Winnie the Pooh Baby Banner

My First time using  Winne The Pooh Font cartridge and it resulted in a banner!  A co-worker of mine was hosting a baby shower for her niece and of course I just had to ask “So, what’s her theme?”.  When I found out it was Winnie, I just had to make use out of my cartridge and volunteered to make a banner for her party.  The name of the baby was already known so the content of the banner was easy.  When presented to my co-worker, she loved it!

Supplies:

Cricut Winnie the Pooh Font cartridge
Cricut Martha Stewart All Occasions Cake Art cartridge
DCVW All About Boys Paper Stack
Recollections cardstock in purple, yellow, brown, black, orange, red and pink
Recollections 3-D foam squares
Colorbox Chalk Ink
Purple Ribbon
Divine Twine in Lemon

Mr. & Mrs. Anniversary Card

Not sure why, but I just love this card! It's one of the first cards I ever made with my cricut last year using the Sweethearts cartridge.  One of the best things about it is that it can be used for a wedding, anniversary and even Valentines.

Supplies:

Cricut Sweethearts cartridge

Black Shimmer and white cardstock

Martha Stewart Black Satin Ribbon Photo Corners

Corner Rounder

Cuttlebug - Divine Swirl

Lucky Charm Blog Hop 3/17 - NOW FULL !

Hi Everyone!

Cross My Heart Papercrafts and Nadia's Beautiful Mess are hosting a Lucky Charm Blog Hop in honor of St. Patrick's Day on March 17, 2011.  Instead of traditionally hand selecting bloggers, we've decided to give everyone a fair chance at participating in this one, since our last one was a hit!

We have decided to pick the first 10 bloggers to email us wanting to participate.  If you are interested in participating in this fabulous blog hop, please send an e-mail to me at nadiaspapertrail@yahoo.com with your name, blog address and Facebook name so that we can add you to our Facebook group. We will update this post to let you know once we have reached 10 bloggers each. 

Thank you :)

February 23, 2011 - Update:  Thank you everyone who e-mailed me to participate in the blog hop!  Spots are no longer available, they filled up pretty quickly! Giselle and I will be hosting more blog hops in the future so for those of you who weren't able to participate, there will be more opportunities in the future!

In the meantime, make sure you hop along with us for the Lucky Charm blog hop on St. Patrick's Day!

{Craft Room} Imagine Station

Today I thought I would share with everyone what I have finally decided to rest my Imagine on. I struggled for so long on deciding the perfect piece of furniture.  I am super happy with my final choice.  Slowly but surely, I will soon have a craft room and I will share that transformation with you all on my blog.  I'm aiming for a soft, romantic room with french inspiration and colours of black, white, pink, maybe even gray!

The Imagine sits on the top perfectly.  I put the furniture on an angle so that there is enough clearance in the back when the mat goes through the machine.

There are three drawers and cartridges fit perfectly in here!  You can fit approximately 30 cartridges in each drawer and in the top one I also managed to fit in mats, extra ink replacements and blade refills.

Second and third drawers contain more cartridges, wires, cricut markers, etc.

The drawer originally came with black knobs for the handles, but I was anxious to replace them with pretty, girly crystal knobs and my husband did just that for me. I love it!

For those of you who are interested, I purchased this chest station at IKEA.  It is called the KOPPANG 3 Drawer Chest.  Picture from IKEA is below:

You've Got My Heart (Valentines Card)

As some of you may or may not know, my mother was diagnosed with Breast Cancer a few weeks ago. This is the reason why I haven't had time to do any crafting and haven't really been in the mood to craft either. She had a mastectomy only 1 week ago and is already bouncing around. That being said, my hubby and I have been staying at her house, cooking, cleaning, just spending time with her.  I did manage to squeeze in a quick card while quickly returning home to wash clothes and such. Here's what I came up with:

Supplies:

Kraft, Baby Blue, Black, Brown, Cream, baby Pink and Dark Pink cardstock

Martha Stewart Seasonal Valentine paper stack

K & Co. Chipboard by Kelly Panacci

Cricut Simply Charmed cartridge

Cricut Just Because cartridge

EK Success Punch

Rhinestone Accents - Treasures by Shabby Chic

Stamps - "Be Mine" Pink by Design

Twine - Divine Twine in Cotton Candy

Stylish Blogger Award!

Thank you so much Giselle for passing on this award to me!  Part of this award means that I have to share 8 things about myself...so in no random order, here they are:

1)  I live in Canada! 

2)  I met my husband when I was 22 years old. We've been together a total of 5 years now. We're still attached at the hip.

3)  My mom is my best friend.  She was just diagnosed with breast cancer a couple of weeks ago on January 20. She's been doing great ever since.

4) I have a huge Italian family and I love it!

5) I love spending a Saturday night cuddled up by the fire and watching a movie with some yummy late night snacks!

6) I have a serious phobia of doctors.

7) I don't have any children (yet)!

8) I have 3 nieces and two nephews who I love!

Hope you enjoyed learning some new stuff about me!

Shall We Dance? Winner!!!

I am super happy to announce that the winner of the Shall We Dance? cartridge is....

AJoy of It's...A Joy...To Scrap!

Congratulations April!!!  Here's what April said:

AJoy said...

I am your newest follower! I really like your pretty blog.

What would I do with this cartridge? Well, I'd scrap of course! My youngest is a super star! She is always dancing, singing and running around having fun! She is the light of my eye and I would make endless pages in her album to show her personality and how much she is loved.

Thanks for sharing your projects and thanks for the opportunity.

April

I have sent April an e-mail and if I have not heard back from her by this Friday, I will choose another winner.  

Hello Kitty Valentines Card

Happy Valentine's Day Card using Hello Kitty Greetings. I love this card!

Supplies:
Teal, Dark Pink, Baby Pink, Black and White cardstock
Teal Ribbon
Martha Stewart glitter
Cricut Hello Kitty Greetings cartridge
Prima flowers
Recollections brad
Colorbox Chalk Ink
Cuttlebug A2 Heart Blocks Embossing Folder

Love At First Sight Blog Hop

Hello everyone! Welcome to the Love At First Sight Blog Hop hosted by Sandra 365 Days Of Cricut http://www.365daysofcricut.blogspot.com  For this blog hop Sandra is celebrating her anniversay of when she met her hubby 8 years ago "It was Love At Fist Sight", also her 7th wedding anniversay, and of course Valentine's Day! She has asked us all to make a Love-Themed Gift for someone that we love and we will be sharing pictures of us with the person we love. For my project I made a personalized gift bag containing chocolate truffle candles!  I have to be honest, I'm not in much of a Valentine mood this year. So I decided to make my project neutral so that it can be given to anyone who means a lot to you. 

Supplies:

Cricut Imagine Better Together
Recycled Bags
Red Satin Ribbon
Pop Dots

Adhesive
White cardstock
Colorbox Chalk Ink

Since I participated in two blog hops this weekend, I'm giving away a super cool EXCLUSIVE CART:

All you need to do is: 

1) Leave a comment on this post with a way for me to contact you;

2) Kindly leave only one comment;

3) Follow my blog! 

Please make sure to leave comments on all of the blogs for a chance to win several different Grand Prizes on Sandra's blog!

Next stop on the hop is KRISTIN at  http://lilsweetpeasplace.blogspot.com/

Here's a list of all participating blogs:

1. SANDRA http://365daysofcricut.blogspot.com/
2. ABBY http://www.scrapbookaholicbyabby.com/
3. RAVEN http://love4stamps.blogspot.com/
4. THERESA http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/
5. JANIS http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpausedreamenjoy.blogspot.com%2F&h=94328
6.AMANDA http://www.myscrappinobsession.com/
7.JOANNA http://scrap-making.blogspot.com/
8.RUTHIE http://septemberninth.blogspot.com/
9.ELSA http://cricutlvr.blogspot.com/
10.ANGELICA http://handmadebyangelica.com/
11.ALEX http://www.youhadmeatcraft.com/
12.STEPHANIE http://www.alwayscrafting.com/
13.GISELLE http://crossmyheartpapercrafts.blogspot.com/
14.NADIA http://nadiasbeautifulmess.blogspot.com/
15.KRISTIN http://lilsweetpeasplace.blogspot.com/
16.KRISTAL http://kandrewdesigns.blogspot.com/
17.LIZ http://www.lizspaperloft.com/
18.JENNY http://crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com/
19.ERIKA http://cricutlove1.blogspot.com/
20. DENISE http://deesdesignsfrommyheart.blogspot.com/

Love Is In The Air Blog Hop!

Welcome to my Blog and the Love Is In The Air Blog Hop! If you've come from visiting Giselle over at www.crossmyheartpapercrafts.blogspot.com, you're in the right place. If you were just looking at my blog and want to play along with our blog hopping fun, you can start at the beginning atwww.crossmyhearpapercrafts.blogspot.com.  This blog hop is all about love themed ideas. This blog is also in honour of Giselle's 1 year Blog Anniversary, or as I like to call it, her "Blogaversary"!!! Happy Anniversary Giselle! Wishing you many more to come! I am so thankful for our friendship.


I've got an EXCLUSIVE giveaway, so be sure to read this entire post, follow the instructions and enter the giveaway!

Now, on to the project!  I decided to make a cricut-less banner! I haven't been at home much for the past few weeks so it was important that I made something inspiring, classic and memorable, yet simple and fast. This banner was as simple as selecting and printing a few of my favourite pictures from my computer in black and white, backing them onto some shimmery red Recollections cardstock, getting a few clothespins, a long piece of ribbon and gathering some crepe paper.

I hung this adorable banner over our bed so that we can be reminded of all our happy times and just how lucky my hubby and I to have eachother!

And now...FOR THE GIVEAWAY!!!

Yes, you are reading correctly! I am giving away the Cricut Circle Exclusive Cartridge, Shall we Dance? to one of my lucky followers!!! I just recently reached 100 followers and this is to say thank you to everyone who takes the time to look at my projects and comment on my posts. Don't worry if you are not a follower, you still have time to sign up and follow me...Here's what you have to do:

1)  Leave me a comment on this post, letting me know that you are a follower of my blog; and
2)  Tell me why you want this cartridge and what you would make with it if you won it!

Good Luck Everyone!!!

I hope you enjoyed my project.  Thank you so much for visiting my blog.

Your next stop is the super awesome SARAH PINK CRICUT.  Sarah is super sweet, has great projects on her site and has an awesome stamp line.  She's got stamps for every occasion! In fact, she's got a UStream tonight and she'll be releasing even more stamps.  Click here to go to Sarah's blog and continue hopping! Happy Crafting!

Below is a list of all blog participants:

Giselle ==> http://crossmyheartpapercrafts.blogspot.com/
Nadia ==> http://nadiasbeautifulmess.blogspot.com/  (You are here!)
Sarah Pink Cricut ==> http://pinkcricut.com/
Agnes ==>http://flowerdiscosscraphut.blogspot.com/
Amanda ==> http://www.myscrappinobsession.com/
Jennifer ==> http://craftycardgallery.blogspot.com/
Momo ==> http://madebymomo.blogspot.com/
Liset ==> http://hailemnat.blogspot.com/
Paula ==> http://morethanfavors.blogspot.com/
Molly ==> http://armywifelearnsthecricut.blogspot.com/
Sandra ==> http://365daysofcricut.blogspot.com/
Joanna ==> http://scrap-making.blogspot.com/
Wendi & Meriah ==> http://twoscraptasticgals.blogspot.com/
Meighen ==> http://scrappin3rdeeschik.blogspot.com/
Kristy ==> http://craftin-on-my-door.blogspot.com/
Alma ==> http://almabrooksblog.blogspot.com/
Nicole ==> http://canadiannickelscrapn.blogspot.com/
Adri ==> http://www.macheriecreations.com/