Butterflies

Well, I know we have all done one of these kinds of cards but I am trying to get my mojo back after a long hiatus so bear with me here. HA! Everything used here is PTI oh, how I love thee.

well, except for the cuttlebug embossing folder.

Hope your weekend was great. I got caught up on some sleep that I have needed terribly.. yippeee!! Well, Titans first preseason game is on and I am brain dead from work so not much to say tonight. HOpe you have a fantastic tomorrow!!!

Cheers!

~Julie~

Rebel

Seriously!! How cute is this cricut image? I got the new Rock Princess cart a couple of weeks ago and have been having soooo much fun playing with it. This card is pretty much cased from the guide book that came with the card. I used the example to figure which buttons were for what so I thought I would just go ahead and make the card like the one in the guide too. I just LOVE her and so does my daughter. I see more like these in my future for birthday cards.
My computer was out for a while because lighting struck the computer and tv this past Saturday aarrrgggg! but what is worse is the thunder shook my neighbors house and caused their home alarm to go off WHILE THEY WERE OUT OF TOWN. Come to find out they do not have the alarm set up with a monitoring company soooooo the alarm went off for 12 LOOOOOONG hours! have you ever heard how load a home alarm is? Well, it is VERY loud. From 6 o'clock at night to 6 o'clock in the morning. Thank goodness it was not on a work night. When they got home and found out about it they gave neighbors $50.00 gift cards to Cracker Barrel. WOW $50.00 dang. That was sooo nice! right?
Okay now that the computer is up I have bills to pay so I need to run. Thanks for stopping by hope your evening is great!
Cheers!
~Julie~

Cupcake Happy Birthday

Hi There!! HOpe you're day has been a great one! Life is good at the Smith household this evening. We are all busy working on different projects.
Anywho, This little diddy of a card is another one I totally cased from Nichole Heady's July PTI release. I used products I had on hand. Everything is a combination of CTMH and PTI. Sorry this is so short tonight. Grace needs help with her homework, which means I will look at it then we will go ask her dad! HA. Thanks for visiting see you again soon.
Cheers!
~Julie~

Monkey Birthday

here is the birthday boy! he had such a great time. His hair is mess from playing in the pool! HA
Happy Saturday Morning to you all!!! It is BEA-U-TI-FUL !! Today is grand baby Logan's 2nd birthday. OH MY how time flies. I cannot wait to see him. He has gotten so big and talking so well. I can just eat him up! I wanted to make a special birthday card for his bid day. When I was looking through some of my older Paper Crafts magazines I ran across an article of making this monkey with circle punches. HOW STINKIN' CUTE IS THIS! I used the cricut to cut out circles used some brads for the eyes. Did some distressing round the circle pieces and voila' we have a monkey. This paper pack is from CTMH. I think it is called Star Struck. I thought it fit well with the little boy, monkey, birthday theme. The sentiment and brown paper is PTI Dark Brown.
Okay, I am off to get ready for his big day. Thanks soooo much for your visit! I am so happy to be back in the crafting/blogging world. Have an awesome day!!
Cheers!
~Julie~

Paper Flowers

GOOOOOOOD Monday Evening!!!!

Man what a busy weekend. I had a great weekend the only thing that could have been better is if I were at CHA. I was just in Chicago last month visiting in-laws. I should have timed that visit better! Anyway I did manage to squeeze in a tid bit of paper crafting fun on Sunday. This paper pack is an old kit I had from My Minds Eye. I STILL love the fun colors in it. The little paper flowers are so fun and easy to make. I learned about these from a Scrapbook Memories episode on PBS (locally channel 8). I am going to tray and make 2 cards alike when I have my supplies out. #1 because I usually sell them and #2 I already have everything out so may as well right.

Today was Graces first day of middle school waaaaaaaaaaaa!!! She started riding the bus home this year too so naturally I just HAD to get her a cell phone. She was about to BURST right out of her skin when we told her. We waited until we were leaving for the Verizon store before we told her she was getting one or we never would have heard the end of "when do we get it? when do we get it? when do we get it?" OH! the little flourish is a cut from the Cricut, buttons are MME and the orange one is PTI. Stamp is PTI Birthday Basics. Thanks for visiting!!!!

Cheers!

Julie

Melon Berry Birthday

So one of the downfalls about going a while without crafting is that you lose mojo and creative flow. For inspiration or down right CASEing I go to a lot of the amazingly talented girls of Papertrey Ink. This card was very much cased (with the products i had on hand ) from THIS post by Nichole Heady aka my stamping hero!! The background was stamped with Close to my Heart Spot on Backgrounds with PTI Vintage Cream ink. The Fun Pass stamp is also CTMH Ticket Tags I believe is the name and stamped it in PTI Smokey Shadow. Button and Ribbon PTI Spring Moss. I used the Stampin Up punch for the notebook effect. I would love to chat a bit but i must be getting ready for Bear Camp. which is a type of open house for new students and parents of middle schoolers. WHAT?? middle school already? wasn't she just born yesterday? Sheesh!! Thanks for coming by for the visit today!!
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~

New BLog Layout!

Okay... so I do not have anything to post but I have a new blog layout!!!!
One step at a time people.. one step at a time!!!

i PAINTED all weekend. still slow moving. but getting there.

Big Weekend

OMG it has been over a month since i have last blogged. I did manage to squeeze in 6 mothers day cards. 3 designs 2 of each. i gave one to mom and sold the others at work. it was soooooo nice to play a little. i did not take a picture to post because they were totally cased!
so friday went out of town to my daughers dance competition in Huntsville Alabama. Our team did excellent!! lots of first place awards. Fun times.
sunday woke up to these delicious and sweet pancakes!! visited my mother in law and then met my sister and mom for dinner. super busy weekend but all was great. today i celebrate my 37th birthday!! DANG time goes by so fast! hubby just called me for dinner so gotta run. thanks for stopping by!
Cheers!
*Julie*

You Make Me Happy!

Good Easter Morning!!!
What a beautiful day in Tennessee today!!
So I realize it has been forever and 5 days since I last posted and visited blogs. Life has been CRAZY busy but good. It seems we are finally making a dent on the house project. Still so much to do however. Needless to say this is a scrapbook page I did a while back. I still have lots of my craftiness in a boxes. SOON though, soon I will be able to get out all of my crafty goodness! I just hate to get it out and all set up when I dont have the time to get to it right away. Once it is all out sitting there I will for sure not get any house work done!!! LOL. I cannot remember all of the goodies used to make this but what I do know is:
Paper kit is My Minds Eye.
Buttons: MME and PTI
Die Cuts: flowers and butterflies Cricut
STamp: (barcode label) CTMH
Thanks so much for visiting I hope to be back to my normal crafy self soon! Have a wonderful Easter day!!
Cheers!
~Julie~