I had some really quality craft time the past two days.  I've been able to make my Mother's Day cards, Dad's birthday card, and even (early I know) a Father's Day card!  It was so much fun to hang out in my craft room and just create, sometimes I wish this was my full time job!  Until that becomes my reality, the next best thing is to share all of my creations here on my blog.  So with further ado, the 2 Mother's Day cards I recreated from some Stampin'Up! mailers.  The one on the left is from March 2012's Stampin Success and the one on the right (if you're looking straight at the screen) is from the Occasions Mini catalog.  I put a few twist on each project as well as changed up the stamp sets but overall they are pretty exact.  I'm excited to give them out to the two fantastic "mothers" I have in my life.  I just realized that I didn't make one for my Nana!  Yay, now I have a reason to hide away in my craft room tonight and create another fun card for Mother's day.  The other 2 cards are for my future Father in Law.  His birthday is Saturday, and while I was feeling inspired I created a Father's Day card too!  His two loves are golf and flying...hoping I hit a "home-run" with these cards.

Besides the missing Mothers Day card I have one more card I need to make before the busy weekend gets here.  It's for a college grad, my little cousin Matthew.  He will graduate on Saturday from Widener University with a Civil Engineering degree.  I'm so proud of him!  He already has a full time job lined up.  I can't wait to take him shopping for things to fill up his bachelor pad, of course I'll be the voice of reason...hmmm You definitely need that fuss ball table! hahaha!  It's such an exciting time in his life!  Sparks my nostalgia of my college days :-)


Okay I'm signing off, check out the cards and feel free to leave me any feedback, praise, criticism....I love all comments!!!

Happy Crafting,
Nicole

HOLY COW!!! People are checking out my blog???

First I want to THANK, the three lovely ladies that were kind enough to check out my blog and make such encouraging and nice comments on the few projects I have posted.  It truly made my night to see that after only a mere 3 entries and 3 posted projects that someone actually cared enough to migrate over and check out my lonely little blog.  I was ecstatic and couldn't wait to write and give a huge THANKS!! to you ladies!

I finally have some time and wanted to upload another couple of projects that I'm proud of...I will have to formulate the recipes tonight and post them for you soon.  The first project is a retirement card I made for a co-worker, the second is some scrap layouts for a book I'm composing for an old college friend, the third is a congrats card made for expecting friends (here you can see my novice stamp use, I'm still learning!!), fourth is a bday card for one of my dearest friends (gave me a chance to use the Cindy Loo cartridge I picked up a month ago), and last but not least is a prototype of the Save the Date I'm making for my sister's upcoming wedding!!!  I'm super excited about all of these projects and hope you enjoy checking them out.  I'm also posting a pic of the dress my sister just picked out today...I'm so happy for her and am so thrilled she wants me to help out with her special day, not just by being her maid of honor, but also by being crafty with her save the dates!!!!

I did want to share one more little bit of info I found out this past weekend while shopping for some holiday Cricut cartridges....so I was at a major chain retailer (wish I could post the name but not sure of copyrights...let's just say it is a girls name??) and I wanted to buy the Winter Frolic cartridge but it was not on sale...hmmm...I had seen this cartridge on Walmart.com for only 24.98!  I happened down an aisle with an associate and was relaying this information to her when she informed me that they have a price match guarantee and that if I could call it up on my phone or show a printed proof they would sell me the cartridge at the same price....not too shabby!!!  Needless to say I left with 2 cartridges for their sale price for 1 cartridge!!!  Moral of the story:  ask about price guarantees b/w competitors and then check online for the best price (think this most likely excludes non-chain major retailers though) and see if they'll match it??? Worst case scenario is you leave with 2 for the price of one...hehehe!!!