love it and it comes naturally, or do you struggle with it? Why don't you join us over at The Quick Quotes Blog for a fun Challenge! Just remember it has to be a new project and link up. You have till Nov. 30th to enter and you could win a great prize along with our Winner Blinkie to post on your blog, along with bragging rights! I sure hope to see you there! Have a great day and I hope You and Your Family Have a Wonderful Thanksgiving!

((Hugs)) and Take Care, Theresa

Extras used; Cardstock: DCWV, Sheer Ribbon: JoAnn's, Loose Bling: Hobby Lobby, Stamp: Fiskers Cloud 9, Doily: WalMart, Colored Pencils: Prisma)

A Fun Glitter Packing Tape Technique for Trendy Tuesday's over @ Quick Quotes

2011-11-22T02:00:00.001-05:00

Hi Everyone, Theresa here and I have a fun technique for you today. I love to do my fun and easy “Packing Tape Technique” and when you see how easy it is you’ll never look at the “negative” (I call it the Naked Space, lol) on your cut outs the same again! You will need to gather a few supplies:

Take your Packing Tape and add a piece to the back of your cut out (Naked/negative) space with the sticky side facing up:

Now put your images right side up, with the sticky side facing up and add your choice of glitter:

You can use a paint brush (or your finger) to push the glitter into the sticky packing tape:

Shake off the excess and your done!

Add some ink to the edges, faux stitching, whatever you want to add your own personal touch and your done! Endless possibilities!

I hope when you try this technique you share it with us and add it to the Idea Gallery on the Quick Quotes Blog.

Thanks for joining me for another Fun technique!

((Hugs)) and Take Care, Theresa

Mouse Challenge Over At BBTB2 This Week!

2011-11-21T10:00:00.076-05:00

Well Happy Monday everyone and how have all of my Wonderful Followers been!? I've been missing in action for the last couple of Bitten By The Bug 2 challenges and I'm so sorry! I have missed all of you and hope you've missed me (one can hope right, lol!) Well we've been doing some much needed home improvements and now I have a wall of new cabinets in my kitchen! I painted them a great green color and when we get the counter top on the desk I will show you how great they are! My dear hubby has also decided to move my crafting area downstairs to the family room and he got me another whole wall of cabinets and I've been trying to get things moved and set up but it slow going. I've been working alot and not feeling to good and just can't seem to shake it! Hopefully I'm just still trying to adjust to the daylight saving change, lol! Boy my Hubby sure picks the wrong time to do home reno's, lol, with the holidays and all......................(but I'm not complaining, lol!)

Well as you all know on Mondays it is always new BBTB2 challenge days and today is Our Amazing Melissa's turn to pick the challenge and she picked the Mouse form the Meow Lite cartridge. Now I don't own that cartridge but you know the rules and you are encouraged to use any cartridge with a Mouse on it. I used the Create A Critter cartridge for my project and made a quick card. I used the chunk of cheese and welded two chunks together using Design Studio and then added quite a few layers to the cheese and the Cute little Mouse!

See lots of layers! I did just a bit of embossing on the ears and the belly. Added the cute little eyelash googly eyes and a bow and all done. Pretty simple and now I have a card ready in case an occasion comes up that I forgot about. I was thinking of adding a saying to the inside that says "To the Big Cheese", maybe for a forgotten birthday!

Well I sure hope you join us over at the BBTB2 Blog and remember if you don't have the Meow Lite cart, use ANY Mouse from any cart but remember, it has to be a NEW project! Link up and you could win our Pick Of The Week (POW) Blinkie to display on your blog, along with bragging rights! Hope to see you there!

((Hugs)) and Take Care, Theresa

Time Canvas with Quick Quotes!

2011-11-20T02:00:00.001-05:00

Greetings here from Theresa and I have another Canvas Kit Creation to share with you all! Boy these are addicting! I was a bit intimidated the first time I tried one of these but now I always look forward to seeing what the new Canvas kit is each month! I used the November Club Q Canvas Kit for my “Time” canvas. I also added some extra elements to my project from some of the other November kits. First I painted the edges of my canvas with some black acrylic paint and used some Copper Brown Metallic Rub On paint to my black cardstock borders. Banners are very popular right now so what a perfect addition to the November kit. I added an extra layer to my canvas when I fussy cut a piece of my Copper Kettle QQ paper and pop dotted it to give it some dimension. I inked everything with QQ Powderpuff Chalk Ink in Mocha Mama and Midnight Confessions. I also added one of the Velum flowers from one of the other November QQ Club Q kit, added a clock rub-on with one of our Big Brads and also a couple of clocks from the October Club Q Teresa Collins Kit. Added a bit of bling and that’s it.

I hope you enjoyed this and check back on Tuesday where I’ll have a great technique to share with you on how I added the glitter to my “TIME” banner. You won’t want to miss it, So Fun and Super easy! See you there!

((Hugs)) and Take Care, Theresa

(Extras used: Acrylic paint: Folk Art, Rub on paint: Craf-T Products, Clock Rub-Ons: Imaginisce, Bling: Recollections & Hobby Lobby, Glitter: Martha Stewart)

I'm So Thankful For.....................

2011-11-12T12:52:00.000-05:00

Over at the Quick Quotes Blog we are celebrating what we are Thankful For and I am so Thankful for my Wonderful Family and Friends.

And having this blog, of course ALL of my Wonderful and Faithful Followers That means all of YOU!!!!!

I have a Quick, Quick Quotes (pun intended, lol) Card for you today! I have a friend that just needed a little pick me up and I made this card pretty quick. I used some scraps from the October Club Q kit which was the Fun Teresa Collins papers. Love the Black and White papers. I inked the edges using the Yummy Quick Quotes Midnight Confessions Powderpuff Chalk Ink and from the Teresa Collins kit used a Die Cut tag saying “Count Your Blessings” and I also added a bit of bling (it always makes me smile). I used some tulle for some fluffy texture and the flower I made myself from a punch. The card base is black so I’ll do my writing on the inside with a white jelly roll pen, how fun! Well this card made me feel better, I sure hope it makes my friend feel better! Have a Great Day and please stop by the Quick Quotes Blog and share with us what you are Thankful For!!
((Hugs)) and Take Care, Theresa

New Stuck On U Sketches and Cricut Circle Monthly Challenge!

2011-11-04T00:02:00.000-04:00

Hey everyone, how are all of you!? I've been missing on my blog lately (so sorry) I've been busy with work and doing some projects around the house! We just put in some pantry cupboards in our kitchen (woo hoo more cupboard room) so I've been painting. Then next week when I finish painting these we are moving my crafting area! I will be getting new cupboards (so more painting) and a new work area in our family room, I can't wait!

Well now onto new crafting challenges! First of all Stuck On U Sketches new challenge this week is:

LEAF!
And then The Cricut Circle Blog's Monthy challenge which is: To create a project of any kind using your sign/symbol of "Fall", you must also add texture to your project.

I made a Fun Fall Project to share with you. I love Fall so this was super Fun for me, I just love the colors of Fall and this soft pumpkin is adorning my coffee table so I get to enjoy it everyday, it just brings a big smile to my face and I sure hope you enjoy it also, I enjoy sharing it with you!
I couldn't wait to get out all my goodies to make some of these fun fall Sweater Pumpkins. These are made with re-cycled sweaters. I may try and do a tutorial in the following weeks (but my new craft area will be a big priority, you know how important that is, lol) Well after I finished my soft sculptor pumpkin I had to add some leaves to it so what better way to do that is with your Cricut! I used the Celebrate With Flourish cartridge and made a tag/card to tie onto the pumpkin.

Now I have a few extra goodies on here and one of them is a crochet doily that I added some of my homemade shimmer shine in a pretty gold shimmer. It's pretty hard to see but it is very pretty in person. I added a pretty sheer Red bow that I got last year at one of the after Xmas sales. The little birds nest is one I had in some of my stash and the acorns and pine cones are actually some I harvested in my own backyard!

Here is my actual card and I have to say, I Love It!!! It is cut @ 4" and welded the shadows together using Design Studio, cut all my layers and then I did some embossing, used Devine Swirls, Swiss Dots, Tiny Mosaic, Pumpkin Harvest and a small dotted butterfly folder. I inked everything with some Quick Quotes Mocha Mama chalk Ink popped everything and added some Red and Green Gems (also known as Bling, lol)!

Here's a great shot of all the layers and the embossing!

I just Love these little acorns! I added the texture on the acorns with the Pumpkin Harvest folder and I used the pumpkins to add the lines in the the acorns. (You can't even tell it's a pumpkin can you, lol!) Well I sure hope you join us over at Stuck On U Sketches. Your project just needs to be a new project and use a die/cut of a "LEAF", link up with the Linky on the SOUS Blog, and there's always goodies to be won, so the more you join in the various challenges the more chances you have to win. Pretty simple don't you think!? And speaking of winning I'm entering this in the Cricut Circle challenge also so since I'm not super lucky I'm keeping my fingers (and toes, lol) crossed.

Well hope to see you over at SOUS and if your a Circle member I may see you at the Circle challenge. Have a Great weekend, do you have any special plans, I'm going to be doing more painting and when I'm done I'll post a pic when I'm done!

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

Petaloo & Quick Quotes Blog Hop Day 5!

2011-10-28T02:01:00.000-04:00

Welcome to another day of the Quick Quotes and Petaloo Blog Hop, I sure hope you’ve enjoyed the hop and I can honestly say I was so excited to hear we were partnering with Petaloo and equally excited to share my layout using these Gorgeous Flowers! Any of you that know me know I Love Flowers, so this was right up my alley! The hardest part for me was deciding which ones to use! I wanted to use them ALL! Well I started with some fun papers. I used the Patsy's Paradise line of papers, I used a Martha Stewart punch around the page and then I fussy cut around the swirl on the QQ paper for some dimension and depth, then inked everything with Mocha Mama QQ Powderpuff Chalk Ink then popped the fussy cut layers. I also misted a Frosted Butterfly onto my paper with some of my homemade shimmer shine in a copper color and then added the misted Butterfly to the layout nestled in there with my flowers. Added some QQ Ribbon and did the Scrunched Ribbon technique from Michelle. Then I had some fun! I started layering my flowers, I used Canterberry Vine (Cream) & Berry Spray (Red), Mini Canterbury (Teal & Paprika) & Canterbury Rose x 6 (Vanilla & Paprika). It was so hard to stop but I had to add my bow so I scattered a few extra flowers in various places on the layout. I glued everything down with Beacon's 3 in 1 Glue (this glue will hold down almost anything and dries really fast) I used very minimal extras on this, The cardstock: DCWV, & Bling: Michael’s, that’s it. I sure hope I’ve inspired you to add some of these Beautiful Flowers from Petaloo and Gorgeous Papers from Quick Quotes to your next project. Enjoy!

Here's a close up of the Gorgeous Petaloo flowers I got to use! Aren't you jealous, lol!

And here's a close up of my handmade Shimmer shine butterfly, so pretty!

Well of course what Blog Hop doesn't have fun and Prizes!? Hop on over to the QQ Blog and/or Petaloo Blog to see what you have to do and you could win some of these awesome goodies yourself!

Hope you have a great weekend, I'm going to try and get me some crafting done this weekend, what kind of plans do you all have!?

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

You're an Original @ Quick Quotes! With A Flower Tutorial! (PIC Heavy)

2011-10-21T02:00:00.000-04:00

Hi everyone and another post from me, can you believe it! Well I get the honor of picking the Challenge on the Quick Quotes Blog this time and I have picked "Handmade Flowers"! Any type of handmade flowers you want, Paper, Fabric, re-cycled, you get it, I just want you to try your hand at making your own originals! Now you can add some pre-made ones with your originals but I want to see something HANDMADE! And to help you out I've added a tutorial along with my post to give you just one idea for some handmade flowers. You have a week and a half to enter the challenge and link up a NEW project to the link on the Quick Quotes Blog.

I don’t know about you but most of us have more then one hobby that we love and I Love to sew also! I don’t get to do it as much as I like but I have some projects I have to get done for gifts so I’ve been doing a little bit. And that’s what inspired me to make this layout, along with my tissue paper flowers made out of sewing pattern tissue papers (I got at a Yard Sale for $.25 for four patterns).
Well I have to tell you I love the Houndstooth from the QQ Cherry Truffle line which is what I used on this layout! I’ve used these papers in quite a few of my projects and I’m sure it won’t be the last time, lol. I also used my Cricut and the cartridges I used are Nifty Fifties (Dressform),Forever Young (words Original & An (modified)), Lovely Labels (Scalloped Circle) and Cricut Sampler (You’re).

What Gal doesn't love precious gemstones and pearls, it goes perfectly with this gorgeous dress don't you think!

Now on my paper doily I spritzed it with my Homemade Sparkle Shine. And don't you just love the tiny Pom Pom trim on the bottom of the Dress (too Cute)! And my Cute button Belt Buckle!

Now my tissue paper flowers are made with my Grand Caliber and Large Classic Scalloped circles. (tutorial following below on this post) I inked everything with the Quick Quotes Powderpuff Chalk inks Bloody Mary and Midnight Confessions. I love these inks! I also used our Beacon's 3-in-1 Glue to glue all the bling and flowers down. I hope this layout will inspire you to dig out your Sewing Machine too or maybe buy a new Dress, lol! Enjoy!

Now I have a treat for you all if you loved my tissue paper flowers! How about a tutorial!? Here is step by step instructions to make these fun flowers. As you all know I love my flowers and love to make my own. I've been pretty excited since I've been doing a tutorial at least once a month lately and I've been loving them so it may become a habit, lol! I Hope you enjoy it and if you don't understand anything or have any additional questions please feel free to contact me or leave me a comment here with a way to get a hold of you and I'll be happy to help if I can!

I wanted to share with you a fun, easy and economical way to make some Gorgeous flowers! These are made with tissue paper but you can use all kinds of cool materials. All you need is a manual die cutting machine of some sort, tissue doesn't cut very well on the Cricut (at least I know it won't cut on mine but maybe yours, or you have a different die cut machine that will cut tissue). You can also cut them out by hand but a die cutting machine just makes it go quicker.

Now I used a Spellbinders Grand Caliber and a set of Nestabilities Scalloped Circle Dies. And I used the tissue from an actual sewing pattern for my examples. But you can use tissue paper, crepe paper, regular cardstock, designer papers, fabric, tulle, lace, even burlap and denim, and I even have an example of using some packing foam, just use your imagination!

Now I made my “sandwich” of my bottom plate (Base plate-A). Dies, cutting rim facing UP. Tissue paper. Then top plate (Cutting Plate-C). (Follow the directions for your particular machine.)

Put through your machine to cut your scallops.

Now remove the scallops from the plates and dies and just crumble them up into a ball!

Separate your scallops into the same size piles...............

Make your stacks, I did larger on the bottom to smallest on the top and punch a hole in the center. I used a Crop-A-Dile but you can just use anything to punch a hole if your using a brad. You could also just glue them together if you like.

Get your brad and insert into the hole you made or just use your glue.

Once your brad is secured “scrunch” up your flower for some more fluff!
Now you can “scrunch as much or as little as you like, it just depends on how fluffy you like your flowers (and how many layers you like). And you can use anything in the center of your flowers. I used brads but you can use Buttons, vintage buttons, gemstones, bling, stamens, fuzzy pom poms, the sky’s the limit to what your imagination can come up with, the possibilities are endless.

Now here are a few more of some I was making. The ones on the left are the packing foam ones I was telling you about earlier. Now I bet you don’t throw away any tissue paper that you get from gifts you receive now, LOL! You could use all kinds of things for your flowers. What would you use when you decide to try these out, I’d sure love to know so please leave a comment with your fun ideas! Thanks for stopping by and please share your projects with us on the Idea Gallery Button above.

((Hugs)) and Take Care, Theresa!

Now the extras I used are:
Handmade Tissue Paper Flowers
Cricut: Forever Young, Nifty Fifties, Lovely Floral and Cricut Sampler.
Cardstock: DCWV, Martha Stewart & Colorbok
Punch: Martha Stewart “Cherish”
Paper Doily
Homemade Sparkle Shine (Rust/Gold color)
Red Flowers: Recollections
Bling: Hobby Lobby
Crinkle Ribbon: Hug Snug
Pop Pom Trim: $1 store
Pearl Trim: Darice
Red Necklace Trim: Making Memories
Buttons: Dress It Up
Black Jelly Roll Pen
Pop Dots and Strips

Fence Challenge with SOUS!

2011-10-21T00:01:00.000-04:00

Boy I've been busy, busy, busy with projects lately! I can hardly believe it myself! I have to share a kinda funny something with you all, I finished my project and was getting ready to send it over to Leah so she could add it to the SOUS blog and I was getting my write up ready and I keep everything in a notebook and check them off as I finish them and when I looked I had finished the wrong project, I got the weeks mixed up, lol! Well one good thing is that at least I'm ahead of myself for the next challenge, Woo Hoo for me! So I had to finish this layout in just a couple of hours! It's a good thing I already had it mapped out in Design Studio and I had my idea already because sometimes I just don't have a clue on what I'm going to do. It usually takes me a couple of days to create one of my layouts just because I love to add so many elements on them. So this layout is a pretty simple one for me and actually I can say, I love the way it turned out! Pretty much how I seen it in my head. And it's also good to know that I can get a project done in a couple of hours, lol!
Now my Halloween layout here is for the Stuck On U Sketchs Die Cut Challenge which is "Fence"! My inspiration for this layout is from my fellow Design Team Sister from BBTB2 Donna who does Amazing things with paper! I've been looking for this Martha Stewart punch for about 1 1/2 years and then I seen what Donna did and I just had to find it. I finally did on Ebay and this is how my layout evolved. The Cricut Cartridges I used are A Child's Year for the little Trick Or Treater's, Happy Hauntings for the Haunted House, Ghost, Bat and Saying, and then Good ole George for the Moon!

Here's a closeup of the left side and the Haunted House is cut @ 7", the Moon @ 5 1/2" and the little Trick or Treaters @ 3". This is a "flat" layout of me, no layers and no texture. I wanted it to really show the Silhouette's of everything. And I love the "Fence" punch. There are fences on alot of the carts but I wanted to use this punch so if you want to recreate it there are some on the cartridges you could use.

Here's a close up of the right side. The Saying is cut @ 2" and the ghost @ 5". I cut the ghost to use as my Journal spot. Not to many extras, just some Bling and Ric Rac and the papers are from some very old DCWV stack.

Here's a close up of the little Trick or Treater's (aren't they the cutest!)

And another close up of those cute Trick or Treaters along with the saying!

Now make sure you pop in over to the Stuck On U Sketches Blog and see what my Amazing Design Team Sisters have created, they're all Amazing and I always love to see how we all interpret the theme for each challenge. I sure hope you join us over at SOUS for the fun "Fence" challenge. Link up your NEW project and you could win the goodies for the month. The more entries you submit the more chances you have.

Hope you have a great weekend, hopefully you'll get to do some crafting this weekend, since I have my next project all finished I may just take the weekend off, lol! Chat with you soon!

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

Altered Dressforms Wall Vinettes with Teresa Collins & Quick Quotes Club Q Re-Do!

2011-10-20T02:00:00.001-04:00

Hi Everyone and do I have a treat for you! Grab a cup of coffee or tea because there are alot of pics for this one but I think (hope, lol) you'll enjoy it as much as I had making it!

Oh My Goodness I had soooooo much Fun (can you tell I thoroughly loved doing this!) with part of the October Quick Quotes Altered Kit. As you know by now Quick Quotes has teamed up with Teresa Collins this month for the October Club Q Kits and I couldn't wait to use the canvas kits for this fun project!

First of all I altered the canvas by cutting off some of the excess canvas and finishing off the inside of the opening with the cut off pieces of canvas because as you can see I’m using the “backside” and wanted them finished, then I painted the canvas with some Folk Art Metallic Pearl White Paint to add to the vintage feel of the papers and give it a dreamy shine!

I had so much fun with this kit, I love to make little scenes when I get a chance and this was just perfect for these Gorgeous, Yummy papers!

I made two little altered vignettes for the wall.

I love to sew and so did my Mom so this is a tribute to her. I remember the old dress form that she had and I WISH I had it now! I made two, dimensional Dress Forms, one from the Cricut Cartridge Forever Young and one from the Nifty Fifties cartridge, both of the papers on the dress forms are QQ French Quarters papers and they went together perfectly with the Oct. Club Q Papers!

I also added a dimensional Vintage looking Sewing Machine, also from the Nifty Fifties cartridge.

I love the vintage papers in this kit and I have so many old pictures of my Mom that I just had to use a fun Fashionista picture of her with these gorgeous vintage looking papers.

I used Quick Quotes Midnight Confessions Powderpuff Chalk Ink on the whole project for some depth. And the chipboard piece is from the Oct QQ Club Q Altered Optional kit which is also a Teresa Collins exclusive.

I hope you enjoy this as much as I had making it to share with everyone!

Here's a pic of the Oct. QQ Club Q Kit with all of the goodies you could get each month delivered right to your door.

Some of the other extras I used are:

Cricut Cartridges:Forever Young & Nifty Fifties
Cardstock: Colorbok and Martha Stewart
Paint: Folk Art Metallic Pearl White
Martha Stewart Border Punch
Swirl Bling: Recollections
Misc. other Bling: Hobby Lobby (strip of Bling is from QQ kit)
Flowers: Recollections
Corsage Pins: Walmart
Shoes and Purse Stickers: Hot off the Press
Corner Bracket and Cameo button (? from my stash)

Well I have another project that's posting tomorrow and it is on the same theme as the dressforms and I'll have a tutorial also on making tissue paper flowers so I sure hope you stop by. It's going to be a busy weekend, I have quite a few projects posting so I sure hope you get to see them all, you won't be dissappointed, I had a blast with all of them. Two Quick Quotes and a Stuck On U Sketches post so make sure you come back.

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

Hello Kitty Happy Halloween Challenge with BBTB2!

2011-10-17T11:00:00.002-04:00

Good Morning my lovely followers and what Wonderful Fall weather we've been having here in Kentucky! Fall is one of my favorite times of year and living here in KY I actually get to see the seasons change. This week over at Bitten By The Bug 2 is my week to pick the challenge and since Halloween is in full swing I thought I would do something with a Halloween theme to it but I didn't want the Spooky, Scary, Gorey stuff I wanted something Cute and what's Cuter then Hello Kitty (you know it's my secret obsession, lol, well not so much now since I told you all, lol!) I picked the Hello Kitty dressed up like a Cat, kind of ironic isn't it, Hello Kitty dressed up like a Cat, ????? Anyhow if you don't have the Hello Kitty Cartridge you can use any Cat, just give it a Halloween theme please! You have two weeks to enter and it must be a NEW project and you can link it to the link on the BBTB2 Blog. Easy and you could win our Cute POW (Pick of the Week) Blinkie to add to your blog, along with brights of course! Well enough of the logistics, lets take a look at my Hello Kitty Happy Halloween Layout!

Well I did a 2 page layout as you can see. Now the papers I used are really bright and cheery but the pics don't do them justice so trust me they are almost neon bright colors.

Here is a close up of the Left side of the layout. I cut the Hello Kitty Witch @ 6". The moon is cut @ 6" also with a shadow cut of 6 1/4" and I used the George Cartridge. The bat is cut a@ 3" and the saying is cut @ 3" also.

Now the right side is the Star of the show, Hello Kitty Cat and she is cut @ 6" too. Now the Pumpkin is cut @ 5" and it is the card feature and I will use it as my journaling spot (you should know me by now and my hidden journaling spots.)

Here is a close up of the Pumpkin Journal spot. I also used the Devine Swirls embossing folder (a true must have and go to folder if your new to embossing and wondering which folders to get!) Also a little piece of ribbon for a little handle on the side.

Now I had to add the Adorable little bat just because he's just too Darn Cute! I used the Swiss Dots folder to emboss him. (Another must have embossing folder)

Here is a close up of the Precious Hello Kitty Witch with her fuzzy little pom pom on her hat.

And last but not least, the inspiration for the challenge this week over at BBTB2 . Isn't she the Cutest! Now the embossing folder I used on her bow and the other HK is a small butterfly folder that has a die with it that you cut, then emboss the butterfly but I like to use it for smaller pieces because the dots are really small and real close together.

Now the papers I used are some really old DCWV paper stack papers. I though I had bought a stack of Halloween papers last time we went to the city but I guess I didn't (see another sign of aging, forgetting things, lol) so I used some old ones and they are simple but still very fun, pretty and perfect for this layout. I didn't add to much more. Some green Ric Rac, Purple Bling, a Pom Pom and some doodling dots and faux stitching with a Black Jelly Roll pen. I think I'm going to put this in a book I've been putting together for my Granddaughters with layouts I've done here and there (especially Hello Kitty) go in there. But you never know since I am a secret Hello Kitty obsessed fan I just may have to keep these, lol!

Well don't forget to go over to the BBTB2 Blog and check out what the amazing Design Team Gals created. I'm sure you'll be inspired, they are all Amazing!

Have a Great week and I sure hope you are enjoying the Fall weather. I just hope it stays around for a bit, I'm not ready for Winter!

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

Fall Layout and a Couple of Challenges!

2011-10-14T13:10:00.000-04:00

Hey everyone, can you believe it's me again with another post! This Fall layout is for a couple of challenges and I can tell you it was going to be really simple and then it just transformed!

It started out with the Oct. Quick Quotes Club Q kit which uses Teresa Collins papers which are what is in the kit this month, so fun! And I also used my Cricut. The Cartridges I used were: Celebrate with Flourish, Wild Card and Flower Shoppe. I've had some pictures of McCade when we lived in Vegas and it was his first trip to a pumpkin patch (yes there is more to Vegas then Casinos, lol) and yes he does have shorts and sandals on in Oct. It stays pretty warm there till the end of Oct. into Nov. He had so much fun and we came home with Lots of Pumpkins!

I also used the yummy Quick Quotes Powder Puff Chalk Inks in Mocha Mama and Midnight Confession. The ribbon is Quick Quotes Ribbon also. And what a perfect Quote, again from QQ's! I did some embossing using Devine Swirls and Dotted Swiss folders. And check out that great fence! It's a Martha Stewart deep edge punch called Iron Fence (I've been looking all over for it and finally had to break down and buy it off of Ebay, lol)! And some of the other extras are the buttons, brads and some of my Homemade Sparkly Glimmer Shine. You can kind of see it one the photo below, pretty cool huh!

Well the two challenges I'm entering this into is the Quick Quotes One Photo Challenge that is open till 10/19/11. You are to use one photo of your choosing and anything else goes! So hope you join us over at the Quick Quotes Blog! I'm also entering this in the Cricut Circle Blogiversary Recipe challenge. You need a Title (check), at least two Cricut Cuts (check) and at least 3 buttons (check). Now the prize you could win is a Cricut Cake Machine and I've been wanting one for quite awhile. So wish me luck and I'll keep you posted!

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

Another Cricut Circle Blogiversary Challenge Entry!

2011-10-12T18:15:00.000-04:00

Holy Cow can you believe another post and another entry for the Cricut Circle Blogiversary challenge! I haven't been entering any of the challenges for along time but I figured, heck if I'm paying for a year of the Circle then why not make it worth my while and take advantage of "maybe" winning something, right!?

Well here is my entry for the possibility of winning an Imagine. Now as you can see, I already have an Imaging but if I win one I will have part of my daughters Xmas present! Then I can get her some carts to go with it along with some paper and other must haves for the I, and I think she would get more use out of the I then a regular Expression just for the fact that she can "print" and cut her projects and she won't have to buy lots of different papers and all the other "stuff" that we all have to have for our E!

I actually like the way it came out. These are some leftover Imagine cuts and the little dragonfly was from another project and it went together perfectly for this card!

And here is the Sketch that we are to use for the challenge. Now I've just started using sketches since I joined the Quick Quotes Design Team and I can say they are fun. It is a challenge in itself to use a sketch (well at least for me it is, lol) But my card actually came out almost to the tee for the layout of the sketch, don't you think!?

And here is another view of my card. I am sending this to a friend along with some goodies! I think she'll like it (well I sure hope she does, lol)

Thanks again for stopping by today. And again wish me luck, I'll keep you posted and who knows, you may see me one more time today and if not today, maybe tomorrow!

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

Cricut Circle Blogiversary Challenge Entry!

2011-10-12T12:45:00.000-04:00

Well the Cricut Circle Blog is having some really big challenges for their Blogiversary and this one is to use your Cuttlebug as the star! Well I think I achieved this challenge. It's a REALLY simple card for me but I needed a quick Anniversary card for a friend (how funny Anniversary, Blogiversary, what a coincidence, lol) So I used the Sweethearts cart and cut it in layers as you can see. The card base is embossed with a folder I got from a bundle from HSN when I bought my Cuttlebug and I'm not sure what the name of the folder is (sorry) and then I used the trusty Swiss Dots folder. The accents are an epoxy tag that says "Lifetime of Happiness" (Lifetime is pretty hard to see in the pic) of course some Red Bling and a pretty Red bow! I feel pretty good about this one to since it was things I've had for quite awhile and need to use (don't we all have too many things sitting around that we NEED to use, lol!)

Well this is to win a Yudu CardShop Machine that I don't have. It is something I would love to own but have not acquired yet, lol! (See I've been pretty good about buying new things, other then some carts of course, gotta have those, lol) Well wish me luck and I'll keep you posted. Thanks for stopping in!

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

You Know Your Old When..............BBTB2 Buzzard Challenge!

2011-10-10T11:00:00.009-04:00

Edited to add:

Okay yes, I seen that I spelled it wrong actually AFTER I posted it and went live this morning, lol I guess I was so excited that I actually thought of a saying before I did my project I got ahead of myself!, LOL! Thanks for pointing it out, I figured someone would spot it and call me out so touche', you got me, lol!
Theresa! =]

You Know Your Getting Old........................When the Buzzards Start Circling!!!! LOL, LOL!

Isn't that a Hoot! And I thought of it all by myself, lol! I always have a hard time with sayings so I was really excited about having one figured out even before I started my project! Well enough about my saying, lets get into the challenge this week!

Well it's Monday and challenge day over at Bitten By The Bug 2 and my Lovely, Amazingly Talented Design Team Sister and Friend, Agnes, (aka FlowerDisco) has picked the "Vulture" from the "Life's A Party" Cartridge to use this week. Now I can say this was one of the reasons I bought this cartridge (along with the cupcake wrappers) so I was excited to finally get to make it! Well the cart has a card feature on it so that made it easy. I used the tombstone card and cut it at 7". Than I cut the Vulture at 4" separately. I didn't weld them this time. I cut an additional layer tho of red for the tombstone and put some packing tape on the back of the R. I. P. cut image and added some black glitter to make it more sparkly. I also did the packing tape technique on the vultures wing section too but you can't really tell by the pics. The grass I added is from Plantin Schoolbook and cut in two sizes, 1" & 1 1/8", then layered and cut to fit the front of the tombstone. Now the bird is done in layers and I can say there are a nice amount of layers on this cart but no shadows but it turned out great even without them, you never would have even noticed I bet if I didn't say anything, lol! I popped all the different layers and did some embossing. I inked all the pieces for some added dimension. and of course, I had to add some Bling! To the tombstone and to the Vulture!

Here is the inside of the card (I actually finished the inside) but on this one I guess I kinda had to or you wouldn't get the Joke, lol! Hey, I have to tell you a quick little story, This was our first winter here in KY and my first winter with snow. One of the cows had a baby, it was so cold and it had been snowing and I knew she was going to have it any time and was really nervous, so I had went out really early to check and sure enough there was a new baby. Well as I went out to the field I looked up and there were about 10 Vultures sitting up in the trees by the house and about another 10 down at the end of the field (about 1/4 mile from the house) it was the eeriest and weirdest feeling seeing all those vultures just sitting there. And stupid me I didn't get a picture, didn't even think about it till later, I was just so worried about the new baby. Well she was just fine, Mama was cleaning her up, there was even steam coming off of her! I even got to go up and pet her, Mama actually let me! So every time I see a Vulture I think of that baby cow! But I sure wish I had gotten a picture, lol! (Now I ALWAYS bring my camera with me, even when I go out for a walk, lol!)

Here is a picture of the Vulture close up. You can see the embossing, layers and of course the Bling!

And here's the picture of the Vulture on the top of the tombstone. You can see it a bit better with the glittering the R. I. P. and the swirl.

Well I sure hope you join in the challenge over at the BBTB2 Blog. Just remember it has to be a NEW project to link up and you could win our cute BBTB2 winner blinkie to display on your blog along with bragging rights. You have two weeks to enter and if you don't have Life's a Party the use any scary bird or maybe a crow (there is a vulture on ZooBalloo and Zoo Day, I checked on Design Studio). I sure hope to see you there.

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

Let's Hang out for a Cricut Circle challenge!

2011-10-09T00:01:00.000-04:00

There is a few challenges going on over at the Cricut Circle and I just had to enter this one. For this challenge you have a chance to win a Cricut Cake. McCade and I have wanted one of these for awhile but have put off getting one so maybe I'll get lucky this time (Yeah Right, lol)!

You are required to use your Imagine and create a background paper and an image cut in layers and use it on your project. Well I used the cartridge Better Together and printed out a 12 x 12 sheet of paper. Love the flowers and the colors on this cart. I then cut the "Let's Hang Out" image and cut it in four layers and popped them. I added some pom-pom trim for a bow and.......................

Printed out the cute little Phone, popped it and added a stamped "Call Me" for the inside saying! I'm going to add my phone # to it when I send it but I didn't want to for my post, (you all can understand why, lol!)

And here is a side view to show some of the dimension. I've started using my Imagine more lately. It comes in handy when I have a block on picking out papers since I hate to use my favorite paper pads, lol! (None of you do that do you, LOL!) And I like the way it sizes the print images to the size you cut your image at.

Well if I win I'll definitely be telling you all so wish McCade and I luck, he loves to bake and I love to decorate and last year we took a cake decorating class and had a blast so this would be fun for us to do together. Thanks for stopping by and I'll chat with you all later.

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

Tree Challenge with Stuck On U Sketches!

2011-10-07T00:01:00.001-04:00

Hello all my lovely followers and how are all of you this wonderful Friday and the start to a wonderful weekend. Well it's been two weeks (can you believe it) since the last challenge over at Stuck On U Sketches Die Cut Challenge and this week our theme is "Tree"! You can use any type of Die Cuts and/or machine to create a NEW project. I used my Cricut to create my "Organic Gardening" Journal. I also made a Thank You Card and a Corner Bookmark. I used my "Straight from the Nest" Cartridge and also my "Bloom" lite cartridge. I've always Loved this tree ever since I got this cart when it was an exclusive to HSN and I HAD to have it, lol! This tree has always just seemed "Organic" to me. I don't know why but it does, so I used it for this Organic Gardening Journal. The Tree is cut @ 4" on the Journal and 3" on the card and each layer is popped. The tree on the Journal has my favorite packing tape technique with some green peridot Martha Stewart Glitter added for some sparkle. Now the paper is My Minds Eye (love it and it's been some of those papers I just can't seem to use, lol) it is all glittered and embossed so it just adds to the sparkle and the pictures don't do the paper justice.

I added a couple of pockets on the inside of the journal to keep receipts or seed packets or even some pictures. I also added a paperclip and a bulldog clip so things don't blow away if it happens to be windy outside that day! Oh and also my corner bookmark to keep your place from where you were last time you were jotting things down! This is a cool feature on the Straight From The Nest cartridge with Lots of these corner bookmarks and I cut it at 2".

A close up of the Journal, you can see the sparkle, and I have to tell you I had to do some cutting on the word gardening since I couldn't find anything so I took two words and pieced them together from the Bloom cart. It was from the saying "How does your Garden Grow" and "Celebrate Spring" I cut the "ing" off of Spring and pieced to the word Garden to make the word "gardening". You know where's there's a will, there's a way, lol! On the binding I used a Martha Stewart border punch and used my Crop A Dile to punch a couple of holes to hold my jute on. And of course had to add some Bling! I also did some shading on my words to give them more definition and separation with some Quick Quotes Powder Puff Chalk Inks in Mocha Mama and Green With Envy and did a little doodling with a Brown Jelly Roll Pen.

And then the close up of my card. Some added jute, a vinyl rub-on and of course, Bling!

Well I hope you enjoyed my "Tree" Challenge. I sure hope you join us over at SOUS Die Cut Challenge. Just remember it has to be a NEW creation and you have two weeks to enter. There is always a great sponsor to give away some great goodies. So what are you waiting for, get busy and go check out my amazing Design Team Sister's amazing projects for some inspiration over at the SOUS Blog if you haven't been there yet and join us, we would LOVE to have you!

Have a Great weekend and hope you get to, Get Crafty!

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

"Witch" Pair Go Best With My Broom, LOL!?

2011-10-06T00:01:00.081-04:00

With Halloween coming I thought it would be fun to make some Cards and what Witch, oops, I mean Girl doesn’t love shoes???? And what do Witch’s and shoes have in common you ask??
Well this Witch made a few Witch Shoe Cards!!
I used my Cricut to make these and the Happy Hauntings Cartridge. I used all kinds of papers on these. They are all Quick Quotes papers with the exception of the card-stock which is Colorbok. I used Cherry Truffle, French Quarter, Miss Morgan, Savvy Davvy, and some of the May Cosmo Cricket leftover papers.
I inked everything with the Yummy Quick Quotes Powder Puff Chalk Inks, Mocha Mama and Midnight Confessions.

The extras I used are the ribbons, Black Crinkle ribbon, Sheer Black and Black Gingham, a couple of Martha Stewart punches and a bit of bling, that’s it very minimal!

The Witch Shoe is cut at 5 3/4" and I created it in Design Studio and welded two shoes together and then added all my layers to the card base.

This one is made with the Cherry Truffle and some scraps from the May Club Q kit, a Martha Stewart punch for the scallop at the top with the gingham ribbon, some black crinkle ribbon and some added bling.

This one is made with the Cherry Truffle, Savvy Davvy and more of the May Club Q papers. Another Martha Stewart punch, some black crinkle ribbon and some bling.

This one is made with the French Quarters, Miss Morgan and the May Club Q kit, a Martha Stewart punch, Sheer black ribbon and some bling.

And last but not least the last one is made with Miss Morgan, Savvy Davvy and French Quarters papers. Martha Stewart punch with sheer black ribbon and some bling.

Here's a fancy view of all the Fabulous Shoes, Wouldn't you just love to wear a pair of these Beauties, I sure would!

I just wanted to highlight the versatility of all the Quick Quotes papers and how you can mix and match them and make them your own! I think I succeeded don't you, I love these and please make sure to keep checking out all the inspiration that goes on with the Quick Quotes Blog and the Amazing Design Team. There are tips, tutorials, Guest Designers, Previews of the new Club Q Kits, Challenges and Great Contests with Amazing Prizes!

Well I sure hope you all like my shoes, (heck what girl doesn't love shoes, lol!) I had so much fun wearing, ooops I mean making them and I think I may be making some more of them, I think even if I did a bit of altering I could use some vintage looking papers and give them a whole other vintage look, so hopefully I'll see you all again and I'll get some more shoes (and Ken can't get mad at me because I didn't spend a dime, lol!)

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

Froggies over at BBTB2 this week! I'm right at home!

2011-10-03T11:00:00.014-04:00

Hi everyone and it's challenge time again over at Bitten By The Bug 2 and I am telling you this is a FUN one! It was Carri's turn to pick the challenge and she picked the "Froggie" from "Create A Critter" and as you all know, I Love the Froggie's, so this was lots of Fun for me, LOL!

Well I made a card this week and actually it's a kinda big one, almost 8 x 8, so it could be technically a layout, lol! And you never know I may put it on a layout. That might be kinda cute, and 8 x 8 album. One side an image and the other side add the photo's. (Note to self: "Pick up a 8 x 8 album"!)

Well I used Design Studio again (love it!) and welded a bunch of images together and came up with this! I added the Sun cut @ 5", the Pond @ 2" (but I stretched it to give it more depth), Frog @ 3", Lilypad @ 3 1/2", Grass @ 2" & 3", Flower @ 4" and the Dragonfly @ 2". If it had a shadow I cut one but some I had to stretch to make my own shadow. I embossed almost all of the images using Swiss dots, Devine swirls, Spiderweb, & Forest Branches and my Cuttlebug. Everything is popped for dimension and I also inked everything using Quick Quotes Powder Puff Chalk Inks in various colors along with some doodling dots with a brown jelly roll pen. The hearts are a punch and I added some cute Googley eyes to my Froggie and also the dragonfly. And speaking of my Dragonfly, he wiggles! I put him on a piece of wire I curled to make him look like he's in flight! Cute huh, lol! I also cut the dragonfly wings out of vellum and added some Diamond stickles to them and a funny thing happened to them, it was like they had a chemical reaction to the vellum and they started to curl and distort. You can't really tell and once it dried they look fine but it was kind of strange. Has that ever happened to any of you?

(Here's a close up of that cute little Dragonfly!)

Well I sure hope you join us over at BBTB2 Blog for the "Froggie" challenge and remember if you don't have the Create A Critter cartridge you can use any Frog from any other cartridge. The challenge is open for two weeks and please just make sure it's a NEW project to link up and you could win our Great Blinkie, along with Braggin Rights of Course! Hope to see you there!

((Hugs)) and Take Care!

Theresa

I Have A Winner!

2011-10-02T18:32:00.000-04:00

Well I blew it again and didn't do my drawing yesterday, I always say Saturday I'll pick but for some reason I always think it should be Sunday's so from now on I'm going to do my picks on Sunday's! I also want to say Thank You all for the lovely comments, they mean so much to me and the concenses is that we all love to scrap whenever we get a chance, lol!

Now without further ado.....................

my winner is:

Sharon said:

"Oh gosh1 I so love all the colors of your flowers!! Love how you filled the wheelbarrow full! This is just an awesome card!! I love to craft every chance I get! I have a crazy work schedule so I just craft whenever!!" :)

You can thank McCade Sharon for picking a winner, lol, he wanted to pick and was very adamant about the #3 so Congrats Sharon! You can contact me with your address at:

mccadesmom@gmail.com

and I can get your goodies out to you!

Have a great day and hope to see you at the BBTB2 challenge tommorrow, we love having all of you! It's a really Fun one and as soon as you see it you'll all know why I really enjoyed it, lol!

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

BBTB2 Blog Hop and Wheelbarrow Challenge!

2011-09-26T11:00:00.012-04:00

Hello again everyone, and how are you this fine Monday!? We are expecting rain here in Kentucky but I actually hope it holds off till tomorrow because I don't work tomorrow and I love to craft when it rains. How about you, when do you like to craft? That is my question for you this week and one stipulation of my blog hop candy, lol! I'll get to that in a bit tho, Candy that is, first of all the challenge for this week over at Bitten By The Bug 2 is the Amazingly Talented, and someone I always look to for inspiration, Donna, and her pick for this week is to use the "Wheelbarrow" from the Walk In My Garden. Another oldie but a goodie and actually was the third cartridge I ever bought for my Cricut. Now if you arrived here from Agnes's Blog (who is another amazingly talented Design Team Sister and Friend) you are on the right track, but if you ever get lost you can start at the beginning at the BBTB2 Blog!

Well I made a card for this challenge. I should be making fall cards but I had to get one more bright and summery card to put an end to summer. I created this in Design Studio using "Walk In My Garden" and the good ole trusty "George" cartridge. Lots of welding and for the saying I just used the pre-programed words on the WIMG cart. Lots of dimension with foam pop dots, some bling, stickles, doodling, chalk and ink..........................

And I finished the inside of the card too! Woo Hoo!

Here's a view of all the dimension and pop.

Your next stop is my Lovely Design Team Sister Penny on the Hop and if you ever get lost you can hop on over to the BBTB2 Blog and make sure you haven't missed anyone or start there if this is your first stop.

And here's a little something that I'm giving away for some Blog Candy. I added some tissue paper in there because I have a tutorial that is coming up that I will be making flowers out of tissue paper so then you'll already have a heads start and some to play with along with the other goodies I'll be sending. Now to win my candy, it's pretty simple, You just HAVE to be a follower, leave a comment, and tell me when do you like to craft, when it rains, in the AM, PM, middle of the night, weekends, on a full moon (lol) you get it, just when do you like to craft, I'll be drawing a winner next Sat. Oct. 1st. and posting here on my blog so make sure you check back. I also hit 500 followers on my blog so I may just have another piece of candy for a lucky follower because if it wasn't for all of you I wouldn't be here.

Well I hope you join in the challenge, it is open for 2 weeks and the only requirement is that it has to be a NEW project! And if you don't have the Walk In My Garden just remember that you can use ANY wheelbarrow from any cart to play. Just link up to the linky tool on the BBTB2 Blog and you could win our fun BBTB2 Blinkie along with braggin rights of course! And don't forget to Hop to each of the Amazing Design Team Gals and see the amazing creations that they came up with, they always blow me away with what they do! Amazing!

Well I hope you have/had fun on the Hop and have a great week, and get to get some crafting in. I still have a few things to finish for upcoming posts so keep your eyes out for some more fun projects and hope to see you over at the BBTB2 challenge.

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

Blessed Canvas with a Transfering Large Bling Tutorial!

2011-09-25T13:03:00.002-04:00

This was my first attempt at a canvas project (other than the mini book canvas kits) and I have to say I Love the way it turned out and I already have another in the works, lol! I went to my very first Private Reserve also (boy lots of first here, lol) and all I can say is if you Ever get a chance to go to one, YOU MUST GO! I got to go to the Atlanta, GA Private Reserve and had a BLAST! Busy the whole time I was there and this was one of the projects that we did! It is done with a 10 x 10 Canvas. I swayed from the actual directions with the kit and this is what I “re-did” to show you one variation of it! The inks I used were Amaretto and Mocha Mama PowderPuff Chalk Inks (two of my much loved colors) The Paper line that is used on the canvas and in the kit is the Damsel in Distress line and the chipboard pieces were cut just for this kit. Actually the chipboard corner pieces at the top are the negative pieces from the frames that I cut apart and stacked with some bling for extra dimension (I can‘t throw anything away, lol)!

The extras I used were minimal, Flowers: Recollections from Michael’s and Bling Swirl: Forever in Time and additional Bling: Hobby Lobby. The feather’s are just some I had in my stash. That’s it, very minimal extras and actually the kit came with some Frosted Butterflies that I didn’t use along with a few extra flourishes that I can add to another project. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did creating it!

Now I don’t know about you but I love the Blingy Swirls but I hated fighting with them when trying to use them and part of the reason I did this tutorial was because while I was at the Atlanta Private Reserve Patsy (the owner of Quick Quotes) and I were talking about the easiest way to transfer bling and she said if I figure out a way to let her know, so here you go Patsy, I figured it out, this ones for you, LOL!

I was bound and determined to figure out a way to use them so they would go where I wanted them to go and not stick to everything else so I got me out some packing tape and stuck a few pieces together………

Then I took the stickiness off by sticking it to my pants (yes these are my PJ’s it was really early in the AM before everyone was up, lol)……….

Then I put the “used” tape with still some tack over the bling that I wanted to transfer and pressed it to the bling…………

And then I started to peel back the tape with the bling attached to the tape and it stayed exactly where I wanted it to, perfectly!………….

Then I figured out where I wanted it to be positioned on my project, pressed it down, and started pulling back the tape, again perfectly in place!…………….

And here is the finished project with perfectly placed bling!!!! Now how simple was that!

And I added a few more close ups of some of the other pictures.

Some of the flowers with the feathers!

Another angle and to show a bit of the dimension.

And I even used a few of the throw away pieces from the laser cuts from the frames as some popped fancy unconventional photo corners! (Like I keep saying I just can't throw anything away, lol) Added some bling and you'd never know it should have been trash, lol!

Well I sure hope if you made it to the end of this book, (oops I mean post, lol) you have enjoyed it. I will be doing more of the Canvas projects, I really enjoyed this. And please make sure you stop over at the Quick Quotes Blog on Tuesdays, there will be more Techniques for, "Trendy Tuesday's"!

Have a great rest of your weekend and see you all tomorrow with BBTB2 for a new challenge and end of the month Blog Hop!

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

You Make My "Heart" Sing! SOUS Heart Challenge

2011-09-23T00:01:00.009-04:00

Well hello everyone and Happy Friday! I sure hope you all have been doing good, nothing exciting going on here. Actually kind of boring, lol!

Well we have another challenge over at Stuck On U Sketches Die Cut Challenge this week and the challenge is "HEART"! Well I don't know if you all know that I have an Imagine, well I do and I don't use it near enough to justify spending the money on it so I think I got my use out of it this week, lol! I made a whole Heart Mini with it! I also used the Sweethearts cartridge too. That is what the heart shape mini is made out of cut at 5 1/2". The Imagine cartridge I used is the Better Together and the little tag and music paper heart on the front is from the Imagine More Cartridge.

After printing everything out and flipped the backside hearts (so they line up perfectly) then glued them together then I punched a hole with my Crop A Dile and added some grommets for some added enforcement and a ring to hold it together, tied some ribbon on the ring for some fun. Added some jump rings to the tag (with some added bling of course) added a little prima flower with a bling center and a piece of ribbon! Everything is inked with some Quick Quotes Mocha Mama Chalk Ink (love this stuff!) Added some foam tape for some pop and dimension also!

Doesn't it just "Make Your Heart Sing"!? It sure does mine, lol!

Pages 1 & 2

Added some bling, a little envelope, (one of the extras on the BT cart) with a rolled handmade flower, a cute pink doily and more foam strips for some pop and dimension. Love these two print papers too, so Cute!

Pages 3 & 4

The heart doilies are from the Sweethearts cart and added for photos. Added some more bling, a piece of ribbon and some older prima flowers I had a jar of that I haven't used in a L O N G time with some bling centers and all popped again.

Pages 5 & 6

Love these print papers too. Another doily some more flowers and bling and a ribbon bow and everything is popped again.

Pages 7 & 8

Love the little flower, so whimsical, more dimension, flowers and bling.

Pages 9 & 10

Love Blue and Yellow together so fresh and cheery! More doilies, flowers, bling and dimension

Last Page

And as I said last page with a little frame to add a little saying to whom I give this too! Not sure who yet, or maybe I'll just keep it, lol!

Well hope you enjoyed my full Imagine project! It was fun, actually went pretty fast, but I still like my Expression, love to manipulate paper and when I use my Design Studio I don't waste as much paper as I feel I do with the Imagine but I have to say I wasn't stumped with picking papers, I always have the hardest time with patterned papers, I don't like to use my "pretty papers" (do you all do that too, lol?) and it also sizes the print size down to fit the size you pick for your image to be cut, (does that make sense) check out page 3 & 5 from above to see an example and that's a nice feature I think. I tried to fit everything as close as I could to use less paper but I couldn't manipulate it enough but I'll fiddle with it more and maybe learn a few more things, lol! If anyone knows of anyone who has some pointers I would greatly appreciate the link.

Now remember to enter the challenge over at Stuck On U Sketches Die Cut challenge this week, the theme is "Heart" so anything to do with a Heart and link up with the Link at the bottom of the post. We would love to see your "Heart"!

Have a Great weekend, we have Birthday party to go to this weekend for some good friends little boy, he's turning 3 so it should be fun! How about you, any fun plans for the weekend?

Well ((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

Peachy Keen and Quick Quotes Blog Hop

2011-09-17T03:00:00.004-04:00

Thank you so much for joining us for the Peachy Keen Stamps/Quick Quotes Blog Hop! If you've just come from Joanna's Blog (Scrap Making), then you are hopping along just fine. If not, make sure you start at the beginning over at Quick Quotes Blog blog so you don't miss a single chance to win one of two fun prizes up for grabs! You'll have until Sunday night, Sept. 18th at 11:59 p.m. to complete the hop!

Peachy Keen Stamps and Quick Quotes have partnered this weekend to bring you incredible creations from both Design Teams. You'll see how versatile our products truly are!

EEK! I Love these stamps, lol! They give the best stamped image, so sharp and clear! It's a good thing I don't mind spiders because isn't this the cutest little spider! I used my Prisma colored pencils and Gamsol (Mineral Spirits) to color this little cutie. I used the Quick Quotes French Quarter Paper for my card frame and base. The Frame is cut from the Happy Haunting Cricut Cartridge and the flowers are some handmade rolled flowers I made using the QQ French Quater Paper and added some Martha Stewart Black Glitter to the tips for some sparkle. And speaking of Glitter my EEK is cut from the Happy Haunting cart and then I did my favorite packing tape technique and sprinkled glitter onto it for more sparkle!

Even tho the paper is black I still used QQ Midnight Confessions Powderpuff Chalk Ink to ink the green card stock to accentuate the shadow from the popped frame. The spider web is stickled, I also added some Bead in a Bottle and of course I had to add some Bling, a Crinkled Ribbon for the bow and a couple of Corsage Pins.

I used the computer for the inside of the card saying.

Now who would be upset that I forgot their Birthday after they recieved this card, Would you be, lol!?

And EEK again!
Who wouldn't want to win one of these Great prizes!

Your next stop on the Hop will be Vivienne (Crafting Haven)

Thanks again for stopping by! I hope you're inspired and ready to create!Don't forget to leave a comment on each designers' blog for a chance to win either a Quick Quotes prize package or two stamp sets from Peachy Keen! The deadline for commenting is 11:59pm EDT, Sunday, September 18th.

Products used:

Stamp: Peachy Keen Funny Spider Stamp

Pattern Paper: QQ French Quarter

Ink: QQ Midnight Confessions Powderpuff Chalk Ink

Cricut Cartridge: Happy Hauntings

Flowers: Recollections and the rolled ones are made by ME!

Glitter: Martha Stewart

Bling: Hobby Lobby

Bead in a Bottle: Tulip

Corsage Pins: Wal-Mart

Spiderweb: Stickels (Gunmetal)

Pop Strips
Computer generated Birthday saying

Quick Quotes Club Re-Do Punkin Pickin Time Fall Mini!

2011-09-15T00:01:00.093-04:00

Hi everyone it's Quick Quotes Club Q Re-Do time!

Well I decided to Re-Do one of the mini tag books from the

September Club Q Kit. I love these fun little mini book kits! Well with the Fall seasons coming up I did the small mini tag book for upcoming Punkin Pickin time here. The kit comes with some of the Cherry Truffle paper line. Love this paper line, so Yummy and the name is Perfect, Cherry Truffle, Yummy, right!? Some of the tags have some bits and pieces of the Houndstooth paper, love this paper (can you tell I'm a bit obsessed with it right now, lol!) I inked everything with the Powder Puff Chalk Inks in: Bloody Mary, and colored my Punkin with the Green Tea, & Mango Mai Tai Inks added some pop dots and added a leaf button with a scrap piece of green ribbon and of course had to add some Black Bling!

Pages 1 & 2

The Velum sayings are from the Quick Quotes line having to do with the Punkin Patch, attached them to cardstock then popped all of them with some foam tape for some depth and dimension and added a fun little ribbon to each of the quotes and also the tags.

Pages 3 & 4

Inked some paper doilies, velum quotes and more ribbon and bling!

Pages 5 & 6

Matted for more pics, added a bit of ribbon, another velum quote and of course........................

More Bling!

Here are pics of the tags and another with the front of the mini. I just used some of the scraps to embellish the tags and added the ribbon (comes in the kit) along with the copper brad. Now the larger gingham ribbon is some I had and thought it would be adorable to tie it together with an awesome bow!

So what do you think, Pretty Gorgeous if I do have to say so myself, lol!

Now all I need to do is go to the “Punkin Patch” and get some cute pictures to add in there.

So what are you waiting for, pop on over to the Quick Quotes Store and get yourself signed up for Club Q and you could have this great little mini too!

There is also another mini that has about 15+ pages for The Sept. add on also and it is absolutely Gorgeous, pop on over there and check it out HERE!

The extras I used are: the larger black gingham ribbon is from Michael’s (all of the rest of the ribbon is in the kit) the buttons are some from my stash, the doily’s are scrap pieces left over (see I keep telling you I can’t throw anything away, lol) and Bling: Hobby Lobby

Well I sure hope I've inspired you to get creative today, it always makes me feel better and I feel like accomplished something when I get to be creative and crafty, lol, how about you!? If there's anything I can help you with please do not hesitate to drop me an e-mail or leave me a comment. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

((Hugs)) and Take Care!

Theresa

Bitten By The Bug 2 Monday Challenge!

2011-09-12T11:00:00.065-04:00

Hi Everyone and Happy Monday! First of all I just want to take a moment and say a quick Thank You to all my Wonderful followers, Old and New! I always get a thrill when I log on to my blog and get to read the sweet comments you all leave, so a HUGE Thank You to all of You!

Well Monday's always bring a new challenge over at Bitten By The Bug 2 and today is a fun one (well they are all fun but I Really had fun with this one, lol)! It was the Amazing Jeri's turn to pick the challenge and she chose to use an oldie but a goodie, Tags, Bags, Boxes and More Cartridge for the challenge today and we were to use any of the dimensional boxes. Well for some reason I couldn't find my TBB&M cartridge, I know I own it because it was one of the very first carts I bought when I got my Cricut, back in the day, lol! (I have no idea where the heck it would be because I don't have anyone that I could share with sooooooo, the mystery continues.............!) Well I was inspired by this Adorable little Backpack I seen a while back and with school starting and all I went with a Back to school theme. There is also a challenge over at the Quick Quotes Blog with a Back To School theme with Melin and I am linking this up over there also. There is also a Guest Designer this month named Anita and she made a cute little backpack but I'm not sure if she used a Cartridge or not, she will do a tutorial later this month so I'll find out them, but hers sure is Cute also, Thanks for the inspiration Anita! Most of you know that I am on the Quick Quotes Design Team and I had the pleasure of using all Quick Quotes papers and inked everything with Mocha Mama Powderpuff Chalk Ink and if you like anything you can get some of your own over at the Quick Quotes Store.

Well here is that adorable little backpack and it's from the Life's a Party cartridge and I cut it @ 8 3/4" to get the most of a 12 x 12 paper and without having to use the larger 12 x 24 mat. The Houndstooth papers were perfect for this, don't you think!? And the ribbon is just too cute, perfect for back to school!

I actually attached the tag to the backpack and of course had to use an Apple for my card/gift tag, from Create a Critter minus the face (hide contour in Design Studio and also welded to form a tiny card/tag) The Yellow gingham paper is from Quick Quotes along with the red, and used the EK Success notebook edge punch. Adds a nice touch of color and of course I had to add some Bling, in Red of course!

I also added a little mini to put on the inside with some of the leftover scraps (I just can't throw anything away, lol) Put some grommets in the corner and used a piece of ball chain to hold it together and tied a piece of that great ribbon on it! And of course more BLING!

I even made a cute little corner book mark that a Young girl named Madison inspired me to make. She had made some for the Quick Quotes Challenge #3 (Back to School) challenge and she inspired me to try them. Now I've seen them plenty of places but she just inspired me to try them for myself. It's so nice to see young people having fun with papercrafts and if you want to see her great blog just click right HERE and this will take you to her bookmark inspiration and then you can check out Madison's Blog Here, Thank You Madison for the inspiration! =]

Now here is my Adorable little Ensemble all together and even showing the cute little bookmark fast at work, lol! I think I'll be making a few more of these and put them aside for McCade's teacher's for Xmas presents and include a gift card.

Now I sure hope you join us over at BBTB2 this week. Link up a NEW creation and if you don't have the Tags, Bags, Boxes and More cart just make a dimensional box you could use as a gift container. And make sure you stop by the BBTB2 blog and see what the Amazing Design Team created, you know they are ALL Amazing! You will have a chance to win our cute BBTB2 Blinkie you will be able to display on your blog with bragging rights of course!

Well Hope you all have a great week and remember I Love the sweet comments you all leave so if your inspired please leave me one! =]

((Hugs)) and Take Care!

Theresa

Product's Used:

Cartridges used: Life's a Party, Create a Critter

All pattern papers Quick Quotes (Savvy Davvy, Cherry Truffle)

Cardstock: Best Occasions (Walmart)

Ink: Mocha Mama Powderpuff Chalk Ink

Bling: Hobby Lobby

Ribbon: Michael's

Ek Success: Notebook edge punch

Teresa Collins and Quick Quotes, How Perfect!

2011-09-11T23:09:00.001-04:00

Did you hear the news????

As if our Private Reserve events are not exciting enough.

Now we have a super special guest who will be joining us here at Quick Quotes!

In honor of our special guest, we are giving away a 'free' DALLAS, TX Private Reserve Tuition + 1/2 price for a friend!!! Who wants to win???

(*See prize disclaimer at bottom of post)

How to win:

(Please only enter if you want to win this prize and can make the dates for the Dallas event: Oct 21, 22, 23)

Become a follower at the Quick Quotes Blog (click on 'join this site' in the right-hand column)
Leave a comment at the Quick Quotes Blog. (Comments can be left up through WED 9/14 at 11:59pm Pacific Time)

***That's it!!! Check back on Thursday 9/15 when the winner will be picked at random!***

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(*QQ Private Reserve Prize Disclaimer: This giveaway is only good for the Dallas Private Reserve being held on Oct 21, 22, 23 of 2011. The prize is not transferable to another person. If you have paid in full and you win the prize, you will be refunded your $299. The 1/2 price for a friend only applies to someone who is not already signed up for the event. The $299 fee covers tuition for classes on Sat & Sun but does not include transportation or hotel. See http://www.shopquickquotes.com/ for complete details about what is included for the $299 tuition fee. Teresa Collins' classes or QQ Fri classes are an extra fee.)

I sure Hope you enter at the Quick Quotes Blog (you can leave me a comment too tho, I love to hear what you think, lol!) it is SOOOOOOO Fun going and you get to create so many great projects and what's more fun then to be around other people who love Scrapping as much as we do, lol! And if you don't have anyone to go with you, You can always take Me! LOL!

Good Luck Everyone, ((Hugs)) and Take Care!

Theresa

SOUS-Die Cut Challenge Flower!

2011-09-09T01:22:00.002-04:00

Hey everyone how are you all and Happy Friday! McCade is so happy that he gets the weekend off, he's already complaining about having to go to school, (it's only been a month) boy that makes for a L-O-N-G year, lol!

Well we're having another challenge over at Stuck On U Sketches-Die Cuts and this week the theme is "FLOWER" how Fun is that! We all use them and Love them and I had Fun, Fun, Fun with this one! As you can see I made a mini! This mini is from Quick Quotes and it was one of the kits from the Quick Quotes Private Reserve I went to a couple of weeks ago. I had a blast, 3 days of Non-Stop Scrapping! It's one of the kits that's included in your weekend of projects. It's a 6 x 6 canvas mini and all the papers are from Quick Quotes also except for the card stock which is Colorbok. Some of the flowers are from the kit and they are laser Die Cuts and then some of the flowers I used the new Flower Shoppe Cricut cartridge (l-o-v-e it and I will definitely be using it Lots in the future!) I even used a couple of flower punches on this one. This little mini is a what I am "So Thankful For" and as you can see on each of the pages there is something I'm Thankful for.........

Page 1 & 2, My Family! This one has a pocket page and the tag has the negative piece from one of the flower cut outs from the Flower Shoppe cart and when I seen it I though it would be cute to use as a journaling space, you can write in a circle around the cutout, what do you think, I think it will look really cool!

Okay next, page 3 & 4, My Friends! I added a little pocket with a Martha Stewart scallop punch on pg 3 with some cute little tags that I think I'll have my Friends put a little message on when I get the pics on these. Now these are interactive pages and they..................................

Open, a great spot for Extra pictures, don't you just Love It!

Now this is Page 5 & 6, My Children and my favorite! I just love the gingham with the Hounds tooth papers! This one has a pocket too with a large tag and a smaller one. I added some QQ Rub-ons under the tag. And yes you guessed it, it opens also.........................

Lots of places for lots of pictures and the little frames you can add journaling or another photo.

And last but not least Page 7 & 8, My Home! The flowers are from Quick Quotes also and from another kit Quick Quotes August Club Q kit and the punch is a Martha Stewart punch.

Now here's a great view of the fount of the Mini and the little envelope and the "So Thankful For" saying.

Now I hope you join us over Stuck On U Sketches-Die Cut "Flower" challenge and just remember it has to be a NEW Project that you link up! There is also Blog Candy to be won at the end of the month from all the challenges so the more you enter the more chances to win! Well I sure hope you have a Great weekend, hope you get to do something exciting, me, I have to get a few other projects finished and try and get ahead of my self, yea right (well a girl can dream can't she, lol, lol!

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

Heart Breaker over at the BBTB2 Monday challenge!

2011-09-05T11:00:00.077-04:00

Hi everyone and Happy Labor Day folks!

Well over at Bitten By The Bug 2 the Design Team has been hard at work Laboring over some pretty amazing creations this week! Heather had us use the Drippy Heart on the Rock Princess cartridge as our Inspiration today and boy I can tell you I was sort of stumped on this one since I didn't have enough time to make me a layout I went with a card for this week!

This card has many layers to it and I designed it in Design Studio. When I seen the heart the first thing that came to my mind was Heart Breaker and since I've been using the Happy Haunting cart alot lately I knew there would be something on it I could also use and that's where the Beware came from. I added a small amount of embossing on the wings and a tiny bit of silver metallic rub on cream to highlight the wings. Also used a silver Jelly roll pen to add some doodling and one lonely red rhinestone in all it's glory on the center of attention, the Drippy Heart.

The card is small for me, lol, 4" x 4 1/2", I usually make a huge card then can't find an envelope for it even tho I can't ever send my cards straight thru the mail, they always have to be in a different type of envelope or small box, lol! I used some glitter paper for some extra glitz and I also used some of the Quick Quotes Julie Je T'aime Paper line, (these papers cut really nice in the Cricut) That's it for me this week, pretty simple huh!

Well I hope you join us and link up something NEWLY made for this challenge, you have two weeks to enter and you could win our Great Blinkie to add to your blog, along with bragging rights of course, lol! Now remember if you don't have the Rock Princess cart you can use any cart with a flying heart or a bat or even just a heart with wings, I just hope to see you over at BBTB2!

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

"SKY" Challenge over at Stuck On U Sketches Die Cuts!

2011-08-26T00:41:00.001-04:00

Hi everyone and the 2nd challenge over at Stuck On U Sketches is already here, can you believe it! Now the new challenge is "SKY" so as you can imagine, anything in the sky, belongs in the sky or I guess even just the sky! Well the first thing I thought of was airplanes and thought of having my grand kids come out here to visit and they want to take an airplane and the girls LOVE Hello Kitty (and all my faithful followers know that Hello Kitty is my secret obsession, shhhhh don't tell anyone, lol, I just think she's the cutest little thing, well other then my grand kids!) I also wanted to do something Bright and Colorful so what better choice then Hello Kitty!

Now Obviously I used the Hello Kitty Cartridges, both the Greetings and the Font, I also used Lyrical Letters for some of the words. I didn't add allot of extras this time because I just didn't think it needed it, with all the colors and larger images so I just added some buttons, did some doodling with black and white jelly roll pens, used a Martha Stewart punch for some contrast and a transition between the papers, added some pop dots to pop everything off the page and give more dimension and depth and added a little luggage tag on the piece of luggage. Now that piece of luggage doubles as my journaling spot! That's another little secret of mine that you'll learn if you follow me, I like to hide my journaling spots on my layouts, well not actually hide them, I like to find different and creative ways to incorporate them into my layouts. I've added some extra pictures of each side of the layouts for you do see better details if your interested.

Here is a close up of the Left side with my inspiration of the challenge "SKY" and the Airplane with the cute little Hello Kitty flying on her way to see Grandma! You can also see the doodling dots and the colorful buttons.

Here is a close up of the Right side with the Hello Kitty in the car.

And here is a close up of the luggage and my journaling tag, see isn't it a neat idea, just like a little card! Actually you could enlarge it and use it as a card and I wish I would have but I had already put everything away so next time I have all my stuff out I'll just have to make me a card to go with this.

And here is the Hello Kitty inspiration "SKY" in all her Glory! Too Cute don't you think, lol!

Well I sure hope you join us over at Stuck On U Sketch's grab your die cut machine and whip up something in that has to do with the "SKY"! You have 2 weeks to enter and you could win our cute Blinkie to add to your blog (along with bragging rights of course, lol)! I sure hope to see you there and while your out today, just take a look up at the sky, maybe you'll get inspired to create something!

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

Another August Club Q Re-Do!

2011-08-23T10:00:00.001-04:00

Hi everyone it's Quick Quotes Club Q Re-Do time again and I sure had some "Summer Fun" with this Club Q August kit!

I used the
August Club Q Kit to make this fun “Summer Fun” Country Looking 2 page Layout! I L-O-V-E this kit! The Reds and Yellow in this kit just make me smile! I love the Gingham and the Herringbone combination I used on this one with the gingham ribbon and adding the daisies, really make it country looking (even with the bling I added, makes it Country Chic, lol!). I didn’t add to much to this kit, just added my spin on a already amazing kit. I used the
Yummy Quick Quotes chalk inks in Mocha Mama and Bloody Mary and I added a bit of Gold Acrylic paint to add some shimmer and sheen.
The Non Item Products I used were minimal:
EK Success Edge Punch
Bling: Studo 18
Folk Art Acrylic Paint, Metallic Inca Gold
Flowers: Walmart
Red Ribbon: Michael’s

Here's a closeup of my journaling tag slipped in a pocket where three pics are going to eventually go. You can slid the pics under the cut out daisies or hold them with the paperclips if for some reason you may want to change them.

Here's the Left page with a close up of the fun mix of the papers used, I Love the yellow gingham and the herringbone papers, I can't say it enough, lol!

I added the ribbon by laying using Beacon's 3 in 1 glue and just crunching it on to give it some fun dimension ( I originally tried using a tape runner but the ribbon was to thick and it kept popping off so I wanted to share that with you in case you tried and had the same problem, wink wink). Layered the flowers that I cut off the bracket from the kit and of course, added some Bling on my tags with the vellum F U N quote (also from the kit)! Now remember the loops come in the kit but the scalloped border is a EK Success punch.

Well here's the August Club Q Kit in all it's Gorgeous Glory and don't forget my earlier in the month Club Q Kit Re-Do Mini with the additional add on option HERE!

Make sure you check out the Quick Quotes Blog for more inspiration and more contests, you never know you may win a Quick Quotes Private Reserve how fun would that be! I'm actually getting to go to my first one this weekend in Georgia, I'm so Super Excited! (I'm bring my computer so hopefully I'll be trying to get a post in while I'm there and show you what I did so you can start planning your next trip to a Private Reserve Getaway!)

Well gotta go I'm going to get started getting my stuff ready to go, I sure hope I don't pack too much, lol! I'd Love it if you left a comment, they really do make my day and always gives me a smile when you all leave such sweet and encouraging comments so Thank You, you really do mean the world to me, so on that note...........................

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

Bewitching with BBTB2 and The Stamping Boutique!

2011-08-22T11:00:00.003-04:00

Welcome Ya'll, How the heck have you been!? Well I've been good and busy and been doing some Digi Stamping this week with Bitten By The Bug 2 and The Stamping Boutique! Now Stamping is not my forte but I'm starting to get into it! I still don't have any Copic markers, I still use colored pencils, actually I use the Prisma colored pencils and Mineral Spirits (also know as Gamsol) I would love to have some Copics, and maybe one day I will but as of now, Nope! Colored pencils are very easy to use with the spirits, you can just color (and it doesn't have to be perfect) and then come back and "paint" with the Mineral Spirits and everything just flows and looks like paint (or a cheaper version of Copics, lol)! There are plenty of videos on YouTube if your interested. But anyway back to the challenge over at BBTB2 this week....................................

We have a sponsor with The Stamping Boutique and we used the Happy Hauntings Cartridge this week using one of the frames for our Digi image! I had an Amazingly "Bewitching" time, lol! Ken even said it looks like I did a self portrait of myself with my favorite ride but why did I make my hair black instead of red, LOL! Hey, I wish I was that thin so he must be mistaken, lol!

Well I made a card and used a pre-made card base and cut my frame at 7" and popped the top layer with dimensional foam. Cut Bewitching at 1 5/8" with the shadow and again, layered it with foam. The Witches Hat is cut at 2" and the Black Cat is cut at 3" and all are dimensional. Added some silver ink to give it some more texture and not look so new and the doodle dot's are actually Silver dots but they look white.

Well I sure hope you join us over at BBTB2 along with the current challenge sponsored by The Stamping Boutique which is make a NEW project and Use your Cricut (the Design Team used the Happy Hauntings cartridge) but you are free to use any cart with a frame BUT you need to add a stamp somewhere on your project! You think your up for the challenge, lol!? It will be fun with a little spin so what do you say................You may just win a great prize form The Stamping Boutique and our great Pick Of the Week (POW) Blinkie to add to your blog, along with bragging rights, of course! So I sure hope to see you there and link up to Mr. Linky!

I also have some other news to share with ya'll!

We have a New Addition to the family! Isn't she A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E! She was just born on Fri. 8/19/11 and she less then a day old here and so soft and cuddly. I just had to share her with you all. Well have a great week and hope to see you over at BBTB2 this week!

((Hugs)) and Take Care, Theresa!

A BIG Announcement! I'm on A New Design Team called Stuck On U Sketches Die Cut Team! AND a Cricut Circle challenge!

2011-08-12T01:30:00.002-04:00

Hi Ya'll! I have some Really Exciting news to share with you today!

I'm on a NEW Design Team! Woo Hoo!

It's called Stuck on U Sketches Die Cuts and today is the Debut!

I sure hope you hop on over and check it out! They have challenges every other week and a chance to win some really great prizes! The only stipulation for the Die Cut challenges is to use Die Cuts, they are still going to be doing the Sketch challenges so make sure to check those out also! Now you can use store bought Die Cuts but the trick here is to get the most out of your Die Cut Machines. Now I LOVE my Cricut and use it all the time (actually I have a hard time creating without it, lol) Well enough about all the technical stuff, heck just hop on over to Stuck on U Sketches and check them out! Now onto my Design Team Debut Layout!

Now the challenge for the next 2 weeks is

"PLAY"

Now interpret that any way you wish! You can use the word, theme, toys or activity or anything that you can come up with! Remember it's a challenge so have fun with it!

Well my project is a Fun day at the "PLAY"Ground! I've had these pics of McCade when he was 2 yrs. old and he loved to go to the park down the street. It was when we were still living in Las Vegas and they had some of the nicest parks there and we lived right down the street so it was within walking distance so it was almost a daily thing. And you sure can tell by his face how much fun he was having, lol! Well of course I had to use a swing set and used the one from Pop-Up Neighborhood (also the inspiration to enter the Cricut Circle challenge) and cut it @ 8". Then because I made it so big I was having a hard time getting all the pics on the page so I had to add a swing of my own! So I added some grommets and some jump rings and added a couple more pics (sort of a mini flip book?) Now the seats aren't on the cart, I hand cut those myself.

Here's a close up of the Left side of the page, the sun is from Po-Up Neighborhood also cut @ 3", The grass is also on PUN and cut @ 3 3/8" (one side is flipped and the grass in the background is stretched to make a bigger mound) Having Fun and Play is off the Playtime Cartridge and so is the Adorable little Boy (doesn't he look just like McCade, lol)

Here's a close up of the Right side of the page. I had to add this adorable pic of the little man on the slide (he sure was fearless then, lol) The slide is from the Locker Talk Cartridge and cut @ 5" and Ground and some of the other words are from the Lyrical Letters cartridge. I also have a Journaling tag slide in behind the pic (you can sort of see it, has a yellow ribbon on it to pull it in and out. Also added some screw looking brads to hold the swing set together, (lol) and of course had to do some shading and popping for some depth and dimension. And for a little extra touch had to add some doodling with a White Jelly Roll pen!

Here's a close up of the pages and how there are more then just one "Swing"!

And and even closer look at the grommets and jump rings!

Now my Card Stock is Colorbok and the background cloud paper is some O L D-er DCWV paper.

Well I sure hope you stop by over at Stuck on U Sketches and check it out, the Design Team did some Amazing projects and there is definetly some amazing talent over there (Holy WOW is all I can say), Lots of Inspiration, So come on, why don't you go ahead and enter the challenge, just Remember "PLAY" and come along and "PLAY" with us, LOL!!! Don't forget to leave a comment and if you like you can even tell them Theresa Sent You!

I'm also entering this in the monthly Cricut challenge, it's to do a scene using at least 2 cricut cuts and the inspiration was to use the Pop Up Neighborhood cart so I think this qualifies to enter don't you think, lol!

Well you have a great weekend and I'll be filling you in soon on an update on how Eddie is doing (if your wondering who Eddie is, he is our Ornery Adorable Mule!)

((Hugs)) And Take Care,

Theresa

Sweetie Pie Time @ BBTB2!

2011-08-08T11:00:00.104-04:00

Hi Sweetie Pies! How are all of you, fine I hope! Well today is challenge day over at Bitten By The Bug 2 and it is our Lovely, Sweet, Talented Krista who gets to pick the challenge this week and she picked the Pie on Paper Doll Dress Up Cartridge. This is such a fun cart with all the extra accessories on it, you can almost always find an image for something you need on one of the Paper Doll carts. Well I made a little shape card, isn't it Adorable, lol! Not much to my card this week, I welded it in Design Studio, did some doodling added some sparkly cherries and on this one I had to finish the inside, couldn't just have a pie that said Happy Birthday, kinda no where for that to go so how appropriate for the Sweetie Pie on the inside, right!

But I did use one of my favorite techniques.....................................

Packing Tape!

Put it on the back side with sticky side up and add glitter, the glitter sticks to the sticky tape and fills in the empty space with glitter and no messing with glue! Added the glitter to my cherries also. Now those I ran through my small Xyron machine face side down which turns it into a sticker and ten add the glitter to the sticky side and, Taa-Daa, you have a sparkly cherry!

Well the other Carts I used along with my Paper Doll Dress Up cart were, Paper Lace (Happy Birthday), Just Because (Sweetie Pie) and Nifty Fifties (Cherries) and the Papers are from Cosmo Cricket and Card stock is Coredinations.

Now remember if you don't have the Paper Doll cart use any cart that has a Pie on it, there are a few, as a matter of fact Just Because has a Pie on it along with the Sweetie Pie saying, lol! Link up your NEWLY created project with Mr. Linky and you could win our Great Pick Of The Week Blinkie (POW) along with Braggin rights of course! Don't forget to check out all the Amazing Pie Projects that the BBTB2 Design Team did, they truly are Amazing and I am so lucky to be on such an Amazing Design Team!

Well have a Great week, McCade starts school this week, he has back to school night tomorrow and starts on Wednesday, boy summer sure did fly by! I actually think I'm going to miss him when he goes back, we kind of had a fun TV time in the AM that I'm going to miss, he would actually sit and watch the news with me almost every mourning and we would discuss what is going on, so he actually knows whats going on in the world and understands the meaning of cutting back, maybe I should let him talk to our Government, he could teach them a few things, lol, you never know! Well...........................

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

Quick Quotes August Club Q Re-Do!

2011-08-07T00:01:00.000-04:00

Vacation Mini Club Q Re-Do!

Well I Love a good Mini and this one was so much fun to put together, first I used Club Q Kit CQ49 and added some of the new Chery Truffle Vintage Alphabet Quotes along with Adhesive Backed Glitter Die Cuts and some of my favorite QQ Chalk Inks Bloody Mary, Amaretto, Mocha Mama. Basically the additional Club Q Kit with my twist on it, hope it inspires you to check out Club Q!

Additional Embellishments: Cardstock: DCWV, Bling: Hobby Lobby, Silk Flowers and extra ribbon and lace: ? from stash at home =)

Here's a view of the whole Accordion Album Mini! Along with the embellished tags!

Here's page 1 & 2, pocket w/tag on pg. 2

Here's page 3 & 4, pocket w/tag on pg. 4

Here's page 5 & 6, pocket w/tag on pg. 6

Here's the original Additional Club Q Canvas kit. Great as is but you know me I had to add my touch to it, lol! But that's what makes it our own!

And look at all this Amazing Yummie-ness! I absolutely LOVE this Club Q Kit!!!! Keep your eyes on the lookout because I'll have another Re-Do with this kit in the next week or two!

Well I hope you enjoyed this and hope it inspires you to join the QQ Club Q Kit Club so you too can create some of these fun projects. You know you will never have enough scrapbook layouts for all the pictures that we all take, lol!

Well you all have a great day and I'll chat with you all in the next couple of days!

((Hugs)) and Take Care,

Theresa

Binky Blossoms

Happy Valentines Day!

You've Got Mail!

Sweethearts Tag With BBTB2! (Pic Heavy!)

I Have a Winner!

BBTB2 Blog Hop and Baby Carriage Challenge!

"Snowman" Snowglobe Challenge over at SOUS!

I Like Your Style BBTB2!

Quick Quotes Sneak Peeks combined with Spellbinders!

Winter Fun With SOUS!

QQ CHA Sneak Peek with Summer Samba and Spellbinders!

BBTB2 Walk In My Garden Challenge!

Quick Quotes and Spellbinders!

Wishing Everyone A Very MERRY CHRISTMAS!

"With Sugar On Top" Baking for the Holidays Challenge with SOUS!

Glittered Poinsettias with Quick Quotes

We always Need Tags with BBTB2!

A Very Merry Christmas Cards with Quick Quotes

O'Christmas Tree Challenge with SOUS!

Quick Quotes 3 Day Blog Hop, Come Join the FUN!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

White Space Challenge over @ Quick Quotes

A Fun Glitter Packing Tape Technique for Trendy Tuesday's over @ Quick Quotes

Mouse Challenge Over At BBTB2 This Week!

Time Canvas with Quick Quotes!

I'm So Thankful For.....................

New Stuck On U Sketches and Cricut Circle Monthly Challenge!

Petaloo & Quick Quotes Blog Hop Day 5!

You're an Original @ Quick Quotes! With A Flower Tutorial! (PIC Heavy)

Fence Challenge with SOUS!

Altered Dressforms Wall Vinettes with Teresa Collins & Quick Quotes Club Q Re-Do!

Hello Kitty Happy Halloween Challenge with BBTB2!

Fall Layout and a Couple of Challenges!

Another Cricut Circle Blogiversary Challenge Entry!

Cricut Circle Blogiversary Challenge Entry!

You Know Your Old When..............BBTB2 Buzzard Challenge!

Let's Hang out for a Cricut Circle challenge!

Tree Challenge with Stuck On U Sketches!

"Witch" Pair Go Best With My Broom, LOL!?

Froggies over at BBTB2 this week! I'm right at home!

I Have A Winner!

BBTB2 Blog Hop and Wheelbarrow Challenge!

Blessed Canvas with a Transfering Large Bling Tutorial!

You Make My "Heart" Sing! SOUS Heart Challenge

Peachy Keen and Quick Quotes Blog Hop

Quick Quotes Club Re-Do Punkin Pickin Time Fall Mini!

Bitten By The Bug 2 Monday Challenge!

Teresa Collins and Quick Quotes, How Perfect!

SOUS-Die Cut Challenge *Flower*!

Heart Breaker over at the BBTB2 Monday challenge!

"SKY" Challenge over at Stuck On U Sketches Die Cuts!

Another August Club Q Re-Do!

Bewitching with BBTB2 and The Stamping Boutique!

A BIG Announcement! I'm on A New Design Team called Stuck On U Sketches Die Cut Team! AND a Cricut Circle challenge!

Sweetie Pie Time @ BBTB2!

Quick Quotes August Club Q Re-Do!

SOUS-Die Cut Challenge Flower!