Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Hi everyone! Here is a card I created for some challenges going on this week! For my second St. Patrick's Day card this year I chose to use the shamrock from Paper Doll Dress Up cut at 3 3/4" and made a border with the shamrocks from Celebrate With Flourish cut at 3/4".

The challenges I am entering are:

Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge - use a rainbow or monochromatic green colour scheme as well as a little bit of gold. Also use at least 2 Cricut cuts.

Fantabulous Cricut - make a square card using the colours green and gold.

More than Favors (Wacky Wednesday) - St. Patrick's Day theme.

I used some gold cording I picked up at Michaels to tie around the shamrock and attached gold brads to one of the paper strips.

"St. Patrick's Day" is printed with my Xyron Design Runner.

The gold pen used to detail the large shamrock is by American Crafts.

All paper is from my scraps stash.

Hope you like it!

#29 Paper Doll Dress Up - Ahoy Matey!

Hi everyone! Here is a layout I created for the Throwback Thursday challenge at My Creative Time. Emma asked us to create a project using one of the Paper Dolls Cricut cartridges and to use embossing somewhere on it.

I chose to use Paper Doll Dress Up for the dolls and the ship.

I embossed their shirts and head wear with the cuttlebug.

I also used the Blackletter Solutions cartridge, which was one of the free Gypsy downloads. I never had any desire or intention to buy this cartridge but WOW - it turns out I love the font LOL I think it works perfectly for a pirate theme. The banner is also from Blackletter and I embossed it as well.

The face stamps are from the Peachy Keen Stamps Basic Paper Doll Assortment.

Hope you like it!

Gingerbread Gift Bag

Hi everyone! This is a gift bag that I made for the monthly Cricut Circle Magazine challenge. We were asked to create and decorate a gift bag using at least 4 Cricut cuts and incorporate something from one of the magazine cartridges.

The bag was cut from the Once Upon a Princess cartridge at 11.5" using a 12X24" mat. I used the gypsy and moved the bag down on the screen to cut out the red patterned border at the top of the bag.

The aprons are from Everyday Paper Dolls. I used my Gypsy to hide the pocket so I could make my own.

The heart on the apron is from Create a Critter. I applied adhesive only along the bottom edges to form a pocket for the gingerbread couple. I used the I-Rock by Imaginisce to attached the I-Rock metal bling accents around the hearts.

The gingerbread girl and boy are from Paper Doll Dress Up. I cut one set in brown, then hid all of the features on the Gypsy and cut one set from red for the hearts to show through, then one set in magnetic material so they can be used for fridge magnets! After cutting out the brown pieces, I traced over all of the detail lines with Liquid Applique. That stuff is really neat. You put it on, then let it dry for a while then use your heat gun on it. It puffs up! So it really looks a lot like icing! The magnetic material was cut with my deep-cut blade with the settings at - Blade:6 Depth:5 Multi-Cut:3

I printed a sheet of candy cane patterned paper with my Imagine using the Mr. Frosty cartridge. I cut out 8 of the candy cane hearts and glued them to the sides of the bags, then added some I-Rock jewels with my I-Rock.

I used the I-Top Brad Maker to make four patterned paper brads for the front and back of the bag.

I scanned the same patterned paper and printed it onto white tissue paper for the inside of the bag.

I braided red, white and green ribbons for the bag handles.

I put my gingerbread magnets in their apron pockets.

Both patterned papers are from the DCWV "'Tis the Season" Stack.

And that's all! Hope you like my creation!

You're an Angel card

Hello everyone! Tonight I created a card for the Throwback Thursday challenge at My Creative Time The challenge this week is called "Frame It" and we are to use the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge.

I decided to make a window card with the cute angel. All cuts are from the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge, except for the actual card which was created on my Gypsy with George and Basic Shapes.

The cloud and stars were made on white cardstock using the Cricut markers first, then cutting. I then coloured in the yellow stars. The garland at the top was five pieces from the Accessories 3 shift feature welded together.

I used my Princess Face Assortment stamps by Peachy Keen for the face on my sweet angel. The "You're an Angel" was stamped using the Tiny Typewriter alphabet set by CTMH.

Hope you like it! Have a great weekend everyone!

Dad Cookie Pail - Throwback Thursday Challenge

Hi everyone! For Emma's challenge this week at http://www.creativetimeforme.com/ she wanted us to make or alter a 3D item using the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge. I was so excited when I bought this cartridge and then it sat on my shelf for over a year after that. I finally started using it when I discovered the Peachy Keen face stamps - they are so cute!

I was planning on baking my Dad some peanut butter cookies (his very favorite) for Father's Day then thought I could cover an ice cream pail to put them in. He is a farmer so I decided to follow that theme.

I used the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge to cut out the man, his shirt, pants, hair and boots. I also used that cartridge for the cow. My Dad doesn't wear a cowboy hat so I had to get his baseball cap from Everyday Paper Dolls as well as the barn and the tractor. Hope this is ok! I used the Basic Cakes cartridge for the font on the lid of the pail.

Hope you like it! I know my Dad will at least love the cookies! He thinks I am obsessed with paper crafting because they didn't send me to kindergarten. HAHA.

I'm Back

Hi everyone! I am back and posting a couple more cards that I have finished in the last few days in between working on a mini album which I am so excited about! Not really sure what I will be using it for, but it is definitely fun to make! I have also been making little notebooks to try out my new Zutter Bind-it-All and I love it! I think it is almost time for me to get back to my real love - scrapbooking! Maybe next time I will have a post showing a scrapbook page! Anyway, these two cards are ones I made with my cricut using the Paper Doll Dress-Up and Sweethearts cartridges. Check out my new Martha Stewart punch on the wedding card - love it! Actually it came as a set with a corner punch so you can punch the same pattern all around the page!