New Challenges

I have been tearing the paper up in here! I can honestly tell you I have ink on my hands!! Call me a crafter!  The top picture is what I created from Emily's sketch challenge and the bottom is from Clare's Card Challenge!

HAPPY DANCE!! I was featured!

How exciting I have been listed as one of the featured members it is so exciting! I would like to thank  everyone involved with  for giving me the inspiration to create wonderful projects!  A lot of changes were taking place at SSC at the end of 2010. I had only been a member for a few months and things started changing around there. Not that I cared to much, I have joined so many crafty sites in the last 6 months that it just gives me more places to look for different challenges. 

That is until....  I was asked to be on the DESIGN TEAM!! I AM SO EXCITED!

I am excited to be asked in the first place I noticed most web sites ask for crafty peeps to send in the applications to be in their design team. What is funny even if I had been doing cards for 20 years I am not the type of person to put myself out there. If I am asked on the other hand it just makes it that much more special! :) 

I love challenges and I know everyone else will love it as much as I do. I use to sit for hours brain storming trying to come up with different ideas. I new nothing and still do not know a lot about different products to use and how to use them, but the internet will be your best friend in this case! The challenges have helped me step out of my box and into someone else's .. so to speak, and to take away ideas for how to put the project together but yet put them to use in your own way. 

I am very excited about the upcoming months of being on the DESIGN TEAM. (Didn't even get to do anything really- site sits stagnant most of the time)

Creative juices are flowing tonight!

Above creation I made for the Scrapbook challenge at The Outlawz.

Above card I created for the Card Challenge at another site.

Boot Scootin Birthday

Here's the card I created for the birthday challenge at The Outlawz. The theme for the challenge was Western. I think I nailed the western part of this challenge!

It was a GREAT day!

What a wonderful beautiful sunny awesome day it was today,79 degrees, a free car wash @ the Boomerang, received my GIRL SCOUT COOKIES for me and to send the soldiers & had a great brunch with a friend I have known for 27 years but hadn't seen in 20, seen my husbands best bud behind me at the stop light after brunch, and all the sudden my power window quit working, what's up with that? Lol! I think he was giving me some of his bad luck for a second there. He's been going through a rough time right now.  But I called his cell and he pulled over and helped me shut it.  The next great thing is that Lenscrafter's replaced my son's expensive  lenses and frames for $25 , woo-hoo!  I thought for sure we were going to have to replace them both. While I waited on my glasses I went to one of my good friends from high schools work (Another Optical Store) and had a great time chatting with her.  I usually do not see any of my old friends but once every year or 2 and it was a nice change to my uneventful days. Then to top off a wonderful day I was asked to be a DESIGN TEAM member for Simply Scrapping Crafts! I KNOW! I am fairly new to the card making as you know if you have been keeping up with my blog, but I love a challenge! I think I can handle it!

Dust the craft desk off and let's start some Card Challenges!

These two cards I created last night for the week of challenges that I missed while spending time with the family during our winter storm. Above is for the CAS Challenge at The Outlawz and below I entered for two challenges the Birthday Challenge and I used the Sketch from the Sketch Challenge at The Outlawz. These girls are so creative with their sketch ideas! 

WINNER of the Love Award!!

Wow, what an exciting boost to the ego! I couldn't help but boast to my husband about how someone actually really reads/views my blogs and has given me such a blessing of happiness today for thinking of me! The counter isn't the same as actually having a comment left on one of your posts! 

Isn't it funny how your having one of those days and then someone you don't even know says or does something and your day just becomes so much brighter in an instant. This opportunity of receiving and sharing the LOVE AWARD seriously has made my day.. Thank you so much Chrissy at Chrissy's Cardland for thinking of me. I truly am feeling just giggly inside about this! I wasn't kidding when I wrote on Chrissy's blog that I had done my silly little "happy" dance over such sweet comments!

By accepting this award there are a few rules to follow.

First, to post this award on your blog and let the senders know that you have accepted their award in your post and then choose 3-5 people to send this love on.

When you have posted your Love list, let those people know that you have sent them this award through your blog.

I know it will not be easy picking only 5, I love so many different blogs. Can I hear a drum roll please....

My LOVE AWARDS go to:

Linda

Trina
Lisa
Tracey
Tammy


Thank you all so much for inspiring me to not only begin a blog but to step out of my crafty comfort zones and try new things! I love all of your blogs, you truly have inspired me so much!!

Angela B.

My 1st BLOGIVERSARY CANDY!!

It went by so fast!! It has been a year now that I have started blogging. I came up with the name OK Cricuteer when I started making cards for the soldiers using my Cricut cutting machine and I seen that others called themselves Cricuteer's so I thought that OK Cricuteer was fitting at the time. 

So back to the fact that this day is my 1 year anniversary of blogging! What to do! I want to give away something special to my readers so for one month I will be taking the names of anyone who leaves me a comment on this post and on March 5th I will draw a name and I  will announce the WINNER of my surprise BLOG CANDY! 

The blog candy will be craft related, might be new Stampin Up products, Copic markers, scrapping supplies might be all of the above!  

So don't forget to leave me a comment!

Swirls & Butterflies Scrapbook

The Outlawz Girlz have challenged us again and this time it is to make a Scrapbook page with Butterflies & Swirls. My mother never had a wedding album, I am making her one. She passed away in 2002 battling colon cancer. I was 30 years old. I am making this in her memory as a keepsake for me and my then someday I will pass it down to my daughter.

Pink & Brown Birthday Card

Every Monday at Outlawz Girlz is the Birthday Challenge. This weeks challenge was pink, brown and green and I forgot the green. But The card turned out so cute! Don't ya think?

Hostessing Spring/Easter Card Swap

That's right you read it correct! I am hostessing my 2nd time around for the Spring/Easter card swap at Anysoldier.com

The card swap idea is pretty simple.  One person signs up to be the "hostess" - this means that  ALL cards will be sent to him/her to be divided and redistributed.  The hostess will set the due date which is March 1st for the Spring/Easter Swap and the number of participants she would like to have.  The number of cards needed is usually 20. The due date is about 4-6 weeks before the holiday or season we will be celebrating.  Then, hopefully, 20 participants sign up.  Now for the cards themselves........... I have seen homemade cards, store bought cards, computer generated cards, postcards, bookmarks, all kinds of cards.  What you decide to do is totally your choice.  I make my cards because I enjoy doing the crafts.   Again, totally up to you. The cards go into unsealed envelopes - we like to look at the cards before we ship them out :)  You can write a message in the cards or insert a note - that way the soldiers can reuse the cards and send them back to the States.  Some junkies include pictures, jokes, funnies, a single packet of drink mix, etc.  If you decide to add something extra, just make sure it's small and flat.  Otherwise, the cards won't fit in the flat rate envelopes.  I include a typewritten letter, thanking the warriors and telling them a little about myself and how I got involved in "anysoldier".  When your cards are completed, put them in a ziploc baggie in a flat rate Priority envelope ($4.95) and write DO NOT BEND on outside of envelope send off to the hostess. Remember to included a $4.95 stamp, cash, check or money order to cover the return postage and a return addressed label. When the hostess receives all the cards from the participants, she will sort them and then mail them back.  You will now have 20 different cards (actually 19 - one of the cards you receive back will be yours).  Then you send them to your soldiers as a group or individually.

AnySoldier.com Valentine Card Swap!!

My cards have been returned from the hostess! Usually I photograph the cards I had made before I send them to the hostess to be divided among the swappers and this time I was in a rush to get them out at the last minute before the deadline. My cards arrived a day late but the hostess was nice enough to give me another day. Here's what the guys/gals at Anysoldier.com card swappers created!

I am showing you the Valentines I sent for the swap in 2010 before I was in BLOG LAND.

Celebrate Love Card

On Wednesdays it's the  Copic Challenge. The theme for the week is Celebrate This free digi image was given to us in the Beginner Copics Class and I used it in my card.

Quilled Easter Bunny Card

Every Tuesday at The Outlawz Girlz they have a color challenge. This weeks colors are brown and pink. I chose to Quill a brown bunny and layer him on top of a Pink  egg I cut out on my Cricut machine using my Easter cartridge and ran through my Cuttlebug machine embossing the egg. The white flowers are out of one of the egg patterns offered in the cartridge. I used the egg on another project and the flowers here.

Wedding Photo Scrapbook

Saturdays at The Outlawz Girlz is their weekly Scrapbook challenge. This is my first photo scrapbook page. I won a Love themed scrapbook album kit at Simply Scrapping Crafts from a blog hop or card challenge entry. My mother never had a wedding album book, although she passed away 9 years ago her birthday is this month on January 26th and I wanted to do something in her memory. She also divorced my father when I was 8 years old, so I guess this is really for me but in her honor. There is a not a day that goes by that I do not think about my Mom.

CAS Valentines Card

Sundays are great day at The Outlawz Girlz they have their CAS Clean And Simple Challenge. This week the color is red with an embellishment and lots of white space.

Valentine Card with Candy!

Okay here's my first submission for the color challenge of red, white and pink at The Outlawz Girlz

Card, Sketch, & CAS Challenges

Today I whipped up these three cards for the challenges.

Thursdays Prisma & Other Mediums Challenge

Okay so I don't have Prisma colored pencils. I used Crayola to color this free digi image for this challenge at The Outlawz Girlz.

Friday Copic Challenge 1

The ladies at The Outlawz Girlz have done it again. They have tested my inner crafty self with these red shades for the Copic Challenge. I am still trying to get the shading down correctly cannot understand why mine aren't blending as well as others I have seen. I've tried not pressing so hard, coloring in feather strokes, circles, I have bought the special paper but it isn't any of the products. It is me.. practice makes perfect, I know. Go to The Outlawz Girlz   
and test your inner crafty self too!

WINNER WINNER!! Stampfairy Blog Hop winner!

I am so excited to try some of these new items I won from blog hopping at Stamp Fairy.com! Thank you Lisa (The Purple Place) You totally rock the crafty world giving away such wonderfully beautiful items to use!!

Stamp Fairy Blog Hop 

Wednesday Sketch Challenge

Over at The Outlawz Girlz I was challenged by their first ever sketch challenge. This is what I created from the sketch! You can be challenge too, go to The Outlawz Girlz

Monday Birthday Challenge 1

There's a new place on the web to challenge your inner crafty self! It is called The Outlawz Girlz. And every Monday looks as if it is going to be the Birthday challenge. SO check out the challenge! 

The Outlawz Girlz

Card Challenge

I made this for a card challenge.

Placed some paper Quilled hearts and music notes on the side to give it more of a "Feelin Groovy" feel! The Flower cutout was created using a neat technique, not even sure how to explain it but check the link above for the tutorial.

Color Challenge

 I created this card for the Color Challenge for the week of January 5th.