Be Patient With Me

I have had a really really bad Lupus week....hope to be back making cards really good by the first of the week..... so don't give up on me!!!.... I love it when you visit and when you leave comments.

Thank you everyone for supporting my blog, my card-making, and for supporting me!!... I have a really fun card ready to post on Monday!!!...but I have to wait until its posted on The Cuttlebug Spot first!!

Love and Hugs
Jeannie

Waiting on the Return

Another Vicki/Jeannie Challenge...I picked out the tree from Stretch Your Imagination... and then I just kept going... I could so see this scene on an old country road .... so I couldn't resist!.. I haven't seen Vicki's card yet but know that she is so so excited!!!.... here is a link to her card ... which I am about to go get!! ... thanks for looking!! Hugs, Jeannie

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Stretch Your Imagination

Tree cut @ 4 inches two times...pop-dotted each.

Leaves cut @ 1 1/2 inches 24 times.

Bus cut at 1 1/2 inch three times...once on shadow blackout in black...twice in yellow.

Zoobaloos

Grass cut @ 1 inch on real dial size and layer feature 6 times.

Paper Pups

Doggie cut @ 1/2 inch.

Trick or Treat

This is my The Cuttlebug Spot Design Team card for this week.... we did a sketch challenge which is unusual.... and sketch challenges are my biggest challenges .... I feel like I do much better with cut challenges or theme challenges.... but I was happy with this one!!! ...be sure and jump on over to The Cuttlebug Spot and see exactly what the sketch is and what the other Design Team members came up with.... they did a beautiful job. Thanks for looking! Hugs, Jeannie

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A Child's Year

Witch cut @ 2 inches on regular feature and shadow feature.

Pumpkins cut @ 3/4 inches I cut one in green and one in orange for each pumpkin and trimmed the stem and swirl away from the orange and mounted that on the green cut.

Inside pumpkin cut @ 1 1/4 inches.

Plantin Schoolbook

Scallop cut at 3/4 inch twice each pop-dotted from the item below.

CREATIVE MEMORIES

Oval Cutters

I cut my oval with this but placed the oval template on the edge of the paper so that I had a half oval.

CUTTLEBUG

Swiss Dots Folder

This folder is a must have folder it is my all time favorite and I use it to a fault.

Steph's Blog Candy!!!

Steph had a wonderful blog entitled "Where'd All My Money Go?" ....such a wonderful title.... she is giving away wonderful BLOG CANDY! ... so you need to hop on over to Steph's blog and follow the directions!... Just click HERE!

Miss You Already

Two of the sweetest young people I have ever met, Craig and Brittney are leaving work for school ... today is their last day.... I am going to miss them so so much... was going to make them a card yesterday but I didn't feel good at all... (bad Lupus day) ... so I got up this morning and made them in a big hurry!!!... I hope that they like them.... wanted them to be the same... but needed one for a male and female so this cut worked good for that!!

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Paper Pups

Puppy in circle cut @ 1 1/2 inches.

Puppy in square cut @ 3 inches on card feature and then trimmed to make the puppy in the square.

"Miss You" cut @ 1 1/2 inches.

Mini Monograms

Scalloped Circles cut @ 2, 2 1/4, 2 1/2 and 2 3/4.

Trash the Dress Pictures

Trash the dress is a new thing in Wedding Pictures.... its really fun... the bride gets to play in her dress and get really fun pictures...and talking about it Madison and I decided it would be great fun.... after all she didn't want to ware my dress.... chances are her daughter will not want to ware hers either.... (the dry cleaners does think they can get it clean).... and the pictures are after all forever.... the biggest memories... here is our sneak peek at Madison's Trash the Dress Pictures.

Pooh and Friends

Designed by Jeannie Phillips - Southside, AL

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This is another Vicki/Jeannie personal challenge card.... we wanted to use Pooh because August is Pooh Friendship Month ...something like that.... so we decided to each use a Pooh cut... any Pooh cut .... at first I was so at a loss.... just blank... the licensed carts do that to me somehow... I have trouble making the cuts "my own".... then I thought of this card...and found the little girls with the bears in their hands!!!.. how perfect was that... I asked my son to find me a Pooh quote on friendship... he said this one was his favorite so I had to use it!!!... and I agreed it was a wonderful quote.... I can't wait to see Vicki's card!!!....about to go and link it!!!... to see Vicki's card just click here! ... these challenges really make me think outside my little box... thank you Vicki!! Thank you for looking. Hugs, Jeannie

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Pooh and Friends

Pooh Face cut @ 2 1/4 inches.

Inside Pooh Shadow cut @ 1 1/2 inches on shadow blackout.

A Child's Year

Girls cut @ 1 3/4 inches.

Storybook

Bookplate cut @ 4 inches in green and 3 3/4 inches in cream.

Home Decor

Flourish cut @ 1 1/2 inch and cut apart to use.

Flowers are a punch.

Recipe Page

Forever ago I started Madison an 8x8 recipe book sometime I received my first Cricut... made her and I about 10 pages then lost interest....today she sent me an e-mail with 2 recipes and a list of things I cook that she wants in that book.... so I told her that I would do her one a week... one down no telling how many to go.... one day her kids will cook out of it... how cool is that!

Madison has to send me the recipe so that I don't have to type it out...that is what stopped me before that part was so boring...so now all I have to do is copy and paste the recipe and ingredients... the only Cricut I used was Animal Kingdom and I cut the chicken @ 2 inches.

The Ice Cream Truck

Designed by Jeannie Phillips - Southside, AL

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As many of you already know my daughter Madison just got married and her and Cory have their first "grown-up" apartment in Memphis, TN... her dinning room has a black table and she has red and black dishes...and she loves glitter.... she called the other day with that excitement in her voice...she said "Guess what comes to our apartment?!?!?!... The Ice Cream Truck!!!" she sounded so like a little girl in her grown up world... I loved it.... we all need to remember how to feel like a kid!!!.... its so important to our mental health!!! .... So I just had to make her this card... and then I got A Child's Year and wow it had kids with ice-cream!!!... so this is what I ended up with!!!...I am so excited its part grown-up part kid at heart!!... I hope she loves it!.... thanks so much for looking.... Hugs, Jeannie

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A Child's Year

Girl and boy with ice-cream cut @ i inches...

Once on shadow in white..once in black and once in red on regular cut... trimmed the ice-cream off the red cut so it would be black in their hands.

My Community

Mail truck cut @ 2 1/4 inches on shadow... to make the ice-cream truck.

I cut it twice on the top layer I cut an extra opening for the ice-cream truck effect... I Cuttlebug'ed a small black square to give the inside wall a different look... pop-dotted between the layers of the truck...and pop-dotted the back truck layer from the background paper.

Joys of the Season

Musical notes cut @ 3/4 inches.

Zoobaloos

Grass cut @ 1 inch on real dial size and layer feature.

Mickey and Friends

Sun cut @ 3/4 inch on shadow..

I added a roughly trimmed circle to the center.

No Ink ... I know I know a real shocker!

Cupcake Card

I needed to may my The Cuttlebug Spot Design Team card for this week and I needed to make my Brother-in-Law a birthday card...so I combined the "challenge" for both... My BIL is not into your typical things so I had no idea how to make it personal....so I went with the cupcake from Home Decor and used my new Celtic Knots Cuttlebug folder...I thought it turned out pretty good until my dear BIL got it and turned it in all directions...look confused... never even knew that I made it...and still doesn't know its a cupcake.... can we say store bought on the 99 cent rack next year!!! Hope you like it some... hugs, Jeannie

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Home Decor

Cupcake cut @ 3 inches.

I cut it once in brown on shadow... once in blue on shadow which I then trimmed the icing off of.. On regular cut I cut twice in the striped paper and 3 more times in brown.

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Celtic Knots Embossing Folder

I embossed a brown piece of cardstock and a blue piece of cardstock.. I trimmed 1/2 inch off of each side and the top and the bottom... so that I would have a piece that lined up with the pattern and have a border around it of the next color.

I used a gold pen to draw inside of the lines of the embossed image.

Lots of Brown Ink

Lots of pop-dots!!

Doggie in the Window...Sympathy Card

Designed by Jeannie Phillips Southside, AL

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This card is a labor of love!... Craig a wonderfully sweet young man at work lost his Grandmother this week .... and his parents are so special too you can tell by how he talks about them... I wanted this card to be a special memory of Craig's grandmother... we had talked often during her stay at the hospital about how much she loved her puppy dog... Craig so understands how much I love my dog, Shaggy and had compared it to how much his grandmother loved her sweet puppy... and then when I was leaving work I asked Craig what would remind his dad of his grandmother..he said she loved her yard... her flowers... so this is what I came up with.... I so hope that it touches Craig and his family in a sweet memory way! thank you for looking... Hugs Jeannie

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Walk in My Garden

Flowers cut @ 3/4 and 1 inch.

Paper Pups

Puppy cut @ 1 1/4 inches twice I cut the head from of the second cut so that I could pop it from the body and give it dimension... her puppy was a white and tan Jack Russell

Zoobaloos

Grass cut @ 1 and 1 1/2 inches on read dial size and the layer feature.

COTTAGE CUTZ

Window w/ Canopy

I used only the window from this die.

I cut 3/4 inch strip to make the boards on the house...I cut these out of paper that looked like crackle paper... perfect for the look I wanted.

Lots and lots of brown ink.

Lots and lots of pop-dots.

Cup of Java

This is a Cottage Cutz card I made for The Cuttlebug Spot... I am so enjoying being a part of that design team... thank you Nilda for giving me the opportunity.... one of my most favorite parts is the Cottage Cutz they really challenge me... and inspire me and I am loving that!... thank you so much for looking...be sure and visit The Cuttlebug Spot and see the other Cottage Cutz cards posted this week... Hugs, Jeannie

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Storybook
Scalloped circle cut @ 4 inches then embossed.
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Flourish Frame (new)
COTTAGE CUTZ
Cup of Java/Hearts
I cut this out 3 times in green...
I popped dotted between each layer the back layer is also popped off the page... the front layer I cut the handle off the cup and the top coffee part off the cup to give the cup a better 3D effect.
I cut the die cut once in dark brown and once in light brown for the "coffee"... for this I used small scraps and placed only over the coffee cut.
Once in off white for the swirls and the hearts again I used small scraps for this and only cut the parts I needed.
I had green extra green swirls and hearts from cutting my coffee cups I used these extra pieces to embellish the inside of the card.
Lots and lot of brown ink and also Olive ink.

My Hero

This is another Vicki/Jeannie challenge card... I chose the "ribbon" and the "my hero" theme... I had something totally different in mind when I picked this theme... but now this is what I have...can't wait to see Vicki's take... be sure and check out her BLOG and see her take on our My Hero cards.... Thank you so much for looking!!!... Hugs, Jeannie

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Plantin Schoolbook
H,R,O cut @ 1 inch on regular cut in red and shadow cut in blue.
"&" cut @ 2 inches on regular cut in beige and shadow cut in blue...
I trimmed off the bottom to make the ribbon.
I cut a piece of red and glued to the back for the red center.
George
Stars cut at 3 1/2 and 3 3/4 inches and 4 1/2 and 4 3/4 inches.
Inside Stars @ 1, 1 1/4 and 1 1/2 inches.
Opposite Attract
"my" cut @ 1/2 inch.
Lots of brown ink and pop dots!

First Glance Pictures!!

These are my daughter, Madison and her husband, Cory's First Glance picutres... the had pictures made before the wedding and this is the first moment they saw eachother... I love these pictures!! Please visit the Photogopher's blog by clicking here!.. they are Once In Every Lifetime Photography out of B'ham AL... they are wonderfully sweet and do beautiful work. Thank you so much for looking! Hugs, Jeannie