December 25th Gift Tags

Hi Everyone!

Just wanted to pop in and post some gift tags I made over Thanksgiving weekend.  I was able to make them at my Mom's house while we prepared our "second" Thanksgiving. Whew...we had a lot of turkey! Mom had some great crafty supplies - some new to me:)

The tag was cut using the Tags, Bags, Boxes and More Cartridge

Tag - approx 3"

Cricut Cartridges - TBBM & Plantin

Paper - DCWV, Recollections & Bazzill

Die Cut - My Creative Time

Banner Die - Lil Inkers Stamps

Sentiment - My Creative Time

Ink - Jenni Bowlin

Raffia

Challenges

Creative Inspiration - Gift Tags

Paper Playtime - Christmas Colors

BBTB2 - Make a Gift Bag or Gift Tag

CWC - Anything Holiday with Red and/or Green

Everyday is an Occasion - Link Party

Hogs & Kisses

Hi Everyone!
Wow, time is zooming by.... I wish it would slow down just a tiny bit :) I made this card for a friend who loves pigs. I think she'll like it. I saw a few challenges and took the opportunity to make her a card. Have a GREAT weekend everyone!

I welded the two pigs together using my gypsy.

Card - 4.5"

Cricut Cartridges - Just Because Cards & George

Paper - My Minds Eye

Twine - The Twinery

Brad - KI memories

Ink - Tim Holtz

Stamp - My pink Stamper

Challenges:

Bitten by the bug - Feature a Farm Animal

Krafty Girls - Shape challenge

Cooking with Cricut - BFF Bingo  - I chose stamp, ink, diecut

You make me proud!

Hi Everyone!
Hope you all had a SUPER weekend. Wow, the weekends just zoom by.... 
So I fell in love last week. Do you want to know with what??? BURLAP! LOVE IT! I bought mine from Liz's Paper Loft Boutique  take a minute and stop over and check out all the goodies. I used two of her products on my project.
I made this little bag for my son... I know, I know it has a flower on it but he won't mind :) We are so proud of him!! He will begin a new journey at Chico State in the Fall.   

The Burlap & Hemp Twine is from Liz's Paper Loft Boutique.

Bag - Approx. 6" Tall

Cricut Cartridge - Plantin Schoolbook

Paper - My Minds Eye & K&Co.

My Creative Time  - Rolled Flower Die

Button - MM

Chipboard Sticker - K& Co - Amy Butler

Challenges:

My Creative Time - Throwback Thursday (color challenge)

Cooking with Cricut Graduation/ End-of-school-year

Cardz TV -You DID it!" Make a card for graduation using any cartridge(s) and using any colors you’d like.

Scrapalicious USA - Happy Graduation

Paper Issues - Canvas and Burlap

Jaihart - Link Up Party

Mother's Day Gable Box

Hi Everyone!
Hope you had a fantastic weekend, ours was fabulous! I wanted to share a gable box I made for Mothers Day.  I found a pack of 3 gable boxes at Target in the dollar bins, super good quality for $1.  I made this for a friend of mine that is coming by tomorrow and I just wanted to give her a little something. I put a few baked goods and a gift card inside.

The one thing I wanted to share on this was the bow.... I have lots of satin ribbon which I love!! but sometimes I feel like it looks plain, so I tried stamping on it and it came out great! I used MS ink and a hero arts polka dot stamp.

Cricut Cartridges - Sweet Treats and Gypsy wanderings

Paper - KI Memories

Brads - KI Memories 

Challenges:
Cooking with Cricut - Mothers day gift ideas
Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Flowers
Little Scrap Pieces - Fun Friday Challenge Happy Mother's Day
Docerela Creations - Mother's Day

Eat Cake...Cupcake that is

Hi Everyone!
Hope you are enjoying your day! I'm sharing a fun little card I made for SIL. I made it for a few challenges too. Have a GREAT day everyone!
Challenges:
Mojo Monday - Sketch
Cooking with Cricut - Bling, Bling & More Bling!
Crafty Ribbons Challenge - YELLOW, PINK & ORANGE
Little Scrap Pieces - Use a Bow

Card - 5"

Cricut Cartridge - Simply charmed

Paper - ALL SCRAPS (YAY)

Ribbon - Celebrate it

Stamp - ??

Machine stitched

Friends stick together

Hi Everyone!
Our family sure had a tough week. Last Saturday we lost a very special man in our lives, my best friends father.  My BF and I have been friends since we were little girls. I've known the family for almost 30 years. He was so full of life and such a wonderful Dad. My family will miss him terribly but we are resting easy knowing he is with his wife (or as he called her his bride) now and no longer missing her.
SO with that, I have some catching up to do....Blog and home. I know I missed some awesome things over the week and I really have been wanting to say thank you to my sweet girls that gave me the Versatile Blogger award.

Jessica - Chick n Scrap

Sherrie - Sherrie Scraps with Passion

Amy - Redheaded Crafter

These girls are my daily inspiration and if you need a creative boost, click on the links and create away!

Jessica, Sherrie, Amy, THANK YOU so much I feel so honored that you recognized me :)

I started creating this card before last week and I finished it today. I really wanted to make something fun, springy & simple as I only had a little time. So here's my version of of a Peeps card.

The peeps were created using my gypsy and the doodlecharms cartridge. I  used the bunny face cut and a circle. I welded the circle to the bunny head and voila - PEEPS I hope you get the sentiment. Peeps are sticky..... get it :) You know something Peeps aren't very good, but my BF loves them and I bought her some and I'm giving her this card. I know she'll smile. We have a silly sense of humor.  I've been with her this last week just supporting and taking care of her. That's what friends do...they stick together!!!

Challenges:

Krafty Girls - Easter Challenge For Peep's Sake!

More Than Favors - Easter/Spring theme

Cooking with Cricut - Make me Laugh

Hiding in my Craftroom - Anything goes

Card - 4.25" x 5.5"

Cricut Cartridge - Doodlecharms

Ribbon - Little Scrap Pieces

Paper - Scraps

Ink - Martha Stewart

Glitter Glue

Sentiment - Printed

Eat Cake....

Hi Everyone!

I have a yummy card for you today, and I'll share my inspiration for this cake too! I came across a few challenges and I just couldn't help myself.  I LOVE chocolate cake!!! 

Challenges:

Reasonable Ribbon #42 is Pink & Brown with Ribbon.

Cooking with Cricut - #74: Birthday - must use cake, cupcake and/or balloons

DL Art - Anything Goes

Cardz TV - Anything Goes

So I was really craving chocolate cake and starting looking through the internet and I found this yummy looking piece of cake. So I decided since I didn't have time to go out and purchase all the ingredients and then bake it, I would use it for inspiration for making a birthday card! 

If you're interested this came from Southern Living and you can click HERE for the recipe. This is on my list of things to bake :)

Card Recipe

A2 Sized card

Cricut Cartridge - Sweet Treats

Paper - M&MBI, Recollections, & MM

Stamp - Studio G

Flocking - Martha Stewart

Glossy Accents

Jute Twine

CWC Challenge Winter Warmies

Hi Everyone!

I saw the challenge over at Cooking with Cricut and it looked so fun! Its a winter warmies challenge. The challenge this week should be all about the way we keep warm during these cold days. From mittens and scarves to Hot Cocoa and more! There isn't one thing in our house that gets more use in the winter than my fireplace. I created this card to look just like my fireplace.  DIY tip.... Last year I painted some old black frames (just the frame no glass) and hung some ornaments in them. This is such an EASY Holiday decor that looks pretty.  You can use old ornaments of different sizes and paint and glitter them, add bows, ribbons, etc... It's a fun project,

OK back to the card, most of the images came from the Joys of the season cartridge and Jolly Holidays. All of it was designed on my gypsy for sizing purposes. The paper was all scraps (yay for me).  Just a fun little card....

Hope you all have a great night and please stop by tomorrow for my 3rd week of giveaways. It's another one of my favorite things!!

Turkey, Turkey, Gobble, Gobble

Hi Everyone,


Just wanted to make sure I posted this before Thanksgiving.  I created this card for all of the awesome Thanksgiving challenges. This adorable little Turkey (or at least part of him) is from the Cricut Create a Critter cartridge.  The feathers are of course part of a rosette. All of the paper is from a fall recollection pack and the ribbon is from Micheals, and that Peachy Face is PK-754 Critter Faces SET A Medium

Hope you had a wonderful weekend!

Challenges:
Fantabulous Cricut Harvest blessings cricut crawl - Use the colors Red, Orange and brown
Die cuttin Divas - It's Turkey Time
More than Favors Thanksgiving Theme
Cooking with Cricut - Lets talk Turkey - Must use your cricut in some capacity
Papercutz Challenge - Let's talk Turkey - make a card, LO or craft project for Thanksgiving, using a stamped, digital stamp or Cricut cut image of a turkey!

A Candy Apple for you!

Hi Everyone!


Wow! I've been busy working...which is good but I miss my "Me" time.  I have made quite a few projects this past week but I've been getting home after 6:00pm every night and I just don't like how the projects photograph using indoor light. So here is one project made for the CWC Challenge - Fruits, Cornucopia, or Harvest. Now, my boys have been asking me to make homemade candy apples for years for Halloween and every year we get so busy I just go out and buy a few to hand out to their special friends. So this year I thought ok maybe I'll make some cute tags that will encourage me to make them.....but no go. Well here are the cute tags for another batch of store bought candy apples :)

These cards are about 3" x 3".  I welded two apples together using my gypsy and the Cricut Create a Critter Cartridge.  I just hand cut the caramel drip and added glossy accents.

The tag is from TBBM and the mini popsicle sticks I found at Micheal's in the kids arts & crafts section.

Hope you enjoy your weekend!

Give Thanks

Hi Everyone!

Today I’m sharing my very first easel card.  I saw the Easel Card challenge over at Paper Playtime and I have really wanted to make one and I finally did. I really like the way it turned out and I’m actually  going to use it as a decoration for Thanksgiving. There are so many challenges for Fall, Fall Leaves and Fall colors that I am entering this in quite a few challenges. Hope you all have a great weekend!

Paper Playtime Easel Card

My Craft Spot - Fall Leaves

More Than Favors Wacky Wednesday - Fall Theme

Cooking With Cricut - The Colors of Autumn

My Sheri Crafts - Sew Simple

Easel Card - 5"

Cartridge - Stamping

Paper - Recollections

Ink- Tim Holtz

Ribbon - Celebrate it

Glitter

Thanks Sweetie

Hi Everyone!

Here is a card I made for a friend, guess I had Neapolitan ice cream on my brain :) I kept a few challenges in mind during the creative process.  I hope you enjoy!

More than favors CCCC - Wildcard
Cooking with Cricut - Anything Goes
Paper Cutz Challenge - Use an image of an ice cream cone, popsicle, ice cream sundae or milk shake.
Cricut 360 - Design a thank you card, but it has to be a circle card

Card/Envelope - 4"

Cartridges - Wild Card (Card & Envelope), Simply Charmed (Ice Cream Cone)

Paper - Recollections, DCWV, Scraps

Ribbon - Celebrate It

Sentiment - My computer

White Gel Pen

Hello Friend - Watermelon

Hi Everyone!

I thought I would participate in a couple more challenges.  Cooking With Cricut - Watermelon Challenge & Bitten by the bug 2 - Watermelon.  I just love all of the watermelon cuts, maybe because of the colors. It just make me think mmmm. Here is my super simple entry.

Card - 4.25"x 5.5"

Cartridges - Simply charmed & Indie art (seeds)

Paper - Recollections Cardstock & Printed

Ribbon - American Crafts

Sentiment - American Crafts

Ink - Studio G

White Gel Pen

Memorial Day - Red, White, & Blue

Hi Everyone!

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Here is card created for a few challenges.  Frosted Designs Fabulous-friday-challenge  This week's challenge is to make a card, layout or project with an armed forces/patriotic theme! My Sheri Crafts Challenge - MEMORIAL DAY / VICTORIAN DAY, Cooking with Cricut - Memorial-day-challenge.

OK, so I probably need to explain the wagon... Every year for Memorial day we have a neighborhood block party. When my oldest was young the kids would decorate their bikes and parade up and down the street. When my youngest came along we got out the big red wagon and paraded.  Such fun memories...

Card - 4.25" x 5.5"

Paper - All scraps

Cartridges - Create a Critter & George 

Decorative Edge Scissors - Bell

Ribbon - Micheals

Machine Stitching

White Gel Pen 

Piggy Wishes - Jitterbuggin & CWC Challenges

Hi Everyone!

Wow, what a great weekend we had! Great weather and lots of sports! I did manage to put this card together.  I've had it in my gypsy forever and thought this was the perfect time to use it.  I created the pig using the George cartridge and the wild card cartridge. I stitched the edges of the card with my sewing machine added some buttons and you have this little cutie.  I left the card blank because I have a friend that loves piggies, so I may save it for her Bday or something else!  
Challenges:
JITTERBUGGIN - make a card with a pig on it, use at least 2 different patterned papers, and add some buttons! Any sketch even a shape card is okay. Have fun, use that Cricut and be creative!
COOKING WITH CRICUT - Double take - You need to create a project with the following elements - 2 pieces of cardstock (preferably two different colors), 2 pieces of patterned paper (preferably different patterns), 2 embellishments.

  

Eat Cake

Hi Everyone!

Wow it's cold here! I'm staying inside today! Wow so many fun challenges lately.  I made a card that I will enter in three this week. It's a shaped card from the Sweet Treats cartridge. I ran it through the cuttlebug(swiss dots), stamped "eat cake", added a pretty little swirl from the Wild Card cartridge.  Of course stickles and my trusty white gel pen finish off the card.  One more thing, I tried inking the embossed dots on the card and I smeared it just a little. I still hope you like it!

Challenges:
COOKING WITH CRICUT - Swirls and Twirls
JITTERBUGGIN - Get in shape (Shaped Cards)
CELEBRATE THE OCCASION - "Anything Goes Birthday"

  

Hot Lips - Valentines Card

Hi Everyone!

There are so many great challenges this week.  I made this card in my gypsy a couple nights ago for Momo’s challenge – Make something with the colors black, white, and hot pink.  But, you must have at least one heart on your card.

Cooking with Cricut is also having a challenge to complete a new project with a shadow.  Anything that has a “shadow”

Flaunt it Fridays challenge is asking that we make something with the Indie Art cartridge and the cut choice this week is the Lips.

I am entering this card in all three. Love when it works out like that!

For my card I used the heart card in Wild card cartridge, the lips from Indie Art, and the paper from K&Company daydreams pack. (VERY cute paper).  Of course no lips would be complete without a little bling!

Thank you for looking!

Shelly