Back from Vacation

Well my son and I returned home last night after spending the last 5 days in Indianapolis, IN for the All State 400 at the Brickyard. Yeah... My first time camping at a NASCAR event. It definately was interesting. I personnally don't drink or party (who needs to when you have crafting to do???), so I was a little out of my confort zone. On top of that, I am socially inept, I beleive that is the correct term. If you asked my friends if I was shy, they would definately tell you NO. But in reality when I am stuck in a room (or field in this case) with a bunch of people I do not know, I have a really hard time socializing. I just kind of freak out. But by day 4 (out of 5), I had finally loosened up a little and was able to talk to my neighbors. They all seemed nice for a bunch of drunks. Sorry guys but that is how you appear to me. Well I have to run to the dentist. I will post more later.

My second self challange

Well I challanged myself for the second time this week. Using the random generator I had to use the letter "t" from the Pooh Font Cart. At the same time I saw a card on the MB by Patty Golden. I scraplifted the basic design.

Card base cut from DS with "Thanks" at 1.5" from Pooh Font welded to 2 rectangles to make the card size A2. Paper is from the Botanical Fashion colors value pack: Dark green.

"Thanks" cut at 1.5" from Pooh Font using Botanical Fashion colors value pack: Brown.

Bottom of from cut using Martha Stewart Border Punch.

Inside layer cut using Martha Stewart Border Punch from Botanical Fashion Value pack: Cream

Buttons from mixed package from J's.

Flowers and brad from Spare Parts.

My own personnal challange

I currently have 31 cricut cartridges (not nearly as many as a would perfer to have). But I find that many of the images are not being used. Some I would probably not use unless I was forced to do so. So I have issued a challange to myself. First I have temporily numbered my cartidges 1 to 31. Then I went on line and used a random number generator to randomly choose which of the 31 cartidges I would use. Also each cartridge has 50 different buttons/images, so again I went to the random generator to choose which one I would use for my card.

So for my first personnal challange the random generator picked the "M" from All Mixed Up. Because this mostly is a font cartidge I used the random generator to pick a second cartidge and image. The second one was the Lady Bug from Walk in My Garden.

So this is what I went with. A girl at work (could you guess her name is Mary??) has a birthday coming up next month and I need a card of course.

• Card base is a value pack 5" x 6.5" note card.
• Front layer is from K & Company Brenda Walton Madeline paper pack.
• Grass cut from Zooballoo at 1.5" from Stampin Up Old Olive. Used Stampin UP Wild Wasabi to ink grass.
• Tulips cut from Walk In My Garden at 4.5" from Stampin Up Old Olive for stem and leaves and K & Company Brenda Walton Madeline paper pack for the flowers. Used Stampin Up River Rock and Memento Angel Pink to ink stems, leaves and flowers.
• Lady bug cut from Walk In My Garden at 2" from generic J's black card stock and Stampin Up Real Red. Used StazOn black to ink.
• Mary cut from All Mixed Up at 1.5" from Stampin Up Old Olive. Shadow cut at 1.5" from Chocolate Chip.
• Inside of card is layered with K & Company Brenda Walton Madeline paper pack and generic tan card stock. Used Stampin Up River Rock and Stampabilities Brown to ink.
• Happy Birthday cut from Zooballoo at 1" from K & Company Brenda Walton Madeline Paper pack

Just Because

Card base is Stampin' Up Chocolate Chip size A2

All Layers: Mats, Top Note and Sentiment are Cloud9 Desing, Double Mat
Stack, Cocoa Mint

Top Note cut @ 3 1/2" from Storybook

Just Because cut @ 1 3/4" from Wild Card

Flowers and brads from Spare Parts

Snap from Making Memories (center of flower)

Brown ink from Stampabilities

No Horsing Around

This is a card I made for a co-worker.

Card base from craft card stock size A2

Layers using brown and tan card stock

Top note cut using Classic K Designer Mat Pad @ 3 1/2" from Storybook

Horse cut using tan card stock @ 1 1/2" from Paper Doll Dress Up

Flowers from Spare Parts

Snap from Making Memories (center of flowers)