Fun Time Creating with My Buddy Quiana

Yesterday, Quiana and I were both able to take some time out of our busy schedules and have a mini crop at my house. We had a wonderful time and Quiana created 3 adorable cards. While I was available for technical help, I had no creative input on these cards. This was Quiana's first time using Stickles and the Cuttlebug and she had caught the bug no doubt. Take a look at her creations.

My love of crafting meets my love of couponing!

These sliders were inspired by a video from my pink stamper and custom crops. This is the perfect gift for my extended family. I have a ton of Swiss Miss from a catalina coupon deal from Jewel and Target currently has a deal with Swiss Miss this week too. So needless to say, I was able to make this cute little cocoa favor with everything I already had on hand. WOOHOO. Besides, I am too sick to go out anyway. I hope you like.

I finally made another card....

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Sorry for Not Posting Yesterday.

I want to apologize to my 3...well actually 2 followers of my blog. There was a bit of drama yesterday and I did not get a chance to make a card. There were two guys that were trying to break into my house, THANK GOD!!!!!! my mom saw them as she was driving by and confronted the one kid (he looked about 14-15 years old). I am so proud of my mom...but I am also very thankful to God that she wasn't hurt. One of the guys was arrested...but he was a young guy, with his whole life to look forward to why do something stupid like this. I pray for the guys that were doing wrong...it is sad that they feel this acceptable in society to take from others. I pray that they realize there is more out there than breaking in people's houses. I have to remember to thank God everyday for all of my blessings and for keeping a constant watch over me and my family.

However, before all the drama I did remake the one from Wednesday with the yellow dots like I wanted to, but it still looks off...so I am not going to post it. I should have a card for you guys tonight. If you want you can check out my friends blog.... http://www.euqinu2-myxcitinglife.blogspot.com. She is just starting out with blogging like me and has made some awesome projects. Enjoy! Thanks for checking out my blog today!

My Card for Today...

Sorry it is late. Those of you (Quiana) who follow my other blog know about my coupon craziness and how Super K-Mart's Double Coupon Event can disrupt the lives of couponers everywhere.

I LOVE the colors in this card...except the two gray dots with the sentiment. I think if I were to redo this card, I would make the circles at the top yellow or light green instead. I may do a remake of this one tomorrow to see how it looks. As usual, I used my Papertreyinc card stock as the base. I also used the Scrapbook Kit Paper Birthday Polka Dot Paper. The ribbon is from Joann and the stamp is from Stampin' Up. I believe it is retired, it says 2004 on the block. I bought it on eBay a few months back. I hope you like it.

Two Card Tuesday...lol

Happy Tuesday Everyone! I made two cards for today. The first one was so easy and simple I thought I would make one more.


I love this first card. It was so simple, I could make another one in the time it would take me to just pick one out at the store. It is smaller than my other cards, it is 4" by 3 1/2". I used my cuttlebug to emboss the flowers on the front. I then use an inch wide strip of patterned paper from the Joann.com Scrapbook Kit in a Stack BABY. Then added a bow with yellow ribbon from JoAnn's and a Marcella by K Dimensional sticker I got Target about a year ago on clearance. Simple, yet elegant.

For the second one, I used two different Cricut cartridges, my SKS BABY paper, card stock from Papertrayink and JoAnn's, stickles, teal ink pad, my Fiskars edge punch and my corner rounder. First, I used Graphically Speaking to cut the word friend, set at 3 1/4 using the jumbled feature. Second, I used the Accent Essentials Cartridge that came with my machine to cut out the two small flowers at the top. I used a teal ink pad to color the letters and stickles for the center of the flowers. Third, I arranged it on the SKS BABY paper and adhered it to the mint green card stock. Fourth, I used my Fiskars edge punch...which is really hard to use on thick cardstock and my cheap corner rounder I got at JoAnn's. Last, to add a little background I added a light yellow piece of card stock to the inside of the card.