Friday, December 31, 2010

It's Twin's

My cousin had twins Dec. 29th.  A little boy and a little girl. This is the card I made to send her. I used my Cricut Imagine and the Nursery Tail's imagine cartridge. The card base is 5" X 7". The solid green mat is cut 1/4" smaller than the card base and the patterned paper mat is cut 1/4" smaller than the green mat. Both the green mat and patterned paper were created using colors from the color palette on the Nursery Tail's imagine cartridge. I added some blue eyelets to the blue onesie and some pale green  pearls to the pink onesie. I also added some of the pale green pearls to the lower right and upper left hand corners of the card. I used my white gel pen to add some faux stitching around the edge of the green mat and to high light the white stitching on the boy's onesie.

Monday, December 27, 2010

Warm Fuzzies!



So the mother of a member of one of the online groups I belong to had surgery on Christmas Day. She asked if we would send her a card. So here is a card I created to mail her. This is also my first Cricut Imagine project. I used the Nursery Tails art cartridge to create the card. My card base is a a 5" X 7" white card base. I cut the image and used the layer feature. These were all cut at 4 1/2". I then took the base layer and enlarged it to 5" and flooded it with a pattern from the cartridge. I also created on more base layer and sized it to 5 1/2" and flooded it with a solid green also from the cartridge and print and cut both of these out. I wanted a mat for my main cut. I popped the flower and owl up on some foam tape. I also added a couple of Prima Flowers that I secured together with a brad and attached to my card with a glue dot. Since I was mailing the card I wanted to keep the embellishments simple and so they didn't stick out too much. The sentiment on the outside of the card says Sending Warm Fuzzies.

Saturday, December 25, 2010

New Year's Blog Hop

I am very excited about participating in my first blog hop on New Year's Day. All of the crafty participants will be showcasing New Year's Day themed projects. There will chances to win blog candy as you make your journey along the hop. Please be sure to visit all of the ladies on January 1st to see all of the great projects.

1. Crafty Scentiments   http://craftyscentiments.blogspot.com/
2. scrapincovers   http://www.cricutcraftyclare.blogspot.com/
3. TinaB   http://ollieanddextersmommy.blogspot.com/
4. cricutkris   http://www.tatteredprimitives.com/
5. SoonerMT   http://www.paperrenee.com/
6. gonecampn   http://www.scrapcavecreations.com/
7. buggin_out   http://www.papercraftingchic.com/
8. MissyMel   http://papertreats.blogspot.com/
9. Lissa   http://somanycrafts.wordpress.com/
10.Kreimers  http://fantabulouslypink.blogspot.com/
11.txscrappermom   http://txscrappermom.blogspot.com/
12.Scrappin' Palace   http://scrappinpalace.blogspot.com/
13.DeannaMulder   http://deannaspapercrafts.blogspot.com/
14.WamFamily   http://www.wamfamily.blogspot.com/
15.Ms_Dee   http://www.dees-specialthings.blogspot.com/
16.YvonneBalmer   http://ink-spirations.blogspot.com/
17.TiffysMom   http://angiespaperpassion.blogspot.com/
18.Heart2hand   http://heart2handshighlights.blogspot.com/

My Christmas Present!

Guess what I got for Christmas from my DH? A Cricut Imagine.

I was able to spend a little time this evening getting it set up and calibrated and cut a few things. I love it. I hope to get a few projects posted soon. Just had to share. Hope everyone had a great Christmas.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Happy Holidays!

I just wanted to take a minute to wish each and everyone of you a very Merry Christmas. I have been really busy these past few days getting ready for my own families celebration. We have about 15 people from my husbands family coming over tomorrow evening to celebrate Christmas and then on Saturday afternoon we will go to my parent's house for dinner. I hope all of you get to spend some time with your loved ones. Enjoy each other.

I will back next week with some more projects. I will also be participating in a blog hop in New Year's Day. Enjoy your day and I hope Santa is really good to each and every one of you.

Monday, December 20, 2010

Believe - Christmas Cards


I finally had a chance to work on a few more Christmas Cards to get out to relatives that live locally. I used some 5 X 7" pre folded white cards that I bought at a craft store. I cut a green card stock mat 1/4" smaller than the card and then a mat out of the patterned paper which is from My Minds Eye a 1/4" smaller than the green card stock. The trees were cut at 4" from the Winter Woodland Cricut Cartridge. I added some Glossy Accents and Coarse Martha Stewart Glitter to the white layer on the trees to give the snow some sparkle. For the Snowman, he was cut at 5" from the Joys of the Season Cricut Cartridge. I used the same sentiment, ink and embossing powder on this card as I did the other card. The ribbon is some from my stash I bought last year. The stars were cut using American Craft glitter card stock. This card stock is beautiful and very heavy. To cut the stars I had my blade at 6 pressure at max and did  multi cut 3. Thanks for visiting.

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Christmas Decorations


As the holidays rapidly approach I am finding I have less and less time to craft. I had some what vinyl I wanted to do something with so decided to cut out a bunch of snowflakes and put them on my bathroom mirror and window to help spread the Christmas spirit throughout the house. Using my Gypsy I placed a variety of snowflakes from several Cricut cartridges that I have with snowflakes on them. I also created a range of sizes from 1 3/4" to 3 1/2". I filled my 12 X 24" mat on my Gypsy with snowflakes. Using a 12" X 24" cricut cutting mat, I carefully laid out my vinyl being sure to remove air bubbles as I went. I cut the snowflakes out using a blade depth of 3 and pressure of 3 which resulted in a perfect kiss cut. I removed the excess vinyl and weeded my snowflakes of the little inner cuts I didn't want. To apply them I used a piece of reposition able clear contact paper and my triangular shaped scrapper from my tool kit. I used the scrapper to burnish the snowflakes as I applied them. They went on great and I didn't have any issues with air bubbles. Thanks for visiting.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Co-Worker Gifts

Here are some little gifts I made to take to work and give the people I work with. I cut the Popcorn box from TBBM at 5". I laid the box out on my gypsy and was able to get two boxes per 12" X 12" sheet of card stock. The patterned paper are from two different My Minds Eye Christmas Paper packs. The tan boxes with Twas The Night Before Christmas on them are from a pack I bought last year, the other papers are from one I got at Michaels this year. I used Scor-tape to adhere the boxes together. I bought a variety of snack mixes from the bulk food section of a local grocer and filled some clear treat bags that I bought at Michaels. A trick I learned to make filling the bags easiest is to place them empty inside the popcorn boxes and then I used a scoop to fill the clear bags. Since the popcorn boxes are narrower at the bottom then the top this made it easier to get the bags into the boxes and still get them fairly full. I used the twist ties that came with the bags to close them and then tied some ribbon around them. The ribbon is some I got from Michaels and it says Naughty but Nice on it in red and green text. I then used the Winter Frolic cartridge to cut a 2 1/4" tag and stamped it with a little stamp I had that says Hope Your Holidays are a Treat. I inked the ends of the tag with Memento Lady Bug ink and used the same ink to stamp the sentiment on my tags. Since I was having some trouble with my hands cramping I opted to not tie the tags to the ribbon like I had planned. Instead, I added a gold mini brad and attached the tag to the front of the box with some foam tape. Thanks for visiting.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Treat Bags

I made this little snowman treat bags for my son to take to his co-workers. They are always playing gags on each other so we decided to make Snowman Poop bags. I filled the bags with a mix of white chocolate chips, yogurt covered raisins and yogurt covered peanuts. I cut the treat bag toppers using the Winter Frolic cartridge and one of the tags from that cartridge. These were resized on my Gypsy so I could cut them at 6" X 4 1/4" out of white card stock. The patterned paper is from the DCWV Christmas paper pack. I also used my Gypsy to resize these before cutting them. The snowman is also from the Winter Frolic cricut cartridge and was cut at 4". I used my Gypsy to hide the eyes, nose, and cheeks as I wanted to use my Peachy Keen Stamps on them as I had 20 of these to make. I colored the snowman's nose with an orange Bic Marker and added some pink rosy cheeks with a colored pencil. I printed out the little poem on my computer and inked the edges with Memento Summer Sky ink as well as the white layer of the snowman. There are several versions of the poem on the internet. The one I chose to use is:

I hear you've been naughty
so listen, hears the scoop
instead of coal this year
you're getting snowman poop.
I am submitting this project to the challenge on Paper Cutz Challenge blog. Thanks for stopping by.

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Gift Tags

Here are some gift tags I made this afternoon. I used a tag from the Winter Frolic Cricut Cartridge. The base layer of the tag was cut at 3" from Recollections Kraft card stock. I also cut the shift tag from the same page (sorry it was one of the snowman but can't remember the page number). I used my Gypsy to hide the Snowman cut at the end of the tag. Paper is from a Cloud 9 paper pack seasonal paper pack.

To decorate my tags I used two snowflakes from the Winter Lace Seasonal Mini Cartridge cut at 2". I cut the base in a light green and the top layer in cream and glittered them with Sugar Cube Martha Stewart glitter. The tree was cut at 3" from the Winter Frolic cartridge. You can't see it in the picture but I added yellow stickles to the star and garland and Pink and Waterfall stickles to the ornaments on the tree. The mittens were cut from the Jolly Holidays Lite cartridge. I added some gold ribbon to each of the tags. Thanks for visiting.

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Advent Calendar

Here is my project I have been working on for the last two days. Last Christmas I made my mom an Advent Calendar so this year she asked if I was making one for her this year. So, I thought why not. So off to Google I went and did a search for Cricut Advent Calendars. Here is the site I found for inspiration.http://www.bubblyfunk.co.uk/tracie-hudson-christmas-advent-a-39.html.

This calendar was made using small matchboxes. Of course I thought I can make those. I used the Tags, Bags, Boxes and More, Cricut Cartridge and cut 24 matchboxes. I cut the drawer part at 3" but had to enlarge the box part so the drawers went in easier. I resized the box part of the cut on my Gypsy and cut them at 3.08". The boxes were scored and assembled using Score-Tape. I added green and red brads from American Crafts. Directions on how to create this project can be found on the link above. I used two 6" X 6" pieces of chipboard for the top and bottom portions of the "cabinet". For the top I cut Christmas Wishes from the Winter Frolic Cartridge at 2 1/2". Cuts for the sides were cut at 1 1/2". I cut the numbers for the drawers at .45" using the Roly Poly font from the Plantin Schoolbook Cartridge.

The mittens were so small when I cut them I couldn't use the snowflakes that were cut to go on top of them. Instead, I used my white gel pen to draw in the snowflakes and then used my Quickie Glue Pen to apply glue and Martha Stewart Sugar Cube glitter. I also used the same glue and glitter for the white cuff's of the mittens.





Patterned Paper: DCWV Christmas Stack
Paper: Bazzill Card Stock, and Scraps from Stash
Cartridges: 
Winter Frolic -Sentiment
Simply Charmed - Santa and Chimney
Jolly Holidays - Mittens, Noel Banner, Gingerbread Man
Doodlecharms - Stocking
Tree and Snowflake Buttons
Adhesive
Beacons 3 in 1 Glue (buttons)
Score-Tape (boxes and cabinet)
ATG Gun
Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive
Quickie Glue Pen (numbers)
Foam Tape
Stickles
Lime Green
Christmas Red
Stardust
Brads - American Craft Burgundy and Leaf Green
Martha Stewart Sugar Cube fine glitter