...these are extra pages for those characters I didn't get to...yet! ;0)

My New Pink E!!!!

***SQueeeeL!*** Oh My Goodness....I can hardly believe it! I got the Pink E that I kept drooling over since it's release. DH said back in August/September..."Get it if you want." I reply back..."But Honey, I have a perfectly fine Expression upstairs...it's just because of the color that I want it. It cuts the same." I let it go just like that and here I sit months later kicking myself I didn't take him up on the offer. So anyways...I address the issue again on Sunday...his reply..."I think you don't need to buy any more scrapping stuff." My reply..."Hmmphf...." When he asked if I was angry and I tell him no, I explain to him my idea about selling my first E and the cartridges that came with the new machine and how it will make up for the cost...and then some. Now the idea seems to be okay with him...and now I'm the one with the cold feet all of a sudden! What if this machine doesn't work right? What if it came from the batch of Pink E's with 'issues'...what if I sell my old one and I liked it better??? I'm PMS-ing...can you tell? I need some encouragement to open up the box and play!

My entry for the Cropping with the Stars Contest...

Well I did it again...I stayed up late every night that I could and designed, cut, tape and toiled over another acrylic 3-D book©. I stayed up all night on the eve of the deadline and entered this bugger, had only 2 1/2 hours of sleep before I had to go to work the next morning...only to find out that the contest was reopened and I could have taken more time on it, had a good nights sleep and entered 10 days later! Bummer. I wasn't going to tweak my book and then resubmitt my project because of sheer principle, but then on the {YES} eve of the final deadline, I stayed up until 3:00 am to retake pics, spruce up my instructions and resubmitted. And BY-GOLLY...I didn't win again! Next time...maybe. I think Admin put a big black check mark by my name and it wouldn't matter. LOL But it was fun, and I love the results. And my peeps that I know give me all the encouragement I need right now. Thanks everyone...Huggs to the bunch of you!!!

The first three pics are what I entered in the contest...and the last two are a few others that I took (sorry for the poor photography...) It is really hard to capture what it looks like in person, and the background lights reflected horribly in the acrylic. You can enlarge the pic by clicking on the photo for a better look at details.

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...and these two additional pics show more details of the first scene.

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Thanks for looking!!!

I'm entering my Cricut/YourStory project into the M's big contest!

Okay...after much praise from peeps on the MB and encouragement from Lisa (BugJunkie) I entered my project below in the contest Michael's is having!!! I know! Scary! If you have a moment to go over to it and vote for it, I would soooo much be appreciative! I already know what I want with the gift card if I so happen to score one...a PINK EXPRESSION! OOooooo...so pretty! LOL....thanks in advance for helping me out...here's the link:

http://www.michaelscontest.com/uploads/2540

...and the pic:

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My Cricut and YourStory Challenge Entry!

OMG...This was my first challenge ever...and I loved it! I told myself I was going to win this thing...but alas...I didn't. But I do love my project. I think it's pretty cool. I have so many ideas that I can do with this design. The idea came to me after waking up one morning after dreaming about the challenge. Funny. It's a 3-D Acrylic Picture Book©. From back to front...It Has Mickey and Minnie standing in front of the house (last page), then the next page in front of that is Pluto and his dog house and a tree in the front yard. The next page has Donald, Daisy, and Goofy, and the 2nd page has the fence and mailbox. The front page is the cover that you can see through. It is also to appear as if Mickey is in the distance....and gradually the characters get bigger in the foreground. It looks neat in person...just don't know if it came across that way.

So here are my pics that I submitted. Tell me please what you think. BTW...who really needs 100+ cartridges and a fully loaded Gypsy???!!!! HA! It would have been pretty cool to win....maybe someday.

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A Favorite Layout...Pretty In Pink

Since I'm on a roll...I thought I'd load this two page layout I did earlier this year. It's no way as fancy as many talented peeps in scrappyland...but I'm working my way up! I have to go and take pics of the other layouts I finished this year. I lack the ability to journal on them...I need to work on that too. So here is a pic of DD when she was 11 months old...26 years ago! This was the day she started to walk. She use to do this cute little "fishy lips" and the photographer caught the end of it in this first pic. She said she thought it was so cute, and if she did it again, she would snap a picture really quick. I guessed Rachel knew we wanted her to do it again, so she didn't cooperate...that's my lil girlie! LOL Oh, how I miss my sweet babies!!!

It's Time To Post A Few Projects...

Ahhh...it's time to get the last post moved down...I've been a bit lazy and greatly boring regarding my blog. Funny thing is my daughter finally discovered this place! LOL She always tells me I never tell her things...lol...guess I'm guilty as charged! I have been busy with trying to upgrade and get my computer moving faster...it's going on three weeks now and DH told me he would have given up on the whole thing two weeks ago. Things were going pretty smoothly until I deleted a few critical things that I didn't want to, but thankfully I found the way to get it all back. I love "Google"!!! But when he said I could go ahead and get a new computer, at first I told him I wanted to save the money and get this one flying...but in the end I ordered one from HP!!! I'm expecting it by the end of the month so that will be sweet! I can't wait to load my new PE7 and play...I just discovered how to digi scrap...maybe it won't take me as long to complete a layout as it does paper scrapping! **right...;^p ** I find that I'm so afraid to adhere things down...seems so permament! HA!! HA!! Anyhow...I found some pics on my external drive...sorry about the fuzzy pic. I need to learn how to take a better picture...

Cutting Above Gypsy Giveaway!

Cutting Above is THE new place for industry news, review information, tutorials, videos and just about anything else related to scrapbooking and die cut machines!! AND have you also heard that Provo Craft is helping them celebrate! That's right. They have generously donated 2 Gypsies to be given away for their launch as well as to celebrate their Grand Opening on HSN September 24th!! So stop over at Cutting Above's blog to get the info and sign up for a free Gypsy!!!

http://cuttingabove.blogspot.com/

Cricut Celebrates Cartridge #100!!! (links for each week in post)

How Cool is this??!!! Provocraft has come through with a fun giveaway by giving a total of 100 eager scrappers; 20 winners for each of the next 5 weeks...A FREE WINTER WOODLAND CARTRIDGE!!!

Check out this cute cartridge...It's a "GOTTA HAVE"!!

http://www.cricut.com/shopping/ProductDetails.aspx?id=361&s=1&sc=2

Follow the Cricut MB for details...

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***OooooOoooo...it would be fun to win just one of these RAK's someday! LOL ;^)