Mascot Games

This past weekend my husband took me to the Mascot Games in Orlando. I LOVE characters, as I'm sure I've mentioned, so this was so much fun for me! I got their autographs and pics. Some of them were so funny! There were about 35 or so different mascots and they are grouped into 4 teams and compete against each other in timed games, like joust and racing, and an obstacle course. It was hysterical! We will definitely do that again. This is a pic of me with Ray from the Tampa Bay Rays.

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Happy Home Card

I made this card for a friend who had a housewarming party recently. I started with a mauve cardstock for the card base, and a background of plaid patterned paper that I embossed and inked. The house is cut from fushia cardstock that I embossed, blue patterned paper for the roof, cream behind the windows, mauve embossed for the chimney. Blue and cream paper flowers with teeny-beeny rhinestones. "happy" is a rubber stamp and "Home" is a rub-on. I crossed some fushia ribbon, poked a pretty brad through and attached to the corner, kind of like a makeshift sunshine.

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Congratulations Card

I made this card for a woman at work who celebrated 22 years employed at the College. I used navy blue cardstock, cream cardstock, blue patterned paper, yellow and cream paper flowers with yellow rhinestones, and sheer cream ribbon. I cut out the sentiment on my Cricut.

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Shopping Spree!

Over the Fourth of July weekend, my sweet hub took me on a shopping spree. It was mostly because I really needed new clothes for my new job. I did really well with my budget and got some fabulous outfits. I like to have things that I can mix and match, or dress up or dress down. We literally shopped til we dropped for two days. We saw the fireworks all over Orlando on the fourth, because we were at a great vantage point. We saw Disney's fireworks, Hollywood Studios, Sea World, and many more all from one place. We had a great weekend.

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Father's Day Shirt Card

These are not very good photos because I took them with my cell phone. I made this shirt card for my dad for Father's Day. I found a template, cut it, scored it and folded it to create the shirt. I added green cardstock to the inside, along with some letter stickers for my message. I cut out the collar and pocket from yellow cardstock and drew the stitches. I added the green buttons to the outside and voila! Oh, and since my dad only wears shirts with pockets so he can stash his smokes, I printed and cut out a teeny-beeny pack of his favorite brand, and stuck it in the pocket.

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Genie Lamp Wishes Card

For this week's Bitten By The Bug2 Challenge, we had to use the Genie Lamp. I made a card from maroon cardstock. I cut a piece of patterned paper for the background and distressed the edges. I added rhinestones to opposite corners. I cut the building silhouette from the same maroon cardstock and embossed it. I added rhinestones in various colors to the peaks. I cut the genie lamp from glitter cardstock, inked the edges, attached it with foam dots and added a rhinestone design. I stamped "best wishes" over the swirl, and stapled ribbon to the top corner. Please visit BBTB2 for the other designer's projects!


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Deer Friend Card

I made this card for a friend's birthday recently. I got some new K&Co paper and I just loved the patterned papers. I rubber stamped the deer and the sentiment. I also created the poofy paper flower from old dictionary paper. Don't worry no dictionaries were harmed in the making of this card!



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Happy Birthday Cake Cards

We celebrated birthdays for the summer semester at work this past week. I made seven of these birthday cake cards. I wanted to make a group of cards that were the same style, but various designs. I cut all the cards from white cardstock, which I then embossed with a variety of designs. I also used various colors of cardstock for the frosting and candles. Inside I cut out the phrase "happy birthday." I like how they turned out. I think the embossing looks like frosting.

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Birthday Card for Dad

This is the card I made for my dad's birthday. I started with a blue cardstock card, added map patterned paper, a punched border from brown cardstock, and two layered circles of blue cardstock and blue patterned paper. I cut out the car image from a vintage patterned paper. I glittered the letter stickers and stamped the sentiment. I folded the ribbon and stapled it in place. Finally I added glittered dots to some of the cardstock pieces.

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BBTB2 & Sweet N Sassy Digi Stamps

Wow! I can't believe how fast the weekend goes by! It was a really nice relaxing one for me and my hub. We went in the pool, barbecued, watched movies, racing (for him), scrapbooking (for me). Here is my latest design for the BBTB2 team. We got digital stamps to use with the sunshine cut from Doodlecharms. The digi stamps are from Sweet N Sassy. Such cute images! I flipped the image of the mushroom and caterpillar, colored them with markers, cut them out and backed them with black Bazzill bling paper. I notched the corners of the mushroom background paper and threaded bakers twine around them. I cut out the heart and love word from Paper Pups and layered the heart around the Love at First Sight caterpillars. I glittered the love word and some of the layered paper flowers. Please check out the other designer's take on the challenge at BBTB2! Have a great week!

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Sarah Kay Thinking of You

I used this handcolored Sarah Kay image to make this Thinking of You card. Layered the image on various flower cardstocks and a pink card base. Also layered some paper flowers and a painted brad. I cut out "thinking of you" in brown cardstock and glittered. I also used some staples in the corners and some ric rac ribbon.

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Here for you card

I made this card recently for a friend. Inside it reads "For you." She enjoys quilting, and the background paper kind of reminded me of a quilt. I border punched a brown strip and added it to the top. A ribbon beneath the chipboard letters and flower. I colored the chipboard letters with a brown permanent marker. I inked the flower with brown ink and added twisted green tissue paper for leaves. The owl is cut out from patterned paper, and I think he is really cute, but I do love owls.

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Dress Form card with Crepe Flower

Here is my latest design for BBTB2. The challenge was to use the dress form from the Forever Young cartridge. I made a 6x6 card from lavender cardstock, layered with black cardstock and a striped cardstock that I border punched. I added the lavendar polka dotted arch behind the dress form. The dress form is cut from a piece of pink flocked cardstock and the base is cut from black cardstock. I added strips of sheer black ribbon, a rhinestone belt, and a fine silver strand tassel. I attached it to the card with foam dots. I attached pink twine to the back of the "fun" sticker and attached it to the card with a foam dot. I added a sheer pink ribbon along the left side and a chipboard flourish. I created the flower from crepe paper and layered paper flowers with a rhinestone in the middle. I then added glitter glue to sparkle it up. To finish it up, I added purple twine bows to the corners. See the other designs at BBTB2.

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BBTB2 Ready 2 Rock!!!

My latest design for the BBTB2. I used a striped cardstock for the card, and cut out the dinosaur from plaid paper, Ready 2 Rock from charcoal and black cardstock, and the guitar/ukelele from brown cardstock. I then traced the 2 onto the same cardstock as the base card and elevated it with foam dots. I drew the features on the dinosaur. I cut a border for the bottom of the card and layered flowers with rhinestones on the top and bottom. This guy cracks me up with his little guitar! Go see the other awesome designs at BBTB2! Thanks for stopping by!

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Yay! Hobby Lobby

Ok people....are you ready for it?.... I found out for sure today that Hobby Lobby is coming to Daytona! Can you hear me hootin' from here? Whoot-whoot!!! Yay, hooray, and finally! I LOVE those stores, they have the coolest stuff, and so much more selection than soMe other stores....if you know what I mean. Now that I'm working in Daytona I can go there whenever I want....I just better learn to pace myself, haha.

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BBTB2 & Peggy Loves Vintage

Here is my latest project for BBTB2. Our sponsor this week was Peggy Loves Vintage, so I chose the Hula girl and put her on a tag. I added the tag to a vintage image of a swimmer with some silk and paper flowers. I also added a strand of bling rhinestones to accentuate her curves and the flower in her hair. I then stamped "summer lovin" at the top and added a red ribbon to hang it. Go check the other girl's creations at BBTB2!

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Concerts at Universal

Here I am at the Cheryl Crow concert at Universal Studios a few weeks ago. We had such a good time. We always bring along our roll-up blanket to sit on and listen to the concerts. This year we saw 3 Doors Down, Cheryl Crow, and Chicago. All the concerts were great but Cheryl sounded fabulous! There is a Mardi Gras parade before the concerts in which they throw beads to the crowd, so you can see my hub caught some for me. He's so tall, he doesn't have to put much effort into catching the beads. Watching him is entertainment enough! We had such great weather too, it was so nice to wear shorts on such mild evenings.

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Button Jars

Look at these adorable button jars that I found at Michael's dollar bin. They are so cute! The lid is a giant button and they even had the matcing ribbon hangers. I bought every color they had. They just need to get more colors. Love 'em!

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See Me In a Video at Above Rubies Studio!!

Wow! Kind of exciting! I am featured in a video with Megan at Above Rubies Studio! This is my first time in a video online. Eeeek! I am doing a tutorial of how I create rolled paper roses. We were at the Sunshine Crop last Saturday while Megan was visiting Florida and she saw me making the roses and asked if I'd do a video for it. It was a lot of fun, although I was a little nervous! Please go check out my video at Above Rubies Studio!

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Two Little Thank You's

Here are two little thank you cards I created recently. I used patterned cardstock for the base of the cards and punched holes in the top to add sheer ribbon. I added a torn vellum panel with clear stickers of very pretty painted flowers. I attached it to the card and Stickled the torn edge. I then added the "thanks" sticker, using a marker to color one green. I wanted these cards to be simple and not overdone, and similar but not exactly the same. One of my favorite effects is using Stickles over the torn edges of paper. Have a great weekend everybody!

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