its the final countdownnnn HAHA!

I have had that song stuck in my head all day long! Everytime I thought about tomorrow being the begining of the Serende Serious with some very talented Ladies. I hope you all keep an eye out and give us tips on anything that might work better :) Also, I have not asked Agnes but I think it would be great if you want to play along! Email one of the ladies on the list and we can get things started.

WOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO IM off to write my post now :)

Counting Down to Serenade!

I am so excited I can hardly wait!!!!!!! I know all the ladies are just as excited as I am about our adventures in Serenade! This is such a fun idea and it helps with ideas of ways to use ALL of the images from a certain cartridge. If some of you are like me, I have bought cartridges for one or two cuts that I can see myself using right away and I mostly do that but then I quickly move on to the next new thing! So this gives me a chance to not only make things from cuts I would have never thought to use but to also share those ideas with my friends and also to see all the creations of this wonderful group of talented ladies! YEAH!!!!!! So stay tuned it wont be long now!

Playing with Serenade With Flowerdisco and Friends!

Yeah WOOHOOO I am ready to start!!! I have had the pleasure of joining a wonderful group of women to do this with :) I feel so blessed by it all. I hope I just dont let anyone down... So here is the post from Flower Disco if you wish to watch along and provide any input about our cards!! Of course we hope you love them as much as we love making them




Sunday, September 12, 2010
PLAYING WITH SERENADE by FLOWERDISCO AND FRIENDS

I have been planning to have another Cricut Series as you might now. Finally, it is here.
I have a group of 7 friends who agreed to play with Serenade with me and each one was assigned an image to work with.
We will be starting this Wednesday, September 15 and expect our posts every Wednesday.
I am anticipating this series will last approximately until the end of October.
Below are the participants and their blog links.


Please click below if you wish We hope to light that spark for some of you to try some old ideas and even come up with new ideas!

Happy Scrapping



Abby- http://scrapbookaholic.blogspot.com/

Agnes- (me) http://flowerdiscosscraphut.blogspot.com/
Gaby- http://scrapabookaholic.blogspot.com/

Helen- http://craftingcricutmom.blogspot.com/
Jessica- http://luvcraftingwithcricut.blogspot.com/
Melissa- http://melissaward72.blogspot.com/

Sally- http://ohhhsnapper.blogspot.com/


We all love comments so please do not be shy and leave us some love.
Only constructive criticism allowed,

ACK!!!!!!!!!

I have not been able to do anything the last few days but deal with our great flood. The smell is killing me and the builder is telling me not to worry but he doesnt have to be here and smell this crap all day! Im getting cranky!!!!!!!!! Tonight I am going to try to dig out my box of cards that got stuck under all of the other stuff stored in this room. I am so sorry to all the ladies in the card exchange! I finally had them finished and wanted to mail them and then the flood came!!!!! I hope like heck that they are in decent shape still if not I am going to FREAK OUT! My hubby said no worries that everyone would understand but that is NOT the point!!!!! I want this mess fixed NOW!!!!!!!!! I cant craft because I cant get to anything!!!!!!!! I made a committment to you guys and now I may not be able to get to my things!!!!!!! Here is a picture of some of the damage so you guys can see... This room is where everything gets stored. Including my things from my apartment before I moved in with my now husband, my daughters things, my moms things and a friend of mine who left things in the apartment we shared and I just kept stored here. Ok off to pain management and maybe some retail therapy before I go crazy! Oh and so you guys know I am NOT a total slob most of the things you see just piled up like crazy were all packed in boxes. HOWEVER, the boxes got wet so things got dumped out so hopefully everything will dry out ok. Sad part is MY CRAFT STUFF IS UNDER THIS BIG PILE!!!!!!!!!! Ok deep breathing deep breathing!!!!!

Hugs!

Hugs!

The Great Flood of 2011!

Cricut Card Exchange1

If anyone is interested in joing a cricut card club I know we have some openings for everymonth and everymonth :)


Please check it out. THe group is just starting to be kind :) Join us please!!

http://cricutcardexchange.blogspot.com/

Sweet Pagoda Challange and Giveaway

http://flowerdiscosscraphut.blogspot.com/2010/08/sweet-pagoda-challenge.html

Over at Flowerdisco's scrap hut Agnes is having a challange to use the pagoda cartridge.

Thursday, August 5, 2010
A SWEET PAGODA CHALLENGE 'N GIVEAWAY

ETA on Sunday, August 8
If you do not own Pagoda you can still participate with any image that will resemble any Asian theme. If you still can find any, please...do not let that stop you. As the last resort you can use any fish, dragon, temple building. Be creative and make it Pagoda. Remember to have fun!


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PAGODA

I love the Yin Yang and its meaning.

What is Yin Yang?
This symbol (Yin-Yang) represents the ancient Chinese understanding of how things work. The outer circle represents "everything", while the black and white shapes within the circle represent the interaction of two energies, called "yin" (black) and "yang" (white), which cause everything to happen. They are not completely black or white, just as things in life are not completely black or white, and they cannot exist without each other.
Click Here
to know more about the meaning and theory.


Yin Yang Card
at 5 inches
(The inside sentiment is a rub-on).



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Among so many challenges in our crafting community I would like you join me and try the challenge where you choose an image and make a project with it, pretty simple. Of course, some of them have/had sponsors;
I do not.
But... I do have a friend who makes stamps and she is willing to donate a customized stamp you can use for the back of your cards/projects.

Her name is Eileen and she owns a store on Ebay and goes under the name of qiqi7759. I have ordered my customized stamps from her and received nothing but excellent stamps and an excellent service. Not too mention a friendship too. That is a bonus you do not always get. :)

Eileen's Store (qiqi7759)
(you can click on the above link to visit her store)

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If you are interested in participating in this challenge please, read the details carefully.




I want to use the PAGODA cartridge for this challenge in honor of my friend Eileen, and you can use any of these five images.



1- the dragon from page 34
2- the fish from page 41 OR 3- the fish from page 42
4- the temple from page 60 OR 5- the shrine from page 61.
You can add any other images to the ones above if you are using Pagoda. Those images can be from Pagoda or anything else you would like to. If you do not own Pagoda please read the ETA below. Thanks so much!



ETA on Sunday, August 8
If you do not own Pagoda you can still participate with any image that will resemble any Asian theme. If you still can find any, please...do not let that stop you. As the last resort you can use any fish, dragon, temple building. Be creative and make it Pagoda. Remember to have fun!

I won't be using Random.org to choose the winner because I really want to choose it myself and for this very reason,
I will limit the entries to a max of 50.


---It is a requirement to be a follower of my blog because this way you will be automatically updated of what is going on with the challenge since this one is a bit different than most.

---Your project must be new for this challenge. It has to come from your heart and what this means to me is that it will be your original project, not something you saw somewhere else.

---However, you can get inspired from something you saw before but PLEASE....make it entirely your own.

---You must have a blog and must post about this challenge for the duration of it with a link to my blog.

---And lastly I would like to send the winning project to Eileen as a way to say Thank You for her kindness. I will pay for postage.

I will be using INLINKS for the first time. If you have any problems linking let me know in the comments area and your blog address for me to contact you.

If you would like to participate, please, read everything again and make sure we understand each other.
The deadline for submitting will be August 31st.

For my entry I was wanting to try something. I know its not as perfect as it could be but I am pretty happy with it :)

I used the cut on page 60 of the Temple I also used page46 of the branch. The big bright sun or moon depending on the time of day it is I cut by hand.

This is where the tricky part jumps in.. I found some fabric pain that is much like stickles :) I got some to try just to see how they would work. I still like my stickles especially when working with lots of little details but for this project I found a bottle that was glow in the dark!!! Yes GLOW IN THE DARK!!!!!!! HOW COOL IS THAT???! So once I cut the sun/moon out I took a paint brush and put two layers of the glow in the dark fabric paint. I must admit its not as smooth as I wish it would be but when you look at the moon its not all that smooth either so I feel better about it :)

The glow is not as bright as I would have liked but it does glow!! I went in my pantry and shut off the lights to check it out!!!!!!! LOL!

The only problem is that it doesnt translate that well on film :( Im sorry I tried everything I could think of to get a good picture so you could all check it out but I am going to put the ones I could get. If anyone has any other ideas about how to take this picture I would love to know so please share!!

Hugs to you all :)

May all your dreams come true!