Birthday Card for a Special Aunt

Here is another quick card I put together.  This probably one of the only cards I have ever made that didn’t include a cut from my beloved Cricut.  This was quick, easy and I really love the way it turned out.  I may actually make this card again if I am in a pickle.  

Recipe

Paper:

SU! White Cardstock

SU! Melon Mambo

SU! Certainly Celery

Scrap piece of light pink

 Stamp:

SU! Eastern Blooms

 Miscellaneous:

SU! Melon Mambo stamp pad

SU! Pearls

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Wedding Shower

Obviously I have been horrible about keeping my blog updated lately.  Life has just been in the way!!  I have been lucky to find the time to craft, let alone post.  So I will try to load up on some posts over the next couple of days.  Here is a very simple card (really! It took less than 40 minutes to make from design to execution) I made for a friend’s wedding shower.  I used the following to make the card:

Recipe

Paper:

Generic Cardstock Off White – Card Base, Bracket, and Wedding Dress

SU! Crumb Cake – Bracket, and Wedding Dress

Cricut Cartridges:

Accent Essentials - Bracket

Tie the Knot - Wedding Dress

Stamps:

SU! Eastern Blooms – Background on card base

SU! Heard from the Heart – Sentiment (Wishing You Happiness Today and Always)

Miscellaneous:

SU! Crumb Cake Stamp Pad - sentiment & negative embossing

Versamark Dazzle Frost Stamp Pad- embossing

PK Glitz Crystal Glitter – wedding dress (adhered with Xyron sticker maker)

SU! Pearls – wedding dress

Hope you like it!

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Tonight is the Night!

HSN is debuting the new 5 yr anniversary edition of the Cricut Expression (version 2).  I am soooooo excited I am beside myself.  I just hope I can stay awake for it LOL! 

There are several bloggers that have been given the opportunity to give a CE2 away.  Check out Everyday Cricut's giveaway HERE.  My Pink Stamper also has one HERE.  Good luck!!

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I won! I won!

Oh my goodness!!!  I actually won the giveaway from Wende's blog Passionately Paper!!  Yay!!!  Thanks Wende!!!  Ok, enough with the exclamation points, right?  Sorry, I just normally don't have the luck for that type of thing...I am very excited :).  Maybe I should go play the lottery?  LOL.   I hope y'all have as good a night as I have...night, night.

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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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