CHIRRRRRP!

Yes- that was the sound of my Cricuts chirpping.
I used my Imagine and Snow Angel to create the back ground pages. I used my Expression and Winter Woodland to create the "frosty" title.
Snowflake punches are Martha Stewart
Sizzix scalloped frame die and lots of Stickles and bling

Why TY Santa...

it's just what I wanted-how ever did you know?!
Santa got me this fabulous tower to store my Copics in. Before they were just all jumbled up in a basket. I am so much inspired seeing them all together in their happy little color shading families!
As You can see I still have some collecting to do- I have my brights on one side and neutrals on the other with lots of room on the neutrals side for some more brights to creep over. I seriously need some more violet pens.

Cricut Circle Secret Santa Loot

Thank you soooooo much Tina Biles aka Egg Lady for my wonderful stocking! I love absolutely every little thing that you stuffed in there- you got my style down to a tee :-)

More Cards

Here are a couple variations on a theme- all featuring Stampendous Stamps- colored with Copic markers.
Back ground paper- Recollections- Spellbinders Nestabilities Dies

Holiday Card #3

I made this one for my Face Book Farmville pals
It features Cricut Country Life Cartridge.

Holiday card 2

Very simple stamping of the Santa here with some Prima floral embellies and Martha punch

Holiday Card 1

I get bored pretty quickly and end up making a wide variety of cards each holiday season. Here is my first offering for this Christmas.
The draling little elf stamp is from Stampendous - colored in w/ copic markers.
The patterned paper is from Basic Grey.
Dies-Spellbinders Nestibilities
Punches- Martha Stewart

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

Not really a chicken dinner- but I love how that sounds :-P
It's actually some stampies and an ink pad goes to Lisa of "Lisa's Creative Niche"

Thank you all for hopping by on the Sophie Hop!

Hop Day is Here!

Sophie Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to my blog!

Here is a card that I made using the Cricut Sophie cartridge.
The patterned papers are from Melissa Francis, SU!, and Basic Grey.
I love how the flower looks with the edges inked , rolled and covered in glitter.
(I call this the Michelle Novak technique because she does it all the time-I just wish that I knew what brand of chunky glitter that she uses?)

Leave me a comment with your email addy for a chance to win some blog candy (as my nickname is Stampin' Meg, I think that I will give away a couple stamp sets and some inks!)
Check back on Monday for the winner :-)

1. Michele - www.michelegreen.com <--- start here!
2. Tammy - www.scrapcavecreations.com
3. Jen from Confessions of a Scrapaholic - http://scrapaholicjen.blogspot.com
4. Liz - http://liz-lavendarandroses.blogspot.com
5. Paulette - http://scrapalette.blogspot.com
6. Megan -http://peacockpaperie.blogspot.com <---- you are here
7. Maria - http://stampcutcreate.blogspot.com <---- go here next!
8. Brenda - http://happyscrapper64.blogspot.com/
9. Diane - http://dianesdribble.blogspot.com/
10. Sharon - http://designsbysharon.blogspot.com
11. Alma’s Pink Life - http://almabrooksblog.blogspot.com
12. Rexann - http://ibecircled.blogspot.com
13. Cindy - www.inlovewithpaper.blogspot.com
14. Marie - http://craftelicious.blogspot.com

Happy Thanksgiving

This card is a combination of Cricut Imagine and Regular Cricut.
I used Imagine Enjoy the seasons to print and cut the central imagery.
The postage stamp frame is cut from Base Camp.

gobble gobble

Here's a turkey stamp from Whipper Snapper designs.
Colored w/ copic markers.
Die is a Nestability.
PP- is Debbie Mumm
Ribbon-COD Wholesale
Punches- SU! and Martha Stewart

Snow Angel Box 2

I liked the first box so much that I decided to make another one- changing up the imagery for the top of it and resizing the snowflakes on the side.
Cricut Imagine- Snow Angel
Ribbon-Chatterbox
Border punch-Martha Stewart
Stickles
Box-ProvoCraft

Holiday bag album

Here's a paper bag album that I made- the patterned papers are from a Recollections stack. The Cricut cut is from the Gingerbread seasonal cartridge-I love how these look cut from kraft cardstock and then gussied up with a little Stickles.

A lil owl card

I just picked up a pack of owl paper @ Hobby Lobby which inspired me to dust off my Hoot N" Holler Cricut lite cart.

1st Santa's Village Card

I got my Cricut Imagine Santa's Village cart. yesterday and had to break it in straight away with a simple little card.

Cookie Swaps

I made these for a swap on the Cricut Circle message board.
The pocket is cut from Elegant Edges. The Candy Cane is from Christmas Cheer, and the title is from Winter Frolic.

Holiday Gift Box

I used my Cricut Imagine and the Snow Angels cartridge to embellish this plain brown chipboard box.
Punches- Martha Stewart, Stickles glitter, velvet ribbon, and pearls.

Spooky ATCs

I made these for todays ATC swap @ Stamp your Heart Out in Claremont.
The background card stock is Tim Holtz. The PP for the rosette it SU! w/ silver stickles on the edge. I oversprayed the card with Tattered Angels gold glimmer mist. The sentiment and ghosts were cut with Cricut Happy Hauntings. the Mica glitter on the ghostie is from Martha Stewart. And the seam binding is my own hand dyed.
There is also some Adirondak silver paint around the edges.

Birthday Girl

This was 1 of my "new" stamps from yesterdays haul- an oldie but goodie from Stampendous.Colored in w/ Copics,PP- Making Memories,butterfly punch-Martha,Scallop oval Sizzix for SU!,Cuttlebug embossing folder, Prima bling and flowers

Holy- Stamp-oly!!!!

I think I just got the stamp haul of the century!
I scored all these for $20 @ a scrapbook garage sale.
I am literally quivering- I don't know which ones to stamp first.
Such a sweet dilemna :-)

quickie B-day Card

I absolutely love Simple Stories- I whipped this card out in no time using their papers.
The only embellies are 2 i-rock silver tops, a tulle rose, and a bit of light blue grosgrain ribbon.

R U Ready?!!!

...for some foot ball?!

I used the Wrapped Up cart to make this fun football card for my Dad and brothers -who are all football fiends.Sentiment is from Winter Frolic, grass if from zoobaloo and the mini football is from everyday paper dolls.

Tim Holtz Meets Cricut Halloween

I made these cards using some Tim Holtz Fall texture fades (embossing folders), splattered them with his alcohol inks.
The patterned card stock is his kraft resist Halloween card stock.
The spider and Jack O'Lantern were cut from Cricut Wrap it Up and the Skullie is from Gypsy Wanderings.

Shabby Chic Gift Bag

I used a sheet of Recollections paper as the base. The rose card is the hand book project from the Art Philosophy cartridge.
The bird I cut from white card stock and Sophie. I used a variety of direct to paper techniques to color the layers. The solid base is Jade Ice chalk pad, the top layer was an old Fabrico pad that I over-sprayed w/ jazz blue Tattered Angels glimmer mist.
The seam binding was colored with the glimmer mist that I had left on the surface of my sink after spritzing the bird!

Pack your Bags

...breaking in a new Cricut cart here- Pack your Bags. It's kind of just a newer version of Life's a Beach but since I have so many cruise, Hawaii, & beach pictures it will get a lot of use.
The patterned papers are from Imaginisce.

2nd Teresa Collins meets Sophie Card

I printed the fleur de lys paper using Teresa Collins Black and White cart for the Imagine. With the Sophie cricut cart I cut the decorative edged card, the label, and floral shapes.
It was my first time making a twisted ribbon rose. I used some of my hand dyed seam binding , a Gloober and followed Beate's tutorial on Spilt Coast Stampers. I can't wait to make more of them!

Another Art Philosophy LO

Here's another LO featuring more photos from Germany.
I used Art Philosophy to cut the large square doily and the layered banner( I love the coordinating stamp!)

More Sophie Cards

The first card is the sample card in the handbook. I used some very old pastel K and Company papers for it. I changed it up a tad by running the foliage thru the Swiss Dot Cuttle Bug folder. I also colored the bird w/ Jazz Blue Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist.

The butterfly card also uses the Teresa Collins Black and white Imagine cart- I printed the damask paper and the pink polka dots with it. The butterfly, flowers and shaped card are from Sophie.

Hello Fall

I used CTMH Art Philosophy to cut the 2 different styles of trees. I ran the foliage thru Cuttle Bug D'vine swirl.
I also cut the letters w/ Art Philosophy.
The PP are from SU!
And I finished off the trees w/ a little twine bow and some flower soft fluff.

Meet Sophie

-my newest Cricut Cartridge.

I was so inspired my it that I made 2 projects right off the bat.
The card features a scalloped circle base that I cut with the Art Philosophy cart.
PP- Echo Park

For the scrapbook lay out-I used Sophie to cut the 11" doily page mat and also made a 3 inch card- that I used for my title mat and did my journalling on the inside.
PP- K and Co.

Stupendous Stampendous!

Look at all the loot that I got at the Stampendous warehouse sale this AM!!! The cling sets that came without packaging were only $1 a piece.
The cards are so beautiful- they look like the samples from their catalog.
I am a very happy stamper :-D

Hang in There Card

Made w/ Simple Stories 100 days of summer papers and stickers.
Prima Flower, MM brad, bakers twine

Vintage Thanks

I used the CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut cart to make this card-The shaped card, doily and scalloped circle cuts were employed. I also used the corresponding stamp CTMH stamp set. PP are very old CTMH as well.Finished off w/ some of my Hand dyed seam binding.

A New Love

I made this Lay Out with Memory Works Simple Stories 100 days of summer line.
I am so enamored of their concept of slicing and dicing their papers up to make pages with.The designs are just so great-I hate having to commit to using just one side of the papers (they are all double sided) I might have to get doubles from here on out.
This LO features SS papers and stickers. The flower is Prima and the silver studs are Imaginisce.

Aqua Changito

Sorry- long time no blog- I was busy the past week or so doing the Southern California Shop Hop acquiring new goodies to create with.
Here's a new stampie-poo that needed breaking in. I paired Mr. Chang up with some bright summer themed papers from Echo Park. colored w/ Copics

Putting the flowers to work!

Here's a card that I started yesterday-I picked up the Penny Black mousies stamp @ From the Heart in Claremont on the So Cal Shop Hop.The images is painted w/ Lyra watercolor crayons.
The background papers are Making Memories.Label Shape is a Spellbinders Nestability die,border punch is Martha Stewart.
I used CTMH Art Philosophy cricut cart to make the dimensional flower, the sentiment (stamped w/ the coordinating CTMH stamp-I love that!) and the little white photo corners were cut with the cart as well.

Dimensional Flowers w/ Cricut

How pretty are these little buds?!
Using the CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge-I cut them @ 3 inches.I then rolled them from the outside edge in on a hemostat. And stuck the coiled petals down with an adhesive glue dot( I tried regular glue with my first one and it was just a big hot mess as the glue stayed too wet and everything uncoiled) I might try a low temp heat gun or Fabric Tac Glue on subsequent attempts.
OK back to my stamp cave to cut some more @ different sizes and in different colors and prints....
PS_ I also stuck a pink Prima pearl at the base of a few of them.

Cricut Lovely Floral cart for circle, label, and tiny flowers
Stamp- Penny Black
Copic Markers
PP-Making Memories
Flower- Prima
Martha Stewart- leaf punches
Doily- Wilton
Hand dyed seam binding

Hope Card

Made w/ Cricut Pink Journey Cart.
Papers American Crafts, DCWV
Prima Flowers
EK Sucess Corner Punch
Ribbon-Hobby Lobby

Hang In there!

I got these kitty images as a RAK. They are Whipper Snapper or High Hopes. I colored these in with my cheepo BIC MarkIt markers. The PP is WRMK.

Here are some cards that I made featuring the same stamp (Hampton Arts)but doing 2 different color variations- Copic Markers, Cuttle bug embossing folders, hand dyed seam binding.