Pretty in Pink B-Day Card

My older sister (Maryline) is turning (70) soon..
Oh she will be mad that I posted her age..LOL
So I made this card for her...because her birthday
is in February I also added some embellishment with
hearts..
For the background I used the floral cuttlebug folder... doodlecharm
cricut cartridge for the mailbox, letters and tiny hearts...
cotton & sheer ribbon to the left of the card...
This was easy and fun to do....
The idea for the card came from: Little Creation Corner

You're "Fin"tastic

Splendid Stamping with the Greeting Farm is having this contest
where you can get free images all week long...
Jump over to their site and get your free image (Ian Mer)
load it up by 6:00 tonight and you'll get another free image for
tomorrow relay...
I had fun creating mine card and it was free...
I used three blue cardstock...the base I used swirl cuttlebug folder
the second cardstock I used polka dots from Quickutz folder and the third
cardstock I used navy blue...
the navy blue ribbon is from offray..
sentiment type it from word pad..

CARDZ TV...
I found this new web site while I was surfing the internet...
Mary uses Cricut Cartridges and explain step by step
her cards and project...
I like her approach on her instructions, she explain every
thing from the size of her card to all the sizes of the images...
Here is a card she had on her site...I didn't make it exactly
like hers I wanted to add my own touch to my card...
It was pretty simple to do...I also made these for my Valentine Card Exchange on
Card Maker and my grand children Valentine cards...

My bookmarks are for a swap that Karen is doing on Card Maker...
I try very hard to be frugal with my paper stash and I had to come up with
a very good idea on what to used for my bookmarks...
I used cardstock as my base and then I used Martha Stewart border
punch for a lacy effect...for the main part of the bookmark I used
the side of a tissue box...Today there is so many pretty tissue box
and I have so many from friends and family that my stash is big...
I added American Ribbon for the only embellishment...
They're simple but simple can be pretty...

CRICUT CARDZ CHALLENGE #8
This week Challenge is to make a masculine birthday card...
This will come in handy cause my son-in-law birhtday is just
around the corner...Hee Haw
I used tan card stock for the base of my card...
Pattern Paper is from DCWV (which I have loads of)...
squares and cupcake is from Recollections...
glitter from Martha Stewart...
Cupcake cut out from Celebration Cricut Cartridge
I inked the edge of my card and also on the patter paper,
I embossed the sentiment with Cuttlebug Happy Birthday Folder
which I sanded to make it stand out a bit...
Ribbon is made by American Crafts

DOODLE DRAGON STUDIO CHALLENGE #1...

Dustin Pike had his first challenge and he also had a blog hop
I had fun seeing all the design team cards and reading all the comments...
I colored Dustin digi image with color pencils...added a brown ribbon,
pink pinstripe paper with "sweet" sentiments with floating hearts...
I love this image not just for valentine but many other occasion...

I joined the Cricut SwapMessage Board & the first swap that I joined was to do a card with Dustin Pike image for Valentine...He had a few free image and I helped myself to one of them...It was the dragon holding a basket ...the basket was empty so I filled it with hearts...I colored the dragon lt. purple and added more colors to the image...I used my cuttlebug folder with hearts and pinstripe paper for the background...I also added ribbon with hearts...the sentiments was a cute one "Dragon my basket of love"...LOL ...get it instead of "dragging" I used the word "dragon" I thought it was cute...The strip of red hearts is from Martha Stewart heart punch...
This is out of my comfort zone but I had fun doing this swap....

Wow, what a busy holidays....but to be honest I'm glad that it is over...
I didn't even decorate this season so I have nothing to put away but my Christmas cards...
I did have a nice Christmas and Birthday (day after Chrsitmas) I went to Ithaca N.Y. to surprise my sister and it was a surprise...just wished we could of stayed longer...
Had New Year Eve over my daughter Nicole and had a great time...
because I wasn't home for my birthday my daughters did on New Year Eve..
and this time I was surprised..as a birthday gift I received a brand new RED Cricut
Expression...It is really beautiful..I'm not a red person but this item is really great..
plus two new cartridge to go with it....My daughters were very generous...Gotta love them..
Very proud of them not just for this gift but through out the whole year...they are very good with gifts and their love...
Now that 2010 rolled in I'm wondering what this year will bring...to me a new year is a scary one cause I don't know what is around the corner...I lost a brother 21/2 yrs ago and still have a hard time dealing with it so that year was a sad one...I know you can always expect good news all the time but sad news is very depressing....
Wishing all a Happy New Year and Happy Crafting.....