CWC Melinda's Surprise Thank you Blog Hop!

Welcome to Cooking With Cricut’s very special SURPRISE “Thank You” Blog Hop. It's our 100th challenge and we are all so excited about it! The reason for the "surprise" is that we are also here to celebrate our own "Top Chef" Melinda Beltran! Melin started Cooking with Cricut to inspire others to use their Cricut cartridges in new and fun ways! She has also given scores of crafters a place on her Design Teams which quickly turned into a sisterhood of women, who care for each other; who encourage each other; who lift each other and their families up in prayer; and who have shared their hearts and their art through many outreach projects. I for one am very thankful to be on this team and look forward to continuing on through the year.
So this is our SURPRISE “Thank You” tribute to our beloved Melin! If you came from Melissa over at, Crafty Gator, then you’re in the right place! If you’ve joined us mid-hop and would like to start at the beginning, please head back to Cooking With Cricut  – you won’t want to miss any of these awesome cards!!

For my card today I decided to use the Cricut Imagine Audrey Cartridge to print out some cool Black and White paper and found some white and white with black polka dots out of my scraps.  The ribbon was paper pieced from the Stampin UP Blue Ribbon Stamp and the Thank you ticket was taken from the CTMH  Art Philosophy set.  I used Stampin UP Real Red for the background and the red ink.  I used a sketch from this weeks Mojo Monday to create my card.

Thanks so much for hopping with us. We hope you’ll join us and leave your own “thank you” in the comment section for Melin at CWC! Now it’s time to head on over to Jamie's blog at Scrappin 2 Baby Girls, the next stop on this party train!

Simple Sunday Card

Hi everyone!  Well it's Thursday here and my kids are bouncing off the walls as they are soooo excited for our upcoming trip to Disney!  Not to mention this weather has been so weird in Chicagoland.  Luckily, I've had some time to craft and update my the look of my blog!  I absolutely LOVE how it came out thanks to my good friend, Nancy who is a talented crafter and computer programmer, not to mention a great friend!
Today, I am posting a quick card I made yesterday.  Ashley, over at The Glamorous Side of Scrapping has a weekly challenge called the Clean & Simple Sunday challenge. This weeks challenge was to make a Valentine themed project and the prize is a new Smash book!  I have been hearing a lot about Smash books over the past year and I would love to try one out for myself so I thought I'd enter! It's been so long since I've made a card so I'd thought try one out.

 This was made with Stampin UP! Read Red paper for the base of the card.  The black patterned paper is from an Imagine cartridge called Audrey, the little crown is from the Imagine Teresa Collins Baby Boutique cartridge and the LOVE stamp is from B is for Boy.  The white paper is Whisper White and the ribbon is an old pack of ribbon I had from Heidi Grace.

I also used a sketch from Mojo Monday to make this card, sketch 226.  Thanks for stopping by!