Halloween Tags

Some fun and cute tags.  I cute the tags with my Cricut Explore.  I used Cuttlebug folders to emboss on Black Magic card stock.  I stamped images and colored them with Copics.  The words are from a sheet of paper from K& Co Spooktacular.

Meow - Happy Birthday

I made this cute little cat using my Silhouette and an image from their store.   There were three cats in the image for 50cents.  They remind me of my grandmother, so I certainly could not leave them there without purchasing them!  lol!  I bought a lot of images when they had their 50% off sale at Christmas.  Sweet deals!

Some K & Co paper and trim.  The tag was made from a Stampin' Up punch and a Sizzix tag sizzlit.  They make about 4 different tags each.  Quick and simple.  

Penny Black Birthday Card

I have begun my mission to ensure everyone has a Birthday card this year!  I make cards for everyone in the office and try to get them out to others as well. 

I used my Silhouette to cut out the scalloped circles.   You can also use your Cricut or Spell binders.  I just happened to be playing with the silhouette.  I then layered the circles and cut off the edge.  I then added the punched pieces from the corner piece (E K Success) onto the edge of the circles.  The edges of the paper were distressed.  I tend to use the CTMH one that I bought some time ago.  It still works great, so I keep using it!  The little girl was colored with copics and her dress was cut out of the background paper and layered for more dimension.  The flowers are from K&Co and the leaves are cut with my Cricut.  I always mass produce these beauties.  I love them!  Some prima flowers, and bling.  The twine was colored using a marker as I didn't have anything in the color I wanted.  Thank God for markers and ink pads!  I used Tim Holtz tiny attacher to add a more rustic look.

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Marcy's Mini

Hello everyone!

I have been without internet access for a couple of months, but I am back!  I have been making lots of things, just not able to post them.  Today, I will begin posting those creations!  So to start, I thought I'd start BIG!

This is a Hidden binding system, paper bag mini-album.  Wow, say that fast three times!  I learned how to do this on YouTube, of course!  The video is the best way to see this mini.  There would be too many photos to put on here.

Here is a list of the Cricut cartridges that I used: Hello Kitty Font, Home Accents, Home Decor, Mother's Day Bouquet, Cricut Essentials, Pagoda, Sophie, Southwest, Birthday Bash, Cindy Loo, French Manor.

You will note that the video mentions the CricutFanatics blog that I used to design for.  As I could not contact anyone or get online, I did not realize it was dissolving.  So sad!  Debbie did an amazing job with that blog!  I also just discovered I need to update my Cricut Circle status!  That's gone too!

Enjoy the video and all its quirks.  It took me 2 hours to upload!  Crazy!  Try a hidden binding mini, they are lots of fun!

 Have a wonderful day!

50th Southwest Anniversary

I decided it was time to try my hand at the Cricut Craft Room.  When I got there, to my delight, there was a "use it free" cartridge called Southwest.  There is also a contest for the cartridge as well that ends on the 21st of March.    All I can say is, "Thank you PC!  Your timing is impeccable!

My aunt and uncle's 50th wedding anniversary is coming up.  My aunt loves everything Native so the release of this, plus free usage, couldn't have happened at a better time!  Her favorite colors are red and blue.  Her favorite animal:  the bald eagle.

I had originally wanted to get this done for the CricutFANatics blog, but life did not allow for that.   Do stop by there and check out the great ideas going on over there!

Here is a better look at the chunky charm I made to go onto the book.

 I made the heart, the eagle and 50 from Southwest using Poly Shrink.  I cut them out with my Cricut and then colored them and then melted them with my heat gun.  To the 50 I added some Judikins glaze and then sprinkled some glitter to match the 50 I made on the album.  I learned how to make chunky charms from the girls at the Cricut message board trades.  (I completed a full year of swaps!  So fun!)

The Oh Happy Day, the eagle and the border were cut from SW cartridge.  The book shapes were cut from Elegant Edges.  (One of my all time favs!)  The 50 was cut from the Gypsy Font, which is another free cart available on the Cricut Craft Room site.  The flowers were sprayed with copic markers to make them a better match.

These are the first two pages.  The heart vase and the love label were cut from SW cartridge.   I took one of the little hearts that were cut out from the border image and added it to the top button.

 The next two pages.  The arrows were cut from SW cartridge.  I added some hearts to them and also along the borders of the tag.  I covered a tag I didn't like with washi tape that matched the theme I was doing the mini in.

 The next two pages.  The one on the left is my favorite one in the mini.  I love the motion of the page with the bling and the man's motion looking like he is playing a song for them! 

 The next two pages.  The butterfly is from SW cart also.  The tags were cut from Gypsy Wanderings. I found the little pockets on the right hand page in my stash while I was looking for something else.  I thought they went really well.  She can put little treasures/notes in them.  Happy find!  The flowers and black pearls are Prima. 

 The next two pages.  I cut the Mr & Mrs and the feather from SW.  The little hearts are the left overs from the first couple pages with the heart border.  I love the feather!  It is so sweet!

 The next two pages.  I used Gypsy Wanderings for the mat on the left and SW for the border on the right.  The butterfly is from Recollections.

 The last two pages.  I added the rest of the left over arrows to the right page and another border from SW.  There were so many nice borders!  The mat on the left is from Gypsy Wanderings.

I am super pleased with how the album turned out.  It is definitely in my aunt's style.  She is a hard working woman, but not a frilly one.  She will like it because it is beautiful, but not in that girly-girl look.  She had 5 boys, so she didn't get much use for girly-girl things.  My uncle will like it because she likes it.  (He's good like that!)

The book was bound with my Cinch.

All of the papers were:  cardstock - Bazzill, DCWV for all the designer papers, except the orange swirl and the black swirl - they are 7Gypsies papers.

I didn't buy anything new to build this with.  MamaC (aka Carol) will be so proud!

I really enjoyed this project!

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My first attempt at putting a video on my blog!  Only my second video ever!  

Love, Enjoy the Journey!

A Valentine's Day Card.  I'm sure it would be good for any Sweetheart occasion!

I used Sweethearts Cricut Cartridge for the heart and the couple.  I wish my sweetie and I could have time alone... perhaps in Paris!  Ah, that would be nice!

The papers are Stampin Up! and K&Co.  The stamps are Fiskars (They don't just make amazing cutting products!) and Tim Holtz.   I also used a Cuttlebug embossing folder on the heart.

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Success!

For a young colleague who just passed her exams. 

Cricut cartridges used:  Give a Hoot for the raccoon, Elegant Edges for the frame, Cricut Essential for the zigzag. 

I can tell I haven't been crafting recently and it shows.  It almost always takes me a long time to make a card, but this was a crazy amount of time!  So rusty!

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Twine Jar

I decorated this jar to hold extra embellishments.  It was inspired by the Cricut Circle Blog weekly challenge.  I have been looking at this jar for awhile wanting to use it.  I used twine and tiny glass beads to cover the jar.   I used Cindy Loo for the tag.  K&Co. flowers for the top.  I really like how it turned out!

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I made a non-Cricut card for my daughter's birthday.  Trying to use up some of my stash.  I'm sure I will never use it all! 

Rescued!

I've been "out of commission" for the past month - first my computer, then my camera!  I have made several projects, but posting was impossible.  My camera is still acting up, but the picture is a bit blury, but at least it gives you an idea of what I did. Now, blogger has changed and I have to figure this all out!  Crazy!

At the water slide, my daughter spent a lot of time rescuing the dragonflies.  They got wet and then couldn't fly.  Many died until she arrived.  She dried them out in the sun and then they were able to fly away!  She was very proud of herself!

This was one of the fastest layouts I have ever done.  I saw the bright colors in the picture and literally walked over to my paper stash and picked them up!  I found some K&Co.  dragonflies and flowers.  They were not the right color, but me and my lovely markers (copics this time) saved the day again!   I used almost the entire package.  The main piece of paper is Junkitz, but I don't know who made the other piece of paper.  I painted some of the wavy lines with black paint.  Funny thing is, I didn't realize until after I painted them that my daughter's bathing suit was black with colored waves!  duh!  lol!  I pulled the stickers/sayings from my partially used labels basket. I liked how the second piece of paper also have sew stitches.  These outlined the picture naturally.   I went to sew on the left border to match the ones already on the paper, but alas, my sewing machine decided it wouldn't work for me either!  Well, at least that is three, so I shouldn't have any more electronic gizmos driving me crazy!  I used the roll on zigzag stitch by DaisyD.  It looks pretty good!  Way easier than the machine any old day!  Ha!  to my sewing machine!  lol!

Have a nice day!

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Pretty in Pink

This is a scrapbook page of my daughter when she was younger.  I used a hodge podge of items to accessorize the page.  The words, except pink were a K & Co. set that I colored with a sharpie.  Sharpies are great things.  Easy to change things to the colors you like with them!  I used Rock Princess Cricut cartridge for the skulls along the bottom.  My daughter loved it!  I used some strips of tape to blend things together.  It is such a little bit of a thing, but it sure works to bring elements together!  Everything I used came from what I had.  Some of these items are really old! 

Fairy "Ugly" Papers

My mother was looking at my papers the other day.  She loved most of them, but then saw this one pack by K&Company that she just didn't like at all.  I told her almost anything can look good if you just take the time to work with it.  Here are two cards that I made to show my mother how nice "ugly" paper can be.

This first one has a fairy from the Tinker Bell cart.  I was fortunate enough to not have to make this myself.  I received her in a swap that I recently was part of.  Cricut_crazy_lady gave it to me.  Her colors matched perfectly with the paper!  The tag is a Sizzix cut.   The wood flower, I believe is from Kaiser crafts.

This second one I colored the fairy - Baby Fairy Flora by Mo Manning and put her on an Elegant Edges mat.   I used the same papers on it. 

I like how they both turned out.  So did my mother!  Once I started to use the papers, I liked them! 

Love You A Latte

I made this card for my husband just to let him know I love him.  He remarked that I  even "made it a large!"  The colors were chosen to match his TOGO mug.  I used Love You a Latte and Paper Trimmings for the strip along the bottom.  They looked like little drops of coffee to me.  I had the orange flower border that I added a few rhinestones to.  The "love, you, a" were letters in my stash.  They, like the flowers are flocked.  There is orange polka dot paper and then I put polka dots on the outside base.  Love polka dots!  A couple of staples for a  little more masculinity and we are done!

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Hey Chick!

I made this card for my darling granddaughter.   I used another cart in my journey!  Yahoo!

Wedding Dress Card

Well, this card took waaay more time than I would have ever guessed!  I wanted it to be very elegant, and I honestly feel I got there.  I'm not sure if I should put the title "Congratulations" on it or not.  I don't have to give it to the girl for over a month so I still have time to decide.  I just wanted to put to paper the idea I had as quickly as possible so I didn't forgot it!

The dress is from Tie the Knot cartridge.  When I saw it, I thought of those old fashioned dresses you would see in the movies.  I used Martha Stewart Elegant Cakes cartridge to make the loops.  (See, I told you it was elegant!)  lol! I cut them down and layered, layered, layered!  The 1/4" that I cut off of each, I used to make the quill flowers.  I just cut them to 2.5 - 3" long, coloured the edges blue  and twirled using my CuttleBug quilling pen.  I used Pagoda cartridge and cut out a batch of apple blossoms for the petals under the flowers.  The petals needed to be tiny and these worked great!  I added ribbon and a flower brad to the center of the dress.  I glittered the upper portion of the dress.

Okay, I have to say, I'm tooting my own horn over this dress!  It came out perfectly and I absolutely love it!  It's so cool when an idea comes together!

I put a couple of layers of paper, the blue designer paper under the dress is K & Co.  The white cs is from Bazzill and the dark blue is SU!  The white layer I embossed with my CB.  I made the roses and leaves on the top from Pagoda.  I then topped them with glitter mist I made with water and Perfect Pearls and glued them on.

I used one more in my way to using all of my carts:  Pagoda

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