Happy Go Lucky Puppy!

Happy Sunday afternoon!! It's been a productive day here, working on some house projects, doing laundry, watching football and just finished a very fall card.

Poor Jax is feeling neglected; he hasn't been on my blog in a while. Here he is playing in the leaves last November:

Along with a few challenges and a dt call, he inspired the card I made today!!  My "Jax" is cut from the Everyday Paper Dolls cart at 4 inches. He's playing in the leaves on a 5" square card.

Ahh! Isn't it cute :)  I have been *dying* to play with my new Peachy Keen Faces "Happy Go Lucky Dog Face Assortment". My puppy sure is happy go lucky most days ;) The challenge at Peachy Keen's Let's Face it Friday is leaves.. um.. yep I think I got that covered! lol!

I cut all these leaves from the Create a Critter Cartridge at 1" and 1 1/4" in various fall colored scraps. I inked them up in brown and put some on pop dots for dimension.  My puppy is also on pop dots.  Faux stitching with my white gel pen was the finishing touch!

I'm also entering this fun little card at My Craft Spot for Kimberly's DT call! I just love her sentiment stamps and would be honored to use them on my cards, layouts, and other projects.  :) Thanks for considering me Kimberly!! I sure would be a "happy go lucky" girl if I was chosen ;)

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great whats-left-of-the-weekend night! :)

Cricut Cardz Challenge #75!

There's a new challenge up at Cricut Cardz and this WAS a challenge!!

Create a masculine birthday card that includes wheels. I struggle with masculine cards; but to try to find a "manly" cut with wheels was like a treasure hunt!

I finally decided on this golf cart from Everyday Paper Dolls :)

I really like how this card came out! And since my hubby and his friends golf often; this will come in handy someday I'm sure :)

So stop by Cricut Cardz, see what the rest of the DT came up with and play along! It will be fun to get ideas for masculine cards.

I'm also linking this up to Alex's

Have a great day!

Happy New Year!

One of my resolutions this year is to ACT on the inspiration I feel when visiting all of the wonderful blogs out there. I can spend hours reading, learning, contemplating, and *cough*cough*shoppping*cough* instead of actually CREATING. So, starting the new year off right with my friend Mel!

We both LOVE Jen McGuire's blog. A few months ago she paired up with a few other bloggers and they each made different projects using the same stamp set. It was very cool!  So, Mel and I decided that we would use the Hero Arts music background stamp that she so generously gifted me. Thank you Mel :)

Without further ado, here are 3 things I've made *so far* with this versatile cling stamp!!

I started off simple with my new favorite color combo - kraft and black! I cut these stars out on my cricut at 2.5 inches and stamped/inked in black. These will make quick and easy embellishments on my next project!

When I was at my local Michaels, I found this "just a note" wood block stamp in the $1 bin! I knew it would be a perfect pair with the background. I embossed the music stamp in white on red cardstock. I adhered a piece of coordinating red satin ribbon on a white strip (that I punched with my threading water border punch). Last, I stamped the "just a note" in the same color ink and mounted on red and I was good to go!

 I really like how it turned out, so much that I made a matching set of 3. I think my purple is my favorite ;)

Lastly, I made a premade 12x12 layout {another resolution}. I was inspired by my new-to-me Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge. This little rocker is so cute! I cut him at 5" with cardstock and silver glitter paper from DCWV. I downloaded and cut the "guitar hero" font with my Sure Cuts a Lot program. The music note background was the perfect touch!

Thanks so much for stopping by. I just noticed I have 200 followers! What a way to ring in the new year :) Here's to many more accomplishments in 2011!

Be sure to hop over to Mel's blog to see the fabulous projects she made with the same stamp!!