I WON!!!!

I did, I actually won a challenge, lol!  My hubby's Valentine's Day card was randomly chosen to be the Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge winner on Friday!  It was a wonderful surprise and actually my 16th wedding anniversary as well!  I took a pic to show you, of course:

 Now, the name of the city got completely mangled for some reason, so I just had to laugh!

 These are the cutie pie little bumble bee valentines that I put in my girlie's lunches on Tuesday...

 I used the Create a Critter cart and Megan Elizabeth's fabulous Paper Layerz!  Next time I will weld another bee shape to it to make a little card.  It is funny how inspiring going back over your creations can be--I always come up with more ideas when posting this stuff on my blog!

Next, I made a card for my sister's anniversary as well...

 Nothing terribly fancy, just wanted to play more with my Imagine.  I had my first troubles with it though too, so that was hugely disappointing.  I was unable to get the sentiment printed and cut from the digital Martha Stewart All Occasions cart.  It kept freezing everything up in CCR and I finally ended up scrapping it.  Had to do it free form instead.

SO, it was a pretty eventful week that ended with me loosing my voice on Friday!  Told my hubby that was the best anniversary present he will ever get!  ;)

Really? February?

Yes, it is really February.  Can any one else feel my pain?  Oh well.  At least it isn't June yet, lol!  OK, so I have not been terribly regular at posting here, but baby steps are what I intended, so I should just chill and post what I have.  It is definitely cold season here.  Four of us down with one this week, so I retreated to my room to have a go at some cards.

First up, a get well card for my niece.  I wanted to work around the whole "bug" theme, but found nothing much I liked on any cricut carts until I saw the bear catching butterflies on my Imagine cart, Enjoy the Season.  Fell in love with this little guy.  I kept it very simple, but intend to emboss a background cut for the scene next time I do it.  Clouds would be great too.

 Used my stickles and gelly roll glitter pen to dazzle up the butterflies...

 This next card is for my hubby for our 16th wedding anniversary this week Friday.  Got this adorable idea for a sentiment on the cricut craftroom messageboards, but for the life of me could not find it to give that person credit.  If it was yours, give me a holler!  The inside of the card says, "Nice package."  ;)  Cannot wait to see the look on his face!  He already gave me my gift--an official NFL Broncos Tim Tebow jersey!!!  He is usually not the gifting type--so now I have a problem!  Eeeek!

 My husband gets super lucky this week because he also gets a Valentine's Day card from me.   This one will also be entered into the Cricut Circle weekly challenge.  We were required to use ribbon and gems on a Valentine's card.  I know which ribbon I wanted to use immediately because I had ordered this CTMH spool a while ago and not opened it yet.  I kept it color neutral except for the heart to give it some emphasis.  All the papers are Reflections from M's.  My bling is from CTMH and Studio 18.  All three Cricut cuts are from Sophie.  Next time I would like to emboss the silver background cut.  Hindsight is 20/20. 

Are YOU ready for Valentine's Day?