SnOw DaY! And my room is READY!

I am soooooooooooooo happy my room is back together!  I sent a text message challenge to my Cousin Wendy and to my SDaughter Stephanie to create something today.  And I also posted a newbie challenge on the Cricut.com message boards for more fun. 

I am going to throw a pot roast in the pressure cooker, put some more wood in the wood stove and head down to my room to play.  I wanted to Skype Wendy today but I cannot find the camera for the computer, bummer.  I have one more place to check in the garage before I give up... I KNOW I have that camera somewhere.

Uggghhh!! My craft room is tore apart!!

Woke up on Friday and took a shower only to have all the pipes in the house rattle and shake.  Panic stricken because our house has flooded 4 times in the past 5 years I ran to my craft room with my DH in tow helping me remove everything from the room.  You see the craft room is located in what used to be a laundry room.  So it is a smaller room and it has the water heater, a utility sink (which is very handy) with a custom wood cover to put the Expression on. BUT it also has the pipes that lead to the 3 head outside shower.  The valve is not shutting off properly and there is a small drip from the cold water outside.  I am very worried it will freeze and back up into the house and bust ( probably because my house in PA had this happen and right after I installed all new berber carpet and built the boys bedrooms we had 3 feet of water in the basement).  So to protect my stuff I moved it all out.

 Now this probably sounds like no big deal.......but the "room" outside my craft room was actually a garage that we just sealed off this year to stop the flooding and it does not have walls, or a ceiling...or heat or a floor so it's really really cold outside of my room!!! The plumbers can't come until Tuesday, for one and Thursday for the other so I am bummed.  :(  I think I am going to go down and just move back in enough stuff to do a few projects....that won't be much right?  I mean seriously how much stuff do you need to do one project?  LOL--- DH is rolling his eyes probably out of their sockets right now.

OH, but just to add to my last sentence up there.  Guess who jumped in the car and drove me to Michael's in CT as soon as I got home from work yesterday because my s daughter told me about the $9.99 Michaels sale and she was bummed everything was sold out?  MY DH! He shopped in Michael's with me,and then he went to A.C.Moore where he helped me use a coupon to get 50% off a second 5x7 stack!! And extra ATG tape and a few sheets of pretty paper---of course. He got dinner out of it of course, but it was fun having him along.  He is very supportive of my hobby!

I love this card!

I bought some new A7 Bazzill Basics cards the other day with my 50% off coupon at A.C.'s and I just love them.  The size, the weight, everything.

                                                    The video is for my cousin.  It's a newbie video!!
As part of the Cricut Circle New Years Challenges we are to use cartridges we have but have not used.  I do not have a ton of cartridges, but I am a bit ashamed that I have unused cartridges.  My s.daughter Stephanie was here January 2nd and I used From My Kitchen for the first time.  Then I used Nifty Fifties to make this card.  I used Forever Young to bling my Expression.  I need to use: Lori's Garden, Old West, Smiley Cards, Printing Press, Blackletter, French Manor, Songbird and Sweet Treats?  (Not the font one, the die cut treats one--I don't have this one yet Stephanie picked it up for me for $9.99!! because my Michaels had already sold out of it). Hmmm, I hope that is all but I think there is another one I need to use.

This was a layout I designed for my Bday

Hey all,

I didn't get around to doing this layout until the other night but I actually designed it about a month ago.  I had to calibrate my Imagine and I was using a clock diecut.  I decided to save the diecuts and make something with them when it dawned on me to make "time flies".  So my layout only says "The older I get" and implies "time flies".  Which is very true! At least for me.
I hope you enjoy it. 

JJ

Techniques used:
Polarized, Sepia and Black White printing.
Imagine Clock with Glossy Accents
Wings from Indie Art and I believe Gypsy Wanderings
Font All Mixed Up
Sewing on both the top and bottom of the black
IRock Gems

Embossing 101 for Wendy !!

Heya Cous!!
Glad to hear you are excited to get the Xyron.  Any size you choose you will love so you really can't go wrong.
Here is a quick video with embossing.  Enjoy.

Time to Redo the Bling on the E !!

Since I got some new cartridges I decided it was time to re-bling the E.  Next will be the I.  I think she looks Fabulous!!!  I used the IRock on the Crown.  What's a Jewel without her crown.  After all I am the often imitated, never duplicated JazzyJewel penned name on the Internet in 1998 !! Since then many have followed.  I have since shortened to JJewel. My husband calls me JJ or J.  :)

Love the Gypsy Font!!! And I promised to use carts I have not used yet and Forever Young and Indie Art were two of them!  <wink>  Few more unused to go.

Imagine has a Home, Finally!!!

Well, My husband who is off work for surgery on his knee still managed to fulfill my Christmas wish.  He built a shelf addition in my scrap room to hold my imagine machine in a permanent location.  She is no longer hiding outside the room on the table peering inside all lonely!  I stll need to cover it properly.  Will probably use pleather for now I have a nonslip shelf liner.  I will need to modify my curtain to move over.  I did just buy a nice 3 shelf Orange plastic container to hold some more goodies.  It was on sale for $5 since it was Orange!! My luck because that is the color I would have wanted for my mango, lime and summer squash yellow room!  I have attached some pictures!

Comic Relief for the Day.............

One time at band camp............. Remember the scene where Jim had the accident with the super glue?  Yeah.  Well that stuff does bond INSTANTLY to skin. My husband was renovating my scrap room to give my Imagine a permanent location and the shim kept slipping and he almost drilled my finger.  Escaping with just a blood blister I decided to get the super glue to hold the shim in place rather than my fingers.  Yeah, well the brand new tube of super glue split down the seam and instantly bonded my fingers to the tube to which I yelled "oh no I'm glued what do I do!!"  I ripped the tube off with my left hand now adding glue to those fingers and quickly spread them apart and held them up in the air so as not to glue anything else to me.  I tried Goo Gone.......does not work...then tried some gasoline....does not work.  I had to let it dry and it feels sooooooo weird :(  I have 8 glued fingertips :(   Imagine my Dismay............. I do have some new projects to add but when my fingers are less sore. 

Dedicated to my Cousin Wendy!!

Hello Everyone.  My cousin Wendy has joined the Cricuteers with her first Cricut machine!  She was given the Expression for Christmas by her daughter and boyfriend.  How sweet is that !!! So this quirky little video is for her because she lives in MD and I am in RI and I wanted to show her some cool stuff.  I also put together a quick and simple layout of the present opening part of Christmas.  Since she is just getting her feet wet with this stuff I didn't want to overwhelm her.  I sewed around the photo mats and used the IRock to add some flat jewels.  The white on the tree and the small present both have glossy accents on them.  In person the 2010 and present are very sparkly!!

Xmas Stocking Bling !!

Ok, so I thought it was really cool to get this package.  It also came with a cute little Apron that says IRock on it but I don't know when or why I would wear it??? Maybe I will bling it up and use it.

Bye Bye Christmas!!

Another Christmas has come and gone and along with it my Daughter turned 18 on Christmas.  I made her a card with a little pocket to hold the "free Bingo pass" that I made for her.  We live in RI but on the border of CT so we are only about 12 miles from Foxwoods casino.  www.foxwoods.com  They have a great high stakes bingo hall that is a lot of fun.  You can play regular bingo or video bingo or a combo of both!! I usually do both.  You must be 18 to play.  We had a blizzard here Sunday the 12/26 and it is still snowing so Bingo was closed yesterday and might be closed again today.This is not your grandmas bingo either......18-90 go to play and everyone has a great time.  I hope she wins even if just a little because it would be exciting for her.

OK to the good stuff........this is the card that I made her. I used Cindy Loo for the decorative background colored in with a pattern from Nursery Tales Imagine behind the girl who is cut from Best Friends Imagine. I did layer and pop dot the girl.  Inside I used my cuttlebug folders for Happy Birthday.  The Bingo pass is a tag from Tags Bags and Boxes and the glitter letters are BaseCamp.  The inside shape is included in the Imagine machine and is filled with a pattern from Nursery Tales or Imagine More Art.  It was actually a scrap I used from another project and I don't remember exactly which fill I used.

It's the Hap, Happiest time of the Year...........

It's almost Christmas......I did find the challenge I created the project for, it is the Circle Monthly Challenge for December.  I  knew I needed a red ribbon for a reason!! I did 3 gift tags and settled on this one.  It too is made from Jolly Holidays with the exception of the stamped saying.  That is one of those $1 bin stamps they have everywhere.  I have had a few requests for similar frames as the one for the challenge that will be a present for my mom (shhh).  She doesn't follow my blog, or scrap or make cards so I am pretty safe posting it here. 

I am hoping to get the next picture done by.....Sunday night, so check back because I have already sketched it--and if it turns out as sketched it's going to be pretty cool.  Time will tell.  

Thank you for all the great comments.  You really keep me motivated!! I am so busy with the two jobs and my kids activities that I am not a daily blogger, but I am going to try to do at least one post a week with a project of some sort.

 

December, Almost the end of 2010

I am sure a lot of you went to WM for the BF special on the Lites.  I was in line at 10 p.m. to get the laptop and a few other goodies.  I did get the laptop and gave it to my friend to buy for her son because I just couldn't justify everything I had already spent money on and that....She did buy me breakfast to make up for  my total lack of sleep while she was warm and dry in her bed. Well, I did NOT get the Jolly Holidays on BF even though I had it in my hands.  I decided against it.  And then I went back on Saturday and purchased it for the $25 instead of $20.  I do get a 10% discount so that kinda made up for it?  Yeah, not really.  So usually I get a new cart and do nothing with it for a long time and then after making myself feel guilty about not using it I try to find something to do.  WELL, not this time!! I started and completed a Home Decor project tonight.  I think it is for a challenge but cannot find the one that it fits. 

I am not a designer and sometimes my head spins in circles when I go to the designers gorgeous blogs to see their projects and the list of Ingredients is 25 long and 4-5 carts mostly for one cut here and one cut there.  Perhaps I should be the Thrifty One Cart Wonder Blogger!!  LOL.

So here it is..........and I LOVE IT !!  This is completely done with Jolly Holidays and Bazzill cardstock except for the background paper and you will have to forgive me it was in my bin of paper I have had for a long time and I do not know the designer.  I used Diamond Stickles to add the sparkle and a red grossgrain ribbon from J's on the frame which is recycled from my Give Thanks home decor.  The frame came from Walmart and was $3.  It is very dimensional which is hard to tell on the photo but in person it pops out of the frame.  I wish the photos did not take away from the colors, the gray house looks dull in the photo.

November already??

Wow!! Time has been flying by.  I do have some projects to post here tonight or tomorrow. I have been a little busy in my craft room.  Pink Cricut will be very proud of me because I am using "Gidget" my Gypsy and one of the projects I will be posting all the letters and words were done on the Gypsy!! 

I would really like to snaz up my blog.  I am going to try to put some time into that this weekend.  My job is IT and I also do HTML and website design and yet I have this blah blog!!  I would love to take the time to redo it with CSS and XHTML.  We will see, Time is something I never have enough of .