Lucky Charm Blog Hop

Hello,

Happy St. Patricks Day!!!! I hope you are wearing green today.

Welcome to my Blog and the Lucky Charm Blog Hop! If you've come from visiting Amber at http://www.pixieperfectcreations.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 at www.crossmyheartpapercrafts.blogspot.com. This blog hop is all about creating something for the lucky charm in your life..

Here is my project (Lucky Me) I created a St.Patty's themed card

The card is 5 3/4 x 6 1/2 it's a large card
I used several cricut cartidges and my gypsy to create this card.
The pot of gold is from Mini Monster it was welded together with the rainbow from create a critter. I Used Martha Stewart Black glitter for the pot and gold Stickles for the top.
I cut the phrase from Create a Critter
I created the three leaf clover on my Gypsy using the hearts from Plantin Schoolbook and I also used a branch from Home Decor cartridge. I added red bling and faux stitching to my clover as red is my lucky color.
I added a sheer ribbon in to the top with 3 red blings.

I hope you enjoyed my project. Thank you for visiting my blog. This is your last stop on the hop. Below is a list of all blog participants in case you get lost:

Giselle - http://crossmyheartpapercrafts.blogspot.com/
Nadia - http://nadiasbeautifulmess.blogspot.com/
Jennifer - http://creativearmywife.blogspot.com/
Alina - http://neverstopscrapping.blogspot.com/
Kim - http://rickettscricuts.blogspot.com/
Yolonda - http://www.craftyscentiments.blogspot.com/
Donna - http://donnasdreamworks.blogspot.com/
Carol - http://caroleesscrappinspot.blogspot.com/
Rebecca - http://www.creationswithbecka.blogspot.com/
Linda - http://www.fancyframework.com/
Amy - http://amydesigns.blogspot.com/
Lisa - http://prettypaperprettyribbons.blogspot.com/
Sue- http://ScrappinSuzy.blogspot.com/
Carrie - http://paperglitterstamps.blogspot.com/
Patricia - http://creativediva98.blogspot.com/
Wendy - http://wendyscreativecraftingcorner.blogspot.com/
Kimi & Pamela - http://lovebugcreations3.blogspot.com/
Darcy - http://dlmbscrapping-time2create.blogspot.com/
Julie - http://tidbitsnscraps.blogspot.com/
Shawnte - http://shawnteparks.blogspot.com/
Amber http://www.pixiperfectcreations.blogspot.com

And now for the Blog Candy!
I am giving away an amazing paper pack from Martha Stewart (Playground).
I love this paper pack it's perfect for all your spring or baby projects. I will also include a pack of coordinating Ribbon.

All you need to do is leave me a little bloggy love. You don't need to follow my blog but if you love what you see. Please feel free to follow I would love it!

I will be announcing the winner of my blog candy on Monday 3/21/2011. I will be using Random.org. You will have one week to claim your prize. Can only ship in the US.

Good Luck & Happy Hopping
Melissa

Thank You and personal rambling

Hello my bloggy friends

I am sorry for my lack of post but life has been a little complicated. I wanted to take a minute and Thank You for following me. It feels good to know that people find me interesting. At the same time I feel as though my lack of post and projects will start to make you uninterested. I wanted to let you guys know its not for lack of wanting to post but for lack of time. To me its seems as though I might be doing to much. I can't seem to really find balance between everything going on in my life.

At the moment my life is very complicated. Between work which is very stressful. My family which I seem to never see as much. Trying to run a sucessful blog, start a business, prepare for upcoming events. I barely have time for tv, posting or projects. And whatever little time I have left, which is the weekend I spend it trying to do what I haven't done all week. I am totally exhausted and very frustrated. Not to mention the stress all of this causes my family. I'm guessing I am not super women.

Anyways with all that being said and done. I wanted to again Thank you for sticking around. At the moment I have decided to work on a life plan and find the balance. I love doing this blog, I love crafting and planning parties. I have tried my hand at just about everything business wise. And this is the only thing I have stuck to with so much passion. I have found my calling and my hope is to one day have a sucessful business. I hope to one day be able to stop working for others and work for myself. Don't get me wrong I like my job. I love the people I work with they have become my family. But as with everything in life we must do what we love. And besides my family whom I adore what I am doing right now is what I want to do.

I have so many plans for this blog, but don't seem to have the time to execute them :(
In the next couple of weeks I am going to be working on a big project for the blog. One of those is a webisode/vlog. I will keep you guys updated on the progress. I hope to finally be able to accomplish my plans.

In the meantime I wanted to let you guys know about a couple of things that will be going on in the next few days.

I am working on some projects for my etsy store.
I will also be participating in my first Blog Hop (details to come)
I will also enter a couple of challenges.
And I will also start to host challenges and giveways

This year I will also be particpating in the Doral Relay for life for the American Cancer Association. I will part of a team (Events by Clars) and I will be creating a cupcake bar. I am baking all the cupcakes for the event. So you will see alot of cupcake post coming up. Part of the cupcake bar is to create a cupcake stand big enough for 400 cupcakes.

Thank you again for letting me ramble.

See you soon

Melissa

Trifold "Dressage Card"

Hello,

Happy Thursday! I can't wait the weekend I have some many crafting plans and some posts.

Today I wanted to share with you a card I did for a co-worker. She wanted a unique card that represent her friend and horse trainer. Lena loves horses and she practices "Dressage". So I made her a card that I thought was very unique to her and even included the letters that appear on the arena they compete.

Here is the trifold card. I will be posting the size of the card in a later post.
But this card was done entirely with DCWV paper (Alpahbet Stack).
I cut the prize from Plantin School book cartridge.
I added the Happy Birthday from the DCWV paper.
I chose the black & white so that it would contrast better with the blue.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

Hope you enjoy!!!!!

Melissa

My First Blog Award!!!!

Hello,
I am jumping for joy I received my very first Blog Award!! Yeah Kerry from Momma K Crafts was nice enough to honor me with this award. Thank You so much for making my day and always checking out my blog. You Rock!


I have received the My Blog Has Attitude Blog Award
http://mommakcrafts.blogspot.com/2011/02/blog-awards.html

To qualify for the $5.00 Digi's 'With Attitude!' Gift Certificate you must state 3 things that makes you different from everyone else, then nominate 5 blogs and let those 5 blogs know you've nominated them. Lastly, you must display the Blog Award Badge in your sidebar and link it back to the Digi's with Attitude
Here are three things that make me different:
 1.  I officially started crafting about a year ago.

 2.  I have ADD and forget everything, I also have a phone which I lose about every 3 minutes of the day

 3.  I am petrified of Frogs and my backyard is infested with them therefore I spend alot of time inside.   

I would like to pass this award along to the following awesome bloggers.

Mari at http://www.madebymomo.blogpost.com/ (she lives in the same city as me and I love her work)
Christina at http://www.craftingwithcristina.com/(she does some amazing scrapbook layouts )
Emma at http://www.creativetimeforme.com/ (She gave some good advice when I first started and she rocks)
Giselle at http://crossmyheartpapercrafts.blogspot.com// (I love her cupcake boxes and she always comes up with cool stuff )

K Andrews at http://www.gettingcricky.com/ (I just started following her and I just love her blog)

Crazy, Productive, Busy Weekend.. A look ahead!!!

Good Morning,

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.

As for me I had a very CRAZY weekend preppping for an upcoming party and remodeling. This weekend I decided I finally needed a space to call my own. I didin't really have a space for all my party and scrap things. For the past year I have been scrapping and creating on my dining table and all my stuff has been in a closet under my stairs. It was very annoying and uncomfortable to have to go into the closet (2x3) and try and get all my things in order, then have to craft on my table and put everything back. So for a year I wasn't really being as creative or coming up with anything clever, I was pretty much doing what I had to and filling orders.

To make matters worse I had nowhere to really house all my party stuff (vases, centerpieces, inspiration boards etc...) so it was pretty much everywhere. Then a few months ago my company offered a garage sale to sell of props they use for photoshoots. And I bought so many things when I brought them home I had nowhere to put them so they sat in boxes. My sitting/computer area was overcrowed with boxes not only from the garage sale but also from the holidays (halloween/christmas). I was at the verge of a nervous breakdown having my house a mess and being creativly blocked was making me crazy.

And so I decided to put an end to all my troubles. I have been surfing the blogging world for inspiration for a party/scrap area. I took my binder this weekend of all the rooms I love and started building my dream studio. I spent the weekend at Ikea and Michaels getting all my stuff to put togther my room. It took 48 hours to dismantle, build, clean and organize but I finally got it done. The room is still not completely ready as the walls are still bear and I am missing some shelves. But I am happy with the progress I have made so far and I am now ready to start creating.

It's funny how when the room was finished last night and I sat back all of my creative jusices started to flow. I have so many ideas I can finally accomplish and couldn't be happier.

Pictures of my scraproom makeover will be posted this week and I will give you guys tips on how to get a room created on a tight budget. (I created my room with less than $200.00).

Before Makeover

In closing I wanted to inform you guys that I have alot of upcoming projects, ideas and series I am working on. I will be very busy the rest of the week getting ready for a Sweet 15's I will be attending and also doing the party favors. I will be posting lots of pictures this week so stay tuned. 

Melissa

Cookies & Cream Cupcakes

Good Morning,

Today I wanted to quickly share with you another cupcake adventure. Cookies & Cream Cupcakes a white cake mix with crumbled oreo cookies and buttercream frosting = bliss!

I hope you enjoy!!!!

Ok one quick thing this weekend I will be working on very cool projects.
So check back to see what my next adventure will be!!!

Have a great day!

Melissa

Cupcakes, Cupcakes I love Cupcakes

Hello,

Hope everyone had an amazing Valentine.
I had a nice evening even though I have a house full of sick kiddies.

Ok so I am not sure if I have mentioned that I love cupcakes. Well I do love cupcakes! My favorite cupcakes are of course Magnolia cupcakes. I love Magnolia's Vanilla & Red Velvet Cupcakes they are just divine.

This weekend I had a craving for cupcakes and while surfing the net came across a recipe for Magnolia's Vanilla Cupcakes & Vanilla ButterCream Frosting (courtesy of the HWTM and Kristine Shin Designs). I cannot describe the excitement I felt when I found this recipe it was my awe moment!!!

So I decided I was going to try and make these cupcakes, I followed the recipe and was on my way to cupcake heaven...
I am still on a huge sugar rush from all the cupcakes I had this weekend but it was all worth it.


                                                   

Mini Vanilla Cupcakes

Vanilla Cupcakes

I hope you enjoy....

Have a Chic and Sassy Day!

Hello,

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!!!! I had a nice weekend relaxing and baking more of that in my other post.

Today I just wanted to repost this Dessert Table I styled for when I was starting my business. This was definitely a table of firsts. It was the first time I had styled a table for a photo shoot, first time I did marshmallow pops, pretzel sticks and cake pops. I remember working on the details for this table and when that day arrived it was even better than I had imagined. This was the day I fell in LOVE with this business!

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

                                                                        Chic &Sassy

Sweet 15's Inspiration

Good Morning,

Today I wanted to share some inspirations I found for a beautiful yellow dessert tables. In 3 weeks I will be attending a Sweet 15's for a very special person in my life. She wanted a dessert table for her birthday party. So we are going to make her wish come true and create a dessert table. Below are some of the desserts and tables I love and think with a little tweeking for a 15th birthday party will be super cute.



                                                             


Dobby Designs



Sweet Stylings

                                                            

Dying to be Domestic

                                                                

Cocoa and Fig

                                                                  

Cocoa and Fig

                                                                 

Trendsetting Weddings


While the two tables I have choosen are so different they are both unique to my inspiration. I want to create a table that is gorgeous but at the same time simple and minamalist. I am not sure if I will be able to acheive simple and minamlist as I always want to continue to add, add, add LOL.

Enjoy

Melissa

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

GOOD MORNING,

In case you haven't noticed I am super excited today! This morning was one of the best mornings. I usually am pretty good about checking my blog and emails but yesterday I wasn't feeling to good when I got home from work (migraine). So I had no idea what was going on as it turns out I was getting love from some amazing party peeps and didn't even know. Much to my suprise when I woke up this morning I decided to check my emails and OMG was it amazing. There was so many comments and tons of followers.

You guys sent so much love my way I couldn't contain myself I was literally crying this morning. I never in a million years would have thought this could happen to me but it did and I am so thankful. It is a great feeling to know that you guys have welcomed me with open arms and hearts into your world. I am so grateful and humbled my the good wishes and bloggy love that came my way yesterday. There are no words to really express how good I feel today to be among the most amazing women in the party, crafting world.

I can't say this enough THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

I would like to give a special Thank You to Team Driver from Piggy Banks Parties and there amazing piggy Hank. Thank you for everything.... :) And to all the other amazing party girls out there Much LOVE and Thanks for stopping by and welcoming me.

Today I have learned that there are good people who are always willing to help each other out. In the end I hope to amaze and inspire you the way you amazing women inspire me everyday.

Thank You
Melissa