You like me, you really like me

Karen over at Still Young and Croppin' gave me my very first blog award. Please stop by Karen's blog to check out her fabulous work and show her some love in the comments section.

This is a pay-it-forward style award. Here are the rules:

1. Thank and link back to the person who awarded you this.
2. Share 8 things about yourself
3. Pay it forward to 8 bloggers that you have recently discovered
4. Contact those bloggers and tell them about their awards.

So here are 8 things about myself:

1.My favorite color is Pink.

2. I could eat seafood every single day and never get tired of it.

3. I like World War I documentaries.

4. I love watching old black and white movies, and will salivate over silent movies.

5. I'm in a wine club for my love of good food and socializing, not so much for the wine.

6. My ideal job is being a writer for a magazine like Essence or In Style.

7. I love to jump in my car and go for long rides.

8. I HATE SNOW AND COLD WEATHER!!!!!

Here are the 8 bloggers I'd like to share this award with.

1. Meredith Scraps

2. Renee

3. P-Kay Sunshine

4. Scrap Innovations

5. Kay Tee Designs

6. Kaleptra Designs

7. From Me to U Paper Crafting

8. Unique Monique

I resolve to...

One recurring theme on lots of crafting blogs over the last 3 days seems to focus on crafting resolutions. As someone who spent 20+ years resolving to loose weight and get healthy every New Years, I no longer make resolutions. But then I saw these crafting resolutions and I thought it might be fun to play along. So, below is my list of 2011 Crafting Resolutions.

1. Perfect my Copics coloring technique. Practice. Practice. Practice.

2. Dive into the world of digi stamps.

3. Remove all newly purchased Cricut cartridges from their plastic casing and use them, at least once.

4. Update my blog more frequently.

5. Keep my craft room organized.

6. Use what I buy and not just collect (hoard).

There you have it. My list in no particular order. In an attempt to get organized, I've even listed project deadlines on a calendar so that when I need to deliver an order to someone, I'm not rushing to get it completed (I am hoping that this also helps me keep the craft room organized).

We'll see how it goes...

I Wanna Thank You...

Hello Everyone.
Sorry I've been away. I've been focusing on making my Christmas cards and doing my Christmas shopping. A friend of mine asked if I could make a thank you GIFT that she could give to someone in her church. Since I declared in an earlier post that my absolute favorite Cricut cartridge is Forever Young, I didn't hesitate to pull it out of the cabinet and use it AGAIN. I don't know who the genius is at Provo Craft who came up with this cartridge, but, I'd like to buy them a cup of coffee (or at least suggest that they get a raise and a big fat bonus). Enough of me gushing over the designer. Below is what I came up with and I think it's so super cute that I made one for myself.



Project Name: Thank You, Sister!

Recipe: Cricut Expression; Forever Young cartridge; Stampin' Up Bliss Blue and Very Vanilla card stock; Stampin' Up Silver heat embossing powder; heat gun; Stampin' Up sentiment from Wonderful Words stamp set; black frame, blue trimmed black mat and stand from Hobby Lobby; dry embossed vanilla background cardstock using Score Pal; dress made from designer paper from Hobby Lobby.

I hope you enjoyed this project. More to follow...

Forever Young Cartridge

By far my favorite Cricut cartridge, Forever Young is both sassy and sweet. This design is slightly cased from Mumoftwo but I've used colors that will be admired by a few friends of mine. Look for lots of cards from the Forever Young cartridge.

Recipe: Forever Young Cartridge (images cut at 3); Cricut Expression; Stampin Up Cardstock (Certainly Celery, Pink Pirouette, Pink Pixie, Basic Black, White; $1 ribbon from Michael's; Sentiment from My Pink Stamper - Family and Friends.