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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Cricut Cards for Kids

Here are my Cricut cards:

I made two of the Hang in There cards and two of the You’re so Cool Popsicle Cards.  Each card was made for a specific child and contained a personal greeting.  If their blog talked about something they liked I tried to tailor the card to their likes.  I hope they bring smiles to their faces!

 

Blogger will not let me post all of the labels, so I thought I would post the cartridges used here...

alphalicious, calligraphy collection, create a critter, cuttin up, dreams come true, everyday paper dolls, graphically speaking, gypsy wanderings, hannah montana, hello kitty greetings, indie art, lacy labels, life's a beach, paper doll dress up, paper pups, pooh and friends, preserves, zooballoo,

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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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Hoppy Valentine's Day Dad!

My first attempt with an acetate card...I like the way it turned out but it is impossible to keep the plastic clean!  Hopefully it is manly enough for a valentine to a father :).  Frog is from Paisley cartridge.  Writing on inside is welded in Gypsy using Cursive 101.

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My blinged out BUG!!

So, I was on the Cricut message boards New Years Eve just browsing when I saw a post "I double dare you...". Well, who can turn away from a double dare?! Well, the challenge was to decorate (I would rather call it bling) your Cricut, aka Bug. Well! I LOVED the idea. As most of you know, my screen name is scubascrapper so I had to come up with something that would go with me and my personality. My two favorite hobbies are scrapping (of the paper kind, not the fighting kind, LOL) and diving, so I decided I needed a "diving bug". I designed this cute little guy on my Gypsy using GBS, LL, LAB and FF and cut him out of green vinyl and then brown for the layers. I blinged him out with some rhinestones (eyes) and stickles (bubbles, antenna, and mask). I used AMU for my name. I used three layers on the name, not sure if you can see that well, but I tried to get a close up... my shadow blackout layer is pink, then I did the shadow layer in brown and I used green for the internal pieces of the outline feature.

I hope you like it! Maybe you should consider blinging your bug :)!


OK, OK, I know that snorkeling and scuba diving are different, but do you know how hard it would've been to make a tank and a regulator?! I think this is just giving everyone the basic idea...LOL! It really doesn't matter as long as your bubbles go up, so....BUBBLES UP!

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Christmas Craft Projects

Here are some of the craft projects I have done for Christmas presents...

Glass ornaments:
As you can see here, I have two types of ornaments. I took clear glass ornaments and used the floor wax technique to adhere glitter to the inside of the ball. For the frosted glass ornament I cut snowflakes using the Cricut and wonder film from PK Glitz adhered them to the outside of the balls and "glitzed" with PK Glitz glitter.



better pic of the frosted glass ornament. I just love the way these
turned out!



And here we have a glass etched mug and canister. The mug has been filled with a cellophane bag of marshmallows and some chocolate covered peppermint sticks. The canister is filled with homemade hot chocolate.

It was really hard to get good pics that show the etching...I hope you can see it.



maybe this shows up better...


Thanks for looking! I hope you have enjoyed and been inspired by something. If you have questions, please feel free to ask!

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Birthday Present for 5 Year Old Niece

So my outgoing, energetic five year old niece tells me about a month ago that she wants a “pink guitar with real strings” for her birthday. Well, after searching around I found a guitar that was the right size and the right price (I mean she is five!). Unfortunately it wasn’t pink. As I was standing there contemplating whether I wanted to spend the time spray painting it and worrying it may damage the instrument, a light bulb came on! PINK VINYL!!! BUTTERFLIES, FLOWERS, GLITTER!!! CRIIIIIIIIIIIIIICUT!!!!!! That was it! I knew exactly what to do to girly it up. Here is what I came up with…I thought it would be cool to put her first and middle name on it too…isn’t her name the perfect rock star name? Emma Raye, rocker chick. Isn’t it the coolest?! She sure thought so. Scored some points for Uncle Alan and Aunt Brandi! Here are before and after pics…

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