Day Five of Christmas Projects - Canada Card

A friend spotted an advertisemnt for fabric in a local store that was similar to this card. It was Christmas and Canada themed. (Not very common up here.) I loved the fabric design so I thought why not make it in paper?

Day Three 0f Christmas Projects - Camper van card

When your friend has a new camping van, you make her card like this! To make this card, I used a colouring image and created a SVG. Therefore, I don't have a file to share. I, then, mixed in some Cricut cuts from Design Space to make it a Christmas-y van.

Day Two of Christmas Projects - Removable ornament

It seems like the cards I made this year are even more personalized than past years, if that was even possible. I had the idea to make a card where the recipient could keep an ornament on their tree, if they wanted. I used the family's name and I layered the ornament with cardstock to give it some stability. I wanted to make it obvious that the ornament was removable, hence the scotch tape inside.

Mad Scientist layout

Our Halloween Zumba class was a blast last year! It's my favourite class of the year because the ladies dress up in fabulous costumes. We didn't take any group photos in 2020 because we were physically distancing though. I did take a selfie of my own costume. I printed off my mad scientist name tag and then laminated it so it looked more official. (Love my laminator)

I designed this file on Design Space. Help yourself!
Mad Scientist layout

I think is the first time I have used googly eyes on a layout!

Graduation 2021 - side edge card with Design Space file

I just love using the new offset feature to create this style of card called a side-edge card. In fact, I am a big fan of all the new updates to Cricut Design Space that have come out in the past few weeks. I have just over a thousand Design Space files saved in all my years of using an Explore. (EEK! I know, so many.) Therefore, being able to group my files in themes or purpose has been fabulous! Everytime I sit down at my desktop I do a bit of grouping of my many files. For example, this card will be added to my collection of graduation cards. Grouping them this way makes it so much easier to find what I am looking for even if it's years later. I will often replicate a design and therefore it's nice not having to hunt and scroll.

Cricut Access Premium

If you would like to make one of these cards, please help yourself to my file. The file uses cuts from my Access Subscription. I do recommend having a Cricut subscription as it gives you endless options that are always being updated and added to. I also appreciate the timely cuts that are added like the COVID-19 designs.

Graduation 2021 by Tracey

Now, onto Father's Day cards!

Bernie Sander’s Mittens

The hubs and I have been laughing all week at the many Bernie Sanders memes. Therefore, I knew I needed to make him a "Bernie-type" of Valentine this year!

This free mitten SVG is actually an earring design posted by Amy Romeu. I cut her fabulous design in cardstock rather than leather and added my own sentiment.

Day Three of Christmas Projects - Tea Towels

I love using heat transfer vinyl on flour sack tea towels. I think it's a great little gift. My sister-in-law is a talented baker who loves to bake and decorate Christmas cookies every year so these are for her.

Both designs are available in Design Space.

Day One of Christmas Projects - Card Designs from Cricut

I don't know about you, but 2020 has been hard for many. Why not make one thing easy, your holiday cards? There are some fantastic ready-to-cut designs in Design Space. Here are just a few examples. How fun are these?

Christmas Projects from 2019

Our province is in lockdown right now so I really have no excuse to get my Christmas cards done. I'm currently procrastinating by rounding up last year's projects.

Our Haunted Home

So, this is a layout about the decor in our home in October. Every October, our daughter pulls out the Halloween bin and decorates the house. She loves this task and I adore seeing what she comes up with. One day, when our kids are older with their own families, I hope they remember the fun we had at Halloween.

Day Five of Christmas Projects - Silent Night

Don't forget all the wonderful Close to my Heart images on Design Space! I love this easy-peasy card.

Day Two of Christmas Projects - Warm Wishes Coffee Card

I actually considered waiting until Starbucks released their holiday cup designs before I made these cards. I love the added touch of the corrugated cup wrap on these cards. The stamped sentiment is from CTMH.

Here are my two design space files for the oval card and coffee cup.

ROUNDED TOP CARD

COFFEE CUP

Anyone else craving a peppermint coffee?? I am a latte!

Day One of Christmas Projects - Nordic Gnome Card

I couldn’t find a gnome in Design Space to my liking so I designed one myself. This style of gnome seems very popular this year in Christmas decor and I just think they are adorable!

Here is my file if you are interested.

GNOME

Thanks for stopping in gnomies!

Close to my Heart cartridges

I have fabulous news for all Cricut Design Space Access subscribers. Twelve (12!!!) Close to my Heart cartridges have been added to our subscription yesterday! Their card making cartridges are amazing. If you are a card maker these cartridges will keep you busy. You will love them! If you haven’t subscribed yet, I invite you to try a month. Please click my affiliate link on the left.

Of course, I need to mention that there are some fabulous Christmas images on these cartridges!

I can’t wait to see what you have created and I am looking forward to playing with ALL these new image sets!

Canada-themed scrapbooking products 2019

Every June, I try and source out Canada Day scrapbooking supplies. Well, and buy them of course!

This is CTMH digital Cricut cartridge featuring the canadian provinces. My consultant is Brandy Lees

This is Great Escape Paper Pack by Creative Memories. My consultant is Shaila.

I also found some new Cricut images this year and a new cartridge! The cartridge is called Fell - Canada and I love it! There is finally a cut for the CN Tower and Niagara Falls! Too bad I already scrapbooked our Toronto trip.

Hopefully, this helps a bit and maybe provides some creative inspiration.

Happy Canada Day 2018!

Welcome to my blog! I love spending Canada Day with my family! I'm THAT Mom that insists on matching shirts, photo ops and then scrapbooking them. Here is one such layout using the We Love Canada cuts on Design Space and the Oh Canada paper.

This layout actually started a few weeks ago, my daughter needed a large maple leaf cut out of paper for a school project. I kept the paper scraps or the negative image thinking maybe I could use it. (Anyone else do this? In my defence, it was nice cardstock...)

Have a wonderful day in Canada or elsewhere in the world!

Canada Day scrapbooking supplies 2018, eh

I am so excited to report this year that there are some new fabulous scrapbooking supplies to commemorate Canada Day! First up, I was playing on Design Space today and look what I found! A new cartridge called We Love Canada! There are only ten images but they are all great. It is included with my Access membership but I am assuming it's free for all next week.

Grab your Cricut and get cutting! Wouldn't these images be great on t-shirts for your family?

There are also 25 free Canada Day cuts on the LOVESVG website.

The next products are from Photo Play Paper Co designed by the talented Becky Fleck. There is a paper pack.

There are stickers, diecuts, stamps and matching dies.

So many great scrappy options this year! Be sure to celebrate our great nation, get out your phones, take some pictures on Canada Day and scrap 'em.

Easter card

I seem to have just realized that Easter is coming up quite quickly this year. (Good Friday is March the 30th.)

The pretty eggs and card base are both in Design Space. I just added the sentiment and layers. "Hoppy" is text written with the write feature and a simple thin Crayola marker.

Are you creating Easter cards this year?

Twelve Days of Christmas Projects 2016

Happy Black Friday! Happy Day after Thanksgiving for my American friends! Starting on Monday, I will be featuring a new Christmas project for 12 weekdays! I love doing this! I feel it helps to put me in a holiday mood to make cards and such for friends, colleagues and family. I tend to make approximately 60 cards each December so I feel the need to make at least a few different designs.

Here is a recap of last year's (2016) projects.

See you all back here on Monday!