Ice cream Birthday Card

I made this card with my sweet treats cricut cartridge.  At Fantabulous Cricut for challenge me Monday this week the challenge is I scream for ice cream-make something with a cool treat.  At 365 Cards the challenge is having a heat wave.  I don't know about you but with the heat wave we've been having who wants to bake a birthday cake, a birthday sundae sounds sooooo much better!   This is tournament weekend for my son's baseball team they'll need to drink tons of water and maybe eat a sundae. :)  Have a great weekend!

Grandma's 90th Birthday

 A couple of weeks ago we celebrated my Grandma's 90th birthday party.  She is one of the greatest women I know.  Grandma is the one who introduced me to crafting many years ago, she gave me a small plastic sewing box for Christmas one year along with some embroidery projects to make.  I recently gave my daughter that sewing box and introduced her to embroidery thread, right now she is making friendship bracelets.  I think I will show her how to do some embroidery.  Grandma's made every great grandchild an embroidered quilt that they'll save forever.

  For Grandma's 90th my cousin ordered personalized M&M's and I made 160 little treat bags  inspired by My Pink Stamper.  The M&M's had pictures of Grandma on them and they were a big hit!  On each of the tables we placed these picture holders with a picture on each side.  To make these I used mod podge to adhere paper to a piece of wood and followed a tutorial from Mamie Jane's to make the wire holder.  My Aunt had pictures of Grandma as a baby on up to the present.  Grandma loved it and I loved being part of her special day!  Love you Grandma!

My Pink Stamp Design Challenge

My Pink Stamper is having a design team call with a challenge to make a card, scrapbook page, or other Cricut project with your favorite Cricut cartridge using the following colors......Orange, Turquoise, Green, Brown,(other optional color of your choice) I made a card using my forever young cartridge with stickles on the flowers and on the orange.  The card stock is stampin' up and the paper is My Mind's Eye.  The ribbon is from my stash, maybe hobby lobby and the stamp is from an older stamp set.  Have a great day!

Bean Salsa

This recipe from my friend Gail is my families favorite summer salsa.  My husband does not like beans, peppers, tomatoes, or corn in things but he loves this salsa.  Its a great way to get your kids to eat some veggies!  I never wait to let it sit over night, we always eat it right away.  I think I'll make some today...

Bean Salsa:

1 small can corn, drained & rinsed (I use white shoepeg corn)                            

1 12oz can black beans, drained & rinsed

5 roma tomatoes chopped (I usually use 2)

1/2 cup green pepper chopped

1/2 cup red pepper chopped

minced red onion

minced garlic

chopped cilantro

little salt, to taste

lime juice

8oz Zesty Italian dressing

Mix together and let sit overnight.  Serve with tortilla chips.

Enjoy!

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A Little Hello Card

Monday's challenge at 365 Cards  is a color challenge.  At Fantabulous Cricut the challenge for this week is pool time- create a water themed project.  I used my child's year cartridge.  I didn't get a chance to post this card on the 4th, too busy with parade, cooking out, fireworks, spending time with the family.  This year was quieter then usually since our oldest is off the camp this week, first time for him.  Have a great day!

Silly Elephant Card

Friday's challenge at 365 Cards is So Silly-use something silly on your card.  I think this elephant from my paisley cartridge is pretty silly.  Have a great day!

Just a Note Squirrel Card

Thursday's challenge at 365 Cards is feeling fuzzy-giving some element of your card a "fuzzy" feel to it. I just picked up some "fuzzy" felt cutouts from a friend's craft sale. She had this cutout along with some others and these papers in a kit.  The stamp is CTMH and I used my cuttlebug to cut the scallop squares. 

"Blue Ribbon" Birthday Card

Tuesday's challenge at 365 Cards was a Blue Ribbon challenge.  It doesn't actually have to be blue, but at least blue ribbon-inspired. I made a birthday card, I changed the birthday to 4th of July this morning. My son left for camp this morning and I sent it with him since he will be gone for the 4th this year.  I hid it in the pocket of his duffel bag that all his underwear are in, I wonder when he'll find the card...

Turtle Spinner Card

 Wednesday's challenge at 365 Cards was to make a spinner card.  I've never made on of these before but the turtle looks really cute spinning across the card.  I used my paisley cartridge for the turtle.  My kids wanted me to make them one with a twenty dollar bills instead of pennies. :)   Have a great day!

1950's Sunglasses Birthday card

Saturday's challenge at 365 Cards is do that decade-the 1950's.  I thought these glasses from my forever young cricut cartridge looked like some cool 50's sunglasses.  I uses glossy accents for the lenses and it made them look very "neato"!  :)  Have a great day!

Peachy Birthday Card

Thursday's challenge at 365 Cards is just peachy-peach needs to be the dominant color of the card.  This was a perfect time to use some of these flowers I had, they where suppose to be pink but they are definitely peachy.  You never can tell when you order online... Have a great day!

Paper Pieced & Fun With Fabric

 Monday's challenge at 365 Cards is paper pieced with one image and you can use one sentiment.  I did add some pearls and papers, not sure if this is clean and simple but it was a simple card to make, after I was done cutting the paper for the stamped image.  I really like tools to cut for me.....

Which brings me to Wednesday's challenge at 365 Cards  -fun with fabric.  The challenge is to use fabric a specific way to go with a stamped image.  I cut the image and the fabric with my cricut.  I think this is the first time I've tried cutting fabric with my cricut and it worked beautifully, I used heat n bond on the fabric first.  I don't know if this will qualify for the challenge, no stamped image, but I had "fun with fabric." : )  I'm so happy to finally have a couple cards to post.  I've been busy with other things and haven't posting in a while.  We'll see what the rest of summer brings.  Have a great day!

Blog Candy

Here is a picture of some blog candy I won from Paper Transformer last month.  Lots of fun things, I'll have fun playing with it!  I've been so busy these last few weeks I haven't posted anything...  With school out next week I'm hoping to post a few things, who am I kidding with school out I probably won't have anytime.  Hopefully summer will be full of fun times with the kids.  Next year my oldest will be starting high school, where does the time go?  I need to get going on his scrapbook!  Have a great weekend!

Birthday Card

Sunday's challenge at 365 Cards is super sketchy Sunday.