More Ornaments

Found these on the Martha Stewart Site and they are so easy to make, a bit tedious with all the folding, but easy...love how they turned out...below is the link for instructions on how to make them...I used my cricut and the george cart for the circles, but a circle punch would also work
Holiday Card Ornaments

Chipboard Album - Tennessee Vacation

This was such an exciting project for me to do. It is a 6 x 12 chipboard album, made from 12 x12 sheets of chipboard. I cut them in half on my trimmer, then covered in patterned paper, and then rounded all the corners. Since I had planned on doing a full page album, I had all my pics printed in 4x6 and wanted to use them all, so I had to come up with ways to conceal pictures in the album...and so it became an interactive book. The file folders you see on various pages were welded in design studio and flip down to show more pics. I used a variety of cartridges in this project too, but mostly Graphically Speaking...looooooooooove this cartridge. The go karts were made in design studio as well, as I didn't have a cut that really resembled a go kart. I apologize for so many pictures, but I am thrilled with the outcome and wanted to share the whole project with you all. Thanks for looking

New Cards

Well, managed to complete 2 cards last night at crop night...both for RAQ's Card Challenge over at the Cricut messageboard...hope you like em...

Funny Birthday Card

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Made this for my brother's 60th, which is in a couple weeks (hey, if you are seeing this, you need to leave now, so it will be a surprise when it comes in the mail...lol) Searched forever trying to find a funny sentiment...loooooove this one...also works for RAQ's sketch challenge this week too!!!

Munchy Crunchy Cookie Mix

Made this for the weekly challenge at My Sheri Crafts...this weeks challenge is "Food & Kitchen" projects...came up with this for a impromptu birthday gift for a friend...

List of supplies and instructions can be found at the top of the page, titled Munchy Crunchy Cookie Mix

50 Yr Anniversary Card

Made this card for an upcoming 50th Anniversary on dh's side of the family. The sketch was designed by Raquel (RAQ) Panos...and posted for this weeks challenge on the Cricut mb. Paper is GCD Studios, Zen Collection, and I have a renewed affinity for raffia. It was likely one of the first dimensional embellies I purchased 6 or 7 years ago when this addiction started...and I hadn't used much of it for the last few years, and suddenly I want it on everything...its cheap and really adds a nice touch to projects. Used OA for the 50, BB for the greeting, and G for the circles.

Summer Garden Party Tea Light Covers

Made these for the weekly challenge over at My Sheri Crafts...this week's challenge is "Summer" I love summer...the heat, the pool, the garden, cruising in our 69 convertible...long days, and most of all....NO SNOW!!!!! Ok, back to the challenge...these are so simple to make...1 sheet of 12x12 paper cut into 3 12x4 strips, punched at the top, embossed and then trace around your embossed design with a paper piercer, or a large needle, like I did...glue together and put over a tea light...simple and very elegant in your garden at night for those special get togethers with friends over the summer. If you have a summer project you want to share...feel free to post it here...we'd love to see what you come up with.

New Cards

Made these two cards fro RAQ's card challenge this week...these sketches were so much fun to make, shersimm created them and I totally enjoyed making the cards.

Spring Garden

This is the first in a set of three layouts for my scrapbook this year...Spring , Summer and Autumn Garden...showcasing the many blooms in my garden through out the season. The challenge came from My Sheri Crafts, and the theme was flowers...All the instructions can be found here as well as a supply list for the layout. If you have any flower related projects hop on over to the My Sheri Crafts Blog and post your creations...we would love to see 'em.

Easter Card

Made this Easter card...not completely happy with it...feel like I'm in a creative slump at the moment...ugh...hate when that happens...went to work on some cards today , and....nothing was coming to me...so I decided not to frustrate myself, and moved on to something else. Anyway...the sentiment is computer generated, the "eggs" are tags from George and the bunny is from WW. Thanks for looking

This was another flower card...inspired first by IsabellaWheadon, and then by EdieShaw, who was inspired by my first flower card, then I saw Edie's and was inspired again with the watering can...made the pots and the watering can with scal, yellow flowers are george, sunflower is syi, leaves are storybook, swirls are home decor, and the orange, pink, white and purple flower all cut with scal, font common bullets. Everything was inked and popped up for dimension

Enough Winter!

Made this card for RAQ's challenge this week. We got about 8" of snow last night, and today my dh and I were driving around enjoying the pretty scenery, and I began thinking about all the people on the east coast who have gotten so much snow, and this card idea came to me. Behind the "winter" is a spring scene that can be viewed when you lift the flap up. This was so much fun to make, and reminded me (a summer lover) that winter will soon come to an end. Carts used: Home Accents (snowflakes), SYI (sunflowers, winter, spring, tree, snowman(I think) ), Zooballoo (grass) scal for tiny flowers and other fonts, George (circles on tree) Snow layers were embossed manually with Fiskars shape boss and inked with light blue chalk ink. Cut the 3 circles on the tree at 1" and inked and layered them on top of the tree. This was such a fun card to make.

Birthday Card

5x5 Birthday card...tree is from SYI and sentiment from George, swirl is from Home Decor

Tim Hortons Mug of Tea Card

Was inspired by someone (forgot who) on the cricut mb...I didn't have a mug on any of my carts. so I made one in George...(gonna try to upload the .cut file for you over to the right) I hope it works. Anyway, I saved the tag from a tea from Tim's ( as we go almost every night and added it. Tfl!!!