Personalized lantern cards

I really enjoy making Christmas cards that are more personal than ones you buy in a store. I love that with my Cricut and a printer I can easily do that. Last year, I made paper ornaments. This year, family names on a lantern.

I also LOVE seeing my paper ornaments on my friends and family's Christmas trees! It warms my crafty heart.

Elk Christmas Card

I wanted to create some nature-type Christmas cards this year. I was trying to use Banff National Park as my inspiration. One animal commonly found animal in Banff is elk. I just love this circle image and think it would make a beautiful floating ornament. I was so impressed with how my Cricut Maker cut this intricate cut!

I cut out a circle in my base card just to add a bit of pop and heat embossed my sentiment for some shine.

Humbug - a Winnipeg Christmas Card

This is very much a card for those who live in Winnipeg, Manitoba. One Christmas symbol that is iconic in our city is an apartment balcony with the word HUMBUG in red Christmas lights. I remember this from 40ish years ago and the tradition is still going strong with the new apartment dwellers in the building. (Was it written in the rental agreement??) For this card, I recreated the balcony by making a bridge style card. I found a lights-type of font online and cut the bottom layer in red glitter paper. I used acetate to secure the balcony railing to the side folds.

Now... here's hoping people understand my card.

BOO Bear Halloween layout

Our dog Chloe loves this stuffed bear that she got last Halloween from her grandma! This paper by Simple Stories is perfect for this layout because it already has the word BOO printed on it. I added the tag and cut BEAR out with my Cricut Maker. I had our daughter stitch on the tag for a bit of matching detail. I also cut out the spiderweb to add some spookiness.

Glow in the Dark Cricut Vinyl

Zoom costume Halloween layout

Yes, I dressed up as a Zoom app page last year. Our Zumba Halloween party was virtual so I figured it would be funny.
Cricut materials bundle

Haunted Halloween layout

Our daughter loves the store Spirit Halloween. We always visit every fall so I was so happy for her when she got hired there as her first job! I resisted taking a picture of her at work but took this one instead of her entering the store. For this layout, I used print and cut for the logo and I also journalled with a Cricut pen. I just love making Halloween scrapbook pages!

Cricut Maker 3 bundle

Spider Web Halloween layout

For this layout, I used a Cricut file and cut it out with different patterned papers using my favourite Design Space functions - contour and offset. I enlisted our daughter to stitch a bit on the paper for an added detail.

Cricut Vinyl

Canada Day layout 2021

Happy Canada Day!
This layout features an Indigenous Canada flag. I downloaded this free printable image to Design Space and cut it as a cut file. The flag is available
Here
All of the printed paper and stickers are from Creative Memories. Creative Memories has some fabulous Canadian collections!

Have a wonderful day!

Some people make your life better card

I was asked to make a card with these sentiments on the front and in the inside. That was challenge number one. To cut out the letters on the front, I actually used the negative cut and just had to glue the insides of the letters. For the inside sentiment, I did a print and cut. Challenge number two is that the card needed room for up to 100 signatures BUT it needed to be small as the wonderful recipient is moving across the country. To facilitate this, I made it a multiple page card, kind of like a mini album. I love the end result and I hope she does too!

Click here for my Design Space link.

Graduation 2022

I love celebrating graduations! This year we have a few in our family and I am more than happy to make them cards. Here is my Design Space file for this side-edge square card I created.

Side Edge Graduation card

I used a Cricut pen for the year and a scoring stylus for the fold.

Wordle Valentine

Anyone playing Wordle every day? The hubs and I do. This is a fun card anyone could personalize especially if your Valentine's name or nickname has 5 letters. There are many love-type words with 5 letters such as honey, cupid, crush, flame, bride, adore, loved, heart, hubby, groom etc.

Here is my Design Space FILE but I accidentally used rectangles instead of squares so I had to be extra careful lining everything up. It's not perfectly straight but I'm very happy with it and I know the hubs will love it!