I do NOT like this COLD WEATHER..........Brrrrrr!

Not one bit.....please bring Summer and warm weather back to me!  This is too cold for me...and it's ONLY December!  ARGH!  I dread the thought of how I am going to feel once January rolls in, as that tends to be our worst month.  YUK!!  Thank goodness for our wood stove and how fast and warm it keeps the whole house.  It's so much warmer than simply turning the heat up and up!  I LOVE it and can't imagine living in New England without one. 

Speaking of things I LOVE, I have fallen in love the Pink Cat Studio Stamps and I am very  excited that they are now being carried at Cutters Creek.   I think the images are adorable and had a great time coloring some of them with my Copics.   This is a picture of the first card I made with an image of "Itty Bitty Betty"--

 This image is one that is available from the "Itty Bitty Christmas" stamp set and just happens to be one of my favorites.   I colored her with my Copic Markers and as always, I made sure she had a "Purple" outfit, as I LOVE Purple!!    You can find the Pink Cat Stamps  in the store at this link - Click Here!  I have also ordered the "Limitless Limbs" set along with Doodle Garden Set and can't wait to make all kind of cute things with them.

Please stop over at the Cutters Creek Design Team Blog to see what the other design team members have been creating.  There are some really cute "Holiday" projects and we are all working to add new things, so check back often.   Please feel free to leave a comment if there is a project or idea you would like to see.

Other than lots of "coloring" it's been a day of rest for me.   I didn't manage to get any more wrapping done today, but I hope to do some tomorrow.   I still plan to go Christmas shopping with Alex for a couple hours too.  I just HOPE it's not as cold as it was today!  I had originally planned to go with Brian while he went out to shop around for a new vehicle today, but decided it was too cold for me to be outside at the car dealers-- and I passed on that.   I think he may have found an SUV "Nissan Pathfinder" that  he really seems to like.  Hopefully, he make his find decision this  weekend and then will have it early next week.  It'll be nice to have another SUV in the family and between his and Alex's Jeep, we should be all set for snow and getting around,in the worst of the winter weather!  Yippee!!

Speaking of cold...I think it's time to add another log to the fire...so I'm off to do that and make some dinner!

Snowflakes, Gifts and more....

   Woohoo!  We lucked out again and the snow that was due here, turned out to be ALL rain and makes me a Happy Girl.  It's a very nasty, windy and wet day, but I will take rain over snow any day.  The only time I really like to see SNOW is a nice fresh layer on Christmas morning, and if it that was it, all winter.  I would be a happy girl. 

   Speaking of snow and snowflakes, I made some more really cute "Gift Tags" out of some snowflakes I cut with my Cricut yesterday.  I used the  "When It's Cold Outside" for this set --

   And I also used the same cartridge to cut these gorgeous "Purple" snowflakes for two of my Christmas Cards.  These snowflakes, along with some pretty paper and some bling make very easy cards.  I use Bazzill Swiss Dot Card-stock for them all, to give them an extra bit of texture. 

For this card, I also used my Cuttlebug and some A2 Embossing Folders to add another element to the card.   This has quickly become one of my favorite Cricut Cartridges.

   It's from the new line of  Limited Edition Mini Cartrdiges,   I own all three of the Christmas editions, which are available now at Cutters Creek.   Plus, I have already pre-ordered the next set which will be coming our soon and will out in time for Valentine's Day, Easter and Mother's Day.  Those new Minis are available now for  Pre-Order and are only $19.99 each, which is a fabulous price.  If you want any of these adorable cartridges, please hop over to  Cutters Creek and place your orders!  These are really fun cartridges at great prices.

   Once I finished with my Snowflakes, I created some different tags, using my Cuttlebug and some of the holiday-themed Embossing folders.    I added some "bling" -- glitter, ribbon and"Twinkle Jewels", which I adhered with Glossy Accents .  These were also very easy to make and you can create them in a wide variety of colors and styles...it's all up to your imagination!

 

      If you don't have a Cuttlebug, I highly suggest you try one, I think you'll LOVE it and how much you can do with it.  I use mine with Spellbinder Dies to cut shapes and also with Cuttlebug Dies and Embossing Folders.  It's very easy to use and you can do so much with it.  I use mine pretty much every time I craft and I LOVE it.  My hubby bought it for me from my Wish List, last Christmas.  Thanks HUN!!



    And one more bit of fun news before I sign off...I plan to start adding some little contests and challenges for all my friends who FOLLOW my blog.   I also like to find new blogs to follow and this will be a fun way for me to find new blogs that I can follow too.   I  enjoy seeing other blogs and find lots of really cute and fun ideas from following them.    I plan to be posting more often and to keep ideas fun things, so please follow along.  I love having people stop by and visit and love comments.    There will be BLOG CANDY coming soon and you could be the first winner, simply by following me.  Stop back soon for more details! 

   Wishing you all and fabulous day......full of fun, love and happiness!    As always, HAPPY CRAFTING!!

WooHOO! I won Blog Candy Today!!

YIPPEE!!

If you look back on my post from Saturday, you find out more about the Jingle Bell Blog Hop that I was following this weekend.  It ended up being really fun and I found some great blogs and saw some wonderful creations.  I also found out  today that I won some awesome Blog Candy from "Jamilie", one of the Challenge Masters that took part in the blog hop.   Please check out her blog to see my wonderful prize and her awesome creations. - Click Here!   I wanted to post in my blog to personally thank Jamilie for her generous gift.  I'm very excited to have won and will be looking forward to having these new goodies to craft with!  Thank you again, I am very happy and excited to have won your prize!

Jamilie is a Design Master for the Ch{all}enge Masters and is a very talented crafter.  I also belong to this group and enjoy taking part in the monthly challenges.  Jamilie is the Design Master for their Card Group and since I absolutely LOVE card-making I took part in her challenge last month, and will happily try again this month.

This is the card I made for her "Circle Card" Challenge in November -- Click Here -- then scroll down to the second card.  It's also posted here on my blog over the right and a few cards down from the top.

  

If you want to play along the new Challenge for December is already up and you can find it at this link - Click Here!

A Crafty Sunday!!

Brrrrr...is it cold today!  The rain we had yesterday did finally turn to snow overnight, but we 'luckily' did not end up with much more than an inch.  It is that hard "crunchy" snow with some ice mixed in too.  I am glad and DH is home and he took the time to clean off my car, while Alex did his Jeep and shoveled off the deck.  I have NO plans to be outside at all today.  I love being home all day on cold chilly days!  Yippee!!

I am very COLD today and for some reason, I can't warm up...no matter how BUSY I am.  This morning was my regular Sunday chores day and thankfully Hubby had most of the laundry already done with before I even woke up!  Thanks Hun, I so glad you are such a good help to me.   All, I really had to do was put a away some of my things do the basic every day kind of stuff.  Then I went back to doing a bit more Christmas decorating.  Today, I finished decorating our new "little" tree and as much as it's a big change, I LOVE it.  It's all in white lights and has all gold-colored ornaments and little gold bows.  I also started to put out some of my snowmen collection and then decided to spend all afternoon crafting and relaxing in my craft room.  I will get back to decorating again tomorrow!   Simply a little at a time, so I don't get to wiped out!

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  I spent the afternoon working my first Design Team project for Cutters Creek and it was really fun.  I decided to use one of my Flower Soft Kits along with some really cute Polar Friends -Toppers and I made two adorable Christmas Cards.     I am adding some pictures of my project and which shows little steps of me working along!  I think I will also make a Scrapbook page of this project for my Project 365Album, so having the pictures will work out really well! 

 

 

  Using these Flower Soft Toppers makes this project go fairly quickly and is a great way to make easy and adorable cards in a short amount of time.   I started by picking out two toppers that I wanted to use, along with some matching  Bazzill Dotted Swiss Cardstock, which I trimmed down A2 card size.  Next, I used my Crop-A-Dile Corner Chomper

to round the corners of each topper and each card and then adhered each of the toppers to the cardstock with my Glue Glider Pro ATG.   Next, I used a combination of Flower Soft, Stickles and Twinkle Jewels to add lots of Sparkle to the cards.  

 If you know me, you know that I loves any kind of bling and that I use Stickles on many of my cards.   Flower Soft is very easy to use, you simply apply the Flower Soft adhesive to the area you want to cover and sprinkle the flower soft on top.  Let it dry and your are done.  The more flower soft you add, the more dimension you add to your card or project.

Flower Soft comes in a wide variety of colors and kits, with lots of additional accessory items.   You can all the Flower Soft products along with other items I used on these cards at  Cutters Creek.  These adorable toppers are the perfect size to easily fit on a standard A2 card and a quick way to make an easy and simple card. 

To find some more fun card and craft ideas, hop on over to the  Cutters  Creek Design Team Blog and stop in.  The Design Team is working on new fun projects that we willl be adding to our blog.  If you have a project or idea you would like to see, please feel free to leave a comment and we'll be happy to see what we can come up with for you!

   As Always -- Happy Crafting!  

   Tomorrow,  I am going to get back to more of my Holiday Decorating and hope to finish putting out my Snowman Collection.   I think in the afternoon, I'll  hit my craft room again and make more new cards or maybe try and wrap a few more gifts!  

  Goodnight and Sweet Dreams!!!

 

A FUN Blog HOP!!!

I just finished up a FUN Blog Hop called the Jingle Bell Hop that is being hosted today the "Ch{all}enge Masters".  I wanted to invite everyone to join in.  I also wanted to share that my friend Sharon, who is a member of the Cutters Creek Design Team, with me is also a Design Team Member for the  "Ch{all}enge Masters and you will visit her blog as one of the stops.

Please make sure you take time to read a bit about each of the crafters and be sure to leave each of them a comment.   There is a prize that will randomly be awarded to the winner, not to mention lots of great "Blog Candy" that some of girls are giving out.

All you need to do is go to the first BLOG on the HOP which belongs to Terri - CLICK HERE!

You'll have a fun time seeing a great variety of crafty ideas and even have a chance to win some BLOG CANDY and other great prizes.

HAVE FUN!!