Paris "Thank You" Card Bundle...In Process

I was lucky enough to spend two weeks in Paris recently at the Paris Air Show for my job helping 6 small companies from the State of Ohio! What a great experience!

I worked with so many incredible people on this trip; however one of the greatest ladies is Amanda Wright Lane who is the great grand niece of Orville and Wilbur Wright! She is a generous, smart, incredible woman - such an incredibly creative person and passionate about the aerospace industry and its importance to our state economy.

Anyway, she gave me so many gifts and so much time and passion for our state booth...I just had to make her something! Pictured here are some blank cards I am making for her using my Cricut Circle Exclusive cartridge French Manor. I never in a million years thought I would get to use this cartridge - I reallly, really like it! I am going to incorporate some of the pictures I took into some the cards I work on tonight, pictured are cards just using images and tags from this cartridge! Thanks for looking!

Embossing - I love it!!

I am super excited about some projects I worked on over the weekend as I was traveling! I especially love my embossing project! I have had pigment inks, embossing powder, and a heat gun forever; but I just never had the time to play around with these tools. Boy have I been missing out!

Check out my first card and envelope that I embossed this weekend!



I used a Studio G $1 stamp for the "Fall Colors" title and the leaf on the envelope along with Versamark's Watermark Ink Pad and Ranger Embossing powder in Red. I don't know who the basket stamp is designed by; however I love the Zing brown embossing powder that I used along with Verasamark's Watermark Ink Pad!

The leaves "falling" out of the basket are Primas I bought years ago. I also used some clearance silver brads on the basket. The striped paper is clearance paper that didn't have the designer's brand on it and the card is made from Coredinations paper.

Even though I hate the fact that the Summer has went by so fast, I love Fall and I definitely love the fall colors! Can't wait to make more embossed items and post them! Hope you enjoy!

We will miss you Benji!

Our dear friends lost their 19 year old terrier, Benji, last Saturday! It is so hard to lose a pet, especially one that you have had that long. My family definitely shed tears for this tough little terrier - what a gift to have this sweet furbaby 19 years!

Here's the card I created for my friends. I really love the Paper Pup cartridge that is one of the original Cricut cartridges from a few years back. The angel dog image is perfect. I used the circle feature on the cartridge, for the first time, and I used the border feature for the angel dogs in the clouds. Now Benji is in heaven with his "brother" Buster running through the beautiful meadows.

Valentine Card Swap

Sorry I haven't been posting lately - lots of health problems with the hubby!

Here's a Valentine's Day Card that I did for the Cricut Message Board swap.