Voting has started!

Voting has started over at Papercraft star!
Voting is super easy!

Just click here to vote!

Here is my entry:
You don't have to vote for me unless you think my card is so super cute!! LOL!! Take a look at all the wonderful projects and vote!

More Than Favors Challenge

I found this challenge while blog hopping around and of course I cannot pass up a challenge!

More than Favors: Challenge # 2 Color

The colors are Green, Pink & Yellow, Any Theme, Any Size and Any Project.

Here is my entry:
I used Create A Critter for the turtle and of course her hair bow... Sorry are we sick of these yet? Not me!! I just love them!! My little critters are not complete without one!! They are just too cute! The paper is from Debbie Mumm and I picked up this cool flower corner punch yesterday so I had to try it out. Ribbon is from my stash.


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Serenity Scrappers Pot Luck...

Serenity Scrappers is have a Pot Luck week... And I think it means anything goes??

So here is my anything goes....

My 9Year old chickie made this adorable picture for her penpal, I said Ohhhh so sweet and super crafty, I think I will copy you and make a card. So I pinned it up on my board and figured I would make the card when I had some time.

But the next day she said, did you mail my letter to my penpal and I said yes I did, (because I did) She said well you forgot to put my picture in it!!

Yup! I sent her letter and had her picture still pinned to my board! Oops! I will be sending her picture with the next letter.....
Anyways!!! Here is my inspiration:And here is my card:
The tree is from the Serenity Swap, the butterfly is from PaperPups, the bee is from Walk in my Garden and the sun from Doodlecharms!

DragonFly Happy Birthday Card

I swapped some pattern papers with my friend and received these awesome pastel patterns, I just love them so I started my card with that. I then used the sketch from PaperCraft Star. I didn't want to do a real bow, so while I flipped through the Cricut books I came across this dragon-fly and thought, perfect!
Here is the PaperCraft Star sketch:
Here is my entry:I am also entering over at Practical Scrappers: Use 7 or more items:
1. card stock
2. pattern paper
3. fabric ribbon
4. plastic flowers
5. soft flower
6. brad
7. stamp
8. embossing folders
(I used 2 different embossing folders and 3 different inks!)


** Voting for PaperCraft Star begins Aug 1**

Paper Playtime Challenge

Paper Playtime Challenge: BBQ!!

I love to BBQ!! I BBQ about 3 nights a week! Yummy! I received these BBQ cuts in the swap over at Serenity Scrappers.

My Sheri Crafts Challenge # 15 Vacations

My Sheri Crafts Challenge # 15 Vacations


The challenge over at My Sheri Crafts is vacations, and I made the base for this card and could not decide what to put on it, so I went through all my scrap cuts and found this palm tree and it clicked!

So this is where I would like to be on vacation....I think I made the palm tree with SCAL but I'm not for sure and the island is from Create a Critter.

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Papercraft Star Winner! Thank you for Voting!

Just wanted to send out a huge thanks for all of you that took the time and voted for my turtle card over at Papercraft Star! My turtle won! Yippee! It was really my lucky day over there because earlier I won the Papercraft Star blog hop!

Thanks again to everyone that popped over and voted! They have a sketch challenge going on right now!

Thank Ewe!

I made this cute sheep Thank Ewe for the following challenges:


Our creative Corner: So day's challenge is to create a card or project using Green, Red, and White & Black.

And

Fantabulous Cricut: Challenge # 20 at the zoo

Here is my entry:

I used From my Kitchen for the sheep and Accent Essentials for the scallops. The stamp is from Punny-licious Stamps

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Voting has started!

Hi Everyone,

Voting has started over at Paper craft star for the circles project and my turtle card is up for voting!

Please take a quick look by clicking here and put your vote in!

Here is my entry: It is under Carri-abusybee

thanks!



** Don't forget to enter to win my blog candy! See my sidebar!!**

Blog Candy!! Yippee!!

I started my blog in May 2009 and I cannot believe that it has been over a year! I have had just the best time, posting, hopping, commenting, laughing, creating and everything in between! I am amazed at all the wonderful projects I have viewed and how our card making/ scrap book community is so close knit! So I wanted to say Thank you to all that have inspired me, to all that have popped over to leave me a comment and show support!

So while I cleaned out my craft space this pass week you can see a fun picture here, I came across some duplicate items that I thought I would pass along!

Here is what is included:
Set of Scrappy Cat ABC stamps
Set of Scrappy Cat Travel Phrases
Quick Stick Dots
Heidi Grace Ribbon 4 Yards
20 pack of Flower charms
20 Sheets of 4X6 printed papers
36 Travel Card Stock Stickers
Mini Storage Containers
125 Google Eyes
Organza Ribbon

All you have to do is:
1. US Residents only! (Sorry postal reasons)
2. You must have a blog.
3. Please post my bee button on your sidebar that links back to my blog.( My bee is on my sidebar)
4. Please leave a comment on this post with your blog so I can go check it out and away for me to contact you if you win!

** You DO NOT have to be a follower**
**Feel free to post about it on your blog but not required**

That's it! I look forward to many more fun years of blog hopping, posting fun!

Open until August 14, 2010!

Carri-
AKA ABusyBee

Bitten by The Bug Challenge - Fall

The BBTB2 Is having a challenge contest! Here are the rules:


So, let's base this contest on fall. Make a project that is fall related (you can even do Halloween!) that includes a Cricut cut and a stamp of some sort.

Here is my entry:
The pumpkin cut I received in a cricut swap cut from Bonkdawn, the paper is from Recollections Halloween stack, I used my Martha Stewart drippy goo punch, added some thick white thread and some Halloween bling from my stash. I also stamped the entire sheet of pattern paper using a Happy Halloween stamp.

Winner! Project of the week!

Jitterbuggin' Challenge!

Here is the challenge over at Jitterbuggin':

1. Follow the sketch.

2. Use black and white only with 1 accent color of your choice.

3. Use a punch.

As always, use something "Cricut" on your creation!

Here is my entry:I used my circles punches and the flowers are from Accent Essentials. I wasn't sure which sentiment I was going to use, but after it was complete it looked like a sympathy one. I added red for my one accent color.

Cool Paper Pack!

I was in a contest at Serenity Scrappers and I won a paper pack! I just received my prize!

Here is it!
Thank you Ladies!

Highway 20 Ride...

One of my favorite songs right now is Highway 20 Ride from Zac Brown...

I ride east every other Friday, but if I had it my way my day would not be wasted on this drive....

I"m listening to it right now!

So when I saw the challenge over at Frosted Designs I knew exactly what song I wanted to do!

Here is the challenge:
So this week I want to you use a song lyric somewhere on your project. It can be from any song in any genre. Just make sure you have fun thinking about it and let us know who the artist is so maybe we can get to know some great new music.

Here is my entry:

I love how this turned out! I used a 5X7 Card, some old map paper, the highway sign is from Going Places and the truck is from New Arrivals.
The letters are a rubber type which I thought felt like wheels and the ribbon like a road!
I enjoyed making this one!

This also is being entered into the Paper Cutz Challenge:
For challenge # 51, make a card, LO or craft project using a digital, hand stamped or Cricut cut image of something with wheels, and any colors or theme you'd like.

And

Alphabet Challenge Blog: M is for Men

I think this card would be great to give to a Dad or Husband that is taking a trip!

Cupcake Craft Challenge- Cats or Dogs

Cupcake Craft Challenge is on Cats and dogs! Check them out here!


Here is my entry:I used Create A Critter for the poodle and made this with all scraps!! Yippee!
This is another card I made while crafting with my friend today, we made three total!

My Creative Time Throwback Challenge - Celebrations

Another Throwback Thursday! Check it out here! Here is the challenge:

To qualify for the giveway, you must:

****Link your project up to "Mr. Linky" below

****Challenge is based on "ORIGINALITY"

****Must use "CELEBRATION" Cartridge OR any older cartridge you may own OR if you JUST started collecting your carts, just use what you have!

**** This week IS A "BIRTHDAY" theme! Make ANY PROJECT OF YOUR CHOICE!

****Must be an ORIGINAL project made especially for THIS challenge

****ONE entry Per Person Please.

Here is my entry:

I used Celebrations for the cupcake and all the paper is from scraps!! I made this while crafting with my friend Andrea today! We had so much fun!

Cherry on Top Award!

A Huge Thank You to Wendy over at Kingston's Kreations!

She sent me over this sweet award!

The rules in accepting this award are:

1. you must thank the person who passed it on to you,
2. copy award to your blog.
3. list three (3) things you love about yourself,
4. post a picture that you love on your blog, and
5. pass award on to five (5) others

Three things I love about myself...
1. I need little sleep!
2. I am a true organizer at heart!
3. I can make myself laugh!

Since I cannot post photos of my family.....
Here is the first giant cupcake cake I ever made!


I am passing this wonderful award onto:

Sandra at 365 Days of cricut

Rhonda at Scrap Happens

Stephanie at Always crafting

Kelly at Kreative Korner by Kelly

Kristin at Pinkldy Crafter

I could have passed this on to so many more!! But these ladies have great blogs and are super sweet! Check them out and leave them some love!!

Thanks Wendy!!

Check out this blog candy:

All the things I love has blog candy!

Hosted by Wild Orchid Crafts!

Check out this candy:Check it out here!!

This is how I am spending my Thursday Night....

What a mess! I am going to my friend's house to scrap tomorrow and I could not find my extra white gel pen....so I emptied my cabinets and still can't find it! Now I am procrastinating putting it all back neat and organized so I'm posting about it instead!
I also pulled out some stuff that I haven't used in awhile.... Time for blog candy??

Serenity Scrappers Place to Visit

Serenity Scrappers is have a challenge!
Here are the details:

Do a two page 8x8 layout
The theme is "someplace you like to visit/travel"

Since I am working on a goal of completing a scrapbook for my friend for Christmas, I decided this was the perfect challenge for me to get another page done!

Every chance they get they go to the dunes... it is on the Arizona/California border.... and it is nothing but sand! They take their camper and sand rail and just play in the sand! I really wanted it to look like the photos I have seen and this sand paper did the trick! I added the Happy Trails because that is the phrase they use and the camper is just like theirs! I used going places for all the cuts.

I do plan on altering this later because this is an 8X8 Lay-out and the one I am making is 8 1/2x11, so I will be adding a title that says "THE DUNES" and "SAND RULES"

Recipe Card!

From Dayi's Scraproom is having her first challenge! A recipe card.
The timing was perfect, a friend of mine was asking for a sweet and sour chicken recipe that I have and I thought how fun to give it to her all fancy! I love how cute and fun it turned out. I used From my Kitchen and Create a Critter.

Cupcake Card

Thanks to my friend Andrea! She let me borrow her Sweet Treat Cartridge! I love this one!

I made this for the following challenges:

Peachy Keen: Here is the sketch:And

Cricut Cardz Challenge: For challenge #34, make a card using a cake, cupcake, cookies or candy and any cartridges, colors or theme you'd like.

Here is my entry:

Girlie Turtle

I received this cute turtle from Kel over at Serenity Scrappers and wanted to make it into a girl, so I added some bling and a flower. I used EK border punch for the swiss cheese circles and purchased this ribbon some time ago!


I am entering this into the following challenges:
Made by Momo: Girly Affair

and

Papercraft Star: Challenge # 5 circles. (This is a voting website, Voting will begin after Sat the 24th!! I will repost and ask that you all vote for me!!)

Winner!