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What's Up??
Mike Wazowski is one of my fave characters from Monster's Inc. After of course cutie pie little miss boo. But as you know I have been making birthday cards for one year olds. This is yet again another one of those cards!!! However, I am done showcasing them all...I am onto different things!!! ha ha ha...always onto different things, not always crafting as I am working full time and have a household to maintain...alas....so do many of you, (no use preaching o the choir) so I thank you for taking time out of your day to check my stuff out and leaving some love for me!! So THANK YOU!!!

Recipe: Birthday Bash Cricut Cartridge, Best of Pixar Cricut Cartridge, Recollections cardstock, shimmer micheals orange ribbon, sakura white gel pen, My Pink Stamper Punnylicious, and Green Stickles. This was tons of fun to make and it was even funner to give to my daughters little buddy. He was actually born only one hour ahead of us in the same hospital. So it was really fun to make this card for him. Our families share a lot of special memories with each other from the hospital!! Thanks for stopping by!

Brenna

Submitted at: Claire's National Craft Month

Best of Pixar Flames

Hi all,

This is going to be a quick one. I made this card for a girlfriend's baby who is turning one. He has always been a bit of a terror...ie he was a bit colicky, never could be put down, never napped, and as he got older he gets into everything!! A really fun baby, but very very busy (as most are). When I recently got the Best of Pixar cartridge, the baby in the incredibles reminded me of him. He was always lighting stuff on fire, at the end of the movie anyways! and very cute! ha ha ha...anyways this is the card I made for him.

I usually don't do anything to the inside of the card, but I had some extra scraps that worked well and I needed to get the birthday stamp on it.

Recipe: Best of Pixar Cricut Cartridge, Create a Critter Cartridge (Flames), lemondrop, maraschino cherry red, and mandarin bakers twine from the twinery, recollections cardstock, DCWV christmas combo stack for the striped paper, yellow and orange peel stickles, scrappy moms sweet stuff stamps set, jillian vance designs owl set, black tsukinenko ink, small scalloped octagons spellbinders.

Thanks for checking it out!!

Brenna

Submitted: Claire's National Craft Month Challenge

It's a Birthday and a Winner!!!

Hello,
Just another quick post with a quick project!! I made this card for my girlfriend who's son is having a first birthday! My whole prenatal class is turning one, so I've been busy crafting up cards for everyone!! This is one for my little buddy!! I went to Michaels and bought a sukura gel pen, because I have been seeing how awesome it looks on everyone elses cards and layouts. It did not dissapoint me!! I totally love it. it just adds something a bit extra to your card!! You'll be seeing it on every card probably now!! ha ha ha...anyways, I digress!!

Recipe: Create a Critter Cartridge, Ribbon, Jillian Vance Designs Owl so cute Stamps, recollections cardstock, tsukineko black ink, sakura white gel pen.
This was a fun and simple card for me to make!!

I also chose my winner for the St Paddy's Day Blog Hop hosted by Dee.  Random Number Generator chose number 2 (don't know how to do a screen shot).  That is Scrap Mama: Carie.

scrap mama said...

So glad to be a follower now. My friend sent me over thanks
carie

Glad you are now a follower!!!  Please Email me at rbanderson@live.ca with your details to claim your prize!  Thanks to all for joining me in the hop!!  Remember to come back again I am participating in the April Bunny Blog Hop on April 1st-5th.

 I will be having another giveaway!! 
Brenna
Submitted: Claire's National Craft Month Challenges
Birthday Sundaes - Anything Goes Birthday
GAB Challenges - #7 Birthday Theme

St Paddy's Day Blog Hop

Hi All!!! I'm soo excited!! This is my first blog hop, so welcome to my stop on the St. Paddys' Day Blog Hop!!! This hop runs from March 17th at 11:30pm till March 19 at midnight!!!  One Day Only!! This hop is hosted by Denise. If you get lost please head back there to start at the beginning or if you want to check out the entire lineup to make sure you didn't miss any stops!!  You should have just come from Sigrid's beautiful blog and are now more than halfway through all the hop stops.

Anyways, I just want to give a shout out to Denise, THANK YOU!!! I'm so excited to be in my first hop, and you've helped me so much with learning how it works and getting my stuff all together for it!! yay!! Anyway, onto my card. At work we have an Irish lady who is a really good friend of mine,and every St. Paddy's day she takes like the whole week off for partying with family and having a good time with some good ole' green beer!! This year she went away to Newfoundland where they will surely have tons of green beer and cod kissing!! ha ha ha, could be trouble!! I digress...this card is for her, I FINALLY got my Peachy keen stamps, I say that because for some reason I waited for a month (not even kidding) till I received my stamps!! I have scrappers block for that whole time, becuase it seemed like everything I wanted to make was impossible without my peachy keen stamps. So anyways, I finally got to use them and I am soo happy with them...it won't be too long till I'll be waiting another month for my next batch I'm sure!!  Anyways, here is my card:

Here is a close up of the face, I couldn't help myself, plus my rainbow made with the twinery twine!!!  yay!!  I love peachy keen stamps, they are soo cute and really make your project that much cuter!!  love them!!

Recipe: Recollections and Sizzix Cardstock and patterned paper, Eyelet outlet 3 leaf clover brad, micheals misc ribbon, Simply Charmed Cricut Cartridge, Sakura White Gel Pen, Yellow and Christmas red stickles, Black pigment ink, clear embossing powder, The Twinery bakers twine in caribbean, lemondrop, maraschino cherry, lilac, mandarin, and peapod, Hapmton art classic mini alphabet set, whisper stroked markers for outlining, pebbles inc hewel tone chalks for blush.

So I was really happy with this card, I just love simply charmed, you're probably tired of seeing it, it's prob pretty dominant becuase it is soo cute!!! Please go and check out the other stops on the hop,.  The next stop is Cheryl!!  Check out her awesome project and beautiful blog!! 

Anyways, onto the cool part, well REALLY cool part!! I have BLOG CANDY!!!! yay!!!! How awesome!! ha ha ha...I'm really excited this is my first giveaway ever, and I will be sure to have tons more!! I am in a few more hops, so please keep checking back because they will all have giveaways!! Anyways, for this blog hop I am giving away a cuttlebug embossing folder (Congratulations) and a micheals "Peace.love.happiness" Stamp.
To be eligible, please become a follower and leave a comment on this post!! thanks tons for stopping by!!

Brenna

Submitted in: Rainbow Lady's Challenge: #144 St Paddy's Day
Sentimental Sunday: #46 Let's Go Green
All Sorts Challenge: Week 94 Luck o' the Irish
Creative Card Crew: Show us Some Green
Crazy About Cricut: # 4 Leprechaun
Do You Stack Up Challenge: #11 Add a Bow
Fab n' Funky Challenges: #64 Green or St Patty's Day
For Fun Challenges: Green
Stamp 'n' Doodle: Use at least 2 "g" embellishments (green, glitter, gold for my card)
Cooking with Cricut: Two Shades of Green
Claire's National Craft Month Challenge

Stylish Blogger

Wow, what an honour!!  I have received my second (and third award)!!!  I was given this award by two incredibly talented ladies, SimplyBren at Simplybren Is Having Too Much Fun and Angela at Krafting with Kings!!!  These ladies are soo super talented and fantabulous!!  Thank you so much for bestowing on me this incredible honour!!  I am more than happy to spread the love, there is soo many deserving bloggers out there!!

There are some rules when a blog receives the award:

1. Thank and link back to the person who gave you the award.
2. Share 8 things about yourself.
3. Give the award to 8 bloggers that you have recently discovered.
4. Contact those bloggers and tell them about their award

8 Things about Me:

1. I am Canadian, but grew up in Indonesia.

2. I am  Registered Nurse who loves working in the Operating Room.

3. I can only scrapbook with my sister but can't make cards with anyone else.

4. My Mom lives in Arizona.

5. My best friends in life are twice my age.

6. My daughter will be growing up with a group of ya-ya sisterhood aunties.

7. I have only been cardmaking since January 2011.

8. I collected scrapbooking stuff and tools for three years before acutally being able to use it.

Now for 8 Bloggers that deserve this award and always inspire me to keep creating:

1. Corri - Bug Lover Cards

2. Helen - Crafting Cricut Mom

3.  Creating a Crafty Life

4. Denise - Designs From My Heart

5. Sharon - Meemees Creations

6. Amanda - My Scrappin Obsession

7. Lisa - Peanuts and Peppers Papercrafting

8. Nikki - Scrappin' Navy Wife

Thanks you all for being a daily inspiration, and there are so many others that inspire me as well!!  Keep on creating everyone!!  thanks a lot!!

Brenna

Hello "Owl" my friends!! (pardon the pun!!)
I have been on a crafting binge lately and am excited to show you my projects!! But I can't show you all at once, as I am now working full time, I need to put something up every now and then so that during the times that I am unable to craft, there will be postings still, I need to be able to budget it!! ha ha ha, for myself too!! anyways, i just bought the twinkle toes cartridge at my local walmart, and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!! If you ahve a little girl or do a lot of girl themes scrapping/cardmaking, this is a must have!! it has some of the CUTEST cuts EVER!!!! yay!!! I have been looking for it for a while,a nd have found that you really can't get it on sale ever, so I jsut bucked up and bought it!! totally worth it!!! Pink and green are a few of my fave colours, so I decided this is the perfect time to use it!! Hope you like my project!

Recipe: Twinkle Toes Cartridge, gcd studios cloisonne DP, pink Twinery Twine, recollections cardstock, Jillian Vance designs Owl Stamps, real stitching, Glam Pink and cotton candy Stickles, Ranger antiquities embossing powder in rose quartz.
Thanks for checking me out and Following!! I have a few blog hops coming up and I will be giving away some Candy so please check back!! thanks!!
Brenna

Submitted: Claire's National Craft Month Challenge
Getting Kricky with K Andrews: Anything winged
Pollycraft Challenge: #83 Fly me to the Moon
Getting Kricky with K Andrews: Sugar and Spice
Fab n Funky Challenges: #63 Make it Girly
Flaunt It Fridays: Twinkle Toes Cartridge

Tri Fold Shutter Card

So this is my first attempt at a tri fold shutter card. I love this card, and how it looks (better when other people do it I think), if I wanted to write a big long note in my card, I don't think I would go with this format!! ha ha ha, it really takes a lot more planning than I initially thought. I started and I just kept on being like "now what, now what, what colour would look good here, what works here"...it was difficult, but I finally settled on everything, and I'm happy with the outcome I think. I do love ladybugs anyways...I got the tutorial from Splitcoast Stampers. If you want to do any funky folds or motion cards, that is where you can get some great tutorials!!

Recipe: DCWV Cardstock, Misc patterned paper from scrap stash, sizzizx DP, Happy Birthday misc stamps (I lost the packaging somehow and I can't remember what they are), fabric flowers from dollar store, recollections black brad, eyelet outlet jewel brads, tsukineko black ink, recollections flower border punch, green michaels ribbon.
This was fun to make, and I will definately be making it again, the reason that I'm not sure if I like it also too, is that as you can see it looks like the top bit is a bit too heavy and it sort of sags on the top. I think the reason this happens in two fold, one is because I used glue and two is because all the layers I have weigh it down too...I cannot wait to get my atg gun...my sister has it and she lives like 45 minutes away, and we have not had time to see each other since I went back to work...sadly!! So hopefully we can get together to scrap sometime soon!! Anyways, hope you enjoyed my project!! 
A few more things!!  There is some awesome blog candy up for grabs!! 
Check out Angela's Blog to enter yourself for a chance to win some awesome blog candies, there are three up for grabs!!  This pic is only one of the three batches!!

Also, I found this great blog called PSA Stamp Camp a while ago.  They have some awesome tutorials, and fantastic projects and challenges!!  They are looking for more followers and offering up some great candy to a lucky winner also!!  Please go and check them out!!  Have a great day!!

Brenna

Submitted: Claire's National Craft Month Challenge - anything goes
My Time to Craft Challenge - #131 Jewels
Southern Girls Challenge - Flowers
Stampin' B's Challenges - #101 Use Bling
Anything Challenge Blog - Die Cuts
Getting Kricky with K Andrews - Anything Winged
Card Creations and More with Christina - So Saturday Challenge # 5 Tri Fold Shutter Card
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturdays - Spring Has Sprung
Pause Dream Enjoy - Fun Fold Card Challenge

HK Cartridge, KB Challenge

Hello,

This is going to be a quick post for today, but I am back with a birthday card that I made for one of my girlfriends. Her daughter just turned one also! I thought it was a perfect card for her!! anyways, here is my card!

Recipe: Hello Kitty Cartridge, pink twine from the twinery, recollections cardstock, recollections flower border punch, DCWV glitter cardstock, xmas red stickles, pop dots.

Thanks for checking it out...
Brenna

submitted at : KB Challenges #6 - Something Pink
Claire's National Craft Month Challenge

Great Giveaway!

Check out this awesome giveaway to get the elusive Twinkle Toes cartridge with Elaine!! 

I'll be back later tonight or tomorrow with a new post and a card!!  yay!!

Brenna

Finally a New Project!!

Okay, so I feel as if I have been out of things for a really long time....well I have.  I have returned to work, so I now don't have up to 3 hrs a day (during naps)to play around on the computer and blogging and in my craft room!!  ahhh!!  now I spend 8hrs (minimal) at work!!  ahh!!  ha ha ha...I have even returned to work fulltime, which is unusual for nurses I guess, everyone is pretty shocked anyway!! 
I do love my dayhome provider, and so does my daughter, so it isn't so bad...I guess.  I do feel as though I miss out on a lot, and sometimes I feel a bit neglectful becuase she spends more time with dayhome provider then with my during the week...it makes me sad anyways...but I definately needed the socialization of my work for me.  I do love my work also, so that helps ease the pain of beign back and away from my daughter so much!  Anyways, onto my project for today.  I made a new baby card for my friend who just had a little boy in the end of February.  yay, if it wasn't obvious by the colours of the card.  So my card is below:

Recipe: Simply charmed Cricut Cartridge, Accents Essentials Cricut Cartridge, Recollections cardstock, threading water punch, waterfall stickles, misc ribbon and cardstock, scrappy moms sweet saying stamp set.
I really wanted to have a face on the baby, but for some wierd reason still waiting on my peachy keen stamps from their super bowl sale!! I knew I would ruin it if I tried to draw a face on after the fact, and by the time that I even noticed (which was after I photographed it) everything was all together, I wasn't doing everything all over again for a face!!  ha ha ha...ahh...I'm going crazy, literally, I can't do any preojects because I am still waiting for those stamps.  I want to use them for like everything!!!  (I of course will have to tell my hubby I won them when they do come, he he he!!!)
Anyways, hope you liked my card, it is safely in someone elses home right now!  yay!  I also thought you might like to know there is an awesome hop going on right now:

 

There are over 30 awesome blogs involved in the hop with some awesome prizes!!  hope you all have fun and enjoy!!  Thanks for joinging me and I hope to see you soon!! 

OH YEAH!!!  Some exciting news for me....I will soon be making my first appearance in a blog hop!!  yay!!  I will be having some awesome blog candy for the hop also!!  Can't wait to see you all then...What hop you are asking...well....It is the St Paddy's day Blog Hop and will be taking place on March 17th at 11:30pm - March 19th at midnight!! (Only one day, so you'll have to be on the ball!!)



So I hope you all can join me and all the other fantabulous ladies for the hop!  I want to send out a shout out to Denise for helping me get involved and helping me out and teaching me about how it works (behind the scenes)!!  Yay!  So anyways, I will be posting again before the hop (hopefully of course) but Can't wait to see you all on st. paddy's day!!

Brenna

Submitted at: Do You Stack Up Challenge Blog
Claire's National Craft Month Challenge
Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge