Poodle Party Invites with Create A Critter!

Some Cards (:

Sugar & Spice & Everything Nice

Here is a very easy card I made using my Cricut Home Decor Cartridge.  I have Create A Critter coming in and can't wait to make some cute animal cards!!  I ruffled the ribbon as I used my sewing machine to sew it onto the card base.  I love sewing on cards!!  This is a really simple to make card with very cute effects.  Perfect for that sweet little girl in your life :)

Stylish Blogger Award!

Thank you Jamie for this award!  I've always admired your blog and to receive this award from you is such an honor :)  You can visit Jamies blog, Jamie's Crazy Craft Life, "here".

To have the honor of receiving the Stylish Blogger Award you must always pay it forward to other bloggers who are fairly new to blogging or to bring more fans to those you enjoy following.  

With this award you are to share eight things about yourself.  Then pass the award to eight others

I'd like to pass the Stylish Blogger Award to:

1) Elsa "Just A Few Paper Designs"

2) R.Maria "Lollyrot Scrapbooking"

3) LaShawnda "Stampin' with La'Diva"

4) Marie "Art of Marie"

5) Cynthia "Craftilicious with Cynthialoowho"

6) Jo "Paper Drama"

7) Rina "Scrap Musubi"

8) Gisele "Supersnooks13"

Yikes!  Eight things about myself??  Here goes...:

1) Since I'm holding a cup of coffee right now, I'll start with the fact that I need my morning cup of java!! (or two)

2) I'm a work from home mom.  I work for two different web stores managing product input and social media sites (that's my excuse for always being on Facebook!)

3) I love roses.  Well, I love rose drawings and paintings and my daughters middle name is Rose.  I love rose colors (tattered rose, dusty rose...) but I don't really like the actual flower.  It may be that it's too cliche, but there you have it.

4) My favorite show growing up was The Carol Duvall Show.  I liked HGTV a lot better than MTV!  I'm such a dork, I know :) 

5) I'm a Navy brat.  My favorite place to live was Guam!  I love island life, and the fact that I could walk to a beautiful tropical beach in two minutes to snorkel on the reef was awesome.  I'm so happy I got to experience that.  Now to convince my husband that we need to move there...

6) For my 10th birthday, my dad quit smoking (cold turkey after smoking all of his teen and adult life) at my request.  Because of this, I have never and will never pick up a cigarette.  I also won $100 at bingo so that was a really good birthday :)

7) I'm afraid of aliens.  I do believe there are life forms on other planets and that they have the ability to visit Earth.  You know that story about the Bermuda Triangle and the big brightly lit object that comes out of the water and zooms across the night sky?  Did you know that the earliest recorded sighting of that particular light in what is now known as the Bermuda Triangle can be found in the log of Christopher Columbus?  True story.  

8) I love love love to read.  I loved the Twilight Series as well as The Host, also by Stephenie Meyer.  My favorite author is Jane Austen and my favorite book is Pride and Prejudice.  Other favorites include Little Women, Gone With The Wind, The Mysterious Journey of Edward Tulane (read that one with my son and loved it), Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, The Hidden Diary of Marie Antionette, Confessions of a Queen, Mary Queen of Scotts and the Isles, and many more.  I especially love books based in the past :)

Thanks again, Jamie.  I can't wait to read more random facts about some awesome bloggers :)  Have a great day, everyone <3

The Busy Life of a Scrappin' Mom

With an infant and a small child it's difficult to find a minute to craft!  I usually save my crafting for late at night, but I've been so tired lately since Jaidyn still isn't sleeping through the night.  I know I'll miss these sleepless nights when she's all grown up and asking to borrow the car, but for now I'm just trying to get some shut-eye whenever I find a quiet minute :)  In other words, I haven't been able to do too much scrappin'.  I have made a few cards, two altered canvas's for myself, and one as a birthday gift for my Daddy (pics coming soon).  I still haven't finished my 'You and Me' mini which I've shown on my youtube channel but it'll be done soon.  What have you all been up to?

Mixed Media Painting For Sale On eBay!

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Please let me know if you have any questions :)

January Swap Video

Kiss Me, I'm Irish! Swap

These ATC's will be Due March first. The sign up list is open, so hurry and sign up before all the spots are gone :) Only 4 more spots left. Please make 9+1

Sign Up List

• Stephanie - Done
• Mamou - Received
• lvmeeyes
• Kivara
• EZMOMMY - Received
• Kat Scrapz - Received
• Nothing1309 - Received
• sugarmamas - Not Participating

These are going out Saturday ladies :)  Ya'll are sooo talented!!

St Valentine's Swap!! Due Feb 1st :)

Let's do a Valentine's Day Swap!  10 spots available (make 9+ 1) Have fun :)

1) tattered rose - Done :)

2) lvmeeyes - recieved :)

3) aboutmygirls

4) RunzWithScissor

5) Nothing1309 - recieved :)

6) Mamou

7) Chick-N-Dee

8) Shabby Lilly

9) La'Diva

10) Cricket's Daughter

11) Kivara - recieved :)

12 Days of Christmas ATC Sisterhood Blog Hop!

Hi everyone. I was lucky enough to be able to participate in Jamies Blog Hop for ATC Sisterhood! The theme was 12 Days of Christmas and I was lucky enough to get 'Six Geese A-Layin' (My favorite line from the song). This is the ATC I came up with.

 The card is, of course, 2.5"x3.5". I used a LOT of Glimmer Mist. The base is gold cardstock by Bazzill and the red paper is from Recollections. The red was too 'red' for me, so I vintaged it up by misting it with Wheatfields and a smidgeon of Pinecone Glimmer Mists. I cut an egg shape out of manilla paper and distressed it by crumpling it up and rubbing my Tea Dye Distress Ink by Tim Holtz over it. To make the ink smudge, rather than spraying the egg with water I sprayed it with Wheatfields Glimmer Mist. I inked the edge of the egg with Frayed Burlap Distress Ink. I couldn't find an image of geese that I liked, so I drew the geese you see! I used a black pen and cut the geese out (there are six of course!) I then sprayed that with Wheatfields ( I am so in love with this color! ). For the Prima two-tone roses (they started out pure white), I dipped a round brush right into my bottle of Candy Apple Red Glimmer Mist and touched the brush tip to the center of the rose. I let the mulberry do it's work and absorb the mist from the brush. Guess what else I sprayed it with?? Wheatfields of course. The red mini roses came like that and are from iamroses.com. I added two eyelets in the corner and edged the whole thing with Frayed Burlap. Oh, I almost forgot. I added gold ribbon under the geese to act as sort of a nest. Whew, lots of work goes into these tiny cards! But this was so fun to make :)

Yaay! Winner Picked :)

Pickin' the winner for my 50 subbie giveaway

Happy Holidays ATC Swap

Hi all. The new swap is due Jan 1st. Who's in?? The theme is "Happy Holidays". Let us know how you celebrate this time of year through your ATC. Make 11+1. Let me know if you want to participate and I'll send you the info. Have fun!

Sign Up Sheet

Stephanie (tattered rose)
Jerrica (shabby lilly)
heidiwork
Mamou - Recieved
lvmeeyes - Recieved
RunzWithScissor - Recieved
mjnmkmommy - Recieved
La'Diva
Nothing1309 - Recieved
sugarmamas
browneyedmommy - Recieved

Birdhouse!!

Scrappin' a Card For My Sister

Hi everyone.  I made a card for my big sis.  I used K&Co paper.  For the flowers, I had some roses from the craft store (from the floral section, I got a whole bunch for 2 bucks at Joanns).  I ripped them apart and relayered them using hot glue.  I then added some bling in the center.  This card is very simple, using very few products, but I like the way it turned out. I posted a pic of a card I made the same way with the same papers, but here's how I did it.  Sorry about the poor editing, I did this at one in the morning, was having technical issues, and decided to just upload it as is.  Also, the end got cut off somehow so you don't get to see me finish the inside.  I had uploaded the vid to a Mac, my little sis accidentally deleted the vid off my Vado HD, we only have imovie 08 on the Mac (it can't speed videos up and this would have been a 48 min video without speeding it up), I couldn't get the video over to my PC properly so...it was very frustrating :)  Oh well, enjoy, and thanks for watching.  Don't forget to sub to my Youtube, www.youtube.com/user/tatteredrose0610 . 

"Cultural You" ATC Swap **Full-Due Dec 1**

Hello.  I'm doing this swap a lil different.  I'll open up one large swap (Group A) and if there is enough interest, I'll do smaller groups. 

Cultural You, you can interpret this theme any way you want.  Let me know if you are interested and I'll send you the info :)  Have fun!

1) The Shabby Lilly - recieved
2) RunzWithScissor - recieved
3) lvmeeyes - recieved
4) Nothing1309 - recieved
5) heidiwork - recieved
6) Mamou - recieved
7) kivara - recieved
8) just_jenn - recieved
9) La 'Diva - recieved
10) Stephanie Gradzki - recieved

Some Of My Latest Projects

I wish I had more time to make crafts, but here's some stuff I've been working on. I'll have more space to craft in less than a month! I'm getting a Scraft Room :) We have two kids and are moving from a 2 bedroom to a 4 bedroom to accomodate the new baby. Only one thing to do with that extra room :)

And here is my 4 year old sons Halloween project.  Love him!



Prima Baby Rose Inspired Lotus Flower Tutorial

You know those baby Prima Roses people are making? I used the same technique to make a Lotus Flower. Very pretty results...and something different :) Don't forget to subscribe for your chance to win a great stamp set. All subscribers will be entered into the drawing. Subscribe at www.youtube.com/user/tatteredrose0610 . Thanks so much.

The Next Tim Holtz

This young man is absolutely amazing.  If you haven't subscribed to his youtube channel, you can watch his videos at www.youtube.com/user/Cardofmyeye , or follow his blog at http://www.scrappyhappiness.com/ .  What's so amazing is that he is only 15 years old, and his art style is much more advanced than mine!  He's up there with the greats.  His tutorials are fantastic.  Thanks Drew, and keep on scrappin'!