Time to Craft!

I went shopping on Friday and came across some great deals! I picked up the Flower Shower Spring Stack from Joann's and some great stamps and ribbons.
I stayed up super late last night and was able to make another video! I hope you enjoy!
Supplies used:
Cricut Expression
New Arrival Cartridge
Corner Rounder
Hole Punch
Eyelet
Ribbon
Stamp
Blue card stock 8 1/2 X 11 cut in half folded in half
Pattern Paper from Flower Shower Spring Stack 5 1/4 X 4

Thinking of you Greeting Card

Wild Card Cricut Cartridge Surprise

I was flipping through the Wild Card Cricut Cartridge and on page 80 found this really cute gift box. It was super easy to put together and it came out great! The first try I used an 8 1/2 X 11 Sheet of card stock and hit the fit to page button on the cricut. This made the largest size possible which came out to be 4" wide by 3 1/4 " Tall by 1/2 deep. I added some vellum paper to cover the cut out, shading, a cute lady bug and it was perfect! I'll use it for a gift card, or fill it with candies. Here is what it looks like:


My second try I used a 12x12 sheet of patterned card stock and hit the fit to page button and the box came out to be 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 x1/2 deep. I stamped it with a thank you stamp and I will fill this with candies to give to someone! So cute and so easy! The great thing is any pattern paper will look great!

Birthday Wishes

One of my best friends is having a birthday, and I wanted to make a special card just for her. She had given me really cute stickers for my birthday so I wanted to use them in her card. One of the stickers said: a pocket full of birthday wishes. I knew right away that I wanted to use that one on her card. Here is what I came up with.
The card is 6X6 the pocket is from a pair of jeans and the letters are from Plantin SchoolBook.

Paper Crimper

I bought this awesome paper crimper after seeing a video on you-tube, I love how you can make unique cards with it. These cards are made with a standard A2 size envelope. And they were a lot of fun to make.
Here is a Thank you card:
Here is the inside:This is a Happy Birthday for a girl:

These are two that I made for a birthday party for two brothers:
I ended up making 18 Birthday party invites for my chicks birthday and they came out so cute! But I sent them all out without taking a photo!

Valentine's Day Already!

It is hard to believe Valentine's Day is right around the corner! So with all the great stamps, paper, ribbons, and fun things the stores are already selling... it is so easy to make super cute and super fast Valentine's Day Cards!

Love Grows... I used the Wild Card Cricut Cartridge to make the card with the window and the tree from Stretch your imagination. I cuddlebugged the Green on the tree for extra. A few hearts for the tree and love grows stamp and its good to go!

Love Note... This is my favorite card. I used the Wild Card Cartridge for the window card, and for the LOVE NOTE, I used the Accent Essentials for the double hearts.

Loads of Love... I used the Walk in my Garden Cricut Cartridge for the wheel barrel and the Hearts from Paper Pups. I hand stamped the load of love with abc stamps from Scrappy cats. ( I'm a terrible stamper!)

Your Perfect... I love my Paper pups cartridge and I Picked up this awesome leather type paper that is already sticky. they cut like butter and the pups cut so nicely. I picked up the heart brads from Hobby Lobby, they were a little smaller than what I thought but they work.

Be Mine... I had the thought of doing a card that looked like the candy conversation heart, I tried three or four different cards but could not get what I had in my mind actually out on a card. This was as close as I could get! I used the ransom Alphabet from Sizzex which completely ruined my plates to my cuddlebug!! (I show that in my next blog!!) the heart is from Paper Pups.

Just Hearts... I love the outline of hearts and the Accent Essentials has great ones, I found the paper at Target in the dollar bins ( love that)

My Take on Hello Kitty Cricut Cartridge

Here is my take on the Hello Kitty Greetings Salutations cartridge for the Cricut Expression. It was one of the cartridges that I wanted the most when I started researching which one to buy because I loved the "chunkyness" of the features. So I was so excited when I finally purchased it. But after using it, it is definitely harder to figure out than the other cartridges. You have to work at finding the correct sizes for each layer and there are so many layers to each one. So I have been using it, and practicing with it and I came to the decision that this cartridge best works when you print the design in a large size!

Here are some of the cards I came up with using the Hello Kitty Cartridge:

This one is the HK1-s on page 29.

The ribbon is from Target.

This is the Strawberry from page 32 strbry-s

This is a Happy Birthday the cupcake is from page 41 cupcak-s

Here is Halloween Hello Kitty from page 70 hk18-s

And here is the Hello Kitty from Christmas and this one took the longest! Its on page 74 hk19-s and the neon green behind the Kitty is what the shadow feature will do:

Stay tuned for my take on Paper Pups!

Happy Birthday!

The Paper Pups is probably my favorite cartridge out of the cricut cartridges that I own (and borrow!) It has so many features and I just love how cute the puppies cut. We made this card using the Happy Birthday Puppy for our friend's birthday.




Watch us make it!

New Arrival!

My friend has been patiently awaiting the new arrival of her baby Scotty. She was flying to another state to pick him up. Well, she brought him home yesterday and he is just so cute! So of course I had to make her a card to mark the special occasion!
This is the inside:

She loved it and said it was going in his baby book! To cute!

I used the Wild Card Cartridge for the Baby stroller, and the Scotty from Paper Pups.

Christmas Plans

It is hard to believe that Christmas is almost here! I scored the DCWV Christmas paper pack from Joanns for $7.99 and have been using it everyday! It has a great selection of patterns and designs. I have been hard at work making lots of Christmas Cards. I will post a few photos now, and I will up load a how to video shortly!

I really love this card! Gingerbreadman is from Stretch your imagination. The paper is from the Christmas paper pack and the ribbon is from Micheals. ( That I scored for .60 on Thanksgiving night!) I embossed the solid cardstock with my snowflake folder from the cuddlebug.

Joanns has great dollar bins and I found a great selection of Holiday sayings clear stamps. This one says Celebrate the Season.

I wanted to make a penguin card and I found a great scal file from:

dscrapbookingroom.blogspot.com

I made my own scal file for the igloo house.

Thanks for looking! And thanks to all our followers on blogspot and utube!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween is just around the corner! So of course we had to make a fun Halloween card! It is so simple! Watch how it is made!

Hello Kitty!!

How cute are these!!

The chicks and I are so excited!!! Because we finally bought the Hello Kitty Cricut cartridge! I love, love, love this one! I love the chunkyness of all the designs and I love the card fearture. We got to work right away!

This is the full kitty face at 5"

These are so cute for Halloween!
We just finished a video and will be uploading it shortly!

Made it Through!

Wow! We made it through the Boutique. I thought it was a great success and we had a great time. I sold alot of cards and had alot of fun! We want to thank everyone that came out to visit us! Thank you for supporting me and the chicks! A portion of our proceeds went to Breast Cancer Research.

Here is part of the booth:

This is the basket I donated for the Breast Cancer Research Raffle:

I love this duckie one, inside is a mud puddle with duck tracks!
I made this giraffe with sure cuts alot.
Lady Bugs are always a great way to go.
Men's Birthday cards are always the harderst!
I love these shadow designs!




My first sympathy Card:

Love these colors:

Thank you!

Yah for School!! RACE FOR THE CURE!!

RACE FOR THE CURE! BREAST CANCER RESEARCH!

School has just started!! It is so exciting! But we are so busy, I find I'm staying up later and later! I am planning on selling my cards for the first time at a boutique that benefits Breast Cancer Research, and we are really excited to be a part of such an amazing cause!! Here are some cards for the boutique!

I love you

Happy Halloween!


Just a Note


Thinking of you

Thanks!Happy BirthdayBabyGift Card HolderYour PurrrfectGet well!