Not one, not two...but THREE lovely cards!!

*just a couple reminders; be sure to scroll down to see what Abby created, they are gorgeous!!*

• If you have entered my giveaway for your chance to win an Artful Delight June monthly kit, click here. The giveaway ends July 3 at 11:59pm EST.
• If you are interested in pre-ordering Echo Park's new collection pack Victoria Garden's you can either email me or click here for more details.
  
• Be sure to stop by tomorrow because it's the 1st and I have some great things to share with you!! :-)
• Artful Delight is sponsoring over at The Paper Variety this week so if you would like to win a July monthly kit, head over and play along.
  
• Artful Delight is also sponsoring over at Frosted Designs and you have until July 11th to upload your projects for your chance to win July monthly kit. Click here for more details!
  

Good Morning and Happy Thursday. I am so happy that my tests are over. I did well on them so all my studying paid off. :-) Now I get to relax the rest of the week.

Today I have not one but THREE awesome cards to share with you that Abby created using Artful Delight's June monthly kit.



Abby sure did rock these cards, all three of them are fabulous!!! For more details about these cards and for more inspiration please visit Abby's blog.

There are still a few June monthly kits left so click here if you would like to purchase one or sign up for a 3 or 6 month subscription.

I cleaned my craft area last night so hopefully I will get some crafting in today too. :-)

Happy Crafting!!

Oh yeah it's winner time!! AND a little surprise. :-)

Hello my friends! So have we been having fun with all these giveaways? I know I have!!

So I have the winner to announce for the Helmar adhesive!! Wahoo!!

The winner, chosen by random.org is........#17

My 3 E Scrapbooking said...

Ohhhhh....says the adhesive junkie...hehe! Such a fun giveaway!

June 29, 2011 2:09 AM

....MY 3 E SCRAPBOOKING....

Please email me with your snail mail so I can get your package in the mail. :-)

Ok, now I have one FINAL giveaway, for now. :-) Who wants to win an Artful Delight JUNE MONTHLY KIT????? WahooooOO!!!! Ok all you have to do is make sure you are a follower here on the blog and leave me a comment. In the comments please let me know if you are a scrapbooker, card maker, or both. Also if you are a card maker, mention if you have ever subscribed to a monthly card kit and what you liked or disliked about it. That's it!!

This giveaway will end Sunday July 3rd at 11:59pm EST. Feel free to spread the word on your blog, twitter, or Facebook. :-)

Stop by tomorrow I will have another project to share with you from my DT using June monthly kit. :-)

Oh, if you want to pre-order Echo Park's Victoria Garden's collection pack, please let me know by Friday morning. I will be making my order on Friday and will be shipping around July 10th. :-) Click here for more details!

Happy Crafting!!

Beautiful card set!

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Have you entered my giveaway yet? Click here to enter, it ends Wednesday at 2:00pm EST.

Good Morning and Happy Tuesday! Today is going to be a long day for me. I have a confession, I procrastinated on some of my homework and now I have to do it ALL today because I have a big test tomorrow. It is in my Economics class. Now in all fairness all the material the professor covers in class is just an extension of the reading, the reading is all examples and such and really the reading TOTALLY confuses me. LOL! So I don't like to do it (only in this class though), because when I feel I have an understanding on it from his lecture, I go read the book and then I am totally confused. But nevertheless I have to read and study today. But according to both my professors after this week the rest of the semester is pretty stress free. I only have 3 1/2 weeks to go. WA-FREAKIN-HOOOOOOOO!! LOL!!

So today I have a FABULOUS card set to share with you that April created using the June monthly kit.

I love the color combination April used on this card. These cards are beautiful!! For more details about this card set please visit April's blog.

On the 1st of July not only will the July monthly kit start shipping, we will have ASC #10 but I have a BIG announcement. So be sure to stop by on Friday!! :-) You won't want to miss that post. :-)

Happy Crafting!!

When one door closes.......

.....another one opens. I have the winner to announce for the Nikki Sivils 6x6 paper pads. Thank you random.org the winner is

.....CHRISTINA.....

Christina said...

Always looking to add to my paper stash! Thanks for the chance.

June 25, 2011 7:24 PM

Please email me your snail mail so I can get your package in the mail! :-)

leeanne@artfuldelight.com

Now for the "another one opens" part......I have another giveaway!!

(Ok so the formatting on this post was giving me quite a lot of trouble. I wanted some italicized and some not but it wouldn't let me.....well it was just being stupid)
This next giveaway is going to be for some adhesive.

This giveaway will include:

• 2 packages of Helmar 1/2" round white Zap Dots
• 2 packages of Helmar 1/4" square white Zap Dots
• 2 packages of Helmar 1/4" round clear Zap Dots
  

All ya have to do is make sure you are a follower here on the blog and leave me a comment. This giveaway will end at 2:00pm EST on Wednesday!!

Happy Crafting!!

Reminders...

Good Evening! I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend. It was the same 'ol same for my family. A weekend spent doing housework and homework. YAY me!! LOL!!

Just a couple reminders:

• My giveaway ends at noon on Monday June 27th; click here to enter!

• Have you had a chance to see the July monthly kit? Click here if not.

• I will be sponsoring over at The Paper Variety on Wednesday June 29th so be sure to check it out

• Also if you would like to pre-order any of Echo Park's new collections please click here for more info. The two new collections are Victoria Gardens and Apothecary Emporium. There is a little change and I will be placing an order for the Victoria Gardens on July 1 (shipping around July 10-15)and for Apothecary Emporium on August 1 (shipping around August 25). As of right now I will not be stocking these collections only selling what I get from pre-order. The collection packs will sell for $11.99 plus $5.50 shipping. If there are any international readers that are interested, please send me an email and I can get a shipping quote for you. If you pre-order a collection and order any Artful Delight monthly kits, your Echo Park collection pack will ship for free, any shipping charges paid will be reimbursed. This is for my design team, if you pre-order any collection pack, it will ship free with your monthly kit. :- )

That 's all for tonight. Be sure to enter the giveaway!

Happy Crafting!!

July Monthly Kit reveal

Good Evening! This is my third post for the day so please scroll down to see my earlier posts or click the links below to take you directly there.....

• Giveaway - Three Nikki Sivils 6x6 Paper Pads

• LO design team member April created using June monthly kit

Also, do you want to pre-order the new Echo Park collection? Either Victoria Garden or Apothecary Emporium, click here for more details?

Ok, here we go then, JULY MONTHLY KIT!!!

this kit will include:

My Minds Eye - Lime Twist 12x12 sheets (1 each)

Fly a Kite
"Genuine" Sky Paper
"Spring" Stars Paper
"Everyday" Alpha Paper
"Wish" Confetti Paper
"Soar" Fly Paper

Out of the Blue
"Boy" Spots Paper
"Remember" Argyle Paper
"Playful" Number Paper

Jillibean Soup - Watermelon Gazpacho Soup 12x12 sheets (1 each)
Ice Cubes
Orange Juice

American Crafts - Margarita 12x12 sheets (1 each)
Flamenco (has a glitter finish)

Coordinating Bazzill Cardstock 12x12 sheets (1 each)
Lagoon
Glow
Parakeet
White

Embellishment - colors and size may vary per kit
1 package - My Minds Eye Lime Twist - Fly a Kite Twine
1 - My Minds Eye - Out of the Blue "Family" Balloon Diecut
1 - My Minds Eye - Fly a Kite "Soar" Title Diecut
1 - My Minds Eye - Fly a Kite "Everyday" Title Diecut
1 - My Minds Eye - Fly a Kite "Wish" Title Diecut
1 sheet - My Minds Eye Lime Twist - Out of the Blue "Family" Accessories Sheet (diecut stickers)
12 - American Crafts - Margarita collection - Glitter buttons
15 - Maya Road Mini Chipboard shapes - How's The Weather
2 felt stars - Precocious Paper's Etsy Shop
1 package - American Crafts Thickers - Iguana in Melon
1 bottle - Maya Mist - Earl Gray

Alright well that's all for now. This kit will be available for purchase July 1. If you would like to reserve a kit please send me an email. leeanne@artfuldelight.com

Happy Crafting!!

Who wants a giveaway???

I do...I do!!!!! Ha, ha! So I was cleaning and packing up my craft desk the other day and I came across some extra 6x6 paper pads. I already have several of these so I thought I would give some away.

This giveaway will include THREE Nikki Sivils 6x6 paper pads.

• Blueberry Hill

• My Friend Birdie

• Willow Bee

All you have to do is become a follower (if you aren't already) and leave me a comment. That's it. This giveaway will end at noon EST on Monday June 27.

Be sure to stop by later for the reveal of July's monthly kit. :-)

Happy Crafting!!

With you by my side.....

****WOULD YOU LIKE TO PRE-ORDER THE NEW ECHO PARK COLLECTIONS? CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS!****

Good Morning!! I will have a couple posts today so I hope you can stop by again. :-) First thing this morning I would like to share with you is a LO that April created using Artful Delight's June monthly kit.



Beautiful, just beautiful!! For more details about this LO please visit April's blog.

Stop by later, I will have the reveal of July's monthly kit. I will also have a giveaway sometime later today. :-)

There are still a couple June kit's left, click here if you would like to purchase one.

Happy Crafting!!

ASC #9 Winner

Good evening!! Well we ate our pizza, mozzarella sticks, and buffalo strips while watching some Speed Racer......GOOD TIMES!!! Now the kids are in bed and Tony and are going to do a little homework before we head to bed and watch Burn Notice. LOVE that show.

I have the winner of ASC #9 to announce! WAHOOO!!!!

Through random.org #5 was chosen and that entry is SUZANNE!!!!

Suzanne has already been contacted. :-) I will be back in the morning with another project to share with you.

Oh and tomorrow is the reveal of Artful Delight's July monthly kit.

Happy Crafting!!

Happy Birthday to Abby's Sister!

****WOULD YOU LIKE TO PRE-ORDER THE NEW ECHO PARK COLLECTIONS? CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS!****

Happy Friday! I love Friday's because it is Friday Fun family night. We make homemade pizza, jalapeno poppers, and buffalo chicken strips and we watch the Speed Racer cartoon(my son loves it.....wait what am I saying, my 14 year old and Tony all LOVE the show, lol). I am excited because we have done it so many weeks that the kids know that when we eat pizza we watch Speed Racer. We are trying to start little traditions and such with our kids, so this is a start.

Well today I have an amazingly fabulous card to share with you that Abby created using Artful Delight's June monthly kit. :-) It is her sister's birthday today and this card was made for her. Happy Birthday Abby's sister!!! :-)



I love the colors and the stitching on this card. It all looks so beautiful together!! For more details about this card please visit Abby's blog. :-)

I will be back later to announce this winner of this month's sketch challenge.

Happy Crafting!!

Sisters

****WOULD YOU LIKE TO PRE-ORDER THE NEW ECHO PARK COLLECTIONS? CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS!****

Good Morning! So yesterday afternoon I deleted an application or program or something on my laptop and then it started just deleting all these folders and files on my desktop. Ugghhh!!

Files and folders that contained all my homework and a TON of svg files I had purchased were ALL GONE!!!!

I began to panic. Now I do back my stuff up on a flash drive but not as often as I should so let's just say I hadn't done it lately. Tony found a program that will allow me to recover some deleted files. So we gave it a try. It took ALL night to scan my drives and find the deleted stuff. I wasn't able to recover everything but I did get the most important thing and that was my research paper for English. But....all my craft stuff was deleted and not recovered. I feel so bummed. :-(

Lesson learned though that's for sure. I did get happy mail today and that would be a Cricut Car Decals cartridge I had ordered the other day. So I now have 2 new cartridges to play with.

Well today I have a beautiful LO to share with you that Abby created using Artful Delight's June monthly kit.

I love the colors she used together on this LO!! And the picture is super cute!! For more details about the LO please visit Abby's blog.

Now I am going to try and clean up my files/pictures and such on my laptop. Maybe try and get some organization in my daily life. LOL! I just feel most days I am trying to tackle too many things, school, my kids, homework, house work and I don't take the time to do things the "right" way. I don't know if that makes sense to anyone but basically I just mean I always feel rushed so I don't save my files correctly or I don't put my craft stuff away in the right spots or ....well that's really it. I just seem to get distracted very easily and leave my tasks half done. I can't do that anymore, it is causing me great stress. LOL!!

When I was younger, early 20's-ish, and I just had my oldest daughter I was SO organized. I was very particular about where things went and now that is just out the door probably went with my sanity. haha!!

Ok enough of that, I am off to clean and organize. LOL!!

A couple last things to mention, there are still a few June monthly kits left, click here if you would like to purchase.

And last but not least, don't forget to stop by Fantabulous Cricut and play along with this week's challenge for your chance to win Artful Delight's June monthly kit.

Happy Crafting!!

Have you seen?

The new Echo Park?? OOhh they are fabulous!

Victoria Gardens - Available to ship between July 10-15

Apothecary Emporium - Available to ship between August 5-10

Would you like to pre-order any of these collection packs? I will be placing an order for these kits and will take pre-orders. The collection packs will sell for $11.99 plus $5.50 shipping.

I will be placing an order on July 1, so if you would like to pre-order any collections please do so before the 1st.

Would like some of Echo Park's "older" collection, I will be taking orders on those as well.

If you purchase any Echo Park collection and an Artful Delight monthly kit, the Echo Park packs will ship free. I will refund the shipping charges.

(If any of my DT members would like any Echo Park collection packs I will ship them for free with their Artful Delight monthly kit.)

PRE-ORDER

Echo Park - Pre-order

Victoria Garden $11.99 Apothecary Emporium $11.99

Other collections

Echo Park

Country Drive $11.99 Splash $11.99 Dots & Stripes - Candy Shoppe $11.99 Dots & Stripes - Metropolitan $11.99 Summer Days $11.99 Playground $11.99

If there is a collection you would like that is not on the list or you would like to pre-order more than one collection pack, please send me an email! :-)

leeanne@artfuldelight.com

Be sure to scroll down to see my earlier post. :-) My daughter and I did a little crafting together yesterday.

Happy Crafting!!

Today's feature.......

....my daughter Nicki!! LOL! So I would like to thank Courtney for being an enabler!!!! LOL! :-) She makes such beautiful cards with her Cricut and I especially took a liking to her cards made with the Create a Critter cartridge. I just had to have it!!

I got it in the mail yesterday and my daughter and I decided to make a card. She had gotten a graduation card from my aunt so I thought it would be nice to send her a thank you card. All I did was the Cricut work. She chose the image and what she wanted to do and chose the papers and put it all together.


She needs a little practice with the liquid glue, much like I did in the beginning, she said sometimes it just came pouring out. LOL!

The little lamb is adhered using an Action Wobble. LOVE those things. She was so proud of her card and I think my aunt will love it. :-)

Stop by tomorrow, I will have a LO to share with you that Abby created using Artful Delight's June monthly kit. :-)

Hey have you checked out Fantabulous Cricut this week? I am sponsoring over there and the challenge is to create a project using a sun!! LOVE suns.

Happy Crafting!!

Wishing you.....

Good Morning and Happy Tuesday!!

Today I have a card to share with you that I created for my Grandma's birthday on July 1. :-) I am making sure to be ahead of the game this time. Every year it seems I am forgetting until the minute to make a card.

The svg file I purchased from My Grafico and it came with an svg file for 3 different kinds of blossoms. Now I didn't have any lilac paper laying around so I cut the little blossoms in white and sponged them with Dusty Concord distress ink.

It doesn't totally look like a lilac blossom but I really like the way it turned out. I also sponged the white cardstock from American Crafts with some Old Paper distress ink. Although this card was VERY time consuming, I had a ton of fun making it. It was a bit therapeutic, lol. My kids were playing and I just glued away! :-) I am sharing a picture of my process before I had too much glued on.


I made about 100+ of those little flowers and sponged them with the distress ink. Then I "folded" them, basically just folded the petals up and that left me with a small little base to apply some glue and put it in place. It gave the card some awesome dimension. I wanted to take a picture of what that process looked like but it was so small you couldn't really see anything in the picture, I did try. LOL!! :-)

Note to self: wear gloves!! LOL!!

The sentiment is from Practicing Creativity Designs and stamped with the Dusty Concord distress ink.

I am entering this card in this week's challenge over at The Paper Variety. The challenge is to use 2 different text. When I was choosing the stamps to use for this card (believe it or not I don't have but one or two Happy Birthday stamps, lol) as soon as I saw the different text in the PCD stamp set I knew I wanted to use it so I could enter in the challenge. :-)

Happy Crafting!!

Card set

Hello my friends. I am still waiting to hear from the winner, Georgiana, from the other day. If I don't hear from her in the next 48 hours then I will pick another winner. So, Georgiana, if you are out there reading this please email me your snail mail so I can get your package in the mail to you.

Today I have a cute card set to share with you that DT member April created using the June monthly kit.




Super cute card set. For more details please visit April's blog. If you would like to purchase an Artful Delight monthly kit please click here!!

That's it for today, I hope everyone has a fabulous week!

Happy Crafting!!

Redhead

Good Morning and Happy Sunday!! Did you get a chance to see yesterday's post where I announced the winner of the giveaway? Click here if you didn't. I would just ask that the winner contact me within the next 72 hours, if not I will chose another winner.

Today I have a fabulous LO to share with you that DT member Abby created!

Beautiful LO with a B-E-A-utiful picture!! I love all the little details, fabulous!! :-) Please visit Abby's blog for more details about this LO!

That's all for today. I do see another giveaway in the very near future. Be sure to watch out for it. :-)

Happy Crafting!!

WINNER!!

Hello! This is my second post for today so be sure to scroll down and see my earlier post; I shared a LO that Abby created using Artful Delight's June monthly kit. :-)

I have the winner of my giveaway to announce. So here were go, the winner of Artful Delight's April kit is........

.............GEORGIANA from Carson's Cricut Creations.................

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

If you can please email me your mailing address I can get your prize in the mail to you.

leeanne@artfuldelight.com

I am thinking of having another giveaway VERY soon so if you didn't win this time, there will be more chances.


Also have you seen the new tab in my menu bar, it is called "Current Sponsorships." In this tab is a list of the upcoming challenge blogs that I will be sponsoring every month so you can have several chances to win a kit.

You can also purchase a kit at Artful Delight! At the end of each month when the new month's kit becomes available the "old" kit goes on sale for $23.50 plus shipping. This is a great deal but we don't always have kits left over at the end of the month. So if there is a kit you really like, don't delay purchase it right away. Otherwise you can wait until the end of the month and get the kit at a fabulous deal!! We try our best each month to pack each kit with amazing products! If you haven't given our kits a try, head over and purchase one of the "older" kits at the $23.50 and see just how amazing these kits are. Even at $32.50 which is the regular price for a single month purchase, you are getting a deal. :-)

You can also purchase a 3 and 6 month subscription, the 6 month subscription is the best deal. Although you are signing up for a subscription and your paypal will be charged monthly on the date you sign up, there really is no obligation. All I ask is you give a month notice that you cannot continue. There is no penalty for not fulfilling your subscription.

Well that's all for today, stop by in the morning and I will have another LO to share with you that Abby created. :-)

Happy Crafting!!

Friends

Good Morning my friends!! Six weeks left in my summer semester, I am totally excited. I made it through reading the play Othello and watching the 1995 movie starring Laurence Fishburne. I am really surprised that I enjoyed it, both the reading and the movie but I am happy I am done with it.

Today I have an absolutely beautiful LO to share with you that DT member Abby created!


I love the colors she combined together, it is all beautiful! :-) For more details about this LO please visit Abby's blog.

There is only about a week left to get your project uploaded for this month's sketch challenge. Be sure sure to check out the sketch in the sidebar and upload your project in the linky tool right below it. You are playing for your chance to win Artful Delight's July kit.

I will be back later to announce the winner of the giveaway. I want to thank everyone that entered, I do LOVE giveaways!!! :-)

Happy Crafting!!

Remember this moment.....

Good morning my friends!!! Did you see the post on Julie's blog or Nikki Sivils blog about donating crafty supplies to our fellow crafters in Joplin Missouri who were affected by the tornadoes? Well I just wanted to give a little reminder to anyone who may have wanted to donate some goodies, the deadline is June 22. I was able to get my box in the mail yesterday, I know I am cutting it close but I hope the stuff I donated can be put to some good use.


Well today I have a beautiful LO to share with you that Debbie created using Artful Delight's June monthly kit.

I love all the neutral colors with the pops of color, absolutely beautiful!!! For more details about this LO please visit Debbie's blog.

My giveaway ends tonight at 11:59pm EST. Click here if you would like to enter. Just become a follower and leave a comment on that post for your chance to win Artful Delight's April kit.

Happy Crafting!!

Happy Father's Day! (card)

Happy Thursday! Yesterday was a great day, we had Nicki's Graduation Ceremony and then the rest of the day just hung out.

So I decided to apply for a job, part time at the college. I did this over a week ago and I started to think for some reason that I wasn't going to get a call. I also applied at the animal shelter around the same time. I need a job to help pay for an unexpected financial situation that will come up next month. On top of that I want to save for our move next year. So as of yesterday morning I had not heard from anyone. Now on Monday I won an Elmer's Glue prize pack from a blog hop that was going on over at Nikki Sivils blog, I was EXCITED to say the least. I knew at that moment that good things would happen this week. LOL! Well yesterday I got the call from the college asking for an interview. I won't make much but they are willing to work around my schedule. So if I want to work a couple hours here and there in between classes and such then I can. I am SUPER excited. :-)

So today I have a card to share with you that I made for my dad. I used papers from Artful Delight's March monthly kit (sold out).





I used my Cricut and an svg file that I purchased from SVGcuts.com. Since I don't have many cartridges I usually purchase svg files from either SVGcuts.com or MyGrafico.com. There are so many cartridges out there that I want and I just can't afford to buy them. My next best alternative is buying individual files as needed from those two sites. :-)

I made a few changes to the card. Well nothing to the svg cuts just added some extra touches. I cut some clouds with my Cricut and used the as a mask for the sky. I used some removable adhesive, adhered them and then sponged around them with Broken China distress ink. Then for the patch of "grass" I just sponged some Peeled Paint distress ink.

For the inside of the card I used a font pre-programmed in my Cricut and welded the letters together.

I have to get this card in the mail today so it can hopefully (fingers crossed) can reach my dad by Saturday's mail delivery.

That's all I have for you today but be sure to stop by tomorrow because I will have a fabulous LO to share with you that DT member Debbie created. :-)

Happy Crafting!!

From all of us.....

Good Morning my friends. This morning I am getting ready for my daughter's 8th grade graduation. Ahhh brings tears to my eyes. Really, where has the time gone?? Last night we went to her award ceremony, she won honor roll and outstanding academic achievement! YAY Nicki!!!!

For today I have a card to share with you that I created. This month I have several cards to make, from birthdays, to a Father's Day card (that's right I haven't made it yet which I need to do so I can get it in the mail), a retirement card, and a couple congratulations cards. So last night I created a birthday card for my brother. :-)

When I was making this card I thought to myself whose bright idea was it to have to many darn kids, lol! You will see what I am talking about. So I found this card at June's blog, Simply Elegant Paper Crafts, she won at Fantabulous Cricut for this card. The original source was over at DarleneDesign.com, she has a wonderful tutorial on how to make this card as well as PDF instructions with the measurements. Anywho, here is my card:





So if you have seen this card either at June's blog or Darlene's blog you would see there was only a place for either 3 or 4 owls (she has two styles of cards) but because there are 6 of us (thus my cursing about having so many kids, lol, not really cursing at all, lol) I had to alter the card a bit to fit my family (of owls).

I fussy cut the owls from Jillibean Soup's Spotted Owl Soup collection. The stamp set I used for the "Happy Birthday Bro" is from Practicing Creativity Design. I hand wrote "from all of us".

When I get home from Nicki's graduation I did want to add one more thing to the front of the card, the owls on the paper had balloons, I want to add some to the owl on the front of the card. I think that will look cute. :-)

This card was a little time consuming but SUPER fun! I will be making more in my future. :-)

Thank you June and Darlene for the wonderful inspiration. :-)

That's all for now! Off to Nicki's graduation.

Happy Crafting!!

Memories

Happy Tuesday morning!! Have you had a chance to enter my giveaway? Click here if you haven't. The giveaway ends June 17th. I am giving away an April monthly kit.

Also have you had a chance to enter this month's sketch challenge? In the sidebar is this month's sketch and the linky tool to upload your project. You have until June 23rd to upload your project for your chance to win Artful Delight's July monthly kit.

There are still a few June monthly kits left. Click here if you would like to purchase one.


Now on to today's project. I have some lovely minis to share with you that DT member April created using Artful Delight's June monthly kit.





I do love April's minis and her butterflies that she uses. I know I have said this before but I really need a butterfly punch. LOL! Please visit April's blog for more details about the minis.

Happy Crafting!!

Peach Blossom

Happy Sunday my friends. Did you get a chance to see my giveaway post from yesterday? If not click here to enter. One lucky commenter will win Artful Delight's APRIL monthly kit. Check out all the details.

Well today I have a beautiful LO to share with you that Debbie created. She was inspired by the button and tag that came on the seam binding ribbon from PaperLovesGlue which is included in June's monthly kit.

B-E-A-utiful!!! Be sure to stop by Debbie's blog for more inspiration and details about this LO.

Ok, so just to remind you again....click here to enter my current giveaway, it ends on June 17th at 11:59pm EST. The giveaway is open to international readers but I would just ask if you win that you would pay the shipping charges.

Also be sure to enter the sketch challenge this month ASC9 for your chance to win Artful Delight's July monthly kit. Upload your link in the linky tool in the sidebar (below this month's sketch).

Happy Crafting!!

Let's have a giveaway!

Good Morning! I don't have any projects to share with you today so let's have a giveaway. :-) I will have a LO to share with you tomorrow so be sure to stop by.

But today I would like to offer Artful Delight's APRIL monthly kit to one lucky commenter.

There is still one April kit left so if you don't win but want a kit it is selling for $23.50 plus shipping. That really is a great deal. Click here for more details about purchasing one of Artful Delight's kit.

To enter the giveaway all I ask is that you are a follower here on my blog, that you "like" me on Facebook and then just leave me a comment. If you would like an extra entry, please blog about it, tweet it, or Facebook it. Leave me another comment letting me know you did.

That's it! This giveaway will end June 17th at 11:59pm EST. The giveaway is open to international readers, the only thing I would ask is if you won that you cover the shipping charges.

Happy Crafting!!

Sweetness & Birthday wishes!!

Happy Friday my friends! Oh what a week it has been. I have a fun filled weekend ahead of me writing a 6 page research paper on Yoga. It's our one and only research paper and thankfully it is about something we wanted to write about and know more about. And since I just started Yoga last semester at school and LOVED it, I thought I would enjoy writing about it. I am also fortunate enough that my English Professor just started taking Yoga classes too and is excited to learn more about it from my paper. A little pressure there to write a good paper. LOL!

Today is my DT member Courtney's birthday!! I would like to wish her a hap-hap-HAPPY Birthday. She creates the most amazing "shaped" cards. I just love them. Today's card is fabulous. It sure makes me want to go get a soft served ice cream cone. The ice cream truck that drives around our neighborhood actually sells soft serve ice cream which I thought was strange. I remember when I was younger all the ice cream the truck in my neighborhood sold and I never remember a soft served truck. Does anyone have an ice cream truck sell soft serve in their neighborhood?




Courtney created this card using Artful Delight's June monthly kit. This month's kit is simply beautiful!! All the papers and embellishments coordinate so well. If you would like to purchase one please CLICK HERE and don't delay because supplies are limited and there are only a few left. :-)

Don't forget to stop by Courtney's blog for more details about her fabulous card!!

Happy Crafting!!

Love Live Laugh

Good Morning! Sorry to be posting this so late, I wanted to have it up and posted earlier today but my mind has been a bit preoccupied. I am really starting to stress my English class. It is a required class for my degree and it is English Literature. I am having a real tough time. I feel silly for stressing because I am still getting an A in the class but it has only just begun. I have had 5 things graded and half I did really well on and the other half, not so well. I have worked 2 hard the first two semesters (full time classes and taking care of my kids)to get straight A's and maintain a 4.0 GPA, I just don't want this English class to bring me down.

Next week I am supposed to read "Othello", watch a two hour "Othello" movie, write a 2-3 page paper on the play and then have a good grasp of it to answer questions on our upcoming mid-term. I just keep telling myself I only have 6 weeks left. Maybe that will help. LOL!

Today was Lil Tony's last day of school. He goes to speech therapy twice a week. I was sad because he really worked well with Miss Lindsey. I hope she didn't think I was crazy but I asked to take of picture of her and my son.


She was a fabulous speech therapist and she will be greatly missed!!

So today I have a card to share with you that Debbie created using Artful Delight's June kit. Not only does Debbie create amazing LO's but she also creates beautiful cards. :-)


Please be sure to stop by Debbie's blog for more inspiration and details about this card. :-)

If you would like to purchase June's kit, please do so because there are only a few left. Click HERE for more information.

Don't forget to check out my sidebar where I have this month's sketch, upload your project for you chance to win Artful Delight's July kit. :-)

Happy Crafting!!

The Little Things

Good Morning and Happy Wednesday my fellow crafters!! I hope your week is going well. Today I have to take a test for Microeconomics. I studied a little bit last night and then attempted to get up before the kids this morning and study more. I got about an hour of studying before they woke. I am about to get ready and head to school, but first.......

I have a fabulous LO to share with you that Debbie created using Artful Delight's June kit.


I love the color combo in this LO, the beautiful colors mixed with the black and white paper, just beautiful!!! Please be sure to stop by Debbie's blog for more details!!

For more details about June kit, please click here!! There is only a limited supply so if you think you may want one, be sure to pick yours up soon. :-)

Stop by tomorrow, I will have another project to share with you from Debbie!! :-)

Happy Crafting!!

2 Fabulous projects

Happy Tuesday!! I am so excited because I finished my 10 week Computer Accounting class in 2 weeks. This is a good thing because I took 3 classes this Summer and I was beginning to feel overwhelmed with all that I had to do, now that I have 1 of the classes out of the way I can focus on the other 2 and I think 2 classes is totally do-able.

So today I have 2 projects to share with you that my DT created using the June monthly kit.

They are FABULOUS!!!

Debbie

Courtney

Please be sure to visit their blogs for more details. Did you see the link in my sidebar with the sketch for June? Be sure to play along for your chance to win Artful Delight's July kit.

That's all I have for today, I am off to take my son to his speech class. He only has 2 more sessions for this school year. I am giving his teacher her gift today. :-)

Happy Crafting!!

Beautiful Prom Mini

Happy Monday! I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend. It was really nice here in Virginia and me and the kids were able to get outside and play. Now the week has started and I am off to school this morning.

Today I have a beautiful mini to share with you that April created using Artful Delight's June kit.


I love the black and white and the Thickers included in the kit are divine!! For more details please visit April's blog. I will have several projects to share with you this week so be sure to stop by.

Have you seen this month's sketch challenge? Check out the sidebar and upload your project for your chance to win Artful Delight's July kit.

Happy Crafting!!

Teacher project

Hello my crafty friends!! I finished up a project I made for Lil Tony's speech therapist. She has been so wonderful this year and I am sad it is coming to an end. Not only will she not be his therapist next year but she won't even be at the school, she is moving back to Illinois. I am happy for her because that is where her family is. Straight out of college last year she moved to Virginia to work and she really has had no one here. She will be very missed though!!!!

Anywho, I used May's kit to make this project and I really like the way it turned out. I will first give credit where it is due and I found the candy holder from Handmade from my heart and I found the flower pot idea from May Arts blog.

I really wanted to use Echo Park's Summer Days collection and other products from Artful Delight's May kit.



***EDIT: Took new pictures, what a world of difference a little sunlight will do****
I am totally not happy with the photos but not only is it rainy and gloomy here but I can't find the cord to my camera to upload the good pics I took. So sorry.

I really like the way this turned out and the gloomy faded pictures don't do it justice.

The original flowers from May Arts blog used some ribbon for the leaves but I didn't have any so I used twine. Also one on May Arts blog used wooden dowel rods for the stem but I used pencils and I covered them with the twine. That way they can be functional. They certainly wouldn't be a daily pencil but something she could grab if she needed to write something down real quick. The flowers are SVG files that I bought from My Grafico. The "#1 Teacher" was cut with my Cricut and the George and Basic Shapes cartridge. The box is filled with Hershey's chocolate nuggets. And the teacher's name is spelled using the alpha stickers from the Summer Days collection kit which was included in Artful Delight's May kit. (sold out)

The green leaf attached to one of the flowers says "Thanks for helping me grow this year." (which was also scrap lifted from the May Arts blog flower pot)

I used a pot that I bought from Michaels for 0.99 and filled with some glass balls to hold the pencils in place. I used some of the stickers from the Summer Days collection to decorate the pot.

I really hope she likes it!!

Well that's all I have for today, be sure to stop by tomorrow, I will have a project to share from my DT using Artful Delight's June kit.

Happy Crafting!!

A little birdie told me you're tweet

Hello my friends! Today I have a "tweet" card to share with you that Courtney created using June's kit.

Super cute and I love the colors combo she used. LOVE it!! For more details about this card please visit Courtney's blog.

Happy Crafting!!

My Mother My Friend

Happy Friday my crafty friends!! I can't believe it's Friday already. Today I have a beautiful LO to share with you that Debbie created using June kit and ASC9.


I really love the colors on this LO! All the embellishments she used are fabulous!! Please check out Debbie's blog for more details about this LO.

Happy Crafting!!

Youth is the gift of nature

Good Morning my friends! I forgot to mention yesterday that the link to upload your project for ASC9 is in the sidebar with the sketch. I am trying something new this time, maybe that will be easier to get to.

Today I have a card to share with you that Abby created using June's kit.




The papers in this month's kit are absolutely beautiful and match so well and the best part is they are from 3 different companies so you have a bit of variety. Includes are papers from Lily Bee Design This & That collection, Crate Paper Portrait collection, and Fancy Pants It's the Little Things collection. And the embellishments from a variety of companies too, including Precocious Paper's Etsy shop and Paper Loves Glue Etsy shop.

This kit is just beautiful! If you are interested in purchasing a kit please check it out here. You can purchase a single kit or subscribe for 3 or 6 months for a little savings off each kit.

You can also have your chance to win this month's kit if you head over to The Paper Variety and participate in this week's challenge. Artful Delight is sponsoring and giving away a June kit.

I will be back tomorrow with another fabulous LO from Debbie.

Happy Crafting!!

Happy June!

Good Morning, Happy June; Happy Wednesday; Happy new month with new sketch day. I have 3 projects to share with you today from my DT using June's kit. And let me tell you these ladies ROCKED the kit. They also used ASC9.

I will just get right to it.

Courtney

Abby

April

Gorgeous, gorgeous and even more gorgeous-ness. I love these projects, they are all just so beautiful. Have you had a chance to see what is included in this month's kit? If not, click here for more information.

Be sure to check out these ladies blogs for more details about their projects and more inspiration.

I will not leave you with this month's sketch: ASC9

Happy Crafting!!