Mygrafico Retirement Sale!

Hi Everyone!

I have Huge news today for you all! 

Mygrafico.com is having a retirement sale starting tomorrow !

What's Crazy is that all the retired sets will be 1.00! 

 Holy Moly!

I need to go shopping ! LOL..

Here's the details...

MYGRAFICO SUMMER RETIREMENT SALE

RETIRING SETS ONLY 1.00 USD

starts 26th, ends 30th midnight

DON'T MISS THIS GREAT OPPORTUNITY

Retirement SALE product downloads cannot be reactivated , as products will be gone ( retired)

Customers must download their products right away as items won't be available after July 2nd.

This promo only valid at MG RETIREMENT CATEGORY and cannot be combined with other promos.

 

MyGrafcio Challenge #54 Mermaids !!!!

Today's Challenge was on of my favorites so far.

We got to work with the super cute and fantabulous stamp set

By Zenware Designs

MERMAIDS!

The Challenge?

use Sea colors ( blues & greens) & Kraft!

Well I forgot the craft  till the end  but otherwise I am happy!

If you  love this set then you should visit our challenge group on Mygrafico.ning.com and post a project so you can win! the only requirement is that it has a Mygrafico stamp and there are lots of freebies to use! ( click on the word freebie to go there!)

For my  project I made a Photo Frame

I have a Niece who's Birthday is coming up and I know She will love this!

 

In addition to the digital stamp set I used 

Fiskars wave punch (Boundary waters)

Cricut Cartridge Spongebob Squarepants for the Seaweed

Best Occasions Glitter & Metallic paper

Unknown maker Pattern Paper

Stickles & Liquid Pearls

Copic & Prisma Markers

& a dollar spot wood frame from Michaels

Thanks for looking today! and remember that the MyGrafico Design Team call is still open!  Send me an email I am still looking to fill a spot or 2!

A little bit distracted...

Hello everyone!

Let me just  start off with a big ol' I'm sorry...

 I have been so distracted  by so many things this week & last

 that I have not been doing what I needed to.

I'm sure you all understand that sometimes life gets in the way.

 I will be sharing pictures of all the fun and festivities of

 Griffin's 4th birthday party ( with just us) and

of the one on Saturday with more of the extended family.

Did i mention yet that Great Grandma came up for Griffin's Birthday this year!  I am so happy she was able to make it up she is such a busy lady.

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anyway...

 I finished all the Spongebob paper piecing &

OMG ...

 that was a lot of paper ...LOL

 I love how each character turned out! I did mess up on a few things ...

but it wasn't a huge issue..

 OK well Patrick has no pants on ...

 but the purple flowers are strategically placed I swear.

=P

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a few thoughts after this week...

Ice cream cake is the absolute best for Summer Birthday's

Bikini Bottom  never looked as good as it does in my dining room ...

and Rory can spot Spongbob from a mile away... then yells SpongeBob SpongeBob till we agree...

I sometimes wonder how much longer I can stand to not be near my family... 

I miss them so much especially my Sister who is SUPER COOL  &

who Griffin Shares his Birthday with.

I love ya SIS! Your the Best Sister I could ever ask for.

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Also deal alert.... Walmart is marking down the scrapbooking section

 ( actually the entire crafts area was marked down )

& I of course have been  going every week to check out the deals.

Today I bought  the Cricut storybook cartridge for 23.00! 

I know  I can't believe it either...

 they had Tinkerbell, cars, and a few other carts marked that low too!

So if I were you I would run over to my local walmart &

 see if they have any left I know these will go fast!

Good Luck!

MyGrafico Challenge #52

Hello Everyone!

I have a super announcement today!

I was offered the Design Team Leader position for the

MyGrafico Design Team & have accepted!

I am so excited to do this and I hope I do as great job as

Martha has done while I was a DT Member.

If your interested in becoming a Design Team Member

Please email me at tazzabdevilish@gmail.com

As for this weeks Challenge with Fathers Day just around the corner

we worked with some super cute Fathers Day stamps by Kelly Medina

that can work for alot Guy related themes not just Fathers day.

I came up with this ...

First I colored the image with copic markers, then took a white pen and did some higlights.

I used a large paint chip for the background ran it through the cuttlebug

with the Stars embossing folder, then sanded it to show the stars off.

I then added some ribbon popped the Tie & sentiment off the card.

A simple but very masculine Fathers Day card.

Thanks for looking!

Don't forget to apply to the DT!

MyGrafico Design Team Call

I broke down... & more

I Finally broke down and I bought a CINCH binding machine...

I have wanted something like that for about 2 years

 but I have made do without it.

 My SIL has a BIA and I knew she would let me use hers

but...

When I heard about the CINCH a while back I knew I would have to buy it.

it was on sale at OMC ( ohmycrafts.com )  used a 20% off coupon ...

Now I will be able to bind albums better

  than I did previously with the O-Rings.

I have also been getting lots of inspiration from Kathy

(AKA)  Paperphenomenon.blogspot.com  & on the cricut Message boards Paperphenomenon.

She won the Cropping with the Stars on cricut.com , her project was so awesome...

She has the best U-Stream classes ...

I have seen all of her classes (except for the very first one)

 & I was super sad because I missed it.

 If you haven't seen her stuff yet you have to check it out...

 you will love it !

I also wanted to share a little something..

This is just pieced together not glued

Aren't they cute!

I made these in the MTC ( Make the Cut software)

which I so love... this was from a coloring page ( how cool is that right?)

I am working on making a St. Louis Blues  Hockey album

of us at different games and the Peoria Riverman games...

and

I am still making Griffin's Birthday  party stuff

The SpongeBob cricut cart is getting alot of use

I also bought a bunch of SpongeBob party stuff so we will be all

SpongeBob'd out for this party.

 I hope to be able to share some stuff soon but

nothing is ready and I have really only cut a tiny bit

of what I need to so stay tuned for all of that!

I don't have much time left! Ack!

& My SIL the Super Cool Aunt Jen is making

the cake with her Cricut cake machine so

she needs the SpongeBob cart soon! aghhhhh

OK!

 BACK TO WORK!

 ( whip cracking in the background)

;D

My Grafico Challenge #51

Hi everyone!

 if your looking for the mygrafico.com challenge

we have recently made changes and we now have our challenges at  our NING community

http://mygrafico.ning.com/ .

I really hope you will join us for this weeks challenge!

Get the details below and play along !

This weeks challenge is a sketch challenge.

Here is the sketch we used

We also used the Linsay's Stamp Stuff School Rules stamp set

Here is my Sketch card...

Here is a card I made with this set for the virtual crop a little bit ago...

 Thanks for stopping by!

Brad's Birthday...

Hi again,

  I have had a very busy 2 weeks.

Been busy trying to make stuff for Griffin's Birthday Party

(or should I say design & plan)

I am really hope it will all turn out really cute ,

Of course he is only turning 4 so he has no real friends

( I didn't want to invite the kids from school or from the Moms group just yet)

The theme is SpongeBob Square pants

so The cricut cartridge will be coming in handy.

Anyway...

Brads Birthday  just passed and I made a cute card for  him...

He liked it ...  :D

and I got to use my new MTC ( make the cut software)

to make some of Penny Duncan's awesome nesting files for the embossing.

Made them out of a KIX cereal box... works great!

Brad's Mom made him a BIG Cookie &

his Sister cut out fondant with the

 Cricut Cake to decorate it.

I didn't get to take a picture of it before Brad took his slice ..LOL

mmmmm.... it was yummy so I can't blame him for digging in!

thats it for now... more to come!

Have a great day & Thanks for stopping by!