The Vintage Hanger

The moment I layed my eyes on this vintage hanger, I knew it was coming home with me. I knew it need to have something special hanging from it......a beautiful wedding dress ♥

The dress was made using my Cricut Expression, and Tie The Knot cartridge .

I looked for the the perfect papers, and I found them but used 2 different companies. They were Webster Pages, thier Your Life line, and We Are Memory Keepers, their Vintage Blue line.

I used many accents......the flowers were by Prima Flowers, the vintage brads are Making Memories, and the hanger is from an unknown vendor.

Some Cricut Love ♥

I Love using my Cricut Expression. The possiblilities are endless. In these photos I used the Cosmo Cricket paper Line.....LOVE IT! The colors are so vibrant and so hot. One on my favorite cartridge is Tie The Knot. This is a wedding themed cart that has a very elegant font, and 8 different lttle gift boxes to choose from.

Have a scrappy day everyone.

I Love A Challenge......

......Especially when its for a Design Team Submission. The best part is that you need to have a Cricut Expression or Imagine, and use the colors pink, green and brown. Learn about all the details and check out Robyn's blog here --------> http://www.mypinkstamper.com/ For this submission I decided to use my Gypsy. The Gypsy is a hand help portable device that can store all my Cricut cartridges. It has many features, and I wanted to show you guys my favorite feature.

The feature I used was welding. I love that I can weld the letters together. This feature works great with a cursive font cartridge. Since the challenge was to make something especially for the Design team tryout I thought why not use the blogs name...... The Pink Stamper. I was able to weld the letters to touch each other so that the cricut machine can make one continuous cut, instead of cutting each letter by itself. It is also easier to work with welded letters when gluing them to any project....cards, scrapbooks, and anything you want personalized.

I made a card with a heart cut out using The Sweet Heart cartridge, real twigs, pink paper flowers by Prisma, pearl needles, hot pink Bo Bunny paper, pale pink & brown Bazzill cardstock on my project. Wish me luck......I always wanted to be a designer.

Monkey Business........

Boy was this one of my favorite projects ever. I was asked by my sister in law Caroline if I would make a Monkey themed diaper cake for a baby shower for her coworker. She was having a girl, and you know me........I love me some girly things, and I was up for the challege.

I had 1 day to make this work, talk about pressure. Off to the craft store I went! With the help of Caroline we started to make our vision come to life.

As we were "brainstorming" we thought why not make a banner and 3 shadow boxes for gift to Mommy to be. We started at 2:00pm, and get this!!! We finished @ 3:00am in the morning. It had to get done......we have a few hiccups, but nothing serious.

We used Bazzil cardstock for our project. Along with the Cricut Expression, and the Creative Critters cartridge we made it come to life. What I hope to get out of this was new clients to add to my list. I hope you like.

Sweet Dominique

Hello Blog........I just completed 1 of many shadow boxes for my craft show.

Pictured here is my sweet little sister Dominique. The shadow boxes are made in hopes of me getting a few orders for them before Christmas. I love making them for gifts, whether its a picture, memorabilia, of just a name for display.

This would be a Christmas gift for my sister this year, I hope she likes it. She is a big fan you know ♥

A Huge announcement

I love me some Christmas! I am so excited to annouce that I have decided to host my very 1st craft fair.

It all happened one night not to long ago when I was at my girlfriends house. We talked about many things, one being that I was unemployed and I was worried because Christmas was just around the corner. I hate for Santa not being able to stop by with my boys special Christmas request. The have been soooo good this year.

As I was showing her my lastest creation, a tribute shadow box for a friend's wife, she just started at for a while and had a huge smile on her face. She really loved it, and said that if I did not mind, and I was up to it she will host a craft show for me at the end of the month to help me sell all my crafts and design. I was stunned and excited that she would suggest this, and I thought I could do it. I already have tons of stuff IO already made. I am always working on different things every week.....I can't wait to share all the goodies.

Pictured above is a sneak peak at a Christmas banner I am working on. I plan on making a few of these, along with cards, and shadow boxes samples to take pre-orders for Christmas. Wish me luck, I hope this venture leads me to other things........Bye for now ♥

Just A Little Busy.........

Hey my fellow blogsters, yes my blog is seriously negleted. I am currently working full time for a Real Estate company, demoing at Best Buy, and Michaels for the Provocrafts products. I will not have a day off till next month.....but thank goodness I have a job, so no complaints here.

So I have not really had much time to work on my scrapbooking, but I will share a picture of a card, and envelope I recently made using the Expression, and the Bo Bunny paper line. Once my life gets back to normal I will be posting my latest creations, the ones I have waiting for me.....screaming to be completed.

Thanking Our Teachers

Each year I make something for my boys teachers to thank them for their hard work. This year I was inspired by another scrapbooker to decorate a jar, and fill it with candies....Who doesn't like candies, right?
I found these cute little jars at Walmart, and I used the Plantin cartridge using the Cricut expression machine. I was so happy to hear that the teachers loved the gift.

Busy Busy Busy......

Life has been a little hectic for me lately. As I have previously posted I had an awesome opportunity to teach others how to use Provo craft products. The first one I demo'd was the cricut cake.

The Cricut Cake is an machine that you can create great designs using edible product such as gum paste, frosting sheets, fondant, chesse, and even tortillas. Alot of the demostrators have made some great stuff with the machine. I made my sons birthday cake using the Cake. I had alot good feed back from customers on the machine, and I love that the cartridges can be used with the other Cricut Provo craft products. How awesome is that?

Then I was off to the Costco Road Show teaching the Cricut Expression to the many members. My manager said that our team did awesome. I was so excited to hear this because I had such a blast teaching what I am so passionate about. Scrapbooking has been part of my life for the last 13 years.

I cant wait to get my very own Expression, so that I can create all the great things my creative mind has been thinking about. Pictured here is a little shadow box I made using theOnce Upon A Princess, and the Give A Hoot cartridge. Hope you like it.

Capturing Special Moments.....

I took alot of candid shots of 3 of my boys just having a great time @ Huntington Beach, CA. The water was freezing cold, but that did not stop my boys from jumping in and enjoying the waves. Ohhhh, to be young again.

I could just go to the beach everyday and just sit in my beach chair just listening to the waves, and just look as far as my eyes could see. But on this day it was very special. I was seeing the beach through my childrens eyes, and capturing every single moment. How awesome is that?

Over 100 images captured, I have plenty of pictures to keep me scrapping for days, or weeks. So I went through the photos, printed just a few of my favorites, and just thought what should I doe with these?

First thing I did was to find the perfect printed paper that would look great with my photos, and that of course was the Abbey Road line, from Bo Bunny......and again I might add, one of my favorite scrapbook suppliers. So off to my friends Melissa scrapping garage to start creating.

I started with a couple of ideas and changed my mind, so into my stash I went to see what I coud find. What I found was this cute little chipboard tag mini book I purchased from Michael's @ the $1.00 spot. The project took me about 2 hours to complete, andI love the simplicity of how the mini book came out.

I hope you like my creation......have an awesome day everyone.

If Only Dreams Can Come True....

I dont ask for much, but I do have my dreams, just like everyone else does. But my dreams are never ending.... they consist of having a job I love, to create, inspire, teach.....and get paid for doing it. Many of you who have known me forever know that I LOVE SCRAPPING, and if you have to ask me for suggestions and ideas, be prepared because I am full of them. As a matter of fact, I am mentally creating right now in my head. Am I crazy? Or do I need AA classes for scrapaholics?

But guess what? I wont give up on my dreams......there is a job out there for me, I can feel it. I just need to find it, or it me.

Again the card I am posting is from the Be loved line from my previous post. Aren't the colors beautiful? But I can't help but feel like there is something missing, I just cant put my finger on it yet. Knowing me, I will probaly wake up in the middle of the night when it hits me, and will want to get up to add it to give it that finishing touch.....LOL. But hubby will be non to happy if he catches me scrapping in the wee hours, as he has many of nights.

everyone wants to BE LOVED......

I love this line from My Minds Eye called.... Be Loved. It went well with these pretty flowers from Prima that I found in my local Michael's craft store. I have been using my Fiskars scissors so much lately which gives my cards a deckle edge, a look that I have favored so much lately.

I have always layered my printed paper, trying to bring each paper in the collection together. My all time favorite color to scrap with is the color brown. I love how it looks with pink, light blue, green, and cream. I hope you like this card. Have a great week everyone......BBS