You sham-rock!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Here is a quick treat for my kids. I didn't want to spend too much time on it as they will have eaten it faster than you can say, "leprechaun".

The most complicated part was figuring out rainbow coloured candy. These are Original Skittles and Berry Skittles to get the blue.

Happy Valentine's Day

I hope everyone one is having a lovely
day. Do you still have valentines to create today? My kids chose (with Mom's guidance, of course) the quickest valentines to make ever!



Moustaches are all the rage in middle school this year. Did you know that there is a moustache on the Paperdoll Dressup Cricut cartridge? It's one of the creative features for the pirate paper doll. I just thickened it up a bit with my Gypsy so I could pierce it for the lollipop stick.



The lips are from the Indie Art Cricut cartridge - blackout feature.
So quick to make with no layers!


Here is my valentine for the hubs - inspired by Pinterest and by my Girl Guides who hand-stitched felt hearts this week. I hope he doesn't need that page from the atlas...



Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy St. Paddy's Day

I just had to make some St. Patrick's Day cards. I have seen sooo many cute ones posted this March. I think I fell more in love with this little leprechaun each time I saw a project with him.

To make this card, I used my Gypsy to weld a rectangle to the shamrock border on Paper Doll Dress Up. I then cut out the same border in green. I'm going to link this up a She's a Sassy Lady because she is a pro with the Gypsy and I learn so much from her.
Have a wonderful day!

Movember card

My LSS issued a Movember challenge this month.I have made this card for the challenge.

My project must include the following elements : a mustache, the colour purple, a feminine type paper and a word/sentiment.

This mustache is actually Santa's beard trimmed down from the Paper Doll Dress Up Cricut cartridge. If you are looking for a mustache for your own Movember project, Cricut Craft Room also has a brand-new downloadable mini-cartridge with six different mustache styles. You can find it HERE, look for Mustaches and Glasses. I believe the price is $4.99.

Echo Park Paper also has issued some fabulous 'stache paper. The paper line is called Times and Seasons.

Have a wonderful Movember day!

Lucky

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I made this card for my Grandma because that's how I feel to have her.



I am entering this card for a "I See Leprechauns Challenge" at Creative Cutter Room. Their design team has some super cute St. Paddy's projects posted today!

Two layouts today

We spent a wonderful afternoon getting lost at a local corn maze on Thanksgiving day this year.



I know this layout is very simple but I just wanted to show how using metallic paper can add so much. I bought a pack of metallic cardstock from the Dollar Store.



My son will be thrilled, he can't wait to have this trophy layout completed.

Holiday card for the school bus driver

Does anyone else have a drawer of die cuts? This bus was in my drawer. I knew I was saving it for something.

It's almost time for Brownies...

and I have no gift or card... So I quickly used the Create A Critter cartridge to make cocoa sliders for the troop leaders "Brown Owl" and "Snowy Owl".



These were super quick to make using all scraps. My daughter loves how they turned out!

Have your Elf a Merry Little Christmas

Yay! Some holiday cards completed. This idea was scraplifted from the Peachy Keen website.

Fantabulous Cricut challenge #17

This weeks challenge at Fantabulous Cricut is to make a project that features a bug and the color orange.



This is my entry. I have been on a Halloween kick this week. All the cuts are from Paper Doll Dress Up except the flag which is from Create A Critter. The background paper is Core'dinations. I distressed the edges with sand paper to reveal the color core, hoping it would look spooky.

Walking with Dinosaurs Show

Just in the nick of time, I have finished another layout for the Fantabulous Cricut Blog



Stop #1 on their blog hop this week was to include a die cut flower on your layout or create an accordion flower. I really tried to fold an accordion flower but they did not turn out. Yes, I tried multiple times and even took pictures of the crumpled bits of paper. With the midnight deadline approaching, I cut out flowers from Gypsy Wanderings.


Blog # 2 asked for journaling on a die cut to be included. I printed on my leaf.

Blog #3 requested embossing on your project which I did on the trunk of my palm tree. Okay, confession here, I used my scoring blade to emboss this. I actually love the result!

Stop #4 asked to include a negative image. This was an easy one because I knew I wanted to use the Mickey Font bones which use the negative image to write the words.


Blog # 5 asked to use a Gypsy to design part of your project. I welded the flowers using the Gypsy. This was my first time welding shapes. I am looking forward to using my Gypsy more!

Stop # 6 was to use your shadow button which I used for the bones. (Mickey Font is such a fun cartridge.)

Number 8 on the tour asked for the die cuts to be inked/doodled etc. My dinosaurs are all inked around the edges.

Blog number 10 suggested paper piecing which my dinosaurs are but remember Create a Critter has the easiest layers ever!

Finally the last element to be included was a food item. My food item is the coconut.

Cricutters Anonymous picnic challenge

I wanted to get this layout in before the deadline - in a few hours. The challenge has been issued by Cricutters Anonymous I don't even have the picture yet as it is waiting for me at the photo lab. The picture is of a of my children and their friends sitting on a picnic blanket at a nearby park and they are all almost looking at the camera. This was a potluck picnic to celebrate the end of summer 2008 and the beginning of school the next day!



I learnt something while making this layout. I wanted to make the letters funky by using lower case letters with the real dial size on not really thinking that this would affect the shadow feature. The end result is wonky letters but I left them that way (now they are really funky).

The slide and monkey bars are from the Locker Talk cartridge. I cut them with DCWV Metallic paper. The sun and clouds are from Hello Kitty. The letters are Cuttin Up and the grass is from the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge.

At the Movies with the Cuttlebug Spot

The Cuttlebug Spot issued a fun challenge this week. It is to make a project featuring your favorite movie or tv show. Can you figure out our family's favorite movie?

Thinking of Ewe

I made this card for my super-crafty grandmother. I think she is going to love it. The sheep and the grass from this card are cut from the Paperdolls cartridge. The sentiment is printed from the computer on a cartouche from the Sweethearts cartridge.. The sheep is popdotted and put through the Cuttlebug using the Divine Swirls folder. The ribbon is from the dollar store.