Christmas in July project!!

Hello everyone! Did you all have a wonderful weekend? I had a busy but fun weekend. I had a yard sale and put out a table of my handmade earrings and lollipop bouquet and everyone love them. They went within the first two hours. Now! I have to make some more! Here is my first Christmas project for 2011. I seen a lot of beautiful Christmas cards made this month. I wanted to make some Christmas tree ornaments. I will be making a lot of these. I will be giving these to my family and friends this year with a Christmas card:) and making some for the craft show. These will be a keepsake decoration for my family and friends. These are easy to make. I purchased the gold craft wire, beads, gold ribbon and wire cutter tool at Walmart. I'm making them in different color acrylic beads. I first hand shape the wire in to a tree shape. Then, I add the beads and wrap wire at top to create a loop to tie ribbon through.


I like creating things with that craft wire to see what I can make.I hope you all like my handmade ornament. Have a great week all and thank you so much for stopping by and looking:)

Working on a Your Story book!!

Happy Friday! I hope you all are having a wonderful day. Here is a 8 1/2 by 11 inch layout I made. I'm making a 8 1/2 by 11 inch book for my daughter with a lot of scrap pages. I will be making the book with the Your Story book binding machine. I never made a book with the Your Story. This will be the first book! I have a lot of photos to scrap for the book. All, I need to do is get on the ball and make all my scrap pages for the book. I want to make a very special keepsake book for my daughter.


For this layout! I used the Gypsy to design this page and I used the Gypsy Wanderings and Gypsy Font preloaded on the Gypsy. I used a MS ( Flower bed) deep edge punch for the pink card stock at top and bottom of the page. I had a lot of left over scrap paper I used for the die cuts. I'm trying to use all my left over scrap paper up;) This was a easy page to put together. I think it turned out great. I'm linking this to Cooking with Cricut challenge #44 to us a bunny on a project.

Have a wonderful weekend my friends and thank you for stopping by and looking :)

Gift card and earring winner is!!!

Hello everyone! I hope you are having a great day. Here is the Random chosen number for the $20 gift card and hoop earring. The winner is #3 and that is..................................................................................

These earrings are so beautiful! I love them all but blue is my favorite color! And I would have to choose Michaels, one of my fav stores :) Thanks so much for a chance to win!!

Lisa
http://indymermaid.blogspot.com
indymermaid(at)blogspot.com

Congratulations!! Lisa, email me your mailing info and I will mail the gift card and earrings to you. Thank to all who entered. I have another giveaway going on now and here is the link.

RaK GIVEAWAY!!

Happy Wednesday! I hope you are all having a great day. I been cleaning out my craft area today. I notice I had a couple of these items. Some time I buy too many :) I thought I would have a small giveaway with this stuff! If I get over 100 comments. I will add some puffy paint to this giveaway:) Click photo to enlarge it!


Here is what (1) follower will win:

One 4 by 6 inch chipboard book.
One Cherry chip board book.
One small alphabet stamp set.
One black ink pad.
Two unfinished wood frames.
Two packs of (8) count each 12 x 12 Pattern paper.
One 50 count of envelopes for A2 size cards.

Here is the rules for giveaway:

1) You must be a follower of my blog and if not you can become a follower. Leave a comment if you are a follower for a chance.
2)Add a Link on your blog sidebar or post on your blog about giveaway for another chance. Just come back and leave another comment. Let other know about this giveaway!

Good luck all! Giveaway is open to USA addressee only and ends on August 31, 2011 @ 12 o clock eastern time. I must get at least 75 comments or I will extented giveaway to a later end date.

I will Random chose one winner the next day. Have a great week all and thank you for stopping by and looking ;)

Teachers gift lollipop bouquet

Happy Tuesday! I hope you all are having a great week so far. You know I been making these lollipop bouquet. Well, I been making a lot of them. I love making these lollipop bouquet. They make a great gift! I made a Birthday and Get well one on Sunday, but I didn't have time to take a photo of them :( Here is a request for a Teacher one. This one I made for a neighbor whose daughter is attending Summer school and wanted me to make one for the Teacher.


I purchased the foam embellishments, lollipops, clear plastic cups and colored craft sticks from the $ Tree Store. You know I love this store for all my craft stuff! I'm making a lot of different ones for the craft show ;)


Thank so much for stopping by and looking. Have a wonderful day all:)

Cricut Marker project #2

Happy Monday! I hope you are having a great day. I made some more thank you cards and used my Gypsy to design this card. I used the Gypsy Wanderings that is preloaded on the Gypsy. I used the black Cricut marker to draw the corner images on the pink card stock with the Cricut E and I cut out the watermelon and watermelon shadow. I cut a piece of pink glitter card stock for center of card. Stamped the thank you with a clear stamp and black ink. I used black puffy paint for the seeds on watermelon.


I used a corner rounder to round the bottom of card:)This is A2 size card. Here is a close up. I'm linking this card to Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #70 to use watermelon or some other fruit on a card.


Have a great week and thank you for stopping by and looking.

We are having........

Hello all. Happy Friday to you. I hope you are having a great day. Here is a baby lollipop bouquet I made. We are having a .. ..........................................................................................................................................................................GIRL and a BOY twin! I guess you thought it was me having them. It's not me having them! It's my Niece! She will have our precious babies at the end of September. We are so excited and happy it is a girl and a boy. My Dad is a twin. We need some more twins in our family:)


I didn't have time today to use my cricut for this project. I purchased all of these baby embellishments at $ Tree store. This was a easy one to make.


Here is a close up of It's a girl embellishments. These embellishments are super cute and I didn't have to make them. Here is a card I made for her a few months back. If you haven't already seen it.


Have a great weekend all and thank you for stopping by and looking:)

Cherry thank you cards!

Happy Thursday all! I hope you are doing great today. Here is a set of cards I made for a friend. She want me to make (6) thank you cards and here they are. These cards were easy to make. When, I make more then one card. I try to make a quick and easy card. I used my Gypsy to design these cards. The cherry tag and shadow is from the Gypsy Wandering preloaded on the Gypsy.


I'm linking these cards to Getting Cricky with K Andrew Simply Sunday Food for Thought Challenge. Kristal designs high quality clear sentiment stamps and donates $1 per set sold to charities. She has a kind and generous heart! If you haven't already done so get over there and check out her site:)


Have a great day and thank you for stopping by and looking:)

Sweet friend lollipop bouquet!

Hello everyone! I hope you are having a great week. We are having very hot and humid weather here. We are staying inside to keep cool. Here is a lollipop gift I made for my friend. I always wanted to try to make one of these lollipop bouquet and here it is. This one was very easy to make. I can't wait to make some different ones! I purchase the clear water cups, blow pops and colored crafter sticks from the $ Tree Store. The crafter sticks are holding up the lollipop die cut. I cut a small piece of flower foam and put in cup to hold up the lollipops and other things. I shredded the pink paper in the clear cup in my paper shredder:) Click any photo to enlarge!


The lollipop die cut is from Mickey and Friends cartridge. The tag die cut I stamped Sweet friend is on Once Upon a Princess Cartridge. This is for Cooking with Cricut Challenge #43 to use a lollipops on project.


Thank you for stopping by and looking. Have a great week :)

Cricut marker project!

Hello everyone! I hope you are having a great day. Here is a card I made today for Cooking With Cricut challenge # 42 to use marker or pen work or sun on project. When I seen this challenge. I knew I want to make a card for this challenge. I used my black Cricut marker and Life is a Beach cartridge to draw this title word with the Cricut E. I cut out the star fish layers in glitter blue and pink paper and add glitter glue to star fish at top of the word friends.


I switched the paper color of star fish around on this card. These cards are pretty with the star fish cut out with the blue and pink glitter paper. These cards are easy to make and it is A2 size card.


Here is a close up of the card. The draw lines are smooth and there is no skipping on paper with the markers:) I love to use these markers to draw with the Cricut. My daughter thinks it is so cool to watch it draw the image.


Thank you for stopping by and looking and you all have a great week:)

Decorate To Celebrate Guest Designer!!!!

Hello friends. Happy Wednesday to you all! I hope you're having a terrific day! I am so excited and honored to have been ask by Rhonda and Amy to be a Guest Designer for Decorate To Celebrate Challenge #4 Kids Party Theme. I decided to create a Princess for a day party theme for my daughter and one of her friends. Here is the decorations I made for the Princess party. I made a 3D Castle, party favor bag, crown and princess party invitations. I used my Gypsy for this project and I used the Once Upon a Princess Cartridge to create the decorations:)


Here is a close up of the Castle. I used glitter paper I purchase from Target and I had so much glitter all over my cutting mat and it was every where from this glitter paper. This little castle is so beautiful and makes a great decoration:)


I love the crown too! You can't have a princess party with out a crown.


My daughter wanted me to make some Princess bean bags and here they are. She loves to toss these little bean bags around. I made a tutorial to show how I made them.


You will need (2) 9 x 12inch felt sheets and some dry beans. Cut felt sheets to 4 by 4 inch squares. You can get (6) bean bags out of the (2) felt sheets.


Face the right side of felt sheets together and then sew about 1/4 inch around edges. Leave a open edge so it can be turned to the right side.


Here how it should looks when its turned to right side. The open edge where it not sewn is where the bean can be put in that opening.


I hand stitched the opening with invisible nylon thread.


I made a crown stencil with heavy card stock. The crown stencil is cut from Once upon a Princess cart. I placed the crown stencil on bean bag and sponge dabbed the purple puffy paint on the felt. I love how these bean bags turned out ;0)


Thank you Rhonda and Amy for asking me to be your Guest Designer. I had so much fun creating this princess party project. Thank you all for stopping by and looking. Have a terrific week everyone:)

Ladies night out!

Hello friends! I hope your having a fabulous day! Here is a great idea. I'm having a ladies night out with (4) of my best friends in August. I made these cute fry boxes to give to them and these cute invitation cards. I think we will all need a night out after spending the summer with our children. It cost me $2.62 to stuff each fry box with nail polish, lotion, and emery boards. I think my friends will love this cute fry box favor! I used Forever Young cartridge for the polish cut on front of card and box. The polish cut is on page 46 of handbook. The card is A2 size and I cut the polish 4 inch for card and 3 inch for the fry box.


I'm linking this to Decorate to Celebrate challenge. The challenge theme is to create an (Adult theme party) project. I hope you all like this idea. The free fry box download I used is right here. All you have to do is print them out with your printer and then cut them out with scissors ;) When I seen these cute fry boxes. I knew I wanted to make some for my friends night out;) This fry box can be used for any occasion.


Have a wonderful week everyone and thank you all for stopping by and looking:)

Gift card giveaway and hoop earrings!!

Hello friends! I hope you are having a fabulous day. I know all of you who works are ready for this long holiday weekend. I'm ready for the fire work. I love this holiday. I love summer time because we cookouts and spend most of are time outside:) Here is some hoop earrings I made. You know me, I'm always making something. I made these in patriotic colors.


Here some blue. I like this color of blue. I used acrylic beads to make all these hoop earrings. The glass beads made them to heavy to wear on ears.


Look at all the different colors I made. Don't they look fabulous! Very easy to make:) If you want to know how I made them. Let me know and I will make a tutorial on how to make them ;)
I will give one winner a pair of these hoop earrings and a $20 dollar Michael's or Walmart gift card winner choice. This is open to my US addressee follower. You must be a follower to win or you can become a follower of my blog:) Leave a comment and let me know which color earrings you like and which gift card you would want. If you want to post or tweet about it that OK or link it on your side bar that OK. Leave a separate comment for each one you done. That all you have to do for a chance to win. I will pick a winner on July 28, 2011.


Thanks for stopping by and looking. Have a happy and safe Fourth of July all:)