Pretty Princess.

I love this new Sweet November princess stamp at All That's Scraps. I adore the way Amy at A Thousand Sheets Of Papers lets her images pop off the papers. I have a hard time with that, I have to mount them on a center focal point. I seem to lose my images on the papers, where as her images still grab center stage. Scroll thru her blog if you've never visited it before, you'll see what I'm talking about.

I got a fun email yesterday from my sweet friend, Debbie, stating she'd just gotten a Cricut! I was delighted to hear that, I love my cricut! I can't wait to see what she creates with it! I was playing with it and cut out the mirror with my Disney Princess Dreams Do Come True cartridge. I need to use it more with my card making. This one is Belle's mirror. The sentiment is computer generated thanks to some great tips from Tammi.

I found the small 4.5 by 6.5 DCWV stack of Once Upon A Time stack at AC Moore ages ago. I love that paper, but have barely touched the 12x12 stack I have. I hoard paper. It's so pretty, I can't bring myself to cut it. Figured if I had the smaller size, I'd use it....yea, I hoarded it too! But it goes perfectly with this princess! I have one of the other princess too, so I'm gonna have to break out of my keep it in tact mode, and made a card with it too!

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Flutter By Wednesday #138

Hello, everyone, time to flutter! Today's an open challenge at Flutter By Wednesday. Means you just need to have a fairy, butterfly or fairy on your card. After you make your card be sure to link it on the Flutter By Wednesday blog. Be sure to check out what the talented DT created. You can view their blogs from my blog on the right hand side. Or by going to the Flutter By Wednesday blog.

I grabbed this cutie from All That's Scraps a week ago. Love those little Swiss Pixies. I followed the Mojo Monday Sketch 174. I grabbed some new cardstock from PTI. Love the simply chartreuse color! Not that the color is new to them, but I hadn't gotten it yet. Love it!

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Supplies: Copics, nesties, SEI paper, PTI cardstock, SU ink pad, MS butterfly punches, stickles.

What Do A 120 Lollipops Look Like?

Have you ever seen 120 lollipops not in a grocery store?! My niece is getting married, and her favors are those cute round lollipops. Well, being that I love playing with paper, I threw in an idea as to how to decorate them over Christmas, and helped her make them. We've spent two days working on these party favors. Her colors are gold, black and white. Going with that, and her elegant style, we cut out with the cricut the scallops, circles, than heat embossed the black center with gold embossing powder, and topped that with a gold monogram S. She called it a sweat shop! It took some time to do all those steps to all those pops. Than we added some ribbon and scrappers floss.

They came in boxes. She was gonna spray paint them black, but instead we mod podged the boxes with different papers. Than we decorated them. So, they're all so cute and pretty! She was pleased with them. It was hard keeping Trey away from the pops. All he wanted to do was eat them!

We also cut out their initials on black vinyl. She's having glass candle center pieces, and putting the monograms on them. They looked really sharp. I was really happy to be able to put all this fun stuff I've learned from wonderful crafters everywhere to bring her vision to life. I know it'll be very helpful having it done and out of the way in the coming months.

Gabi was sweet enough to help us cut out scrappers floss for all the lollipops. In between doing that, she decided to take time to make some cards. She made three cards that she wanted to show off. Did all of it on her own. No helping with the brads, ribbon, stickles, and sketches. She pulled from scraps of papers. She helped spray the flowers for Dani with glimmer mist, and she took the extra flowers to put them on her card. Girl loves some bling!

Flutterby Wednesday #137, Sketch By Carly.

Today's Flutter By Wednesday challenge is a great sketch by Carly. She's got some great sketches on her blog, so make sure you check her out! Head to the Flutter By Wednesday to see what the other Fluttering team members came up with! Or click on their names to the right side of my blog! You'll be happy to see what they've made too! We hope you play along as well. Follow the sketch, make sure to include a fairy, butterfly, or angel on card and link it back on the Flutter By Wednesday blog. We look forward to seeing your creations!

I have to say, I'm so excited with how this card turned out! My MIL had given me a gift card to All That's Scraps for Christmas and I've been eyeing Coriander for the longest time! I grabbed her and so glad I did. She's so much fun to color. I love how she's sitting! I paper pieced her in an odd manner. I found Glimmer Mist Crown Jewels at AC Moore. I sprayed her wings in pearl, and her dress in Black Cherry. Than on a third image, I layered the wings first on the third image, colored her hair and body in copics cut them out, layered them on the image, than put her outfit on top of that layer. The paper is Genevieve which is a retired pack from TAC. Sadly, I only have scraps left now. And check out her green hair! So happy with that, cuz that's so hard for me to pull off! I even sprayed the magenta flowers in glimmer mist. They were white to begin with. Than she's topped of with stickles and so are my flowers. I embossed the center oval after cutting it out with my nestie. The sentiment is from Pink Cat Studio's Fairy set.

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Minihaha Waterfall

I was doing a bit of scrapping last night. We went on a hike in the GA mountains over the summer with the kids grandparents. We saw some wonderful sites. This waterfall was one of them. I'll be working on more pages of another place we went to that day in the next few days...hopefully! LOL! I used my Cindy Loo Cricut cartridge to cut out the title, and shapes. Fun to layer things up in crazy colors! My sketch is from Jeanette Lynton's book "Cherish".

Supplies: DCWV Summer stack-10, Cricut, Cindy Loo, stickles, SU Pacific Point Ink pad.

Fluttering Into 2011 Blog Hop!

I'm so pleased to announce that I've been accepted on the Flutterby Wed. Design Team! That's one of my favorite challenge spots, and such sweet, talented ladies over there! I'm joining the talented team with Jennie and Peggy as new DT members!

So, today to get us back into the swing of the New Year and challenges, we're having a Blog Hop! It starts at the Flutterby Wed blog. Hopefully, you've made it here from Jen. If not, be sure to go to the Flutterby Wed blog to start at the beginning! The first challenge of the year is an open challenge. Make a card with a fairy, angel, or butterfly on your card. I had an added challenge from Gabi. When I told her I was accepted on the DT she added a challenge to make a Tinkerbell looking Fairy. She even described Tink's shoes! Girl is funny! She was pleased when she saw my card.

Next on your hop is Michelle! Enjoy the blog hop!

Little Late Christmas Tradition.

I'm a little late on this project. Normally, I do this with the kids the week we put up the tree. However, I just got this done today, and I packed all the Christmas stuff up! Meant I had to do it before I put the tree skirt up! LOL! Time sure does fly!

I was talking to my friend, Kim, about this a few weeks back, and told her I'd post about it. This is one of my favorite things to do with the kids. I love seeing the hand prints and how much they've grown over the years.

I have told everyone I know with little ones on the way, or recently born little ones, even told my sister who sews, and has daughters recently married, or getting married so she can make them a tree skirt! I grabbed a tree skirt that had a plain bottom. Mine has felt on the underneath side. Looks like a sweater on top. I cover the kids hands in fabric paint, which I found at Michaels. This is very messy when they're little, but so worth it. Than we take their hands covered in the fabric paint and press them on the tree skirt.

I didn't start this until Trey was born. Wish I had thought of it when Gabi was an infant. (This is why I tell everyone with babies on the way, so they can start right away with their hand prints.) I keep Gabi's hands on one side of the skirt and Trey's on the other. Eight years later we have wonderful hand prints of them growing up. I'm thinking I could even keep this going with grandkids later down the road....way later down the road!

Side note, my boy is a crazy chap and totally took off all his cloths. So, just ignore him peaking out of the photo with Gabi. I'm totally not posting the one photo of him that I did take! Crazy boy!