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Top of the day all -

just a quick post to keep you updated on up and coming things.

Remember to check back tomorrow for our Festive Fridays bloghop.  Click on the picture on the left if you don't know what I am talking about.

Today I am at work and creating on my Gypsy for a challenge I want to enter.  I love my "real" job cuz it allows me to create, create and create some more.  My only problem is that when I get home at night I am too tuckered to cut and assemble what I've created.  I knew my gypsy would come in handy, but then the files just sit there.  Ugh.  I don't have another day off till next Tuesday, but with some determination I will find the time to cut this file and assemble and post pictures for the challenge by Sunday.  

I also wanted to let you know to check back here for an announcement coming soon.  I am so excited.  You know when something exciting happens and you can't tell anyone for a while...well that is happening right now and I am busting at the seams...ssshhhhhhh, zipping my lips now.

Well, I guess I should be done rambling for awhile and hope to see you all tomorrow for the Festive Fridays bloghop.

As always, have a great day and god bless.

Birthday Plate

Good morning crafty beings,

Today I wanted to quickly show you a plate I glass etched.  When we knew that the baby my DD was having was going to be a girl, she told us she was going to name her Bella.  Since they lived in Colorado I was not going to be able to be there for her baby shower, but I wanted to be part of it.  I had made her a diaper cake and I wanted a special plate for Bella.  I thought about making a real cake plate.  I found a glass plate at a discount store that I really liked.  I etched Bella's name on it.  I had to flip the letters in SCAL because I was going to glass etch from the back side.  Believe it or not, it did take me a few tries to figure this out.  I used a mirror to look at my SCAL program to make sure it was right.  LOL  I mailed the diapercake and the plate to her friend in Colorado and she put it together and brought it over the day of the shower.  She really loved it.

I had bought the winnie the pooh and friends cart, because she had told me she wanted to use that as her theme.  As you all know, she did change the theme to frogs.  LOL  I still like this cart, but it's definately somewhat complicated in the layering.  Anyway, back to the original project.

When they moved here, I asked my DD to make sure and bring the plate because we would be using it for Bella's birthday.  I then had to also etch her birth date on it.  Here is a picture showing how I used the vinyl on the backside of the plate with the etching cream.  I know the vinyl is cow patterened.  I had gotten it on clearance somewhere.  Its a huge roll and I use it mainly for etching purposes. 

Here is the picture of it completed.  We will use this plate every year for her birthday cake or cupcakes.  Depending on what we have.

I hope you enjoyed this quick idea.

As always, have a great day and god bless.

Mugs and Etching

Hello my sweet fellow crafters,

Well, I didn't make in on My Pink Stamper's DT, but that's ok.  I didn't think I would anyway.  I think I need to make some more cards and show them on my blog rather than all the altered or repurposed things I do.  I do like to make cards, but I usually only make them when I need one.  I don't premake.  That might have to change. 

Anyway, today I do have another glass etching post.  I wish these pictures turned out better and since I have already given them away, I can't retake the pictures.  I didn't realize how bad they were until just now.  Sorry.  I used my gypsy to make the sleigh tags from the christmas cart that came preloaded on my gypsy.  Really like this cart.  The tags were really easy and fun to make.  I gave these mugs to my dart team.  We all like something different in a way.  Three of my teammates are huge nascar fans, so I made theirs with their favorite nascar driver.  The other two love football, so I made one vikings and one falcons.  I then filled them with green tissue paper and candy and cookies for christmas.  They really liked them.  I hope you enjoy my project.

As always, have a great day and god bless.

Waterbottles

Hello

Here is a quick picture post. I just wanted to show some of the waterbottles I made for my DD, her husband and my niece. I really like the red and blue color on these bottles. Very vibrant. I used my SCAL and vinyl for all the bottles. It's so hard to take pictures of them, but I tried my best. Thanks for looking.

As always, have a great day and god bless.

Festive Fridays

good morning all -

I just wanted to quickly let you know that I will be participating in "Festive Fridays" blog hop.  I will have a complete listing after this post.  The hop will be every other friday starting January 14th and go all year long.  This hop is to give you ideas for christmas cards through the year and when the hop is completed I should have at least 24 different cards and ready for mailing.  Then I won't have to make them all at once. 

Here is the list:

 Terri Sproul
  Chris Hurley

 Amanda Marks

 Debbie Buckland

 Brenda Lee Burfeind (that's me, hahaha)

 Yolonda

 Katie

 Craft Garden

 Debbie Feist

I hope you will join me and the other great ladies during our year long hop.  It will be a Festive adventure.

As always, have a great day and god bless

Happy Anniversary

Good evening all,

I thought I'd quick share an Anniversary card I made for my husband.  Tomorrow is our 16th Wedding Anniversary.  It's so great.  He is my best friend and the love of my life.  My DH loves to golf so I thought I'd have a little fun with the play on words.  I am not very witty, but I thought this was cute.  Anyway, I had been thinking of this card in my head and I promised myself I was going to enter in more challenges for 2011.  More than Favors Wacky Wednesday had a challenge using these three colors.  Red, Turquoise and White.  That's it.  Sounded easy to me...I am slowly getting into the challenges.  Not quite jumping off a bridge yet, but maybe off the sidewalk.  LOL 

Well, here is my card and the recipe:

Red (Summer Dream Glitter DCWV)

Turquoise (All Dressed Up DCWV)

White Cardstock

I-Top

Cuddlebug

ATG

Cri-Kits (red glitter mini gel pen)

SCAL

I cut the white cardstock 5.25 by 10.5 and folded it in half and layered a piece of turquoise cardstock cut at 5 x 5 ontop as my base.

I cut a "golfer" out in my SCAL at 4 inches tall.  I don't know where I got the cut file from, but if it's yours or you know whose it is, please let me know so I can give credit where credit is due.

I used my Cri-Kits red glitter to write out Happy Anniversary.  Without unloading my paper from the cricut I then cut a frame out around the sentiment in white.  I also used my SCAL for this and shadowed and increased by 1 point to make another layer in red.

I used my cuddlebug polka dots folder to emboss on white card stock.  Then I used my I-Top and made a giant "golf ball".  I got this idea from Courts Crafts at this posting.  I think it was a pretty clever idea.

I then used my computer and wrote "You com"putt" me!" in red as my sentiment inside.  I added a strip of the same turquoise cardstock for a little emphasis inside.

Here is my card. 

Please let me know what you think in the comments section. 

I live for comments.

This turned out kinda blurry, Sorry about that, but it reads you computt me.  LOL

As always, have a great day and god bless.

My bad incomplete posting - Random pictures

Hi all,

Sorry guys if you got an email letting you know a new post was up.  I published instead of saving before I had finished my post.  My bad!!!  Here is the link to the completed posting. 

I am adding some birthday pictures.  She had so much fun with her cake.

Birthday Banner and My Pink Stamper Design Team Challenge

Good day all happy people,

As most of you know we celebrated Bella's 1st Birthday on Sunday, January 2nd.  Her actual birthday was December 31st.  I showed you some of the things I had made for her birthday in previous posts.  As I was watching some youtube video for some more ideas I came across a video from My Pink Stamper regarding her design team submission.  She said she was going to post the challenge on Saturday on her blog.  Her challenge was to use these three colors, pink, green and brown.  Woot, woot.  I was already using green and pink.  Now I just needed to add some brown somewhere.  This is what I came up with.  Now, I know I won't be picked for her design team, but it was fun to participate in a challenge.  I want to do more of them this year.  I think I might have a day set aside for my personal challenge submissions.  I don't know yet.  Anyway, we had to list the recipe. 

This is what I used:

Pink Cardstock (No brand)

Green Cardstock (All Dressed Up Stack Glittered from DCWV)

Brown Cardstock with Pink Polka Dots (Sunburn Designs Two Cool)

Pink/Brown Ribbon (American Crafts)

Rhinestones
Ribbon Hole Punch

ATG Gun

I used my Cricut and my SCAL.  First I created a triangle shape and welded circles onto it to create the scallop look.  I cut this at 4.7 by 5.4 inches (Pink).  Then I created another triangle (Green) and fit it inside.  I cut a scallop circle (Brown) in SCAL at 2.42 inches.  I used the Bernard MT Condensed font to spell Bella's name (Green) and then again with the Shadowed Blackout (Rounded)(Pink).  I used my ATG gun to adhere all the pieces together.  I also used SCAL (game pieces in the shapes library) and broke apart and cut just the crown out of pink cardstock.  I had purchased Kristal's face digital stamps because I liked the look of faces on some of her designs.  It was perfect for the crown.  I added some rhinestones to the crown and the cute face.  I then used my ribbon punch to punch holes in the triangles and slipped this cute pink and brown ribbon through it.  The best part of this whole project?  I used everything from my stash.  YEAH!!!  I just love the look of this banner. 

I hope you enjoyed my project and I look forward to any comments you might want to leave.  Good or bad criticism is inspiring.  Thanks again for joining me on my blog venture and as always, have a great day and god bless.

New Year's Eve Mortar Rockets

Hi all,

These are the rockets Austyn blew off at Midnight last night.  It's a good thing it's legal where we live.  Enjoy.

As always, have a great day and god bless.



Happy New Year

Good Day All,

I guess I didn't reach my goal of 50 followers by midnight.  :(

I hope that each and every one of you brought in the New Year safely.  My husband, youngest son and I stayed home and waited for my BIL, SIL and Niece to arrive from Minnesota.  The weather was so bad that it took them a lot longer than expected.  The interstate was closed (unknown to us) so they had to take a long way around on a gravel 2 lane road in a blizzard.  Oi  They did arrive safely about half an hour before the new year.  We celebrated quietly.  My youngest is a huge rocket freak.  He has so many models of rockets and also the kind you can actually launch and he wanted to launch one at midnight.  We did however convince him to blow off a few Roman Candles instead.  At midnight he lit 3 of them.  Soon thereafter I received a facebook message from our next door neighbor asking if he heard fireworks.?  LOL 

I usually make a New Year's resolution, but somehow I just don't follow through with them.  LOL  So I am making a goal list instead

1.  Blog every week, no matter what.  It doesn't necessarily have to be a crafty post

2.  Make 2 cards per week. 

3.  Cook at least 1x a week and frozen pizzas don't count.  LOL  (my DH does most of the cooking, because he loves to and I hate to.)

4.  Work my dart ppd up to 19+.  I've been stuck at an 18. something, not quite reaching my goal of 19 solid.

5.  Be more satisfied with what I have.  My health, a job, and most of all my family. 

Here is a New Year picture of us last night.  I guess my added goal is that pictures of me look better.  Ugh

This is us, my DH, myself,  my DD, her husband and my youngest.

BIL, SIL, Niece, my youngest, DH and myself

 

As always, have a great day and god bless.