Hello Thursday

Hi Everyone!! Hope you're all having a wonderful day!! It is sunny like spring here where I live.  I love to see the sun shining makes for a even more pleasant day.  I enjoy the outdoors.  I hope to get my miles in today outside. Will see what the temperature is before I go out.  

I wanted to let you know that Cricut has recently released some new awesome cartridges for us to enjoy!! I will put photos of each one and try to give some detail about them as I post them. 

This versatile cartridge is filled with a wide array of boxes, tags, cards, and phrases that are prefect for any occasion.

Cultivate a little bit of paradise with Garden Soup Cartridge! This cartridge has many garden themed cuts.  There are phrases, various shapes and borders.  There are seed packets you can make, 3D items, as well as tags. There is so much more to this cartridge.

Celebrate one of the most important days in someone’s life with the Divine Wedding cartridge by Creative Memories! This cartridge is filled with elegant wedding themed images, phrases, and fonts. You will be amazed at all the beautiful DIY wedding décor, invitations, place settings, thank you cards, and other projects you can create with this cartridge. Use the latest Cricut® cartridges to create unique and engaging designs for every occasion. The versatility of the cartridges will surprise even the most imaginative crafters.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope to have some photos of a project that I have been working on.  I will see what I can do for you so that you may see it.  I am doing this for a surprise.  My Mom and Step Dad's Anniversary is 3 days after mine, but they will be receiving this early as they have a trip planned for themselves around that time.  I want them to be able to enjoy this before they go.  My husband and I also have an Anniversary coming up celebrating our marriage near their date as well. See more in a future posting.

Have a wonderful Cricut Crafting Day!!! 

Grace & Peace,
 

Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!!!

Hi Everyone!! Good Morning!! Hope you are having a great day.  Had a wonderful morning with my husband and son. Had some squishing time with my son.  Now those that do not know my son's issues.  He has Sensory Processing, Dyspraxia and Hypotonia.  He likes to be wrapped tightly into a blanket then pressure applied besides.  I was squishing him and gently bouncing him while squishing ~ the belly laugh that I got from him was delightful for both of us.  We were laughing so much this morning.  He then continued this to the bus stop with being funny.

Son was anxious to get to school this morning to deliver the Valentine's we made. We made turtles and used the sentiment "Turtley Awesome" from My Pink Stamper, Robyn's Stamp set Even More-Punny-licious.  I saw a turtle done on the web and I had fun with this one for the children at my son's school.  We did this together; I then used my Peachy Keen Stamps for the turtle face.  I love that face ... too cute.  We had 60 to get done.  I thought they would never be finished in time with all that I had going on besides these.  We managed to get them done and I was also able to complete the rest of what I have to finish.  I cannot wait to present one of the items when someone returns from their vacation.

Hope everyone has a great Valentine's Day!! Enjoy your day!!!

Grace & Peace,
 

K-Love 30 Day Challenge

The challenge is to only listen to Christian music for the next 30 days and see how it changes your life.  I am going to do this challenge along with friends of mine.  I can't wait to see what everyone brings back to the table of how it has changed their lives. This will be a great time of fellowship with friends.  I am looking forward to it.

Grace & Peace,

Thankful Thursday Valentine Hop

Welcome Everyone!!! I am so glad that you decided to come along on our hop! I am excited about what I have in store for you.  I have pictures of a wonderful fun project I made.  I want to share this with you.  I must say that something special happened between when I made it and now when I am able to share this with you.

Let's now get the formalities in place.  If you have just stumbled upon my site because you're a follower; I am happy to have you here.  I wouldn't want you to miss out on the fun that we have been having putting this together for you. I'd like you to start with Jenny, our wonderful hostess at CrazyAboutCricut.  If you have been hopping along with us and have come from Bobbi's at Rock Girl Custom Designs then you are in the right place.  Thank you for coming...now on to the fun!!! Are you excited?? Ok!!!

Here we go! I was working with son on some lollipop flowers.  We were having fun with different things.  I then had him help with an arrangement we have now on our hutch in the kitchen for Valentine's Day!

I had gone into Cricut Craft Room to make the designs to duplicate something we had seen online in a kit.  I didn't want to pay the price they were asking for the kit so I looked again ~ saw that I could do this so I went on to do it.  Son and I had fun putting them together.  He didn't want the flowers to be just white so he asked me to ink them up so I did that.  He isn't able to do this part.

Here is the end result hope you like.

Supplies:
Cardstock your choice of colors; in this case we used white and pink
Favorite adhesive
Ink if you choose to ink edges
Favorite Lollipops to use
Floral (color of choice)
Glitter hearts
Ribbon (curling - color of choice)
Terra Cotta Pot
Styrofoam ball
Ribbon around the pot
Acrylic Craft Paint (color of choice)
Cricut Essentials Cartridge (Flower in cardstock)
Home Accents Cricut Cartridge

Directions:
Cut your flower center at 2" plus depending upon the size of your lollipop you plan to insert into the center of the flower.  Then use Home Accents Cartridge to cut your hearts at 1.4" These will be placed at the back of your flower off center so the lollipop can still be inserted through the center hole.  The hearts are your leaves for your flower.

Here is a surprise that I was surprised with.  My Mom and Step Dad came over for a visit they brought this after seeing our arrangement.  This is a painting that my Gram Gigi did before she passed away.  They thought it looked alot like our arrangement. The elements in her painting are incorporated in our arrangement or very similar.  Funny how God does that.  I had been thinking of my Gram this week and the happy memories with her.  This just tied it all together for me. Going to leave you with the picture of the lollipop screen shot then two pictures; one of our arrangement next to my Gram's picture and her picture alone.  Thank you for staying.  After the pictures I will give you direction to where you hop next.

Thank you for stopping!!! Here you go now hop onto our talented Amber at My 3 E Scrapbooking. Enjoy the rest of the hop. Hope we have given you some inspiration for Valentine's Day!
Grace & Peace,
 

Hello Thursday

Here are the two that I promised.  Enjoy looking!!

These are not my projects, but they are projects made with the cartridge Giant Flowers.  I really like this one.  I could see many projects coming from this one.  Thank you for stopping.  I will post a project soon.  I promise now that things are settling down.

Grace & Peace,