A craft FOR me, BY me

Hey y'all! Thanks for stopping by to check out more of my creations. I've been getting a LOT of visits lately, and I like that! You're also free to leave comments. 

For this craft, quite often I find that after making a card or something, I like it SO much that I don't want to give it to the person I made it for, so I end up making a duplicate for myself. LOL I've known plenty of crafters who do the same thing! 

Here's a sneak peek, Click below to see what I came up with!

Brave Wings

With brave wings she flies!

A Card for a "Dear Friend"

Hey there crafters! WHEWWWWWWWW!!! I know it's been a very long while since I've been here with a CRAFTY update for y'all, but life has been very hectic and a lot of health issues going on for both Hubby Hazen and I and I honestly haven't had any time to craft.

But, this past week I've been a busy crafty chick! I've managed to get 7 cards done done this past weekend along with 13 Valentine's flat double sided cards for mine and hubby's nephew's, great niece and great nephew and our grand babies (ohhhhhhh------YES!!! That's a whole other post all for itself--watch for a "Life Event" post to come shortly! GREAT NEWS!!!!!). On top of that, I managed to get over 80 images stamped and 30 die cuts done for swaps in a few crafting groups! YEP, I told ya I've been a busy crafty chick!!!

Anyhow, on to THIS CARD! A dear friend of mine recently gave us the news that, after a few years of continuous respiratory issues and several battles with pneumonia, she's just been diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer. This was very difficult news for me to hear as last year I lost another very dear friend to Cystic Fibrosis. That wasn't so difficult because she was in Hospice and we knew it was coming, but to hear about this dear friend of mine being given this horrible news I was very upset. I think it's more upsetting because she has been dealing with respiratory issues for the last 2 years or so and with as many x-rays, ct's etc. that she's had, they really should have caught it before now. But, her doctor did tell her that with it being stage 4, she still has a lot of long years ahead of her with the proper treatment! I was SO glad to hear this. So, to brighten her spirit I wanted to make her a card that showed her how much her friendship means to me. The card came out really cute, it's a card that I've made a version of in the past, I just changed a few things and added a couple other details and used one of my favorite "friendship" quotes on the inside.

So, click below to see the card!

Some More Catch Up-2 GREAT Halloween Cards!

Hey there! I'm here to show you 2 more Halloween cards that I made. One was for my nephew, it was his 1st Halloween! And the other was for his mama and daddy (my brother and his wife, my fav. SIL).

Here are some previews, click below to see the full details and pics.

Card # 1 Preview

 Card # 2 Preview

Still Catching Up-2 More Halloween Cards

Hi! I'm still working hard to catch up on my posts, I'm here to show you 2 more Halloween cards that I made. Check out the previews and then click below to see the details and rest of the pics!

Card # 1 Preview

Card # 2 Preview

Catching up some more...3 Halloween Cards

Hiya! I'm doing an awesome job on getting my blog updated with past craft projects that I just didn't have time to post when I did them. I'm still quite a bit behind, but I'm getting a lot done, very fast. I'm trying hard to get my Halloween projects posted so I can move on to posting my Christmas projects!

Today, I have 3 cards to show you, all from last Halloween. The cards were for the 3 kids of a friend of ours in Kentucky. The kids loved the cards, they never get anything special like this for Holidays (i.e. no handmade cards). It was a nice surprise for them!

Here are 3 sneak peeks, click below to see the rest of the pics!

Card # 1 Preview

Card # 2 Preview

Card # 3 Preview

Playing Catch-Up...More Halloween

Hey! I'm still playing catch-up on my project postings, so here are 2 more Halloween cards! I ended up making a LOT of Halloween cards. Halloween is mine and hubby's FAVORITE holiday, so I always make the cards and hand them out and mail them to friends afar. Last year was no exception, and I really out did myself!! But, I had a blast.

I'm sorry I'm so behind, life just really got in the way. But, check out these previews of my 2 cards and then click below to see the rest of the pics!!

Card Preview # 1

 Card Preview # 2

Still Catching Up...Sharing more Halloween Cards

Hi there! I'm still trying to play catch up on all the blog posts that I'm behind on. Here are 2 more Halloween cards that I had made.

Sneak Previews, click below to see the full pics!

Card 1 preview:

Card 2 preview:

Halloween Happened...

And so did my crafting time making Halloween cards!!!
As I said the other day, I know that I'm very far behind on sharing projects, so here I am with an update and some cute Halloween cards that I made for Halloween.

Here is a sneak peek, click below to see the rest.

Oh Deer! Christmas was here!

Yes, Christmas was here, and these are 2 cards I made last year! lol. :-/ Yes, I'm still posting from last year's Christmas cards. I told y'all, I am WAY behind on posting. I didn't even realize that I hadn't posted everything.
Anyhow, click below to see the deets of the cards. :)

Many 'mini' Christmas Cards-4 of them!

Hello Again! I'm hard at work trying to get my blog updated! All I have left are a few Christmas cards from last year, a couple of the Halloween cards from last year and just a few other cards I made over the last couple of months.

Anyhow, here are 4 more mini Christmas cards I made, with mini Christmas characters! These were so fun to make. :) a pain cutting the little guys out, but still fun to make. :D
Click below to see the deets.

Best Girlfriends B-day!

My GF just had a birthday, and I made this "Faux Card" for her! It's something I've wanted to try for a long time, I've never seen it done before, so I figured now was as good a time as any because I knew I wanted to create a cute little 'scene' for her to enjoy. I figured she could put this on her desk at work, or hang on the wall, or whatever.

Instead of making it an "open and close" card, I made it a "faux card" and instead of having an inside she will just pull the tag out from between the front and middle layers of the scene. It came out SO freakin' cute and MUCH better than I expected.

Here's a sneak peek, click below to see the rest of the pics!

**NOTE: This is a VERY image heavy post, so if you don't have high speed internet, or you're viewing from a cell phone or tablet, pics may take a few moments to load, so please be patient!

Holiday Sweets...Halloween Sugar Skulls, that is! Also--A Sneak Peek!

Sooooo, as I stated in my last few blog posts, I'm far behind on posting all of the 20, YES, TWENTY Halloween cards I did!!! whewwww, I worked for the last 2 weeks of September and the whole first week of October making these cards so they could get out to the recipients.

Then, I guess because I had made SO many, I sent 2 people the wrong cards, then I realized day before yesterday that 1 person never even got a card sent to her (I'm SO very Sorry, Monique!!!!) and I sent my friend's daughter a different card than planned, and later found her original Monster High themed card, sitting on it's drying rack (I set stickled cards aside to dry, out of reach of my cat, who likes to lick the stickles. LOL). Anyhow, I felt bad and ended up not sending it, and now I guess I have it for 2015, which I'm sure will flyyyyyy by as fast as 2014, has! Sorry, Gracie, but you'll get it soon enough.

So, here are 2 of the Halloween cards I made. The black haired sugar skull went to my baby sister, and the red haired sugar skull went to my friend Emmy. They both loved them!
Here is a sneak peek, click below to see the rest!

Cards come in boxes, too!

Woo Hoo, I'm actually updating on a regular basis over the last week! LOL Hopefully, this will continue to happen, because I have SOOOOOO much to share with y'all, the stuff I've done over the last few months!

And, to keep me company, I have my little Stormy kitty. This is pics of her, RIGHT NOW, that I jsut took. She's helping me write this blog post. Well, mainly she is telling me to stop taking pics of her and get back to writing this blog post. But, she is really saying, stop writing that blog post and PET ME!!! lol

 

Anytime I'm in my "craft cave" (my craft room, I call it my craft cave, cause sometimes, I lock myself in here for DAYS crafting!) she is always in here, SOMEWHERE. Usually, it's either on my lap, or on my counter somewhere. I really do try hard to keep her off the counter, and/or off the items I'm working on, because I don't always know if someone is allergic to cats. She is the only one allowed in here with me, out of all our furbabies, because she doesn't play with my stuff, or STEAL IT, like her sister does. LOL

Anyhow....So, My baby sister had her 22nd birthday on December 2nd. WOW, weird! 22 on 12-2-14 LOL. Anyhow, I've always just made her regular folded cards, and this year I wanted to try something different.

I made my first ever CARD IN A BOX! These things are all the rage right now. Well, I guess they were earlier this year, and I'm not really seeing them as much now. Anyhow, this was my first one, and I LOVE how it turned out!

I would have much rather liked having used a cupcake stamp, but I thought something other than a stamped image for the major focal point, would be best. So, a fuzzy cupcake it ended up being! lol

Here's a sneak peek, click below to see the rest!!

Ok, Here's a card!!!

Hey y'all!!!! What's goin' on? I know I was here back in October and said that I'd be back shortly with a post of alllllllllllll the AWESOME and AMAZING Halloween cards that I did, and I know I never came back to post, but a LOT has been going on lately!!! And to be honest, life, and my Bipolar has just completely gotten in the way of me being able to sit down and do a post.

But, alas, HERE I AM WITH A CARD!!!
So, "last" week, on Wednesday the 26th, the day before Thanksgiving, I had to rush and make my brother and his wife, my FAVORITEEEEEEEEE sister in law, a Christmas card. They were here visiting for thanksgiving, but we did our Christmas since they will be in Montana for Christmas with her family.
But, I can say, my Christmas gift was a beautiful Big Shot machine. Mine is still in storage in Vermont and I was using my mom's. So, my brother and SIL got me my very own! (I'll post a pic of the gorgeous one I got, at the end of the post!)

Oh, and BTW, I'm going to be an AUNTIE, again. yeah, so my prego SIL gets to spend Christmas with her family, but I got to spend thanksgiving with her. :D
Anyhow, here is the card I made them.... sneak peek, click below to see the rest.

Cute Kitty Graduation!!

It's that time of year again, all the youngin's are graduating High School. My cousin-in-law, Lizzy is graduating from a magnet technical academy. She will be going into the Air Force to be a CSI. totally cool!!!!
I haven't been around her for YEARS because hubby and I left vegas when she was little to move to Kentucky. But seeing her now, she is so grown up and I just remember the cute little one she was, now I see the grown up, funny and smart one she is. :)

Her mama told me that she really likes Hello Kitty and the color purple, so I knew I had to make her a graduation card with the Hello Kitty theme. So, here ya go... here's a sneak peek...click below to see the rest of pics...


I wish this pic would have come out a little better... She has a PURPLE bow. :) I embellished the pieces.
My cricut machine is back east in storage, so I went to my LSS (local Scrapbook Store) Scrapbook Kyndyland and picked my cardstocks and she cut it for me. :) she came out so cute once I put her all together.

Just wanted to say... Here's 4 more cards!

Here are a couple more cards I made.
My mom found these stamps at walmart on clearance for .50 cents each and she was kind enough to buy one of each for me.
Here's a preview of one of the sets... click below to see more

My Mini's! Cards that is...

Hey y'all, well I said I had a lot more to show you, and that I'd update again soon...bet ya didn't think it would be 30 mins from my last post though, huh? LOL

So over the last few months I've made a TON of mini cards. This post is dedicated to those cards.
Here is a Sneak Peek, click below to see the rest...

Friends...

I finally got to play with one of my new stamp sets I got the beginning of the year. It's the Stampin' Up! Vintage Vogue set. I LOVE how this card came out. I did a lot of fussing over this card and ended up taking it apart a few times and adding stuff then taking stuff off and putting it back on etc. before I finally got it how I wanted it.

I actually made 2 of the same card, but I made them color opposites. So, on one card where there was pink, I made that same space teal on the other card, and vice versa on other colors. these cards have 3 colors, white, pink and teal. These cards are for sale, see bottom of post for info...

the butterflies are flowers that I altered and added pearl floral stamens to, to turn them into butterflies. :)
Here is a sneak peek at the card, click the clicky to read more and see the rest of the pics...

A few new cards!

Well hello there friends! I know it's been a little while since I've posted anything, but things have been EXTREMELY hectic here! Hubby just had his 18th back surgery. we are hoping this will be the last one for a while!

Anyhow, Just wanted to share a few cards with you that I made last month that I haven't posted here yet. Hope you like...