Announcement!

Today I have a BIG announcement, for me at least. 

I am close to my 500th. post! 

 

It's hard to believe that I'm almost at that number. I have had several other blogs since 2007, but on this particular one, I have been posting for almost 3 1/2 years. I realize it's not a huge amount compared to other bloggers for that period of time, but I'm doing the happy DANCE! Honestly, there have been weeks that I just have not felt motivated to create or share, but I persevered. I'm so happy I did.  I love sharing my projects and bits and pieces of my personal life, although that can be scary at times.

In Celebration of that milestone, I will be giving away a special gift to my present blog readers and those who sign up to follow me here at Sweet Paper Bliss. After much thought, I felt that signing up to follow me is the only fair way to take part in the give away to my already faithful subscribers. And besides, it makes me feel LOVED! The names will be put into a hat and will be randomly drawn sometime towards the end of next week.

Stay tuned and check here on Monday what that GIFT will be!

CRAFTY Hugs,

BernieBee

 

Final Invitation Project

Yesterday I finished up the invites for my grandson Kempton's birthday party.  I did change up the color combo, the shapes and the font, basically doing a whole make over. It passed my daughters and grandsons approval, so they will be off in the mail tomorrow.

My color inspiration came from the vase and flowers I have on a little table in my dinning room.  I feel they have more of a pop and look more kid friendly. The papers are from SU and for some reason, the colors on the "party" and the center shape appear not to match. Actually they are both Old Olive and look the same color in person. What do you think?

Here's my color inspiration piece:

Well that's about it for now. I'm hoping to get a Get Well card made sometime today after doing some errands. I hope you have a wonderful and, hopefully, CRAFTY day!

Hugs,
BernieBee

Cricut Invitation project

Today I took some much needed time to play around with my Cricut Explore. I have used it some and I'm still on the low end of the learning curve, but I needed to get to know "her" better.

Although there are quite a few ladies/gents online who give wonderful instructional videos, Stacy Williams is my go-to.  She has a laid back style that I enjoy and very clear instructions. She has taught me so much about this wonderful machine.

This invite was a a prototype for my grandson Kempton's 5th. birthday. His mama is not in love with the craft base, so tomorrow I'll try some different color combos and maybe add some texture for interest.

I loved learning how to size, layer, and turn separate cut letters into joined words, etc.  There are so many crafting possibilities with this machine. Nine years ago I bought the original Cricut and loved it, but this one is so much more.

Well I'll be signing off for now, but will post an update later today.

Stay CRAFTY my friends!
BernieBee

Paper is by Stampin'Up!,Project Life framelits, Spellbinders
 

Birthday Girl/MOJO#420

Hello all! I just arrived home from North Carolina on Saturday afternoon after a wonderful 10 days. While there we scouted out areas in NC we would consider moving to next year, we did some house hunting, and spent time with our children and their families. Tiring, but fun.

I was able to get some much needed time in my Studio today. Good thing! I realized I didn't have a Birthday card for one of my my little princesses, Amelia, who will be 2 this week. 

MOJO#420 came to my rescue! 

I love the bright papers in the Cherry on Top DSP and I'm sure Amelia will also. The #2 was cut using my Cricut Explore which was  layered. I added some Crystal effects to the candle wick and some small dots to add interest to the number.





Make your Tuesday great and go do something CRAFTY!

Hugs,
BernieBee

All products,except the #2, are from Stampin'Up!