I'm still here

Sorry I've been out of the loop for the past week. It's been rough this last week. My husbands aunt passed away last Tuesday and it's been an emotional roller coaster since. She was an amazing woman and she'll live in our hearts forever. To make things more intense at home, my mom had a fall down her stairs and fractured her clavicle and dislocated her shoulder! I'm praying she recovers soon and we can get back on track. On Friday I sat down and made a card because I was feeling sad and I wanted to cheer up a bit. I kept thinking how lucky I feel to cherish daily life with the ones I love. I couldn't imagine giving that up for the world. I made a Lucky card and here is what I came up with.

I hope everyone is having a good week and I look forward to catching up with everyone's blogs and wonderful creations out there. I think I'll craft tonight after I make some hush puppies for my husband...he had told me a while back he wanted some for Fat Tuesday so I think I'll surprise him. Thanks for visiting me today...have a lovely rest of the week.

I got nominated!

Thanks Rosanne for nominating me for the Kreativ Blogger award. I will share my info before I pass it on. So sweet of you Rosanne thanks!!! :)

7 things I did before

studied at UCLA

lived with my parents

commuted to work for 10 full minutes

diet more often

read more often

volunteered

spent money on shoes

7 things I do now

play with my Cricut

make handmade cards

blog

commute to work for 1hour 45 min (on a good day)

work 2 full time jobs

decorate my home

cook

7 things I want to do

Take another cruise

Go back to school

finish remodeling our place

get a sellers permit in my city

save more money

get a dog

keep in touch with my old friends more

7 people I nominate for this award

Michelle

Jenipher

Donna

Deedee

Regina

Nikki

Michele

You make my heart sing & eye candy

Since I'm back and feeling refreshed from our cruise I wanted to quickly get back to my scrappin! I saw the beautiful sketch at 2sketches4you and decided to give this one a try. I used some scraps from my adorable Splendid papers from Fancy Pants. I used pop up dots to raise the scalloped frame and used this lovely little birdie tag and added some stickles and mini pearls to it. I can't remember where I got this ribbon from but I've been wanting to use it for a long time now and I think I finally made a card where it would fit! I hope the girls like it! You must check out everyones creations...they are amazing every week!!

Also I wanted to share the Eye Candy of my life...my sweet and awesome husband! Hardworking, romantic, attentive and most encouraging...I love you sweetie pie! This is him waiting for me at the altar. Thanks Kazan and Laura for such fun eye candy! Have a happy Valentine's day with your handsome husbands!

Inspiration

I have a card to share with you today...it's the first card I made after coming back from our cruise. Being in love with a wonderful man is what makes me enjoy life and everything surrounding it. I saw a lot of aqua while I was on vacation...the crystal clear water, the skies, the colors of beautiful houses at Nevis all inspired me.

You know what else inspires me? The kindest of messages I received on my etsy this morning! A very talented photographer and jewelry maker Jenipher has a wonderful blog and the sweetest style of jewelry at her etsy shop CherryRunWay. Check it out!

What inspires you?

I almost forgot!!

I've been tagged!!! Most talented Donna has tagged me!! If you haven't visited her blog wow you are for a real treat...her work is amazing and her cards are jaw dropping. I drool over her beautiful work every time! Well I was to look at my 6th picture folder and post my 6th picture. Here it goes:

This is a picture of my husband and I after a busy weekends work. We are still in our uniforms and we stopped by for dinner at San Antonio Winery. (we wear blue uniforms now) We are huge wine lovers and this local winery is just around downtown! It's funny because Donna and I have something else in common!!! :) I love this picture...it was about 3 years ago and I had saved it in my "wedding" picture folder because at this winery we had our rehearsal lunch and all we kept talking about was planning our wine theme wedding which then turned out a complete success.

Thanks Donna...you brought back a really sweet memory and thanks for visiting my blog!! HUGS!

Back and Jazzed up!

Hi everyone! Thank you for all your sweet comments on our voyage and I missed you all very much! My husband and I had the most amazing 2nd honey moon...I really didn't want to come back!! There are sooo many memories of beautiful places, amazing people from all over the world and of course the music...it was fantastic!! I will never forget this trip! I will post a few pictures for you and I can't wait to get back into the swing of crafting and making cards. I have to confess...I didn't think about my cricut until day 7 of our cruise (blush) but now I just can't wait to get my hands on it :)

This is our ship the Westerdam of Holland America cruise liners. It is beautifully parked at their private island Half Moon Cay. The most gorgeous beach I have ever seen. The sand...I swear is not sand is pancake mix!!

This is the cutest little spa and resort at Nevis island in the Bahamas. I think this is where Martha Stewart got her punchies ideas!! The houses are adorable right on a the beach.

If you look closely you'll see why this beach is called "Shell Beach" it has over 690 billion shells!! no sand just shells...it was stunning! This is at St. Barth island and boy was it expensive but absolutely beautiful!

This is a view of El Morro in San Juan Puerto Rico and it is as gorgeous far and near. The views from this tranquil little old town is amazing.

I will post more pictures next week...I hope you all have a marvelous weekend!!! HUGS

Hello...and Bon Voyage

I'm just super excited that there's only "ONE" more day before our cruise! On Saturday we'll be flying to Fort Lauderdale and then Bon Voyage to us! I'll miss crafting but one thing is for sure I'll be taking lots and lots of pictures so I can come back and scrapbook our trip! I have a little Hello card I made I'd like to share and hope everyone has a wonderful rest of the week and I'll be sure to bring back gorgeous pictures of clear skies and water! Thanks for visiting me and can't wait to return to my Cricut and all of you! HUGS!!!

My take on Laura's sketch 17

I had been wanting to play with these super talented ladies for a while now and I finally did it! Laura and Kazan have these awesome sketches every week at 2S4Y and the DT...well they are just amazing!! I can't believe my eyes every time I look at their creations.

I'm hoping you like this Valentine's Day card I made for my husband. I wanted it to be simple but hot so I used my favorite color combo of red with hints of black and white. I used my Indie Art Cricut cartridge for the wings extending out of the heart, my favorite Home Accents frame in black and for the letters I used Plantin School Book and Making the Grade cartridges. I finished it off by adding this basket weave red ribbon I found Michaels. I think my sweetie will like it :)

Well it looks like its going to be another hot day here in LA...I hope wherever you are that you are having a wonderful day! Thanks for visiting me. HUGS!

Sweet...

I'm known for a having a sweet tooth...yes anything you could think of SWEET! Including the wonderful sweetness of Valentine's. I just love the glitter, hearts, cupids, xoxos, kisses, amor and all of the above!! I've been going crazy not having enough time to make more cards but here is some I've managed to get done! I was up till 1:45am crafting and I had to get up at 5:00 so I'm not very fun this morning...I need my Intelligentsia coffee!! sigh...well I'll see how I manage today but I just had so much fun making these. Hope you like them!


Thanks to DeeDee I managed to make a shaped card with her tutorial she did using the cutest snail card ...it's a must see!! I gave it a try using the strawberry cut from the Indie Art Cricut Cartridge and layered it to form a tuxedo strawberry!! I think its "sweet" hence the little alphabets! :) Check it out...

If I hadn't already mentioned how much I love the Fancy Pants line Splendid here is another card I did using this adorable little poochie. I added scalloped sides and an awesome super bright pink ribbon I hadn't used in a really long time. I think the doggie is just adorable and I wish someone was getting me one for Valentine's day...HINT HINT!!!!!!!!!! It's ok...my husband is making me wait until all the renovations on the condo happen!

A special Christmas Gift

I wanted to share a special package that also arrived last week. I joined a Secret Santa Card Swap over at Carla's blog and it was so much fun!! I got to make a card for Rosanne and she sent me a gorgeous card along with sooo many goodies I couldn't believe it!! Her blog is awesome...a little of bit of all my favorite things...crafting and yummy recipes!! You must check it out. Here is a picture of her lovely card and the goodies she sent me. Thanks ssso much Rosanne and hope we can continue sharing wonderful ideas together! HUGS!!!

It arrived!

So on Friday I rushed on over to the mailbox and guess what I found??! Yup that's right my new Cricut Expressions!! I'm sssooo excited and I only got to play with it for a little bit because I need to make room for it on my craft table!! So I started cleaning and moving things around and ended just getting all exhausted...but I did finally got it up and running and oh my God!!! It's amazing! I can't believe it took me this long to get it.

Work was rrreeealllly busy....we did a total of 43 hours this weekend!! I couldn't resist to go home last night and at least do some cuts on my cricut but just didn't have enough energy. I started on a few cards and hope to finish them tonight so I can show you tomorrow.

Tomorrow I'll have a special post on another fabulous little gift I got last week too! :) My new friend Rosanne which I just recently met thru Carla's blog over Christmas.

I leave you with some pics of my new baby and some paper and embellishments I got from emma's paperie shop. You must check out their endless supplies of amazing designer lines.
Enjoy the rest of your day! HUGSSS!!

Splendid

The minute I saw this adorable line from Fancy Pants I just had to get it. The embellishments are adorable and I've been having a lot of fun creating Valentine's Day cards with it. Here's one where I used the "Sophisticated" damask paper as a background and the rest just fit so nicely. I'm really happy how this one came out. I only used one cut from my cricut and that's the circle cut from the George Cartridge to accent the birdie.

Yesterday was a jammed packed day...we're getting ready to set on board our cruise in 16 days!!! Did some shopping yesterday and picked up a gorgeous bright yellow dress!! I KNOW! but I had to get it! Got me a great deal on lovely silk PJ's too from VS. I'm so excited about our trip...we need it desperately!!

Well...I'll leave you for now...hope you are having a wonderful day!