Use your STUFF!!!

For quite a while, I've been talking to my IWIA Stamping friends (IWIA stands for I Want It All.... and don't we all ?!?!?!!).  And it has come to our realization that we HOARDE!!!!!!!  We hoard everything...  paper, background paper, ribbon, everything.

So in light of that, I have been inspired.  I have not used my Cricut in quite a while.  I am just not that talented in the Cricut arena.  And I really like the cutesy stuff.  

So being inspired, I made this snail card for a young friend of mine, Emily.  It will be going out in the mail on Tuesday for her.  I hope she likes it.  And the hippo card, I made the hippo ohhh... about a year ago, believe it or not.  I just did not know what to do with it.  So this is what I did with her.  Not sure who she is going to yet...  HHHhmmmmm.. hee.. hee!!!

Linda's Cards made at IWIA Stampers

I have such a great time on Monday nights at the Dundalk Moose Lodge.  They allow us stampers, scrappers and all around crafters to come and have fun, have a safe place to play, good food and great drink.

I saw this card;

http://www.stampinpretty.com/2012/02/stampin-up-mixed-bunch-in-black-white.html

I absolutely LOVE black and white cards.  I mean, if all I could do was black and white cards, I would do it.  But, I have to branch out a bit and decided to use some colors I typically don't use.  Here is my re-creation or in the stamping world, CASE'd it (Copy and steal everything... hahahaha).  I prefer black and white... but here I used bashful blue and baja breeze;.  Birthday saying is from Close to my Heart.

And then... aaahhhh.... My friend Lynn Haase let me borrow her stamp saying. I've had the acrylic jars cut out and I did the little bugs with my Cricut, ohhhh... about a year ago!!!  Yes..... I've had these cut out and hadn't done anything with them.

Well... today on this gloomy, rainy day, I got to get in my stamp room and get movin' .  I decided if I got anything done, I had to get this card done to get Lynn her stamp back.

The embossing powder I found in my embossing drawer. (I don't go in that drawer very often). But the powder is called Fireflies. (go figure!). It's black with a hint of gold glitter in it. WOOHOO!!  I thought this was perfect.

Snowflakes

FINALLY!!! I got to stamp a little. Well... actually nothing is stamped. This is using the Cricut Winter Lace cartridge. The saying is a digital stamp I printed. But I think it's pretty.

Feels great to finally make a card again!! Haven't made any in months, other than going to classes or swaps. WOOHOO!!!

Cindy Loo cricut cartridge

Look at this cutie!!!  I am not very good at matching patterned paper to colors, and this was my first real effort. I have a TON of background paper and collect it more than anything, along with ribbon and buttons. So I decided to go for it on this card...  What do you think? 

Cindy Loo Cricut Cartridge

Morracan Screen cuttlebug folder

DCVW background paper

SU ribbon

SU paper; garden green, green galore and tempting turquoise.

Noodles!! - Cricut Pagoda Cartridge

I made this card for my husband. It's honestly a long story, but we love Disney's Kung Fu Panda, and Po reminds him of me.  But Po loved his Noodles and that is my nickname for my husband...  so I made this card especially for him.

Cricut Cartridge - Cindy Loo

Ok... today I decided to mess around with my new Cindy Loo cricut cartridge.  I have never done the frames before, well... honestly I haven't done much with my Cricut to be honest... But, I am trying and experimenting.

For instance...  I do know that you can do a frame. However, you can not do a shadow for the frame.  And I cut a paisley for this, but it cut it in the 4", as the frame size, so that didn't work either... 

So here is what I finally came up with.

April's Punch card class and more!!!

WoW... WoW and more WoW!!!!  My very good friend April, http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/mystampplace/, had a Punch card class. If you haven't signed up for it yet, you hae to sign up for it.  This is terrific!!!! Look at these wonderful and amazing cards!!!!

The lush at the bar...  shaken not stirred... hahahhaha!!

Tropical fish love;

I did my baby as bald because I was bald when I was a baby and so was my son...  she did offer hair.... hahahah

Funky monkey...  this was soo much fun...

and the cream... de-la cream... the hoppy froggy!!! This little guy moves too!!!!  This was by far amazing! Just absolutely amazing!!!

Now... I did this with my Doodlecharms cricut cartridge.  I found ladybug background paper and just had to make this.... I made it in two different varieties. One bug and two...

And Lynn Haase had so much fun with the frog from April's class, she went home and made this monkey today!!! Is this the most adorable thing you've seen or what?!?!??!

GORGEOUS!!!

Great job Lynn!!!  You even made him a banana!!! How ingenious!

Cute as a bug!!!

Here is a little more late night inspiration...  I love my Cricut - Doodlecharms cartridge.  I have to admit... I'm not very good at the whole layering or paper piecing thing... but I am getting the hang of it. 

So I was looking through my patterned paper drawer and saw this paper, and thought... i have a bug just for this! HAHAHAH!!! What do ya think?

Ice Cream!!!

Playing around with the Cricut Doodlecharms cartridge.  I thought this was fitting to match the Stampin' Up Sweet Scoops set.  Certainly Celery on Chocolate Chip.

Doodlecharms Cricut Cartridge

I just bought the Doodlecharm Cricut Cartridge and last night was inspired to play around.  I love ribbon (as my friends know).  I don't use it, love to horde it...  and saw that I had paw printed ribbon. 

So last night I played around with my cricut, which I am VERY inexperienced with, and this is what I came up with.  Let meknow what you think....

New Cards... 9-7-09

Well... other than making cards for the swap last week, I haven't really been inspired too much, nor had the time. But today was a great, lazy day so I wanted to do a few cards.

This one is for Ethan... the little man in the family. He's the first son of my neice, first grandson on 4 sides of the family and first great grandson. You don't think this little man is spoiled do ya?!?!? HAHAHAH.. But I sent a card last week and my neice said he went nuts because he loves getting mail. So... I am going to start making him cute cards to send when I can. This one is for Ethan...



And it just so happens to be his daddy's birthday. I'm a little late getting this out, but it's better now than never. Plus he'll love the scratch-off tickets we put inside (We're all addicted to the scratch-offs!!). This looks better in person because the candle and other parts have glitter glue on them.

And these three I made just to make... I have friends who need to know I'm thinkin' of them... so I'm sending these off to them.