12 Days of Christmas Cricut Swap

And my partner is Maile Lei.  I sent presents to Maile Lei in Hawaii and she sent me presents to Ohio!  Oh what postage we had!  And fun of course!  :)  Here is a pic of the gifts that Maile Lei sent me.  Her DH made me count down coins from wood.  I just love them and will use them in my December Daily book this year.  I was so excited just to see the count down coins!  Can't wait to see what other crafty items I will get!  Note the Aloha Hawaii on the priority box I received.  Love it!  Love her card too!  So Festive!

Thanks Maile Lei!!!!!

National Cats Day!

National Cats Day was October 30th!

Graycie at play!

TH June Tag 2014

Hi Everyone!

I finally finished it-my June tag!  Took forever to get the technique right but loved how the tag turned out!

I used my Sun "Rays" stencil and the butterfly stamp from Mini Blueprints 2.  I used five colors of ink on the stencil-Squeezed Lemonade, Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade, Worn Lipstick and Festive Berries.  I also used Squeezed Lemonade, Spiced Marmalade, Broken China and Evergreen Bough to watercolor the butterflies.  I made the "Paula Bow" and added a compass coin and says on the sun rays from the Simple Sayings stamp collection.  I hope you like it!

I am also going to enter into the CC3C Challenge 5 sponsored by Inspiration Emporium.  

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Tim Holtz-12 Tags of 2014-May

Hi Fellow Bloggers,

Happy Saturday everyone!  Tim Holtz has done it again-another great tag for May.  This month was really fun since we get to use our embellishment stash.  So here is Tim's Tag!

Here is my tag!  Every month I make two tags- one for me and one for mom.  So this month I decided to make Mom a Mother's Day tag!  I have four generations of the women in my family on this tag-great-grandma, grandma, mom and me!  I am the baby with the alfalfa do in the baby tub.  I used all Tim Holtz items on this tag except the glue and Ranger juniper paint on the ornate frame.  I used the Wallpaper cardstock on this tag and just love it!  I got to use some of my older embellishments: S charm, pen nib, ornate frame and plastic rectangular facet over the pic in lower right corner.  I used the following stains for the background of the tag: crushed olive, peeled paint, evergreen bough and broken china.  I also added vintage photo and walnut stain inks. 

I hope you enjoyed my tag and have a good day!

E

Tim Holtz-12 Tags of 2014-March

Hi Everyone! 

Well, doesn't look like Spring is starting anytime soon with the several inches of snow we got last night.  But at least Tim is trying to inspire us with this month's tag.  The first picture is Tim;s tag and the second is mine.  I really enjoyed Tim's new Air diffuser.  Pretty cool!  I also like his new stamp we used.  Such nice detail.  So onto the tags:

Tlhanks for stopping by!

A Child's Year and Wild Card-Anniversary card for DH

I used the Wild Card cart for the Heart card and heart cutout.

I used A Child's Year for the child cut out with the shadow behind them in black.

I used burgundy, mulberry, creme and black paper.