Cool Treat Card

This card was fairly simple to make.. I cut the ice cream at 3.5 inches and used some sparkel paper i had.. I also cut a smaller one 2.5 inches and put it on the inside. I hand wrote the sentiment on the front (Im still unpacking so most of my stamps are MIA). I used some orange paper as the background and some orange & white bakers twine I got from Really Reasonable Ribbon. I tied the bow and glued it on top of the strands going across the bottom of the card.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Really Reasonable Ribbon - #27 Picnic/Summer fun

Paper Playtime - #50 Summer

Paper Cutz Challenge - #99

Tacky Tuesdays Challenge - #8 cool treat

Paper Issues - Life is Sweet

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Flashback Friday 13.0

I just came across the Flashback Friday Challenges blog and their current challenge is to post your 1st non traditional shaped card. Mine of course is Jayden's birth announcements.. I made them using SCAL 2 and my expression. The actual file my husband and I designed ourselves. We even had a seperate layer to cut for the liner (which in the card pictured is blue but we made all colors). I actually made these before Jayden was born but they were completed about 2 weeks after her birth.. so late Jan 2010. I LOVE these announcements.. Now they are definitely gonna be hard to top for the little girl we have on the way. :) Hope you like em!

card closed

card semi open

card inside

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Seashore Layout

I just finished up this Seashore layout using the Life's A Beach cart & this sketch from Sassy Lil' Sketches:

Im entering this into the following challenges:

K Andrea Simply Sunday Challenge - Summer

Fantabulous Cricut - #67

Sassy Lil' Sketches - July 7th Reveal

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Happy Harvest

Head on over to Me and the Little Rascals Blog to see how to win some of the new Happy Harvest line from Imaginisce.

Circle Thank You Card

I made this cute thank you card today.



I cut the card with my Expression out of off white card stock at 6inches using the Wild Card cart on the Doily setting. I inked the card front with a pink ink pad and then placed the darker pink embossed paper on some foam tape and put it in the middle. I cut the "Thank You" with the Wild Card cart too at I think 8inches. I used my ATG gun to glue the "Thank You" down.. not gluing the entire thing. I also used my ATG gun to glue down the white bow made of ribbon. Using the same pink ink that I inked the card with I inked up a Stampin' Up flower stamp I have and made a boarder/frame around the darker pink circle. I also stamped the same flower on the inside of the card. Hope you like it :).



I am entering this card into the following challenges:
CCCC - #23 Wild Card
Cooking With Cricut - #41 Anything Goes Cricut
Cricut 360 - #2 Circle Thank You Card
Throwback Thursday - #209 Wild Card + Embossing
Stamp and Create - Ribbons & Bows
Charisma Cardz Challenges - #27 All About Flowers




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Getting Cricky w/ K Facebook

Hey everyone.. I just wanted to let you all know that K Andrew of Getting Cricky is trying to reach 1,00o likes on facebook and once she does shes doing a giveaway!! :) I just highly recommed you go check her out on her Blog & Facebook just because she's AWESOME! Her projects are great and she just came out with her own new line of stamps and they look so great.. You can check the new stamps out at her store! So head on over to her Facebook and check her stuff out.. It wouldn't hurt my feelings if you told her Jamie Larsen sent you.. but I dont even care about that.. I just think once you see her stuff you'll be glad you did!

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Nikki Sivils new papers

Head on over to Nikki Sivils blog to check out her new paper lines that are coming out soon!

Imagine Help & 4th of July

So.. let me start with the most important part of this post. I got an Imagine for Mothers Day and will sometime this week finally get to open it (YAY im so excited!!). I just kind of jumped into my expression.. which worked.. but it took me forever to figure it out properly. So, I was wondering if any of you have any suggestions of blogs, or sites or anything like that where I could go to get all the info I need for starting to use the Imagine.. Im at square one.. I seriously have NO idea how to even begin to work the thing. I dont even know if I have to use a special type of paper for it lol. So any sites or blogs that have helped you out or any tips or info you can give me that helped or anything like that would be great!! thanks so much in advance for your help.

Now, onto my 4th of July. We spent it with my husbands family.. well we spent a lot of it getting ready to go lol. I for some odd reason ended up making a cake (with tons of help from my husband.. actually he did most of it lol). My pics aren't the best.. I took all of them with my iPhone since our Nikon was already packed and ready for the evening.

Adam got up at 6:30am (he couldn't sleep it wasnt like he had to or anything lol) and ended up having to go shopping to get a few things like.. oil and flour. We don't have a lot of stuff that we should have since we're still unpacking etc. He ended up baking all of the cakes and cutting them too.

How we made the flag cake:

We made 1 box of white cake (makes two 9inch circle cakes), 1 box of white cake that we dyed blue with gel food coloring (makes two 9in circle cakes, and 1 box of strawberry cake and added some red food coloring (makes two 9in circle cakes.

We cut the red and white cakes in half (to make each 1 cake into 2 cakes that could be layered.. not in half like a pie), then we stacked them (from bottom to top) white, red, white, red. With the top red & white layers we took those off the cake and stacked one blue cake with them and traced with a knife the lid of a sour cream container... then we took the middle of the blue cake and put it to the side.. and the outter circles of the white and red cake to the side.

I made a filling from cool whip and mashed up strawberried and filled between each layer.. and in the circle of the blue layer. Then we frosted the cake with cream cheese frosting that I made from my better homes cook book.. its the best frosting ever! lol.

We actually made 2 of these cakes.. one said "Happy 4th" and had fireworks and the other was covered in strawberries and blue berries. I only got a pic of this one cake because the other one was gone already and of course I didnt have my Nikon so its not the best quality of a pic.

The cake pops I made with the left over cake and left over cream cheese frosting. I just kind of eyeballed it.. no recipe or anything just added what needed to be added. I had got some of the melting candy from Michaels the day before.. one bag of white and one of red. I dipped lollipop sticks in the melted candy and then shoved them into the middle of the cake balls. Then I put them into the freezer for about 10-15 mins.. my cake balls were so heavy that it was the only way I could keep them from falling off the sticks into the candy. Pretty simple, I must add this was my very first time doing cake pops and for a first time they turned out pretty good. :)

Hope you all had an amazing 4th of July weekend!! Thanks for stoppin' by and have a great day!

wiff of joy surprise candy!

head on over to Katharina's blog for a chance to win some surprise candy!

copics candy

Hey everyone there is a great give away goin on over at She Stamps by Cheryl.. so head on over and see how to enter for a chance to win some great candy!