Sprinkled With Fun

HI YA!! Happy Wednesday! Yippee.. getting back on the computer! Still lost my Picasa album but hubs did manage to find some "my pictures" file. anywhooo... This is a scrap page of my niece Mia Love. The fun bright papers are DCWV Taj Mahal. Love that paper pack. the sentiment was cut with my trust Cricut. I borrowed my super cool friend Tina cricut cartridge Sweet Treats (what a GREAT cart) The purple and red felt flowers are American Crafts that I've had in my stash FOR-EV-AH!!! I wanted a tidbit o texture so i drew lines around each square. it would have been nice to sew around each one but a.) it was a scrappy weekend at the cabin so no sewing machine with me and b.) thats a lot of squares and drawing is much faster :-)
okay. i am getting some of my house projects completed. and i hope to share those very soon!!!
thanks for stopping by tonight. Have an awesome day tomorrow!
Cheers!
~julie~

Happy Birthday to YOU!

HELLO long lost blogging friends!!!
Sure hope everyone is doing well on this blazing hot Wednesday. Okay, so getting this house together has taken WAAAAYYYY more time than I anticipated or wanted. But... it is looking more like a home. We just finished the kitchen which required one coat of primer AND two coats of paint... ugg.. we did not skimp either we bought the good stuff from Porter Paint!! Oh well it looks great now. we still have the living room to go.. but I am hanging my painters hat up for a while. anywhoo.............. i have gotten in some play time!! here is one of the first cards i have made in a very long time. I already had the poofy flowers made from around Christmas time. I decided to use them up on this 5x7 card. The heart punch is from fiskars. the blue vinyl letters are the paper studio. not sure about the black polka dot paper. and the happy birthday sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. Thanks so much for visiting me. sorry it has been so long. I am so excited to check out everyones blogs that i have been missing. Have a GREAT night!
Cheers
~Julie~

Be Mine

Hidyho crafty friends! Hope you are having a great Tuesday night! I am sitting here eating chocolate covered espresso beans!!! Yuuuummmmmy! I hope they dont keep me awake tonight.
Things are still aggravating but moving right along with the house buying situation. Getting all the inspections and what not. Man, buying a home takes FOR-EV-ER! Maybe that is why I havent done it in 11 years! LOL Anywho, on with the card. I totally cased this card from my favorite vintage guru Melissa Phillips. Man that girl is good. I made the chipboard heart from a Cricut Cart! whooo! I ran it thru the Cricut about 3 times. still had to cut a little bit with the scissors though, but it did well. Colored the heart by swiping the ink pad on it then covered in glitter.
The rest of the deets are below. I hope you enjoyed. Plan on having a GREAT Wednesday! Thanks for your visit. I love visitors!
Cheers!
*Julie*
Patterned Paper: no idea, got it already cut up from a blog candy win the little bit in the middle of the heart is CTMH Amore
Cardstock: PTI True Black and Vintage Cream
Stamps: PTI Heart Prints
Ribbon: Offray
Cricut Cart: Hannah Montana
Button: American Crafts
Lace: old left over stash
Ink: CTMH Cranberry
Glitter: SU

Embellish Color Challenge Hearts

Oh HAPPY DAY, HAPPY DAY!!!! I had time this weekend to participate in a challenge!! Can I get a whoop whoop!! And who other but the very talented Ashley Newell's Embellish Challenge would I do? Fun stuff this go around. PINK, RED AND BLACK. Three of my favorite colors.
I actually got 8 cards completed this weekend. It was a fine way to start the new year off indeed!
And last night my daughter and I played with the Copic markers!! It was what I imagine Heaven would be like!! Crafty time, all the time! Okay kids the deets are below. Thanks for looking!
Cheers!
*Julie*
Cardstock: PTI Pure Poppy
Patterned Paper: Teresa Collins
Stamps: PTI Heart Prints
Ribbon: PTI Pure Poppy grosgrain
Ink: PTI Pure Poppy
Embossing Powder: American Crafts Black glitter

Play

HI!!!!
Happy Black Friday to some of you CRAZY shoppers! Not me boy. Online shopping all the way!
I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and or friends. Ours was just perfect and we have two more to go! Today at my in-laws and Sunday at my daddy's. Goodness gracious you will have to roll me through the door to work on Monday! LOL
Anyway quick post as I need to go get ready. This is another page I made on my scrappy weekend. This is my Step-son Steven and his little boy Logan, my favorite grandbaby!!!
I used the Cricut Home Accents for the swirly image on the side. The paper is from a Fiskars package I won a while back. It is more wintery themed but obviously dosnt have to be winter.
I stamped with Damask Designs from PTI (swooon!!) The cardstock is old stuff I have had in my stash probably since the begining of this fabulous hobby of mine. The play stamp I borrowed from my great friend Tina so I do not remember the maker. The little fleur-de-lis is chipboard by American Crafts. I decided to leave it plain white. The great big fat ribbon is Offray. I hope you like it. Thanks for stopping by and letting me know what you think. Have a great weekend!
Cheers!
*Julie*

Florida

Hi Guys!!!!!
How is your Sunday so far? Mine is pretty good as I have managed to get a few things check off of my to do list already!!! Life is still pretty busy here right now. Trying to find a house and packing ours up deciding what we can live without for a little while. I did manage to squeeze in some time to go see New Moon Friday night! woohoo. FUN TIMES that was! Yesterday Mom and Grace and I spent the day bedroom furniture shopping for Grace. Then today Grace and I are going to watch Jim cross the finish line at the Monkey Marathon!! So proud of him this will be his 5th marathon! DANG just insane I tell ya. Then Grace has a birthday party to go to. So before I get ready I have to throw in a quick workout. So here are the deets to this page. And thank you so much for coming to see my blog today!
Cheers!
*julie*

Cardstock : CTMH
Patterned Paper: CTMH
Cardstock Stickers: CTMH
Flowers: The Paper Studio
Stamps: PTI background Basics Text (on the letters)
Letter Stickers: American Craft
Ink: Memento
Die Cut: Cricut Cartridge
Boarder Punch: Fiskars

Love You

Hi There! Thanks for popping over. Wanted to share a 5x7 card I made for a friend at work who asked me to make a card for her to give to her boyfriend. I think it is quite fun and even my hot hubs liked it. I did a bit of distressing which I LOVE but haven't done in a while. Hope you are inspired. Have a great night. It is just a little chilly here and I LOVE IT!!! Can hardly wait to make French Dip Sandwiches and then curl up on the couch tonight!
Cardstock: CTMH Black
Card base: American Crafts
Patterned Paper: Cosmo Cricket
Shaped paper: Making Memories Note Worthy (turned backwards then drew lines)
Sticker letters: Reminisce
Die Cut lips: Hannah Montana Cricut cart

Birthday Hana

Hi-ya! Happy Tuesday! Gettin' this week started and rolling!!!! This is a cute little Hanna my friend Gina let me stamp with. She is too dang tall to fit on a standard A2 card so I made a 5x7.
Pretty simple layout, nothing fancy. That is about all I have to share today. Enjoy your evening and thanks for stopping by!!!
Cheers!
*Julie*
Cardbase: American Crafts
Cardstock: DCWV (black) and PTI Scarlet Jewell
Patterned Paper: CTMH Boom-Di-Ada
Stamps: Hana, CTMH Happy Birthday
Colored Pencils: Koh-I-Noor
Punch: Fiskars Threading Water

Cupcake Birthday

I loves me some cupcakes!!! EXTRA FROSTING PLEASE! If this cupcake were real I think it would be delicious!!! For this card I decided to emboss some fun polka dots. To keep with the glittery theme I put stickles all over the the cherry. Thanks for stopping by, I need to help my daughter with some homework. It will be fun we have to dig through pictures and find some of she, me and her dad all around the same ages. Have a great night!
Cheers!
*Julie*
Cardstock: PTI Pure Poppy, Berry Sorbet, Kraft
Embossing Powder: American Crafts glitter red
Stamps: PTI Polka Dot Basics, Birthday Basics
Ribbon: PTI Berry Sorbet
Die Cut: Cricut and Home Accents Cartridge

Purple Butterfly

HAPPY MONDAY!!! wooohooo....we made it. Made it through Monday! Hope all is well with you.
I was totally inspired to copy one of Dawn McVeys cards. I loved the big butterfly. I decided to change the color to purple. The butterfly I used was cut using the Hannah Montana Cartridge (have i said i love that cart before LOL) The small butterfly is the Martha Stewart punch. Good Luck sentiment is from PTI Mega Mixed Messages. The embossing down at the bottom was used with the American Crafts Purple Metallic Embossing Powder and PTI Damask Designs. I threw on some pearls from The Paper Studio and some Plum Pudding ribbon from PTI. OH the polka dot paper is PTI Bitty Dots in Lavender Moon. Hope you enjoyed. Have a great night!!
Cheers!
*Julie*

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge Week 15

Hola Friends! Thanks for checking out my go at Dawn McVey's Raspberry Suite Color Challenge Week # 15. I love doing these challenges, really make me think, sometimes it just hurts to think that hard! LOL Anywho. This is what I came up with, I hope you enjoy it. It was fun to play. I colored the chip board piece with Hibiscus Burst ink, it was white. Have a GREAT DAY!

Cheers!

*Julie*

Cardstock: PTI Melon Berry, Hibiscus Burst, Spring Moss and Vintage Cream

Ink: PTI Vintage Cream, CTMH Sorbet (matches pti exactly!)

Stamps: sentiment PTI Birds of a Feather, dots and starburst CTMH Spot on Background

Ribbon: PTI Vintage Cream Grosgrain

Chipboard: American Crafts

Button: My Minds Eye

Die Cut: Spellbinders Label One

Punches: Fiskars Apron Lace and Threading Water

Beach Walk

Hola!
Got a scrap page to share with you today. While I was searching for my vehicle, I did not have much time to craft. This was a page I did shortly after we got back from Panama City Beach, FL
This is Grace and my mom and me and Grace, and me and mom walking on the beach. I was totally inspired by a layout in Scrapbook Trends Magazine. The patterned paper is Jenni Bowlin Studios, I sewed around the edge of the blue polka dot. I used some fabulous The Paper Studio flowers and nothing else than my Cricut for little leaves border that I cut out using PTI Hibiscus Burst, Tied some Hibicus Burst ribbon around some flowers. I also used the Cricut for the Lemon Tart Bracket Border. I used American Crafts Foam Stickers for the word walk. Then stamped the word beach with PTI Fresh Alphabet in CTMH Heavenly Blue ink. Thats it for now folks. We are getting ready to head over to the Wilson County Fairgrounds to turn in our entries for some contest. I am entering a scrapbook page and a card. Grace is entering a photograph and a necklace and a bracelet she made. I will let you know the outcome in a couple of weeks after the fair is over. THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT!! Enjoy your Saturday!
Cheers!
*Julie*

Beautiful Girl

Good Friday Morning to you all!!! Sorry for no posts in 4 days. I have had a really busy week with work and such. Now to play catch up time. I do have one more scrapbook page to share with you. Hope all you card people don't mind. This is my daughter Grace at our recent trip to Florida. I love her so much and cannot believe how fast she grows. She is always so kind enough to let me take photos of her. My niece was in Florida too and she would not let my sister take any pictures. I guess because Grace has grown up with a camera in her face she doesn't mind posing for me. Anywho here are the deets of the page. Thanks so much for your visit!!!!!
Cheers!
*Julie*

Cardstock: Stampin Up - Whisper White and Pumpkin (dont know the exact name)
Silk Flowers: The Paper Studio
Rhinestone Brads: The Paper Studio
Letter Stickers: American Crafts Vinyl
Die Cut: Cricut Home Accents (brackets around the photo and journaling)
Velvet Die Cut: Prima

Celebrate Cupcake Style

Hola!! HOpe all is well in your neighborhood! I am still on my 5x7 card kick. This one is my personal fav so far. I have been wearing out that Cricut Machine!! Embossed some polka dots up a storm too! Good times I tell ya! Short post tonight peeps, got lots to do before the last work day of the week tomorrow. whoop whoop!! Glad you stopped by I LOVE visitors!
Cheers!
*Julie*
Recipe:
card base: American Crafts
cardstock: Stampin up, rose red and pretty in pink, PTI Kraft and Stampers select White
Embossing Powder: American Crafts Metallic (bottle says red but looks like purply red to me
Cricut Cartridge: Home Decor
Stamps: PTI POlka Dot Basics and CTMH Cupcake sprinkles (sentiment and scallop boarder)
Ink: Stampin up Rose red
Ribbon: PTI Sweet Blush, and rustic jute
Button: Vintage Buttons

Making Flowers

Hi Ya! Happy Sunday to you! Hope you enjoyed your day of rest. Other than walking 3 miles in the park today with the heat and 75% humidity my day was just lovely. My hubby helped me with the cleaning chores by cleaning the tubs and toilets! whoohoooo. My two least favorite things to clean. He is just the BEST! Then Friday night and Saturday was so much fun because we got to babysit Grandbaby Logan. He is soooooo sweet. I loved every minute.
A little while back I won 9 packs of different colors of American Crafts 5x7 Cards and Envelopes.
I never make that size card so I had be a little intimidated, I decided that was just enough of that and got those babies out. I will have some to show you all week. This first two are basically the same card but one I used flat flowers and one crumbled flowers. I just tore circles with some card stock and some, I waded up til I got tired of that, then just left the others. I broke out some polka dot paper and the Janome Mini and got crazy. Hope you like. Thanks for your visit!!!!!!!
Cheers!
*Julie*
Recipe:
Card base: American Crafts
cardstock: PTI White, Hibiscus Burst, Stampin Up Ruby Red, Apricot, Cool Caribbean (retired)
and CTMH Baby Blue
Ink: Stampin Up Ruby Red
Stamps: Close to my Heart, Happy Birthday
Patterned Paper: American Crafts
Buttons: Favorite Findings
Floss: DMC
Ribbon: Wrights Ric Rac

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge Week 9

Hi There!!!
So I am a wee bit late playing in the Raspberry Suite Color Challenge Wk 9. But, none the less I did participate. I LOVED this color challenge. This has been my fav so far. I cut out the flowers with the Cricut then stamped on them, crumbled them up and viola'. The swirly is embossed with black glitter embossing powder from American Crafts. And check out that super cutie below. Mr Grandbaby Logan! I get to babysit that little angel all night tonight. Cant wait to give tons of kisses on those cheeks!! Thanks for coming over here today, hope you enjoyed. I got a few things to do before I go get little man. Have an awesome weekend!
Cheers!
*Julie*
Recipe:
Cardstock: PTI, True Black, Vintage Cream, New Leaf
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
EP: American Crafts, Black Glitter
Punch: Martha Stewart Butterfly
Stamps: With Sympathy, Basic Backgrounds Text
Button: Favorite Findings

Vacation....all I ever wanted.

HI YA!!!

Whenever I say vacation I think of that song from the Go Gos!!! Fun all girl band back in the day! :)

I am leaving in just a few short hours to Panama City Beach, Florida! The family is so excited as we never got a chance to go last year. Only thing though is hubby is staying behind, this is just a girls trip with me, mom, daughter, sister and niece!! I sure will miss hubs but he will be putting in tile in the kitchen so when I get home I have a new kitchen floor!! whoop whoop! I thought about bringing this card with me to mail him while we are there. It certainly is not manly but it sure is tropical and VERY loud. Mom hated the ribbon on it, said it was WAY too much. So I took it off, what do you think? The card AND the embossing powders are from American Crafts. I won a whole package from American Crafts off of the Cards Magazine blog. In fact I won all of the colors in their 5x7 cards and envelopes for 9 colors, 12 in each pack. THEN I also got the entire collection of Metallic and Glitter Zing embossing powders!!! woooohoooo, yea ME! The paper pack is called Moon Doggie from CTMH. The flowers are also CTMH, a stamp set called Extreme Happiness. I look forward to scrapping some beach pictures with this fun paper. I embossed the flowers with Zing Purple Metallic ep and used the Zing Red Glitter embossing powder for the middle part of the flower. I think this is a Hibiscus and I have NO IDEA the parts of this flower so please excuse my ignorance! LOL I have no green thumb what so ever. I just typed up the sentiment in word using CTMH Stumbling Along Font. Oh! and the ribbon is CTMH Natural Twill. Okie Doke, gotta run. Thanks for stopping by!! Have an awesome week!

Cheers!

*Julie*