St Patricks Day

Yes, I am doing it. I am showing my never get out any more side. I got to go out for St Patricks Day this year. It was on a week night, took the train into town and had a ride home so I let my hair down and got a little silly and IT WAS SO MUCH FUN! So here is a lay out of the crazy evening with some friends. I will probably have a few more scrap pages to share but I WILL have some cards to share before too long. Me and my 5 high school friends are having our girls Christmas this Friday night and we will eat, drink, play Christmas music, exchange gifts and make our Christmas cards. I have already started to pack a few things as I have some ideas in my head. I need to write those down! otherwise these wonderful ideas will be gone! crazy how I can barely remember things anymore. I did not get ANY crafting time in these 4 days off! We had 3 Thanksgiving dinners to attend and we babysat the grandbaby Friday and Saturday. Which was great I haven't seen him in about 2 months!
I don't remember who made the paper. I got it on clearance at my LSS. The letters were cut out using one of the fonts on the Hannah Montana Cricut cart. Okay gonna run, I am going to attempt to make a couple of necklaces or bracelets for gifts for some co-workers. Thanks for stopping by my little piece of the blog world. Have a great night.
Cheers!
*Julie*

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*

Tiny Dancer

Hidy HO!!!!

Hows your day going? I worked 11 hours today trying to make up for some time that I will be off for Thanksgiving. I was planning on working over tomorrow too but...we have 3 houses to check out. We still have not heard about our short sale offer yet. It has been 3 weeks now so maybe within another month. But just in case we are not chosen then we are going to keep looking.

SOOOOOOO, here is one of the pages I did while on my super fun scrappy weekend getaway.

I need another get away to have some time to make cards. I MISS playing in my craft room. Everything is still there, not packed away, I just haven't had time.

I love watching Grace dance. I love it because she loves it, it makes her so happy you can just see it on her face. I am not really big on the Lyrical dances but she (and the other girls) was so graceful and beautiful during this dance this past competition season! I call this her leap but she says it is something else. I hope you like. Thanks for your visit! Come again soon. I hope to have something new posted. Have a HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!

Cheers!

*Julie*

Cardstock: DCWV (black) Creative Memories (wine)

Patterned paper: Creative Memories Black and White and CTMH

Frame die cut: Cricut Hannah Montana Cart

Punch: Fiskars Threading Water

Rhinestones: Prima

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

I Love You

Hi There! Hope your Thursday is great! Only one more day til I get to see New Moon!!!!
So looking forward to it. I still have not had any crafty time this week. Still busy with life stuff.
Man sometimes work just gets in the way of everything! LOL I shouldn't kid like that I am very grateful to have my job. I had a friend at work ask me to make her a card that she could give to her husband. So this is what I came up with. Her only request was no pink! I hope you enjoyed your visit and come back again! THANKS for stopping by.
Cheers!
*Julie*
Cardstock: PTI White, CTMH Black and Cranberry
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
STamps: PTI Vintage Label and Fancy Flourishes
Cricut Cart: Mini Monograms ( i you) and Home Decor (love)

Sweet Love

Whoa! almost a week with no post. Dang I have been a busy girl. Had an absolute BLAST at my scrappy weekend those girls are so much fun. Then come home and had to start working on some orders for burpie cloths. Still workin on those. Hopefully I can slow down just a bit soon but it really seems that it will be after Christmas before that happens! So, I made this card a couple of weeks ago. A friend told me it seems Twilightish to them...humm???? The image is one of my favs from CTMH. Cut out a little frame from the cricut. Still LOVIN' my Cricut! Embossed with the cuttle bug folder and used some of my favorite PTI cardstock and ribbon in Scarlett Jewel.

So my awesome friend Tina gave me this little blog award!

Your supposed to answer the questions in one word answers. Thanks Chicka!

1. Where is your cell phone? purse

2. Your hair? Brown

3. Your mother? awesome

4. Your father? giving

5. Your favorite food? Mexican

6. Your dream last night? work

7. Your favorite drink? Mojitos

8. Your dream/goal? great mom

9. What room are you in? dining room

10. Your hobby? scrapping

11. Your fear? fire

12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? happy

13. Where were you last night? Home

14. Something that you aren't? mean

15. Muffins? banana nut

16. Wish list item? lap top

17. Where did you grow up? Tennessee

18. Last thing you did? work

19. What are you wearing? pj's

20. Your TV? off

21. Your Pets? none

22. Friends? fun

23. Your life? satisfying

24. Your mood? good

25. Missing Someone? Kathy

26. vehicle? Soul

27. Something you're not wearing? ring

28. Your favorite store? craft

29. Your favorite color? green

30. When was the last time you laughed? Today

31. Last time you cried? unknown

32. Your best friend? Understanding

33. One place that I want to go to over and over? beach

34. Facebook? yes

35. Favorite place to eat? Cinco DeMayo

Vintage Happy Christmas

Well, Hello! How are you? My, my the time sure has flown by lately. We have been extremely busy getting our house ready to put on the market. AND I am getting ready to go on a scrapbooking retreat to Center Hill Lake bright and early Friday morning!! YEA ME!

Here is the other vintage Christmas card I made last week. Used some more of the super fantastic Graphic 45 punch outs. I decided to go for glitter again. This time I ran the two way
glue pen around the edge of the tag and dipped it into some CTMH red glitter. OH it is so pretty.
and broke out some more of the vintage sheet music!! The patterned paper is Basic Grey. The ribbon and button is PTI. I ran a simple stitch with the sewing machine around the edge. The "snowflake" is a flower image from the Cricut Home Decor cartridge. Then I glued that whole die and covered it in Dazzling Diamond glitter from Stampin' UP! I got the basic layout idea from a card by Melissa Phillips in the Cards Magazine.

Okie Dokie kids. Gotta start packing for my scrappy weekend. Have a great night!! Thanks for taking the time to visit me today!

Cheers!
*Julie*

December 25th

Happy Sunday Night!

Hope all is well, it has been a busy, busy weekend. NO crafty time except just a wee bit at Gina's crafty night at church. THANKS GINA! So here is one of the Vintage Christmas cards I worked on last week. I love how it turned out. If I may say so. I am in love with vintage sheet music at the moment. I ordered some from Amazon.com and need more already. The lace just happend to be in my sewing box! (yea!). The die cut paper edge is from Little Yellow Bicycle. The little Dec 25 punch out is Graphic 45. Then i stickled the edge of it for some fun glittery effect. Cardstock and ribbon is my favorite PTI. So that is it for now. Thanks so much for coming over to take a look at my card. Have a GREAT night!!

Cheers!

*Julie*

super quick

OMG it has been a minute since i have posted! Sorry about that... We expectantly discovered a house that we want. We have been not really looking but have a realtor send us pics and info on houses that he knows we want "one day" AND at the right price! He has been doing this now for about 4 years!!! yes years! Our dream house just showed up in our email on monday and we were like "this is it"!!!

we are so not ready and were not expecting this. so we ran out on tuesday to look at it and put an offer on it wed then thursday realtor tell us he is coming to apraise our house on saturday. well i have things to do on friday and saturday so last night i RAN home and cleaned like a mad woman outside and inside, after working all day i may add...cleaned from 4:00-8:30. and was EXHAUSTED! Well, wish us luck because there are 2 other offers on the house. I dont know when we will find out whos offer was accepted. It needs LOTS of TLC but we are up to the challenge. it has everything we want plus.

so these little lollipop flowers are a Designing D.I.V.A.S. secret sister challenge. the first one I used CTMH paper pack and the second one is felt and fabric! Gotta go get ready to have craft night with my crafty friends. Gina, Angela and Tina!!!

Christmas Card and Tag

HI Ya!!!! Looks like we made it through another MONDAY! wooohooo. Hope you are doing well.
I am in Christmas mode full force! I have bought my first two presents (plus one for me! LOL)
Why do i always feel the need to buy myself a Christmas present as well? And I got some awesome Graphic 45 Vintage Christmas punch outs so I am "attempting" Vintage Christmas cards. THIS pic is NOT one of them though. That will come later!

This card and tag is all PTI baby! I really need to replenish my White and Vintage Cream cardstock. Anyway below are the deets. Thank bunches for your visit!!!!!
Cheers!
*Julie*

Cardstock: PTI Stampers Select White, Ripe Avocado, Pure Poppy
Patterned Paper: PTI Vintage Holiday Prints
Stamps: PTI Merry & Bright
Ink: Pure Poppy and Ripe Avocado
Ribbon: PTI Pure Poppy Saddle Stitch