Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge 28

I love these challenges so much! I've had my card designed in my Gypsy for almost a week, but the girls got sick and so crafting had to wait. Today everyone is feeling better and so I was able to cut and put together my card. There have been so many cute entries. I always love to see what all the other participants come up with.


Here is the wonderful sketch that we had to work with:


For my card I used the following cartridges: Gypsy font for the scalloped circle, George for the oval, squares & rectangles, New arrival for the bottles and onesie, Stretch Your Imagination for the baby, Everyday Paperdolls for the headband, Plantin Schoolbook and Gypsy Wandering for the scalloped border. Wow that is quite the list isn't it? I used Peachy Keen Stamp set PK-493 Everyday Character Face Parts and PK-573 Basic Paper Doll Faces for the pacifier.

Happy Happy Anniversary!

This weekend I was busy making a couple of anniversary cards. This first card is for a couple in our neighborhood. They just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. How awesome is that?

For this card I used the scalloped circle from the Easter 2010 cartridge (I welded two together in my Gypsy). The circle is from George. The 50 is the Gypsy Font welded together. I ran my circle through the Cuttlebug using the love language embossing folder for the tiny heart background. I pop dotted the 50 for some added depth and added a ribbon to the top. Pretty simple, but I like how it turned out.
The second card is for my sister and her husband. They were married in the Salt Lake LDS Temple and when I saw this image on my Destinations cartridge I had to make them an anniversary card with it.
Like I said the Salt Lake Temple is on the Destinations cartridge. I welded together two shadow layers in my Gypsy and then cut the temple for the front. I added a Happy Forever stamp and cut my own gold piece for the Angel Moroni statue at the top of the temple (the cartridge doesn't have that extra layer, but I just 'cheated the cut' in my Gypsy and layered it on top).

I Met The Pink Stamper

Robyn, also know as The Pink Stamper or My Pink Stamper, who lives in the midwest, is in Utah for her sister's wedding. She said she was going to be at Chuck E Cheese at lunch time yesterday and would love to meet up if anyone wanted to. Chuck E Cheese is so close to my house that I thought it would be fun to meet her if it worked into our schedule (my morning to noon was super busy, but the afternoon was completely open). Robyn was going to be there in the afternoon, so I asked my daughter if she would like to go and of course she WANTED to go to Chuck E Cheese. Imagine that!

It was kind of crazy keeping tabs on the kids and chatting inbetween. But I had a great time talking to her and two of her other fans Anne & Cathie. They were all incredibly nice and real down to earth people! It was a blast!!! When we got home from Chuck E Cheese my daughter told me, in reference to Robyn, "You are SO LUCKY to have met one of the BEST scrapbooker's in the WORLD!" It was seriously too cute!

Robyn makes videos (mostly Cricut videos) that are very informative and helpful. I came across her site a little over a year ago when I was looking to find out how to use the Cricut markers with my baby bug. I wanted to use the markers and then cut the image and knew that if I unloaded the mat that they wouldn't line up perfectly to cut. I googled "how to use cricut markers" and found a post on the Cricut forum that gave a link to Robyn's video on how to do just that. I must admit that I have been hooked ever since. Her videos are awesome and she isn't afraid to show us that things don't always go perfectly the first time. She has introduced me to how to unmount my rubber stamps and to the INCREDIBLE world of Peachy Keen Stamps. She has even talked me into buying a few Cricut cartridges that I didn't neccessarily think I wanted until I saw her use them. She has given me some great Cricut tips and tricks. She is just a fun and bubbly person and tries to help inspire everyone to do the best they can. She is totally the same in person and I'm glad I got to meet her. Thanks Robyn! You are awesome!

Happy Mother's Day - a little late

Yesterday was a super busy and wonderful day. So, this post is a little late. But here is the Mother's Day card I made for my Mom. It is a larger card because all my siblings needed to write a note in it. The card for my husband's Mom is in an earlier post. Click on this link if you would like to see it.




I used the Gypsy font for Happy Mother's Day and welded it together. The flower is from the Easter 2010 cartridge (I just cut parts of it a few time so that I could layer it). Then I added some white dotting and a few gems. I hope everyone else had a very happy Mother's Day too.

Magical Memories Frame

I wanted to make my daughter's dance teacher a thank you gift for a wonderful year of dance lessons. Her dance teacher loves Disney frames so this is what I came up with.


I used George for the rectangles and Mickey Font for the Mickey icons and letters. The mat is all one piece welded together on the Gypsy. I threw in a random picture of Goofy from a Disneyland calendar, she can replace it with a family picture later. I also added some white dots with my Sakura gel pen.

Mickey Mouse Lollipop Holder

Emma over at My Creative Time makes the cutest little lollipop holders and inspired me to make one. If you know me I am a total Disney nut so I made a Mickey Mouse lollipop holder. Emma has a great video on how to make one with your Gypsy. Just click on this link to see it (the lollipop holder is the first video listed in this post, but all of her videos are awesome, so enjoy).
I used George & Basic Shapes and Mickey Mouse font cartridges for this project. Next time I will probably make a Minnie Mouse one so I can add a cute little red and white polka dot bow.

My Happy News

Last week I said that I had something to share that I was SUPER excited about. Well here it is, I was chosen for the Customer Spotlight of the Cricut Chirp Newsletter. I have only submitted a couple of projects in the past but I was so excited to find out I won this time. To make things even sweeter I found out on my birthday. This has been an AWESOME birthday week. I can hardly believe I won the Peachy Keen Stamps challenge and that I am the Customer Spotlight for the Chirp. Will somebody pinch me please :).