Dear Santa. . .

I have made my first Christmas card of the season!!!! This is what I came up with.

I found this adorable little squirrel on the Jolly Holidays Cricut Lite cartridges.  I cut the squirrel and his layers at 3.5".

My card base is white card cut and scored to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card base.  I added a red mat cut at 4" X 5 1/4" and then a patterned paper mat cut at 3 3/4" X 5.  The polka dotted mat is actually the reverse side of the striped mat and is cut at 1 1/2" X 3 3/4".

Once I got the different layers adhered to the squirrel base I added some Hero Arts Prisma Glitter to the white ball on top of his hat, the hat trim and the white stripes on the candy cane.

It was a quick and easy card to make.  Thanks for stopping by.

Holly Jolly Christmas

The current challenge over at Simply Crafts is to make a card using the Stocking cut from the Jolly Holidays Cricut Lite cartridge. Here is what I came up with.

My card is a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card. I added a red and green and white mat. I cut the stocking and its layers at 4". I embossed the white mat with the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder. I left the lower 1 1/2" out of the un embossed so I had a placed to stamp my sentiment. To finish my card I added some ribbon and two felt gingerbread buttons and I added some stickles to the stocking to glam it up. I have been a card making machine this weekend and hope you will come back to so my other posts this week.

Gingerbread House - Christmas in July

This month on the Design Team blog to help everyone start thinking about their holiday crafts we are featuring some Christmas in July project. My project today for you is this cute little treat box. A friend gave me the new Sweet Tooth Boxes project cartridge and when I saw this sweet house in the book I knew what I wanted to do.

I started with some kraft card stock and using the suggestion in the book cut my house and it's layers at 10". To make the house you have to cut 2 of the actual house. Because I wanted to dress mine up a little and add a Christmas Tree to the inside I used my Gypsy and hid the window on one side of the house so it wouldn't cut. I also hid the flowers and the flower boxes because I wasn't using them. I hope you can see the tree I added to the inside of the house. I cut the tree at 3.1" using my Imagine and the Snow Angel Cricut Imagine Cartridge. I used Scor-tape to assembly the house together. I added some clear acetate to the window of my house so it looked like glass. I cut the grass for the house out of white and ran it through my Cuttlebug and the D'Vine Swirls embossing folder.  I then ran it upside down through my Xyron and covered it with some chunky glitter and adhered to to the sides of the house.

To dress up the outside of the house I added some Polar White Flower Soft along the roof line and edge. To the front of the house, I added a brad for a door knob and using the Snow Angel cartridge and the layers feature on my Imagine I cut two pots of poinsettias to place on each side of the door. I then used my Jolly Holidays Lite cartridge to cut a wreath that I attached to the door.

I added some Christmas Red Stickles for the berries on the wreath and also the ornaments on the tree. I used some Star Dust Stickles to some of the poinsettias to help them stand out and add a little more bling. The roof slides on to the top of the box and over those two solid pieces that act as a handle. It was a lot of fun making this and I am ready to fill it later this fall with some yummy goodies!

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.

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