Easter Basket With A Flourish...

Hi all my loyal bloggy friends. Thanks for stopping by. Your kind comments are always appreciated!

I was so excited yesterday I recieved some happy mail so of course I needed to use part of it.

When I went to cut out this cute little tag I got from My Creative Time my Cuttlebug wouldn't work.
I could hear pieces rolling around inside her and the rollers would not engage.

EEEEK! As you know I LOVE to emboss my cards.

Cuttlebug Surgery

How could this be? I can't live without my Cuttlebug and a new one really isn't in the budget.
I've had her for years so I knew she wasn't under warranty any longer so I figured what the heck let's open her up and see if there is anything I can do to fix her.






Poor baby!

The poor girl had lost one of her gears. Is that like us loosing our marbles. Just wondering...



YAY!!!!! I fixed her!!!!

I've had this card in the planning stages for ages now and finally finished it in the wee hours this morning after my Cuttlebaby was fixed.

When I took my card outside to take pictures of it guess what? I dropped it!
AND you guessed it. It landed face down right in the wet with morning dew grass.
Just like buttered bread....
I had to wait for it to dry so the waterstains wouldn't show up in the picture.
Luckily it dried out okay and the water stains are now gone. Whew. Thought I was going to need to redo it for a while there.

Thanks for looking.
D-

*Card base 5.5 x 4.25 in.
*Card front 5.25 x 4 in. embossed with the Cuttlebug Musical Flourish folder.
*Basket and eggs cut at 4.5 in. from the Cricut Celebrate with Flourish cartridge.
*Basket and 1 egg cut from DMCV Glitter Stack (4x6 size).
*Eggs embossed with Cuttlebug Matelasse, Swiss Dots, Charles & Skyward Set folders.
*Egg embossed with a Sizzix folder I do not know  the name of.
*Teeny tag and saying from the My Creative Time Teeny Tag Greeting set.
(I just got this set and some others in happy mail yesterday)
*Tag tied on with a ribbon bow.

My card is entered into the following challenges:
*http://craftindesertdivas.blogspot.com/2013/03/craft-it-up-link-it-up-linky-party-2.html (Easter)
*http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/2013/03/challege-me-monday-154-easter-greetings.html (Easter)
*http://exploringcricut.blogspot.com/2013/03/time-for-challenge.html (Easter)
*http://redcarpetstudiochallenge.blogspot.com/2013/03/rcs-29-secret-garden.html (flowers)
*http://pausedreamenjoychallenges.blogspot.com/2013/03/ch-6-anything-goes.html (anything)
*http://cuttinandstampinchallenges.blogspot.com/2013/03/weekly-challenge-12.html (Easter)
*http://blog.ribboncarousel.com/2013/03/rcc78-spring-is-in-air.html (spring)
*http://diecuttindivas.blogspot.com/2013/03/challenge-108-embossing-with-ribbon.html (embossing with ribbon)
*http://craftycreationschallenges.blogspot.com/2013/03/challenge-215-easter.html (Easter)
*http://everydayisanoccasion.com/sunday-funday-7/ (link up party)
*http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com/2013/03/dlart-thankful-thursday-march-linky.html (linky party)
*http://gofishchallenges.blogspot.com/2013/03/go-fish-challenge-37-ribbon.html (ribbon)
*http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com/2013/03/dlart-thankful-thursday-challenge-106.html (spring)