My Nutcracker Won 2nd Place

Boy was I surprised to find out that I won 2nd place in the nutcracker decorating contest.  Whooo hooooo.  You can see the picture in the previous post below.

Finished Grandma's Christmas Cards

Below are a few of the cards that I made for my Grandmother to give out to 25 of her friends. 

Nutcracker Contest

The building I work in had our annual Holiday Party last night and this years theme was Germany.  So we had a nutcracker decorating contest which I was hesitant for entering since I knew I didn't have a lot of time to dedicate to it.  This is what it started out looking like..except I painted the boots at this point.

Below is it finished.  The agency I work for motto is "Vigilance From Above" hence the satellite receiver on his head made with clay.  It was fun in the end and I wish I could show pictures of some of the other entries.  One person took off the arms and made it into a bird..oh the imagination and talent.

Of course you know I had to add my bling..  Tomorrow we will find out who won!

Fun with Heatable Vinyl and my Cricut

I am loving shirt vinyl..check out my latest projects. 

1st project is a Apron that I made..using vinyl and t-shirt transfer.  The words were created at http://www.wordle.net/ and I put the periods in to keep the words together.  The girl at the top is from Rock Princess..OMG..she is so my favorite.  She will get a lot of use!

2nd project is a long sleeve t-shirt..with my newest saying "Don't Judge Sharon" (Me)...I wore it to Lowes today and this lady said she loved my shirt and I said..thanks I just made it..she was like, "Will you make me one"..hmmm a new business venture...

and yes..those are rhinestones as accents on all of the projects..got to have some bling.

As soon as I get some more free time I will play with my Imagine (Cricut) and creating a t-shirt transfer..I know..who has free time?

Thanks for looking!

Cricut Circle Monthly - Challenge

I entered into a Halloween Door Decorating Contest at work and I am also entering it into the Cricut Circle October Monthly Challenge..see directions below.  You may have to enlarge the picture to see the details.

I used the Happy Hauntings Cartridge for the mirror, face, and the words.  The door says "You R The Scariest of Them All" and there is a little spider at the bottom of the mirror that says push here and when you do the song "Somebody's Watching Me" by Rockwell plays and the lights flashing to the beat shine near the bats.  I used Tim Holtz's  Alcohol Inks on large format printer paper to get the texture on the mirror frame.

OCTOBER MONTHLY CHALLENGE: CELEBRATING CREATIVITY


The theme for this month’s challenge is all about celebrating the reasons why you love to create! Please create a scrapbook page or home decor project CELEBRATING CREATIVITY. Project must be newly created for this challenge and should include atleast 2 cuts to qualify. You must also:

•Use the Shadow Feature
•Use Patterned Paper (purchased, printed, or created with stamps, etc.)
•Use Embellishments to Enhance One of the Cuts (pearls, buttons, gems, glitter, etc.)

My Angels

Today is National Card Day and I fell in love with these Digistamps from Moes...The Orange and Purple is for a friends wedding shower coming up later this month and the Green one is for a Christmas card.   The sentiments is from CTMH - C1428 Ice Crystals.  The picture doesn't do the wings justice.

National Card Making Day

Creations with Christina Challenge # 3 Christmas Card -

Crabby TShirt

I am having a ball with the heat transfer vinyl..check my Crabby Thsirt that I made for a Crab Feast that Gretchen and I went to this past weekend at the National Harbor in MD.

For details on how to make your own t-shirt visit for instructions
 http://www.customcrops.com/article_info.php?articles_id=394

Cricut, Silhouette Heat Transfer Flock & Hotfix Crystals

I created this cut using my Gypsy and the Gypsy Wandering Font, Cricut Create, Silhouette Flock and Hotfix Crystals.....That was easy! 

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My Latest Creations

 CTMH Cards that I am working on for an upcoming swap.  My theme is Thank you!

 This is the inside of the card

 The next 2 cards are make and take cards that I did at a recent crop..

 This is a magentic pin that I made for the CTMH group that I belong to Hearts Across America

 This is the magentic back shown below

The next pictures are stamps that Garrett and I colored using Copic Stamps.  The boy below is Garrett's and I did the girl.

Stamping Challenge

I had to do a challenge for another site (http://scrapsofcolor.ning.com/) that I belong to and we had to create our own paper using a stamp and then I decided to take it a step further and create something with my newly designed paper. I used the new CTMH Ms. Scrapbook stamp (B1352). This stamp will get a lot of use!

Cricut Challenge

I recently particiapted in a Cricut Challenge where I had to use a flower & a vase..and place a ribbon on the vase.  Here is my take on the challenge.

CTMH - In the Month of May Stamp

I recently particiapted in a CTMH card swap and the stamp I choose was C1415 IN THE MONTH OF MAY (above).  Below are my crafy creations that I came up with!

National Scrapbooking Day (Sat May 1st)

I met some new Scrappy Friends on National Scrapbooking Day and we had a blast. We played a game called Round Robin where you had to chose your paper and a picture and you had 5 mins to start your lay out and then you had to pass it to the next person. At the end of the Round Robin you would have a completed layout! The first picture is the picture that was created by Scrappy cohorts and the 2nd page is what I did since you know I love double page LO's. This was a lot of fun.

I'm a Winner

I was blog hopping and landed on http://www.artfulljourney.com/ where I was randomly selected as the winner of the blog candy featuring Mark's Finest Papers . Wow..I can't wait to try these out..the pictures do not do the paper justice. Thanks again Peggy.

No Bull...Valentines Day Card

I created this quick card today..No Bull Sh$t!