Awesome Blog Candy Link

Enfys is giving away an awesome prize on her blog. A complete set of ProMarkers. Scuttle over soon because the contest ends 11/14. http://going-buggy.blogspot.com/2010/10/win-entire-range-of-148-promarkers.html

Scrappy Ornaments

This ornament was made with some cuts from the Elegant Cakes cartridge. One large flower and three smaller spaced around the paper band embossed with the Cuttlebug Plum Blossom Embossing folder. The embossed paper strip is attached to the ball with very tacky double sided tape. The flowers are glued and embellished with antique linen distress stickles.

 Strip of paper with 4 rhinestone brads spaced equally around the ornament, attached with very tacky doublesided tape.

The flowers were assembled (these were from 3 Birds) and held together with the brad. Then attached to the ornament with some substantial glue dots, 1/2  inch wide with about 1/8 inch depth. I'm thinking it would also be fun to cover the ornament completely.

 Papertrey Ink White twine in 3 Birds Buttons. The buttons were attached to the ornament with a hot glue gun..

A border cut from the Elegant Cakes cartridge. The circumference of the ball was about 6 1/2 inches. This was cut fit to length at 7.5 because there was some overlap needed. I applied Stickles to the front of the cut.

WOYWW and guest star autograph

I'm putting together a set of cards from a kit purchased from HSN at least a year ago. It's sort of fun, but I'm missing the heck out of my still broken Gypsy. Provocraft sent a shipping label and it's on it's way to be replaced by a new one with the same serial number (so I can re-link all the cartridges). I've also been working on Christmas balls decorated with papercrafting materials (coming soon to a post near you) which you can see a bit of at the top of the picture. They are along the lines of the Harvest ornament in the post below this one, except for the one with buttons lol.

But when I get a little down about my gypsy being out of commission I just look at ...

my Tim Holtz autographed copy of Papercrafts I won :D. I don't really keep it on my workdesk, but I thought you all would appreciate it and not say "Tim Who?" and I would have to reply "He's like a Crafting Super Hero", like I do in my regular life (except for my oldest younger sister who was very very excited).

If you are curious about WOYWW (what's on your workdesk? wednesday) hop over to Julia Dunnit's Stamp Ground blog and have a gander at an assortment of workdesks or even join in the fun :D.

Harvest Ornament

This took about 20 minutes to assemble (including applying the Stickles) and a couple of hours for the Stickles to dry. Measure the circumference of the ornament and add about 1/4 inch. Cut the paper strip and apply a really tacky doublestick tape to the back. I cut a mat about the same size as the paperstrip and applied a harvest time tag. I tied the cotton string on the tag before I attached it to the mat and unfrayed the twist after the stickles had dried. I used icicle stickles on the pumpkin leaves and copper stickles everywhere else. I used a roll of foam tape to hold the ornament while the stickles were drying. All the paper and the hang tag come from the November Club Ruby Designer's kit.

Cricut Lite Sale at Walmart.com

I just broke down and bought two carts (I've been very restrained about buying more carts since August). There's a two for $55.00 sale on Walmart.com, the email gave me the impression it was a while supplies last sale, but the link was provided by someone on the Cricut message board so I'm not exactly sure if they are related. The link is http://www.walmart.com/ip/Cricut-Lites-Cartridges-Two-for/15230526. I'm sort of hoping this ends soon, because I only have six of these (plus the two I just ordered) and it's so much easier not to buy anything if the temptation isn't there lol.

Cupcake Card and Broken Gypsy

I lined all the layers for this cupcake from Create A Critter out on my Gypsy and arranged the paper on the mat, inserted the cord in the Gypsy... nothing... tried again and the port fell in the Gypsy. I think I blinked at it in disbelief for about 5 minutes. All day long, I've been having "My Gypsy broke!!!" moments. It's almost a physical pain. I know there's way worse things that could happen, and I'm grateful it's only the Gypsy, but it's still a shock to my system lol.

The good news is that I bought the extended warranty last year. Provocraft is sending me a shipping label. The bad news is my gypsy is broken lol. And I have quite a few files I never backed up which are now irretrievable. On the plus side, the gypsy is still working (except for the port) so I can take some digital pictures and write down all the carts, sizes etc. Thank goodness I saved all the calendar grids! It's going to be a longggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg 3ish weeks. Looks like I'll be making my Christmas cards Ole Skool. Thank heavens for Above Rubies Cricut A to Z!!

OK so back to the card, DD requested a yellow and pink cupcake with a face. So Create A Critter to the rescue :D. I used black diamond Stickles in the eyes and mouth, cotton candy around the pink wrapper and crystal around the frosting. The stickles on the frosting were intentionally flattened with my finger (a technique I learned on a Two Peas in a Bucket video class).

So tonight we're going to watch The Ghost and Mr. Chicken ("They even used Bon Ami!") and have Tuna Noodle Casserole and peas for dinner and maybe tomato soup since it's such gray Almost November day.

BTW I'm thinking HSN is the place I'll be buying all my PC machines from now on as long as they have those lovely extended warranties!! And PC's customer service was awesome.

Playing with Serenade by Flowerdisco and Friends

This is the last post of Playing with Serenade by Flowerdisco and Friends. We've done the entire cartridge! Thank you Flowerdisco for organizing this, and thank you Friends for sharing your wonderful projects. I've really enjoyed playing along.

This week I had a flourish, so I made a Celebrate with a Flourish card. Most of the scrap paper is K&Co. I think with a little Stampin Up and a card base made with Hawaiian Breeze Papertrey Ink. I didn't have a stamp that said this, so I wrote it by hand and then used hand drawn frames to tie it to the card.

Be sure to check out what everyone else made.

1. Abby- http://www.scrapbookaholic.blogspot.com/
2. Agnes- http://flowerdiscosscraphut.blogspot.com//

3. Gaby- http://gabycreates.com//
4. Helen- http://craftingcricutmom.blogspot.com//
5. Jessica- http://luvcraftingwithcricut.blogspot.com/
6. Melissa- http://melissaward72.blogspot.com/