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~

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~

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~

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~

Orange Birthday

Hi guys! How is your Sunday? it is sooooo bright and beautiful here! OH my I loved being outside today it was such a great relief to finally feel the warm sun again. I have been doing my workouts inside through the winter, I felt like a new person and burst of energy that hasnt been around in months! We visited the new house today also, so closing is finally set for this Wednesday. This will be the 3rd time it had been rescheduled so we are keeping our fingers AND toes crossed.
This also means my paper crafting will come to a halt for a little while. It has slowed down dramatically because the scraproom has been filled with boxes and all the extras and I just cannot create with a mess around me. It makes me nervous and I cannot concentrate on anything else. Maybe i have adult ADD or COD or something. anyway. There is so much to do in the new house. We are buying it as a foreclosure so needless to say it was left in a mangled up mess. We have lots of holes to repair EVERY inch of the place has to be painted and some wallpaper to be taken down (yuck). I dont want to use any vacation time at work (gotta safe it for this summer) so I will be working full time and any extra time will be spent cleaning and painting and unpacking etc. I'm sure I can only to that for so long before i have to get my craft on though! HA. Anywho,........ for this card, the stamped image is Fiskars! I got it free when they sent me the free punch a couple of posts ago. The paper is a super old pack from BasicGrey. the cream cardstock is CTMH and the card base is PTI Smokey Grey and the sentiment stamp is also PTI Birthday Basics I believe. The orange ink is Goldrush.
Grace had her first dance competition yesterday. They did so good but it totally wore Grace and myself out! I think we where in bed asleep by 8:30 maybe 9:00. Thanks for your visit today. Hopefully I wont be gone too long.
Cheers!
*Julie*

And then there was you

HI! Happy Tuesday. Hope all is well with you. Here is a card I made for Valentines Day. I forgot to share before. All of the products used (except for the card base which is PTI Spring Rain) are from Fiskar's Heidi Grace collection. The circles and stripes are flocked patterned paper. The chipboard stickers are from the same collection as well. That beautiful heart punch is from Fiskars that I got randomly for free just for being a Fisk-A-Teer! That company is one of the MOST generous companies ever!
Thanks Fiskars. And thank you for the visit today!
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

Cupcake Birthday

Happy Super Bowl Sunday!!!!
Hope you woke up to a fabulous day. Are you going to watch the super bowl? I believe I am cheering for the Saints. I love watching the Colts. but the have already played in the Super Bowl and I LOVE New Orleans so yes, I will cheer for the Saints. Anywhooo. Todays card was total inspired by Nichole Heady you have to click here to see her card then scroll down a little. I am totally in love with her clean style. Just makes me happy. Sometimes I LOVE to junk it up but sometimes I love super clean simple lines. Thats just how I roll, something different all the time!
Allrighty, I have chores to do before I get get my craft on today so gotta run. THANK YOU for spending a wee bit of time with me today!
Cheers!
*Julie*
Cardstock: PTI Sweet Blush, Georgia Pacific (white) Stampin up (red) and the textured pink was in my stash have no idea who the maker is. CTMH Dessert Sand
Stamps: PTI Polka Dot Basics, CTMH Happy Birthday
Cricut Cart: Home Decor
Tools: Scor Pal and Fiskars Pinking Shears
Ink: CTMH Black, PTI Sweet Blush

Happy Birthday To You

Hola! How is your Wednesday? Hope life is treating you well. I certainly cannot complain. We had chocolate chip pancakes for dinner tonight! YUMMY! Yes ma'am life is good.
So here is a little card I made. The bottom pink paper is embossed with white embossing powder on Raspberry fizz cardstock (PTI) that I had left over from a project last year. And PTI Damask stamp set. also used PTI Raspberry Fizz Mix and Black Patterned Paper. The large Damask is from the same stamp set as well as the sentiment. Threw on some bling for fun. Oh, and the base of the card is Soft Stone also PTI. Well folks, I need to get busy. Thanks for the visit!
Cheers!
*Julie*

Hi-Ya. Happy Sunday. Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. It was a FABULOUS weekend here in middle TN. The paper this morning said this is the most snow this area has seen in 7 years! wooohooo. It was so much fun and what was best is that it happened over the weekend. Our neighborhood was full of people sledding, making snowmen etc. Fun, fun stuff. AND that gave me LOTS of time to get CRAFTY!!! I made 9 cards and 4 scrapbook pages. WOOOOHOOO

my last card today was a card for Ashley Newell's Embellish Challenge. We were to use turquoise, brown and pink. awesome, I just HAD to play along. I also made a fun poofy flower I learned from Dawn McVey. They are very addictive once you start. Inside of the card is a shape cut out using Spellbinders Label 4 using pink cardstock and a stamped birthday sentiment. Thanks so much for stopping by. Enjoy the rest of your night!

Cheers!

*Julie*

Cardstock: PTI Dark Chocolate, Sweet Blush

Patterned Paper: The Turquoise is unknown got a square of it in a secret sister package (thanks Cindy!) But the poofy flower was made with PTI Pretty Pink Patterned Paper

Button: PTI Dark Chocolate

Ribbon: PTI Sweet Blush, Rustic Jute (for the button)

Stamps: PTI Birthday Basics (sentiment)

Ink: PTI Dark Chocolate

Love

HI Guys!! It is a SUPER snowy day here in the SOUTH! OMG we have not seen snow like this in a very long time. My girl is PUMPED! So this will be quick because we have to eat our cinnamon rolls and then get outside and sled, make snowmen, snowballs, snow angels. FUN stuff.. So this cute little bingo card is a free digital image from Lindsay's stamp stuff at Mygrafico.com
i re sized it to make it a little smaller for a card. Cant wait to use one on a scrapbook page too. The heart i cut out using the Hannah Montana Cricut cart and added some thick glitter. Then used my favorite flourish from the Home Decor cart, oh shoot or is it the Home Accents cart? I love them both! I colored the card with Copic Markers threw on some PTI cardstock and ribbon with some leftover patterned paper. On the bingo card you can barely see it but I stamped a tiny heart onto the number 14 for Valentines Day, when I plan to give this card to my hubs. Okay kids, let me eat my cinnamon roll and drink my coffee. Have an awesome day!!!
Cheers!
*Julie*

UR Hot

Hola Friends!
How are you today? Things are good in this house. We are running around going crazy trying to finalize the sale of our house and purchasing the new one. Goodness gracious, there is so much involved. Anyway. here is another card I made for Valentines Day, I guess it really wouldn't HAVE to be for Valentines day. I would be happy to give this to my hubby ANY DAY. I found this fun zebra striped paper at Hobby Lobby. And I am STILL using those Reminisce stickers! The UR are from either The Paper Studio or American Crafts. Also used black and white PTI cardstock. Super fast and simple but certainly makes a statement! I appreciate you stopping by here today. Hope you have a fabulous tomorrow!
Cheers!
*Julie*