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A very good friend of mine's daughter had her first child and since her daughter has a special place in my heart I wanted to make her something special.  I had seen some really cool ideas on Pinterest and decided to combine the two and make this: 

I purchased a set of four 6 x 6 canvas frames and chose four pictures from the newborn session photos taken by the baby's other grandmother (who is an amazingly talented photographer!). I printed the photos onto tissue paper, applied a layer of Mod Podge to the blank canvas, applied the tissue paper and aonther layer of Mod Podge. I didn't worry about the bumps, ripples and small tears in the tissue paper because I wanted it to have a hint of a vintage/distressed look. I painted the sides with black acrylic paint hitting the edges ever so lightly to maintain the integrity of the look I was going for. I allowed that to dry for 48 hours and cut some vinyl lettering using my Silhouette Cameo (font used is Typewriter), applied it using clear contact paper to ensure it was centered and applied another layer of Mod Podge. It was so easy and I totally love how they turned out. I can't wait to give them to her; I just hope she likes them as much as I do, hahaha!!


I gave her this card a couple of weeks ago since I wasn't sure how long it was going to take me to get the present done. I made the card with my Cricut and used Nate's ABC's (dog, ball, wagon), 3 Birds - Life's a Party (giraffe), Simply Sweet ("baby boy"), 3 Birds - Straight from the Nest ("welcome" - I cut off to the nest). The inside sentiment was stamped using Stampin' Up's stamp set titled God's Blessings and it read "A baby is a gift from heaven above - bringing joy down to earth, filling hearts full of love." I used Silver Liquid Pearls for the wagon wheels, striping and handle. I used Cinnamon Stickles for the giraffe eyes and nostrils as well as the dog's nose.

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Congratulations!

I made this for a friend who is having a new baby boy.  He is absolutely excited and I am excited for him.  I did not take a picture of the inside sentiment, but it reads “Of all the blessings God sends from above, the one most precious is a boy to love.”

Materials Used:

SU! Cardstock (Bashful Blue, Blush Blossom, Marina Mist)

Bazzill Textured Cardstock

Paper Loft Patterned Paper

SU! Ink Early Espresso

Studio G Stamp – Congratulations Sentiment

Cloud 9 Stamp – Simple Thoughts – Boy (inside sentiment)

Peachy Keen Stamps – Funshine Face Parts & Basic Paper Doll Faces

Martha Stewart Flocking Powder – Swan

Cuttlebug Folder – Spots and Dots

Stickles - Stardust

Cricut Cartridges:

Elegant Edges

George and Basic Shapes

Simply Charmed

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Halloween Mini Album

I have never posted this because I was never impressed with it. I have this clear storage tote that I keep either test projects or projects I have made but don’t really know what to do with. This was my first attempt at a mini album and it is actually from a couple of years ago. Some of you may remember Bugjunkie; well, she inspired the idea and had a tutorial on her blog on how to create these mini albums in Design Studio. At the time I didn’t have a binding machine (I now have two that I have STILL never used – probably need to work on that huh?) so I had it bound at a local printing shop so I didn’t really have much of a say in the binding. Anyway, a month or so ago a good friend of mine was over trying to convince me to participate in a holiday sale. I pulled the box down to see what I had that I could sell and when I pulled the book out she went nuts for it and wanted to buy it. I hadn’t even taken pictures, so I told her that I needed to take pictures and she could have it. She asked me to teach her how to make one, so I told her to save some cereal boxes and then we could spend a day making mini albums. Every time I have seen her since she tells me she won’t let her husby throw away any cereal boxes LOL! I can’t wait to do this with her…I love spending time with her!!

If you are interested in the details of how I made it or would like the cut file let me know and I will email it to you. 

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Cricut Circle - Feeling Gifty Challenge

As I have said in a couple of my past posts, I participated in a holiday sale not too long ago.  While there I had some spa sock cupcakes left over from last Christmas to sell.  They were the socks that didn’t really go with the Christmas colors so I figured they would be useful to give as birthday gifts.  Then, of course I forgot about them until I pulled them out of my project tote.  Although we didn’t have a great turnout, I was able to sell all but one of the spa sock cupcakes.  BUT, I had a request for a special order!!  She paid me in advance and asked if I could find a set of purple socks and a set of green socks and make them for her granddaughters.  One of the granddaughters loves purple, and the other loves frogs.  Well I couldn’t find green socks, but I thought, hey, I can buy any color and then make the cupcake wrapper green and add a frog!  So I did.  Here is what I came up with.

It just so happens that my projects fit with the Cricut Circle’s current challenge “Feeling Gifty” – create a new item that includes at least two Cricut cuts (both of the cupcake wrappers have at least two cuts).

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MPS Challenge #9 - Glitz, Glam & Glitter

I am posting these out of order, because I am skipping to challenges that fit my needs for getting caught up on my crafting LOL.  I know you can see the glam (hehehe) but it is kind of hard to see all the glitz and glitter in the picture, but I promise it's there.  I did the best I could to capture it with the camera.  I am very pleased with how this card turned out.  I have a niece that turned 17 in April; we all went out to dinner to celebrate but I had been traveling for work and hadn't had the time to make anything.  So, I came up with this idea...I hope she likes it :o). 

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MPS Challenge #2 - Kraft Cardstock

Another birthday card.  I was able to use another cartridge I have owned and not used!!  I also challenged myself to use a color combo that was posted by one of MPS’s designers. 

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MPS Challenge #1 entry - Anything Cupcake

I will probably re-take this pic…I really haven’t had enough time to let the stickles dry…

I also challenged myself on this card to use a cartridge I haven't used yet.  The cupcake is from Smiley Cards.

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Birthday Diva!

My youngest niece turned 6 last week (yes, I gave her the card on time, just a little late with the post J).  Last year I gave her this guitar for her birthday.  She absolutely loved it.  In fact a few weeks ago she told me that she had been rockin’ it hard.  I got so tickled.  Being that we call her the drama queen of the family and that she had been “rockin’ it” I came up with this idea for her birthday card: 

Recipe

Paper:

SU! Pixie Pink - card base and Birthday diva

DCWV Rock Star - heart patterned background paper

SU! Perfect Plum or Lovely Lilac  (sorry!) for clothing and shadow for ‘Birthday’

Basic Black cardstock – card base and base cut of the girl
SU! Blush Blossom - skin color

Chrome paper (sorry don’t know the mfg) – Crown layer and guitar handle

Cricut Cartridge(s):

Rock Princess – Brttny, pg 28

Rock Princess – ‘Birthday’ welded and shadowed, on the Gypsy, using the heart font

Rock Princess – ‘Diva’, pg 69

Embellies:

PK Glitz Glitter Glitz, Eggplant – Guitar

Stickles, Magenta – Headband
Stickles, Waterfall - Eyes

Celebrate It Ribbon from Michael’s

Uniball Signo Pen (broad), White for doodling

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Happy Birthday to an oldie but goodie!

My Uncle Rick has a birthday coming up and he has always been into cars. So I saw this really cute older style car on Holiday Cakes (yeah, I know...of all places?!) and I knew I had to use it for him. I used Paper Doll Dress Up for the road and Zooballoo for the grass. The Happy Birthday and to an oldie but goodie sentiments were cut using AR Bonne font with MTC software.  I love how the car came out. I had some "chrome" paper that I used for the detailing on the car and I used Real Red cardstock from SU! and coated it with Glossy Accents to give it that sleek, slick just waxed candy apple red car look. I think he will love it!

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Halloween Treat Boxes

Simple and cute treat boxes.  Frankenstein box idea came from one of my craft magazines.  I designed a file on my Gypsy for the eyes and hair using George.  I made them for my employees and they just loved them!

This Cookie Tower was designed by Kasey’s Creations and was very easy to make.  The cuts were from Happy Hauntings cart.  I made this for the girls I used to work with…they always loved my craftiness (I think one of them (Zhade) misses it ;)).   

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A Birthday Card for my Diving Buddy

I made this for my very close friend and scuba diving buddy, Abbye.

I used the following supplies:

Paper

SU! Cardstock – Bermuda Bay

K & Company  patterned paper - Happy Trails

Scraps for Cricut cuts

Life’s a Beach Cricut Cartridge cuts

Divers @ 2.48

Treasure Chest @ 1.53

Seaweed @ 1.32, 1.12, 1.00

Coral @ 1.95, 1.59, 1.00

Turtle, Fish, Mermaid, Starfish, Seahorse @ 1.00

Fish @ 1.17

Embellishments

Glossy Accents (bubbles, crab, mermaid)

Gold Stickles (treasure chest)

Lavender Stickles (mermaid, seahorse)

Turquoise Stickles (fish)

Yellow Stickles (fish, mermaid’s flower)

Fruit Punch Stickles (coral)

Jolee’s Swarovski Crystals (jewels in treasure chest)

PK Glitz Embossing Powder – Eggplant and Fuchsia (coral), NST Copper (starfish), Crystal (starfish)

Stampendous Embossing Powder – Detail White  (starfish)

And as you can see I had a couple of mishaps.  I accidently cut off the arm of my girl diver…oooops J.  And the boy diver lost his hand in an envelope entry accident, but don’t fret, I found it (only after taking the pictures) and I was able to reattach it! 

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First Christmas Cards of 2010

As usual, I am behind on my posting.  I am trying to catch up tonight.  My mom came for a visit a couple of weeks ago, which just happened to be when a friend has scheduled her  SU! Holiday Workshop.  My mom agreed to go because she enjoys crafting; she just doesn’t participate on a regular basis and doesn’t want to invest the time and money it requires (she’s been there, done that many times in the past – you all know what I am talking about  - when you go out and drop a bundle to buy everything you need to make the latest craft trend,  only to have it last one season and you didn’t even have the time to make it LOL).  I wasn’t sure if she would like making cards or scrapbook pages, but she had a great time and was so proud of her projects.  She made one of the scrapbook pages and gave it to me since she doesn’t have scrapbooks and I gave my cards to her (since I can make more and she can’t).  I think it worked out great.  I wanted to share the cards we made; I think they turned out great!

 

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Picture perfect birthday...

So a really good friend (and fellow scrapper) of mine recently broke down and went on a cruise.  She also likes to take pictures.  While I was looking through them I noticed she commented on one she really liked but said it would’ve been better if there was a drink in it.  You know the picture I am talking about…a shot of the ocean from your lounge chair where you just see feet, ocean and a cool refreshing drink!  Well, that gave me the idea for her birthday card.  I had been wanting to try this technique that I found on the Split coast Stampers website.  Well, I changed it up a little to fit my needs.  Here is my interpretation…

Cartridges used for this card:

Paper Dolls for Everyday - cloud

Forever Young - legs

From My Kitchen – cup *note: straw was cut off

George and Basic Shapes - sun

Life’s a Beach – flip flops

My Community - feet

Preserves - lemon

Stand and Salute – clouds

So I started with a 6 x 6 square card and a 5 ¾ x 5 ¾ layer in which I used chalk to create the sea and sky.  I used my Gypsy to create all of my cuts.  Once completed, I assembled the layers and  chalked the vellum (cup) with red, orange and yellow, then added trimmed the top with a piece of ¼” wide Sticky Tape from PK Glitz and covered with PK Glitz Crystal glitter.  I decorated the lemon slice using a glitter pen and chalk ink to give it a little pizzazz.  I cut a straw down to a proportional size.  I cut the legs down to the size I wanted and inked them, then inked the feet and glued them together.  I then used Fruit Punch stickles to create the toenails.  I then used my Crop-a-dile to punch three holes in the flip flops so I could feed the ribbon through and then I inserted the feet.  I chalked the sun to the color I wanted and I laid the cloud cut outs down and chalked around them and then popped two of them off the paper.  I used a scrap piece of tan cardstock for the sand and tore it, then ran it through the Zyron twice (once on each side).  I put the card layers together and then added my cup and popped up the feet/flops.  Once all pieces were in place I took some sand and covered the tan cardstock….and there you have it…the picture perfect birthday card!

I know this doesn’t really go, but it is something she wanted after I sent her an email about a panda rescue effort in China after their most recent earthquake.  I just aim to please.  He is cut from Create a Critter.  I flocked him and used glossy accents on his nose and eyes.  Isn’t he super cute?!    

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