WOW, I AM THRILLED, I GOT TWO MORE BLOG AWARDS

and they couldn't come at a better time.

 Let me tell explain...

Today while looking for a Priority Mail box in the attic (our attic is packed with stuff) 

I noticed some totes on their sides. I went to straighten them out and 

I stepped on some insulation on the attic floor and 

my whole right leg went through  the ceiling in my bedroom and I almost fell through the hole.

Grrr!

Now, I have to call my handyman and spend money to repair the ceiling instead buying some carts for me. 

Soooo sad!

BUT

these awards are making my day!

  Special Thanks to my 

dear friend Helen from

http://longlivescissorsandpaper.blogspot.com/ 

and to my other 

dear friend Audrey from 

http://cuteandsome.blogspot.com/ 

for making my day a happy one despite almost killing myself today.

The rules are I have to share 7 things about me and pass the award to 15 people.

I will edit this post tomorrow and do what I have to do.

I do have so many things to do tomorrow I hope I can finish them all.

Thanks again,

from my heart.

A BIG WELCOME TO MY NEW FOLLOWERS

I started last night going to my new followers blog because I wanted to Thank everyone individually and I still want to do that but as you may know is very time consuming and I couldn't get to every one last night. I will go to everyone that has a blog,

I will become their follower too but it will take me a bit of time. 

You already know that between house chores, family business 

(Lulu wanting my attention for playtime and love), 

we have little time for what we want to do. 

BUT, I will get there, I promise. 

I do want to acknowledge each one of you.

I am very grateful for you my new followers and 

I am very grateful for my older ones too.

We have inspired each other with our projects, 

we talk a bit about our personal lives 

and some have become cyber friends too. 

I thank You all from the bottom of my heart.

Hugs to All

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Now, on another note: 

You know I have finally finished my Cookbook. You also know I put it up for Blog Candy. You must also know I still learning a whole lot and that this project by no means is perfect and or professionally done even I tried my best and more, you will find some mistakes.

You also must know that to be eligible for it you must become a follower if you are not already one and leave a comment on the cookbook post . 

My already followers 

must leave a comment on the Cookbook post as well.

Those are the only two requirements I have. 

I hope you do not mind since those rules seem 

to be the norm for blog candies/giveaways.

Hugs to All

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A SMALL BUT GOOD HAUL.mp4

Enjoy and please, leave some constructive criticism.
Hugs to All!!!

A THANK YOU CARD/NON-CRICUT

In the Cricut Message Board a challenge runs every night. It is called the 1 hour challenge because you have an hour to complete a project of your choice. Today, I made a card in 35 minutes and I want it for this challenge. I am posting it here for any followers who are not aware of the challenge. The challenge is run by Kathy, better known as Alaskaricut on the MB and you can find the challenge on the "cricut chat" forum. I believe the time to post starts at 7PM.

Thank You card

 

All papers are from K&Co., ribbon is from American Crafts, I do not remember where the Thank You clear stamps is-sorry-, ink is from Staz-on, and card base MS. I used a distressed look for the card and I torn the paper for the grass leaving enough white to simulate snow. As you can see the tree is fully in bloom. This is my way to envision the future, LOL. We have had so much snow it will take all summer for all to start melting. I wanted to translate that on my card.

I certainly hope I am totally wrong for the sake of my sanity.

The card is 5" x 5-1/2". Almost a square card :p

 Enjoy!

NOTE: I do not know how to keep the Blog Candy Post on the top so if any of you knows, please give some help. Otherwise, you can look on the right side bar for the Cookbook label and if you want to be added to the giveaway, please sign as a follower and leave me a comment. 

That is all about, just these two requirements.

Thanks so much!

UPDATE ON COOKBOOK

OOOPS! 
I MADE A MISTAKE...

 LAST DAY FOR THE COOKBOOK GIVEAWAY
DEADLINE IS TONIGHT AT 12:01AM EST
WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED 
Wed. March 10th at 8 PM EST. The deadline to enter is on March 9th midnight 
EST 
NOTE: I never used random.org and it will be my first choice to randomly choose a winner but if that fails, names will go in a bag and then I will pull one out.
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After having to scroll down and scroll down to check the new posts I wasn't too happy about it. I bet you guys don't like it either. What I am doing is giving you the link for the Cookbook post and this way you just have to click HERE 

to go immediately to the post.

ETA PICS OF FIXED CEILING
CLICK HERE TO SEE.
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SUNSHINE AWARD

I was reading Bridget's Blog this morning and I liked what she did with her Sunshine Award. 

I want to do the same; Bridget, I hope you do not mind. It's hard to just choose 6 followers and then feel bad because I couldn't give it to all. Sooo...

I am passing my Sunshine Award to:

ALL MY FOLLOWERS

Come and feel free to grab it and post it on your blog. 

You all deserve it well.

Thanks for being there for me and Thank You for all your comments and love.

SUNSHINE AWARD

 

FEEL THE LOVE?

COOBOOK FINALLY DONE/blog candy giveaway

PLEASE...SCROLL DOWN FOR NEW POSTS OR LOOK ON THE RIGHT SIDE FOR THE NEW ONES...THANKS!

ETA: 
A few more days for the Giveaway...I have decided to announce the winner on Wed. March 10th at 8 PM EST. The deadline to enter is on March 9th midnight EST.
I will post the lucky follower on this blog.
Thanks for participating!

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My friend Helen (Thanks Helen) gave me instructions on how to keep this post on top until the Cookbook Blog Candy/Giveaway is over. This will be easier for you to leave a comment for the chance to take it home.
Thanks

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I have finally finished the Cookbook I was working on, PHEW!
LOL

I think Lisa#2 (not the one I am doing the Wild Card Cartridge cards with) is a bit apprehensive on posting her Cookbook photos so you will have to deal with mine :-) and know that I have worked very hard and that it's not perfect because I am still learning a lot and I made a few boo-boo's
but overall I think it came out pretty good.
I used many different techniques including inking, embossing, paper piecing, bling and a few more.

I am going to offer it for a Blog Candy including a few easy recipes and room for you to add yours too. I was going to take pix of the the recipes as I made them but I forgot every time :(. Anyway,

I will add a ribbon or twine on the wire binding for you to hang it on your kitchen wall if you desired. The winner will have to let me know of her/his preference.

Here are the photos. I made a few collages so you wouldn't have to look at so many pix at one time.

 I will choose a winner from the followers who leave a comment on this post. If you are not a follower please become one so we learn together and please leave a comment to enter for the cookbook.

I will give some time since my blog is kind of new. I am thinking maybe 2 weeks and then I will randomly choose a name. I hope this sounds fair to all.

OOOps! I forgot the recipes...here is what I did.....

I hope you like it!

WILD CARD WITH LISA/THANKS

Good Day!

We haven't been having nice weather and my mood is a bit sad right now because 

I love when the sun shines.

And then I remember Psalm 118:24

"This is the day the LORD has made; 

let us rejoice and be glad in it". 

 Now, it's all good again; I have the sunshine in me.

Thank You Lord.

Well, today is another Thursday and Lisa and I have the  

Thanks Card to share. 

You will find this one on page#49 and is card #18 on our venture here. 

Hope you like them.

When I saw that sombrero it just reminded me of Mexico and how their Mariachis (singers) costumes are made so elaborated and full of embellishments and lots of bling. So, that is what I tried to portrait; vivid, bright, gorgeous colors blinging all around :-).

My Thanks Card

6 inches

 

  

  

  

  

Lisa's Thanks Card

I love Lisa's card. I love how she incorporated the Paper Dolls cartridge in this card. I love the clothing on the doll; bright, vivid colors true to the culture. It never occurred me to include the paper doll. Thanks Lisa! you have inspired me again with your creativity and imagination.

This is Lisa's BLOG, just click on the link so you do miss any of it.

Enjoy the cards and enjoy the day!

MY SECOND SUNSHINE AWARD

This Sunshine Award came from one of my dear followers named Erica. I want to thank her publicly for this thoughtful act. I am thrilled.

  You really do have to visit Erica's BLOG.

You won't regret to take the time to visit her. Erica is a new blogger but I liked every single project she has share with us. 

Thanks Erica for thinking of me for this Sunshine Award.

ETA: I will be posting my other 6 award winners tomorrow.

NEW AND OLD CARD

I was looking through some cards I made a while ago and I wanted to share this one. Why this one? Well, you see the ribbon. It's a cheapy one from ACM or M's. In the beginning of my journey as a paper crafter, scrapbooker, cardmaker :-) I bought a few of these and then... 

I did not like them as much.

BUT, on this card it looks like that ribbon compliments the card so well. 

What do you think?

 

The paper is also gorgeous but I can't remember where is from.

Enjoy!

WILD CARD WITH LISA/CIRCLE

Welcome in Spanish is 

"Bienvenidos"
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Bienvenidos

to my blog.

Today we have the Circle Card.

You can find it on page #48 and this card is the 17th card we have made.
I bought a pack of Kraft cardstock at Hobby Lobby and I am loving the texture, color and how much my Cricut like s it too. It cuts like butter with a blade depth of 3 and the pressure on 4.

My Circle Card

4 inches

 

and below you have the envelope which I stamped and colored in with my Sakura Gelly Roll pens.

(The souffle ones are not working anymore).  

The Gelly Roll ones leave a raised and shiny surface on your image.

You do have to go very slow to achieve the look.

  

Lisa's Circle Card

If you have time go to Lisa's blog to learn more about her techniques and projects.

This is Lisa's BLOG.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope we inspired you a bit.

Enjoy!

TISSUE FLOWER

While my husband was painting our bathroom

and stopped asking for help, LOL

I decided to give a try to the

scalloped flowers I have seen

so much lately.

I made mine using purple tissue paper

and my Fiskars scalloped  1 inch punch.

I think I punched through maybe 5 layers of paper

at a time and I did this 3 times.

Then, I used my paper piercer to pierce the layered scallops

in the center, then I added a brad to keep them together

while I scrunched and scrunched layer by layer. Then, with my tweezers

I separated each layer and added a bit of purple stickles to the flower.

Super easy with the tissue paper.

Sorry I couldn't take a better photo to show the details

but I think you got it.

My Purple Tissue Flower

ENJOY!

FLOWERDISCO'S FLOWER

Hello again,

I just finished making a card and making this beautiful flower

CARD FRONT

12 x 4 piece of cardstock

Score at  3-3/4" and 8"

Cut the one side the same shape I did, or any other shape that will fit nice

(sorry didn't measure it, but you get the pic)

I cut two strips 4" x 1 and punched a border on each strip

Attach them as you see on the pic

Make a flower and add a button threaded with floss

Add that flower to the front

( I made my flower with thread)

Stamp a sentiment on the card front

INSIDE

I used George and Basic Shapes to make the frame

I cut the square at 3-1/2" and I used the silhouette feature

I then cut another piece of paper and backed it up, in this case the green paper Added a flower rub-on and

Voila! 

Note: I made this card for a challenge that Kathy aka Alaskacricut has on the cricut message board every night. Check it out! at the

Cricut Chat 

See you later

WHAT I DID TO "GET AND POST" THE SUNSHINE AWARD

Hello friends!

Just a quick note here to explain how I posted the Sunshine Award onto my blog page.

 In no way my way is better or easier or faster. I just got lucky last night and I managed to do it.

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I right-clicked the award pic and clicked on Save Image As. I saved the image in my pictures folder. I went to blogger and started a New post, I wrote what I wanted to say and then clicked on the Insert Image and looked for the award and posted it. (You just did what you normally do to post a picture on blog).

THEN, I wanted to add it to my gadgets on the right side of the page. So, I went to customize, clicked on Add Gadget, clicked where it says Pictures, clicked on Browse and chose the award picture and clicked on Save. 

I hope this help you guys to show off your Sunshine Award.

Hugs to all!

NOTE: If you still have questions, please comment on this post and I will keep 

checking it through out the day.

YAY! I GOT A SUNSHINE AWARD

Thanks to 

Joeygirl86 

who was so kind and thoughtful and gave me this  

Sunshine Award.

Isn't it beautiful?

I am so very honored and thankful and so very happy. I love her work and you and I know you will too after stopping by her blog and see her beautiful creations. 

I am not saying this because she was so nice and gave me an award.  :)

Joanne, thanks again.

NOW, the rules for the award are as follows: I must pass this on to 6 of my followers. Put the logo on your blog or within your post.

--Pass the award onto 6 bloggers.

--Link the nominees within your post.

--Let your followers know that you are giving them this award by commenting on their blog

--Share the love and link to the person for whom you received this award.

Here are my six:

1- Helen: http://longlivescissorsandpaper.blogspot.com

2- Sheena: http://lilflowerslynne1.blogspot.com/ 

3- Bridget: http://bridgetsworld2010.blogspot.com/ 

4- Lisa: http://aruplife.blogspot.com/ 

5- Audrey: http://cuteandsome.blogspot.com/ 

6- Samantha: http://www.ascrapaddictsblog.blogspot.com/  

I am very sorry I had to choose just six.

WILD CARD WITH LISA/TWEETY

Welcome to the Wild Card with Lisa Project, where every Tuesday and Thursday we post our Wild Card cards. We have been making them one by one in the same order that you find them in the booklet.

Stop and enjoy and maybe you get your ideas rolling too.

Today we have the Tweety Card, #16 and you can find it on page #47.

My Tweety Card 

4-1/4 inches

 I found the bird/branch stamp that matched perfectly on one of my G Studios clear stamps.

(I need to organize my stamps better, I hardly used them because I dislike to look in the pile right now. Others I have in CD cases but that does not work for me either and I spent a few bucks buying the cases. Now, I like to have them in a binder, this is the way I keep my G stamps and some others. I need to buy more binders and more time to organize all the stamps., GRRR venting out, sorry)

Lisa's Tweety Card

Thanks for stopping by and we'll see you around.

ONCE UPON A TIME...

there was a little girl.

 

When I first started Scrapbooking I called my mother and asked her if she can send photos of me when little. She did find a few and this is one of them. Unfortunately, I still haven't make the album. I dedicated myself to the Card making and Paper Crafts and when I see albums of Book of Me it reminds me of this project I never made. So, as of today is in my list of  projects To Do Soon. Let's see how long it takes me since I am the Queen of Procrastination. BUT, the more I think about it the more I believe is an album that we all should make for our son's and daughter's families and of course their future generations. 

After all, we are part of that generation too.

NOW, please, do not be too cruel here:) that photo was taken many, many, many years ago.

Have a great day!

WILD CARD WITH LISA/ALL IN ONE

Hello friends!

Today we have the All in One card, #15 and on page #46 of the cartridge booklet.

My All in One Card

4-1/4 inches

Lisa's All in One Card

 Enjoy both cards and if you have the time go to Lisa's Blog 

and check out more of her projects.

Note: I have been working on the Cookbook when time allows and 

I think I should have it done by next week. I just wanted to update on the status of it.

Have a great Tuesday!

FOR THE MEN IN MY LIFE

These two cards I made today: one for my son, one for my husband.

 The one with the red heart is backed with satin fabric. I cut the heart using the 

Center Point feature that I still practicing. It did not cut exactly in the center so more practice is needed. 

I used the cut-out heart on the card below. 

Inside the cards I used an U, cut  from the Winter Wonderland font, shadow feature at 3 inches.

 

The word "Love" is from the Sweethearts Cartridge.

It was cut at 1-1/2 inches. 

 HAVE A GREAT VALENTINE'S DAY!