Monthly Archives: April 2011

I’m a good kid…promise

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I think my relationship with my mother has been challenged since the say I was born.  Maybe before then actually.  We’ve always struggled and now that I am an adult I can choose how much contact I want to have with her finally.  If you knew all the details  you’d probably advocate for cutting her out or off entirely.  She’s real umm…interesting that’s for sure.  The dilemma though is I am a  Godly woman and want to do my best to love her the way He does…exactly where she is at.  This is not always easy because where she’s at is often results in her constant attempts to upset or aggravate me.  Often I’m aggravated after just a few minutes in her company; it’s sad really, but she just doesn’t play nice.  I’m not sure she ever has.  Even my son has asked me “what is wrong with your mother?”  She is though…still my mother.

Mother’s Day is coming and two of her favorite things are tulips and koala bears.  For Christmas we got her some koala granola bars and cereal.  I made her this card for Mother’s Day:

The card base is Core’dinations, as are the tulips and stems.  The koala is cut with a textured stack I got at Wal Mart…I want to say it is Colorbok but I’m not sure.  Pink feet on the koala is from my scraps and I have no clue about the origin.  The tulips were a free SVG file and the koala is from the Cuddly Animals Part II Collection from SVG Cuts.  They have some great stuff…I’ll be back later today or tomorrow with yet another SVG Cuts project.

The honor is all mine

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Frequently I hear compliments on what a great job I’m doing with my kids and mostly I just feel lucky to have the kids I do.  I know you know about A Sweetheart…I’ve made cards for her before and blogged about her before too.  Recently I got a letter in the mail from this child’s principal.  She was really worried.  I played on that worry and asking her what she did.  “Why am I getting a letter from your principal?  Do you have something you need to tell me?”  Ha ha ha…finally having let her hang for a few minutes I explained what the letter said.

The principal was congratulating me on my daughter’s academics for the 2nd trimester telling me she made honor roll (again…she does this a lot) and were cordially invited to a special shin dig this morning.  Now my kid makes honor roll a lot…they all do.  That’s not the impressive part.  The impressive part is that she has missed a ton of school with being sick, moving, and a myriad of other things.  Something like 60% attendance or whatever.  So…even though she’s missed all that school she is still so diligent and studios she made the honor roll.  YAY!

A Sweetheart likes horses and pink and lime green.  I came up with this for her using two of the freebie cuts from SVG Cuts!  I ♥ SVG files and SVG Cuts are some of the best!  I have had a bunch of their freebies saved for later use for sometime now.  Be sure to come back and visit later today when I show you another SVG Cuts project!

The card base is 5.5 square and just some random pink paper from my stash.  The square mat is Core’dinations and the shadow on the horse is something in my stash.  This is also my first project with twine.  Bling in the corners of the mat, a nice love note inside and voilà!

Ronco meets eCraft

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You know how on those commercials and infomercials for the Ronco machines the host always says set it and forget it?  That’s EXACTLY what you can do with the eCraft.  One of many features that made me so interested in this machine.  Here’s a quick video I shot of the feed from tray option.  I am making a word book and needed 15 8 inch cuts…I just loaded a stack of paper in the tray making sure it was sitting under the rollers a tad, programmed the cut, video taped 30 seconds of the cutting and then walked away to make this post.  When I go back into my Scred Room…one of two things will happen…either it will be entirely finished or I’ll need to load more paper.  Here’s what it looks like in action:

39 and Glamorous Day 3

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Welcome back.  Lemme remind you all about this hop…

You should be arriving here from Miss Pam’s blog.  If you didn’t come from there and just read my blog because you like me (thanks btw…I like you too) then stop right here and go back to the beginning.  My fabulous friend Bonnie from A Scrap Above is hosting an awesome hop…one that probably isn’t like any you’ve seen before….hot colors and with skulls and skeleton keys…don’t let all that scare you it’s awesome…REALLY!

Not sure you really like hops or want to do another one at the moment…well check out the list of Sponsors:

  • I Got Lucky Scraps
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  • Scrappin Good Time (Retreat stay, MUST complete hop and challenge)

There will be a challenge at the end of the hop, you will need to hop along ALL blogs and “look” for challenge clues.  There are 13 clues randomly placed on 13 blogs, as you find these, write them down, they will help you with the CHALLENGE.. At the end of the hop Lisa will tell you what to do with these clues.  Then link your completed challenge project by the due date to Mr. Linky on http://ascrapabove.blogspot.com, this is the “final” step to be in the drawing for the Scrapbook retreat stay (info on Bonnie’s Blog)

So for my last project…I figured since the only thing missing from yesterday’s project was butterflies, it needed to be all about these winged creatures.  Besides, they are my favorite insect too!  This is also my 3rd eCraft project in less than 24 hours.  Love that machine…it’s so easy!

The wings flat against the card are lavender.  It’s probably one of my most favorite shades of purple.  Kind of like my eCraft…I know it looks blue it’s really not I promise!  It’s not even as periwinkle as the photos make it…it’s REALLY actually purple so just looking at it makes me happy.  Using it of course makes me ECSTATIC!!!

For this project, the butterfly cut that I used from the Fundamentals 1 SD card does NOT have a shadow feature…I made my own sort of “shadow” by cutting the butterfly again 1/2 an inch bigger and getting creative.  Not to shabby if I do so say myself.  On the white piece with all the pink and purple spots, it’s only glued in the middle so that the wings can be lifted up a little bit.  The mat behind the butterfly was cut on my eCraft using SCAL.  The more I use SCAL the more I love it.  I’m so thrilled that Craftwell has worked with SCAL to make eCraft SCAL compatible.  A video I watched on the Craftwell website said “the idea behind the eCraft is no restrictions.”  I love that.  Thus far, the only limitations I’ve experienced with my new machine are my own ineptness.  The machine does everything I’ve asked it to do and several people (who have only seen my videos) have commented on how much cleaner its cuts are than those yielded from Cricuts.  I suspect my crafting will be kicked up a few notches with the procurement of a machine without restrictions.

Now what you can’t really see well is the awesome black line that eCraft drew on this cut for me.  I wish it would have been purple instead but the only pen I have right now is black!  I will be changing that soon though!  Anyway so the added feature of draw and cut is that it created little “templates” for me to put all the layered pieces that I added.  Made gluing all those dots and stuff SO much easier!  YAY Craftwell thanks for that!!!!

The paper I used is a sheet I can’t remember (background under pink mat behind butterfly and Core’dinations.  Ribbon is from my stash and tied on my ghetto bow board.  The hardest part about this project was gluing all the layers on the butterfly.  I still haven’t decided what I want to do for blog candy…but to win it, you must comment on all three of my projects!  I’d like to know which one you like best.  I will select a winner and Monday-ish and they will receive a mystery pack of goodies from me.

Your last stop on this hop is Lisa.  Lisa’s blog has all the details on what to do with the challenge hints you’ve collected so be sure to check her out!  I hope you have enjoyed my contribution to this hop, Thanks Bonnie for hosting it.  You’ve done a GREAT job with your FIRST hop!

I’m being beckoned by my eCraft…I’ll be back tomorrow with another project and hopefully a video to go along with it.

39 and Glamorous Day 2

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If you’ve ever been in a hop with me before, you know I usually do a new project every day of the hop.  I can’t tell you how much fun I’m having with my eCraft.  For today, I created a cute little card featuring most of Bonnie’s favorite things:

Don’t you just love it?  All the cuts on this card were made using my new eCraft.  I can’t even begin to tell you how much I am loving this machine.  In about half the time as it took me to figure out the Cricut (I’m not much of a manual/directions reader), I have visited with my sister and her kids, completed 2 entire projects AND filmed and edited two different videos.  Here’s the 2nd video…remember video editing is not my strength though!

I already ♥ my eCraft.  I can see us having a nice long and happy life together!  Don’t forget to come back tomorrow to see what my eCraft and I come up with next!