I'm home!!!! Missed me?!?!

Wow - I've been away from home for 13 days, but felt like I was gone for a month!  Considering we had 3 young kids with us, we cleared everything that we wanted to see and do, and more!  I can't believe that we fit all the major attractions - 3 days of Disneyland, Universal Studios, Legoland, Wildlife Safari, Sea World into this trip, and still had time to check out Santa Monica, Hollywood, the outlet, the beach, the malls and trip to JoAnns :) It was an amazing vacation - and the weather was wonderful for the most part.  Here's a pic of my three kiddos at the San Diego La Jolla beach.

I had the pleasure of meeting Xochitl Rico (Cricut Critter blog) in Anaheim for a drink after we put our kids down. Coincidentally, we were both staying at the same hotel so it worked out really well!  We got to know each other better (share our holiday experiences) and it was great to have some "crafty" talk with someone after being deprived of creativity for a week.  She is very friendly and extremely easy to get along with.  Thanks for a great time, Xochitl (and thank you for the drink)!

One of my highlight of my trip was meeting Belinda Brown (Bee's Hive O'Drama blog) in California Adventure.  We've never met, but she pulled her two kids out of school and dragged her husband on his day off to drive two hours to see us.  We were both leary of how it may go - I mean, we've only chatted online - never actually talked to each other until we met!  She made a joke about how I could've been a 78 year old woman!  Anyway, we (and our families) hitted off really well immediately - and instead of just having lunch and a couple of rides together like we had planned, we spent the whole day together.  It was such a magical experience in the happiest place on earth :)  Thanks Bee and I miss you and your family already!

Anyway, enough about my trip!

On my next post, I'm going to show you all the crafting loot that I brought home!!! (I just need to take some pics :))

My last little post before I'm gone!!!! - but there's some exciting news to share!

Sorry that I don't have any cool crafts to show, but I wanted to tell you that I'm gone for 2 weeks and no blogging won't happen for me during that time.  Sorry about the plain old card - it's something I did a long time ago, but I needed a picture to get your attention! and looks like it worked :)

Now that I have your attention, I thought that I'd share some exciting things:

1.  Watch out for the next SVGCuts collection next week.  Tres tres cute!!!  So cute that you're going to be tempted to buy them right away!

2.  I'm off to LA and San Diego area, hitting all the major attractions that I could possibly hit, and meeting up with my crafting buddies, Xochitl Rico and Belinda Brown.

3.  I will have a lot of goodies to show with you when I get back!  I ordered tons of crafting stuff, can't wait to share with you all and make pretty things with it!!!

4.  I submitted in another DT project for SVGCuts, so keep your eyes peeled - it may be up while I'm on vacation!  I'm very excited about my next project, got a little creative with my photography, and am so excited to show you!!!

5.  I am working on a Facebook page for mod paperie, so when I get back from my vacation, I hope to launch that shortly after... and hope to make more friends!

6.  It's SVGCuts 2nd Birthday! So go to their Facebook page, or their forum and wish them Happy Birthday!!!

Anyway, I think that's it for now!  See you in two weeks!

SVGCuts collection taken to a new height!

For those of you that missed the new collection release from SVGCuts yesterday, here it is!!!!

Isn't it CUTE???  It's super adorable Birthday Dinos!

The cutesy look is all the rage (especially in the new Cricut cartridges)

 and Mary has nailed it!

Get yours while it's free!

(Free with purchase of $9.98 or more!)

Just because cards. SVGCuts DT project.

Check out my 3 latest cards that I made as a project for the SVGCuts Design Team!
I've come to really enjoy working with sentiment stamps, and I've never, till now, thought about making some cards for my DT project!  I've been also working on my photography skills....  I flipped though some card magaines, researched how they take pics of the cards, and used ribbons and buttons as a prop with the cards.  I think that it gives some character to the photos this way! I'm tryin'!

Anyway, here are the cards!

For more details on my cards, the instructions, collections used, and its dimensions - please visit SVGCuts blog - click here.  Hope you like them!

Thanks to Cely - I forgot to give credits to the stamp companies that made these beautiful sentiment stamps! 
The "rainbows and sunshine" and "you're a doll" sentiments are from Papertrey ink, and "loving life" one is from Technique Tuesday!  LOVE LOVE LOVE their stamps!!!
Anyway, I wasn't too productive yesterday - I'll see how much I can get accomplished tonight!
(I think that my problem is that I'm making some awesome friends online - now it's too fun to chat, rather than to craft! LOL!)

Oh, counting down to my vacation!!!

I've got 6 more days until our family leaves on VACATION!
Yay!!! I'm so excited!!!!!
It's been getting harder and harder to sit and craft right now, with my travel bug just making my body restless!

Anyway, got my Letterpress set out again, and made two cards - one for my great aunt which I'll be staying with for a few days during our vacation, and one for my sister-in-law's birthday (I really hope that she doesn't see this card yet!).

I just LOVE the simple look that the Letterpress creates!

and still so elegant!

For the thank you card, I used the Wedding printing plates with teal and dark brown ink, and for the birthday card, I used the Baby printing plate for the background, and used hat (Birthday Elements) and the frame (Robin's Return) from SVGCuts files.

And I just can't wait until you see the new SVGCuts collection - it is just sooo adorable! One of my favorite that Mary has ever made!  Guaranteed that it's going to be a popular collection! Stay tuned!

I've been also trying to learn how to take photos and I'm having so much fun with it!  It's my dream to be able to capture my kids expressions and create the "mood" from photography.  It's amazing though - with a good camera and excellent lens, I found that I'm now more interested in wanting to learn how photography works!  This is a simple shot of some dried florals that was sitting in my vase, but look how nice and clear it is with my new camera!

Anyway, I'm off to try to finish my next SVGCuts DT project before I leave!
Ciao for now!

Corner Wall Calendar.

Here's a project I did for the Lettering Delights Creativity Challenge.  This is something new that started in the LD website, and all the entries are posted in the idea gallery on their site.  It ran from middle of January and the cut off date is today, and you were to use the calendar file (free download) and use at least one of the Lettering Delights product.  It can be a card, a scrapbook page, or anything that you desire to make. 

I chose their Balloon Craze SVGs (super cute) and their pennant SVGs.  I decided to put each calendar month on the pennant, and have it strung with twine and held by clouds, balloon, rainbow and a mountain.  It's a year calendar that can be hung on a corner wall!  Super cute, I'd say!

To tell you the truth, I felt really horrible doing this, as I'm on the SVGCuts design team.  I'm a very loyal person, and all I could think about was how Leo and Mary would take this.  However, it's just a challenge, and I just wanted to try LD's files - see how they cut, see how everything is compared to SVGCuts SVGs.  That seems fair, doesn't it?   

My kids had a day off today, so spent the morning making Valentine sugar cookies.  They had too much fun - and had way too much sugar in the end!

Anyway, hope that you're having a fabulous day!

The latest SVGCuts Cheat Sheet is available now!

To those who love to keep track of all the SVGCuts freebies all organized on one sheet, the newest one is now available!  It's a great reference sheeet to have along with all your SVGCuts paid collection printed PDF files!  If you would like to have a copy for yourself, please leave me a message below (with your e-mail) and will send it to you! (I apologize with the files not being in the correct order, but these are the 35 newest freebies!)  If you haven't realized it yet, you will now see that there's tons of cute SVGs for free!!! Goto the SVGCuts blog, under "free SVG downloads" to get all of them. 

Also, did you see the newest collection released today???  It's Cuddly Storybook Friends and it's super cute!!! AND it's the free gift of the week with purchase of $9.98 or more!  How fun it would be to use them on cards or bags or make a little storybook for your little one!  Possibilities, possibilities!!!

Hope that you're having a great day!