I am getting back into the swing of things once again.  Time is marching by at such a fast pace, I can hardly keep up.  One day quickly becomes another. 

I have been experimenting with my Cricut, trying to make some cards from the machine. I found this one, and thought of possibly a Valentine's Day card.  It is called Angel Kisses.

 Here is one card I started to make using the Cindy Loo cartridge:

It is a simple card, with the cut out of the bird in the tree.  the background is a scalloped circle that matches the cutout.  I mounted this on a lavendar card base and then added some pearl drops around the outer edge.  It needs something else, but I need to think about what.  If you have any ideas, let me know.  Thanks.

Keeping busy...card pictures to come soon!

I have been keeping busy for the last month and a half.  A short time ago, I got a small Cricut from a close friend.  I have been playing with it for a while, and I even took a couple of online courses from  My Creative Classroom.  I am more aware of the wonderful uses this machine can perform.

Since I fell in love with the small Cricut, I had to have the Cricut Expression.  I got it as a Christmas gift.  I had some cartridges, and as I have seen the cartridges on sale, I have been slowly purchasing more cartridges.  Then, Michaels had the sale on the Cricut Cartridges...$9.99 each!  I could not control myself and I bought several on sale, saving tons of money. 

Now I have a supply of cartridges, a small and large Cricut machine, and all the necessary tools to create all kinds of things.  I have been experimenting with cards and some layouts.  I hope to add some to  my blog later this week.  Until then....scrap happy!

Crafty Makes is a place I have recently visited.  You can find many different stamps here.  They are offering some blog candy and I plan to try for it.  Perhaps you would like to also.  Click on the above link and find out how you can enter this contest.

Another Christmas Card.

Here is a picture of another Christmas Card I made.  Hope you like it.

Snow, snow, and more snow!  Winter comes in with a bang!  We were hit with a major blizzard.  Here in Barnegat, we got 21 inches of snow.  That is severe enough, but the winds were a major player in this storm.  It caused drifting everywhere.  The roads would no sooner get cleared and the wind would blow the snow back.  Looking out our back windows, you  could see drifts of snow up to or over the windows, while at the same time look at the "alley" between the houses and see practically no snow at all.  Next door, the drifts went up over the window sills (about 5').  In front, the snow was up to our windows and up to the top of our front porch. 

With all this snow time, I have had lots of time to scrapbook.  My daughter is here from the holidays and my girlfriend is too.  We had a great day yesterday and again today.  Tomorrow will be more of the same!

While reading emails, I came across the following blog candy:

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Less than one week to go....

Christmas is coming closer still.  Wow less than a week away.  Where has all the time gone?  Where has the year gone?  I thought I would share one of my Christmas cards with you all.  I used the Cricut machine to cut the snowflake circle.  Then I placed packing tape on the backside of the snowflake and sprinkled red glitter on it.  It sure made the snowflake shine!  Next, I cut out cardboard circle rings 1/4" thick.(I cut some out using 2 different sized nestabilites and for others I used the Martha Steward circle cutter.)  I applied green glitter to these circle rings and used pop dots on the rings.  There  is a 5" piece of red cardstock under the snowflake card and I used an EK success border cutter to cut out my saying on the front of the card, and popped it up with pop dots.  I took the whole card front and glued it on a sparkly sheet of ivory white paper that I had folded in half.  I really like this card.  On the inside I found a verse about friends that ws in the shape of a Christmas tree.  I printed that out on a stationary sheet bordered with poinsettias. I then tied ribbon in the middle to hold the inside and outside together.    Below is a picture of the outside of the card and the inside.  Merry Christmas to all!

Christmas is coming soon.

Before you know it, Christmas will be here.  Have you gotten all your shopping done, or at least most of it?  I used to think it was difficult shopping for my children, buying the right present for them, but now that they are older, it is harder yet..and more expensive.  Lucky for me, they are no longer living at home and they have other people in their lives, so I don't go all out like I used to. 

A couple of weeks ago, my friends were over and we mad some Christmas ornaments.  It was a lot of fun making them.  We took glass ornaments and covered them with alcohol inks, blending color choices of our own choosing.  After that was done, I cut out vinyl numbers for 2010 with my Cricut.  We put these on the ornaments, and used glass etching cream to etch the year in the ornament.  I think they turned out pretty cute.  What do you think? 

Have a great week!