Happy Mother's Day

Here is an inspirational story....I wanted to share with all of the wonderfully talented, sweet and exceptional WOMEN I have had the good fortune to get to know through my classes, workshops, expo events and cruises.  Thank you for enriching my life and sharing of your wonderful shoulders for me over the years!

 



Here is a card I made for my sweet Mother!

 

 

Hope you all have a blessed day filled with Love & Joy!!!

Mother's Day Card Set

With Mother's Day just around the corner.....I wanted to come up with a Card Set Gift Idea that would be great present to give to your Mom or neighbors and friends. 

This set of 8 cards for Birthday's, Special Events, Friendship or the generic Thinking of you are an inexpensive way to give something that the receiver can possibly use all year long. 

You can create just about any color combination you choose just by selecting a 6x6 paper pad and using 4-6 sheets of coordinating papers. 

Using a stamped image is a money saving way of customizing a set.  You can choose on or two of your favorite images and color it to coordinate with your paper choices.

I will share this same set in a different color option on Saturday.

Here is a close up of the Stamped-Copic Colored Image:

 

I will be offerring this Card Set for Sale $6.00 for a set of 8 Cards in Gift Box.

 

Disneyland/California Adventures Layouts

Our family had a blast in California this year!

 

I will be making page kits for the California Adventures Layout that will cost $8.00

Hope you like them

 

(this kit will have Bazzill cardstock and Authentique Papers)

 

 



Scrapbook Retreat April

It is always FANTASTIC to get away with some friends and have a little scrapbooking fun!

Scrappin' all day in your jammies and then treated to some fantastic meals.....what a way to spend the weekend.

Hope some of you can join us later this year when we have our next Escape. (new dates to post in July)

Keep an eye out for our upcoming Mother--Daughter Retreat in September.

  Mom's pay full price and you can bring your daughter age 12 and up for just $100.00.  

Have a great weekend friends~Hugs~

New Cricut Mats

NEW CRICUT MATS!!!

Light Grip

The long-lasting LightGrip mat allows you to easily cut and remove common office printer paper, vellum, light cardstock, and more.

Standard Grip

The StandardGrip mat offers improved performance for a wide range of mediumweight materials, including patterned paper, vinyl, iron-on, and cardstock.

Strong Grip
The StrongGrip mat offers a strong hold surface perfect for heavyweight materials. It’s our longest lasting mat featuring double life adhesive technology.

Have you seen these beautiful new cutting mats???  I just ordered mine from Cricut.com and I can't wait to play and report back to my Creative Cutter Friends.....this may finally be a solution to the "MAT" problem many of us have had.....mainly that we hate the white bordered imagine cutting mats.  I love the colors of these and the beautiful images are a nice touch.  Provo Craft does listen and when enough of us "SUGGEST" they improve something....I think they listen.  I will post a video sharing my CUTTING ADVENTURES when I receive these.  Thank you to all those that have been contacting me and wishing me well.  Just as an update all is well.....I now have a full time job, along with my 2 business ventures, my 6 kids, 2 dogs, 1 husband, and I am working on the research for 2 more books!  I just got tired typing all that!!  So I will resume posting project ideas & videos as soon as I find a new house (oh yeah did I mention we are selling our home and finding one that I can build a new studio in) and get my studio up and running.  I have really enjoyed meeting many of my loyal followers at the Scrapbook Expo events in California and hope to meet many more in the coming months.  I will try to post some pictures of my travels soon.

~HUGS

2013 Book & Workshop Appearances

2013 is already off to a flying start and as usual I am way, way, way behind.  I want to change the format of things for the new year....but I will tell you more about that another day.

Today..... I want to share some upcoming

  Scrapbook Expo Workshop Dates & Book Appearances-

I will be attending several Scrapbook Expo shows in California so I hope to see some of you there-if you are at the show stop by my classroom or find me at the Crop.

Here are the dates:

Anaheim, CA               Jan. 31-Feb. 2

Pleasanton, CA            March 15-16

San Diego, CA            June 28-29

Santa Clara, CA          August 9-10

If any of my Creative Cutter friends in Utah want to make this a GIRLS trip let me know-I will be busy teaching during the day while you SHOP till you drop......but I would love to PARTY the night away at the Midnight Crop.

CALIFORNIA HERE WE COME!!!

Design Time Thursday! Shaped card Thank you Challenge!

Thank you for joining us for our new challenge! We enjoyed looking at your Christmas with no red and no green color Entries! We appreciate you joining us and hope you will join us for this next challenge!

 With the Holidays now over and a new year ready to begin I like to send out Thank yous for all the notes, letters, cards, gifts and goodies that my family receives especially during the month of December!

Theme:  Thank you shaped card!

Must have thank you, thanks sentiment on the front and no squares or rectangle shape!

Some Inspiration from the team: 

Carri

DIANA L.

Georgiana

Tracy

 We hope you will join us and Submit your new project for a chance to win a prize!

Challenge Starts today December 27 and runs until January 9, 2013.

Follow the rules then submit your new  project over at the

Creative Cutter Room!

Looking forward to seeing your creations! 

Only entries that fit the challenge guidelines will be entered to win the prize!

 

To be eligible to win the prize here are the Rules to keep in mind while playing along:

Be a Follower of the CCR
Project submissions must be new, no back linking

CCR must be mentioned in the description with a link back to here

Entry must fit theme to be qualified for the prize

Prize must be claimed within 2 weeks

Please link your project posting not just your blog
One Entry per person 

Please comment after linking over at the CCR

You have until  January 9, 2013 to enter your project.

Here is the Line Up You for some great inspiration:
 

Carri (that's me!)

Georgiana 
Diana 

 Tracy

Simple Christmas Layout

Happy Holidays!

I have been MIA lately I am so sorry......but I have a new job that has been life consuming!

Still running my small business and thankfully this year has been a busy one for me.  I have done so much more traveling and getting to meet many of my out of state friends....

I feel totally blessed right now!

I wanted to take a minute and share this simple Christmas Layout and wish all of my Creative Cutter Friends a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

Tip Tuesday! Make your own Glimmer Mist!

Hello!

It's Tracy here from Owl Be Craftin' and today I am going to show you how to make your own Glimmer Mists.  I love to use them on my layouts and cards, but sometimes they do get a little expensive or you cannot find the right color.  

To start out, you want some Perfect Pearls, a Mini Mister, a straw, water, and a reinker (optional).

I cut off the tip of the straw at an angle to create a little "spoon."  Pick up a little of the Perfect Pearls with the straw.  I decided to use Biscotti because it gives the mist a shine, but doesn't add color.

Put the Perfect Pearls in the Mini Mister and fill the Mister up with water.

Gently mix the Perfect Pearls with the water.  Do not shake it because you will end up with bubbles and it will not spray even.  Rock the bottle back and forth.

If you want to add color to your mist, pick any color Distress Re-Inker and add two or three drops.  

Now, you have your very own Glimmer Mist.  You could also use a colored Perfect Pearls or try to mix some Distress colors to see how it turns out.  Have fun!

~Tracy

Design Time Thursday! Christmas Challlenge with a Twist!

Thank you for joining us for our new challenge! We enjoyed looking at your re-creations from the Cricut Expressions Book! We appreciate you joining us and hope you will join us for this next challenge!

Theme:  Christmas.... Twist~ NO Red No Green!

Some inspiration from the team: 

Carri

Tracy

 
DIANA L

Georgiana

 We hope you will join us and Submit your new project for a chance to win a prize!

 The prize:

 

Challenge Starts today December 13 and runs until December 26, 2012.

Follow the rules then submit your new  project over at the

Creative Cutter Room!

Looking forward to seeing your creations! 

Only entries that fit the challenge guidelines will be entered to win the prize!

 

To be eligible to win the prize here are the Rules to keep in mind while playing along:

Be a Follower of the CCR
Project submissions must be new, no back linking

CCR must be mentioned in the description with a link back to here

Entry must fit theme to be qualified for the prize

Prize must be claimed within 2 weeks

Please link your project posting not just your blog
One Entry per person 

Please comment after linking over at the CCR

You have until December 26, 2012 to enter your project.

Here is the Line Up You for some great inspiration:
 

Carri (that's me!)

Georgiana 
Diana 

 Tracy

Graphic 45 and CCR Special Challenge and Blog Candy!

Special Event!!

We appreciate you joining us and hope you will join us for this EXTRA CCR challenge!

Welcome to the Creative Cutter Room featuring Graphic 45Challenge!

Theme:  Graphic 45 paper-Anything Goes!

You can create any project as long as you use Graphic 45 products! Please list them in your posting! 

Inspiration from the Team:

Carri

Tracy

DIANA L.

Georgiana

We hope you will join us and Submit your new project for a chance to win a prize!

Graphic 45 challenge prize

AND we have a second prize!! Graphic 45 Commenter prize!

To be entered to win this prize you must comment on all the design team posts and leave a comment saying you did on the CCR posting!!

 

Challenge Starts today December 6 and runs until December 12 2012.

Follow the rules then submit your new  project over at the

Creative Cutter Room!

Looking forward to seeing your creations! 

Only entries that fit the challenge guidelines will be entered to win the prize!

 

To be entered to win the prize here are some Rules to keep in mind while playing along:

Be a Follower of the CCR
Project submissions must be new, no back linking

CCR must be mentioned in the description with a link back to here

Entry must fit theme to be qualified for the prize

Prize must be claimed within 2 weeks

Please link your project posting not just your blog
One Entry per person

Please comment after linking 

You have until December 12, 2012 to enter your project.

Here is the Line Up You for some great inspiration:

 

Carri

Georgiana 
Diana 

 Tracy 

Have fun and follow the rules!

It's DECEMBER!!!!

It's December....this is my favorite time of year!!

 

I hope in all of the busy activities we all have that we find time to put Christ in Christmas.

I was born on Christmas Eve and when this time of year comes my heart rejoices!

Not because its my birthday, but because my family takes time to remember at the close of the year, the things that are really important to us.

We cherish our loved ones, think of how our lives were touched by loved ones past and we pray that next year will find us healthy and together once again.

Whatever your celebrations are this month I hope above all else they help you remember the Reason for the Season!

Hope all of your memories are SWEET ones this month.

~Hugs~