Michaels Photo Entry - Illuminated Paper Gingerbread House

Michaels Photo Entry - Illuminated Paper Gingerbread House
I have entered my Illuminated Paper Gingerbread House into a contest on the Michael's Craft Store website. Please help me by rating my handmade holiday decoration (Illuminated Paper Gingerbread House) by clicking on the snowmen below the picture. You can rate it one to five snowmen. Feel free to share with other to rate it as well. Thank you for your help!!! Heather
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Great new crafting blog!

I was surfing around different crafter's blogs and while at one of my favorites blogs (http://capadiadesigns.blogspot.com/) I found a post about a great new blog. It is Cutting Above and the two ladies there (Maggie and Michele) give info about all the different crafting tools and items in the industry now. Be sure to check it out, for their blog launch and to celebrate the Gypsy Grand Opening on HSN they are giving away 2 Gypsies! Go here for more info!

Crafters for Critters

I am organizing a fundraising/ crafts show event to raise money for my local SPCA who is having some finacial problems this year. I am very excited to be doing this and wanted to share this with my fellow crafters. Maybe someone might want to do something similar in their community. I have a small business selling my crafts that I make at local craft shows and though it would be good to do one to help the SPCA. Vendors will pay for a booth space and donate one item to be raffled. All proceeds will go to the SPCA. I am also going to have a booth with different crafts to sell where all proceeds from those sales goes to the SPCA as well. I would love to have a large variety of crafts for the booth. If you would like to help, please donate one handmade craft (even a simple card would be helpful) for this booth. Please e-mail for more info on how to help!

Thanks!

“Ad Inspiration Challenge” #23

Here is this weeks ad color challenge. The ad is from www.macys.com. You can use the color scheme, ad layout, or anything else in the ad for inspiration. Please post a comment with a link to your card here or at the post for this challenge on the Cricut Message board here.

“Ad Inspiration Challenge” #22

Here is this weeks ad color challenge. The ad is from http://www.target.com/. Some more great summer colors! You can use the color scheme, ad layout, or anything else in the ad for inspiration. Please post a comment with a link to your card here or at the post for this challenge on the Cricut Message board here.

Blog Award!!!

Thank you very much Valerie for the Blog award!

The rules for the award are:

1. Thank the person who nominated you for this award.

2. Copy the logo and place it on your blog.

3. Link to the person who nominated you for this award.

4. Name 7 thins about yourself that people might find interesting.

5. Nominate 7 Kreative Bloggers.

6. Post links to the 7 you nominate.

7. Leave a commnet on each of the blogs, letting them know they hae been nominated.

Here are my 7 special nominations for this award. Please click on the link in their name to check them out.

Raquel

Pinklady50

Donna

Melissa

Mousekat

Dawn aka Froggy

Jay

Ok so 7 interesting things about myself.

1. I have lived in PA, SC and VA.

2. I currently have 4 different positions at my PT job where I work approx. 15 hrs. and have worked in all 4 positions in one day before.

3. I have 2 dogs, 2 cats, a turtle and a fish.

4. I'm a very big Sting / Police fan!

5. I'm also a Steelers fan!

6. I play soccer in a local womens league, my position is goal keeper.

7. I have two tatoos.

“Ad Inspiration Challenge” #21

Here is this weeks ad color challenge. The ad is from www.valspar.com. This is a great website to try out different colors together. That is how I came up with these, just added in some colors and looked at what they came up with. You can use the color scheme, ad layout, or anything else in the ad for inspiration. Please post a comment with a link to your card here or at the post for this challenge on the Cricut Message board here.

I was really inspired by these colors this time and got right to work on my card. At first I thought these looked liked great summer colors, but then they reminded me of apples. That's how I came up with this idea. I again stamped the background to match the colors. TFL!

“Ad Inspiration Challenge” #20

I found a cute swimsuit ad for inspiration. The ad is from Target. Since there were two shades of two of the colors, I split the color blocks to show them both. Use which ever color (or both) you like! You can use the color scheme, ad layout, or anything else in the ad for inspiration. Please post a comment with a link to your card here or at the post for this challenge on the Cricut Message board here.

Here is my card for this color challenge!

“Ad Inspiration Challenge” #19

Ok so I have been very bad about updating my blog, esspecially with the Ad Inspiration Challenges! So here is challenge #19. This ad challenge from www.sherwin-williams.com/. You can use the color scheme, ad layout, or anything else in the ad for inspiration. Please post a comment with a link to your card here or at the post for this challenge on the Cricut Message board here.

Here is my card for this color challenge!

“Ad Inspiration Challenge” #18

Here is another ad from one of their paint sample books at Lowes. I know we did another challenge recently using yellow and purple, but this one just caught my eye. I loved it and could wait to use these colors. You can use the color scheme, ad layout, or anything else in the ad for inspiration. Please post a comment with a link to your card here or at the post for this challenge on the Cricut Message board here.

I thought these cards would be good for a masculine card. I had a workshop yesterday and we used these colors in the cards we made.

“Ad Inspiration Challenge” #17

Here is another ad from one of their paint sample books at Lowes. I know we did another challenge recently using yellow and purple, but this one just caught my eye. I loved it and could wait to use these colors. You can use the color scheme, ad layout, or anything else in the ad for inspiration. Please post a comment with a link to your card here or at the post for this challenge on the Cricut Message board here.Here is my card for this challenge. It is for my son's teacher, her birthday is this weekend. The green in the background paper is a little off but it that was the closest I had.

“Ad Inspiration Challenge” #16

Sorry I'm a day (or two) late again. Got caught up in Memorial Day fun! Here is this weeks challenge. I found this ad at Lowes today. It is from one of their paint sample books. I thought these colors looked very summery and made me think of the beach. You can use the color scheme, ad layout, or anything else in the ad for inspiration. Please post a comment with a link to your card here or at the post for this challenge on the Cricut Message board here.



Here is my card for this challenge!

Ad Inspiration Challenge” #15

This weeks “Advertisement Inspiration Challenge” is from toysrus.com. This color scheme is a cute baby set. I seem to forget about using these colors together so I thought this would be a good one for the challenge this week. You can use the color scheme, ad layout, or anything else in the ad for inspiration. Please post a comment with a link to your card here or at the post for this challenge on the Cricut Message board here.

Here is my card for the challenge!

“Ad Inspiration Challenge” #14

This weeks “Advertisement Inspiration Challenge” is from shop.com. This color scheme makes me think of something you would see from New York. I can't wait to see what everyone does with this one! You can use the color scheme, ad layout, or anything else in the ad for inspiration. Please post a comment with a link to your card here or at the post for this challenge on the Cricut Message board here.
Here is my card for this challenge. I use my cuddlebug to emboss it and then inked the raised area. The stamp is from Stampin' Up!

“Ad Inspiration Challenge” #13

Here is this weeks “Advertisement Inspiration Challenge” The ad is from Sears.com This is a simple color scheme, just two colors that are often used together but I thought it would still be a fun challenge. You can use the color scheme, ad layout, or anything else in the ad for inspiration. Please post a comment with a link to your card here or at the post for this challenge on the Cricut Message board here.

Here is my card for the challenge. Since Mother's Day is this weekend, I decided to make a card for this holiday. No Cricut, but I did use my cuddlebug. I also toned the green color down a little. TFL

“Ad Inspiration Challenge” #12

Here is this weeks “Advertisement Inspiration Challenge” The ad is from blanketwarehouse.com You can use the color scheme, ad layout, or anything else in the ad for inspiration. Please post a comment with a link to your card here or at the post for this challenge on the Cricut Message board here.

here is my card finally. I forgot the yellow but I did get it done. Sorry it is blurred, I scanned it instread of taking a pic and it wouldn't lay flat because of the button.

“Ad Inspiration Challenge” #11

I'm sorry I am late with this weeks challenge. My son started running a fever which on top of getting ready for 2 craft fairs and a farmers market all within one week of each other, I have been crazy busy! But enought excuses, here is this weeks challenge. This weeks ad is from horchow.com and this seems to be a popular color cobination right now. These are some bright colors so I added two tones of the colors in this ad, feel free to choose which ever you like or use both!

Here is my card for this challenge, I still went a little lighter since I found this cute paper in my stash that matched it. I thought this would make a nice mother's day card.

Click here if you would like to see the cards made by Cricut Message Board members or would like to post your card there.

“Ad Inspiration Challenge” #10

Wow this is our tenth challenge now! This weeks ad challenge is from a sight made to help inspire you with color, Behr.com! You should really check out this sight if you need some color ideas. You can use the color scheme, ad layout, or anything else in the ad for inspiration. Please post your cards here. Hope you enoy this one! I will post my card later.


And here is my card. Click here if you would like to see the cards made by Cricut Message Board members or would like to post your card there.

Chocolate Nugget Box Revisted

When I origianlly made this .cut file I used george and celebrations carts. Someone on the Cricut MB liked this .cut file but didn't have the celebrations carts. So I recreated it with George only. The new file can be downloaded from the right under "Cricut DS Cuts". I haven't cut it yet to see how it looks cut, let me know if it works or if there is a problem. Enjoy!

“Ad Inspiration Challenge” #9

Here is this weeks “Advertisement Inspiration Challenge” The ad is from Target.com again. These made me think of Easter eggs and thought they would be good for this weeks challenge. You can use the color scheme, ad layout, or anything else in the ad for inspiration. Please post your cards here. I will be posting my card later. Have Fun!

Ok so I finally got my card done! I used WIMG for the tulips. Click here if you would like to see the cards made by Cricut Message Board members or would like to post your card there. TFL

“Ad Inspiration Challenge” #8

Here is this weeks “Advertisement Inspiration Challenge” The ad is from Target.com. This is a cute pillow with some of my favorite colors. I hope you enjoy all the colors this week! You can use the color scheme, ad layout, or anything else in the ad for inspiration. Please post a comment here with a link to your card.

Here is my card for this challenge. I use a birthday stamp set from Stampin' Up and added some brads for embelishments. TFL! Click here if you would like to see the cards made by Cricut Message Board members or would like to post your card there.

“Ad Inspiration Challenge” #7

It's the beginning of the week again and here is this weeks “Advertisement Inspiration Challenge” The ad is from Sears.com again. I thought we would get away from the room decorating stuff this week and go with a cute dress with lots of great spring like colors. I hope you enjoy all the colors this week! You can use the color scheme, ad layout, or anything else in the ad for inspiration. Please post your cards here.

Here is my card for this week. The stamp is froma retired hostess set from Stampin' Up! and I colored it with SU inks using the water pen. I cut the flower from George cartridge to give a little extra accent to the stamped area. I embossed the yellow area with my cuttle bug and the background paper is from DCWV. TFL! Click here if you would like to see the cards made by Cricut Message Board members or would like to post your card there.

“Ad Inspiration Challenge” #6

Ok so here is this weeks “Advertisement Inspiration Challenge” The ad is from Target.com again. I liked the green and yellow in this one and thought it would be good for St. Patricks Day this week. You can use the color scheme, ad layout, or anything else in the ad for inspiration. This is all for fun to see what you get from the inspiration. If you want to participate, please post a comment here with a link to your card.


Here is my card for this ad inspiration challenge. I used the "Flight of the Butterfly" stamp set and scalloped boarder punch from Stampin' Up! To make the scalloped buckle you cut your paper to 2.75" x 2.75", centering it on the punch using the guide lines, punch once one each side. Use a 1.75" x 1.75" piece of paper for the center of the buckle.

Blog candy offer from a fellow crafty blogger...

Sonis, another crafty blogger is offering some blog candy. You can check it out here, you have till March 31 to enter. Be sure to check out the rest of her blog as well, she has some great work! I love how she gives a close up view of her works. She also has a lot of links for challenges!

Tips for your blog!

I was looking for a way to make a new banner for my blog and I came along this great site (BloggerTricks.com) that is full of great blogger tips to improve you own blog. I found out how to add my blog to blog directories and search engines to help me get more traffic to my site. The author also has an email subscription so you can continue to get more great tips. This is a great site for anyone like me who is new to all this blogging stuff!

Not only is the site full of tips and templates but there is also a contest on there to win money! The great thing about this contest is not a random drawing but one that you control your chance to win. The contest is being sponsored by HomeImprovementCorner.com and Banner-ad-blog.com and there are six possible prizes to win ranging from $50 for first prize to $5 for the last prize. Be sure to check out the site here or click on the banner for it on the left.

“Ad Inspiration Challenge” Week 5

Ok so here is this weeks “Advertisement Inspiration Challenge” The ad is from Target.com. You can use the color scheme, ad layout, or anything else in the ad for inspiration. This is all for fun to see what you get from the inspiration. If you want to participate, please post a comment here with a link to your card.
Here is my card for this weeks inspiration, I used Stampin' Up! set "Bitty Basics" for the background and cut "Get Well Soon" from the Cricut cart. "Beyond Birthdays. I also used the
and scalloped boarder punch from Stampin' Up! If you are interested in purchasing any Stampin' Up! products, you buy them online through my Stampin' Up! website here. BTW Stampin' Up is offering a free idea book when you purchase online for a limited time!"TFL!

My first BIA Project!

I finally got a BIA and here are some mini books I made with it. I love to recycle when ever possible and I got to use some recycled materials with these. For the covers I used decoarative tissue boxes. I lined the inside of the covers with a cordinating paper and added a little design to the outside of the covers. TFL!

“Ad Inspiration Challenge” Week 4

Sorry I am a few days late on this one but here is this weeks “Advertisement Inspiration Challenge” The ad is from Belk.com. You can use the color scheme, ad layout, or anything else in the ad for inspiration. This is all for fun to see what you get from the inspiration. If you want to participate, please post a comment here with a link to your card.

Here is my card for this weeks inspiration. I cut the lady bug, flower and leaves from Cricut cart. WIMG. I embossed the flower with my Cuttlebug and one of the new texture plates from Stampin' Up! I folded the leaves in half and ran them through my crimper on an angle. The background is stamped with Stampin' Up! "Doodle This"stamp set and the "thank you so very much" is from the "Flight of the Butterfly" stamp set. If you are interested in purchasing the stamp set, scalloped boarder punch or any other Stampin' Up! Products, you buy them online through my Stampin' Up! website here. BTW Stampin' Up is offering a free idea book when you purchase online for a limited time! TFL!

Happy 30th Birthday

Here is a card I made for a co-worker who turned 30 today.

Ad Inspiration Challenges

I started posting an "Advertisement Inspiration Challenge" each week on the Cricut message board. Today was the begining of the third week. I thought I would also post them here for others as well. Here is what you do... you can use the color scheme, ad layout, or anything else in the ad for inspiration for a card. This is all for fun to see what you get from the inspiration. If you want to participate, please post a comment here with a link to your card. Here are the "Ad Inspriations" and my cards for the first three weeks. I will post the new "Ad Inspriations" every Sunday.

Week #1 from an online Macy’s catalog here

My Card

Week #2 The ad is from Target.comMy Card

Week #3 The ad is from Sears.com
My Card