Give-A-Way Alert!

Tracy over at Owl Be Craftin' is having a give-a-way to celebrate her 100th post.  You can check out her give-a-way here.

Pass it along.....the Liebster Blog Award

I'm a new follower for each of the talented ladies below and would like to share the Liebster Blog Award with them. 

If you want to see some amazing Copic detail work stop by to see Crystal at Creations by Crystal.

I can't wait to see what creations Claire at Three Waters Creations will make just by using her stash! Check out her blog for some fun handmade cards. 

Haven at Haven's Haven has some great layouts that she used sketchs as her inspiration.
 
For some neat DIY projects and layouts visit Beth at My Serendipity.

For some more cards head on over and check out Stephanie at paperANDi.

Here are the rules:

• Choose 5 up and coming blogs of fewer than 200 followers to award the Liebster to.
• Show your thanks to the blogger who gave you the award by linking back to them.
• Post the award on your blog.  Link back to the blogs you have given the Liebster to so everyone else can pay them a visit.

By the way if you choose not to receive this blog award I won’t take any offense but just know the spirit that is intended with it.

My FIRST blog award!!!!

I am SO excited!!!! What a great way to start of 2012!  I have received my FIRST Blog Award!!!!  Kathy from 3 Spoiled Dogs and a Cricut honored me with the Liebster Blog Award!  

Thank you Kathy!  

Here are the rules:

• Choose 5 up and coming blogs of fewer than 200 followers to award the Liebster to.
• Show your thanks to the blogger who gave you the award by linking back to them. If you are not a follower of theirs, that might be a nice way to show appreciation for the award.
• Post the award on your blog.  Link back to the blogs you have given the Liebster to so everyone else can pay them a visit.

How to Make A Sock Cupcake

I had a request for the instructions on how I made my sock cupcake.  

Hope you enjoy! 

Here are the items you will need: 

Cricut Imagine

Cupcake Wrappers Lite Cartridge

Yummy Imagine Cartridge

white card stock

spa socks

red pom pom

 I used the new Cricut Craft Room to design the cupcake wrappers. 

I LOVE how you can use a piece of plain white 12x12 cardstock 

and get 3 totally different patterned cupcake wrappers using the Imagine!! 

Cupcake Wrappers Lite - Flowers2-s

Yummy Imagine - Pattern on page 38 (for the brown cupcake wrapper)

 The width is set at 10 inches. 

The height is set at 4.167 inches. 

You can get 3 cupcake wrappers on each 12x12.

This size fit my thick spa socks the best, you may need to

 increase or decrease the size depending on your socks. 

 My pink spa socks are from JoAnn's.  They are thick and very fluffy.  

Start by laying the socks out one on top of the other. 

 Begin to loosely roll socks, using the bottom as your guide.  

I rolled mine so that the heel would be an extra layer of  "icing."

Continue rolling....

 Done....now you just need to tweak it a bit to look like layers. 

 I pinch the inside layers a twist them a little to create a space for the cherry (pom pom).

 Using the bottom of the sock as my guide helps me to roll the socks so they are flat on the bottom.  They fit into wrapper nice and evenly. 

Add a cherry (pom pom) and VIOLA! 

You have a cupcake with ZERO calories and is just as sweet! 

If you make your own sock cupcakes, I would love to see them!  

Sock Cupcake & Matching Card

I brought in the new year spending time with my family, scrapping, organizing and blog hopping.  I came across Diana's 1 Year Blogaversary (I didn't even know there was such a thing!)  at DL.Art.   She had several designers lined up and as you went to each designers blog you needed to find the 4 designers that had a clue so that you could create a project for a challenge to win a Sweet Tooth Boxes Cricut Cartridge (and from my previous posts...you know I LOVE Cricut Cartridges).  I also wanted to use my new stamp set!  

I made a birthday gift (sock cupcake) and a matching card for my entry. 

Inside card reads: You are number 1 in my book! Happy Birthday to someone so sweet!  Just relax and snuggle up and take a load off your feet!  

Recipe: 

Cricut Cartridges: Imagine - Yummy, Cupcake Wrappers, Hannah Montana

My Pink Stamper: Sweet Goodness

Ink: Timber Brown

Cardstock: Brown - Bazzill Sugar Daddy; Pink - Coredinations Gemstones Pink Diamond; Green Glitter - Unknown

Stickles: Cotton Candy, Crystal, Magenta, Firefly, Copper

Misc: Felt ribbon, pink spa socks, pom pom

Thanks for stopping by and please stop by Diana's blog and wish her a happy blogaversary! 

My first set of My Pink Stamper stamps!!!

Oh what fun!  I received my FIRST set of My Pink Stamper stamps in the mail last week and I can tell you already........

I LOVE THEM!!!!!

I purchased Sweet Goodness because of it's versatility.  There are stamps for birthday, anniversary, Valentines, thank you, encouragement, miss you, and friendship...just to name a few.  

Another first for me, I purchased my first Copic marker (C3 - Cool Gray).  Thank you Michael's for a 50% off coupon.  I chose this marker because I've seen a lot of people use it for creating a shadow.  

Stayed tuned for my first project using my new stamps!  It's really sweet!

Starting Off the New Year........

Organizing!

I decided to continue re-organizing my scrap space today.  

Today I focused on my Cricut cartridges, books and overlays.  As I was making my list of Cricut cartridges that I own I started wondering...when does it stop being a hobby and when does it start being an obsession?    I had NO idea I had over 100 cartridges!  I knew that I could create a card, scrapbook layout or mini-book on just about ANY subject with the cartridges that I had (and THAT is a great feeling).  

I love crafting and try to craft at least weekly.  Even though I probably think about a project (or projects) several times in a week (thank goodness for idea journals) - the reality is most weeks I only get to play once or twice a week. 

I've posted my storage idea before but I filled in the containers (which are previous Plano tackle boxes) 

and got all of my books and overlays in one place. 

Easy to find and now all in one place.

Thanks for stopping by.