Celebrate and Up in the Air with a doily

IT's bee a busy weekend at my house. I worked on three projects. Two for challenges and one for the blog hop that starts on Monday.

So to celebrate a birthday for a young boy, I crated the following card.

I think this card will work well for the
CCEE Stampers- use a doily
theflairandfrillscreativity - celebrate
the morethanfavors- #33 Birthdays
and the 365cards #35 - 3 things in the air.

There should be more soon

Love Link Party

LINK UP LOVE PARTY

Love Link Up Party for All the BRAVE Girls Who Dare To Be....

(Taken from Tumbler)

I have to say I LOVE life even when it's hard. I love it...because God always sends me just WHO I need. He is awesome like that isn't he?
Well yesterday was a fall in the hole day for me...ever have one of those days, where you know you should just not worry about that bump in the road, and fill it in with tons of prayers...but instead you get distracted and fall in it? Yeah that was my kind of day. So I fell in, but God sent help.
If you wonder where I will be for the next day or two, I will be in prayer...earnest prayer. So if you send me an email, or facebook, be patient.
Now I want to celebrate Life today! I know we all see each other's comments and stuff as we run around "blog-la-la-land". But do we really know each other? I would love to have a LINK UP LOVE party this week. All you have to do is add your link to the INklinkz below, and then copy and paste the code below to your blog!
Then SHARE my Link Up Love party on your blog with a link back here to me!
If you would leave me a comment after doing so telling me ONE thing special or unique about yourself, that most people might not know....do this is your blog post too with the code below.
At the end of the week, I'll choose ONE blogger who linked up to spotlight and receive this awesome prize !

Sunshine Spot:
To celebrate, I'm giving out something I LOVE since I'm hosting and co-hosting this blog party today! hahah! A FULL YEAR of CREATING KEEPSAKES MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION!!! This will definitly give you some inspiration on those days you need it (I need it ALOT of days!) I'll announce the winner for this on April 15'th. I will use Random.Org from all the comments/links.
Show EVERYONE on this link some love--Go follow them, leave them a comment, and let's LINK UP SOME LOVE Today!! You will never know how many people your simple act may touch!!! Everyone lo ves to feel loved! Let's LINK UP THE LOVE!!!!

READY.....SET....LOVE/COMMENT....LINK....ADD the LINK to your BLOG!!!

 

LINK UP LOVE  - follow this to get back to the original post on getting cricky.com.

NOW COPY and PASTE this code into your blog post!
get the InLinkz code

Thanks to everyone that participates.  I will stop by all of your blogs and say hello.

A La Card Monkey: Look at the Basket of Goodies for the Winner!!! WO...

 LOOK AT THE BASKET OF GOODIES

Yep, this is the stuff.... Please don't have a Heart Attack when you look at the list. Terry and I are so excited to start this blog we might have gone a little crazy. lol We are so happy about this chance to meet new friends and have fun, we wanted you to feel the same way.

Here is the List of Stuff:

Garden Whimsy 8pc stamp set

Goody-Goody Gumdrops 19pc set

Picnic Parade 15 pc set

Stampin Fun for Everyone 7pc set

Chocolate Chip grosgrain ribbon 5/8"

Fresh Favorites 1 Buttons

Baja Breeze Corduroy button brads

Chocolate Chip Library Clips 1/2"

Sweet Pea stitched felt flowers

Welcome Neighbor DSP pad

Baja Breeze 81/2 X 11 Card Stock

On board Blossoms chipboard

 

If you take and re-post this picture on your blog with a link to A La Card Monkey, and tell all your friends what great stuff we are giving away, you will be entered for a SECOND ticket to the basket of goodies we have for our FOLLOWERS. Yep, there is another basket full of stuff that I am going to show you tomorrow!!!

Just for our Followers!

Good Luck to all our new Friends!

Hugs,

Terry and Shirley

Oh... make sure you leave us a message that you re-posted the photo of our Stampin' Goodies, so we get your name in TWICE!

 

House and Pair

I was working on one more card for challenges this weekend.  I was going to use this for the Disney Cartridge Challenge, but I was to late for that one.  Then there was the "New House" challenge at Celebrate the Occasion. I have notes from another challenge with a couple on it, but I can't connect to the blog. 

If anyone has a suggestion on keeping track of what challenges are out there and the URL's I would greatly appreciate it. I've been writing everything down in my notebook and I've missed some deadlines.  I guess these are some rookie mistakes that I have to learn to get past.

Spring & Something Funny

I was trying to combine a couple of challenges.  The first was CCCCC #11 and use the Forever Young Cartridge.  The second was Wacky Wednesday #32 Something funny and then all the other various challenges wanting something for Spring.  So here was my idea. 

I was thinking of using the card to ask my workout buddy if she's ready to get started hitting the pavement again. 

I'm having real problems with my cricut and getting seriously frustrated.  One time it will cut great and the next it just tears the paper.  When I try to cut small letters, it just tears everything.  I've tried changing the pressure and the speed and just can't seem to get it.  Any suggestions? 

Well, off to get one more card done for the day. 

Tie a bow challenge

I wanted something really springy, feminine and fast for my card party invitations.  I tried to make a purse into a card on my gypsy and realized I just wasnt' that talented yet.  So I went to the local scrapbook store for more ideas.  I was surprised to find out that they had a room in the back full of die cuts that the customer can use for free if they purchased the paper their.  I found this shirt card die and figured I could make it work and then spent two hours looking for just the right paper and ribbon.  By the time I was done, I felt like I should have paid rent or a least bought them lunch for all their help.  I used three different paper patterns and mixed and matched the ribbon to create 25 invitations.  I used some tiny pearls for buttons.  I printed off labels with the party information for the inside to save time. 

I like the invites that were made with single sided paper the best.

I figured I tied quite a few bows this weekend, so it would be good to enter them into the My Craft Spot Challenge #1.  The only problem is, I missed the deadline.  So here's to needing to get my work done a little sooner.