The One with the Day O' Fun!

So, today I had the day off of work. I worked a ton last weekend, and was able to flex my time and take today off. WOO HOO! My lovely husband took the kids to school and went to work, leaving me with the house to myself ALL DAY! **BLISS**

I had birthday cards to do, as well as a banner for my son's soccer team, so I decided to play with some toys that I had yet to use. 1) The markers for the Cricut and 2) my new Cuttlebug!! The markers were actually pretty cool, but I was doing 12x12 letters so the markers made a nice outline around them. I have heard that many people wish they were finer point, which I can see, but for this project they worked nicely. I will post a picture of the banner tomorrow when I get one at the field.

The birthday cards were my first experiment with the Cuttlebug. I used the swiss dots and somekind of floral embossing folder. I can't remember what it's called, and I threw away the package **sigh** I like the way these cards turned out tho. With those two embossing folders and the package (doodlecharms, birthday hat (doodlecharms), and parentheses (George) from the Cricut, I think the recipients will like them. Oh yeah, I inked the edges of everthing with chocolate chalk ink. I am working on my inking technique, haven't perfected it yet, but it looks OK I guess.

Tomorrow I am working on getting all my supplies sorted out so I can move everything onto my new table that my husband built for me to work on. I have stuff EVERYWHERE, so I am bound to find some hidden treasures in my pursuit of organization!

The One With The New Toy

OK, so my BFF finally convinced me that I need a Cuttlebug, and lo and behold, Hobby Lobby had it on sale... My newest addition to my crafting arsenal is now on my table. I am hopeful that one day this week I will actually have time to play with it. I have run some scraps through it and WOW it is COOL! It will go onto the "Why did you wait so long" list of things I have bought. Also on the list are:
Cricut
DVR
Laptop
Digital SLR
DVD player for the car
Well, you get the picture... I will work on getting something made with my newest addition and post it on here this week. My boss's birthday is coming up, so that will probably be the excuse I use to get it going...

TTFN

The One with the Anniversary Invite

I think that this might be my best work so far. We threw a party for my inlaws' 50th anniversary, so I volunteered to take care of the invitations. With the help of my trusty elf (oops, BEST elf) in California, I was able to put together a pretty good product if I do say so myself. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Fibermark paper. The "pouch" as people are calling it, was made from the Fibermark Shantung series, which is great paper. Almost like fabric. I used my Cricut to cut out everything. It was a lot of fun, but I was really glad when they were all done!

The One with the First Post

So, after catching so many super creative blogs out there, I decided I would try this thing. As usual, I am WAYYY behind the times. I love to papercraft, and I do almost everything on the computer, so I am not sure why it took me so long to set one of these up...but here I am. The blogs I visit on a regular basis (OkieLady, BBTB, Capadia etc) have helped me sooo much with Cricut information and ideas, as well as general crafting knowledge. They are invaluable. I entertain no such notion that I would be in that league, but wanted an easy way to share what I am up to...

So, welcome, and hopefully soon I will have time to post some stuff...