Hey y'all! My blogger friend Linda (justascrappin.blogspot.com) is always up to the minute on news from the scrapbooking world, especially Provo Craft. (How do those girls DO that?? ;) A lot of the information here is from her site.

First off...Gypsy!!! I will let you form your own opinions of it, but do go to cricut.com and take the test drive. Do you want to know now or later that the MSRP is $400???

Also, more new Cricut cartridges have been announced: Superman, Batman, Elmo, and Designer's Calendar. They join these other six that were announced a couple of weeks ago: Serenade, Picturesque, From My Kitchen, Winter Wonderland, Sweethearts and Everyday Paper Dolls!!!!! Linda has pictures of all of these on her website. I've got to figure out how to get that kind of info for my blog! Suggestions and tutorials welcome!!

Go here for pictures from CHA! http://www.flickr.com/photos/lynnagibson/ YouTube has videos of people walking through the booths at CHA, filming! Two Peas In A Bucket also has many videos with new product from lots of companies. Go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Syy27mY4So&feature=channel to see!

For you Scrapbook Mania girlfriends, don't forget that India and Christine are at CHA and promised to post pictures of new product. If you post a comment, you could win!

Have a great day!

Happy birthday to my Mom! She's 71 today and I'll be giving her the card I made yesterday (picture to follow next post). It was kind of fun to make but frustrating as well. The directions were very clear; however, I'm soooo glad my friend Christine was at the crop yesterday doing a make-and-take. She said, "Oh, what you need is one of those punches. I've got one in my car". So, after an hour of measuring, re-measuring, throwing my pennies across the table and in general being frustrated, I punched out what I had been trying to measure so carefully!! (Thanks, Christine!). Christine also helped me decide that I'm going to download a template for houndstooth paper. I want to color it pink, but I don't have Photoshop. When I download the file, I'm going to email it to her, she'll color it for me and email it back to me. The pink houndstooth is for a huge project I'm working on. I'm making paper dolls (from the Cricut Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge) of Alabama and Auburn fans. Alabama has gone girly with the traditional Bear Bryant black and white houndstooth, making it pink and white. It has shown up on all sorts of products. So, I have girls and baby girls sporting shorts, shirts and bloomers in that pattern. I'll post pictures of those soon as well. My other goal for this week is to investigate Etsy. I got my 3rd encouragement to "hang out my shingle" yesterday, so I think I'm going to do it! Wish me luck!!

I am super excited to see my sister tonight! She is doing a mini-triathalon this morning in St. Louis and then driving to Birmingham!!! I will be calling her to keep her awake and alert!

Have a great day!

Ann

Christmas in July Crop

I'm going to be croppin' with my peeps today! Hopefully I can get there with all my needed supplies. It's not THAT far to come back home, but once I get there I don't want to have to leave!

I think today I'm going to work on a birthday card for my Mom, whose birthday is tomorrow. I watched a YouTube video on making "spinning cards". They look super fun to make so I'm gonna give it a whirl (no pun intended!). I'm also going to work on a LO about my husband and me participating in the Peachtree Road Race (a 6.2 mile mini-marathon in Atlanta). Since it is run on July 4, I got some patriotic-looking papers and am in the process of printing my pictures.

Hopefully I'll be able to post some pictures either tonight or in the morning.

Have a great day!

Ann

My Dad has Alzheimer's. I hope you can make out the journaling.

I probably don't have to point it out, but...............I paper-pieced my own 50's Prime Time Cafe sign!!

A picture of what came out of Ethan's (my son) pockets!

I don't know how well you'll be able to see this sign, but it reads, "WE WILL MEET OR BEET THE COMPETITIONS PRICES". Gotta love it - bad spelling AND bad grammar!

Wow! I can't believe I finally figured it out!

I'm going to try to get some pictures posted today or tomorrow so that I can begin sharing and connecting! I'm a scrapbooker and I especially love my Cricut!!

Have a great night!

Ann