Valentine's - 2020

Valentine's Day will be here soon. I had a lot of fun creating this year's cards but they cost me a small fortune to mail them. $35.00 for 10 cards. OH MY!!!  LOLOL

Just WHAT made mailing so expensive? I just HAD to use some pendants to decorate the cards which made them bulky and over weight.

The pendants are from Craft Fantastic.

The drawn on heart is from Cricut's Love Struck 2010 and was drawn on with my Foil Quill. I also wrote out the sentiment with the Foil Quill.

Happy Thanksgiving

It is almost turkey time again. I'm not cooking this year, kind of silly to cook for just 2 of us so we will be going out for dinner.

My October Spellbinder's Glimmer KOM was perfect for this card.

The pumpkin and leaves are from my Glimmer kit, it is really hard to see but the pumpkin and leaves have been hot foiled then cut out with my Gemini Jr. The sunflower bling is from Queen and Co., other bling is from my stash as is the Washi tape (also has foil accents) and I used my Cricut and their Art Nouverau Cartridge and Foil Quill for the sentiment.

I will be entering this card into these challenges:

A to Z Scrapbooking - Store Closing

Bitten By The Bug II - Fall Anything Goes

Happy Halloween

Halloween used to be my favorite holiday. Not since we moved to Arizona, we don't get any trick or treaters but I can still make cards for family and friends.

I choose a #Queen and Co. kut which made these super easy. 

To create the semtiment I used my #Cricut, #Foil Quill and #Cricut's Baby Steps cartridge.

I am entering these cards into these Challenges:
Bitten By The Bug II - Anything Goes
A to Z Scrapbooking-store-closing/

Christmas in October

I got an early start on Christmas cards this year. I used both of my foiling toys to create them.

My Foil Press and Spellbinder's Reindeer Games Glimmer Plate. I added a bit of bling for some extra shine.

My Foil Quill and Cricut helped me to create the insides. I used red foil on the red cards and.....

Green foil for the green cards.

The reindeer is from Cricut's Christmas cartridge and the font is from my computer system.

I am entering this into this challenge:

A2Z's Final Challenge - store closing

Adventure Awaits Blog Hop

Thank you for joining us for  

The Adventure Awaits BLOG HOP

This is a blog hop featuring our Adventures! Whether we enjoy camping, hiking, swimming, traveling, staying close to home or venturing far away, we love to document our adventures!

 Connie Can Crop , is the beginning of this hop! 

This is a one day blog hop, but you have until Sunday at 10pm to finish hopping and leaving your love for all of these talented crafters.

We have two awesome sponsors for this hop!!

Coloring with Nikki is giving away this gorgeous Handwritten Background stamp from RG Studios to one lucky winner.

AND

 Connie has put together this Set of Me and My Big Ideas (Mambi) goodies! 12x12 Kit, Sticker phrases, and a Washi pack!!

What do you need to do to win? Easy... become  a follower of each of the fabulous blogs in this hop and leave each of them a comment letting them know what you like best about their projects. Free Shipping to our USA friends but Worldwide will be asked to pay shipping if they win.

You will have until 10 pm Sunday to finish the hop and leave your comments on every blog to be eligible to win. 

Winners will be announced on Wednesday 7/17/19 here at Connie Can Crop.

Last summer my guy's daughter opted for a destination wedding in Maine so we decided to do a first for both of us, we took the Amtrak from Kingman, Arizona to Portland, Maine. It was quite an adventure. The train ride was so relaxing, no worries about rooms or food as they were included in our tickets and all of the employees were wonderful!!

When I started working on our scrapbook I gave myself a challenge, I can't use anything buy my scraps because here is the pile of scraps that I started with:

It sure was quite a mess. I'm almost done with the scrapbook but I haven't come anywhere near to using this entire pile.

I wanted to be sure to go wadding in the Atlantic Ocean while we were there, those are the pics I decided to use for this hop. I did a 2 page layout.

I used my Foil Quill to add the cute sun.

I used Cricut's Art Nouveau cartridge for the font and the bling is Queen and Co.'s newest, Sea Stones.

Here's the current state of my remaining scraps:

Be sure to hop over to my friend Rebecca Ann She has something wonderful to share!

Here's our line up in case you get lost along the way.

Connie

Sandy

Amanda 

Veronica

Kim

Narelle

Nikki

EK

 Alicia

Shannon 

Sue

Rebecca Ann

Jearise

Holli

Miranda

Liz

Charlotte

I can't thank you enough for checking out my project. It means the world to me and I hope you truly enjoyed it. May it inspire you to create something wonderful!   Scrappy Hugs!

Back in the craft room

Between family visiting and our medical emergencies life was pretty hectic and out of control for a while but I do believe that we have finally recovered.

While we were down a friend sent us a box of goodies, homemade cherry/almond cookies and banana/chocolate chip muffins. Boy was everything ever YUMMY!!

I finally got back in the craft room yesterday and made her this card.

I added the, "Thank You to the background with my Cricut and my Foil Quill. The larger, "Thank You" was done with my Silhouette and Foil Quill. I found some tips no how to fill in the letters or icons that you use and was very happy with the results.