Zachary's First Tractor Ride and His First Birthday

Sunday and Monday was all about Zachary and why not it's his first birthday. This is the card I made for his birthday.

This card was made from an Elmo cut received from Tammy P from the Cricut CardNcut Exchange facebook group. I also used the cuttlebug to make the Happy Birthday sentiment. and the cupcake and strips of blue paper came from a page in my old scrapbooking calendar. The inside of the card:

Brought some of the strips of paper and another cupcake for the inside with sentiment and the cut was from the cuttlebug with a spellbinders die. It was a nice simple card that came together very quickly.


The other great happenings of the day today was we had a fantastic visit with Brad, Katherine and Zachary. Zachary had his first tractor ride today.

There he is with his Pop trying to steer, just a born tractor driver or maybe it's in the genes.

 Pappy got to have some fun too. Pappy trying to teach the new word of the day, can you say Minneapolis-Moline! Zachary says ball. LOL it was a great evening and very enjoyable with the family being over for dinner.

The Craft Room is Finished!

The day that I have been waiting for has finally come, 7 long years I have waited for this moment. Sunday late afternoon we got the room put together with all the furniture that will fit. No more working from the kitchen table with a sidebar of the kitchen counters (where the personal cricut was set up and a cutter at times) and the cookstove (to hold the stacks of paper being used at the time) to scrap or make cards. Though at times it was fun, now I can leave anything that is in process sit out till it's actually finished, WooHoo! Let the drum roll begin...

In this corner is where my sewing/quilting area will be. The bags are full of scrapbooking/cardmaking paper that needs to be sorted. The filing cabinet will be used to store my business papers (embroidery) and my genealogy work/papers/files, which should be easier to find now.

This is what it should look like once all the paper is gone. This was taken right before I started to bring in the bags from the front room. My personal cricut cutter will be used there too when I'm not using the sewing machine, unless I'm using the sewing machine for cards at the time.

This is the other side of the room, where I will be doing most of my scrapbooking and cardmaking. I have a Craft Cart, another cart that I picked up at a yardsale for sorting paper and in the future for staging my scrapbooking page kits and a 6 drawer stand to store lots of stamps, punches, ribbons, trims and anything else that will fit that needs stored. The shelves above the desk is already getting filled! I have my cricut cartridges, magazines, books, stamping inks, stickles, empty photo albums, cardstock, cuttlebug w/ folders and dies. It didn't take to long to fill it up.

The room is a bit chaotic at the moment, but within days or maybe a week or two everything will be sorted and put in it's proper space. Then the creativity can go into overdrive. I've got quite a few layouts planned, cruise ship album to do of my Mom and me on 2 trips, and a heritage album that I want to start working on, besides all the cards that I like to do. Should be able to be in the room everyday and work on some type of project for at least the next few decades. Glad the Zerbes and the Haines have a long life cycle! LOL, couldn't resist adding that. So I hope you all have a great day as I start to tear into the bags of paper and get things sorted.

AJ's Birthday Card

Hi All,

I have a card today that I made from various elements received from a variety of swaps I'm involved in. It's a great way to put a card together very quickly when your in a hurry or very busy.

The Mickey Mouse cut came from Becky Bowen-June 2011 Cricut CardNcut Exchange.
The words "Happy Birthday" was dry embossed with the cuttlebug with Swiss Dots folder and cut from Life's A Party cartridge and the card base came from Shelly Boone-Feb. 2011
The yellow card stock was dry embossed with the cuttlebug with the circles folder. This was out some extra goodies received from Irene Hierlmeier-Feb 2011 Creative Cuttlebugger Mingle.

Thanks ladies with helping me create a wonderful birthday card for my grandson. All I had to do was put it together and added some stickles in red and an inside sentiment. Plus I added the left over pieces of the yellow cardstock to dress up the inside of the card. Hope you all have a great day! Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Birthday A.J.



Christmas in June-Happy Holidays Card

Hi All,

I would like to share today a card I made for the June swap on a Yahoo group I belong to. This was anything goes swap, so I decided to do one for Christmas giving (never to early to start, just my thoughts).
I enjoyed doing this card, I worked through a new technique on this Double Embossing it was a fun technique to learn and it didn't turn out to bad.

Happy Holidays card the snowflakes were cut from the Holiday Cakes cartridge. It and the snowflake border was cut from the DCWV Christmas Combo pack. The embossed blue card stock was done with double embossing. Dry embossed with cuttlebug snowflake folder and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. The stamp was one I received from a friend of mine.

Update on the craftroom:

It's coming along pretty good, walls are painted and the tile is down, alot of the woodwork is done. I now have a shelf unit on the wall.

Maybe by the weekend or next week I can finally get into the room. The radiator will not be in that location, either iris drawers or craft cart drawes maybe gonig in that spot.  I am so looking forward to that day it's just been way to long. Have a great day all thanks for stopping by.

Thanks Card-June Swap

Hi All,

I made this card for the June swap for a facebook group that I belong to. The card came together well and I enjoyed doing it. I had another idea but I chose this instead and now I have a few extra parts to add to another project.

I made this using my new cart Base Camp and also used the cuttlebug on a piece of it with the stars folder. Really adds a nice touch to a card need to use this more often (the cuttlebug).

Update on the room, it is coming along pretty well, it was rainy today so my husband was in there working on the window panes. Plan to clean up the adhesive on the floor from laying the tile over the weekend while it's warm enough to leave the windows open. Then a coat of wax  and that should be it (I hope).

See you next time and thanks for all the comments...

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!

Drywall Completed

Yea the drywall is completed, I came home from work yesterday and Dave was putting primer on the ceiling and the walls of my craftroom. The finallity of the room is nearing the end, it should go pretty quickly now. I am so looking forward to this room being done, where I can have my little spot in the house to craft at anytime that the mood strikes me. To have everything laid out till fully completed instead of doing a part and moving it out of the way for a meal or the unexpected company arriving. I'm hoping that by Memorial Day I may be in the room, that would be a great Anniversary gift. I have been taking pictures during the whole process. I even purchased items specifically to scrap the renovating of the room. Can't wait to share it all with you.
Okay now I should get back into the mode of crafting and what I have done lately. April was a month of birthdays in our household and I shown off a few of the cards that I have done. So I have another birthday card that I made for my youngest granddaughter Isabelle.

Albert's name for Isabelle is princess, for as long as Isabelle's been here this is what he lovingly calls her, so that brought about the theme for this card. The crown and birthday girl came from the Storybook cartridge. Pink is such a girlie color that it was used in various tones throughout on the card. It was a fun card to do and make. The ribbon came from a scrapbook kit I received, used various papers in my collection of scrapbook paper.This card was submitted to the BBTB2 challenge-crown.
I hope you all have fantastic day....