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.....

PAPER CUTZ CHALLENGE

Using my new cricut cartridge "Snow Friends"...

I used scrap paper and cardstock...

Great for this challenge....

Cricut Cardz Challenge

The topic for this challenge had to start with the letter "S" so snowflake it is....
I used my Joy of the Season to cut my snowflake card @ 5 inches, then I cut two more snowflake
one in blue and the other one in white..I layer the blue snowflake on top of the cut out on the card then used foam dot to add the second snowflake to to give a little height...
The background on the card I used my snowflake cuttlebug folder added a lt. blue sheer ribbon also added snowflake from a 1 inche punch....