Blog award: A Lovely Blog

I received this blog award from Juls at Papier Creatif. I am so surprised and delighted to be awarded this. She has a cute blog and I think everyone should go and take a peek and give her some love.

To pass it along, I must list 7 Bloggers who have *One Lovely Blog*.
Here are the rules:

1. Add the award to your blog
2. Link to the person from whom you received this award
3. Nominate 7 more blogs
4. Leave a message on their blog letting them know they have received 'One Lovely Blog Award'

Last Serendipity Scrapper Standing Contest

The Last Serendipity Scrapper Standing Contest has just started. Definetly come and check it out. If you can't play along we have Susan Stringfellow spear heading some fun challenges for you. There is also a bunch of other fun things to do: Dear Diary, sketches, Daily challenges etc.

Get 15 sheets of FREE cardstock you pick at Serendipity Scrapbooks store when you have an order of $30 or more in your cart. This is good through Thursday the 18th!!

Here is the blinkie for the Last Serendipity Scrapper Contest- yes it's big-LOL

More Cosmo Cricket Early Bird Cards

So happy, all my thank you cards are now complete. Here they are:


A toast to you, is a thank you card made using the Cosmo Cricket Early bird papers & Ready set chip pieces. Cat's Eye-Yellow Ochre, a fiskars edge punch, MME backyard rub on alphas, Jenni Bowlin mini School alphas, and American Craft Rockabye foam thicker powder blue letter A


This Warm & toasty is a thank you card make with Cosmo Cricket Early bird paper & Elements sheet, AC rockabye foam thickers powder blue inked with yellow ochre & mini olive ric rac

This is another, make with Cosmo Cricket Early bird papers, ready set chip pieces, Yellow Ochre ink, Yellow felt ribbon Chatterbox, and the Thank you rub on is from the Cosmo Cricket Jacks world collection.

This Sugar and Spice thank you card is also Cosmo Cricket early bird papers, Mark Richards red Jewels, Making Memories Ruched olived ribbon, and yellow ochre ink

Thank you for looking!!

Cosmo Cricket Early bird cards

Well, as mentioned I haven't had much energy since my surgery, so not much has been done creatively. I just started getting spurts in the last week or so. I need to do cards for people that are general thank you and thanks about preparing dinners.

So, I thought I would start with stamping- not my forte, but I tried. I will post the one that survived my expectations. I really need to invest in special stamping tools, so I decided to move on to paper crafted cards.

Sad, but nice little stamped card- made with a sizzix die cut, and stampendous stamp set with cherries:

I really must say I thought the Cosmo Cricket Early Bird papers were nice, but didn't realize how addicting and how versatile they could be. I used items from the crafting kit and the ready, set, chip set. LOVE these products! I also used some cluny lace and some cats eye fluid chalk ochre and the stamp set was cutie cherries by Stampendous.

Thanks for looking and have a great day. Another day I will post my Basic Grey Wisteria cards.

Finally back to work -digi layout

I have been recovering from major surgery the last few weeks, and I felt good enough to do this layout with Jennifer Barrette's new Totally BFF kit at Elemental Scraps. She also has her products at Scrapmatters.

I still have a few week more of recovery from surgery, and adjusting to some changes. Thankfully I now have an employee, and may even get to some other little projects. I am slowly making white leg warmers for my DD. Funny the 80's are back and it's "cool". Thanks for looking.

Poor neglected blog...

Sorry, but work has taken over life and life has taken over work. I have projects in planning stages: Knitting some basic leggings for my DD, need to pick up pack of double ended needles.
I also have some cute 3-D cards I plan to make with new Darcies U Cuts.

I will probably not post for another week or two, I will be having a surgery this friday. So, when I am feeling up and get some head way on these projects I will post. Thanks for checking back.

Basic Grey Porcelain card kit

The other night I sat down and made up the cards that come in the Basic Grey Porcelain card kit. I didn't go much off instructions- only used ink, stickles and some jewels to snazzy it up a bit. Thought you might want to see them, and some closeups. The kit is available in the Serendipity Scrapbooks store.

These were very easy to do, took less than 40 minutes while watching tv. Thanks for looking.