Christmas Door Hangers!

Just in the Nick of time! I made a couple Christmas door hangers ~ one for work and one for our front door! All the letters are from the cricut! "have a" and the "J" in Jolly are Gypsy font. The M in Merry is from Hannah Montana (it is a really cool font and you don't have to like the show to like the cartridge!), H is from story book and the rest of the letters in jolly, merry, happy are from Base Camp. Holiday is from Alphalicious.

I used a potpourri of paper that I had lying around ~ I got out a bunch of Christmas paper when I made cards (which I think totalled somewhere just under 100!). I'm going to start early next year (I've got 4 left over from this year so that is a good start)!




Merry Christmas!!

2S4Y - Laura Sketch 41 - Another Christmas Card

I'm still working on Christmas stuff!!! I feel so unorganized this year!

Here is my take on Laura's Sketch 41. I made 12 of these and have more stuff cut out to make some more! I really like the pink for Christmas!

I did manage to finally get my packages mailed today so I just need to get some more cards mailed and ready to take to work!

Take care and have a great weekend!

Card Patterns #44 and Count Down to Christmas Calendars

I hope everyone had a great weekend! I worked on Disney scrapbooks and Christmas cards and cleaned house!!! I'm sure you can guess what was my least favorite thing!

Here is my card for Card Patterns Sketch 44. I used Basic Gray fruitcake paper for the background and the "Christmas Stamp" paper is Graphic 45 (I'm so loving Graphic 45 right now and the nostalgic look). The snow flake was cut out of sparkly paper with the cricut solutions cartridge, When it is Cold Outside (I just got it in the mail yesterday!). I added a green button with red skinny ribbon and a making memories stick pin. The top ribbon I just got at Michaels (1/2 price with 15% off tonight!!).


I finished these 2 Countdown to Christmas calendars today also. Michaels had a demo of countdown calendars but they did not have any of the round favor containers or the smaller wooden wreath so I had to improvise with hearts and a bigger wreath.

The first one is for my daughter so I used pastel reindeer paper and used all pastels. I cut the numbers with cricut Don Juan.






For my son's, I used more traditional colors.

They both have yummy candy in them: cookies and creme, peppermint patties, rolos, and reeses peanut butter bells.

Hopefully they won't get into them before the 12 days of Christmas!!!

Hope everyone has a great week!

2S4Y - Christmas "card" Booklet for Family!

This week I used Laura's sketch 40 combined with a little idea from JoAnn.com to come up with my x-mas cards for my close family. I only plan to make 20 of these because they are a little bit of work!

The "wishlist" tag is something that I had in my stash. The patterned paper is all from Basic Grey Fruitcake (I've been hoarding it for awhile!) and the little santa is from Graphic 45. I used a border punch, regular ric rac, and a cool brad from K and Company that I picked up packages on clearance after Christmas last year at Michaels.

The first picture is the cover.


Here it is with all 4 panels. The booklet pages are 4 X 4 so I printed the pictures as "index prints."

The 2009 is from the cricut Graphically Speaking cartridge.

This last picture shows how the ribbon can be tied around the booklet to keep it together.

It was a very fun project (hope it is as fun for the next 19).

I'm looking forward to the next sketch because I have lots more cards to design and make!!! Nothing like waiting till the last minute!

Card Patterns #43 - Another Try!

I was not happy with the original card I made for Card Patterns #43 so here is another try!

I'm going to need a lot more Christmas cards this year than in the past because of the job I have this year.

I used patterned paper from the Basic Grey fruitcake collection (I've been holding on to it for awhile!) and the little santa image is from Graphic 45. There are little stickle dots around the santa image if you look close. The fancy brad is a K and Company brad that I got a bunch of after Christmas last year (now I wish I had more!).

I think this card turned out way better than the other one I did! I think I will make several patterns of Christmas cards and give them to different groups of people!

Kazan's Sketch #40 (2S4Y), Card Patterns 42 and 43

I'm very last minute, but here is my take on Kazan's Sketch #40 over at 2 Sketches 4 You. I used scraps to do this so it was very fun! The Thanks is from Cricut Beyond Birthdays and So Much is from Cricut Don Juan. The parens are from Cricut George. The little medallion is a Wilton Favor I found in the wedding aisle at Michaels!









I'm always in need of Thank You's so I also made a thank you for Card Patterns Sketch #43 (I'm ahead on this one!). I also used scraps. It feels so good to use some up!











And last but not least is a card that I started for Card Patterns #42 before the deadline but didn't finish until after. I thought it turned out cute so I still wanted to post it!

I hope everyone had a happy turkey day! I've got turkey enchiladas in the oven as I write this!

Take care and have a nice rest of the weekend!

Card Patterns #41/Bitten By the Bug Contest!

I made this Turkey Day door hanger using card patterns sketch #41. The contest at Bitten By the Bug was to create something using a turkey, thankful, thanksgiving, etc. I used several cricut cartridges to do this one. Gobble, Gobble is from "blackletter." Happy Day is the gypsy font welded together with the gypsy. The pumpkin border is from gypsy wanderings. The flourishes are from Ashlynn's Alphabet (I used the gypsy to turn one around!!). And the turkey is from Beyond Birthdays. I cut several turkeys out and then pieced the different color feathers together. This was really fun!

Cross Country Word Book ~ A VERY SPECIAL PROJECT!

This book is special for many reasons:

My daughter ran Cross Country for the first time this fall. She just started middle school and most 6th graders run the 2000. She ran it twice and then started running the 3000 (the only 6th grader in the school to do it). She really improved her time with the last time the best! That is SPECIAL!

Another reason it is special is because my sister told me that she had made a "BABY" word book and she sent me pictures of it. It was totally cool and I loved it so I got thinking about word books.

My sister flew (and drove) from Texas to Idaho to visit my parents. I went to visit her there (I'm from Oregon). She had just purchased a Gypsy and she brought her Gypsy loaded with all her cartridges. I brought my cricut and paper and chipboard! We made 2 of these books in about 3 hours with her Gypsy and my cricut (it is George shape welded to Base Camp font). This was so much fun and I brought my Bind It All (still in the box) and she showed me how to use it! Another SPECIAL thing to make it with your sister!






When I got home, I just had to have a Gypsy! You see if it wasn't for Teresa, I wouldn't even have a cricut. I see her, she shows me what to do, and then I buy it! It is the coolest thing because she shows me what to do! That is SPECIAL too because I don't have to read a lot of instructions!







When I got home, I put pictures, dates, times, etc. in and this is the finished product! I absolutely love how it turned out! The patterned papers and ribbon are American Crafts.










Thank you Teresa for all your help with this!

Card Patterns #38 and Please Vote for me in the Gypsy 24 Hour Challenge!

Here is a quick card for Card Patterns Sketch #38. I need lots of Thank You cards so the sketch was very helpful! It was quick and easy and fun!












I did a project for the Gypsy 24 Hour Challenge ~ to win a trip to NY you need the most votes. Here is the link to my project:

http://www.cricut.com/gypsy/designchallenge/entries.aspx?did=177

It is ver similar to the door hanger below! I would love to win a trip to NY and take my sister!

Please Vote for My Project in the 24 Hour Gypsy Design Challenge!!

Last weekend I went to Idaho to see my sister at my parents house! She is from Texas, I'm from Oregon and we saw how powerful the Cricut Gypsy really is! She brought the Gypsy from Texas and I brought the Cricut from Oregon and in 3 hours Saturday night we made a cool project ~ a word book for my daughter's cross country season (which I will share when it is completed finished with pictures ~ there is one more meet tomorrow!).

Well, to make a long story short, I was completely, incredibly hooked on the Gypsy and went to Michaels during the week to buy one (I had a $70 gift card for bosses day which helped a lot!). Saturday, I loaded all my cartridges and today I did a project for the 24 hour Gypsy Challenge! Starting tomorrow, you can vote for that project (just for a couple days). The winner of the 24 hour challenge wins a trip for 2 to NY to a grand opening of a new Michaels + broadway tickets and spending money! Ooooh! Aaaaah! I would take my sister because she and I would have sooooo much fun! Thanks for voting! Here is the link to my project:

http://www.cricut.com/gypsy/designchallenge/entries.aspx?did=177

Card patterns #35 - A couple "purple" cards

I had 2 cards to make for work this week so I used Card Patterns #35 to do it. Both of the gals love purple so here they are!

The paper was all from my stash! The Happy Birthday was cut from the cricut Lyrical Letters cartridge and the thank you from Beyond Birthdays. Photo corners (on thank you) and the swirl are quickutz.

The buttons were reflections (from Michael's) ~ I really love patterned buttons as they add so much!

Well off to work I go soon!

Card Patterns #35 - Fall Door Hangers!

I made a door hanger the other day using 2 Sketches 4 You but I needed another door hanger for work so this time I'm using Card Patterns! Don't you just love the sketch challenges!!

I actually made several of these ~ I'm going to give one to my mom and one to each of my sisters (I made 2 almost alike ~ and if you are my sister reading this blog then I guess the surprise will be ruined!).

The fall and fabulous were both cut from the Ashlyn's alphabet cricut cartridge. The paper is from the Making Memories fall 8 X 8 paper pack and one very old DCWV fall paper pack (don't know how long it has been hanging around).

I copied the ribbon folding idea from another person who submitted a card for this sketch (I'm sorry I can't remember who it was!). I was so intrigued on how it was done with a stapler that I had to try it! The turquoise colored ribbon I just got at Michaels (40% off) and the plaid had been hanging around for awhile!

The little photo corners are quickutz.

It was very fun to use the turquoise color with fall!





Thanks for taking a look! Hope everyone has a great week!

World Card Making Day ~ Halloween Cards Using 2 Sketches 4 You WCMD Sketch

I actually had some time today to create some cards and it is World Card Making Day! I don't think I've ever had time before! Yeah! I used the 2 Sketches 4 You special WCMD Sketch for all 4 of these cards!

I was out running errands today and stopped by Paper Zone and Michaels and picked up some Halloween themed paper and embellishments (like had none in my stash!!!).

The first 2 cards use paper from the Recollections Paper Pack (Michaels). The paper had a border on it with all these cute characters so I used a CD as a pattern and cut some of them out. The other side of the paper was the green pattern. So I got 2 cards out of one piece of paper.
The ribbon, bling, and charm also came from Michaels. The stamp is an Inkado and I got that at Paper Zone.












For the other 2 cards (each a teeny bit different), I used Basic Grey Paper, a Teresa Collins stamp and the same ribbon, charms, and bling from Michaels.

I love the Halloween paper that combines orange, purple, green and black. It is so striking and you don't see it much of the rest of the year!


HAPPY

WORLD

CARD

MAKING

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2 Sketches 4 You - Kazan Sketch #36 - A Door Hanger!

In the summer, I had made a couple door hangers with sketches and Kazan's sketch just made me think of one for fall! I wanted to do one so it was perfect!

The size of this is 8 X 8 and the paper is from a Making Memories 8 X 8 fall pack that I got at Michaels. I got the ribbon at Michael's also. The tree and Fresh Air are from the Cricut Graphically Speaking Cart and Fall is from the Cricut Ashlyn's Alphabet Cart. The pumpkin is a sizzix original and the leaf on the pumpkin and the owl are quickutz (I managed to use all my die cut systems in one thing!). The sparkly leaves are little buttons I got at Walmart when I did my daughter's outdoor school book!

I really like how it turned out! Thanks Kazan for a great sketch!

Card Patterns #34 - Scrapbook Page instead of a Card!

I have been working on my Disney Books ~ We went in July and I love to get the books done and give them to the kids for Christmas.....means a lot of work between then and now!

When I saw Card Patterns sketch #34 and then looked at this cool picture with Minnie Mouse, I immediately wanted to do a layout. This is an 8 X 8 page with a 5 X 7 picture so there wasn't much room for more embellishing! I love how this turned out! It is one of my favorite pages of the book so far!

Card Patterns #33 - It's Your Day

I needed to make a birthday card for my friend Lisa. She and I moved from Idaho to Oregon and have known each other since junior high school. A mutual friend we work with is having a little party for her next Sunday. So I used card patterns #33 to make the card. I started out making the just black and white card and then tried one with a little more color. I had this pink and red ribbon so I just went from there! I am still in a pickle about which one to give her!

I just have to say this is one asesome sketch this week! I had a great time with it!

Thanks for stopping buy!

2 Sketches 4 You and some Disney Autograph Books

In my other post today, I gave all my reasons why I've been busy and not doing cards but as we approach the time school starts (after labor day), I will be getting back in more of a routine!

This week Kazan did the sketch and she also asked us to used inspiration. She used furniture but I used a necklace that had blues and browns in it (I had also seen a bedspread in a Penney's add but I had already recycled it). It is a cool color combo! I used one of the cutting cafe's printable calendar stamps on this. This card is for a man in my office. It turned out very muted but someone said, he is an understated man and it was perfect. I hope he likes it!

Here is the necklace! I have a blue and brown blouse I wear it with but couldn't figure out how to get it all in the picture!

We went to Disneyland in July and I made each of the kids 2 autograph books - one for the princess type characters and one for the others. They were nearly filled up so I'm glad I did them ~ there are 12 pages in each! We did have BBQ with Woody and Jessie from Toy Story, Breakfast with Minnie, and then Dinner with the princesses so that helped to fill them up!

I felt so great because some of the princesses commented on what cool books they were! And my kids said their mom made them! It made me feel great!

Thanks for looking! Have a great rest of the week!

I'm Back! Card Patterns Sketch #30

I can't believe it has been 2 months since I've posted something! I did make 22 cards and 4 disney autograph books between then and now (I will post the autograph books soon) but I've been super busy!

We went on 2 vacations! In July, we went to Disneyland for 5 days and also visited my sister in the San Jose area and went to Great America and to San Fransisco. Then in August we visited my parents in Lewiston, Idaho and went to Wallowa, Oregon; Spokane; Washington; and Dworshack Dam while we were there along with an acquatic center and mini-golfing in Clarkston, WA.

While we weren't out having fun, I was cleaning and reorganizing ~ I even done some real disgusting stuff like cleaning the gutters! I've still got more organizing to go but I'm feeling good about having things sort of in order before school starts (here it starts after labor day).

Enough with all the reasons I haven't been around! This week there were 2 gentlemen in my office with birthdays so I made cards! This one uses card patterns #30. I used a calendar printable stamp and circle sentiment printable stamp from the cutting cafe. I was worried about the flower and the bling for a man but he seemed to like it! Yeah!

Thanks for taking a look! I'll be back doing more cards when we get back in our regular routine!

Sweet Summer Door Hanger (BBTB Contest and Card Patterns Sketch #22)

I have really been having a good time making Door Hangers instead of cards! They are a bit bigger than a card and you can incorporate a sketch into them so well!

For this one I used the Card Patterns Sketch #22. I love to try their sketches! I'm going on vacation next week so I'm trying to get my fill of scrapping and card making in now!!!

Bitten By the Bug has a contest going on right now where you need to have:

**a summer theme

**cuts from any cricut cartridge (I used Lyrical Letters for the bird, the bush (it is behind all the flowers), and sweet summer and George for the flowers)

**incorporate a yellow button somewhere in it (I've got a big one and several small ones along with a lot of other colors)

The paper is from the Basic Grey Lime Rickey 6 X 6 paper pack.

It is very eclectic and a little outside my normal style but I'm going to put it on my door at work! Just a way to have some art on my door! Maybe it will make someone smile!

I guess this also qualifies for the Pile It On Challenge because this weeks is to have 4 buttons ~ I'm new to that challenge ~ not sure how many times you can post something on it! But I'm on a roll with buttons and challenges this week!

Another Patriotic Door Hanging (4 challenges in One!)

In my last post I made a 4th of July door hanging and one of the awesome comments (there were lots of them ~ thank you all) suggested I do one for the Cuttlebug Challenge. I don't have a lot of cuttlebug dies but I do have these cool nesting stars! The challenge was to use cuttlebug dies (of course), red white and blue, and buttons. I also used the word freedom from the cricut Graphically Speaking cartridge which is the Bitten By the Bug Challenge. I used the general layout of the 2 Sketches 4 You sketch this week again! It does look different then the first one! And last but not least the Pile It On Challenge was to use 4 buttons and as many challenges as possible. I've used round buttons, star buttons and little glittery buttons so there are a lot of buttons on here! I am a little worried it is too busy but it is pretty fun! Thanks for stopping by! I hope everyone is having a great 4th of July!

4 Challenges In One (2 Sketches 4 You, Use It, Bitten By the Bug, Pile It On) ~ Way to say Happy 4th of July!

I found this new challenge called Pile It On and the purpose of it is to do it as a challenge + as many others as you can in the same project! Wow! Sounds hard but actually this project ended up easy to use them all! This is actually a door hanging. I got the idea from one of the design team members of Bitten By the Bug. Here are the challenges:

Bitten By the Bug - Use jumbled freedom words from Cricut Graphically Speaking (Independence is also from the same cartridge!)

2 Sketches 4 You, Laura Sketch #29 (used that for how I set it up!)

Use It #16 - Use Polka Dots, inspired by nature (the little owl!), favorite embellishments (I used the ribbon, flowers, button, and die cuts), and send to someone you care about. In this case I'm going to hang this on my door at work because it will cheer everyone up! So all those people are special! Hope that counts!

Pile It On #4 - Use 4 Buttons.

As I said in an earlier post for the same Use It challenge, I've been cleaning and reorganizing my scrap space and so I "found" the red polka dotty paper and didn't realize just how much fiber I had and this was a fun way to use it! I can't wait to take this to work tomorrow and hang it on my door!

2 Challenges In One ~ Thank You Card

For this card, I combined the Use It #16 Challenge with the Card Patterns #21 Sketch!

The Use It #16 Challenge was brought to us by Kay Sibley and was to be:

**Polka Dots (check, check ~ got lots of polka dots going on here!)

**Something from Nature (check, check ~ turtles and flowers)

**Favorite Embellishment (check ~ I have lots of faves but I love stacking flowers right now and putting a button on them! I also love die cuts with the cricut so the thank you is from the Beyond Birthdays cartridge)

**Send it to someone special (this will go to my parents who had my kids visit for a little over a week ~ I think it is great for my kids to get to know their grandparents but it still is hard to be patient when you haven't had kids around for quite awhile!)

And, for extra points I actually "found" both of these cool papers as I've been going through and reorganizing my scrap area! You wouldn't believe all the cool things I've found! I shouldn't have to shop for a long time (but will I???? Maybe I should Use It more often!).

2 Sketches 4 You ~ Kazan's Sketch 29

I had some great fun with Kazan's Sketch #29 this week! I have several friends and family with late June and July birthdays! So I took my scraps and leftovers of Little Yellow Bicylce Zinnia collection (I made a cool frame for my mom for Mother's Day with it) and started cutting out elements for the cards! They all use a Technique Tuesday Birthday Stamp and the cake is from the Lyrical Letters Cartridge. The flourish ont he side and the circle and flower circle are both cut with a revolution cookie cutter die. I changed around the papers and the bling (there is lots of it!)
and changed the directions of the card! I came out with 4 similar but different cards so I had to share them all!

This was great fun!

Thanks Kazan for a great sketch this week!

Can't wait to see who moves forward in the Ultimate Card Contest!

Another Bitten By the Bug Contest Entry!

I had so much fun with my other entry that I decided to do another one (you can do 2 and they are due tonight at midnight!).

This is for my sister Darleen's birthday (not till end of July so whoo hoo I'm ready early!).

I used patterned paper from Basic Grey Lime Rickey. It's Your Day and the silhouette flowers are from the George Cricut cartridge. The ribbon was a little piece of leftover from my silverwood books. The little bird is a quickutz revolution. On top of the flowers I put these little foam beads that I found at Michaels tonight. They looked very cool and worked out great with the flowers!

Thanks for having such a great contest! It was fun and it helped motivate me to get a couple projects done!

Primary Colors! Card Patterns #20 and a Birthday Card!

I just bought this cool paper pack (6 X 6) of Basic Grey called Lime Rickey and I just love the bright colors.

I used that paper for the background of my card for Card Patterns #20 this week. I didn't have anything that would make a whole square of scallops so I used my revolution border scallop and bordered the "totally fab." My daughter needed some thank yous for her 5th grade graduation presents so I pulled out one of the cutting cafe's (see link to the right ~ they are so cool) printable stamps that I had gotten awhile back and used it. I added some flowers and buttons that I've had around for awhile. I love anything with black because it makes it pop so that is why I chose the black for the scallps and ribbon.



My son will be going to a friend's birthday party in July and I had some more of those cute penguins cut out (revolution die) so I framed him in another cool cutting cafe printable stamp ~ you've got to love these cool big circles stamps ~ I use them alot. HB2U is cut from the cricut Alpahlicious cartridge.


Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week!