A Big Thank You

I just love purple and green together. I made this for my WW leader. She was so helpful my first week (I started yesterday). Besides, I wanted to make a card really bad. My craft room is such a mess but I couldn't wait to clean it up to make a card! If I did, I would NEVER make anything! Ha!

Happy Birthday Sammy!

Tomorrow, my best friend's middle son will be the big 1-0! Double Digits! Here is the card I made...

Forever Young Cartridge Purse

I finally broke down and purchased the Forever Young cart. I didn't think I would have a use for it since I am the mom of two boys and a Star Wars Cartridge would be better for this house (Hey Provo Craft, are ya listening?!) But I found that there are so many purses on this cart and I love it!

Now before you take a gander, please keep in mind, I am very, very, mechanically challenged. I can't put together kits, paper crafts, etc. So, this, my friends is an accomplishment!

This is Flower number 8 Purse. I also did the flower as well. I ran the middle part of the flower through my Xyron and then glittered it up! I also inked the leaves and the remaining flower and added a bling to it. It is perfect for a couple of Hershey's Kisses inside!

Until Next Craft!

Aunt Word Book

My aunt's birthday is on Halloween and I have been meaning to send this word book to her at Mother's Day but I flaked. So, I am determined to send this ontime for her birthday!

Until Next Craft!

Birthday Card....Take Two

I started making a card from "Card making with the Cricut" and it went in a totally different direction but I think it is cute nonetheless....

Until next craft!

Celebrate!

Since my husband assured me that there are no more mice in my craft room, I went into my room and make a birthday card.....

Hope you have a great Sunday afternoon! It is pouring rain and very, oh so very windy here! 

Until next craft

Is there a mouse in the house?!



I am so bummed! I have found, I thought was 1 mouse in my craft room but it turns out (after the pest control guy came), there were 3 mice that have decided to put a change of address to my craft room, my sanctuary! We are hoping the last mouse is caught. I have not stepped foot in that room since last week! I have thank you notes and invitations to do! Can't Mickey and his friends understand that!? Anyway, I will return, hopefully this weekend after my husband goes in there and white glove cleans it!

I will be the lunatic holding a soup ladel behind him!

Please forgive me if the thank you to my wonderful co-creators of my blog hop are late!

BCA/Girl Power Blog Hop Winners!

This past weekend was wonderful! I am so happy because the BCA/GP Blog Hop was just a success!
As promised, here are the winners of the hop!

(up to) $20.00 package 'o goodies goes to:

True Random Number Generator

 Comment # 97

Sheree!!!

I will contact you via the email you left on my blog!

Next is the 5 lucky winners of the Oh My Crafts' gift certificate and ribbon die for your embossing machine

The winners are:

Comment #2

Michelle Taylor

Comment #33

Wendy Turner

Comment #20

Sarah Pink Cricut

Comment #3

Denise Velez-deArmas

Comment #16

Marianne Smith

I will be contacting you via FaceBook for mailing address!

Thank you again for your support!

Go Girl Power!



Welcome to the Breast Cancer Awareness/Girl Power Blog Hop! This is the place to be. I am humbled to be in the same group as these lovely ladies:
www.pinkcricut.com

http://www.pinkcricut.com/


http://www.cricutchick.blogspot.com/


http://www.madebymomo.blogspot.com/


http://www.janjasblog.blogspot.com/


http://www.emilymyer.wordpress.com/


http://www.craftjunkietoo.com/


http://www.cricutmatriarch.blogspot.com/


http://www.craftingflamingo.blogspot.com/


http://www.kathyand3kids.blogspot.com/

We have a wonderful sponsor for this hop....Oh My Crafts! 5 lucky winners will receive a $5.00 gift certificate and a ribbon die for your embossing machine

Just leave a comment on the BCA/Girl Power Facebook page and I will draw 5 winners on Monday morning.

Without further ado....On with the hop!


For my project, I made an explosion box.

this is the box closed


This is the suprise when you open the box













This last flap for for the walkers to take a picture after the final step!




Well, that's my project......Oh! I almost forgot....If you are a follower and leave me a comment on this post, I will make sure your mailbox is filled with goodies. The winner will get items of their choice ( up to $20.00) at their favorite craft store! All you have to do is:
Be a follower of http://www.dsjmdesigns.blogspot.com/
If you have a blog, post my blinkie on your blog
Post a comment on this entry....

I will draw a lucky winner on Monday.


Now that you have started this hop, you just have to continue! Hop over to Sarah's Blog


Happy Hopping!

Halloween Waterfall Card

I wanted to make a different kind of Halloween card and decided to go with the waterfall card. I love making these.

BCA Blog HOP Prizes

Just got in the mail from OHMYCRAFTS what 5 lucky winners will win for my Breast Cancer Awareness/Girl Power Blog Hop on 10-16-2010 to 10-17-2010. Check it out!

A $5.00 gift certificate and a Awareness Ribbon Die.

Plus, I will be giving away goodies as well! Hope you all join me and the other 9 designers for this special event!

Happy Harvest

I wanted to make a card so badly today but my creative juices were not flowing today at all. After about 10 hours of nothing, I came up with his card. My favorite season is fall so...here ya go....It seems as though my cards are all looking the same...what do ya think?

Gabby Abby SEI Week 1 Challenge

Over at http://www.scrapbookaholic.blogspot.com/ they are have their first SEI Weekly challenge.

This challenge was a color challenge. Orange, Purple, Black were to be used. I threw in a little green as well. This is my first ever challenge that I have entered. I had a lot of fun with it. But the only problem is that now I want all the Halloween Cricut Cartridges!

Breast Cancer Awareness/Girl Power Blog Hop!

Come join us in celebrating Girl Power and Breast Cancer Awareness month! We will have 10 designers, which are fabulous join this special Blog Hop:

The fabulous designers are

www.dsjmdesigns.blogspot.com

www.pinkcricut.com

www.cricutchick.blogspot.com

www.madebymomo.blogspot.com

www.janjasblog.blogspot.com

www.emilymyer.wordpress.com

www.craftjunkietoo.com

www.cricutmatriarch.blogspot.com

www.craftingflamingo.blogspot.com

www.kathyand3kids.blogspot.com

Join come and join us for lots of fun and prizes.

We also have a sponsor for this fabulous Blog Hop

OHMYCRAFTS

www.ohmycrafts.com

They are donating 5 $5.00 gift certificates and 5 2x2 pink ribbon die cuts for your cuttlebug/bigshoot!

Starts at 8AM on October 16, 2010 and will continue until October 17, 2010 at 11:30PM!

Yippee! My first blog award.....

Thank you so much, Kathy for this beautiful, wonderful award. I am truly humbled. Your blog is an inspiration!

I want to pass this on to the other blogs that I am in awe of as well!

Pink Cricut

made by Momo

Craft Junkie Too

Okieladybug

Thank you so much! I love it.....

Teacher Appreciation and a Gift Card Holder

I am lucky enough to stay home with our boys. I am also lucky enough that I get to volunteer at Jacob's school. The class is wonderful. I believe it is because of Mrs. Green. She is in her 30th year of teaching and she was simply born to teach. So, I decided that it would be nice to thank you for having parent volunteers.

Mrs. Green and Jacob, our oldest


The card was made from a DCWV stack and I used PTI Button Bits stamp set. It is a 5.5 by 5.5 inch card.





The next project that I have neglected, unfortunately because of things that always seem to happen when I need to do something important and have promised to do it. A follower of my fan page on FB won a $25.00 gift certificate from Michael's at the beginning of the month but then, like one has to do with the other, we discovered that we had a bunch of Mickeys (mice) running in our home. Holy Snickies! I have been pretty much trying to deal with exterminators and running around with a soup latel in one hand and a bottle of anti-anxiety pills in the other. I am terrified of mice. Sorry, I digress....

I made the gift card holder idea is was made from, "Card making with the Cricut". Surprisingly, I didn't know all the Cricut cartridges have as much as they do. I cut the WIMG cartridge. I then punch out a slit for the card with the Stampin' UP! word window punch in the middle.




Until the next project.....

The best thing that's ever been mine!

Today, 9 years ago, I took a leap of faith and love when I married my husband. The world was uncertain at the time due to 9/11 but I was never so sure about anything as when I said, "I DO!" I made another card for my husband from Cardmaking from the Cricut.



I wanted the card to be more manly so I chose different colors than the book.


Until the next craft!


Shana

Projects I have been working on

I am have been busy and haven't had a chance to post my latest projects so, here is a mass craft post!

Project #1:
I made an explosion box for a girlfriend that is about to have her first baby, a girl.


Top of the box



This is the box opened. The baby's name will be Audrina. I computer generated the A in the middle of the box.


One of the flaps, I made some tags and a pocket for them.


Close up of the tags.


The Mommy and Daddy can write a note to the baby. The papers comes out.


Here is the card that I made to go with the present. I got the card idea from "Cardmaking with the Cricut" Great ideas and easy to follow.



Project #2
Birthday card for one of my friends miles away. I also got this card idea from "Cardmaking with the Cricut"



Project #3

This was a word book I made for a follower of my FACEBOOK FAN PAGE. She wanted me to make a book that read, "SNOW" I used the Speaking of Winter and GBS carts for this.





Thanks for Looking (and hopefully commenting)


Until Next Project!

New Things on my blog

First, look to your left! Don't you love it? It is my new button that you can grab now! Please feel free. The wonderful designer can be located at http://www.designsbysarahbryan.com/. She is very reasonable and easy to work with. Thanks Sarah!

Okay, so I wanted to show these cards before the blog hop but forgot because I was so excited about it!


The first card is a birthday day. I used Kraft cardstock. I ran a white inkpad on a layer and then stamp with my favorite stamp...I watercolored the flower and then used some glossy accents to some of the flowers.



The second card is card lift. I got the idea from Mary. Click HERE to see her video. I made this for a baby shower





Hope you all have a great Monday!

Until Next Time

Winner of the Blog Hop (drum roll please)

First I want to thank each and everyone of you in this mass post how grateful I am to all of you now following my blog! It was truly an honor doing this special blog hop. Thanks to Sarah at http://www.pinkcricut.com/ for hosting. Can't wait to participate in another blog hop soon. I might even, one day, host one myself (slow down, Shana...baby steps)

Okay, the moment you all have been waiting for:

The lucky number according to http://www.random.org/

True Random Number Generator

Min: 1
Max: 199
Result:
26

PAMELA PATTISON LASH

YOU ARE MY WINNER OF iROCK!

Please contact me @

thenewmrsmiller@aol.com if you get this before I have a chance to contact you!

Thank you all for commenting and following!

09/11 Blog Hop

Welcome to the 09/11/10 Blog Hop

What an honor it is to be a part of this event! I am truly humbled to be grouped with such wonderful desingers! Thanks to Sarah at PINKCRICUT for putting this shin-dig on!

09/11/2001 will live in our hearts and minds forever.
NO ONE can say they don't remember where they were on this day in history.
On this day, let's us all remember we are proud to be Americans and what a privledge that title holds.


This Blog also has a wonderful sponsor CRAFT-E-CORNER, which is donated
Welcome to the 09/11/10 Blog Hop




This hop is comprised of 10 fabulous designers!


Starting with:
http://www.pinkcricut.com/
http://www.amychomas.blogspot.com/
http://www.dawnsaddiction.blogspot.com/
http://www.yellowbirdcreation.blogspot.com/
http://www.scrappinnavywife.blogspot.com/
http://www.janjasblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.dsjmdesigns.blogspot.com/ (That's me!)
http://www.creationsbychristie.blogspot.com/
http://www.kozfam5.blogspot.com/
and last but certainly not least:
http://www.mc2prod.com/



If you are here, that means you were just at Anya's blog. Wasn't that book breathtaking?

Okay, for my first blog hop, I came up with two cards:

The first one, I thought that it can be sent to a soldier that you may know or not. All the troops need our love and support.



Card Recipe:
*Red 5.5 inches square card
*MS punch on the base card
*then layered with a white and a blue
*3x5 inch white cardstock
*Stand and Salute cartridge cut "Support Our Troop
-blackout cut of above
-dark blue ink to sponge around
*red/white/blue ribbon
*blue star brad


The 2nd card was simple yet complicated for me. (The easy things are hard for me, ya know?)


Card Recipe
*6x5 inch white card base
*1 each of the following in Red/White/Blue
     -2x4.75 rectangle
     -1.75x4.50 rectangle
*Stand and Salute cartridge cut "Welcome Home Soldier"
  -cut the apart the "Welcome Home Soldier" (carefully)
  -adhere as shown
*stickles
*ink for the edging (white and black)


As for my Blog Candy (did you just hear angel singing?)

YOU ROCK
I ROCK
YOU WILL SCREAM IF YOU WIN
i-ROCK!

That's right, peeps, I will be giving away the i-rock by imaginisce



TO QUALIFY YOU MUST BE A FOLLOWER OF MY BLOG AND YOU MUST COMMENT ON THIS POST! (the answer is yes....I am a comment hog!)

I will be picking a winner Monday morning and announcing Monday morning as well! Good Luck!

***** FIND ME ON******* ******FACEBOOK********

*******DSJM DESIGNS**********

OKAY! NOW, PLEASE HOP OVER TO CHRISTIE'S BLOG next!


Until next time!
I

BE SURE TO COME BACK TOMORROW FOR.....

There will be 10 fabulous designers that will feature a patriotic theme. The following designers will be

Start at:

http://www.pinkcricut.com/

www.amychomas.blogspot.com/

http://dawnsaddiction.blogspot.com/

http://www.yellowbirdcreation.blogspot.com/

http://www.scrappinnavywife.blogspot.com/

www.janjasblog.blogspot.com/

http://www.dsjmdesigns.blogspot.com/

www.creationsbychristie.blogspot.com/

http://kozfam5.blogspot.com/

and end with:

http://www.mc2prod.com/

You won't be disappointed!

Starting 8 A.M.

See you there

BFF Explosion Box

I don't know how, but I had a feeling that I needed to make something for my BFF, in Maryland. Julie and I have been friends since we were 8 years old and have stayed close since then even though we are 3000 miles apart. No matter what happens we are always there for one another.

She is, above all else, a mother, to five beautiful children. I wanted to make her an explosion box of her children: Her favorite colors are grey and purple.


The explosion box closed:




opened