Yes I'm Still Here

Hello Everyone!


I'm still here. As you may know I'm currently in Nursing school. I was busy with tests before Spring Break, then a Spring break full of wedding planning. Then my fiance and I are fortunate enough to have gotten sick over spring break and we have been bumming around since Saturday (Upper Resp Infection, Bronchitis). We both started on some meds today so hopefully we will be feeling better soon!! 


Here is a card that I made a couple weeks ago for my best friend's birthday. She was going to Vegas for her birthday so I decided to make a card to hold some extra gambling money. I normally do not like to give money, but I thought it fit this occasion. I forgot to take a picture of the inside, but I used clear photo corners to hold the bill in the card.

How Old? was cut from Lyrical Letters. The dice were drawn with the cricut markers, then cut out...from Designer's Calendar.  I popped them up with Pop Dots. (My fiance informed me that pop dots are my "trade mark." Haha!)

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Thank You Card

For Valentine's Day Wyatt surprised me with WAY too much Cricut supplies. I made a little wish list on customcrops.com and the stinker bought ALL of it. This included 3 cricut cartridges: Paisley, Sweet Treats, and Doodlecharms and the My Pink Stamper Stamp sets Everyday OcCasions and Simply Sweet Occasions. When the box arrived I just had to play with them, so I made him a Thank You card.

The frog is from Paisley cricut cartridges, one of the MANY cute images on this cartridge. I seriously love it. The stamp is from My Pink Stampers Simply Sweet Occasions stamp set. I love love love her stamps. They are made to go with the cricut in that they are much smaller sentiments than you normally find. I love it. I was always complaining that my stamps were too big. I can't wait to see her 3rd and 4th sets!

I used my trusty Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder on the frog to give him some texture. I really want the Tiny Bubbles embossing folder for this, but I can't find it anywhere!! As always, the frog is popped up on Pop Dots. Today Wyatt informed me that Pop Dots are my "trademark." How funny, if only he knew about the rest of the bloggers out there. But I'm surprised he noticed how much I use them!

Get Well Card using Wild Card Cricut Cartridge

I made this card for my grandpa when he has his hip replacement last month. I just love Wild Card, it takes the work out of making cards.

I added some Crystal Stickles to the letters and the spots in the bandaid.

Thanks for looking!

Time for a Lay Out

I recently jumped into using divided page protectors along with my traditional 12 x 12 pages. I feel like this is cheating!!  It's amazing how fast pages come together using these. I never intended on using the divided page protectors but Im SOO behind I just had to. Wyatt and I have been together for 6 1/2 years, I have NOTHING done in our book!!!  I made each of us books of our childhood, but not one of us.  Part of the reason I am so behind is that I'm doing pages on things, like Proms, that our in our individual books too. I can't help it, I just want a book of us from the beginning on!  Here is a recent page that I did of our first prom.

I tend to keep my pages pretty simple. The title is from Lyrical Letters Cricut Cartridge and then I just added some bling to the letter and pictures.

The picture above is the other half of the layout using the divided page protector. This one has a 12x2 inch slot, 3 4x6in slots, and 2 6x4 in slots. I just need to add some journaling to the bottom right slot and this will be finished!

1st Birthday Card

I made this card for my nephew Ethyn's 1st birthday. This was a quick card, I actually borrowed one of his mom's cartridges for this one while I was watching him  =P That boy loved watching the Cricut go!!

The party hat was cut from Cuttin Up. The letters at 1 are from Don Juan. I just love the Don Juan font!  I added some stickles to the hat, it just needed something!

I normally don't do much with the inside of my cards (shame on me) but I just had to on this one. I thought it made the card so much better. This cut is also from Don Juan. Enjoy!

Gumball Machine Valentine's Day Card

This card I made for one of my Nursing School classmates' 7 year old son. They were having mystery Valentine's day mail, so I wanted to send him a card. I LOVE how this card turned out. I had no idea what to make for a little boy, but as soon as I saw this gumball machine I knew! 

The gumball machine was cut from Sweethearts. I ran the red background through the Cuttlebug using the Spots & Dots embossing folder. The ribbon and stamp have both been in my stash for a while, not sure where they came from! I used Black Diamond Stickles on the machine and Crystal stickles on the gumballs.

I used some Pop Dots on the gumball machine and sentiment for some added dimension.  Did I mention how much I love this card? Hope you do too!

Thank You Card using Everyday Paper Dolls

I made this Thank You card for one of my clinical preceptors. I LOVE the nurse (and just about everything else) on the Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge.

The Thank You is from Sweethears Cricut Cartridge. I used Peachy Keen Stamps Simple Simons face assortment for her face. For the background I ran my yellow cardstock through the Cuttlebug using the Swiss Dots embossing folder.

I hope you like it! Feel free to leave comments and suggestions. Have a great day!