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