tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82688180555874926612024-12-18T21:12:59.150-06:00A blog about scrapbooking, crafting and anything else I find interesting.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268818055587492661.post-13125814675919695642011-05-05T08:23:00.002-05:002011-05-05T08:23:48.953-05:00

My nephew is turning 4 this week and I wanted to make him a special card to send out with his gift!  A haven't used my Sesame Street cart very much so I wanted to use it for his card.  Every 4 year old loves Sesame Street....right?!  Okay, so that really isn't true, my little cupe does not really care for Sesame Street...but my nephew really does!  Okay, anyway, here is the

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Fantabulous Cricut's Monday Challenge is to create a project with the word "Mom" in it.  So here is my card: I have been wanting to use the A Child's Year cartridge for a while now but I didn't know what I wanted to do. Mother's Day was the perfect opportunity to use it.  I really like how sweet this particular cut is.  I just used white cardstock to cut out the image.  "Mom

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 Lolis at My Creative Corner shared an award with me!  Thanks so much Lolis!!!  Her blog is pretty awesome (I love the easter bunny card) so check it out.  Here are 8 random things about me: 1.  I love Hello Kitty.  My craft room has lots of little Hello Kitty trinkets in it! 2.  I drink one cup of coffee every morning.  I try to wake up before my

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It's Easter weekend!  I'm enjoying time with my family, I hope you are too!  I thought I'd post a few Easter cards that I made. I used the Easter cartridge for them.  The background paper is something I had, I'm not sure what brand it is. The first card:  A side view.  I cut the egg out with yellow paper and again with pink paper and used the flowers from the pink egg.

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Fantabulous Cricut's Monday Challenge is "Spring Fling".  The submission had to have the colors pink, green and yellow.  What terrific colors to work with!  This also came at the perfect time because I needed to make a birthday card for someone.  This is what I came up with: I made this card  (it's 5x7) using the Stretch Your Imagination cart for the watering can with

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I love when the Pink Stamper has challenges.  I have so much fun making my cards for it.  There are so many great cards submitted for the challenges and I don't think mine are very fancy or anything but I still enjoy making them!  So here is my submission for the Pink Stamper's latest birthday challenge: The cake is cut using the Gypsy Smiley Cards download.  I haven't used

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Here is the final post on Cupe's birthday party! I just bought a basic package of party hats from Party City and I added some stickers to them.  I bought these stickers from a seller on Etsy.  These stickers were actually dated in the 90's (I think, I threw away the packaging).  I was a bit worried they wouldn't be sticky but they were!  I was very happy to have found them!

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Cupe's party was not big but I really wanted to have a lot of personal touches throughout the living room, hallway and dining room where we would be spending our time.  Yesterday I showed you some of the pictures I framed to put around the house.  Here are some more personalized touches that I added. I used Photoshop Elements to create this, just something simple to add a personal

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My sweet cupe had her 4th birthday recently! She wanted a Busytown birthday party (she loves lowly worm and huckle). I looked everywhere for decorations with that theme but there really is nothing out there! So what is a girl to do? I went to work creating my own decorations for her BEST BIRTHDAY PARTY EVER! The colors we went with were turquoise/aqua,, yellow and orange with a bit of red

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Fantabulous Cricut has a challenge this week that I couldn't resist.  I like to make fun centerpieces that can function in some other way. It usually ends up being a centerpiece that doubles as a candy holder!  Here is the halloween centerpiece/candy holder that I created.  The base is a treat box that I bought on clearance at Michaels.  I used orange tissue paper to line it.

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Another Pink Stamper challenge!! The challenge is to make a Halloween or Fall project.  Since I still need to make some cards, it's perfect!  I decided to make a pumpkin card using the pumpkin on the Paper Doll Dress-up cartridge.  I decided to make a pumpkin card using the pumpkin on the Paper Doll Dress-up cartridge.  I thought it was a pretty cute cut, but not so cute

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The Pink Stamper is having a challenge/giveaway today!  The challenge is to create something cute.  I made this card, which I think is super cute!! How much cuter can it get?  Hello Kitty is the absolute cutest!  I used the Hello Kitty greetings cart and just some scrap cardstock.  The candy corn paper is K & Company.  The ribbon is Celebrate It! from

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My niece (I know I have been talking about her a lot lately!) starts Kindergarten this week! Since I don't live near her I wanted to send her a card to wish her well on her first day and to just let her know I am thinking about her.  I was actually working on another project when the idea for this card came to me so I just whipped it together!  It's a simple, simple, simple card! The

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Sorry for the lack of posts in the past few weeks.  We have been doing some traveling and projects around our house and have just been busy, busy, busy!  This card is for a boy, my sweet medium cupe!  He is starting school so I wanted to make him something to mark the occasion.  It's simple and boyish, which is what I wanted!  I used textured cardstock for the dragon.&

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My niece is turning 5 years old this month!  I can't believe it, it seems like just yesterday we were waiting for her arrival!  She's starting school this year and everything!  I was looking at different cartridges to see what I wanted to make for her birthday card and I chose this one because it had 5 balloons on it! The card is 7 x 5 (folded). The cut is from the Hello Kitty

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I have been wanting to make a cherry card for a while. I had this cute cherry print paper and I love it! I grew up in Michigan and I love Michigan cherries! They are soooo delicious!  Traverse City, Michigan has the National Cherry Festival every year in July. There are delicious cherry products in various shops there too!  Dried cherries are a must in my household. My DH (big cupe)

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I'm going to visit my niece and nephew this weekend and I wanted to bring them a little treat.  Apparently, Silly Bandz are very popular right now so I thought I'd bring them some.  Since Fantabulous Cricut's Challenge Me Monday is Zoo Animals, I thought I'd use that as a theme for some treat bags for them!  Here is what I came up with: The hippo and lion are cut at 5 1/2" using

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Sorry it took so late for me to post this week! Here is a quick, simple card that I made using the Pagoda Cartridge.  I have had this cart for a while but haven't used it! It has many beautiful cuts on it.  I actually bought the cart because I lived in Japan and I thought it would be great for scrapbooking my time there. It actually is versatile though, as you can see from my card!

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I am participating in another Fantabulous Cricut challenge!  Challenge #18 is to create a yummy treat and making a shape card is optional.  I had this idea to make a shape card that was accordion-style for a while so I decided to try it.  I used the doodlecharms cart and my gypsy and got to work!    I used textured cardstock for the ice cream and plain cardstock for the

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Fantabulous Cricut's challenge me Monday is to create something with a bug and using the color orange! I really love doing their challenges! I have to say that my projects are usually pretty simple and I am usually awed by the other submissions, but I have fun just coming up with something new!  For the challenge this week I used the Create-a-Critter cartridge and used the ladybug cut...so

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Hi all! I wanted to share a new card I made using the Paisley cartridge.  This cartridge is so cute, I really like the variety on it.  This is an A7 size card (folded it is a 7" x 5" card). The giraffe is cut from the Paisley cartridge. It's cut at 3 inches. The giraffe actually had leaves in it's mouth but I cut that off.  I also added some hooves to the giraffe's feet! I used

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Today the Pink Stamper posted a challenge using the colors pink, green, orange and brown.  I thought the colors sounded interesting and challenging so I got started!  After quite a while I finally came up with this: The card base is a 5 1/4" x 5 1/4" square.  I used the Spots and Dots Cuttlebug folder to emboss the green paper.  I also used an EK Success punch on the bottom

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Fantabulous Cricut's Challenge Me Monday Project #16 is to design something Independence Day themed with a star shape.  This was the perfect challenge for me to work on because I needed to make a centerpiece for the 4th so the challenge gave me inspiration!!  For this project, I used the Simply Sweet cartridge for all the stars.  I used my Gypsy to cut them at 4.66 x 3.71. 

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This is the first project I made using a Cricut Lite cartridge.  I used the Sugar and Spice cart.  This cart has a lot more than just girly cuts, I really love the versatility of the cart!  The cuts are very basic but that's okay...I just did some extra layering. I cut the birds at 3" using light blue textured paper.  I cut the birds again using light green paper, then I

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I just bought my first two Cricut Lite cartridges and I am so excited! I bought B is for Boy and Sugar and Spice. There were so many I wanted but I really liked these the best so I got these two first! I can't wait to make something with them. I will be sharing some new projects with you very soon!!

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