Emily's 1st Birthday card for Funday Friday

Hi you all, It's been a busy week being the 1st week back to work after the holiday, very productive but busy just the same. I have started my goal process and so far the crafty goals are working well, now the personal goals not so well :) I think out of the few I had for the week I had only 1 checked off. So something to work on. Posting a bit late sorry about that, it's not that the card wasn't done (that's been done since Monday, so proud of myself on that part for that goal :) But I never considered adding blogging into my schedule :) Something to look at next week even if I spend on whole day doing it. So one week at a time it is working :)
Today is Funday Friday over at Jo's Scrap Shack the theme this week is Anything Goes and our sponsor is Bugaboo Stamps.
My card is one I made for my Great-granddaughter Emily's 1st birthday on the 19th. She loves elephants per her Mom's choice at the moment I'm thinking :) Jessica seems to like them too. It's been a fun year watching her grow up through the way of facebook and a 1st year album is in the works. But back to the card I made:

 I knew I had an Elephant cricut cut in my die cuts collection cause this was the die cut I made for the swaps the one month. So with that die cut in hand and my new counterfeit kit Brighter Year Ahead to work with I went looking for the papers to use for the card. I also seen this email from Mojo Monday for their current sketch and use that for inspiration for my card:

It had alot of fun elements and that big circle too (a challenge from the Scrappin N Chattin yahoo site was to use a circle on your card so this one was definitely calling me. I found this pink splattered with cream pattern paper in my kit for the backdrop of the card and I used my happy birthday cuddlebug folder to give it dimension. Also found this fun scrap of cupcake paper that was just perfect for the card and that circle, inked it up with Picked Raspberry distress ink also used that same ink for the sentiment on the card

I used the SU That's the Ticket stamp set with the ticket punch too. This stamp set has finally seen it's first ink on it. Yep I'm working those things in that have not been used :) Trying to emphasis on atleast a few each month. Same with the embossing folders I have so many of them but have yet to even give them a try. As you can see that is going to change this year. I grabbed that pink strip washi tape that was never opened and got that on the card too :) The 1 and the st are from 2 different alphas in my current kit.
The inside of the card:

I brought that same pink into the inside and the pink stripe washi tape. I found this scrap of foil patteren paper while looking in my Happy Birthday Theme paper drawer and found that it had the one pink candle so used my circle punch on that and added it to the card. The sentiment is a CTMH stamp and I used Spun Sugar distress ink for that. Well the 1st card of the month done :) This one was a fun one to do :) Have a great weekend.... get a bit crafty if you can

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Ice Cream :)

Hello and welcome once again today :) The LOAD post for today is Day 29 of LOAD 514, the theme is Pop Culture and the prompt:It's a Taste Sensation. It's all about food! What was your favorite food growing up? Do you still like it? Is it still available? Mine is:

From the time I can remember I have always loved Ice Cream :) I used the sketch challenge over at My Scraps and More Sketches for this layout:

Since this is about food it also falls under the challenge from Sketch N Scrap and Stephanie's Party food challenge over at her blog at Skyline Paperie

I used my current counterfeit kit for this layout. I used the Glitter letter thickers for my title and ice cream stickers from the Neapolitian Collection. I used a variety of borders and the die cut is from: Cricut Cartridge Birthday Bash - page 55/keypad button 35 (I'm glad I made this for a swap it worked out perfect on this layout).

The progression of pictures through my life and love of Ice Cream. Me in June 1971 enjoying a cone from Hurr's Dairy, My husband and kids having fun making homemade ice cream out on the back porch area mid 1990s, and now DQ is my favorite spot to get ice cream, I love the blizzards and my husband loves the soft vanilla ice cream cones they have.

The journaling, I added a few thickers and some fun stickers. My love for ice cream has carried over to the next generation, my daughter loves it even more than I do! (Is that possible?) I guess it is cause if she could she would live on ice cream from DQ or Sunset. Me I need a pizza now and again :)
Thanks for stopping by a 2nd time today, just a couple of layouts left for LOAD 514. I'm glad it's winding down, but it sure has been fun. Have a great weekend and stop back tomorrow for another layout.
 

Choco-Scotch Crunchies Recipe

Good Morning!
Have you all checked out HSN today. They got specials going on all day in honor of National Crafting Month. Oh I was just watching and I'm so interest in the Silhouette Cameo and I see me taking the plunge here sometime today for it with those flex payments they have. Okay do enough drooling for me this is what I have for you today:

This is from my Recipe collection of swaps I have done with a local group I'm with. This is from April 2011 and the theme was candy. I'm thinking the recipe came from the 1972 State Grange Book (this is my go to book for trying something new), and I wanted to try something new.

The title lettering I did on my Gypsy so I could weld it together, the Choco-Scotch was done with Birthday Bash and Crunchies is from Plantin SchoolBook. The candy was cut from Doodlecharms from page 63 with the charm feature. Looks like I used brown stickles for embellishing the recipe card and dotting the i. I also outline the letters with black marker to give separation from the page.

This was a fun project to do and very enjoyable, the candy didn't turn out to bad neither.
Thanks for stopping by and seeing the view from my little corner of the world.

Cuts made for May Swaps

Wow it's been almost a whole month since I said anything, I'm sorry for the delay. May was a crazy month at work between Graduation jobs and end of school jobs to do, the month just got away from me. So the only things I have worked on this month was 2 cuts I did for 2 swaps I'm in.
For Cricuit CardNcut Exchange group on facebook I did a cut this month:

Elephant cut came from Birthday Bash cut @ 3½”. It was cut from various left over cardstock. Glitter is from stickles in holly. Liquid pearls in petal pink color.

This was so much fun to do and a great addition for a birthday card or a Circus layout.

For Papercrafting with My Cricut for thier critter swap I did:

Squirrel cut came from Jolly Holidays cut @ 3”. It was cut from various left over cardstock. Glitter is from stickles in Xmas Red, Diamonds & Paprika. Liquid Appliqué was used on the hat (a new technique for me).

I plan on using this cut on a christmas card that I need to figure out yet, but it was such a fun cut to do and I learned that new technique with the Liquid Appliqué. It's great to learn new things with this craft.

I have many cards and cuts to show you next month for a few challenges that I want to be in. Hope you all have a wonderful holiday, mine will be spent with family and my cricut (a time that I get to play). For all those that have been following the room makeover. The walls have been painted and the flooring has been laided and just about all the tile has been laided too. Not much more left, but I don't think I'll be able to get in there this weekend as I had hoped, but it's get closer by the day and maybe by the end of June I'll have it all set up to show off. Happy Memorial Day!