Cricut stuff for sale + catch up + pics

Hey everyone.. so sorry for the absence as of late. I've been busy with the holidays and birthdays.. *sigh* my oldest (Jayden) just celebrated her 3rd birthday... :( I can't believe how big she is.

They really do grow as fast as people say.. wish I could just have a pause button sometimes. We had a Mad Tea Party birthday for her (she loves tea partys) and everyone thought it looked pretty good.. I'll slowly be posting some of the items I crafted for that party.. as I have time. I made all sorts of crazy cool stuff.. some pretty simple, some pretty complicated. But it turned out so cute and seeing Jayden's face made everything worth while. Here's a couple pics of her..

Jayden's photoshoot on her actual birthday (I made the hat and I'll post those later sometime)

One of the fav pics of the shoot.. <3 3="3" font="font" lil="lil" my="my" old="old" year="year">

"We're all MAD here!"

We also just took a trip to Disneyland and that was well crazy! It was tons of fun of course but it sure made the holidays a lil more hectic.

 us on the first day with Minnie

 Us with Santa, I mean Goofy lol

Jayden, Adam & baby Harmony watching the fireworks

And of course Christmas...

The Drive to my family's Christmas

Adam & baby Harm with Bambi (a present)

Jayden & Harmony with some presents

And then we had to have a New Years Eve party.. that one was easy... pizza hut, pop, fun.. though I did make a personal trifle for everyone.. pretty time consuming.

Now it's back to the routine, hopefully.. for a lil while anyway. Right now I'm currently crafting the memory book I promised to make for Adam's Grandparents 50th anniversary party we all through for them.. and I'm pretty pleased to say I finished to pages tonight and I'm really hoping to having it done by Valentines day.. (this year lol).

And while I'm working on that album Adam is trying his hardest to help me get this mess I call a scrapbooking/craft room (and Adam calls his office) orginized. He actually wants to help and he's working really hard to get it all in order and making sure its functional for us both as well as what I want :).. he's the best!

So, since we're cleaning things.. I'm also cleaning some things out to make some space.. I'm selling a few things and putting some things into a box for a giveaway soon. If anyone is interested in any of the items I'm selling please email me @ babyblueangel_30@yahoo.com with any questions.. I will accept paypal and would be willing to ship (additional fees will apply to the machines).

What am I selling?
Here are some links to some of the items I'm selling:
Cricut Expression 2 (used)
Cricut Mini (brand new still in box + 2 packs of mats = 4 total)
Old West (linked on ebay)
Other Cartridges (used & new.. the above carts + live simply lite, crocs rule lite, hoot 'n' holler lite, seasonal cake art, elegant cake art, & snapshot nature imagine cart)

Hopefully I have a project up soon.. I'll have to get some pics of the ones I've been doing.

Thanks for stoppin' by and have a great day!

giveaway

theres a giveaway going on over at Whimsical designs head over and check it out HERE!!

giveaways

a dog's life is having some amazing giveaways head over and see how to win!

Fast Advent

Hey everyone.. long time no type (lol). It's been a crazy last few weeks.. Disneyland and Palm Springs for 2 weeks (one week each) and now Christmas time. *sigh* life is crazy sometimes. Disney was overall pretty good.. we did have our bad experiences this trip, like always, but we had lots of good times too. Hopefully one of these nights I'll have a chance to fill you guys in with some of the great, good and not so good of our most recent vacation as well as some good pics! But for now I have a project..

I made Jayden her own advent calender last year (you can view it HERE) and I put some time and effort into it.. I was planning to make Harmony one this year too but a different style, of course. Well nobody saw this Disney trip coming (certainly not me.. I had joked about it with Adam but never ever thought we'd be going to a Disney park again since we just went to Disney World in June) and I just didn't have time to make one before we left. It wouldn't have made much sense anyway since we left home on Dec 1 and didn't get back until Dec 13.. so that's half the advent gone. Now even though I couldn't do a full blown advent for the girls I still wanted them to have an advent for the time we were here before Christmas.

So I made them this quick, simple and easy advent.. (2) one for each. I took a few sheets of maroon card stock and cut them into strips of 3x12.. then I cut them again into pieces of 3x6. Since by the time I got around to making them we only had 9 days left this fit perfectly into 3 12x12 sheets of card stock. After I had all my sheets cut into their pieces (18 in all) I put ATG tape on 3 sides of the rectangles leaving one of the 3inch sides blank. I adhered them together on the short side making a cylinder (similar looking to a toilet paper roll) and sealed up the bottom. Now I went a littler further than just candy.. I punched out some cirlces 3/4 inch and wrote little notes on each one of fun things to do and adhered them to the bottom of Hershey Kisses. Then I placed the kisses into each  "sour cream" container and sealed the top folding the opposite direction of the bottom seal. After that was done I ran the edges through the paper crimper for decoration and a better seal.

Then I took some scraps of DCWV paper and used a scribbles 3d paint to write different numbers on the paper (which I cut into 1x1 squares) and I put the squares on the sour cream containers. After that I used my big bite to punch holes in the top of each container. I strung some kraft colored paper ribbon through the holes and put the garland of all the sour cream containers (in order by number) on some railings in our house and that was pretty much it.

I am entering these into the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp and Show - Gift-spiration
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Christmassy 
More Than Favors - #78
Really Reasonable Ribbon - #62

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MyMemories Suite GIVEAWAY and review

Hey everyone.. ugh it seems like forever since I've been able to blog. Life gets crazy sometimes.. no exceptions here! :)

Today I have a giveaway for you guys (gals lol)! Details below...

I have had MyMemories Suite for awhile now.. and I personally love it! It's so fun and easy to use. Very user friendly and simple. It makes digital scrapbooking a breeze! I have used other software before (photoshop since I'm a photographer.. ) and when it comes to digital scrapbooking MyMemories Suite is so much more fast. 

The best part about MyMemories Suite is simply... no mess! Don't feel like spending the time to clean up/ set up but still wanna be crafty.. this is perfect. 

This is not only for scrapbooking.. but you can use this software to make calendars, and even your Christmas cards! In addition to those great things, I also love the variety available. There are so many wonderful kits in the MyMemories.com store. MyMemories often has great sales on their kits too. They share ideas and have contests on facebook (with prizes!) ;) Also check out their blog for more inspiration.

Now let me show you a few new layouts I've made with it.. just in a few hours I made all 3 of these layouts.. 

My lil Harmony last Dec.. :) how fast they grow can't believe it!! This will be her 2nd Christmas!

Speaking of growing my lil Jayden is growing like a weed.. she'll be 3 this Jan. This is one of (MANY of) my fav pics of her and her daddy :) Aren't they just adorable!

Here is another layout of Jayden and her daddy at the zoo! The hardest part about this layout was trying to decide which great embellishments I wanted to use.

You may notice that these have all sorts of fonts... another great feature is that you can use any of the fonts on your computer for text or even WordArt. 

Ok.. enough of my telling you how great this program is, enter for a chance to win and decide for yourself!!!

How to enter:

Go to Mymemories.com and pick out a favorite kit! Come back here and leave a comment letting me know which is your fav by Thursday Nov 29, 2012 at 11:59PM PST. Please also leave a way for me to contact you in case you win. 

You do not need to be a follower of mine to win this.. just do the above to be entered!

I'll pick a winner using Random.org on Friday Nov 30, 2012 and announce it here I will also email the winner (so again please leave a way to contact you)!

And if you can't wait to win.. go to MyMemories.com and use this coupon code: STMMMS63527 to get $10 off your purchase 

Good luck everyone!

And here are a few more layouts I've made with MyMemories Suite.. one of which is my FAV!!

Jaydens tiny toes..

one of the MANY ultrasounds of baby Harmony...

And my all time FAVORITE!!! so cute! One of Harmony's maternity pics.. I was trying to go for.. (my guess/hope) Jayden's point of view.. I just love this so much! :)

Funniest thing.. all of these layouts only have one pic.. I don't normally do 1 pic layouts for paper or digital.. I guess these are just pics I wanted to showcase on their own.. there is absolutely no restrictions to how many images you can use with MyMemories Suite.

One last thing.. We leave for a vacation to SoCal on Saturday Dec 1.. (CANT WAIT!) and of course we'll be going to Disneyland since well honestly.. what else is there in Cali?! lol! We won't be back until Dec 13.. so there won't be many (if any) crafty posts during that time.

Thanks for stoppin' by and have a great day!

it's snowing layout

I made this super cute layout using some blue patterned paper for the background. I cut the title and all snow flakes out with my cricut and white card stock. I used Gypsy font, winter woodland, & pooh and friends. I cut all snowflakes in different sizes and stamped some with pks faces. I added stickles to some of the snowflakes and "snowing" I also added snow maker to some of the snowflakes.. it puffs up and looks like snow after heated. I put down 2 different photo mats and added Caribbean blue bakers twine over the mats.

I'm entering this layout into the following challenge:

Challenge Me Happy - #33

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purple pumpkin giveaway

hey everyone you're gonna wanna check out this awesome giveaway going on at Purple Pumpkin!!

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Grateful Layout

Hey everyone I made this layout using the Sesame Street Seasons cartridge for the tree, Wild Card for the leaves, and Gypsy Wanderings for the title.

I added orange and yellow irock gems around the corners of the page and on one side of each photo mat. The photo mats are orange textured card stock and the background is yellow plaid patterned paper. The tree is cut from brown textured card stock and all the leaves are from red, brown, orange and 2 different yellow patterned papers. 

For the title I cut the shadow in dark orange.. and the main title in orange glitter paper. After I adhered the title to the main page I went around the edges with a gold gel pen.

I am entering this layout into the following challenges:

Fantabulous Cricut - #136

Paper Playtime - #88

Cricut FANatics - #3

DL. ART Thankful Thursday - Anything goes

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Winner!

Hey everyone I know I'm running a little late posting this.. well I had it all ready and then I never got around to it on the 1st then I was gonna post it on the 2nd well I had my last DT post for MCCR. So better late than never right?!

Without further ado... the winner is...

#2.. thats Jennyplace2! Congrats Jennyplace2!! I couldn't find your email so please contact me via email at babyblueangel_30@yahoo.com. You have 48 hours from this post to get in touch with me about your prize. (If I don't hear from you i'll have to pick a new winner).

Thanks everyone that went over and voted I appriciate it... though I didn't win :( but thats ok and certainly not what matters. I've been looking to have a giveaway lately anyway.

Don't worry if you didn't win I'm sure I'll be having a giveaway sometime soon.. probably for Christmas or Thanksgiving! :)

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My Cricut Craft Room scrapbook fri - pumpkins

Today is My Cricut Craft Room Scrapbook Friday and the theme was to make a fall page. Well when I think of fall sure I think of leaves, and rain, and cold (all things I love!), but I also think of the pumpkin patch.. which is one of my favorite things to do in the fall aside from halloween and everything else fall and fun lol.

So for my layout I used a few different carts.. the title is cut from Mini Monsters, the set of 3 pumpkins is from Holiday Cakes, and the bottom corner pumpkin is from Disney Princesses Happily Ever After.

Most of the paper is DCWV fall/halloween stacks. The photo mats are greenish blue card stock. I added a journaling tag from kraft and ripped it up a bit. At the top I cut a strip of different brown from the same paper line and used scalloped scissors, then I added some pen work in gold and white to help make it more visible. 

To check out all other DT projects today please go to My Cricut Craft Room.

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