Get Well Soon

Quick get well card made using Teddy Bear Parade (Bear cut at 3.50")and the card base was cut from Birthday Bash and cut at 5". I cut the printed paper layer using the shift key and then made the next layer at 4.25" I stamped the eyes using Peachy Keen Dolly Dumplins.

Bunny Gift bags for Easter

I found the directions to make gift bags on Sara Andrews' blog and decided to use them to create the candy bags for my grown kids and two grandchildren.  They were easy to make and fast too!  I will definitely be making more whenever I need them.  The cute little bunny is from the Cricut Baby Steps cartridge.  I never even noticed that cut until I saw an adorable card made by Glora Crafts.  The face for the bunny is the Cute and Cuddly assortment set by Peachy Keen.  I was so excited at how quickly I received these stamps and that I got them in time to make my bunny faces for Easter.  The border on top of the bag was made using a Martha Stewart border punch.

Christmas Nugget Tins

This year I made some nugget tins to give as gifts.  The tins were part of a share with a Facebook group.  The papers came from Hobby Lobby and I just love the polka dotted patterns.  The Santa was cut using the Doodlecharms cartridge and by adding a Peachy Keen face.  I pop dotted the mustache and added some Glossy Accents to the nose.  The tag is the XL die and the Stitched XL die from My Creative Time.  I also used my Cuttlebug to emboss the beard and mustache with the Dotted Swiss embossing folder and another Cuttlebug folder (cant remember the name of that one) was used on the white parts of the hat.  I tied the tag to the tin using some green and red tulle.

Hope you all had a Merry Christmas.  Be safe in your celebrations tonight for New Year's Eve and Happy New Year to you all!!

Tracy

I am posting late but here is the Halloween treat containers I made!

I barely had time to get something made for the grandkids for Halloween.  I made these quick and easy popcorn boxes from Tags Bags Boxes.  The ghost was cut from Smiley Cards and the pumpkin I think from Hello Kitty.  I hid the faces though and used my Peachy Keen stamps.  It was the PK-550 Pumpkin Faces and the cute little sentiment is from MCT's All Around Halloween. 

Ericas Craft Room Theme Thursday - Easter Eggs and Grass

This was the sketch and here is what I made with it!






My project today was inspired by Mary at Cardz TV. She made this cute little bunny on one of her videos and I thought my grandkids would love it too so I borrowed her idea and incorporated it into my card. I used Art Philosophy for the egg card shape. The card was cut at 5.50 inches. I also cut the green polka dot paper at the same size for the front of the card. The little fence was cut using Paper Doll Dress Up and I used my Gypsy to resize it to 5 x 1.75 inches. I still had to cut a little off of it after I glued it to my card. The bunny came from the Doodlecharms cartridge and is 2.50 inches. His face is from the Peachy Keen Critter set (PK-754). I added some white pen to accent his nose and the top it with some Glossy Accents to make it shiny. His little hands are just little circles cut at 1/2 inch using Plantin Schoolbook. The flowers were cut at 2 inches from the Art Philosophy cartridge. I also added some yellow Stickles to add some sparkle and color . The last finishing touch was a little twine tied around the egg shaped silhouette shape.

I am also entering this into Erica's challenge for March 20th to March 27th. It might be too late for you to enter this particular challenge but you can enter your projects for the new challenges that she will be posting!! Here is the link to check it out! http://ericascraftroomchallenges.blogspot.com/

To see more fabulous projects made today from our very talented ladies on the design team, please go visit http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/

Thanks for stopping by!

Tracy

Would You Ever Guess Wednesday - Ericas Craft Room

Today is Would You Ever Guess Wednesday. We had a choice for whether we wanted to do the normal WYEGW or to do a stamping technique. I chose to do the stamping for my card. I stamped the sun and clouds behind the bunny using some Stampavie Stamps that I have had for a long time. The little sun has a face on it but I masked that off so only the sun showed on my card. I also used the PK-754 Critter Faces set from Peachy Keen for the face. I did use a sentiment on my card also. The bunny was cut at 3" from Create A Critter (used my Gypsy to hide the face features before cutting). I used Easter 2010 for the grass and also used my Gypsy to make the height of the grass as .75" and I cut two layers and flipped one before gluing it to the card. The card base was cut from Art Philosophy at 4.25", the brown layer was cut at 4", and the white layer at 3.75".

This card is going to be sent to a fellow design team sister and she is going to add it to some baskets being made for a charity she started called Helping Hands that does Easter baskets, back to school packs, and Christmas stockings for the homeless shelters and poverty level homes. If you are interested in helping, please contact me through this blog and I will give Jessica your information and let her contact you.

Thanks for visiting me today. Please be sure to head over to Erica's blog to see the other projects made by the design team today.
Here is the link: http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/

Ericas Craft Room Theme Thursday

It seems like everyone on the design team signed up for today's post. The theme is Peachy Keen where we could have used our stamps on our projects or we could choose to use the Simply Charmed Cricut cartridge. Well guess what???? I used BOTH!!!

I needed to make a birthday card for my great nephew Jaylon. His birthday is tomorrow March 2nd. As I paged through the cartridge booklet, the little fish with the fishing pole caught me eye. I remembered that I had a Pink By Design stamp that would be perfect with that cut. To create the card, I cut my base at 5" x 5". I had some cute little fishy paper from the Target dollar spot that I bought quite some time ago. I used it to decide the colors for my card. I began by cutting the background shape from Art Philosophy. I cut it at 4.00" and then cut the white inside shape slightly smaller.

Next, I cut the pole and fish at 3 inches. I used a Peachy Keen set to put the face on the fishy. I also used some orange and white twine to make the fishing line on the pole. Last, I used my PBD set called Simply Everything that I bought from Erica's online store. The sentiment says "Fishing You A Happy Birthday". I also used a Stampin Up Cuttlebug folder to emboss the fish's body.

Hope you liked my card today. Please check Erica's blog to see all the projects by my design team sisters. There should be tons of great things to see today!! http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/

Erica's Craft Room 100 Cartridge Blog Hop - Day Two

Welcome to Erica's Craft Room

100 Cricut Cartridge Blog Hop

You should have come here from Laura's blog. If not, you will want to start at the beginning with Erica at Http://MyCricutcraftroom.blogspot.com

For today's hop in my continuing effort to create more layouts, I have created this one using four different cartridges. Isn't my granddaughter just so adorable in her tap outfit for her recital? They performed a dance for Little Bunny Foo Foo. Now she is also in ballet and I can't wait to see this year's recital that will happen in May.

Here is the recipe I used to create this layout:

Twinkle Toes - little girl Image #2 cut at four inches. I used my Gypsy's hide contour feature to hide the face. I also cut her hair down on the top. She had a huge amount of hair! I used the extra parts cut off to make her hair longer in the back to mirror Taylor's hair. I also used a marker to add dimension to the hair. I added detailing to her dress with my white Signo Uniball pen and added a ribbon so the little paper doll matches Taylor's outfit. The face is a Peachy Keen Wide Eyed Kids stamp. I colored in her eyes with the white pen and added chalk to her cheeks.

American Alphabet - I cut the rabbit at 3.50: and then cut his ears off to make the bunny ears for the little paper doll. I cut this twice - in pink and in white and pieced them together until I got the desired result.

Shall We Dance - The word "Dance" and its shadow cut at 1.25
The word "Recital" and its shadow cut at 1.50

Love You A Latte - Pink layer cut at 7.25 x 4
Green layer cut at 7.50 x 4
Again, I used my Gypsy to alter the shape on cut #7. It originally was more squared and I stretched it so my words would fit. I also hid the cupcake.

You can click on the photos to make them larger to see all the details

For this month, I also am still trying to finish my advent calendar so it will be all ready for next Christmas. I know many of you asked me to show pictures of the rest of the pages. I am still working on getting pages 19 - 25 done. Here are photos of pages 13 - 18. I will post the rest as soon as I get time to finish it.
Winter Frolic - Bird house
Winter Frolic - Christmas tree
Paper Trimmings - Peachy Keen Stamps - Snowman
Simply Charmed - PenguinWinter Woodland - SkateSimply Charmed - Santa

Your next stop will be at Lisa's blog where I am sure she will have something great to show you!

Happy Hopping!
Tracy

Here is the entire lineup in case you get lost along the way:

Erica - http://MyCricutcraftroom.blogspot.com
Laura- http://www.laurascraftsandmore.com/
Tracy- http://scrappininthewoods.blogspot.com/
Lisa - http://www.allmadebylisa.blogspot.com/
Susan - http://craftingandbeyond.blogspot.com/
Ashley - http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com/
Doris - http://mybugandmecreate.blogspot.com/
Janet - http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com/
Liz- http://tryin2craft.blogspot.com/
Erica- http://ericasprojects.blogspot.com
Connie- http://conniecancrop.blogspot.com
Sheila- http://2pawprints.blogspot.com/
Jamie- http://jamiek711designs.blogspot.com/
Laurie- http://mincedpaper.blogspot.com/
Kathy - http://3spoileddogs.blogspot.com/
Kym - http://kimmyskards.blogspot.com.
Marji - www.fstampaholic.blogspot.com :
Sherri - http://squeakyscrapper.blogspot.com

Blog Candy- http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com

Scrapbook Saturdays - Saddlebag Sidekick

Hi all!! Welcome to my blog! I am so happy you stopped by today. As you may already know, I was chosen to be a member of My Cricut Craft Room's design team and this is my very first time to present a layout for her blog. Today is Scrapbook Saturdays and I am hoping that by being on this design team, I will be encouraged to catch up on my layouts. If you have checked out my blog, you will see that I make a lot of cards and not much else. I hope this is a brand new start of using those cool photos that I have been taking for the past couple of years.






This layout, Saddlebag Sidekick has been in my head for quite some time. I absolutely love this photo of my son, Cory on his motorcycle with his dog, Jonny Cash (he was a rescue and already named when he got him). Jonny is a Bichon and just as cute as can be. I used the Father's Day seasonal cartridge to make the motorcycle. I cut it using my Gypsy at a height of 1.35. The little dog came from of course the Paper Pups cartridge. I used the Gypsy to hide the original eyes cut from the Cricut cartridge and replaced it with the eyes from my PK-493 Everyday Character Face Parts set from Peachy Keen. I forgot to write down his size but it was probably 2 inches in height. I used Nifty Fifties for the title and welded it on my Gypsy too. I love the font on that cartridge! It was just perfect for this layout.

Hope you enjoyed my layout as much as I did making it. Stop back next Saturday for the Card and Invitation Blog Hop I will be participating in for My Cricut Craft Room. I am going to have some blog candy. Not sure what it will be yet...may need to go shopping!

Birthday card with Campin Critters

I just love Campin Critters. Everything from it is just so cute!! My husband's birthday is tomorrow and I thought this deer fishing was perfect for his card. He loves to fish. The sentiment on the outside says "What a great catch".....the inside says, "I am so glad I caught you!" I added another fish to the inside to finish it off. The deer was cut at 3.5 and the forest scene was cut at 4.25

Hopping By to Say Hi

I made this little card for a challenge for the Grillin and Chillin Blog Hop on Bug Bites blog
http://bugbites411.blogspot.com/2011/06/grillin-n-chillin-bug-hop-part-2.html

We had to choose a bug that was hidden among the hoppers and make a card with it on it. I chose the little grasshopper from Stretch Your Imagination. Of course I had to give him a Peachy Keen face after hiding the cut details on my Gypsy. I also used my new Elegant Edges for the shape behind the grasshopper. Love that cartridge...so many beautiful shapes!! The card base was made using Lacy Labels. I am not sure what the size was...I had cut it previously when I made my nephew's birthday card and I saved it to use later.

Graduation card for Heather

My cousin's daughter graduated a couple weeks ago and I chose this cute little bird from the 3 Birds cartridge. I cut this image at 3.50 and I cut and layered the cap and gown twice with some pop dots between the two layers. The eyes are from the Everyday Character Face Parts from Peachy Keen stamps. I attached the bird with an Action Wobble

Another Twinkle Toes card

I created this card to send to Allison's daughter, Rose. We had an online swarm a few weeks ago and when we mailed our calling cards to her, we included a card for her little girl who loves to get mail. This doll was cut the same time I made the card for my great niece, Jordyn but I had cut it too small. I had saved it for my granddaugher Taylor who loves to scrap when she visits (and I can make her more when she is here) but since I had it already done, I used it for the card I sent to Rose. I used Twinkle Toes and I think she was cut at 2 1/2 inches. I stamped her face using the Peachy Keen Wide Eyed Kids set and added some dimension by chalking her cheeks and by adding some doodling with my white Uniball Signo pen. On her eyes, I applied Glossy Accents to make them stand out more. I also put a little gem in the middle of the bow on her headband. I used a Cuttlebug folder to emboss the layer behind the girl.

Twinkle Toes Birthday card

This card is for my great niece, Jordyn who will be 3 next month. I love this cartridge and the little dolls on it! I saw this card made by another blogger that I love to follow and I totally scraplifted her design. (hers was very cute with purple printed paper and the purple and white baker's twine) I made my own coordinating baker's twine using embroidery floss. I will be posting this on the Cricut Circle message board for our online Stampede Swarm. The challenge was to use these colors:


The Flower Shower paper I used from DCWV had all of those colors in the printed paper and I also had the matching cardstock stack too.

Get Well Card

Last week, a member of the Cricut Circle told us of a serious health issue that she was experiencing. My heart went out to her and I wanted to send her a card to wish her a quick recovery. This card is from 3 Birds On Parade. The bird was cut at 3 inches. The Get Well label shape was cut using Gypsy Wanderings at 2 1/4 inches for the pink and then I used my Gypsy to reduce it so that the white was slightly smaller. The punch and the stamp are from Stampin Up. I also used the Peachy Keen Everyday Character Face Parts set to make the face on the bird and I added Stickles to the umbrella and Glossy Accents to its eyes and the raindrops.

Indy Meet Up!

I had a fun time at the Meet Up! Everyone was so nice and Shannon from Provo Craft was awesome!! We had a contest where we had to dress a wooden cut out of the doll from Paper Doll Dress Up. I couldn't come up with anything really original or inspiring so I decided that I would make a leprechaun to use to decorate for St Paddy's Day. There were so many really cute dolls! Some had curly hair and cute Cricut outfits. I was shocked that mine won!! I received some embossing dies for my Cuttlebug. Yay!

We all got the little stuffed Cricut and that is what I really wanted. Everyone won a prize for attending and I won a Tshirt. One lucky lady won an Imagine!

Halloween Treat Bags

My cute grandbabies are dressing as pirates this year. I made toppers for their treat bags to match their costumes (see the Paper Doll Dress Up posts for last year's bags). Can't wait to see them all dressed up!!!

March 24, 2010

Here is a card I made for my brother's birthday. Not my best effort but it was fun to make anyway.