Fifty and Fabulous Blog Hop and Blog Candy!

If you are here for Angie's Paper Passion's 50th Birthday Blog Hop and you have just come from visiting Normea at http://mmdezigns.blogspot.com/, then you're in the right place! If you've just happened across my blog and would like to play along with our fun hop, you can go to http://angiespaperpassion.blogspot.com/ and start at the beginning.


I can't tell you how excited I am to be celebrating with all the gals on the Fifty and Fabulous Blog Hop today!  We are happy to wish Angela a very happy birthday!  And I, for one, am happy to welcome her to the over 50 gang! 

Angela asked only that we make a project of any kind depicting a celebration, birthday or party using our Cricut.  I am primarily a scrapbooker,  so I decided to make a double page layout.  Since my daughter and husband have birthdays on consecutive days in July, we always celebrate them together.  Both of them hate to have their picture taken and this year was no exception.  These were taken inside a dark and wonderful restaurant called Prejeans in Lafayette, LA.  They are not good pictures, but they are what I have!!  I try not to make the layouts too girly or too masculine.  I really like the way they turned out this year.

I used a hodgepodge of paper and items I had on hand to make this layout.  I'll try to list what I used, but forgive me if I leave something out and feel free to let me know if I do and I'll add it later.

I used:
Cricut Celebrate with Flourish cartridge
Creative Memories cardstock, printed paper, adhesives and tools
Basic Grey printed cardstock, Lemonade
Pearl accents are from Kaisercraft
Bo Bunny cardstock and buttons
Cuttlebug and swiss dots embossing folder
Prima flowers
Chalk Ink by VersaMagic
Numbers are Thickers
Karen Foster scrapping floss
Celebrate ribbon (came from a local scrapbook store, Woven Hearts, and I don't know the manufacturer)
There is one sweet floral paper that I don't know the manufacturer

Now for the blog candy!  I will give away one of the new Creative Memories exclusive Cricut carts, Stork's Delivery, to one of the lucky blog hoppers!  Just leave a comment today before 12:00 midnight or follow my blog and you will be eligible to win!  I am new to blogging, so this will be chosen the old fashioned way, numbers in a hat!!  Please leave me a way to contact you!


Please be sure to visit the other blogs participating in the Fab 50 blog hop!

Angie - http://angiespaperpassion.blogspot.com/  


Dawn - http://scrappyrn-scrappyrn.blogspot.com/

Janice - http://www.cricutconfessions.com/

Normea - http://mmdezigns.blogspot.com/

Nancy - http://lanancyworkshop.blogspot.com/   <-----YOU ARE HERE!

Michelle - http://paperaffair.blogspot.com/

Barb - http://craftinginparadise.blogspot.com/

Debbie - http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.debseclecticthoughts.blogspot.com%2F&h=82214c2HYPsii-VYU9Pr4gG9xMg

Marcia - http://scrappin-times.blogspot.com/

Veronica - http://www.iteachscraps.blogspot.com/

TinaGale - http://tiggersscrapplace.blogspot.com/

Monique - http://mixonthememories.blogspot.com/

Christmas Decor is out and Mardi Gras is In

Actually, I had this all done last weekend but I haven't gotten it on this blog.  Ugh!  I promised myself I would do better at this and I'm already a week behind!  Any way here are some of the decorations at our house.

Where does the time go!

I am so behind on posting here!  Some of the photos in the header are from our Thanksgiving Day lunch at my sister-in-law's house.  It was as always lovely.  The cousins always have the best time together and the family resemblances seem to get stronger the older they get.  I must say, we have the most beautiful girls and the most handsome boy cousins around!  I'll be back soon when I get some photos of projects to post.  It is not that I don't creat, but I don't take the photos!

A couple of photos from croptoberfest

We had our annual Croptoberfest at New Life last Friday and Saturday.  It was such a busy weekend in DeRidder-cancer walk, Kari Jo's shower-that our group was small but wonderful.  We really had a productive and fun time.  Here are a couple of photos of the goodie bags we made for the group.  I really love the way they turned out.

Hi there-I'm still alive and kicking!

I have to be the world's worst blogger.  I like to read blogs, but I am terrible at posting to them.  Anyway, here is a card I designed for my niece's baby shower.  I really like how it turned out.  I used the Cricut New Arrival cart for the monkey at 4".  I used CM cardstock for the monkey and card base.  I used DCWV for the rest of the card and I got the ribbon at a local LSS in Lake Charles-Woven Hearts.  I cut "eli" at 1" from Nursery Rhymes, my new favorite font cart even though it isn't really a font cart!

Not really much of a blogger....

Well, I guess anyone who has stumbled upon this blog has realized that I am still struggling with posting here more than every 6 weeks or so.  I will try to do better....

Here is a little card I made for my DH's "Girl Friday's" lingerie shower.  Krystal and Josh got married Saturday night in a beautiful ceremony.  More about the wedding later.  I made this little card to accompany her lingerie shower.  The gift looks a lot like this only it is solid black.

Krystal also asked me to decorate some water bottles that she was putting in the goody bags of the out-of-town guests.  I used my trusty Cricut and some vinyl and they turned out well.

Yudu screen print

Here's a design I created with my Cricut Design Studio and then used vinyl to make a screen and printed it on the shirt.  Very easy to do and you can virtually make any design you can cut or print!