My Cricut obsession over the past year has taken off exponentially. I purchased my Baby Bug from HSN in November of 2009. I don't think I actually used it until the summer of 2010. My bundle came with two cartridges (George and Designer's Calendar). In the few final months of 2010, that total was 12. I upgraded to the Expression in December of 2010. Well today I received three more in the mail. LOL! These were the ones that I received:
* Don Juan
* Mini Monograms
* New Arrivals
I'm excited to get to use them. That won't be tonight though, I feel really sick. I also got a special letter in the mail today. I heard about Operation Write Home (OWH) from another blogger. I went to their website, did a bit of research, and immediately knew that I had to help out. I grew up in the military. My stepfather served in Iraq in 2004. We kept in touch via email sporadically, so I understand the need for paper communication.
Luckily, I work for a wonderful company and we are always looking for ways to help the community. I'm organizing a "Card Making Night" for the staff to get together and make cards for the men and women in the service. My special letter contained a personalized stamp to support OWH. I'm hoping to get the event planned for early summer.
So enough of my rambling. Have a great night and hopefully I start feeling better so that I can get into my craftroom.
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Happy Saturday
Hello everyone! Hope you are having a wonderful Saturday. It's soooooo cold here in Philadelphia. I've just finished following 2 blog hops and I'm tired. There were so many good ideas and very talented ladies participating today. I was able to do a little cleaning and organizing in my craft room. While I was there, Miss A and I made a card for a birthday party that she's going to tonight. Here's a picture:
She picked out everything: the colors, the images, the background paper. All I did was show her how to use the Cricut Expression and watch as she was applying the glue. I also adhered everything down (don't want little hands playing with my ATG!!). I'd say for her first attempt, she made a VERY pretty card. I may have an apprentice in the making!
I also wanted to share a new site that a friend showed me (ATTN: If you are easily persuaded into buying things, please do NOT follow the link). So this site is basically a Groupon for scrapbookers!! Are you ready? You sure? Scrapbook Steals has an AMAZING offer today. Bo Bunny It's My Party Collection for $9.99. Go check them out and make it a favorite on your bookmarks bar. You'll want to go everyday!!
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Thursday, January 13, 2011
FCCB Challenge #42 - Winter Warmies
This week's challenge over at the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog was to create something using some type of winter clothing or accessory (i.e.: mitten, sweater, hat etc.) I have to admit, I'm ready for spring. My birthday is in April and spring has always been my favorite time of the year.
I didn't want to use blue in this card, but ended up using it anyway. In hindsight, I would have used the Cuttlebug to emboss the blue background before I put in on the card. I'll keep that in mind for when I remake the card. So, without further delay...
This is a 5x5 card. I used a corner rounder to round the edges. I used the Jolly Holidays cartridge to cut the mittens. I added a little sparkle with Stickles. I used a Martha Stewart punch the edges. The sentiment is from a set I purchased on clearance at Michael's. I hope you like the card.
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I didn't want to use blue in this card, but ended up using it anyway. In hindsight, I would have used the Cuttlebug to emboss the blue background before I put in on the card. I'll keep that in mind for when I remake the card. So, without further delay...
This is a 5x5 card. I used a corner rounder to round the edges. I used the Jolly Holidays cartridge to cut the mittens. I added a little sparkle with Stickles. I used a Martha Stewart punch the edges. The sentiment is from a set I purchased on clearance at Michael's. I hope you like the card.
Stay Crafty
Scrappy Mom Terrific Tuesday Challenge
I FINALLY made it into my craft room. After a bought of crafter's block, I'm ready to get going again. This is for the very first Terrific Tuesday challenge over at Scrappy Moms Stamps.
The challenge was to use the Birthday Bash Cricut cartridge. If you don't own Birthday Bash, you were to use something similar. I don't own it, so I used Create-A-Critter. Here's what I came up with:
I'll have to admit, I cut the hat a little backwards. The image has the hat and a pinwheel on it. So I used the "Fit to Page" button, which cut the image at 8 inches. The hat ended up being about 3.5 inches. I added a little bling with Stickles. The sentiment is from a stamp set that I bought at Michael's on clearance this past weekend. They have a lot of stamps marked down to below $5.
This card will be for a very special person. One of my besties has a daughter with Down Syndrome. She'll be 9 in a few weeks and of course her favorite color is purple. I hope she likes it.
Stay Crafty
The challenge was to use the Birthday Bash Cricut cartridge. If you don't own Birthday Bash, you were to use something similar. I don't own it, so I used Create-A-Critter. Here's what I came up with:
I'll have to admit, I cut the hat a little backwards. The image has the hat and a pinwheel on it. So I used the "Fit to Page" button, which cut the image at 8 inches. The hat ended up being about 3.5 inches. I added a little bling with Stickles. The sentiment is from a stamp set that I bought at Michael's on clearance this past weekend. They have a lot of stamps marked down to below $5.
This card will be for a very special person. One of my besties has a daughter with Down Syndrome. She'll be 9 in a few weeks and of course her favorite color is purple. I hope she likes it.
Stay Crafty
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Crafter's Block Cont.
Yesterday I posted the beginning (Jan, Feb, and Mar) of the calendar I did for the man-friend's mother. Since I still haven't made it into my craft room I am going to post the rest of the months.
Hope you like the rest of the pages.
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Monday, January 10, 2011
Crafter's Block
Hello everyone,
I have to admit, I didn't get anything done in my craft room over the weekend. I had some sort of crafter's block. I added a few touches to a couple of projects, but didn't really complete anything. I blame the cold that I'm catching and a super hyper 10 yr old that was "rocking out" in her room.
So instead of a super new project, I'm going to share the calendar that I gave my man-friend's mother for Christmas. I wanted to give her something special that included ALL of her family in it. Here are the snapshots for January, February, and March.
I believe all of the cuts in these images are from the Designer's Calendar Cricut cartridge. That background paper is from a stack by Karen Foster called the "Biggie Bundle - Throughout the Year #3". I got it at Michael's for a steal!! The calendar itself is from Oriental Trading Company. Surprisingly, it's a very sturdy calendar and worth every bit of the 9.99 that I paid for it. Here is the link to it if you want to check it out. The only thing that I've added to these pages were some Jolee's Gold Coins for March.
Stayed tuned for the next 3 months: April, May, and June
Stay Crafty
I have to admit, I didn't get anything done in my craft room over the weekend. I had some sort of crafter's block. I added a few touches to a couple of projects, but didn't really complete anything. I blame the cold that I'm catching and a super hyper 10 yr old that was "rocking out" in her room.
So instead of a super new project, I'm going to share the calendar that I gave my man-friend's mother for Christmas. I wanted to give her something special that included ALL of her family in it. Here are the snapshots for January, February, and March.
I believe all of the cuts in these images are from the Designer's Calendar Cricut cartridge. That background paper is from a stack by Karen Foster called the "Biggie Bundle - Throughout the Year #3". I got it at Michael's for a steal!! The calendar itself is from Oriental Trading Company. Surprisingly, it's a very sturdy calendar and worth every bit of the 9.99 that I paid for it. Here is the link to it if you want to check it out. The only thing that I've added to these pages were some Jolee's Gold Coins for March.
Stayed tuned for the next 3 months: April, May, and June
Stay Crafty
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Some of my Best Friends are Flakes
This week's "Challenge Me Monday" over at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog is about "Snowy Delights". I will also be entering this into Made By Momo's Tuesday Challenge. Her theme is create something that involves "Snow". Living in Philadelphia, I gotten to see quite a bit of snow (last winter we had some where around 72 inches) but nothing like the beautiful snow back in West Virginia. Here it snows, looks pretty for about an hour. Then the bus, a plow, or a random vehicle comes by and it becomes a gray/black slushy mess.
Anyway, on to my project. I tried to find a "snowy" tagline that hasn't been used too terribly much. "Some of my best friends are flakes" is quite funny and if I were to send such a card to any of my best friends they wouldn't take too much offense to it.
This is a standard A2 size card (4 1/4 x 5 1/2). I have no idea where this paper is from. A long time ago I purchased a set of paper from ABC Distributing. It hasn't been the easiest paper to use up and I don't particularly care for it. I printed the sentiment from my computer. I should have used some sort of block for it and maybe put it in the lower corner, but I can't complain it's still a cute card. The snowflake is from the Going Places Cricut cartridge. Until next time....
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