Little Cuties

I love cute and whimsy! This kitten is from SU!'s Little Cuties. A very simple card. The background is embossed with the Garden Trellis embossing folder.  I haven't added a sentiment yet. I'm not sure how I will use this card. It's nice to have cards you can just add the appropriate sentiment to when needed!

Enjoy your Monday!

Blessings,
Tracy

Create a Critter

Once a month my oldest niece and her 11-year old daughter come over to create with me in Studio 1.15.  It is always a wonderful time together. This month we created cards using the Cricut Create a Critter cartridge. I forgot to take pictures of what they created :(  These are the cards I created. Just cute and whimsy and ready to bring a smile to someone!

Blessings,
Tracy

Home Sweet Home

Today's card is one I made using the Cricut Create a Critter cartridge. I cut this little house out with it. The birds are from SU!'s Flying Home which I got using the hostess credit I earned at my SU! workshop a few weeks ago.  The background paper is from SU!'s Serene Scenery which is now retired.

This card is for a young couple who recently purchased their first home! How exciting for them.

Blessings,
Tracy

Happy Birthday!

Today is our youngest son's birthday! Taylor is 25 years old! Over the weekend we got together with him and his girlfriend, Katie, and his brother, (our oldest son) Steven. I made this card as a way to tell him of his birthday surprise. It says "ifly at five". What does that mean?! He thought the same thing!!! And he thought it said "iffy"! We had a great laugh and glad he had to think to decipher it!

"I fly" is an indoor skydiving place.  Yes, we all went! It was interesting. I don't know if I would call it fun. We had fun and it was a great activity for all of us to do. It was kind of hard though. The brochure say it is "a vertical wind tunnel that creates a cushion of air allowing you to experience free-fall skydiving without having to leap from an airplane".

Anyway for Taylor's card I used the Hand Lettered Alphabet stamp set. I like this set and am anxious to use it in my 2017 photo album. I also used Balloon Celebration. 

Here we all are ready for our flights!

And one other bit of info...today is my birthday too! Yep, I had a baby on my 30th birthday! What a blessing!

Blessings,
Tracy

Eastern Beauty

I have really enjoyed the Eastern Beauty bundle. I had no intentions of getting this bundle. At one of our monthly crops last year I won the door prize. I think I won the Eastern Beauty stamp set...or was it the Eastern Medallions thinlits dies...either way I won one of them and of course had to have the other half! I have had a lot of fun using it. I like the sentiments in the stamp set. This is a birthday card for a friend. I hope she likes it.

Blessings,
Tracy

Friends Furever

Last Saturday was our monthly "crop". I hosted a SU! workshop. My wonderful friend and SU! demonstrator did this project as our make and take. It is so stinkin' cute. We used the Sale-a-bration's stamp set Party Pandas and the We Must Celebrate stamp set from the new 2018 Occasions catalog. This holds a Ghirardelli Chocolate and a tea bag. I love it!

My workshop was a total success! I reached my goal of getting a half price item! I chose to get the whole set of SU! BLENDS! I am very excited! I love coloring. I was also able to get several new stamp sets! All my goodies should be here in a few days. FUN!

Blessings,
Tracy

Paper Pups

I had fun making this cute little pup. My friend, Mary, walks our dog Jake when we are gone. Jake loves Mary and vice versa! So for Mary's birthday I had to make a pup from the Cricut cartridge Paper Pups.  

And here is a picture of Jake! He is such a good boy! I love him so much! He makes me laugh every single day! 

Blessings,

Tracy

Happy Wishes!

This card was a make-n-take at our December Crop...once a month a group of gals gather at my church's fellowship hall and spend ALL day crafting. Most of us do paper crafts making cards or scrapbooking but you are welcomed to do whatever craft you want!

The sentiment is from a Sale-a-bration stamp set called Happy Wishes. The heart is stamped using Sure Do Love You. I love the paper we used called Painted with Love. It is on my wish list!

Hope your week is going well!
Blessings,
Tracy

Birthday Blooms!

Another birthday card for a dear friend of mine. We have been friends for 50 years! We met in kindergarten.  Her birthday was yesterday and mine will be in a couple weeks!

I used the Birthday Blooms stamp set and the new Stampin' Blends to color it. I haven't purchased any of the Blends yet but my wonderful demonstrator let me use hers! I am hoping to get the set of them as a half price item at the workshop I am hosting this weekend.

Have a wonderful Monday!
Blessings,
Tracy

Country Livin #2

Another birthday card with SU!'s Country Livin'. I colored the pickup with SU!'s Stampin' Write markers.  The sentiment is from the Banners for You stamp set and matching framelits. I'm really enjoying that bundle!

Have a fabulous Friday!

Blessings,
Tracy

Country Livin'

This is a birthday card I made for my BFF's 15 year old son.  His birthday is today.

The image is from Stampin' Up's Country Livin' stamp set. One of my favorites! For the sentiment I used Banners for You with the Bunch of Banners framelits. The paper is Wood Textures DSP.

I hope you enjoyed today's card.

Blessings,
Tracy

Happy New Year!

January 1, 2018  
Happy New Year!

Write it on your heart

that every day is the

best day in the year.

  -Ralph Waldo Emerson