Crafting Companion with Cristina - New Years Kiss

Unfortunately this has not made it to Cristina although I have tried to send it a few times. I was honored to be able to participate in a crafting companion challenge with her and she gave me the task of creating something in regards to the New Years Kiss.

I used 3 different Cricut cartridges:

Winter Woodland for the Numbers at 1 inch

Cricut Sampler for the Skyline welded on my gypsy twice at 5.71 x 4.06 (I then punched out all the windows and put white paper behind the black to show through the windows and then trimmed around the skyline)

Sweethearts for the people (sitting couple 3.19 x 3.24, standing couple 2.60 x 5.71 and dancing couple 2.64 x 3.24)

I doodled around everything with my Sakura gel pen.

 I used a QuicKutz die with my cuttlebug for the large circle that contains the number 1.

 I sprinkled Martha Stewart tinsel glitter to look like snow on the buildings and in the background.

The paper used is:

Wonderful Winter by My Minds Eye (I thought it looked like fireworks)

Grey paper is DCWV

Black Paper is The Paper Company

I have been thinking about this for some time and this layout just kept coming back to mind. My daughter actually wants this and will remove the dancing couple to place a New Years picture of herself and her boyfriend.

This was a challenge but I truly enjoyed it. Thanks for letting me play along. 

Let me know what you think. And Happy New Year!! May 2011 bring you much happiness and many blessings!

Hugs, Jenny

Flaunt It Fridays - Designer News - WOOT!!!

See anything new and exciting on my header to the right? YEP -- I am so excited to announce that I have been selected to be a designer on the Flaunt It Friday's Blog! I am already fulfilling one of my 2011 resolutions! I will be participating in my first Blog Hop as a designer on January 7th. I cannot wait to get to know each and every one of the other Designers better. Thanks for letting us get our craft on for you!!

Thank you Sandra and Janis for allowing me this opportunity - I hope to  make you proud.

Blessings, Jenny

Pillow Pets Cards

My niece and 2 of  my nephews wanted pillow pets for Christmas. So to go with their pillow pets I wanted to make them some cards. There was a Penguin, Panda Bear and Turtle. I used Create a Critter for all 3 of the cards. I entered my turtle into the Flaunt It Fridays challenge.

All background paper is Papertrey Ink, I used the MS snowflake punch and the SU scalloped punch. The stamp was a $1 stamp from Michaels and ribbon and raffia are also from Michaels.

Blessings, Jenny

Flaunt It Fridays - Turtle Cut Create A Critter

The Flaunt It Friday challenge this week is to use the Create a Critter turtle on page 64. The challenge was to make something other then a card, but was not required. 

I actually did make a card as my nephew wanted the Turtle Pillow Pet for Christmas and I wanted to give him a card to go with it. 

The background paper is Papertrey Ink. I used a MS corner punch for the snowflake. For the turtle shell I used the spots and dots cuttlebug folder. The stamp was a $1 stamp from Michaels and the raffia and ribbon are also from Michaels. 

Blessings, Jenny

Merry Christmas

May you be surrounded by family and loved ones. May you celebrate and make memories to hold in your heart forever.

But more importantly, remember that this is the day that we received the greatest gift of all....our beautiful Savior Jesus Christ.

Blessings xxoo, Jenny

Mini Album for Sons Teacher

My sons second grade teacher is a doll. So kind and thoughtful. She also has the cutest little guy named Smith. Well, they will be celebrating Smith's 1st Christmas so I thought I would put together a mini album for her to put all the pictures they will take. For Thanksgiving, I had given her one of the turkey cards I made and she mentioned that she was saving that for this scrapbook so I thought I would give her a hand with this mini album: (warning picture heavy)

Some are Cricut Cuts and some are stickers. My daughter says she wants one too. Oh boy!! Anyway, just as I snapped this last picture the battery on my camera died. Charging now so that we can capture all those beautiful Christmas pictures.

Blessings,
Jenny

Cricut Circle Challenge - Shall We Dance

The Cricut Circle challenge this week is to use the Shall We Dance Cartridge and use 9 of something from this cartridge. I have a sweet friend whose son had his first Tap Recital. While looking through the handbook I found a star that would be my 9 of something. I also used the words Tap and Recital. The drape at the top is from the Christmas cartridge. I added 2 photo mats that I thought she could use to just add her pictures to. I will be giving this to her as one of her Christmas gifts.

Making this did 2 things for me... made me use a cartridge that I had not used yet and really made me want to start putting together more layouts. I have been neglecting making layouts and just making cards.  There is always 2011.

Blessings,
Jenny