Happy New Year

WOW! Hard to believe today is the last day for the year 2012. I made this cute little card using Create A Critter 2. I started with a white card base cut and folded to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card. I added a purple mat cut to 4" X 5 1/4". The patterned paper is cut at 3 3/4" X 5". I cut my little penguin at 3". I added some faux stitching with a spica pen.

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year! Hope 2013 is good to all of you.

Sympathy Card

A neighbor's husband passed away on Christmas morning. This is the card I made to send her. Sympathy cards are always some of the hardest to make at least for me. I chose to keep the card very simple. I made a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" white card. My cut is from the Silhouette store and I cut it the size it downloaded with my new Cameo. Once I adhered everything to my card front I used my clear glitter gel pen to color over the flowers, buds and leaves to give them a subtle shimmer.

Happy Holidays!

Wishing each and everyone of you a very Merry Christmas! Hug your loved ones and enjoy your time with them.

Advent Calendar

Here is the advent calendar I made this year. The tree is from Kaisercraft and Kim special ordered it for me. (Thanks Kim!) I painted the edges with some green acrylic paint as well as the little wooden pieces for the numbers. I used some Glue and Seal to adhere my paper to the front and back of my tree. The paper is from my stash. I added some Washi Tape by My Minds Eye for my garland. Next I cut a star from the George and Basic Shapes cartridge at 2 1/2" and I covered the whole thing front and back with some WOW! Gold Rich Ultra embossing powder. Next I cut the countdown to Christmas out with my Silhouette out of some red card stock and then embossed it twice using the Clear Gloss WOW! embossing powder. Finally I cut my numbers out of red vinyl and adhered them to my wooden pieces.

Joy Snowflake Card

My husband  bought me a Silhouette Cameo for Christmas and naturally I had to test it out to be sure it worked properly. I bought the Joy Snowflake card from the Silhouette store.

My card base is a 5" X 7" prescored white card base. I cut my patterned paper at 4 1/2" X 6 1/2" and adhered it to my card. For my snowflake I cut this image at 4 1/4" using white cardstock for the top layer and a dark blue for the base layer. Once I had them assembled I sprayed them with some Iridescent glitter dust and attached them to my card fronts with some foam tape.

Poinsettia Die Card

I recently picked up the Tim Holtz Tattered Poinsettia die and the embossing folder that matches the die. Here is what I did with it.

I started with a cream colored card base cut and scored to 4 1/4" X 5 1/2". I added a red mat cut to 4" X 5 1/4" and a patterned paper mat cut at 3 3/4" X 5". The patterned paper is from an Echo Park paper pad.

I ran my poinsettia die through my eBosser and cut the flower layers out of white card stock. I then inked them using the Festive Berries Distress Ink and Peeled Paint for the leaves. I used some Tarnished Brass distress stain for the flower center. Once I had them all inked and allowed them to dry for a few minutes I embossed them with the embossing folder and my eBosser. I just love how the flower looks after it is embossed. I will say that the flower is fairly fragile once it is embossed and I did tear off a leaf but just glued it to the back of the flower where it was supposed to go. Once I had my flower all put together I sprayed it lightly with some Gold Glitter Dust. It is really pretty in person.

I stamped my sentiment with some Memento Lady Bug red ink.

Snowman Card

Here is a quick Christmas card I made today. My card base is white card stock cut and scored to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card. I added a red mat cut at 4" X 5 1/4" and then my patterned paper cut at 3 3/4" X 5". My little snowman is cut from the Snow Friends Cricut Cartridge at 3 1/2".  I hid the eyes, nose and mouth before I cut it out and stamped it with a Peachy Keen stamp. I added some rosy cheeks with a copic marker and some stitching marks with a white gel pen. I also used a Spica glitter marker in Lipstick to add some sparkle to the red on his scarf and hat. I added him to my card front with foam tape. My sentiment is stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and I added a snowflake button that I adhered with a glue dot.

Quick Christmas Ornaments

We are doing a gift exchange at work and I made this up as my gift.  These are clear flat ornaments about 3" in diameter. I added some iridescent crystal paper shreds to the inside of my ornaments. Then I cut some images out of Red and Green vinyl.

The Santa and Christmas tree are cut at 2 3/4" and are from the Teresa Collins December 25th Cricut Cartridge. The bell is from the same cartridge but was cut at 2". The snowman was cut at 2 1/2" and is from the Quilted Christmas Cricut cartridge.

Gift Tags and More

Well, I finally got my Christmas tree decorated this morning. So now I have a place to put those presents I have been buying once they are wrapped. However, before I can wrap them I decided I better get some gift tags made so I know whose gift goes to who. (I am famous for wrapping presents and putting them under the tree without tags. Keeps everyone guessing). For these tags I cut some Bazzill white card stock 3" X 3". I then used cut some patterned paper 2 7/8" X 2 7/8" and 2 3/4" X 2 3/4". I used papers from the Echo Park Holly Jolly and Season's Greetings and My Minds Eye Winter Wonderland. The upper left tag I added a piece of white card stock that I rounded the corners and then stamped it with some embossing ink and embossed it with the WOW! Cable Car Red Embossing powder. For the tag with the Trees and the Stocking I used some of the stickers from the Holly Jolly collection. The Poinsettia tag was made using the Spellbinder Poinsetta die. I inked the poinsettia with some of the Festive Berries Distress Ink and I added some gold Liquid Pearls to the center. I am going to try to get a better picture of the tags in the morning, hopefully it will be much brighter than this even. Finally I used my crop-a-dile and punched a hole in the corner of each tag and added some Doodlebug Twine.

Next I made a couple of gift card holders. I found the directions here. Again my paper is from the Echo Park paper pads. I rounded the corners of the top of the gift card holders and the stamped my sentiment with some Evergreen Bough Distress Ink. I die cut the sentiments out using a Spellbinder die and my eBosser.

Tim Holtz Configuration Box

I picked up a small Tim Holtz configuration box and decided to do it up for Christmas. I started with the Idea-Ology Woodlands Miniatures. I sprayed these with some Meadow Adirondack Color Wash spray. This is a special order item but just ask. Once they were dry I used some Glossy Accents to adhere some of the Ranger Tinsel to my trees. I then added some "ornaments" to my trees and red "berries" to my wreath. My ornaments are beads and are adhere also with Glossy Accents. While that dried I covered my box. I used the Tim Holtz Pap(er Stash Holiday Past paper pack. (Looks like Cutters Creek is out of this but please ask if you want it.)  I used Inksenntials Glue and Seal to adhere my paper. I then used some Tissue Tape to cover all the seams. I inked the tape with some Festive Berries and Evergreen Bough Distress ink. Once everything was dry I used some Glossy Accents to adhere my trees and wreath in my box. I also cut the word JOY out at 3/4" and inked it with some distress stains in barn door and brushed pewter (another special order item but don't hesitate to ask). I adhered them to my box as well with Glossy Accents. I also added the mini lantern to my box. Doesn't it look cute all lit up?

For my corners I used some WOW! Silver Ultra embossing powder to create several layers and then etch them with a damask stamp from my stash. (Here is a link to the video I did showing this technique.) I also applied some foil to some white card stock and die cut some snowflakes using my eBosser. I adhered the snowflakes and the corners with some Glossy Accents. Finally for my feet, I took some wooden beads and stained them with some Brushed Pewter Metallic Distress Stain (another special order item but please ask) and applied them with some Glossy Accents. I cut the Christmas Blessing from the Tis the Season Cartridge and applied it with Glossy Accents. I covered the word Blessing alos with the Pewter Metallic Distress Stain.

It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas!

The new challenge over at Cricut Cardz Challenge is to make a Christmas card using the card feature from any cartridge and any colors, so this is what I came up with.

I used the Quilted Christmas cartridge and cut my card at 5 1/2" which gave me a a scored and folded card very close to 4 1/4" X 5 1/2". I then cut the base layer out of some silver glitter card stock and adhered it to the inside of my card behind the sleigh. Then I stamped my sentiment with some Versamark and embossed it some WOW! Gold embossing powder. I added some small rhinestones and I was done.

This cartridge has some really beautiful cards that are really quick and easy to do.

Rosette Tree

Here is the rosette tree I made this afternoon. I can't take credit for the idea, I saw the idea over at Creations with Christina. She had a patterned she followed. After looking at her tree I decided I wanted to make one and use my Ribbon and Rosettes Cricut Cartridge.

I have seven layers on my tree. I of course used the tree rosette. I started cutting my rosettes at 3". I cut 5 sections for each of my rosettes. Each layer is 1/4" smaller then the layer below it. After putting all my rosettes together I cut seven 1" circles and hot glued them to the centers of each of my rosettes. Then I hot glued each layer together. All the paper is from a Recollections paper pad I picked up last Christmas.

My topper is a snowflake from the Teresa Collins December 25th Cricut Cartridge. I cut 4 snowflakes at 1 1 3/4". Scored them in the middle (that was a challenge) and then glued the folded pieces together to make a 3D snowflake and hot glued it to the top of my tree. Finally sprayed the whole tree with some Pearls Glimmer Mist and let it dry.

I think this will be going in my office at work. I am pleased with it.