I'm published!

Yes, that's right, I'm finally IN PRINT!  no no, that's not my work on the cover of that magazine. :) I just wanted to show you what magazine I am in so that's me holding my copy up for all to see!  That is The Bug Magazine, a magazine devoted to all things Cricut.

I am on page 28!

But if you are a fan of the Cricut, you might want to head over to The Bug Magazine and check it out. Get yourself a copy! There's a lot of very nice stuff in it, plus I learned a few new techniques myself, so definitely check it out!

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy New Year!

Wishing all my fellow crafters out there a huge HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Stay safe and enjoy your day!

What did I do on New Year's Eve?  I crafted! A few of my friends/coworkers and I hung out at Scrapaganza and scrapbooked the night away! We almost missed midnight! LOL

Before that, my husband and I took our son out to a kids party at Monkey Joes. I'm sure I'll be scrapbooking that.

Have a wonderful weekend!

My first loom knitting project

My son has been telling me he wanted me to knit him something. I don't knit! A lot of my friends do though, and he's seen them knit. I do crochet however I had been wanting to learn to knit anyway. I am kind of put off by how long it takes to knit things though... then I discovered ProvoCraft's Knifty Knitter looms. I read on the Cricut message board that they are easy to learn and fast to do. So I made this poncho for my son as my first project. :)  It's not that great but I'm learning. :)  My son picked the colors!

I used 2 skeins of Red Heart super saver yarn, a strand of blue and orange together on the green round loom. I flat knit on that round loom... I used all the pegs but did not go completely around, just stopped and turned and knit the other way at the end of a row.

It was fun! I'm going to make me a hat next. :) Thanks for stopping by!

Thank you cards #4

Oooh I love love love this new punch around the page punch! My new favorite! Too bad I don't own it! LOL... the punch belongs to the store I work at. But still, it's a lovely punch.
I love the simplicity of this card. I could make a bunch of these, happily, to send out.

Thanks for stopping by!

Thank you cards #3

This one was a little more complicated. I saw an elegant and beautiful card last year and was inspired to do something similar, but was going purely on memory!  The light green is embossed below, then I embossed another piece of the green. I swiped both pieces with versamark ink, then cut out some of the branches to layer over the bottom layer of leaves.  I pushed too hard on my "merci" stamp. Grrr.
This was a cuttlebug embossing folder by the way, and one I wished embossed deeper.

Thank you cards #2

This is a SUPER simple card. Cut the hearts on my cricut though if you have a punch of the right size, that would work too. Some string, pop dots and a stamp. All done! :)

Thank you cards #1

I know most of us are still thinking of the coming holidays, but I'm thinking of the after the holidays! All those thank yous that will need to be said. :)  So here's a first thank you card of the season. Fairly simple... the embossing is a sizzix embossing folder. I love both cuttlebug and sizzix embossing folders, but the sizzix ones emboss really deep! I love that.

Thanks for looking!