I have just come back from a 5 day cruise of scrappers that I have met thru Facebook.  We all decided to make an 8 x 8 layout about ourselves to trade with each other.  This is the one I made last minute. I was just having mojo block for weeks, but finally came up with this.  Two colors of glimmer mist and some Florida type stamps.  I then typed out a little about myself, and glimmer misted those also. The cruise was a blast.  We saw Lady Antebellum perform aboard ship.  Too bad, the weather was uncooperative.  Cool, cloudy and some rain.

It has been a tough week.  I did something to my left knee 6 weeks ago, and now the pain is getting worse.  I have now been to the doctor twice.  The first time he drained my knee of fluid and put in cortisone.  Yesterday, because the pain was worse, he is sending me for an MRI.  He has even given me pain meds as he could see how much it hurt.  In the mean time, I did this SVG for the holiday.   I did not use any patterned paper, so I stamped some of the pieces.  Using the explore and understanding the SVG's is a real learning curve.  Unfortunately I do not have anyone who lives near me who has an explore for some help.  I am still persevering with it.  One day I will know what I am doing.  

I have been struggling with learning how to use the cricut Explore.  Here is a card that I made for a friend.  I just felt like it took hours, and then I ended up putting it together wrong.  I left out one of the pieces, but because of the type of glue I used, taking it apart would have been a major indertaking, so I just left it.  It still looks okay, but will have to try it again.  I am determined to learn how to use this machine.

What a week.  I finally went to the orthopedic doctor after trying to heal thy self.  He was able to draw out over an ounce of fluid from my knee.  What a differece  No pain today!  Now I was able to sits down an do some scrapping.  The first is a card that  was just fooling around with Distress markers.  So grateful to You Tube.  I don't think that there isn't a thing that you cannot find on there.  Then I decided to play with my Kiwi Lane templates and learning how to weld letters on my explore.l  Again, You Tube came in handy.  These were pictures from last spring from n art fair in Jupiter, Fl.  I still need to think of my journaling, but I thought that I would show it to you know.  Journaling is my weak spot in scraping.  Thanks for taking a look.

Here are the Christmas cards that I just finished from the kCTMH Workshop on the Go collection.  There are a toto of 15 cards with  envelopes.  Once I got the cutting and stamping done,  it took no time at all to get them put together.  You can go to my site:  scrappygirl123.ctmh.com and click on October party to order this or other products.  Don't forget your stamp of the month for $5.00 with a $50.00 order.  Start your holiday shopping now for yourself and your scrappy friends,  If you decide to host an online party, you can earn free and 50% off items.  Happy shopping.

I finally to this card done yesterday.  I am still new at using my Cricut Explore.  This took me 5 tries to get it sized correctly.  Whew!, I think I finally have it down pat.  Our anniversary is tomorrow, the 17th.  Let's see if hubby remembers.  I have not given him any reminders yet.  I might not leave this in the bathroom tonight after he goes to sleep like I usually do.  What do you think?

As promised, here are a few photos.  first is Harper, then Max and Finally Bruno, my new puppy.

Here is a Tim Holtz tag that I did a few weeks ago.  Right now I am not working on any projects as I just had some surgery on Monday, and am not allowed to raise my arms for a few more days.  Will write and show you  ASAP.

Thanks for looking.