Teddy Bear Parade Challenge! Day One

Hello all my Crafty friends and family!

Once again it has been a while since my last post, but I do have a good excuse, I am having some major medical issues at the moment and I hope there is a end to it in the near future so I hope you with stick with me. I do promise I will try and post more often.

So I thought a great way to do this was to play along with My Crafting Channels Teddy Bear Parade Series.

Each day Nana will be posting a new challenge with the bear of the day.

Day #1 Drum Major

So here is my first bear using the Teddy Bear Parade Cricut cartridge which I made into a gift tag for a Christmas present for my nephew son Evan.

I cut my bear at 3.5 inches and dressed him up to be a Drummer Bear.

adding glitter and flower soft for finishing touches.

The tag it self was cut from Cricuts Tags Bags and More at 4.5 inches.

For the inside sentiment I used a Stampin Up Christmas stamp and one of  Miss Emmas My Creative Times Beary Special Thoughts

I hope you enjoyed today's post, now it is time to go work on Day 2's  bear.

Have a great week my friends!
I will also be entering this over at D.L. Art August Link Party

CAS Birthday Card!

Hello all my crafty friend! Today I have a clean and simple card that I threw together for a couple of challenges.

 I don't know about you but I find this one of the hardest challenges to do. So with keeping with the thyme I used a piece of card stock for the base of the card which measures 4.25 by 5.25.

I then added a sheet of paper from The Breathe Paper Collection and added a sticker from Ancestry.com

My Happy Birthday sentiment is from My Craft Spot inside and out set #2

I added a chip board button along with some crinkled ribbon from My Craft Spot also.

 This is a shot of the inside of the card along with the inside sentiment.

This is about as clean and simple as I can get. LOL!

Challenges Entered:

My Craft Spot: Clean and Simple.

DL Art Thankful Thursday August Linky Party: Anything goes

Have a great day and thanks for stopping bye!

I Hear Those Sleigh Bells Ringing!

What the heck!

Who the hell is thinking about Christmas in August?

 I know I am not thats for sure! I live in Alberta and our summer is just to short to begin with and I try not to think about what is coming up to soon for my liking!

But with so many of the challenges thinking Christmas I decided to play along with them . Now I can say I have my first Christmas card made for 2013!

I used Cricuts A Quilted Christmas cartridge and cut the sleigh at 4 inches. I was able to make this into a shape card by cutting two shadows, scoring one just under the gifts and then joining it together with my ATG gun. How fun is that and I didn't need any fancy tools to do it.

 For the inside of the card I used Joys Life "Oh Christmas" stamp set. 

So thats it for today. I hope you enjoyed my post and if you have any question just give me a shout.

Challenges entered:

Bitten By The Bug 2: Christmas in July

Fantabulous Cricut: Shaped card.

Die Cuttin Diva's: Anything goes.

DL Art Thankful Thursday: Christmas in July

Lights! Action! Camera! Disney Hollywood Studios.

Today I have another Disney layout that I finally got around to finishing.

This is the second page to a Disney layout I posted earlier this year which you can find HERE

This was a fun layout to do, and I had so many great pictures from that day that it was really hard to pick just which ones to use.

My cool looking Micky was cut with my Cameo from a SVG from a blog that is no longer up and running, I was so sad to see it close because she had so many wonderful Disney SVG and they were all free.

I used Disney and Friends Font cartridge for my title and the camera was cut from Locker Talk( I think) I will have to double check this one.

I love the way I was able to add 4 photos to this layout.

Finishing touches were glitter pen, button brads and some faux stiching.

Here is a shot of the two ayouts side by side.

I will be entering this layout into the following challenges

D.L. Art July Linky Party: anything goes

My Craft Spot: Sew Fun!
Silhouette Challengs: Faux Stitching.
Hope you enjoyed today's post, I love working on my Disney albums it brings back so many wonderful magical moments and makes me feel young at heart!

Space Shuttle Atlantis! Blast Off!

May 2009 my Hubby and I packed out suitcases and went on another great vacation to Florida.

One of the top things to do on our wish list was to see the Space Shuttle Atlantis with it seven man crew launch off on May 11th. By the time we got to Florida there were no tickets left but we found a wonderful space to watch the launch and join in the fun.

It was such a beautiful warm day and we met so many friendly people more then willing to share there excitement of the day.

This is the restaurant we had lunch at across the Indian River.

 Here we met up with some locals that were able to fill us in on the town of Titusville, Florida and how much they enjoyed watching the many space launches over the years.

This page just tells a bit about the El Leoncito and the town.

For the letters I used Cricuts Mickey and Friends Font Cartridge. The arrows were from Boys will be Boys Cartridge.

The paper is called Rocket Age Blast Off by October Afternoon.

Borders punch by Martha Stewart.

Cuttlebug embossing folder "Spots and Dots"

and here they are together side by side.

I will be entering these layout in the following changes:

D.L Art July Linky Party: anything goes

Craftin Desert Diva : summer, vacation or water

My Sherri Crafts: Lets take a trip

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

Yummy Ice Cream Birthday!

Hello to all my crafty friends! 

It seams like forever since I last posted anything and I must say it is pretty sad when even your family starts to ask what the heck is up?

To tell you the truth it has been pretty hot and muggy around here and I just have not felt like doing anything!

Then I came across these fun challenges over at Bitten By the Bug2 and Die Cuttin Diva's so I decided to join in the fun and help Celebrate National Ice Cream month.

For this challenge I decided on a very

clean and simple Birthday card using scraps from my stash, which means I can also enter this weeks challenge over at Hiding in My Craft Room #106

Ice Cream, Ice Cream, we all ask for ice cream!
(at least in my house we do!)
I used Joys Life Yummy Pun for the sentiment and found some cool Birthday ribbon to match by sashes.

The ice cream border was cut from Cricuts Doodlecharm Cartridge by using my gypsy and welding two sets of the ice cream borders together so it would fit across the card. I then cut out the ice cream charm and placed it on a action wobble for a little extra fun.

Now after making this wonderful yummy card, it time to say goodbye and run upstairs and grab a bowl of Ice Cream!

As always thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

Congratulation! You Did It!

Last Thursday was a very special day for both me and my Grandson.

A  day I have waited for a very long time to see come true.

 With a lot of very  hard work, I am proud to say my Grandson Jaime graduated from High School!

Way to go Jaime!
YOU DID IT!

My daughter didn't tell me about Jaime's Grad until the night before, so I quickly ran down stairs and put this card together and asked Hubby if he had any cash on him. Nothing like leaving things to the last minute. LOL!

Here he is giving out a gift to one of the teachers.

I used Joys Life Everyday Occasions stamp set for the inside of the card.

I then decided I had still enough time to decorate the envelope. Jamie was very shocked but  happy to see me at the ceremony and he loved his card.
Thanks for stopping by my blog, have a great week.
Challenges entered:
DL Art July Linky Party.
Hiding in my Craft Room: Anything goes
Love to Scrap: Anything goes.
Through the Craft Room Door: Anything Goes