Cute Birthday Present

My friend Jenn turned the big 3-0 this summer!  As a cute gift a made her a set of "J" stationary as seen above.  Then I wrapped them up in a cute plastic box.  It made a super cute & easy birthday present!

All of the backgrounds are embossed with Cuttlebug folders.  Its hard to see - but on the tag of the gift, the front is embossed to say "happy birthday!".

The Cuttlebug has arrived!

She is here .... and she is so cute and green! Anyway, I am totally in luuurve with my new cuttlebug.

Here's a picture of the first card I made using my cuttlebug to emboss:

Self Control

So... apparently I have no self control. Remember those awesome crafty tools I was LUSTING over in my last post?? (ok ok, I know my last post was a WHILE ago.. but I digress) Well... since then, I bought myself a CUTTLEBUG!! woo hoo!! It is awesome. Not too big either, perfect size for my manhattan apartment. Now I'm just obsessed with collecting all of the Nestabilities - seriously they are the most useful die-cuts. I will do a post on them soon!

Oh but that's not all... StampinMOM bought the Cricut. Oh yes she did! It was a huge investment - but so far, SO COOL!! I will take pictures at Thanksgiving, but she made little favor boxes for everyone at the table. So far, I have only used it for my escort cards as part of my "wedding crafts" I will be sure to post pics once they're done!

Now that the Save-The-Dates are out the door... I will be posting pics soon!

LUST

So over the course of the summer I bought one of these:

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and inherited one of these:

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(I will never be able to explain how my dad ended up with one of these in his closet... I'm not sure he even knows!!)


That should be enough crafting goodies to last me a good long time!!

Then why oh why am I lusting after this:


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and this:



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I have a bad feeling that one of those two might be joining my collection pretty soon!!!