Ah Choose You!

I just received my Peachy Keen January 2012 Stamp Kit Club of the Month this week... and I can't wait to share my projects with you.  This stamp set is jam packed, angels, hearts, sentiments, and exclusive faces.  In my opinion, not just for Valentine's projects... The angels and faces will be used all year in this craft room. 

Here is one of the hearts and face stamp in the collection.  The image is foam taped on a candy box I picked up that the grocery store. This poor guy must have allergies from those flowers but he is determined to get his Valentine's message out there..."Ah Choose You". (which I just printed on my PC)

Cupid's Sting Card

This cutie pie cupid with a "stinging" message was made with the NEW PK-295 Cupid's Sting stamp set from Peachy Keen Stamps.  The sentiment from the same set was stamped on a frame Cricut cut with Home Accents cartridge cut at 1.25 in.  An A2 card size background stamp was used to stamp the "XO's" at the base of the card is another NEW stamp,  PK-296 XOXOXOXO.  These stamps are so sweet, I can't wait to make more projects with them.

I cut around this image so close that I "lost" the arrow shaft. 
 I took some black thread and added to back to complete the arrow.

Count Your Blessings

The Cricut Circle's January Challenge is to create a scrapbook page or mini album reviewing the year 2011.  I will have say 2011 is a year that I am glad is behind me.  Not wanting to make a project with the major events of 2011 for me, I decided to "Count My Blessings".  I am very blessed with a loving husband, children that are very dear to  me, a best friend I met in pre-school, and my sweet dachshund who always is there to listen to me.

This mini book base is from Elegant Edges and title is from Country Life.  Flower cuts are from Paisley. The book is embellished with journal tags from K & Company Amy Butler Lotus Tea Box die cuts, and Imagine More Cartridge. 

Flowers Centers are handmade covered brads stamped
with PK-570 Basic Paper Doll Face Assortment.

This die cut reminded me of me and my buddy Kay. 
 Friends Forever sentiment stamp from PK-277 Vivienne and friends

Journal spots cut with Imagine more
and another sentiment from PK-277 Vivienne and friends collection.

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Throwback Thursday Sports Challenge

For this challenge you can make any project with a sports theme cricut cartridge and link to My Creative Time's blog, HERE.  If you participate in this challenge, you have an chance to win her ENTIRE new product release.  How cool is that? 

Here is my "Sporty Hello Kitty".  I used my Gypsy with Hello Kitty Greetings and Sports Mania Cricut Cartridges.  In Hello Kitty's soccer league, they prefer to have soccer balls with paw prints on them.  (I just love the paw print from Any day Bingo & Crossword.)  The sentiment is from My Favorite Sayings.  My daughter is going to freak out when she comes home from school because last night she asked me for a Hello Kitty notebook after finding one that I was using to store my sketches. 

Happy News!

I am just thrilled to share that I was selected to join  Peachy Keens 2012's Design Team!  There are so many talented designers in this group, I feel so honored.  Looking forward to "Peachifying" my projects and sharing them with you-

Cricut Circle's Weekly Challenge #48

The Challenge: Whenever the New Year rolls around, we tend to do a little self-evaluation and decide what we want to do differently in the year to come. For the challenge this week, we want you to think about your CREATIVE resolutions and record them in some way.
I began to think about my Creative goals to record for this challenge and wrote them down.  This light bulb with her sweet smile has some bright ideas for 2012...

Face Stamp- Peachy Keen, PK-640 Princess Face Assortment
Light Bulb cut- Recess
Cloud of Thoughts- Create A Critter
"Create" phrase - Home Decor

Love Grows Valentine Card

Never say Never... I told myself, "I would never buy a digital Cricut Cartridge."  Well, the Gnomes and Mushrooms set was too cute and I bought it!  The amazing thing about this purchase was how smoothly and effortlessly these happy garden dwellers were availble for immediate paper cutting.  Just for fun, I am entering this card in a Valentine Project Challenge hosted by the artist who designed Gnomes and Mushrooms.  Check out the details of the Challenge here.