Fishy Kisses

If you are looking for my DT submission for Cooking with Cricut, please click HERE.

Another double design team day for me :) The challenge over at Cricut Cardz Challenges this week is to come up with a valentines card using blue, green and white only. I was stumped for a minute - no pink? no red? really?? Then I remeberd this great stamp I have that says "fishy kisses" and the idea, evolved from there. Here it is:



Isn't that fishy fabulous?? I cut her from Smiley Cards - the free Gypsy download we got last fall - then I embossed her with my Tiny Bubbles cuttlebug folder. The hearts the sentiment is on are cut with an old Creative Memories punch, and the patterned paper - which I thought looked a bit like seaweed, is from an old 6x12 pad from Provocraft. The stamp is from my Simply Sweet set - which is currently unavailable, so no link today - hopefully this fabulous, versatile and huge set of stamps will be available again soon, I will let you know...

Head on over to CCC, see whay DT#2 came up with for this color challenge, and play along with us :)

Don't forget, this weekend is the Cooking with Cricut blog hop, with candy at every stop :) Hope to see you all there...

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Go Wild!

Sorry for the late post - these night shifts are really cutting into my blogging routine. I must get better with pre-scheduling my posts - but that would involve organization, something I am not so hot at :) The Challenge today over at Cooking with Cricut is to use hearts and flowers. Here is what I came up with:



Isn't my girlie Zebra a cutie? She is cut from Create a Critter. The hearts are from George, as are the squares they are sitting on. The stamps is from Joy's Life - Lots of Pun. The cardstock is a mix from my stash and the patterned paper is from an old Cricut 12x6 stack for Animal Kingdom.

I hope you all head over to CWC and check out the design teams beautiful work, and play along with us...

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Purple Elephants??

My baby girl turned 5 last week. It was a little bit shattering, but also very exciting. The day before her birthday I registered her for school, it is hard to believe that the baby days in my life are gone. I am soon to be the mother of two school-age children...

Todays post isn't paper crafting related at all, it is more food crafting related. I made my daughter an elephant cake - she insisted it be purple... so here it is:



She wanted flowers on it, so I faked my way through it. She loved it, which is all that matters :) Here she is about to blow out her candles:



I hope you all come back tomorrow, I will have my design team submissions for Cricut Cardz Challenge, and Cooking With Cricut. See you all then :)

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Hearts and Cupids and a new Blog Design

Happy Monday everyone :) It is a sunny, cold day here in Nova Scotia, with a break in the snowstorms, although we are expecting another 6-12 inches in the next 48 hours - the joys of winter... So, are you loving my new blog design? I won a mini-makeover during a blog hop a couple of weeks ago from Michele over at Now Stamp This, and Madeline over at Shabby Vanity did a fabulous job! I hope, over time, to be able to get some more upgrades from Madeline, but for now, this is perfect!

Today is challenge day over at Paper Playtime. The challenge today is to make a project using hearts or cupids. I decided to use both :) Here is what I came up with:



I cut the box from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More. The cupid is from Sweethearts, and the top of the box has a phrase from Create a Critter that says "I love you" - well it says I "heart" you...



The cute heart paper is from a valentines stack from K and Co. It has the cutest paper! I just adore it.



I welded the heart to the box on two sides using my Gypsy girl. The heart is from George and Basic Shapes. I put a sheet of acetate inside the box, covering each of the hearts. I am going to make 3 more boxes, and fill each one up with Hershey's kisses, one for each of us, for Valentines day :) The cardstock is from Stampin Up and I doodled with my Sakura white gel pen.

I hope you all pop over to Paper Playtime, see what the design team came up with and play along :)

Some Challenges:
Crafty Hos - love theme
Pear Tree Designs - free for all
The Crafty Pad - love is in the air
Tueday Throwdown - add stitching
ECP Challenges - love
Polka Doodles - hearts
Raise The Bar - hearts

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Smooches!!

Happy Friday! It is challenge day over at Flaunt it Fridays. The challenge today is to use those fabulous lips from Indie Art. Indie Art is not a cartridge I owned until the free Gypsy download - so thanks Prove Craft :) Here is the project I came up with today :)







So I completely stole this idea from Gigi over at The Cricut Bug. She made a fabulous heart shaped box that you can see HERE - the instructions are there too. As you can see, I filled the little box with Barbie nail polish - we didn't have chocolate yet...

The paper is all from Stampin Up, those cute little pearls are from Close to my Heart, they were a free gift from my consultant. I did some doodling with my Signo white gel pen. I am really happy with how it turned out.

Head on over to FIF, see what the design team came up with to inspire you, and be sure to play along :)

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Piaroa kids snack on tarantulas in the jungle

This cute little clip from the BBC's new Human Planet series follows a group of young Piaroa children from Venezuela's Amazonas State as they hunt for spiders to snack on.

These are no ordinary spiders, but the largest spider of all, the fearsome Goliath tarantula (Theraphosa blondi) which can give a nasty nip with its venomous fangs and also protects itself with irritating urticated hairs

A Blog Button and a Winner!

I have a blog button!! The amazing Abby over at Scrapbookaholic by Abby created it for me :) Isn't it cute? I hope some of you decide to grab it, and post it on your blogs - that would be so exciting!



I have picked a winner from the Bitten by the Love Bug hop. Sorry it's a day late, life got in the way yesterday...

The winner is...

Josie0602 said...
Awesome card and purse set!! I may have to scraplift your idea!!

Josie, please contact me by February 8th with your details, so I can get the stamp set in the mail to you. Hope you all have a wonderful day, and anyone in the path of this monster storm stays safe. We will be getting close to 2 feet of snow in the next 24 hours. What fun...


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