Topiary, Topiary, oi, oi, oi!

My daughter showed me a picture of a round ball with paper flowers on it and asked if I could make it.  I said, "sure".  What she didn't tell me at the time was she wanted 10 of them and the wedding was only a couple of weeks away!  I was working full-time to boot!  Yikes!  Silly girl thought she could hand punch these flowers!  I told her absolutely no way on God's green earth would I do that.  There are too many flowers to cut! (3280 to be percise!)  Can you imagine cutting that many out by hand?  I think not!  We only ended up with 9 as with such short notice, we simply could not find enough of the same beads!  She figured I could "whip them up in an afternoon"!  She helped for a bit and then, after a couple of hours, decided it was too much work! 

The flowers are from Mother's Day Boutique.  The viny images are from MS Elegant Cake (Yes, yes, I know I use that cart a lot!) and Paper Trimmings cartridges.  Some bling, ribbon, lots of spray paint, spanish mosh, a zillion hours later and tada!  They are done! *huff*  *puff*  Just in the knick of time!  I got them done last night and the wedding is tomorrow!

 

The purple flowers were cut at 1.1" and the white ones were cut at 1" and all of them had to be curled!  My trusty Cake tool worked for that!  

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Mom

I used Mother's Day Boutique cartridge for all of the flowers - a flat one and a rolled one and put them together.  I inked the edges and added glimmer mist.  I added some little white flowers and added pearls to the centers to make it look more like a bouquet and add interest .   I cut out the scalloped border at the bottom from MS Elegant Cakes (welded with my Gypsy of course!).  The different leaves are from Cricut Essentials . I should say that I "think" they are because these were in my stash and I have also used the centers of leaves for them as well from another cart.)  I used a little black paint to add to the splashed look of paint in the picture.  7Gypsies ribbon tape and Tim Holtz paper tape.  I went to add something to the bottom, but I found it was too distracting and took away from the focal picture.  The frames in the upper right corner of the picture are from Glitz.   A few extra buttons, a saying from my stash and voila!  I am done! 

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Quorra

Sorry bloggers that I have been MIA.  I assure you I have been busy working and crafting too!  I will try to get several postings done this week to show you what I have been up to. 

Here is a layout that I did awhile ago of my daughter at Halloween.  I want to post more layouts as people have asked to see more.   The layout is simple, but I wanted to ensure the focus remained where it needed to be.  I used Martha Stewart Elegant Cakes for the font and Mother's Day Bouquet for the flowers.  I found beads on a string at my local dollar store. My mother thought I was crazy when I bought them, but decided she would buy some too figuring that if I came up with an idea for them she wanted in!  lol! 

My daughter looked really good that day.  Her dad worked a lot of hours getting her shirt done.  It had wires on it that lit up like Quorra of Tron.  It was no easy task finding that thin light tubing!  She had a power pack that she turned on.  In these pictures you can not see the glow.  I did her hair and makeup.  She got a ton of compliments, mostly by boys because they knew who Quorra was and were very impressed that she did too, and that she glowed!  The girls loved her hair and make up.  Go figure!  lol!  She loved how she looked and had a little strut that day!  She was disappointed that the only close up of her face was the one that she decided not to smile! 

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Valentine's Cards & Boxes

I made these cute little boxes from Sweet Tooth Boxes.  I was a little intimidated, but they actually went together very nicely, and to my surprise, really quickly!  I found that by cutting the tops at 10.4 inches instead of 10.5 inches it fit just a little nicer.

My grandson's card and box.  Mini monsters cart (for the obvious) and A Child's Year for the mat.

My granddaughter's card and box.  Hello Kitty Greetings and Martha Stewart Elegant Cakes carts used.  

!!!!THE HELLO KITTY SET WAS "PROJECT OF THE DAY" FOR THE CRICUT BLOG!!!  

The kids already got them as my granddaughter is sick and missed getting to sleep over.  They were pretty pleased with what we made.

My daughter and I made delicious lemon cupcakes and frosting.  These are some of the cupcakes my daughter (12yrs) made.  They were her first attempt and I think she did pretty good.   I love the little paws on the fish bone cupcake!  lol!

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Feeling Blue?

I made card for a colleague that is just not feeling up-to-snuff.  The inside has a lot of cuts of different animals to represent "the gang", but I forgot to take a picture of that.  Oh well, the recipient really liked it! 

Celebrate

I am finally starting to get some scrapbooking done here and there.  I found this picture in my craft room and decided to get it done.  I started with this wonderful piece of paper and the design just took on a life of its own.  I matted the picture with a cut from Elegant Edges and then a small doily.  I then reached for my Pagoda cart as I knew there was a nice blossom on there that matched my paper.  Wow, did it ever!  I was tickled pink!  I then added some more flowers from my Prima stash.   It just needed that extra kick.  I then added some stickers and brads.  Yep, that was better, but still not enough.  I added a layer of ribbon to the bottom, and then another, and attached them with the Tim Holtz mini staples.  Well, now the top of the page needed something.  So, I grabbed my MS Elegant cake cart and made the top border.   I then needed to anchor it, so I added a ribbon there as well.  Ah, much better!  I added the "Celebrate" bling and it felt complete.  Wow, am I slow at scrapbooking but I love the results!

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Run for the Border!

I made this Thank you card for my sister.  She made me a very lovely mini album.  I liked the Tim Holtz distressed sticker with these two girls on it and chose it for my beginning.  Since I know my sister likes mini envelopes, I made one from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More.  Yep, she loved it and immediately asked which cart I made it from!  lol!  I also wanted to put a border on it so I could use it for the Cricut Weekly Challenge.  The border and "Thanks!" is from Martha Stewart Elegant Cakes.  The flower is made from Flower Shoppe cart.  I made the card antique looking because that is what we are!  lol!

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Tic Tac Toe Entry

I was really excited to do the Cricut Circle Blog challenge!

I found this mirror at a yard sale for $2.00!!   I knew I wanted to do something with it as soon as I seen it. My dear, sweet mother said to me, "Honey, you know you can get a new mirror quite easily to replace that old one!"  Ha, ha, ha!  Silly girl!  That's the charm of it!

When I saw the Cricut challenge, I perused over the Tic Tac Toes.  I originally wanted to use a different set of three, but when I got the mirror, I changed to:  1.  Use a Cricut cut flower.  2.  Use buttons.  3.  Make a ruffle.

The flowers were cut from Mother's Day Bouquet.  I used a piece of ugly paper (as always!  It's either that or scraps only!)  I wanted to make more of them because I love how they look, but I really could not recall what it looked like before I cut it so I was not sure if I had another piece!  lol!

I used the inside of a leaf from Straight From the Nest for the pine needles.  I used Cricut Essentials (boy, I'll say Essential!) for the other leaves.  I love that leaf!  I used to use  punches I bought, but I can make a lot with the Cricut at one time, I know they will cut properly and I can store the extras for later!  I cut the pine needles out of a 12x12 piece of card stock and leave them all on the sheet of card stock and pull them off as I need them.  It's fabulous!

I used DCWV, MME and Tim Holtz papers.  I'm not sure who made the tag.  The Monogram D, I believe is 7Gypsies.  The beautiful buttons I also got at a garage sale... CHEAP!    So blessed!  You can't see the two on the ruffle I made.  I tried to take a picture of this, but wow, it's hard to take a picture of a mirror!  lol!

I have one of those flourishes of bling.  I think they look beautiful, but omg what a nightmare to take them off of their acetate and put them on.  Any tips on that would be great!  The tassel bling was from a yard sale.  It is gorgeous!

The clock was fun!  I punched out one of the clocks from the TH paper pack.  I used Glossy Accents and secured it to a large Fragment piece.  The metal hands are picture turns/secures.  The outer metal piece is an ear ring (yep, that's right!) that I cut and added a button (from the yard sale!)

The doilies are from MS Elegant cake.

The ruffle was dollar store ribbon that you would use to wrap a gift with.  I put dollar store ribbon on it and yard sale buttons.

There are other assorted treasures on this from various places.  My darling hubby was tickled pink when I used a bottle cap from his favorite pop!

I am very happy with how this turned out.  I think it is exquisite!  All told, I probably spent $5 - $10 (max!!!)  for what  I will be displaying proudly in my home, and then given to my little girl for a gift one day.  I might never have made this if I wasn't wanting to enter that contest!

I also used another two carts in my journey!

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Spring Banner

Hello there!

I made this Spring Banner because, as many of you may know, I am SICK OF WINTER!!!  I needed a little Spring to make me feel less blue.  This is a fun addition to the house.  My darling husband knows I'm feeling "blach" because of the long Winter season and purchased me some real tulips to brighten up my kitchen.  Wasn't that sweet?!  I sure thought so!

I found this to be a lot harder than it should have been.  Ever have one of those ideas that just click, only to find out they are a pain in the butt to do?  Yep, this little pretty was it!  I really like the final result though, so all in all, I guess it was worth the work.

I used FIVE carts I have not used in awhile!  That is awesome on my quest to use all of my carts.

Hope you like it.

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Another Bookmark

I made this bookmark for the little girl who borrowed my daughter "Sisters Grimm".  We have now begun the second book in the series.

Her favorite colors are black, pink and lime green.  The word READ is cut from MS Elegant Cakes and glittered with onyx glitter.  Love that glitter! I used the peacock CB folder on the white paper.  Her mother makes beautiful jewellery so I'm a little nervous about the poor attaching quality of the little bobbles I added.  Maybe she can teach me how to do jewellery so I can do more with my embellishments!  Oh well, bookmarks aren't supposed to last forever!

I'm glad crafting warms your heart because, "Baby it's cold outside!" -30C with the wind chill.  BRRR!

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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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Guest Book

I made this pen and guest book for my boss's daughter who is getting married in April.  It took me forever since I have been struggling with being sick, I just can't seem to get much done.  She is a gorgeous girl, but not a "girlie girl".  She loves sports, and likes to keep things simple.  (As you can tell by her invite - the first picture)  I wanted to go "all out" but didn't think she would like too much "fluff".  Her mother chose the dark, hand made paper to make the book from.

I'm excited to have it done because I used two more carts in my quest to use them all this year!!!  This makes 38 used since September!  I used my new Martha Stewart fringe scissors on the larger heart.  I just got them last night.  I used DCWV Formal Affair paper for the inside of the heart and MME paper for the stars.  I also added glitter to the stars and pearls to the center of them.  The beads for the pen I got from a friend from work on Friday.   She knew I liked the little tiny jar that the beads were in, but not the beads.  Who knew they would work out so perfectly for something I just was about to make?  I used the whole container of the blue beads, so now I also have the empty jar too!  Woo Hoo!

Wow, I really need to learn more about photography!

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