Now it's Cozy near Seattle...

Here is the picture I promised of my MIL's Cricut Expression Cover. How stinking cute!! I am telling you, these things are so nicley made. You should hop on over to Kathy's blog here.

She has plenty already made up. She is so super sweet!! Did I tell you she spends her day training monkeys?!! (Not really, but close..she is an elementary school teacher). If it's anything like here in Texas, the kiddos just finished their testing and I bet the teachers could use a nice crafting break.

Feel free to email her, she answers promptly and our "Cozies" turned out so wonderful.

Carrie

Finally!! A card!!

I know the picture is horrible. This card literally took me less than 5 mins. to make. I used my Gypsy and cut the airplane at 3 inches from Mickey and Friends cartridge. I CASED (Copied And Stole Everthing) this card from the Occasions Gallery on Splitcoaststampers. Luckily the sun was shining on Sunday, unfortunately it made the card too bright for the picture. I stamped my own clouds using a 1 1/4 scallop circle and sponging around the edges.

Forgot to add: The paper is retired SU!, the "happy birthday" is from Teeny Tiny Wishes (SU!).

I am going to make tons of these. It's not too often you find easy boy cards to make just to have on hand.

Thanks for looking,

Carrie

It's pretty cozy in here...

I got an early birthday present. My MIL got me this GORGEOUS cover for my Cricut. You can find more of these quilted covers at Kathyscozies.

I will tell you, many years ago I bought a cover for my Wishblade. It is thin, cheap and only does one thing good...keep the dust out.

Kathy's cover matches my pink and green room and is thick and quilted all over the place. She was even able to custom make a Mickey Mouse one for my MIL. I will have to get a pic to share with you guys.

They are so reasonably priced. She does excellent work. And she is a 3rd/4th grade teacher (??), so let's support her in any way we can!!! This is her therapy, who the heck wouldn't need therapy after dealing with that age!!

I can't tell you how happy I am with my cozy!!!

Carrie

MY PEN HOLDERS ARE HERE!! MY PEN HOLDERS ARE HERE!!

Once again my husband has spoiled me rotten. I am a follower of Amy Chomas for a little while now. She is having an inventory reduction sale on her pen holders for the Cricut and I was lucky enough to make a deal with the hubby to get them. Woo Hooo. Okay, so no lie I have only had them out of the package for 5 mins. I started getting my mini sharpies out and my scrap paper, I totally thought I would know what to do, Duuuuh, I have only watched her youtube video at least 100 times. Nope, I had a brain toot and had to stop and watch again. Here is what I came up with after ripping open my package and watching the video....


The smaller circle with the butterfly is my attempt using just the Cricut, the sharpie holder, and the cartridge the regular way. Obviously it is supposed to be able to fit...I know it was operator error. The larger circle with the bird is using my Gypsy. It worked perfect!! First I placed the bird on my mat screen and loaded the pen holder according to the directions, then a message comes up on the Gypsy asking if you want to "Go back to design" or "Add to design". I just added to design, it prompts you to save at this point, which I think you have to do in order to know the original position of the bird. When I went back to the design the bird was in Gray, so it did not cut. I just added the scallop circle and POOF!!! BAM!! BOOM!! WAAAAA ZOOOOO!!!

I wish you all could see my excitement. I am CRAZY GIDDY right now. With the pen holders and the power of my Gypsy....NOTHING CAN STOP ME!!! MuuuaaaaHAHAHAHHAAHA!!!

Okay, so stay tuned for more....I am still working on the nerves to make a video...maybe this is my sign.

Big Hugs!!!

Getting there...just a little sidetracked...

Hi All!

So I am working on a baby album and went looking for some paper. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE paper stacks. I have them all lined up on top of one table. I had a problem because I didn't know where one stack started and one ended. It was a huge problem, not because I would damage any paper, but because all of that pretty paper would distract me.

A very long time ago I bought these divider thingy's to organize my stamped images. Well, that really went out of the window, so I dug out my thingy's and this is what I came up with.

Here is the line of stacks all together...

I kinda have them color coded. The purple are My Minds Eye and the Green are DCWV and the Blue are random stacks that go within a "subject"...for example I have Nana's Kitchen by DCWV, but I also have I Love Baking by Paper Studio, so I put them together. I have all of the kids, baby and then Spring, Summer and Flowers together. I like it, it has worked for me. It's just now I can cut down on the paper cuts, and distractions....Yaaaay me!!!

I love seeing how people organize their stuff. I hope this helps someone else out.

Big Hugs,
Carrie

I finally fit into a medium!!!

Okay, so it's not the size of my clothes...yet...but someday. My hubby got me a prezzie today. I like to think it's because of the color and he just wanted to be nice. I am sure it is a little of that and so that I don't like another "Dude" when I am riding with him on the back of his bike. I am sure with me in a black jacket and black helmet and on a bright yellow motorcycle we could surely be thought of in a totally different way...haha!! Now I look like an actual hot babe riding on the back of the "booty launcher"...that is my new name for his bike. Since I haven't been very creative lately, I thought I would share this with you all.

I hope everyone is well,

Carrie

I am a total copy cat!!

I am a copy cat and I don't care. I have had a couple of new stamps from Kraftin Kimmies Stamps and are just getting around to getting some ink on them. I used the sample from their website and noticed that I had the same paper. So off I went to make the same thing. I started stamping using Stamping Bella's about 4 years ago and used to have to color images all of the time. Then I fell in love with Stampin' Up! and don't have to color so many images, it's a nice break. Coloring images is good therapy, I have to admit. After taking almost an hour with two little interruptions (named Goose and Blake), I finally finished this card. The paper is Basic Grey.

Thanks for looking,

Carrie