Been There... Done That...

A week ago, while I was putting stuff back into the craft room, I found four unused rolls of vinyl tucked away in one of our chests in the bedroom. How it got there, I have no idea but when I saw all that in the drawer, it brought back a fun memory!  

Almost a year ago, our friends Sara and Quinton and John and I decided we wanted to have dinner at the Golden Corral. We don't normally go out of town when it's late (at least Sara and I won't because we are both scared to drive in the dark and well, Sara can't see in the dark!) but that night on a whim, Sara and I decided we were going to Golden Corral and Q and John are taking us. It was I think 8 PM when we got there... Got our Golden Corral fix. Then Quinton asked the question John and him both dread asking!

"Where do you want to go next?" (As if he didn't know!!! LOL) Sara and I answered in unison, THE CRAFT STORE! then she followed it up with "we NEED vinyl to cut with our Cricut". By the time we got done eating it was almost 9 PM and that's when almost all the stores close! It was like we were on a race. We were running to every craft store's door to beat the clock. It was close to Christmas, so every store was wiped out. I mean one store didn't have any vinyl on the racks at all!!! NADA. Then we headed to the second one... There happens to be a Borders by where Joann's is so when we got there, Sara and I ran to Joann's and the boys headed to Borders and scoured the store for the vinyl we were looking for. Why they did that? Well, hopefully because they LOVE us and they didn't want us to go home empty-handed! LOL Long story short, we got our vinyl. Not the colors we wanted but we got vinyl and we got them all really cheap because they are the colors no one wants except for the black vinyl John and Q got from Borders. We got back to the car and we were all out of breath from panicking! As if, the stores will never carry them ever again! It was crazy. I laugh every time I remember that night. We were laughing our butts all the way home. 

So almost a year later, I actually made something out of the vinyl from that really weird night. : ) Now, every time I look at it, I smile because it will always have a lasting impression in my memory.

The quote is from scrapbook.com. I was browsing through the site yesterday and found it and thought it may be a good first time project with the vinyl. It is not awesome, but it is nice. I like how it turned out. And in the process, I learned how to handle the material and what settings to put my Cricut in when cutting it. I had such fun!!!

Congrats!

This card was inspired by someone I watched on youtube today. Her youtube name is KaleeStampin. Here is the card she made:

You can tell the difference very quickly. I am thinking about mailing my card to the recipients so I decided against the handmade flowers as they can make packaging really hard... and I ran out of prima flowers to use so I decided to do something else. I cut the champagne glasses out with my Cricut (using the Stretch Your Imagination cartridge) and used the Congrats stamp from TPC Studio's Greetings Clear Stamps. The card measures 5 1/2 by 4 1/4. I used Cuttlebug's Divine Swirls embossing folder to dry emboss the card base, and used Stampin Up's Close to Cocoa to antique it all up. The script stamp is from Inkadinkado (Dawn Houser).

Here's another version...

Smile!

In the weekend while I was going through my stuff in the craft room, I found my Paisley Cricut Cartridge that I have been looking for for a long long time! For some reason it got mixed up with the basket where I put my Cuisine at Home books from Betty. It might've gotten thrown in there while I was emptying the craft room to get it ready and prepped for remodeling... Who knows?! 

Anyway, I was so excited I went through the whole book and remembered why I watched auctions on ebay like a hawk for this cartridge... and that's because it has a monkey, a frog, and all kinds of cute little things in it that John and I both like. (Or stuff that we find cute and amusing at least!) John loves monkeys in all forms and sizes especially when it is at a reathonable price! (he had a lisp when he was little!)

So I made this very simple circle card for him! It made him smile when I showed it to him... The past couple of days has been tough on everybody, not just John (at work to be specific.) Even if there is no such thing as the "perfect job", I am praying every day that he will find the right place where he can do whatever he wants as far as his talent, skills and passion for music teaching could take him. John isn't the performing type, he is a teacher. He is awesome at it. 

Hello Birdie!

On Monday (August 9th) our friends Sara and Quinton, their kids Will and Whitney and us all got up early and went to a short trip to Holiday World in Santa Claus, Indiana. It was so much fun!!! I am not the roller coaster riding kind of girl but that day, I actually braved it and rode all of three wooden roller coasters in the park. : )  I didn't think theme parks would take my attention anymore, but I was totally wrong. We stayed at a nice hotel in Evansville that night, did some craft shopping the next day. 


I found DCWV's Songbird on sale and didn't have second thoughts and bought it, I also picked up a couple stamp sets, and other little crafting things that were on sale. The card above is what came out of that trip... Hopefully Sara was able to take enough pictures to put in the scrapbook. What a wonderful two days!!!  

Happy Holidays

At new year's this year, I have made a promise that I will make Christmas cards early in the year so when the holiday comes, I am not stuck in the house everyday making cards, missing out on all the winter fun and still come up short of cards to give away.

My goal was to make at least one Christmas card every day in July but it turns out that I have been so distracted that I was only able to make three. Isn't that sad? LOL This is better than last year though, I didn't make any last year, I ended up buying cards. So here's one of them I made. 

The blue flower is handmade (by me) using white cardstock and lots of glimmer mist, inspired by one of the blogs I follow. : )