Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas. Santa was very good to me this year. I got Everyday Paper Dolls, Joys of the Season and Paisley Cricut cartridges for Christmas. My husband bought me a Gypsy. I have been having great fun playing with it this week. I did make a card with the Paisley cartridge so I will try to get a picture posted tomorrow of that card. That is such a cute cartridge. I love my Gypsy so hope to get more time tomorrow to create with it. All the busy work getting ready for the holidays and family get togethers left me rather tired. I have had the week off of work so am getting rested up. We did have a surprise snowfall here on Tuesday afternoon. It was not predicted and what was thought to be a few flurries turned into 4 inches of snow. The roads were not treated and it created massive gridlock in the city. No one went any where fast. My husband was at my brother-in-laws house a typical 10 to 15 minute drive, it took him a little over 2 1/2 hours to get home that night. The snow is now gone replaced with cold windy, rainy weather for our New Years Eve!

Glitter Ornaments

Here are some photos of the glitter ornaments I made as gifts for some of my friends. I saw how to do this on the Christmas with the Cricut blog. To see their video and get instructions click here. Since I am a little bow and ribbon challenged I decided to dress up my ornaments with some snowflakes. I cut the snowflakes using some of the Cricut white vinyl. Most of the snowflakes were cut at 1 3/4" . I used snowflakes from the  Winter Woodland, Christmas Noel and Accent Essentials Cricut Cartridges. Once I had the snowflakes on the ornaments, I covered them with Glossy Accents and sprinkled them with some Martha Stewart fine crystal glitter. I allowed the snowflakes to dry for about 3 hours and then used a small paint brush to wipe off any excess glitter. I am very pleased how they turned out.


Here are close ups of a couple of the ornaments so you can see the glitter on the snowflakes better.  If I don't get the chance to post again before Christmas I just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Stay safe.

Cardinal Christmas Card

Here is a quick card I made last night using the Winter Woodland Cricut cartridge. It was a lot of fun to make. The card is a standard A2 size. The red mat was cut at 4" X 5 1/4" the white mat was cut at 3 3/4" X 5. I ran this white piece through my Cuttlebug and embossed it using the snowflake embossing folder. All the cuts were cut at 2". I first saw this color combination on the Christmas With the Cricut blog and thought it looked so elegant that I knew I had to do a card using the idea.

Recipe Book

Here is the recipe book I made for my Mom for Christmas. She lost everything in a fire a couple of years ago so I thought it would be fun to make this book with some of her old recipes and some newer recipes. I cut the cover using Plantin Schoolbook cartridge. The dividers were cut at 4 1/4" using the From My Kitchen cartridge, I used the tabs on the first 3 keys. I used the Center Point feature to cut out all of the recipe pages and the extra pages I included in the book. I used one of the recipe cards on the cartridge also cut at 4 1/4". I cut the tabs also from the From My Kitchen cartridge. The actual words, I printed on the same color card stock as the tabs and made a cut from Lyrical Letters at 3/4" tall and 1.1/2" wide. I then cut each one individually using the file I created.  On the cover I cut the word recipe from the From My Kitchen cartridge at 1 1/2" and also cut the oval at the same size. The apron I cut at 3" and cut all the layers. I used my Bind-It-All to bind it.  I am really pleased how this turned out.

Cocoa Mugs

I wante to make something fun for my husband to give tp his co-worker. A fewweeks ago Melanie shared a  free SVG File that can be cut out with your Cricut using the Sure Cuts A Lot software. I really had fun making these. All the cuts used to decorate the mugs are from the new Winter Woodland cartridge. Not only does this cartridge have a lot of fantastic cuts on it, it also has a Font and several 3-D images. To see the mugs Melanie made or to get the file go HERE. These mugs are quick and easy to make and are a really inexpensive little gift. Thanks for looking.