Update….Having a Party…..

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UPDATE……
I'm having an Online Close to My Heart Catalog Party!  
Details to follow later on….The Party will be starting today March 8th, and closing March 25th, 2016.

To check out the awesome CTMH products or place an order, click on the Rose Photo on my right hand side bar near the top. (((((( Correction, please let me know if you're interested and I'll send you an invitation, there was a glitch and some orders may not have been credited to my party.) ))) 

I'm so excited, my first online party, I hope you'll take a look around, you might see a few things you just can't live without. 

I've sent out a few invitations and posted a link to my sidebar, being new to this, please toss me an email if you order, I'd like to thank you and thank everyone for dropping by my blog.

I'm trying to save for another Cricut cartridge and a few new stamps, enjoy hugs, Lori
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The Outlawz…..CAS03062016 Challenge.

We hope you'll join us over at The Outlawz Challenges this week for the Sounds of Spring Challenge.

What animal or sound reminds you of spring, for an added twist, use musical notes on your card or projects.

This month our Sponsor is Lisa of Decosse's Dynamite Doodles, I hope you stop on over to Lisa's place and check out her beautiful collection of digital designs.

Winning Monthly Prize:
Winner will get to choose one set from the specified choices below.

Flower Power Kit, the Mommy Dearest Kit, the Tag Grab Bag 1:  Cotton Candy Collection, the Beauty of Butterflies Kit or the Living on the Edge set.  Winner will get to choose the set they want from the specified choices.

Here's my DT Challenge entry for this week. I used a beautiful shade of blue digi paper from our sponsors collection….Living on the Edge…and chose one of the pretty dragonfly brads from her collection ……Naturally Color Brads. 

Since my hand and wrist was still in a cast, I chose to make this card digitally using my Silhouette Cameo and designer program, then turned it to a print and cut card.  Easy, and useful for so many occasions when you need a card on hand.   

Update:  I was  one of the lucky winners over at Holley's blog, from Miss Daisy Stamps , woot woot, made my day! Thank you Holley and Miss Daisy!

Enjoy, blessings and hugs, Lori m

Dr. Sonia's inspiration…..

to reach out of my comfort zone.  I just love all the tutorials and design projects shared by Dr. Sonia.  Truly stunning keepsakes. Many Congratulations on her over 5 million page views, stop on over and wish her congrats.

I've decided to enter a boxwood wreath I made for my daughter a few weeks back.  The bird is a print and cut file I made from one of my own photos taken and the boxwood die cut is also a file I hand drew and converted. Everything was designed in my Silhouette Design Studio program and Adobe Photoshop, then cut using my Silhouette Cameo.

  

After everything was cut, I inked and chalked the edges to give it a little more detail. I've seen similar files on the internet, many better than mine however, I was pleased with my end results.

Enjoy, blessings and hugs, Lori m

The Outlawz CAS 02282016

challenge this week is a card or project for something you find in or under the sea. 

Our Sponsor this month is Judy from ScrapCutsbyJudy

The Monthly Challenge Winner will receive a $10.00 gift card to her store.

Here's my DT entry using an adorable Angelfish file from our sponsor. The Angel Fish are layered with a background, the little fins pop out, I added some white dots with my pen, then used my chalks for add a little more detention to the look.   

The background paper is from K&Company and the stamped sentiment was from Unity Itty Bitty Stamps which I've had for years.

There you have it for my challenge entry this week, I hope this gives you a little inspiration.

Blessings and hugs, Lori m

Classics….

Birthday card.

Using my Silhouette Cameo and an already designed card from the Silhouette design store I was able to cut out and assemble this quick Birthday card.

Enjoy, Blessings and Hugs,  Lori m

A Little…..

Behind... Birthday Card.

Using the adorable "A Little Behind"… set... I won over at "Imagine That! Creative Playground" blog site, I was easily able to create this too cute Birthday card. 

 How much easier it was using the already colored in digi's, along with my Silhouette Cameo to make a print and cut card. So working with one hand in a cast, was a little less stress.  

Enjoy, blessings and hugs, Lori m

The Outlawz CAS02212016

challenge for this week is Movies you love, show us in CAS style what your favorite movie is and why you love it, we hope you'll join us!

Our Sponsor this month is Judy from ScrapCutsbyJudy

The Monthly Challenge Winner will receive a $10.00 gift card to her store.

Here's my DT card……

My favorite movie of all times had to be Love Story…..I think the smiles on our faces tells it all!

The beautiful Lacy Heart Doily with Mat... is a gorgeous file from our Sponsor…ScrapCuts by Judy, hop on over and check out her other pretty files, many news files have been added.

The cute film strip was a shared file by Terri, and the camera is a file.. I made myself in the Silhouette Studio Design software program. Everything has been cut using my Silhouette Cameo.

 I hope you've been inspired by my card this week, the story behind it is truly a Love Story.

Blessings and hugs, Lori m

February 14th…...

Update…..I won the most amazing and cutest digi set over at …http://imaginethatdigistamp.blogspot.com

check it out and take a look at the other cute sets, this is going to get a whole lot of use thank you again to Imaginethatdigistamps.

http://www.imaginethatdigistamp.com/store/p736/A_Little_Behind.html

Now with luck my pretty pink cast will be off in 2 weeks……keep your fingers crossed for me please.

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Update...... thank you everyone for your lovely comments.
I've been dealing with the flu buggies going around and now an injured wing in a cast. Please excuse my lack of comments on your blogs.
Also my reply comments aren't showing up and I'm not sure why. Big hugs and blessings to all, Lori m 

Happy Valentine's Day to all!

The Outlawz CAS0214201…...Challenge over at The Outlawz Challenges..  is to use a heart on your project in honor of American Heart Month. We hope you'll join us!

Our Sponsor this month is Judy from ScrapCutsbyJudy

The Monthly Challenge Winner will receive a $10.00 gift card to her store.

For my challenge I chose to make a banner project using a couple files from our sponsor.

I used the following files:

1. Hugs Heart with Arrow 

2. Scallop Eyelet Banner 

Entering in:

1. Show Us Your Heart Challenge over at 

Imagine That! Creative Playground

2. DL.ART- Thankful Challenge #174

That's it for today, enjoy, blessings and hugs, Lori m