Scrappy Page

Happy Tuesday!!
Hope your day has been awesome. Today i am sharing a scrap page I made on my little weekend getaway back in March! This is my daughter and her duo partner from their dance in season 2010. I absolutely LOVED this dance. I was very musical theater think Broadway musical. So fun, ever time i watched it I got a little sad thinking one day she will leave me to move to New York and dance on Broadway. Silly really she would LOVE that, I am just being selfish! The Paper is Glitzy Pack I picked up at Hobby Lobby one day, I totally adore ever single sheet in it. So shabby chic. I used the cricut to cut out the label i used to journal and some rhinestones. Thats it all the little paper strips are from the same pack. I have to admit I got this layout from one of my scrappy mags. Dont remember which one since it was so long ago. I hope you enjoy and are inspired to to make your own page! Thanks for stopping by. Have a great tomorrow.
Cheers!
~Julie~

Thanks Cards

Well Hello There!!

I actually got crafty with some paper last month. It felt great.. it has been a little while since i have scrapped or made a card. My daughters dance recital was at the end of May and I was asked to make the coaches the thank you cards.

I totally lifted these from Nichole Heady with Papertrey Ink. I had to do them super quick so i stole her layout. The diamond was used because her coaches are opening a new studio called Diamond Academy of Dance. The colors here will be the new colors of the studio also.

I used the Hannah Montana Cricut Cart for the diamond image. Close to my heart stamps to stamp the images on the paper. The paper used is Stampin up and Papertey Ink. The thanks sentiment was also cut out with the cricut, I believe I used Cricut Sampler Cart.

Super quick post. Going to go spend some time with my daughter. Thank you for stopping by here today. Hope you come back!

Cheers!

~Julie~

Kayla

Evening!!!
So this little beauty is my BFF's daughter Kayla. She is GORGEOUS! and she is sooooooooo sweet. I just love her. I copied this layout idea from one of my scrapbook mags. Cannot for the life of me remember which one. I cut out the scallop frame and circles with my handy dandy Cricut. I believe the scallop from is from Story Book Cart. the little rhinestone butterfly i think may be KI Memories. I held on to that little jewel FOREVER just waiting for the right page for it to land on. The rhinestone flourish is Prima! LOVE!!! and her name was made with Rubons. The gorgeous paper is Taj Mahal from DCWV.

I am still doing house projects. And loving it. I am still working on my daughters bathroom. I am very excited to show pics when done!!!

Thanks for taking the time to visit me today!

Cheers!
~Julie~

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~

Bird Cage

Good Monday Night to you!!!
Hope your night is toasty warm. We woke up to 70 degrees and quickly plummeted to like around 30 something by noon. Tennessee weather is soooooo crazy.
Anywho.. My mother's birthday is March 2nd and I needed a card for her. I actually whipped both of these up pretty quickly. I used my new April Showers Cricut cart for the bird cage. I just stinkin' LOVE it.. I am not sure of the maker of the two patterned papers. The company's name was already cut off. I had used these papers in some decor in the kitchen. The Happy Birthday is a set from PTI Birthday Basics as is the ribbon (Summer Sunrise) and the base cardstock (Smokey Grey). I am all over yellows and oranges these days. I hope you like it and thanks for stopping by. Have a great tomorrow.
Cheers!
~Julie~

Gift Packaging

Hi All!!
Hope you are enjoying your evening. I am checking in to share how I wrapped up a gift I made for my sister. Next week she starts to work in the office that I work in! Yea, how fun is that?! We cannot work in the same department but we will still see each other. To celebrate her new career move I bought her a personalized lunch tote from ThirtyOne. Have you ever seen their things? OH SO CUTE. All of there bags, purses, totes etc.. I wish I would have taken a pic of the bag before I gave it to her. I did not have a bag the right size so I wrapped it with brown mailing paper just adorned it with a little handmade tag. I used a couple of Cricut Carts oh gosh, I think George Basics, Story Book and ??? The (white) circle did not cut a true circle, I was a little disappointed in that. The stamp set is PTI Around and About as well as the polka dot paper and ribbon. Thanks for coming to see me today! Have an awesome tomorrow!
Cheers!
~Julie~

Rock Star

Happy Thursday All!!!
wooo hooo!!! Tomorrow is FRI-DAY! yippeee.. So glad the weekend is almost here. Tomorrow evening I get to meet my girlfriends for dinner and maybe venture out to see a band play after that or just sit and chit chat. Then Saturday my daughter has her first dance competition of the season. So much fun. Then Sunday if I am not worn out we MAY do a little shopping. I havent been shopping for anything other than groceries since Christmas. Yikes! Ya know it is time to get my eyes checked. I need to try to fit that in also. Anyway.............. I colored this image quite a while back and found it recently. I think I did a pretty okay job so I decided to whip it into a card. The background paper is from Creative Memories and the stars and rock star cut out is from my favorite Cricut cart Rock Princess. After I already took the pictures I decided the word rock star is a little lost in the card so I swiped the edges with a white paint pen. It stands out much better now but lazy me did not feel like messing with taking another pic and editing and all of that so use your imagination please. LOL. Thanks a whole bunch for looking!!! Have a great weekend.
Cheers!
~Julie~

Baby Logan's Valentine Day Card

Happy Snowy Day!
Dang it is CRAZY out tonight. This snow storm is crazy slick. It is taking people hours to get home. I am sooooo glad I left early today! Anywho ... I wanted to share a card I made for grandbaby for Valentines Day. Well he is 2 years old so I guess he is not a baby anymore. I used the Nifty Fifties Cricut Cart... LOVE!!! The paper is old school BasicGrey, gosh I guess 4 years old? I printed out the sentiment on the computer. This is from my FAVORITE BOOK I read to my daughter "Guess How Much I Love You". I wanted to cry every time I read it to her. Those sweet little star gems are from Jenni Bowlin that I picked up and one of her sales at a near by Hotel she has once a year. Sweet that I live in the same town as her! Enjoy your night! Thanks for stopping by.
Cheers!
~Julie~

Cricut Car Happy Birthday

Hola Everyone!

It has been a minute since I last posted. I had the brilliant idea to clean and polish the hardwood floors. It sooooo needed it. Actually, it wasn't that bad however, I still have the second floor landing and the stairs to go. I'm kinda dreading the stairs though. Anywho.. on to the card! Yeah! I made a card. I bought the Nifty Fifties Cricut Cart right after Christmas. It is soooo cute. I decided to make a man card because my dads birthday is coming up next month. I think he will like this one. The back ground paper is from Close to my Heart as well as the cardstock and stamp. Its a simple layout but a man doesn't want fru fru on his card huh? I hope you like it and I am so glad you came by today. Have an awesome Wednesday night!
Cheers!
~Julie~

Skull Cherries!

Guess who made a card? It's me... It's me.... !!!! said in my best Spartan Cheerleader's chant from the Saturday Night Live skit! HA !!

I got the Cricut Expression for Christmas and some SUPER fun new carts! I know it has already been out for a while and now they have come up with the Cricut Imagine. but you know, i am a little behind the times. It has been so much fun to play with. The little Cricut now seems sooo limiting.

Anywho. Here is one of the cards I made. The skull cherries are from Rock Princess cart and the stamp is from Creative Clear Stamps. I thought the sentiment is appropriately smarty pants for the skulls teehee. The card stock is PTI and Stampin' UP!

Thanks so much for coming to visit me in my little world. I have been super sporadic with my posts. Have a nice warm Tuesday night!

Cheers!
~Julie~

Dance Team Christmas gift

My My, how time flies... I have been crafty, I just haven't posted in a while. My computer has become so slow that it is just agonizing to upload pics, edit and post. Sorry, I will try to do better.
I love making Christmas gifts. This year, for my daughters dance team we decided to make flower hair barrettes in the teams colors. The colors are hot pink, black and zebra striped. FUN RIGHT!!! Grace and I have been making a lot of hair accessories and little flower pins. Actually I have gotten pretty crazy with it.

Anyway, We made pink hair barrettes for the dancers and zebra flower pins for the coaches. Not everyone is like me and is willing to be an adult and wear handmade flowers in their hair. For the buttons in the middle of the flower I covered each one with some zebra fabric and hot glue. I have fallen in LOVE with my hot glue gun again! Actually all of it is held together with hot glue.

Then you have to have pretty packaging right! Any crafter knows a great gift comes in fantastic packaging. We had to make 24 gift bags so we went the easy peasy route and used brown lunch sacks. We dressed them up with the team colors and team. The dance team is called Royalty Athletics hence the crown. Made those babies with my super duper trusty cricut. LOVE!!!

So that's it for today. We can hardly wait til the party next weekend. Speaking of weekend I hope you have a great one! Thanks so much for stopping by!!!!

Cheers!
Julie

Baby Gift

Hi Guys!!!

So I know I have been super random with postings lately but, that dang living room took WAAAAYYYY longer than we planned. That's a story for another day.

Anyway, I have a friend about to have a baby girl. So I made her some of the burpies you have seen me post before but this time I wanted to get my craft on with my most favorite scrappy machine ever, the cricut of course.

I ironed on some adhesive fabric backing then cut out pieces with the cricut and the Rock Princess cart, ironed the pieces together then ironed it onto a baby onesie !

Loved how the turned out. cutting the fabric went okay with the cricut and it definitely helped ironing on the backing first as it made the fabric more sturdy. I wanted to do one more intricate but the pieces were too small to cut fabric with. The crown that says "I'm with the the band" is because baby's daddy is in a band. too cute.

I got four scrapbook pages done last night! it made me soooo happy to scrap. it feels like ages since i have played with paper like that. Hope to get more playing time soon. Okay, need to get ready for the Titans and Cowboys game. thanks for stopping by!

Cheers!
~Julie~

HEEELLLLLLOOOOOO!!!
can you smell that??? it's the weekend!! right around the corner, a long weekend at that, with the holiday on Monday! yipppeeee...
and did you see that? the first card. HA HA I put the card together backwards! HA HA! too funny. well, it is funny 'cause i was able to fix it easily! otherwise it would not have been very funny at all. So again I was playing with my newest Cricket Cart Rock Princess. LOVE, LOVE it.
i paired it with Celebrate paper pack from CTMH. I think that is what its called. I just love the little headphones and the swirly things to represent music blaring. I used the skull folder for cuttlebug on one card and meant to on the other card but i got ahead of myself and taped the front down before i embossed, so that is two strikes, i did not emboss before taping it down AND i put it on backwards! anywho so to not have it so plan looking I stamped text on it from Background Basics Text from PTI. then added some "stitches" with a writing pen. This was so fun to make. I have already sold them both but wanna make some more soon.
okay. i'm off for now. thanks for looking over here! have a great tomorrow!
Cheers!
~Julie~

Cricut Pirate Cupcakes

Hidy HO!!!!
How is everyone on this awesome Thursday? The weather has been great here in middle Tennessee the last 2 days. Still a wee bit hot but NOTHING like it has been this summer! Whew! what a great break. So been messing around with my Rock Princess Cartridge. I love that thing and can hardly wait to play with it some more this weekend. We keep putting off painting the living room because the walls are so dang tall. The ceiling is 12 and 18 or 20 foot high and it is that high up the stairway too. So we are just not wanting to take on that kind of project right now. i have to admit it is nice to take a break from all the rehab. This cart has been so much fun too because Grace loves to play with it and we have been having a ball playing together!! love crafty moments with my sweet girl. ooooo.. got side tracked watching hubby come in from outside with great looking fresh tomatoes from the ginormous plants outside. not sure if i am more excited about the good looking tomatoes or the good looking babe bringing them in! anyyyyyy who. Hope your night is going well. i have absolutely no complaints. thanks for visiting!!
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~

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

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~

Blue and Yellow Cupcake Card

Whoop Whoop!! its finally Friday! but shoot, i have such a busy weekend. Dancing season is here. I am super busy with my girl and getting her ready for the first competition this year. Tonight she danced at the half time show at the high school (her team, not just her) and alllllll day tomorrow we have dress rehearsal. So not sure if i will be able to fit in any crafty time. we will see. Okay, i know you guys have to be tired of this super cute little cupcake. I use it quite a bit. but i just LOVE it! Also used some American Crafts Metallic embossing powder. PTI polka dot basics (swoon) CTMH happy birthday and pti ribbon, ink and buttons. Thanks so much for your visit. see you soon, have an awesome weekend!

Poofy Flower Birthday card

Que Pasa People!
How is your Tuesday? Things are rockin' right along here in the Smith house hold. We are getting soooooo close to closing on the houses! Goodness, so much involved in purchasing a home. Anywhooooooo. Here is a fun little card I made. Using those sweet poofy flowers Dawn McVey showed on her blog one day. I love making these little guys. Alrighty gonna run and color with some Copics for a minute or three. Have a great night!
Cheers!
*Julie*
Cardstock: PTI Ocean Tides, White
Patterned Paper: PTI Polka Dot Parade
Button: My Minds Eye
Stamps: Close to my Heart (sentiment Happy Birthday) PTI Polka Dot Basics
Ink: PTI Ocean Tides
Embossing Powder: CTMH White
Tools: Cricut Cart Hannah Montana for the flower