St. Patricks Birthday card! / Joy's Life St. Patty's Blog Hop

Top of the day to ya!!   Happy St. Patty's Day everyone! Welcome to the Joy's Life St. Patrick's Day blog hop. If you just came over from the very talented Laura's blog, then you are in the right place.  If you just happened to check into today, why dont' you join in on the fun and start from the beginning.  There is a lot of inspiration, not to mention yummy blog candy, along the way!

Today is one of my BFF's birthday, so I thought I would make her a cute little card celebrating both occasions. :)  It was so easy to create the perfect sentiment using Joy's Life Everyday Occasion and Holiday Occasion stamp sets, which can be found here.

I had a lot of different ideas about what to do with the card, but in the end, I settled on this:

I wanted to put a rainbow on the card (since leprechauns love rainbows you know!), but since it was her birthday, I thought it would be fun to add a rainbow made of balloons!!!  I was so happy when I realized I had twine to match each color too!! Woo Hoo!  I can't wait to give her, her card... I hope she likes it! :)

Now it wouldn't be a blog hop without some blog candy would it???  If you would like to have a chance to win these fun goodies, I would love for you to follow my blog and leave me a comment and a way to contact you if you are the winner!

I hope you are enjoying our hop today... your next stop is the fabulous Megan.

Here is the entire line up in case you get lost along the way.
Joy: http://joyslife.com/
Ashley: http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com/
Amy: http://redheadedcrafter.blogspot.com/
Jennie: http://earthyscrap.blogspot.com/
Julie: http://www.cricutchick.com/
Laura: http://www.laurascraftsandmore.com/
Lori: http://got2bcrafting.blogspot.com/ *you are here*
Megan: http://thoughtsoftraveling.blogspot.com/
Nina: http://waffleflower.com/
Patty: http://craftykitten1.blogspot.com/
Sarabeth: http://www.chroniclesofsarita.blogspot.com/
Stacey: http://staceyscreativecorner.blogspot.com/
Susie: http://www.thedieshaveit.com/
Joy: http://joyslife.com/


Thanks for stopping by today! As always, I love and appreciate your comments. :) Have a CRAFTY DAY!! Lori

Banner Birthday!!

Hello my crafty friends!  Today is my turn to post on the Joy's Life Design Team blog. We were asked to create a project using either the  Wild Life Puns or Your So Punny stamp set.  As soon as I saw the stamp I used today, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. :)  Although the Cricut Craft Room gave me fits when making this card, I am really happy with the way it came out.

This card was created using the Cricut Imagine and several Imagine cartridges.

 Imagine Cartridges:  Yummy (banner shape), TC Baby Boutique (H A P P Y and background pattern), All Wrapped Up (Birthday) and TC Black and White (banner pattern)

Stamped Sentiment:  Joy's Life "Your So Punny" You can find it here , plus all of the other awesome sets

If you would like to see some more great projects by the Joy's Life Design Team,  click here and take a look... you won't be disappointed. :)

Thanks for stopping by today! As always, I love and appreciate your comments. :) Have a CRAFTY DAY!! Lori

Pawsitively Purrfect Birthday

Hello crafty friends!  I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! :)  Did you remember to set your clocks back??  I love that we will now be having daylight for an extra hour, but losing that one hour of sleep is a killer for a few days, especially for my girls. :(

Anyway, today I am a guest designer on the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog!  I am so flattered and honored that I was asked to be a part of their Spotlight Sunday and guest design for the Challenge Me Monday challenge.  The challenge this weeks is "Like a Lion". Make a project using a cat, lion or tiger; you must include at least 1 Cricut cut.  There are a lot of fun Cricut cuts that you could use for this challenge, so I hope you will join in this week!   Here is my card... I hope you like it!

Cricut cartridges:  Create a Critter (cat and pillow), Doodlecharms (birthday hat), Elegant Edges (background shape), Cricut Imagine All Wrapped Up (pillow pattern)
Stamps: Joy's Life Lots of Pun (Pawsitively Purrfect)  and Everday Occasions ("wishing you a" and "Birthday"
 Misc: I-Rock gems, Viva Pearl Pen, Stickles, white gel pen, black jounaling pen, sheer white ribbon

I hope you all have a fabulous week!! Thanks for stopping by today! As always, I love and appreciate your comments. :) Have a CRAFTY DAY!! Lori

To the best teacher ever !

Hello my crafty friends!!  Happy Happy Friday to you!! 
Today I want to share the card I posted over at the Joy's Life Design Team blog.  We were asked to use the Holiday Occasions and/or Everyday Occasions stamp sets.  These sets are fabulous, and if you use them together, your sentiment choices are endless!!  The sentiment I used on my card is put together with various stamps from Everyday Occasions.

Cricut cartridges:  Create A Critter (worm), Doodlecharms (apple), Simply Charmed (paper and pencil)

Challenges entered:
Peach Keen Stamps:  Anything Goes Challenge #8

Thanks for stopping by today! As always, I love and appreciate your comments. :) Have a CRAFTY DAY!! Lori

Hey Chickie - DT post

Hello my crafty friends!!
Today is such an awesome day for me!!  Why you ask??  Today is my very FIRST day posting as a DT member for Joy's Life!!  I am sure most of you know who Joy is, but if you don't... you are in for a real treat! Not only does Joy share totally cool ideas/projects on her blog, but she also has AMAZING stamps!!


For our first post, it was "anything goes".  I decided to use one of my very favorite stamp sets "Lots of Pun".  When I saw the "Hey Chickie!" saying, my mind instantly went to the cute little chick image on the Cricut Create a Critter cartridge.  The funny thing is, when I first made this card, I accidently used the "duck" image instead, and for a few days I kept looking at my card thinking something was just not quite right with it. I finally realized that the "beak" of the chick was actually a "duckbill"..... wrong animal Lori!! LOL!!  Well, thankfully I figured that out before I actually posted it. :)  So here is my do-over project for today...

Sentiment stamp:  Joy's Life "Lots of Pun"  you can find it here

Cricut cartridges: Create A Critter (Chick), Everyday Paperdolls (barn), MS All Occas. (grass)

Cricut Imagine Carts:  The Good Old Days and Bubblegum Stripes for all patterned papers

Cardstock:  SU Craft (card base)  Colorbok textured white: Barn trim and fence

Misc: twine, button, hemp, white gel pen and SU Chocolate Chip marker

Thanks for stopping by  today. I would love it if you would stop over at Joy's Life and see the other fabulous projects the DT has done.

Have a Happy Crafty Day!!

Lori



Kiss Me card and another giveaway!!

Hello my crafty friends!!  Today I am sharing a card I made for my DH for Valentines Day. For some reason I have always wanted to use this fish tank image and I finally did! :) I think this fish from Smiley Cards is absolutely hilarious and thought it would be perfect for the Kiss Me sentiment.  I really like the way this turned out... I hope you do too!!

I also wanted to let you know that Joy at Joy's Life.com is having a 100 follower giveaway on the Joy's Life Design Team blog.  You will definately want to check out the blog (here) and see the SUPER cool tool she is giving away.... I think you are going to love it!!

Cartridges: Smily Cards (fish), Create a Critter (fishbowl), Imagine cartridges used for all pattern paper
Stamps: My Creative Time: You Had Me a Chocolate (Kiss Me) and the Banner Kit (Stitched Circle and background stamp)  Stampin Up: Happy Valentines Day sentiment

I will be entering my card in the following challenges:
My Creative Time Throwback Thursday:  Valentine card
FCCB: Use a heart
Scrappy Moms Stamps: Use a heart
PaperPlaytime: Hearts or Love theme

Thanks for stopping by today!!  As always... I love to read your comments. :)
Have a CRAFTY DAY!!
Lori

Joy's Life Giveaway!

Hello my crafty friends!!  I am still trying to get over the fact that Joy at Joy's Life.com chose me to be on her DT!! It is just amazing to me!!  I am super excited to start my term beginning March 1st.  Until then, Joy will be having giveaways on the Design Team Blog during the month of February.  Right now, Joy is giving away the Lots of Pun stamp set. This is the set that I used on my last two projects.... it's so cute and very versatile.  :)  All you have to do is click here and leave a comment for your chance to win.  Thanks for stopping by today! As always, I love and appreciate your comments. :) Have a CRAFTY DAY!! Lori