Giveaway at Passionately Paper

I know it has been a while since I have posted to my blog.  I have been EXTREMELY busy with work and life.  Even through my busy times I have been trying to keep up with some of my favorite bloggers and crafting buddies.  Wende over at Passionately Paper is having a giveaway of the April Showers Seasonal Cartridge.  Hop on over there, become a follower and enter for a chance to win.  You can even have a second chance to win if you post about the giveaway on your blog and leave a second comment (guess what I am doing hehehehe).  I rarely enter these giveaways because 1) I don't usually have the luck to win and 2) I normally already have the cartridge :o/.  This is one I actually don't have, so I thought I would give it a shot.  The link to the giveaway post is in the title :)...good luck!  However, I do hope I am the lucky one :).

I hope that work begins to slow down for me and that I can spend more time blogging.  I won't get to do too much creative crafting because I have a special young lady in my life that has asked me to make some things for her wedding.  Her mom and I are very good friends and so when they asked me I was very happy to oblige (I also felt honored)!  I can't wait to get started!  I am going to be making the programs, place cards, table numbers, and menus.  I have quite a job ahead of me!  I have been trying to make a card here or there and one of these days I will get pictures posted.  Keep checking back! 

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Cutest font site EVER!!! (and a tutorial on how to download fonts)

OMG!  I have been really busy (work, family, holidays) and I know I have been neglecting my blog lately (sorry!!) but, as I was working on a project I ran across the BEST site for the CUTEST free fonts!  Here is the link; and I have added a button on my sidebar…you really need to check it out!!!  I am so in love…I have downloaded over 600 fonts tonight, hehehe.  They have handwriting fonts and scrapbook fonts…ALL available for free!  And they make so easy to download them!!!  Please check it out and let me know what you think.

So, a couple of hints…when you open the site there are two things on the page.  The first title is fonts for peas.  This is where you will find the handwriting fonts.  When you click on this page scroll down about halfway and look on the right hand side for a button that says download all…this provides you with a zip file that allows you to “extract all” and send them to your Windows Font file.  The second title, free scrapbook fonts, is yep, you guessed it more fonts!  These are more funky, fun fonts that you would use for titles on your scrapbook pages.  Of course you digital scrappers will enjoy, but just so you know, most of these will work with MTC or SCAL!! 

If you are unsure how to download fonts:

Let me preface by saying this is the way I download fonts…if you have a better way, please share!  I am using the site referenced above as the source for this tutorial, but you can follow these instructions for downloading a font from any free font site.

1.       Click on the download all button  

1.       The following pop up box will appear; click save

2.       The following pop up box will appear; this is simply asking you to map where you would like the file saved.  Select  Desktop (I will explain why in just a minute); click save

3.       The following pop up box will appear once the file has completed download; click on close.

4.       Now, here is the reason I suggest sending these to your desktop…THEY ARE EASY TO FIND!!  Now, you just simply go to your desktop (I use the quick link on my bottom taskbar)

…Here is cropped view of my desktop showing the zip file (a zip file is a large content file that has been compressed)

5.       Right click on the zip file and select extract all

6.       You will be asked to select a destination for the extracted files; your computer should select this for you.  Make sure to have the show extracted files when complete button checked; click Extract

7.       The individual files will now show in a pop up box and a new folder has been created on your destop.  This particular zip file had 123 files.  As you can see they are all TTF (true type font) files. 

8.       Now you need to highlight all of the files (you can do this by clicking on the first file, scrolling down to the last file, hold the shift key down and click on the last file); right click and select copy

9.       Now you need to find your master Fonts file.  You should be able to get to it by selecting Computer – finding Local Disk (C:) – opening Windows folder – opening Fonts folder

10.   Now right click anywhere in the fonts folder and select paste.  Viola!  You have installed your fonts!  You should be able to open any program in which you would normally use fonts and they should be visible. 

I hope some of you will find this useful!!  Oh, and since I haven’t said it yet…HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

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It's Always Sunny In Here - Scrapbook.com

Thought this was so cute I needed to share it!!

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YAY! Another Blog Award!

Thank you, thank you Wende!  Wende at Passionately Paper awarded me with this super cute Blog Award, ‘The Stylish Blogger Award’.  This is my second award and really does make you feel like all the time we waste on these lovely little blogs is actually worth it.  In the words of Stuart Smalley from SNL…I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.  LOL!  And doesn’t this just match great with my theme J

 

The Stylish Award comes with some fun to do's!!!! 

1. Thank and link back to the person who awarded you

2. Share 8 things about yourself

3. Pay it forward to 8 bloggers that you have recently discovered

4. Contact those bloggers and tell them about their awards

Eight things about me:

1.   I have been with my husband for going on 20 years and I am only 37 (YIKES! That is more than half of my life!!)   

2.   I have two amazing dogs. They are 80 lb and 100 lb lap dogs, hehehe.  Love, love, love them!

3.   I love crafting, mostly paper or Cricut related crafting.

4.   I am learning photography

5.   I am a certified scuba diver – bet you couldn’t figure that one out LOL!!

6.   I love to cruise!  Not in a car, but on a Cruise ship…great way to travel and see different destinations.

7.   I am very anal; so anal that I have a hard time crafting because I nit-pick my work to death.

8.   My favorite color is green and has been my entire life…when I was 5 my parents bought the house I grew up in and it just happened to be Olive Green (yes, I am a child of the 70s/80s) and they said when we pulled up to it for the first time my face was frozen with a huge smile and all I could say was “It’s Green, it’s green!  You got me a green house!”.  Yup, for many years I went on believing that they chose the house just for me because it was green…HAHAHA!

It is extremely hard to choose only eight of the many blogs I follow.  Since I have to select 8 ‘recently discovered’ blogs I feel these are the ladies that deserve it:

  

1.       Karli at Crafting with Class

2.       Edna (Pinke) at Create by Expression

3.       Cassandra at Glue Meets Paper

4.       Roberta at TX Scrapper Mom

5.       Alma at Alma's Pink Life

6.       Samantha at SamanthaJDesigns

7.       Joanna at Scrap-Making

8.       Steph at Scrap Happy Steph

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Birthday Diva!

My youngest niece turned 6 last week (yes, I gave her the card on time, just a little late with the post J).  Last year I gave her this guitar for her birthday.  She absolutely loved it.  In fact a few weeks ago she told me that she had been rockin’ it hard.  I got so tickled.  Being that we call her the drama queen of the family and that she had been “rockin’ it” I came up with this idea for her birthday card: 

Recipe

Paper:

SU! Pixie Pink - card base and Birthday diva

DCWV Rock Star - heart patterned background paper

SU! Perfect Plum or Lovely Lilac  (sorry!) for clothing and shadow for ‘Birthday’

Basic Black cardstock – card base and base cut of the girl
SU! Blush Blossom - skin color

Chrome paper (sorry don’t know the mfg) – Crown layer and guitar handle

Cricut Cartridge(s):

Rock Princess – Brttny, pg 28

Rock Princess – ‘Birthday’ welded and shadowed, on the Gypsy, using the heart font

Rock Princess – ‘Diva’, pg 69

Embellies:

PK Glitz Glitter Glitz, Eggplant – Guitar

Stickles, Magenta – Headband
Stickles, Waterfall - Eyes

Celebrate It Ribbon from Michael’s

Uniball Signo Pen (broad), White for doodling

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Happy Birthday to an oldie but goodie!

My Uncle Rick has a birthday coming up and he has always been into cars. So I saw this really cute older style car on Holiday Cakes (yeah, I know...of all places?!) and I knew I had to use it for him. I used Paper Doll Dress Up for the road and Zooballoo for the grass. The Happy Birthday and to an oldie but goodie sentiments were cut using AR Bonne font with MTC software.  I love how the car came out. I had some "chrome" paper that I used for the detailing on the car and I used Real Red cardstock from SU! and coated it with Glossy Accents to give it that sleek, slick just waxed candy apple red car look. I think he will love it!

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Halloween Treat Boxes

Simple and cute treat boxes.  Frankenstein box idea came from one of my craft magazines.  I designed a file on my Gypsy for the eyes and hair using George.  I made them for my employees and they just loved them!

This Cookie Tower was designed by Kasey’s Creations and was very easy to make.  The cuts were from Happy Hauntings cart.  I made this for the girls I used to work with…they always loved my craftiness (I think one of them (Zhade) misses it ;)).   

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