I WON!!!!

I woke up this morning to some AMAZING news!

Nilda, over at the Gypsy Spot along with Custom Crops were giving away a Gypsy!! Yep, a GYPSY!!! So I entered the contest never dreaming I would win. I never win anything much less a prize like that! But I did win! WOOOOO HOOOOO!

I cannot believe it! I signed on this morning to look at emails and I saw a comment from my blog in my email. It was from my bloggin' buddy Bridget. She always leaves such wonderful comments on my blog but, this one was especially exciting!!! She wrote: "Congrats on the big win over at the gypsy spot. Lucky you. Enjoy your new Gypsy! "

Well at first I thought she has to be mistaken....it has to be a different Chrissy....lol! SO, I hopped on over to the Gypsy Spot gave a click on #55 and low and behold it brought me right back here!

The laptop went flying and i did some, most likely, pretty awful dancing! LOL!

I cannot thank Nilda at the Gypsy Spot and the people over at Custom Crops enough for offering this awesome giveaway!

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

Golf is life...

Hi there,

I just wanted to share a card with you all. I made this for my hubby's grandpa that just turned 90. He loves golf and god bless him, he still plays!

Side note....poor Tiger Woods should have stuck to just golfing and he wouldn't be in so much trouble...lol!

I'm also entering this in this weeks challenge over at Just Buggin'. The challenge was Sew it. Well, I have a mini sewing machine but haven't got around to trying it out yet.

So here is what I came up with.....

I cut the golf images from Sports Mania. I cuttlebugged the golf ball and then distressed it with Tim Holtz ink. I mounted the "golf is life" on a block that I cuttlebugged with the argyle folder. It has tiny little stitch marks on it. Then I doodled some faux stitches around the brown border of the same box. I hope that will do for the challenge. That's about all my sewing talents for now....lol!

Thanks for stopping by!

Golf & 90th Birthday

Hi there,

I have one more basket to share with you today. My hubby's grandfather turned 90 today so the family got together and had a little dinner for him. He LOVES golf and still plays, god bless him, hubby and I got him a gift card for the golf course he has his league play at. So I wanted a creative way to give it to him.

The bucket is a driving range bucket. I filled it with tissue and put golf balls on the top. The golf cuts are all from Sports Mania. The balloons were cut from George and then run through the Cuttlebug using the argyle folder. 90 is cut from Storybook and finally Happy Birthday was cut from Hello Kitty Greetings.

He really loved it...so I was thrilled!

Happy Birthday Papa!

Thanksgiving Basket

Hi!

I wanted to share the Thanksgiving Basket I did last week for the assisted living Thanksgiving party/dinner.

The pilgrims, Indians, cornucopia, and turkey were all cut from paper doll dress up. I distressed some of their clothes and feathers. There is also a lot of cuttlebugging although it's hard to see in the picture. Happy Thanksgiving was cut from wild card as well as the scalloped oval it's sitting on. The turkey and pies were cut using the Cricut along with Sure Cuts Alot. They are patterns from My Scrap Chick!

Hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend!
Thanks for stopping by.

Shop till you drop!

Good evening!

I had quite the productive day! Tree is up, decorated and lit (that's always the scary part) the rest of the stuff is sprinkled about. Plus, I finished my challenge for the Scrappy Frogs Challenge blog.

This week we were asked to create a shopping themed card being it's the shopping season.

We we're going to post the challenge yesterday, but a lot of us were out doing shopping of our own....FUN! Although I didn't venture to far out in the world.
Here is my take on the challenge....

I used my brand spankin' new Paisley cartridge to weld the purse together to create the shaped card. I used some paper with dresses and shoes as the pouch part of the purse. The flap of the purse is some pink glitter paper I had lying around. The ribbon was from my stash. The "shop till you drop" clasp was computer generated and then cut with Nesties. I added a few adhesive gems here and there and that was it.

Be sure to head on over to the Scrappy Frogs challenge blog to check out what my design team sisters came up with. Don't forget to play along!!!!

Mojo Monday -

Happy Saturday!

I've had my Mojo Monday entry done since Wednesday...

but the days have been crazy and I'm just getting it posted.
Hop on over to Mojo Monday and try their sketches...they are FAB!
Here is my take......

The paper is from K&Company. I used a EKsuccess punch for the top scallops. Ribbon was from Hobby Lobby. The leaf was also from Hobby Lobby's harvest collection. I used the Stampin' Up ticket punch for the corners of the box then added adhesive pearls in the indents.

Thanks for stopping by!
Have a great rest of the weekend!

I won!

Hi!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I'm still recovering from the food coma...lol.

Had a wonderful time with the family but we woke up to snow here in Ohio. Guess that means Santa is on his way! Santa....I'm not ready...LOL!

Anyway, I have some more exciting news! I entered my Cornucopia card into a challenge over at Cricut Cardz Challenge blog and won this weeks challenge. YAY! I now get to be entered in the Grand Prize drawing for November! How exciting! If you didn't get to see the card scroll down it's the very next post....if your interested.....

If you haven't been over to Cricut Cardz Challenge yet you need to give a little click-a-roo right HERE! They have really fun weekly challenges using our little friend the Cricut! The design team over there provides wonderful inspiration every week.

Thanks for stopping by!

One Cornucopia - Three Challenges

Hello There... Me again!

I wanted to share a card with you that I'm entering in two challenges. The first is for Just Buggin'. The challenge this week was two use three Cricut die cuts on your project. I used the cornucopia, banana, lemon, and grapes from Paper Doll Dress Up. I also used the apple from Doodlecharms. I hope that works...lol.

The second challenge is for Bitten By the Bug. I haven't played over there forever. So I was excited to give it a go this week. They we're to use the cornucopia from Paper Doll Dress Up.

Last but certainly not least is Cricut Cardz Challenge...their theme this week is to use a Thanksgiving theme using any cartridge.

Here is the card.....

As you all know the Cornucopia was cut from PPDU. I embossed it with the Distress Stripes
Cuttlebug folder and then distressed it more with Tim Holtz ink. I pop dotted the front to give it a little dimension. I tied some rafia in a bow and hooked it to the tail. The banana and lemon were also cut from PDDU and shadowed with the distress ink. I cut the grapes twice from PDDU, then cut each grape off the second and distressed the edges and pop dotted a select few. I didn't quite get the look I was going for but it turned out OK. All that is mounted on some blocks cut with Nesties and a little doodlin. The flowers are Prima's with adhesive gems as centers.

Overall I like how this turned out.

Thanks for stopping by!

Top 3 Pick! Woo Hoo!

Hi!

I'm sooooo excited today! I just popped over to the Just Buggin' blog to revisit this weeks challenge I'm working on.... and come to find out the card I entered last week was a TOP 3 PICK! Wooo hooo! Check out the card here. I've never made top of any challenge so this is tooo exciting for me!

So now I get to wear this fancy button on my side bar!!!

If you love your Cricut as much as I do, YOU HAVE to visit Samantha over at Just Buggin'. Great Challenges and a TON of fun! Click here.

Thanks for letting me share my exciting news with you!

Harvest

Hi there!

Hope you all had great weekends. My weekend would have been complete if my

darn Browns could have pulled that game off. Soooooo close.

Anyway, I have another Thanksgiving card to share with ya.
This one uses the Unscripted Sketch 32. I love this blog although I never get to play as often as I'd like. Check em out here.

Thanks for stopping by!