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~

Bib Necklace

Hello Again!!
i don't have a card to share YET 'cause I have been playing with rosettes again!! I am IN LOVE with making these things. You will be seeing them on some cards and scrapbook pages soon (hopefully). I saw one like this from Love Stitched blog then I ran over to her Etsy store and Whoa! she has the cutest stuff. Go check it out. She is also super cute and i wanna be just like her so my sweet baby Grace and I played around with the camera and here is what we got. I am sooo wearing this to work tomorrow.. well with a different outfit of course. I plan on making at least one or two more in some fun colors but this is all I had on hand. Thanks for looking and coming to visit. Have a GREAT night!
Cheers!
~Julie~

Pom Pom Necklace Rosette Style!!!

So you know I have been making some flowery goodness for the holidays. WELL, one idea REALLY caught my eye from Little Miss Momma Blog she has the cutest ideas and she is such a cutie herself! She had a tutorial for pom pom necklaces. Well, I also made some flower pins that I discovered from Jones Design Company Blog she is also a super cutie. I decided I would put the two together because I love that the flower pins look like little rosettes when you make them teeny tiny. GO check out both of these girls blogs you will be SOOOOO inspired to TRY something I guarantee it! I made the rosettes out of felt and got a cheapo chain necklace at Hobby Lobby. I CANNOT wait to do the flower bib necklace that Little Miss Momma has done!
Thanks for visiting!
Cheers!
~Julie~

12 Rocks

Oh Sweet Goodness... My baby turns 12 today!!! WHAT ?!?!? Wow.. kids grow up so fast. You always hear that all you life but, you just don't get it until you have one of your own.

I have to say 12 things that Grace is :

1. sweetest girl ever

2. so beautiful

3. tender hearted

4. graceful dancer

5. smart in school

6. kind to others

7. listens well

8. talented in everything she tries

9. always amazes me how she keeps trying and keeps trying until she gets it. she has always been that way from the time she was a baby and could control her movements!

10. genuine

11. full of spunk and energy

12. my favorite, loving. she still loves to hold my hand in public loves to hug and kiss her mom and dad, loves to snuggle and watch TV together or read a book. LOVE IT and LOVE HER!

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~

Flower Frenzy

Hair Bows and Broach galore. I have been a super busy bee. This is not all that I have made. I have not made a card in what feels like ages. I have been having lots of fun with felt and such though. I have made these as gifts and made some to sell at work. Made a pretty decent chunk of change with these little beauties. Lots of ladies getting some for their little girlie's. I found several tutorials on the net for all of these. I have some a little different in the works. Hopefully can get those posted before too long. I hope ALL of you have a wonderful Christmas!!

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~

The Kitchen !

Hi y'all! Finally got some pictures of the updated kitchen. Thanks for looking. First off lets look at the Ubatuba (oo-ba-too-ba) granite! Thats the name of it! HEEHEE. Maybe I picked that one because of the funny name! It is black but when you get up close golds and oranges just shimmer like crazy! Since I had just painted the kitchen orange the specks worked perfectly. Then because of the gold in it too when I change wall colors just about anything can match. Mercy! i am sooo loving it!
Here is what it looked like before we moved in. From the picture you really cannot tell how horrible the paint job was. And you cannot tell how nasty filthy it was.
Here is the office area. Here you can kinda tell of the crappy paint job.
Baby look at you now! I debated about getting an island. I LOVED all the room but it was pretty much wasted space. So I found one at a yard sale for $45.00!!! woohoo. It was in great shape too and has two drawers and two doors. EXTRA STORAGE! We got crazy and decided to have a different stone on the island. We thought it may be too much black otherwise. I like the contrast and I love the way we had the ends shaped. You really cant tell in these pics. Maybe I'll get a close up for ya one day.
Here is looking from the stove area out towards the reading room. Dont look at the kitchen table though. I want to get something else but that is bottom of the list. I may paint the bottom part and the legs in black. I WILL get black chairs though, hopefully soon. Dont look out the window on the deck either, we have the old sink out there. It is porcelain so it is VERY heavy. Hubby needs a friend to come help him move it. And do you see the awesome paintings over the table? My friend at work PAINTED THEM FOR ME! How sweet and how talented is she!!!???
Here is the office which i have decided to make my scrap/stamp area. I have GOT to find some coverings for the two cabinets above the desk. I have already thought about cabinet doors but there is not enough room in the middle for two sets of hinges. Mom has offered to make me curtains but I dont think I really want curtains. I am considering rolling shades. Like matchstick or bamboo blinds? PLEASE give me any suggestions. Also the little square "plates" above the cabinets I made. I wanted something but not too much. I am really trying to have no clutter. I did not want to pay an arm and a leg for decor so I cut some thick foam board into 9x9 squares and mod podged pretty scrapbook paper. It turned out great and so easy to replace with different papers whenever I fell froggy!! So thats it thanks so much for taking the time to look!
Have a great rest of the week.
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~