Judy's Handmade Creations

A 3D Dimensional flower project!!

2012-01-26T21:09:00.003-05:00

Hello everyone. Hope your having a great week. Look at this cute flower project I put together. The flower pot, heart picks, white shredded paper, wire edge ribbon and flower foam to hold the flowers up were purchased from $ store. The plastic flower pots came in a pack of (4) for one dollar. This will make a great Valentine Day gift and a beautiful table decoration. You know me I love to create all kinds of crafts. I create cards, sewing projects, jewelery, crochet and many more. I'm very popular in my neighborhood for my handmade items. Everyone loves to receive one of my handmade items as a gift:)

These flowers were made with the EK Tools dimensional Carnation flower punch. This tool creates beautiful paper flowers for any project. This is my favorite 3D flower punch! Very easy tool to use to make flowers. Here is a video link . So you can see how easy this tool is to use.

These are the heart picks. I hot glued the dimensional flower to the heart picks.

Have a great week everyone. Thank you for looking:)

My Memories Suite Digital Bookmarks!!

2012-01-24T20:35:00.007-05:00

Hello everyone! I hope you all are having a wonderful Tuesday. Look what I created today with the My Memories Suite Digital Scrapbooking Software. Had so much fun creating these bookmarks and they look so nice printed out too! Who doesn't need a bookmark? I use bookmarks all the time to keep track of the page I stop reading.

Here is my finished bookmarks. Bookmarks measured size is 2 inch wide by 6 inch height. Printed them out on a 8 1/2 by 11 inch white card stock and cut them out with my scissors. Laminated all the bookmarks with the Your Story Book Binder / Laminating Machine. I always laminate my bookmarks. They will last a lot longer laminated. Punched holes with the Crop-a-dile hole puncher and tied a small piece of ribbon through punched hole.

Rounded corner on these bookmarks with a corner rounder punch.

Here is a close up of some of the bookmarks. These are really super easy to create with this software. Wanted to show something different that can be created with this software besides a scrappage layout ;)

Hope you enjoyed my bookmark creation with the My memories Suite Digital Scrapbooking Software. Here is a code to use if you want to purchase the software. USE this code STMMMS15941 to get discount and coupon.Get $10 discount off software download and another $10 coupon in your email to spend in the My Memories store. That a $20 Value!!

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

Tea for two pocket card!

2012-01-18T16:34:00.001-05:00

Hello all! Here is a tea for two card. This is a great card to invite a friend over for tea. The tea cup has a pocket so I could add a tea bag or gift card to it. Made this easy card for a challenge over at Cooking With Cricut Challenge #69 Winter Warmie. This challenge is all about ways to keep warm during these cold days of Winter. I drink a lot of hot tea, coffee and hot cocoa to keep warm on these cold days. If you haven't already done so get over there and check out all the Designer Team projects. These ladies are all so talented and very creative. This cup image is from Cricut Dreams Come True Cartridge. This is my first time using this cart. I had this cart for about 6 months and never used it. Embossed card with CuttleBug (Tiny Mosaic)embossing folder. Stamped sentiment with alphabet rubber stamps.

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

A paper rosette stand!!

2012-01-17T14:32:00.012-05:00

Hello everyone. Hope you are having a wonderful day. It's rainy here. Here is a great idea for any Cricut cut. If you need your project to stand up on a table or desk. I made a paper rosette to use as a stand. Is that a great idea or what? My Daughter wants to give some paper flowers to her Teacher and this will work out great. The Teacher can put this flower decoration on her desk.

Cut the flowers out in all different sizes and layer them. This flower is on the Flower Shoppe cartridge and is on page 14. Only used the Heart2 cut. Would tell you what size I cut the flowers but I used my Gypsy and I don't know the size. Used two 12 x 12 sheet of paper to make these flowers. One solid paper and a pattern paper. Purchased the round wood dowel sticks from WM. Glued everything with hot glue. I had alot of fun creating this project. Didn't know if it would stand up and it did!! I will be making more of these. I love how it looks ;)

To make rosette. I used a red poster board and Cut a 3 inches wide by 22 inches long. Score every 1/2 inch. Used MS Flower Bed edge punched on outer edge of rosette. Here's a link that shows how to make a rosette for a card.

Linking these project up to these challenges.
Decorate To Celebrate Challenge #16 Anything goes. Any party decoration theme.
BBTB2 Bloom Dimensional Flower Challenge.

Have a great week. Thanks for looking:)

Cute digital stamp Card!!

2012-01-16T00:15:00.006-05:00

This card was created with one of Bugaboo Stamps. I made this card to enter it into Stella says Sketch Challenge #102 at Catch The Bug Challenge Blog. These digital stamps are so fun to color. Embossed the card with Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder and set the blue gems with the irock tool. I stamped Happy Birthday inside the sign with white paint.

Have a great week all. Thanks for stopping by and looking ;)

A card stamped with paint!

2012-01-13T13:26:00.006-05:00

Hello everyone! Hope you all had a great week. This card I used a rubber stamp and I stamped the images on card with white paint. Traced around white stamped images with a black Sakura pen. I stitched around edges of card with the Sew Easy stitching tool. I won this tool from Cricut Creative Cutter Room. I wanted to try stamping with paint and this is how it turned out. I really like the out come of this card. I can't wait to make another card stamped with paint:)

I'm linking this card to this challenge.

Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday Challenge- PAINT

Have a wonderful weekend. Thanks you for looking:)

Photo Cube Creation!!

2012-01-11T21:45:00.009-05:00

Hello everyone. Hope your having a great week so far. I'm making these for my Mom, Sisters and Brothers. I know they will love these. They can put them on desk or table. These are photos of my Father 80Th Birthday. This photo cube was created in a Photo Creations software. I can create cards, photo cube, calenders and other projects with this software. This is where I downloaded the FREE software.

I designed it in the software. Printed it out with my printer on glossy photo paper. Laminated the printed sheet with my Your Story laminator. I laminated the sheet because it will protect the photos. Then I cut out along lines with scissors and scored and folded in to a cube. There is five photos on this cube.

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

A card with a crocheted heart!!

2012-01-08T17:21:00.014-05:00

Hey guys! Hope you having a wonderful weekend. I had a great weekend here! The weather here is beautiful. We had temperatures in the 50s. I love this kind of weather:) I've been crocheting these hearts and I made a few Valentine cards with them. Used MS Flower Bed Edge punch for this card. stamped I and you with my alphabet rubber stampers. This card is so feminine looking and can be given to a female. This card is so beautiful.

This card at the bottom is a masculine card I think and can be given to a male. I hope you like my idea on two different cards with the crocheted hearts. If you want to make some of these crocheted hearts. Here is the free pattern link I used. They are super easy to make:)

I'm linking this card here.
Creative Mondays link up party.
Catch The Bug January Anything Goes Challenge.

Have a great day. Thank you so much for stopping by and looking:)

Angel image card!!

2012-01-03T22:12:00.004-05:00

Hello everyone! Hope you all are having a great week. Here is an angel card. I got this angel rubber stamper out of the dollar bin at Michaels. Had to make a card with this image. This angel is so cute.

Here is a close up. Colored the angel with Bic permanent markers and used blue puffy paint on the eyes.

Linking this project to this challenge.
Catch The Bug Challenge Blog must used Stella's Sketch and create a project.

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

Happy New Year and Some Cake Pops

2011-12-30T19:27:00.003-05:00

Hello everyone. Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. I had a good Christmas. We have a few more hours to go and it will be 2012 a New Year! Maybe 2012 will be a better year for us all. I made some Cake Pops today for our New Year Eve celebration. I wanted to post them so you all could see how pretty they turned out. My son gave me the original bake pop Cake Pop Pan for Christmas and I love it. I love to make lollipop bouquet and now I can make cake pop bouquet for any occasion too :)

Linking this to this challenge.
Getting Cricky Simply Sunday Challenge It's a Celebration.

Have a safe and Happy New Year all! Thank you for stopping by:)

Christmas Ribbon Gift Tag!

2011-12-22T06:21:00.009-05:00

Hello everyone. Here is a Christmas tag. I used a standard size shipping tag and adhered Christmas wired edge ribbon to cover the tag. These gift tags make great bookmarks and the ribbon is so beautiful on the tag.

The flower and leaves are from the Flower Shoppe Cartridge. The mum2 flower is on page 21 of handbook and the mums leaf is on page 22. I used glitter foam sheet and cut the flower out of it. The leaves is cut out on green card stock.

I'm linking this to these challenges.

Cooking with Cricut Challenge #65 Holiday Floral.
Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #91 Trimming with a Tag.

Have a Merry Christmas everyone!! Thank you for stopping by:)

Scented Potpourri Tree ornament

2011-12-21T00:27:00.000-05:00

Hello everyone! I hope you all are having a wonderful week. Here's a great Christmas Tree ornament idea. I made some of these for my Christmas Tree and they smell so nice hanging on the tree. This is a $ Tree craft. I purchased the round tulle, apple cinnamon scented potpourri and artificial poinsettia flower from the $ Tree Store. The red ribbon I purchased from Walmart. These look so beautiful on the tree. I thought I would share this idea with you all:) Maybe next year you may want to make some for your tree!

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

My Memories Suite Winner !!!

2011-12-18T16:44:00.001-05:00

Hello everyone. Hope you all are having a wonderful Sunday. Can you believe we only have one more week to go and it will be Christmas Day! Here another layout I created with the My Memories Suite digital scrapbooking software. I love this digital software. I'm been creating a lot of pages for my Your Story album:) This page is so cute of my hubby and daughter playing in the snow.

Here is how I picked the winner. I put all the comments in a bowl. I let my daughter reach in the bowl and she pulled out Blooming Rose. Congratulations Blooming Rose. I will email the download code to you as soon as I receive it from My Memories Suite. If your email is not visual on your blog make sure you email it to me. My email is located on my side bar. Thanks to all who entered.

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

Christmas Candy Cane Treat Can Project!!

2011-12-15T13:07:00.007-05:00

Hello everyone. Here is a empty corn can project. I made the can in to a candy cane treat holder. I adhered the sticky back red felt to corn can. I decorated the recycled corn can with a plastic cane and a Merry Christmas plastic sticker. I made 2 of these to give out for a giveaway at my Cookie Swat Party on Sunday. I love how the candy canes look inside the can.

These make great gifts to give to family and friends :) and it a great way to recycle all those can too. I hope you like them and create some candy can treat holders too.

Here is one with a tag tied around the can with a piece of red ribbon. This tag is from Joy of the Season Cartridge. This tag cut is on page # 80 in the handbook.

Here is a close up of the tag. I pen stitched around tag with a white gel pen.

I'm linking this project to these challenges.
Cooking with Cricut Challenge #64 Cards, Tags and Gifts.
Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #90 Rolling in ribbon: To add ribbon to the project.

I'm linking this project to this Blog Hop
Creative Thursday Blog Hop.

Have a great day everyone . Thank you all for stopping by.

A Cute Digtal scrapbooking layout!!

2011-12-12T20:16:00.000-05:00

Hello all. This is my second post for today! Here's is a digital layout I created with the My Memories Suite digital scrapbooking software. This is a photo of my beautiful niece. She passed away on May 15,1995 from a car accident. She was 21 when she passed. I made this scrap page for my sister. This was my sister only child. My niece love to wrap Christmas presents for everyone and that is what she was doing in this photo.

I got a giveaway going on with My Memories Suite Digital scrapbooking software. Leave a comment on this link here and you are enter for a chance to win this software I created this layout with. I love My Memories Suite digital scrapbooking software. Look at this pretty page I created with it :) Giveaway ends December 16,2011 @ 11:59 PM

Have a great week all. Thank you for stopping by!

Crocheted Hat Gift Card Holder!!

2011-12-12T13:37:00.002-05:00

Hello everyone! Here a crochet project for all my crocheter followers. I made 8 of these to give to my Family and friends for Christmas. I will be putting gift cards in some of them and handmade jewelery I made. These hat gift card holders are so fun and easy to crochet and they are so cute.

Here is a close up of the red and green one.

This is how it looks when opened up at top of hat. My hubby tell me all the time I'm a Judy of all trades. He said I'm a card maker, sewer, jewelry maker and crocheter. I love to do all kinds of crafts:) Here is the free pattern link I used. If you want to try to make a few.

Have a great week everyone! Thank you for stopping by:)

Christmas Angel card!!

2011-12-09T12:33:00.011-05:00

Hello everyone. I hope you are having a great Friday! Here's a Christmas card I made. This angel image reminds me of an angel playing music to let everyone know that Mary had gave birth to baby Jesus. I sometimes think that everyone forgets the true meaning of Christmas. Christmas is to celebrate the birth of Our Savior Jesus.

Here is a close up of the images. The Angel is from Christmas Cartridge and the flower is from Flower Shoppe Cartridge. The Flower Shoppe cartridge is on my favorite carts list now. I love to make flowers:) The background pattern paper is DCWV The Christmas Stack Cardstock. This 12 x 12 paper pack has some pretty Christmas paper in it. I adhered a silver doily to the background pattern paper.

I'm linking this card to this challenge.
Cooking with Cricut challenge #63: Sounds Of The Seasons. You all know me. I got to join my friends over @ Cooking with Cricut Challenge. I always try to make a project for this challenge blog.
I'm linking this card to my friend Judy's Creative Thursday Blog Hop.
Robin's Creative Cottage favorite project of the month Link up party.

Have a great weekend everyone. Thank you for looking:)

My Memories Suite Giveaway.... extended

2011-12-08T10:47:00.003-05:00

Hello everyone. I hope you are having a great day. I want to let you know that My Memories Suite digital scrap booking giveaway will be extended to December 16, 2011 because no one has entered to try to win it :( Here is a layout I created with the My Memories Suite software. I took a picture of my poinsettia to place in photo mat. This layout is 8 x 8 inches. Here is my GIVEAWAY link if you want to try to win a free download of the software from their website. Leave a comment on this link here and you are entered for a chance to win!

I'm linking this project to My Memories Blog It's the Holiday Time Challenge.

Have a great day all. Thank you for looking:)

Christmas Candle Decoration!!

2011-12-05T22:52:00.002-05:00

Hello everyone! Hope you are having a great week. Here is a Christmas candle decorations I put together today. I love how it turned out. I purchased the candle, pine cone flower at top of candle and garland from $ Tree Store. The garland is at the bottom of candle. I wrapped the green garland around candle so it would look like a wreath. The Red ribbon and religious stickers from Walmart.

I used my Flower Shoppe Cartridge to make the flowers. The flower I used for this project is on page 21 of the handbook. I cut one of the "Mum1" at 2 1/4 inches then I cut two of the "Mum2" at 2 1/4 inches and "Mum5" five leaves for flower at 1 inch. Leaves are on page 22. I tried to make the flowers look like a poinsettia. I had this cartridge since September and never used it until today.

I love these flame less scented battery operated candles. This Candle looks really pretty decorated.

I'm linking this to Cooking with Cricut Challenge #62 to use candles, wreaths and/or pine cones on project.
Getting Cricky Simplly Sunday challenge-Joys of the Season. To create Christmas decor.

Have a great week all. Thank you for stopping by!

Christmas Cookie Swat Party Favors...Video!!

2011-12-02T17:40:00.007-05:00

Hello everyone. I hope you are having a great Friday. Here is my Christmas Cookie Swat Party Favors. I made these for the Cookie exchange party I'm having on December 18, 2011.

You can watch the video if you want. It will explain how I made them and where to buy items. Mute music player at bottom of page.

I'm linking this project to this challenge. Decorate to Celebrate Challenge to create a Christmas Party theme item.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone. Thanks for stopping by:)

Gingerbread cookie pins!!

2011-11-30T13:11:00.005-05:00

A quick post to let you see my gingerbread pins. I made (18) of these for the Christmas Bazaar. These were very easy to make. I bought the gingerbread cookie button and glued pin on back. Made a small card and stamped Merry Christmas and I was done. This is the boy gingerbread cookie here.

This is the girl gingerbread cookie pin. I love to make these because they can be pined on a shirt or anything.

I made some of these ribbon poinsettia to give to my friends and some tree shape beaded ornaments. Here is the tree ornament link if you want to check them out. Check back one day this week and I will have my cookie Swat party favors for you to check out. You are going to love them!

These have a pin too.

I'm linking this project to Creative Thursday Blog Hop. Let me know what you think:) Have a great day all!

Another My Memories Suite layout!!

2011-11-29T20:24:00.000-05:00

Hello everyone. Here is scrap page of my Husband, Son, Daughter and Me. I'm so blessed to have all of them in my life! I designed this scrap page with My Memories Suite digital Scrap booking Software. This page will go in to a 8 x 8 inch Your Story book. I'm creating a lot of pages for this book :) This digital scrap booking software is so easy to use. Here is My Memories suite giveaway link if you want to try to win My Memories Suite. If you can't wait to win My Memories Suite. You can purchase a My Memories Suite use discount code STMMMS15941 at check out to get $10 discount on My Memories Suite and 10 coupon for My Memories store that a 20 value!!

Have a great week. Thanks for stopping by :)

My Memories Suite Card!!

2011-11-28T13:03:00.005-05:00

Hello everyone. I hope you all are having a great day. Here is a card I made with the My Memories Suite Scrap booking software. I used my printer to print out this card from the My Memories Suite software. I made this card for the Cooking with Cricut Challenge #61 Bible Quote or Verse for National Bible week. I'm thinking about putting this card in a frame and giving this to my friend :)

The heart border at the bottom of this card is from the Cricut DoodleCharm Cartridge and is on page 85 of handbook.

The card at bottom was created with My Memories Suite Digital Scrap booking software only. Here is my giveaway link if you want to try to win the My Memories Suite scrap booking Software. Winner will be able to download software from My Memories Suite Web site. Everyone is welcome to enter giveaway. If you want to purchase one you can use discount code STMMMS15941 to get $10 of My Memories Suite Software. Click on My Memories Suite button on my side bar and it will take you to their web site.

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

My Memories Suite Giveaway and review!!

2011-11-25T08:40:00.009-05:00

Hello eveyone. I hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving. I was asked by My Memories Suite if I would like to offer a giveaway of their digital scrapbook software to my followers and I said yes! I was so excite to be ask to review this digital scrapbook software. I went to My Memories Suite web site and downloaded the digital scrapbook software to my computer so I could try it out. This digital software is so easy to use and is rate #1 by Amazon and top ten reviews. I had fun creating this digital layout of my daughter and me. I'm really liking this digital scrapbooking software. I can create layouts, cards, video and more and print them out with my printer.

They are also providing all my followers a $10 discount off the purchase of the My Memories Suite Scrapbook Software and a $10 coupon for theMy Memories.com store - $20 value!

Use Code STMMMS15941 for your discount

To enter to win the My Memories Suite Giveaway just:

1 entry- Follow Judy Handmade Creations with Google Friends Connect and link giveaway on side bar or post about it.
1 entry- leave me a comment letting me know your favorite paper packs or layouts found on their MyMemories.com website.

For extra entries leave one comment for each of the following.

Follow My Memories' blog - http://blog.mymemories.com/
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This giveaway ends on December 16, 2011 @ 11:59 PM. There will be one winner pick by Random org. The winner will be able to download software from My memories Suite web site.

Happy Thanksgiving Indian Decoration!!

2011-11-14T16:35:00.000-05:00

Hello everyone. I hope you all are having a great day. I used my Gypsy to design this Thanksgiving table decorations today. I always wanted to make the boy and girl Indians on Paper Doll Dress Cartridge and I made them :) Th boy and girl Indians are on page 60 and 61 of the handbook. I purchased the pot of fall flowers from the $ Tree store for $1.00.

Here is a close up so you can see how cute the Indians look:) The paper is Recollection card stock. I used rub on doll faces for the Indians that I purchased from Michael's and I used a brown Bic Markers to outline Indians. I hot glued the Indians and Happy Thanksgiving to colored craft sticks and wooden dowel.

This Happy Thanksgiving cut is on the Wild Card Cartridge and is on page 43 of handbook. I tied a small piece of natural raffia on here. That's about what I used to make this project. I hope you all like it!!

I'm linking this project to this challenge.
Fantabulous Cricut #86 – Harvest Blessings Cricut Crawl
Share your blessings and use red, orange and brown on your Fall project.

Have a great week all. Thank you for looking:)

Tea time card!

2011-11-11T19:35:00.004-05:00

Hello everyone. Happy Friday! I don't know about you but I'm ready for the weekend. I been trying to get my body adjusted to this day light saving time. I don't know about you but I don't like it getting dark outside at 5 o'clock. Here a cup card I made today. I created this card with my Gypsy and I welded the cup together. I adhered the bottom and handle side of cup together with glue. This made a pocket inside the cup for a tea bag or gift card. The cup cut is from Gypsy Wanderings.

This card is A2 size 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch. The paper is Colorbok from Walmart. I made the tag with zig zag scissors and tied the sentiment tag on card with natural raffia. I wrote the sentiment on tags. Here is a 3D mug box with a free cut file. I created this cut file a while back.

I'm linking this card to these challenges. Getting Cricky Simply Sunday Challenge- Tea Time.
Catch The Bug Challenge Blog is to Create an “Pocket (image or actual pocket card)” Project.

Thanks for looking. Have a fabulous weekend :)

Apple of my eye card!!

2011-11-10T19:32:00.001-05:00

Hello everyone. I hope you are having a great Thursday. Here a card I made for Cooking with Cricut Challenge #59. This weeks challenge over there is to make a project with Fruits, Cornucopia and/or Harvest Time. This is one of my favorite Challenge blog. I always try to make a project to link up with my friends over there. To make this card I used "Just Because" Cards Cartridge for Apple and word. Apple and word cut is on page 46 of handbook. I used foam sheet and cut out apple layers. The yellow pattern and green paper is Recollections and the other pattern paper is Martha Stewart paper. I love all the bright paper I used for this card:)

Thank you for looking. Enjoy the rest of your week :)

Tinker bell on a wooden plaque

2011-11-09T19:52:00.003-05:00

Hello everyone. Hope you all had a fabulous day. Here a Tinker bell wooden plaque I made to give to my Sister on her Birthday this month. My sister has a collection of Tinker Bell items. I know she will love this plaque. I painted the oval wood shape deep purple and hot glued the Tinker Bell stickers to wood. I make a lot of plaques like this and I make them all different:)

I'm linking this project to the Passionately Artistic Link up Party. Have a great week all. Thank you for looking:)

Christmas reindeer earrings!

2011-11-08T19:46:00.003-05:00

Hello everyone. I hope you all are having a great week. Here some cute Christmas earrings I made. I made these for the Christmas Bazaar. I will be posting some of the items I made for the Bazaar this month. I hope this gives you some ideas what to create for some of your events :)

I purchased the reindeer buttons from Walmart and the flat post earring finding are from AC Moores. I cut the shank of the buttons and adhered the flat earring post findings to the reindeer buttons.

I put the earrings on a 2 by 2 inch note card. These button earrings turned out so cute:) Don't you think so?

Have a great week everyone. Thank you for looking:)

Brand new challenge blog!!

2011-11-03T16:38:00.002-04:00

Hello everyone. I hope you all are having a wonderful day! Just wanted to let you all know!! There is a brand new challenge blog. Ashley @ Made Especially for You has a brand new challenge blog. This week challenge is to use Blue, Green and Pink to create a card or a scrapbook layout. They have a great prize to giveaway too. Go over and check it out and maybe you may want to create a project and play along:) I'm also linking this to Decorate To Celebrate Challenge #12 Birthday Party and Birthday Sundaes Challenge #33 Birthday card.

I made this card for my Sister. She has a Birthday this month and she loves Tinker Bell. I purchased the Tinker Bell stickers @ the $ Tree Store for $1.00. I used the MS {Flower Bed} edge punch to punch around pink paper.

Have a great week everyone. Thank you for looking:)

Cookie Swap Party Invite card!!

2011-11-02T18:26:00.003-04:00

Hello everyone! I hope you all are well. I've been sick with a nasty cold for a few days. That is why I was not posting any projects or visiting any blogs. Today I feel a lot better:) I'm back to creating some cards. This card is being mailed out to invite family and friends to my Cookie Swap Party. The pattern paper is from Provo Craft {Christmas Cheer} and the solid paper is Recollections. Gingerbread is from Paper Doll Dress Up Cartridge and is on page #73 of handbook. The cookie is a oval shape from Plantin SchoolBook Cartridge and is on page #72 of the handbook. I used brown foam sheet and cut out gingerbread lady and oval. I embellished the gingerbread lady and cookie with puffy paint, glitter glue, googly eyes and ribbon :) I used a label maker for sentiment on front of card.

I hand printed inside of card with a black gel pen.

I'm linking this card to these challenges.
Cooking with Cricut Challenge #58 Cookies, Cookie Monster and/or Clock.
The Cuttlebug Spot Challenge anything goes.

Have a great week. Thank you for looking:)

Grateful Card!!

2011-10-26T15:59:00.001-04:00

Hello everyone. Hope you all are having a wonderful day! This card is being linked to Delightful Inspirations Friday Digital Stamp Challenge. I love this challenge blog because the blog owner emails everyone a free image on Friday to play in the next challenge. If you play this week you will get a free image next week. This way everyone wins :) I created a project last week and I was emailed this "Lovely Tree" image to play along this week :)

I colored the tree image with Bic markers, colored pencils and StarLightz Glitter gel pen. The sentiment is computer generated. I used a paper trimmer to trim all the paper and a corner rounder to round corners of paper. This card was not created with the Cricut Expression.

Have a great week all. Thank you for looking;)

Halloween witch box and card!

2011-10-25T17:32:00.001-04:00

Hello everyone. I hope you are having a good week. Here is a witch card and box I made. The gift box is from Wild Card Cartridge and is on page #80 of handbook. The witch is from A Child's Year cartridge and is on page #53 of handbook.

This is side view of box.

I had to make a matching card:)

This is being linked to these challenges:
Getting Cricky Challenge to use orange and black only and one other color.
Decorate to Celebrate Challenge #11 to make Halloween Themed Party Decor.
My Craft Spot Challenge #31 create a project that you can see though.
Delightful Inspirations Saturday Challenge Cute critters to include a 4 legged critter on creation.
Bitten by the Bug 2 Challenge Happy Haunting witch project.
Have a great week. Thanks for looking ;)

A beautiful butterfly card!!

2011-10-20T12:23:00.003-04:00

Hello everyone! Hope you are having a great day. I'm having a good day here. I been creating some cards :) This card I'm linking to Cooking with Cricut Challenge #56 Purple, Green and Three Sketches. This challenge we must use one of the three sketches a card, 12 x 12 scrap page or two 12 x 12 scrap page sketch to create our project. I used the card sketch to create this card. This is the best I could do with the sketch. You must create a card or scrap page for Mother -in- Law day on October 23rd. My MIL passed away on April 19 2010. My MIL had a butterfly bush in her front yard and oh my it had a lot of butterflies flying around it every Summer. She loved butterflies! That is why I created this card with a beautiful butterfly.

The butterfly is a printout. I colored the butterfly with Bic makers and outlined it with glitter glue:) The scallop is from A Child's Year cartridge. This card cut is on page #49 of the handbook.

Enjoy the rest of you week. Thank you for looking:)

Happy day card with cute frogs!!

2011-10-18T22:27:00.007-04:00

Hello everyone!! I just found out I'm a Link Up for Pink WINNER!!! I'm so super excited to have won a prize:) I want to send a shout out to thank Celeste, Gaby and Yolie for having this LUFP linky party. This was a lot of work for you ladies and you all did a wonderful job leaving comments on all the projects that were linked up. There was so many beautiful cards linked up for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I'm so blessed to have you all as my blogging friends:) Here is a happy day card I made. My daughter said these frogs are so happy they are hopping up and down in the pond:) The pond and weed is from the Create a Critter Cartridge and is on page #44 of handbook. The pond and weed was both cut @ 1 3/4". I embossed the card stock with Cuttlebug embossing folder { Swiss Dots}. The frog and small bug is a Cuttlebug die cut and it is {Garden Creatures} die cut. I used glitter and regular foam sheets to cut out the frogs:) Happy day is a sticker. This is an A2 size card 4 1/4" x 5 1/2".
This dinosaur is from the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge and is on page #34 of the handbook. the little turtle is a stencil. I traced it on the glitter foam sheet and cut it out with scissors. Friends Forever is a sticker.

Have a great week. Thank you for looking:)

Winner of the LUFP earrings giveaway!!

2011-10-16T17:15:00.019-04:00

Happy Sunday everyone! Here's a photo of a duck I took with my camera at the park a few weeks ago. My daughter loves to go to the park and feed the ducks that live in the pond. This duck is her favorite because this duck eats the bread right out of her hand.

Here is the winner of earrings and crocheted bracelet and that is #2

Jessica said...
Your earrings are fabulous! So creative you are! I am happy to be paired up with you and all the others in the LUFP! Such a phenomenal cause! And even happier to already be a follower of your wonderful blog!
:O)
Jessica
entry #211 at LUFP

You won the LUFP earring giveaway here and you won the crochet bracelet on hand card here too. Congratulations!! Jessica, email me your address so I can mail the earrings and bracelet to you.

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

Cri-Kits winners and some cards!!

2011-10-14T11:57:00.010-04:00

Here some Halloween cards I made with spiders. This spider card looks so creepy. Is this card creeping you out "huh"? My daughter likes this card the best:) Inside of the cards I wrote Have a CREEPY Halloween!!! This is not a Cricut card. I purchased the 3D spiders, web foam stickers and the black creepy cloth from the $ Tree Store.

Here is the Cri-kits Gel Pen winners. Congratulations!! Please email me your address so I can mail these Gel pens to you.

Valerie @ My-2-cents said...
I am already a follower and sharing this on my sidebar. These would be SO much fun! Thanks
My 2 Cents
my_2_cents at hotmail dot com

CRAZY4CHRIST said...
What a great giveaway!! I added it to my sidebar of my blog and I am already a follower(Canadian). Thanks for the chance to win!!
Kristan

I used the black Cri-Kits gel pen to draw the web on this card :) This web is on Paper Doll Dress UP Cartridge and is on page #49 of the handbook. The 3D spider and web foam stickers I purchased from $ Tree Store. I love to make spider cards. They are so creepy!!! Both card were easy to make:)

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!! Thanks for looking:)

A cute bear project!!

2011-10-12T14:26:00.012-04:00

Hello all. I seen the challenge over @ Cooking with Cricut is to create a project with a bear and/or cupcake. This is what I came up with! These would make great party favors but this one is for my daughter:) When she looks at this cute bear she will love it. The box and cupcake is from the Sweet Treats Cartridge. I used the MS {Flower Bed} edge punch on blue glitter paper on the box. The bear is a template. This bear template was in a paper pack I purchased from the $ Tree Store. I traced it on pink cardstock and cut it out with my scissors. These bear templates can be found on the web too.

Here is a close up of the bear. The face on the bear is Lana's Crafts Doll Rub On Face. I purchased the rub on faces at Michaels. Super cute bear "Huh"?

This bear on the craft stick can be used as a bookmark too ;)

Do you want to know what is inside the box? A pair of fuzzy gloves. I purchased from the $ Tree Store for 1.00 :) My daughter will love these gloves!

Have a great week. Thank you for looking:)

Fancy Frames Project!

2011-10-11T18:45:00.007-04:00

Hello everyone! Here is a frame card I made. This can hang on the wall as is or put in a 8 x 10 frame or can be displayed with a easel. I created this for my friend and I love how it looks! I will be making more of these. I used the Cricut projects Fancy Frames Cartridge to make this frame.

I used a butterfly stencil to trace butterflies on pink glitter foam sheet and cut them out with my scissors ;) The Bible Verse is computer generated. This is Frame #1 and I designed it with the Gypsy. The Width is 8.13 and height is 6.06 on the Gypsy screen. This frames finished measured size from top to bottom 9 1/2 " from side from to side 7 1/2 ". To cut the frame out I used a 8 1/2 " by 11.0" card stock.

I'm linking this to these challenges:

Cooking with Cricut Challenge #54 anything goes!
Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Me Monday #81 Create a project to hang on wall!

Have a wonderful week all. Thank you for looking:)

Pink Crocheted bracelet on a hand card!!

2011-10-09T23:33:00.015-04:00

Happy Sunday all! I want to post this early but I was so busy and couldn't post earlier today. This crocheted bracelet is my own pattern design. I been making these bracelets on a hand cards for a friend to give out at her Daughter Birthday party for party favor gifts for the girls. I think these are so cute on the hand card ;) I made this one to giveaway on the Link Up for Pink Linky Party. I had to make one more handmade item to giveaway to the random chose winner of earrings on this post Here. You must have a pink project linked up on the Link Up for Pink Linky Party to be eligible to win. You must leave comment here and comment on the first earrings giveaway post. If you already left a comment on the first earrings giveaway post. Leave another comment to better your chance to win. The earrings and bracelet goes to one chosen winner ;) Winner will be announce on 10/15/11.

This is a tie up bracelet so it will fit any size wrist! To make hand card I used the A Child's Year cartridge. I'm linking this project to Decorate to Celebrate Challenge #10: This challenge is to create a party decorations or party supplies for Tweens and Teens Party.

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

MAR-Kits Cards!!!

2011-10-07T12:05:00.012-04:00

Happy Friday! I have some cards to share with you all today! These cards I made for Creative Inserts -- CRI-Kits. I used their NEW MAK-Kits Markers to draw on these cards. The image was drawn with the Cricut Expression but these MAR-Kits can be use in other machines. You can check out their site and some more great products HERE! I used the blue fine tip marker to draw image on this card. Fancy Frame Cartridge to draw this image:)

Life is a Beach Cartridge to draw this image. I used the red fine tip marker for this card.

Life is a Beach Cartridge to draw this image. I used the blue fine tip marker here too! Which card do you like best? I love the very first card at top :) Everyday Is A Once And A LifeTime Day chipboard sentiment tag was purchased from Michael's. I'm getting very creative with these MAR-Kits "huh"?

Have a great weekend! Thank you so much for looking ;)

My Link Up for Pink GIVEAWAY!

2011-10-06T11:03:00.005-04:00

Hello everyone! Here another project I made for Celeste, Gaby and Yolie Link Up for Pink Linky Party! I will give both the silver and gold to one person who has linked up on the Link Up for Pink . All you need to do is link up a pink project and leave a comment on what number your project is and you are entered for a chance to win these earrings:) I will pick a winner on October 15, 2011. Go ahead and link up a pink project. They have some awesome prizes to giveaway!!!

If you are picked you will have to pairs of earrings. One for YOU and one for a FRIEND:) This is my first time trying to make beaded Breast cancer ribbon earring! I hope you like them :)

Have a wonderful week. Thank you for stopping by;)

Link up for Pink card #3!!

2011-10-04T11:11:00.006-04:00

Hello everyone! Here is my last card for Link up for Pink. I really like this card. This rose is one of my favorite Cricut images. I use this rose a lot on the cards I create. This rose is on Potpourri Basket Cartridge and is on page #37 of handbook. I think this image is on Indie Art solutions Cartridge too! The letters is from Plantin SchoolBook Cartridge. I used the Cricut black marker to draw the rose first on card stock and I cut out the rose layers in pink glitter card stock. the Breast Cancer ribbon was made with a small piece of ribbon and I used the i-rock tool to add gem to ribbon:) I hand printed There Is on a pink piece of foam.

Have a great day all. Thanks for looking:)

Another card for Link up for Pink!

2011-10-03T21:22:00.002-04:00

Happy Monday! Here's another card I made for Link up for Pink. This card was easy to make. I cut a small piece of pink foam sheet and shaped it in to a Breast Cancer Awareness ribbon:) Stamped Hope with a clear acrylic stamper and black ink. Hand printed Faith, Strength, Courage and Family with black pen . I embossed card with Cuttlebug embossing folder ( Tiny Mosaic). I used a lot of glitter glue on pink foam ribbon. Click photo to enlarge so you can see all the glitter:)

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

Link up for Pink: Race For A Cure Card!

2011-10-02T20:08:00.017-04:00

Happy Sunday! I hope you all had a fabulous day! Here is my Link Up For Pink Project. You know October is breast Cancer Awareness month and a lot of Pink cards will be made. Here is the link if you want to go check out all the details and create a pink project too. The shoes image is on Paisley Cartridge and is on page #52 of handbook. Used MS ( flower Bed ) edge punch. I embossed card with Cuttlebug Swiss dots embossing folder and Hand printed Race For A Cure:) I hope you like my card:) Click to enlarge photo!

Have a great week. Thank you so much for looking:)

Cri-Kits Gel Pen GIVEAWAY!!

2011-09-30T09:51:00.005-04:00

Happy Friday! Look at what I got to giveaway. Dru @ Cri-Kits sent these gel pen to me to giveaway to (2) followers of my blog. I will have (2) winners. One winner USA and one winner International. Leave a comment and let me know if you are USA or international addressee. All are welcome to enter as long as you are a follower of my blog and you post giveaway on your side bar to let others know about giveaway! You must link this giveaway on your side bar and be a follower of my blog to be eligible to win. This giveaway ends 0n 10/13/11 @ 11:59 PM oclock Eastern time. Make sure you check back here to see if you are a winner:)

If you win these gel pens. You can enter one of Cri-Kits contest they have sometimes on their blog and win some more goodies! I won the SummerTime conteast. Check it out right HERE! Here's the link to some of my projects I made with these gel pens. I will be making a project with their new Mar-kits next week and maybe a tutorial video on how to make the card with the new Mar-kits. Keep a look out for that next week :)

Thank you so much Dru for sending these to giveaway! Thank you all for stopping by and looking. Have a great week everyone ;)

3D Chandeleir!!

2011-09-28T11:36:00.010-04:00

Hello friends! Look what I made for my daughter. I made it in her favorite color pink too! This 3D chandelier is on Cricut Events Girls Makeup Party Cartridge! This chandelier is so cute! What girl doesn't want a chandelier hanging from their ceiling? This cart has a lot of great girl cut on it. My daughter loves this cart :)

I cut the chandelier @ 5 1/2 in. I cut each chandelier cut twice on pink 12 x 12 in card stock and I cut each chandelier cut one time each out on chip board. I adhered the pink card stock to outside of chip board on each side. I did this so the chandelier would be more sturdy. Used i-rock to adhered the silver gems, added some acrylic beads and silver chain to the top of chandelier. You know me!! I had to make this chandelier shine up with a lot of glitter:)

Linking this project to this challenge. Simmon Says Stamp Challenge Blog. Simmon Says "Anything go this week" :) Hope you all like my chandelier.

Have a great week friends. Thanks so much for looking ;)

A heart card!

2011-09-26T15:51:00.004-04:00

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a great weekend. We had a busy one here. Here is a card I made today for a friend. She wanted a card with a heart on it. This is what I came up with. I embossed the card with Cuttlebug embossed folder (Grace's Frame) I used the MS Flower Bed edge punch on blue glitter paper and Plantin Schoolbook to cut pink heart image. Added a white foam heart sticker, blue ribbon, pen stitched around card and stamped With Love on card. This was a easy card to make. Hope you like this card :)

I'm linking this card to these Challenges
My Craft Spot Challenge #26: to use ribbon on project!
Unscripted Sketches #125: Must use sketch #125 to create a card or scrapbook page.

Have a fabulous week. Thank you for stopping by:)

A cute owl card!!

2011-09-25T19:34:00.008-04:00

Happy Sunday! I hope you all had a wonderful day! This cute owl is from the Give a Hoot cartridge. This is my first project with this cartridge and I had to make a card with the cute owl. I had this cart for about 6 months and never used it until today.

The owl is on page #28 of handbook and the leaves border is on page #31. The card is A2 size. I cut owl and layers @ 3 in and leaves border @ 1 in.

I'm linking this project to these challenges. Cooking with Cricut Challenge #52: To use the colors of Autumn. Getting Cricky Simply Sunday Challenge: create a card or treat holder with a FALL theme! Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #79 Leaves Are Falling: to create a project with leaves on it.

Have a great week and thanks for looking:)

Link up Love Party with K Andrew

2011-09-20T11:53:00.010-04:00

Happy Tuesday. Its time for another Link up party with K Andrew. This is a great way to find new blogs and share blog inspiration all over blog land.

Link Up Love Party: How it Works

*Link Up Party runs from Tuesday 9/20 to Tuesday 9/27. Winners announced 10/3
*Grab Getting Cricky blinkie post it on your side bar.
*Be a follower of Getting Cricky blog.
*Create a new blog post that is titled Link Up Love Party with K Andrew. In your post, you must mention that the link up love party is a way to get to know each other and find new blog inspiration, mention Getting Cricky blog, with a link back to Getting Cricky blog.
*Post a Fall or Halloween project.
*Copy and paste the link up code in your post so inlinkz will show up on your blog.
*Spread the word so everyone can join in!
*You must visit, follow, and comment on the 5 people before you AND the 5 people after you in the Inlinkz. It would be fantastic if you would visit as many as you can--maybe everyone? If you are one of the first 5 then you will need to blog the ones before you and a few more after--as long as it's a minimum of 10 near you in the link up tool/gadget)
*If you do not do the above your link will be deleted, because it's just not fair to those who work so hard linking up and showing love to the ones on the list. I have two moderators who will be checking this out to keep it awesome and fun!

Here is one of my favorite Halloween projects. Click here for detials on how I made my card.

Autumn Home Decoration Craft!

2011-09-17T00:00:00.007-04:00

Happy Saturday! Here is a fast and easy $1.00 Tree Store Home decoration craft. These were so easy to put together and they look so beautiful! I love how the flame less candle looks in the jar.

All the item are from the $1.00 Tree Store. The glass jar, flowers, leaves, ribbon, Fall stickers and flame less candle. I used green puffy paint on the outside of jar to make green dots.

These flame less candles are (2) for a dollar. I use these flame less candles a lot:) I'm linking this project to this challenge. Really Reasonable Ribbon's Ramblers Challenge. The theme for Challenge #32 is Autumn.

Create a card, layout, multi media piece, tag, ATC, hair bow, you name it. Just be sure to follow the theme above and use ribbon/lace or trim somewhere on your project.

Have a wonderful weekend and thanks for stopping by:)

Sweetest heart card!!

2011-09-14T18:30:00.013-04:00

Happy Wednesday! I hope you all are having a wonderful day. I made this card because I seen a beautiful card, Angi made with hearts. You know me I had to make a card with a heart:) This card is being linked to Cooking with Cricut Challenge #51 Heritage/ Grandparents. Grandparents do have the Sweetest Heart! City Crafter Challenge week #74 I "Heart" You! Incorporate hearts on your project . I'm also linking this card to Cute Card Thursday Challenge #108- anthing goes.

I purchased the Sweetest heart chipboard shape at Micheal's for 1.00 and it had (20) different shapes in pack. It was a marked down item. I drawn the frame image with the Cricut Expression on white card stock with a black Cricut Marker. I LOVE MY CRICUT MARKERS! The frame is from Cricut Project Fancy Frames. This card is different "Huh"? I hope you like it!

Thank you for looking. Have a great week:)

Crocheted fall flower giveaway!

2011-09-13T14:00:00.012-04:00

This is my second post for today. Here is some flowers I've been making. I thought I would make some of my crocheted fall flower embellishments to giveaway. The flower size is a 1 3/4 inch diameter. I like to use these for crochet items, 3D gift boxes and cards I make. USA Addressees only. You must be a follower and leave a comment for a chance to win. I will random pick one USA addressee winner on October 5, 2011.

Here is all the handmade flowers. One winner gets them all! This is a pattern I created on my own. I will post it later if anyone wants it :) Let me know if you want me to post the pattern. Which flower color do you like?

Have a great week and thanks for looking:)

Halloween pumkin card!

2011-09-13T13:45:00.006-04:00

Happy Tuesday all! I hope you are having a great week so far. I made some Halloween cards today. I made seven cards for my daughter to give to her class mates on Halloween. There is only 7 children in her class. This card is on The Wild Card Cartridge and is on page 68 of the handbook. Super cute card for her classmates huh?

I'm linking this card to these Challenge.
Getting Cricky Simply Sunday Halloween Challenge and Paper Cutz Challenge #108 "Going to the pumkin patch"!

Have a great week and thanks for looking :)

Back to school card!

2011-09-08T00:41:00.003-04:00

Hello everyone! I hope you had a great day. We had a lot of rain here today. It was pouring down rain and a lot of flooding in some areas around here. Here is a card I made for a couple of card challenges. I colored the raccoon with my Bic permanent markers. Here is the link to Bic permanent marker. If you want to check out their site.

This cute raccoon digital stamp is from Papercrafting World.

The ABC is from Plantin SchoolBook cartridge. I used a label maker to make sentiment:) I had the label maker for a few years and a few weeks ago I started using it for my card making.

I'm linking this card to these challenges.
Cooking with Cricut Challenge #50 School Days.
Fantabulous Cricut challenge #76 back to school to use ABC or 123 on a project.

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

"Owl always love you" hanging Card!

2011-09-06T17:17:00.005-04:00

Happy Tuesday everyone! I hope you had a great Labor day. Here is a card I designed with my Gypsy. I will share the cut file freebie. All you have to do is email me for this cut file and I will email it to you. Let me know if you want the Gypsy or Cricut DesignStudio cut file. I will convert the Gypsy cut file in to a DesignStudio cut file for any one wanting a DS cut file. You can click on any photo to make a little bigger:)

I used Create a Critter Cartridge for owl image, Plantin SchoolBook for heart and Mini Monograms for scallop image. I cut each image (3) times and adhered them together to make card more sturdy. I stamped "Owl always love you" with alphabet stamps. Punched a hole at top of card with my crop-a-dile and set the eyelet. Adhered some heart gems, flower, google eyes and tied a piece of green tulles in eyelet. Now it can hang on something. A cute card for someone special:)

Another close up of card :) I love how this card turned out!

Here's the back of card. You can see how I welded the owl to Scallop image.

I'm linking this project to Craft your passion challenge #74. Have a great week and thanks for stopping by:)

More 3D flowers and RAK winner!

2011-09-02T20:47:00.003-04:00

Hello everyone. I know you are all ready for the long Holiday weekend! I know I'm ready. This is the last weekend of Summer. All the beaches close on Monday. Where did Summer of 2011 go! I can't believe Autumn will be here in a couple of weeks.

Here is some 3D flower on note cards I made. This flower are so gorgeous. I been using this tool a lot. I love it! If you want to see how these flower are made. You can see right here. Here is another project I made with the tool. It is right here.

Here's how the back of flower looks. I hot glued a pin, a small piece felt and blue tulles to back of flower. I pinned the flower on note card. Sorry for the delay in announcing the winner. I supposed to post this yesterday but I forgot to. Here is the winner! The random chosen number is #1 and that is KPishKo. Please email me your snail mail and I will send you the items. Thanks to all who entered. I will be having another small giveaway soon:) Would you all like it to be handmade earrings or craft item giveaway? Let me know!

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great Labor Day weekend all:)

Fall Layout!

2011-09-01T11:00:00.006-04:00

Happy Thursday everyone! Can you believe it's September and the children are back in school. Where did Summer go? Today I made another 8 1/2 by 11 inch Fall layout page for my daughter. I'm trying to get enough page to complete a Your Story book for her:) I will take a photo at the Harvest Festival next month for this page. My Family always goes to the fun October Fall festival. My daughter like the hayride, pumpkin picking, horse riding etc. They have so many fun things there for her to do.

These cute scarecrow and girl scarecrow digital stamps is from Papercrafting World. I won the digital stamp from Cooking with Cricut Challenge last year:) I'm linking this layout to Cooking with Cricut Challenge #49: Family Fun. This challenge is to create a Family Fun project. I purchased the Fall stickers from Walmart and I punch around page with a MS Flower bed edge puncher. Click any photo to make a little bigger!

I colored the digital stamps with colored pencils:)

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

Another Cri-kits gel pen card!

2011-08-30T21:14:00.005-04:00

Hello everyone! I hope you are having a great week so far. This image is from the Cricut Lite Botanicals cartridge. This cart has no layers. It has the Creative image and shadow cut. I used my Cri-kits gel pen to draw the image on the first card. I cut the image out with yellow card stock to get the butterflies and flower layers. I used my scissors and cut off the butterflies and flower images and pop dot it on the drawn image. I love this cart because it has a lot of good images that can be drawn with gel pens or markers:)

Here is the image cut out with yellow card stock and blue image shadow. I used the Cri-kits gel pen to outline the leaves and flower and I used stickles on butterflies:) I embossed the card with Cuttlebug (Tiny Mosaic) embossing folder. I'm linking this project to Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #75: A splash of color. Use the color yellow on your project. I won the SummerTime contest at Cri-kits blog. Here is the link if you want to check out my winning Project :)

Have a great week all and thanks for stopping by:)

Make a wish butterfly card!

2011-08-28T20:30:00.002-04:00

Happy Sunday all! Here is a butterfly card I made. I used a stencil to make butterfly and I purchased the stencil from $ Tree Store. I traced the butterfly stencil on pink glitter paper and cut it out with my scissors:) I used MS (Flower Bed) edge punch for the blue glitter card stock. Make a wish is a Inkadinkado clear stamp. I purchased the clear stamp at Micheals. Sorry, I don"t remember where I purchased the pink and blue pom pom ribbon. Glitter paper is from Target. To emboss card I used (Swiss Dots) Cuttlebug embossed folder. I'm Linking this card to Getting Cricky Simply Sunday Challenge "Winged Things". This card is A2 size card.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great week all:)

A peach card for Cooking with Cricut!

2011-08-26T15:02:00.002-04:00

Hello everyone! Here is a card I made for Cooking with Cricut Challenge #48: Peach. This challenge we must us a peach on project. This peach is on the "Just Because" Card Cartridge and is on page #66 of handbook. I cut the peach and layer out with foam sheets and I used glitter glue around leaves. I used a label maker to make sentiment. Purchased the label maker at Walmart. Click any photo to enlarge!

I used my black and white Gelly Roll Fine Sakura pen to draw face on peach :) This is A2 size card and I cut peach and layers @ 3 inches. Pattern paper I don't know the name because I won the paper from a blogger friend :)

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

Summer fun layout!

2011-08-25T20:03:00.005-04:00

Hello everyone! I hope you are having a good day. We had a earthquake here on Tuesday afternoon around 1:52 pm. Everything in my house was shaking and falling off shelves. I yelled to my Daughter EARTHQUAKE!! We started praying to God and started running to get out of the house. When we got out side it had stopped and all the neighbors were out there. We could not believe what had just happen. My daughter was crying and I was scared and shaken up! I'm so glad no one was hurt by this earthquake. Here is another 8 1/2 by 11 inch layout page to go in to a 8 1/2 by 11 inch Your Story book for my daughter. One day I will have enough pages to complete the book. I got to keep working on the pages:)

The sun is from Mickey and Friends Cartridge and is on page #127 of the handbook. The wave border is from Life is a Beach and is on page# 45 of handbook and the 2010 is from this cart too. I purchase the clear two sided stickers from the $ Tree Store last year. I thought they would make a cute layout for my daughter and they did. I'm so glad I purchased them:) The sun face I used Lara's Crafts doll rub on faces. Purchased the rub on faces from Michael's.

I used a corner rounder to round corners on photo mat. I won from Mollie a blog friend a few months ago. Thanks again Mollie! This is an awesome paper tool to have. I'm linking this to Creative Cutter Room Challenge Splish Splash to make a water theme project. Get over there and play along and create a project. They have an awesome prize to give away :)

Thanks for stopping by and looking. Have a nice week :)

3D flower and butterfly project!!

2011-08-23T13:23:00.005-04:00

Hello everyone. I hope your week is going great so far! I made this for a friend of mine. She wanted a flower and butterfly hanging project. This is what I came up with. I used the thickest chip board I could find for the circle. The chip board didn't cut out on 4 multi cut with the Cricut E. I had to finish cutting it out with my scissors because the chipboard was to thick. I wanted the circle to be sturdy. I used Plantin School book to cut out the roly poly circle on page #72 of handbook.

I punched hole with my crop a dile and set eyelets at top. I used natural raffia for the hanger and made some tied bows with the raffia on project:)

If you want to know what I used to make 3D Carnation dimensional flowers. Look here. This is my first time using this tool and I love it:) The flower are really beautiful with this tool!

Butterflies is a black and white print out. I colored the butterflies with pastel color memory pencils. I used glitter glue around edges of butterflies. Here is a close up. I had to let you see how pretty they really are ;) I had alot of fun making this project. I'm getting ready to make some more flowers with the flower tool! I'm linking this project to Getting Cricky Simply Sunday Challenge "Winged Things".

Thank you for stopping by. Have fabulous week all:)

Clothes pin task board!!

2011-08-19T18:48:00.007-04:00

Hello all my crafty friends! Happy Friday to you all. Here's what I've been working on! I've made a lot of these clothes pin task boards and never posted one. Thought I would post for you all to see. This one is really pretty with these colors. I love how it looks! This task board is a great board to have in the kitchen. The clothes pin come in handy to close up snack bags etc. I like these board because when the task is complete. The clothes pin can be put back on the board. Where they can be found for the next task ;) I seen the clothes pin wreath idea and got the idea to make this clothes pin task oval board :)

I painted the wooden oval board blue and painted the clothes pin blue on one side and pink on other side. I glued the apron down with Mod Podge gloss_lustre. I painted Mod Podge Gloss- Lustre over apron image and wooden board to water seal the paper image and give the wooden board a glossy shine. Apron image is From My Kitchen cartridge and is on page# 51. This is my first time using this cartridge.

Leave a comment. Let me know what you think about this project. Have a blessed and wonderful weekend all. Thank you all for stopping by and looking:)

First day of school Teachers gift!!

2011-08-18T09:35:00.005-04:00

Hello everyone! Happy Thursday to you all. I hope your week is going great. I've been working on some more lollipop bouquet. This one is for my Daughter to give to her Teacher. I love to make these lollipop bouquet for birthdays too. They are so easy to put together and everyone who receives one loves it:)

The first day of school image is from Locker Talk Cartridge and is on page #32 of the handbook. The clear plastic water cup is from $ Tree Store and they are 6 for $1.00. The color craft sticks and lollipops is from the $ Tree store. The little wooden apple, school, ABC, and bus is from Michaels and cost .25 cents each. I shredded the blue and red paper in my paper shredder:)

I'm linking this project to these Creative Cutter Room Challenge to create a Back to school project and 360 Cricut challenge to make a back to school project.

Thank you for stopping by and looking! Have a wonderful day all:)

Gift box and card set!!

2011-08-15T19:58:00.006-04:00

Happy Monday all! I hope you had a wonderful weekend. I had a very busy one shopping for school items. I'm trying to get my daughter ready to start school at the end of August. Here is a card I made for a friends Birthday in September. The gift box I purchased from Ac Moore. It was (2) boxes in a pack. I always buy these boxes so I can give candy, cookies or any kind of gifts in them:)

Here is the box close up! I love these colorful gable boxes. The cake cut is from Sweet Treats cartridge and is on page #40 of the handbook.

I embossed the card with CuttleBug Swiss Dots and Birds and Swirls embossing folder. I used the I rock tool to add blue gems in corner of card.

I'm linking this to these challenges
Fantabulous Cricut challenge #73 to use a cupcake on a project.
My Craft Spot challenge #21 to use Gift bags and boxes.
Getting Cricky Simply Sunday Treats Challenge to make a Treat or Party Favor.
Paper Playtime Challenge #53 - Anything Goes.

Cute bee card!!

2011-08-09T14:09:00.007-04:00

Hello friends. Happy Tuesday to you all. I hope your week is going great so far! Here is another cute card I made for a friend. I used the bee from the Create a Critter cartridge. This cart has a lot of cute images on it and is one of my favorite cartridge. This bee cut is on page #68 of the handbook. Isn't this a super cute bee?

I'm linking this card to these challenges:
Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #72 "Let Get Buggy" to create a project with a bug on it.
The Craft Spot Challenge #20 "Its Hot Out There" use bright colors on project.
Have a great week. Thank you all for stopping by:)

Swimming like a fish cards!

2011-08-05T15:34:00.004-04:00

Happy Friday. I hope you all are having a wonderful day. Here is some cards I made. These cards are for my daughter to have a back to school pool party with a few of her friends. I purchased the clear stickers from the $ Tree Store last year.These stickers are so cute and they are perfect for a pool party invite cards. I had to make a quick and easy card for this party. These stickers made these A2 size cards easy to make. I love how these cards look too ;)

The water wave border is from Life is a Beach Cartridge and is on page #45 of the handbook. I embossed the water wave border with Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder.

I'm linking this card to this challenge:

Cricut 360 challenge #6- Refreshing.
Paper Playtime Challenge #51 digi or Stamps Summer.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a wonderful weekend all:)

Friendship card!

2011-08-04T14:50:00.008-04:00

Happy Thursday! I hope you are having a great day! Here is a friendship card I made. This little girls cut is on A Child's Year Cartridge and is on page #64 of the handbook.

This card is being linked to Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #71 - Let's Be Friends. To create a project for a friend.
My Craft Spot Monday Challenge #19 You make me smile.

Thanks for stopping by and looking. Have a wonderful week:)

Sailboat Card!

2011-08-03T23:03:00.001-04:00

Hello friends. I hope your day was wonderful. It was very rainy here today. We got lots of rain. Here is some cards I made today. I tried something new with this card. I used some brown corrugated cardboard for the background of card. I never used this on a card and I like it. I seen this corrugated cardboard used on another blog but I can't remember where at. I'm thinking about purchasing some different colors of this corrugated cardboard.

I made this one in different colors of paper:) This sailboat is from Mickey and Friends Cartridge. This sailboat is on page #120 of the handbook.

I'm linking this to this challenge
Cooking with Cricut Challenge #45 to use a sailboat on project.

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

Christmas in July project!!

2011-07-31T22:21:00.008-04:00

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!!

2011-07-29T21:05:00.001-04:00

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!!!

2011-07-28T11:55:00.001-04:00

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!!

2011-07-27T17:15:00.019-04:00

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

2011-07-26T12:54:00.005-04:00

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

2011-07-25T16:07:00.003-04:00

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........

2011-07-22T18:15:00.008-04:00

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!

2011-07-21T09:46:00.003-04:00

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!

2011-07-20T18:20:00.009-04:00

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!

2011-07-14T17:41:00.005-04:00

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!!!!

2011-07-13T08:00:00.012-04:00

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!

2011-07-06T10:25:00.011-04:00

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!!

2011-07-01T15:40:00.009-04:00

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:)

Summer cards!

2011-06-29T20:34:00.007-04:00

Hello everyone. I hope you are having a great week so far! Had to get out my Cri-kits gel pens today and I made some Summer cards . I used the Gypsy for this project. These cards were easy to make. I like how the gel pens draws on card stock:) I used the Cricut Life is a Beach cart to draw the Title Words on card stock and I cut out the Toucan and Lizard and layered them over the title Words. Toucan is on page 49 and the lizard is on page 56. The lizard card can be a invitation to a pool party or a beach party:)

To draw the Title word. I used the Reg & Neon black gel pen on lizard card and blue on Toucan card. I'm linking this to Getting Cricky Simple Sunday Challenge to use pens on project. I know I already linked one, but this is a fun challenge. I love to use these gel pens and show off my projects;) These cards are A2 size 4 1/4 by 5 1/2 in.

Thanks everyone for stopping by and looking. Have a wonderful week:)

Patriotic Card!

2011-06-28T10:28:00.004-04:00

Here a quick card I made. I had some left over scraps of red and blue material and I cut some hearts out with my scissors for this card. I embossed the card with Cuttlebug (Swiss Dots) folder. I added some red, white and blue ribbon and stamped USA and FREEDOM on ribbon:) I'm finished with making Patriotic projects. This is the last one for this year.

I used the Cri-kits gel pens to color around hearts. Here is a link to all the projects I created with these awesome pens.
I'm linking this card to these challenges
Getting Cricky Simple Sunday Challenge to use pens on a project.
My Sheri Crafts Challenge #63 Independence project.

Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by and looking ;)

Wire cuff earrings:)

2011-06-27T14:45:00.006-04:00

Hello everyone! I hope you had a great weekend and you are having a good Monday. We had a good weekend here. My family went to the beach and fishing this weekend. My daughter had so much fun at the beach:) I been playing around with my craft wire and beads today and I created these cute wire cuff earrings. This is my own wire pattern for these cuff on earrings! I think they turned out fabulous.

I made a pair for myself and my daughter. I used pearls on my daughter cuff earrings. She loved them, because she doesn't have pierced ears. I will be making a lot of these. Here how they look on my ear.

Have a wonderful day and thank you for stopping by and taking a look:)

Patriotic ribbon bracelets!!

2011-06-23T14:32:00.007-04:00

Hello everyone. I hope you are having a great Thursday! It's very rainy and gloomy here. I made some of these patriotic ribbon bracelets last year in a different patriotic ribbon and gave them out at the 4Th Of July cookout. My daughter wanted me to make more of them for this year. I will be giving these out at this years cook out. I made them in size 7 in and 8 in and some small bracelets for the little children. This photo is my daughter showing off the bracelets on her wrist.

I used the i rock tool to set the silver gems on the red, white and blue bracelets. I've been using that tool a lot lately. Great tool to have for my projects:)

Here the Supplies and tool I used to make these bracelets. I purchased the eyelet and snap plier tool at Micheal's and ribbon too. These tool is a great tool to own. I used it on all my crafts. I love it:) The snaps I purchased at Walmart. I cut pieces of ribbon 7 in and 8 in long to make bracelets. I made some smaller for the children too. I applied clear finger nail polish to the ends of cut ribbons to keep it from fraying apart. All that matters it keeps it from fraying apart. Set the snaps in ribbon where you want them and you have a snap bracelet. This tool is easy to use. These make great gifts to give out and they can be made in any color ribbon you like;) I like these ribbon bracelets better then the plastic ones they are selling in the stores. I hope you all like this idea and you make some too:) Let me know what you think about it!

I'm linking this to these challenges
Craft Us Crazy challenge to create a red, white and blue or summer theme project.
Decorate to Celebrate challenge 4 th Of July Decorations projects.
Have a great day and thank you for stopping by and looking :)

Patriotic wreath!!

2011-06-20T17:17:00.005-04:00

Hello everyone! I hope you are well and you are having a great day. I had a request for a Patriotic wreath and this is what I came up with. I think it looks great:) The star garland, bow, wreath and red, white and blue raffia was purchased at $1.00 Tree store. Red, white and blue ribbon tied at top of wreath was purchased at Micheal's.

To make these flower I used the Knifty knitter flower loom. I made the flowers with the red, white and blue raffia. Here is the video on how I made the flower.

I wrapped the star garland around the wreath. This garland has a great sparkle to it:) Hard to believe the star garland cost only $1.00. I hope you are inspired by my creations and you become a follower of my blog. If you become a follower you can keep up with all my handmade creations :)

I'm linking this project to this challenge.
Decorate to Celebrate Challenge #2 to create a 4th Of July project.

Have a wonderful week and thanks for looking ;)

Flower ball #4

2011-06-19T07:42:00.002-04:00

Hello everyone! I hope you are getting ready to celebrate Father's Day with all these great Fathers out here. We are cooking out today for my husband! My Father won't be here because he lives about 500 miles away:( My daughter last day of school was Tuesday June 8th. I made this flower ball to give to her Teacher. I love how this one turned out. The Teacher loved this flower ball and my Daughter loved giving the flowers to her:)

I bought all the supplies at the $1.00 Tree store. If you want to see the tutorial on how I made one. You can see it right here!

Have a great day everyone and thank you for looking:)

Birthday card challenges!

2011-06-16T13:39:00.020-04:00

Hello craft friends! Happy Thursday to you. I hope your day is going well. I been making some Birthday cards today. I thought I would post this one because this die cut is super cute:) This bird and banner is from the Cricut Birthday Bash Cart. The Birthday pattern paper is from the $1.00 Tree Store. I embossed the white card stock with Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder.

I'm linking this to these challenges
Mollie @ Cricket's Cricut Creations for June is a Birthday themed Challenge. If you have any Birthday projects to make link them up at Mollie's
Birthday Sundaes challenge is wet or dry embossed Birthday card.

Have a wonderful day and thank you for looking:)

Shirt shape card

2011-06-15T20:52:00.004-04:00

Hello friends. I hope you are having a great week. This is a shirt shape card I welded with the Gypsy. I used Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge for shirt and tie.

These shape cards are great to make. I cut the (2) shape cards out on 8 1/2 by 11 inch white card stock. I outlined the shirt card with puffy paint and gel pen.

The pattern paper and Worlds Greatest Dad stamp is from $1.00 Tree Store.

This card is for these Challenges
Cooking With Cricut Challenge to make a project for Father's Day.
Getting Cricky with K Andrew challenge anything goes

Have a great week all and thanks for looking:)

#1 Dad banner!

2011-06-08T16:19:00.007-04:00

Happy Wednesday all! Here is a banner I made for my Dad for Father's day. I made my Mom one for Mother's Day and I liked it so much. I had to make my Dad one too. The 12 x 12 pattern paper is 8 count for $1.00 from Target and the textured tan paper is from Walmart. I bought the tan ribbon from Dollar Tree Store for $1.00. The Dad, Grandpa tag and tan rhinestones I won from a blog friend. I used the Cricut Birthday Bash cartridge for banner cuts and letters. I love this cartridge :)

Here is a close up of the Dad tag. This paper is great for a manly project.

Here is a close up of Grandpa tag.

This is for these challenges
Fantabulous Cricut challenge to create a Dad project.
Creative Cutter Room Challenge to make a Father's day gift idea and card.
Cooking With Cricut challenge to pick your poison that means favorite Cartridge and color. Mine is Birthday Bash and color is tan:)
Delightful Inspiration challenge to create a masculine card - no flowers.
Craft Us Crazy Challenge #10 to create a Father's Day and/or masculine project.

Have a great week. Thanks for looking:)

A beautiful tag!

2011-06-02T18:41:00.006-04:00

Hello all my friends. I hope you are doing great and you are enjoying your day. Here is a religious tag I made. I bought the Mary stickers at the Dollar Tree Store. When I seen these stickers I knew I wanted to make tags and laminated bookmarks with them. I bought two packs of them. One pack is all Mary and the other pack is all Jesus sticker. This tag of Mary is so beautiful! This is a 4 3/4" x 2 3/8" shipping tag. I bought them at the Office store and adhered pattern paper over the tag. I won the pattern paper from my friend Terry @ Crafter's Delight. I don't know the name of pattern paper. I punched holes around tag and put pink ribbon through holes. I set a eyelet in tag hole at top. I used pink stickle around the Mary sticker.

I used pink lace to make flower and put a green gem in middle of flower. I seen this lace flower idea at Terry @ Crafter's Delight. Here is a close up of lace flower. I'm linking this tag to the Blog Challenge Garden to create a tag in soft pink and green.

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

Butterfly boomarks!

2011-05-31T13:43:00.004-04:00

Hello everyone. I hope you all had a wonderful Memorial Day. We had a good one here. The weather was very sunny, hot and humid. Here is a craft we made at the cookout this weekend. My daughter and the other children had so much fun trying to shape the chenille stems into butterflies and it keep them busy for a while :) I hot glued the butterflies to the wooden colored sticks for the children. I didn't want them to get burnt with the hot glue gun. We are going to use them as bookmarks. I bought the pony beads, chenille stems and colored wood craft sticks at the Dollar tree store for 1.00 each.

We made some in red, white and blue. Some in pastel colors. These are so easy to make;0)
Here is a close up of the pastel color butterfly. These are so beautiful and all the children and adults loved making them.
Have a great day all and thanks for stopping in to visit:)

Rock head angel pin!

2011-05-28T06:30:00.000-04:00

Happy Memorial Day weekend all. I hope you all have a wonderful and safe holiday. We will be spending a lot of time outside cooking out and having lots of fun. Here is a rock head angel pin I made to give to some of my family and some friends for Memorial day and 4Th Of July. I made them in red, white and blue ribbon. This is something I just put together. I used natural Raffia for angel wings, 1 1/2 inch wire edged ribbon for dress, 1/4 inch ribbon to tie around neck, crafter rocks for head, permanent markers to make face and a hot glue to glue it all together. I used a lot of hot glue to keep it together:) She is so cute. Don't you think so?

I hot glued a pin on back. Now it can be worn on a shirt.

Thanks for stopping by everyone :)

Home Sweet Home plaque!

2011-05-25T14:01:00.001-04:00

Hello all! I hope you are enjoying your day. I entered a challenge over at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog a couple of weeks ago and I won April Showers Cricut Cartridge. I received the cartridge on Saturday and here is a project I made with the April Showers Cart. The wood is a 5 by 7 inch and I bought it at Walmart in crafts area for 1.00. I sanded the wood with sand paper and I used Plaid Mod Podge Gloss _Lustre the water sealer, glue and finisher and painted it over the wood and used it to glued the die cut to wood. I painted Modge Podge over the whole project to give it a shine and to water seal the paper cuts. This technique is called decoupage. I used permanent markers to write Home Sweet Home and to make a face on the cloud;) I added some i rock gems in corners. I used the Gypsy for this project.

This is for this Challenge
Fantabulous Cricut Challenge to use a cloud and color blue.

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

Bobbie pin project!

2011-05-23T14:30:00.006-04:00

Hello, everyone! I hope you are having a great Monday. These I made for my friend. She wanted me to make some flower hair pins to be given out at her daughters' birthday party. Here is what I came up with! I used the Cuttlebug flower die to cut all the flowers. I cut the flowers out with the glitter foam sheets and hot glue it to pin. I had to glue another small piece of foam sheet to back of Bobbie pin to make the hot glue hold it better:)

Here is all the ones I made so far and I'm putting all the Bobbie pin flower sets in clear bags;) and I put all them on a white piece of card stock too.

Here is a close up. Let me know what you think or if you have any questions on how I made them:)

Have a wonderful day and THANK YOU all for stopping by and looking:)

A button earring project!

2011-05-20T11:38:00.014-04:00

Hello everyone. Here is another craft fair item I made. Buttons anyone ;) This is a easy button earring project to make and it doesn't take a long time to complete. I think all the little girls and teenager girls may like these. This is a cute summer earrings for them to wear. I didn't see this on any ones blog. This is just something I wanted to try to make. This is being linked up to Mom Home Made make and share Saturday linky party.

Here is the back of the earrings. I hot glued all the buttons on to the flat post jewelry findings.

Here is a tutorial on how to make you own. This is what you will need to create you own button post earrings. All items is shown in photo below.

1) You will need buttons from Walmart
2) Flat post earring jewelry findings from AC Moore
3) Glue gun and hot glue sticks from AC Moore or Walmart

Add a little hot glue to flat post earring findings.

Then adhere button to the flat post earring findings. That all to it. I hope you like this tutorial.

Have a great weekend everyone. Thank you for stopping by:)

Sister plaque!

2011-05-17T17:16:00.003-04:00

Hello, all! I hope your Tuesday is going well. I been busy working on all my crafts today. I have so many project I must finish. I don't know how I keep up with it all:) Here is the first piece of embossed metal from this post link. I promised to post a project with the embossed metal and here what I made with a different piece of embossed metal. I used the Cuttlebug embosser to emboss metal. I embossed the metal with Cuttlebug (Stylized Flowers) embossing folder. The piece of wood is from Walmart cost $1.00 and the butterflies cost $1.00 from Dollar Tree store. The Studio G Alphabet stamp set is from Micheal's out of the $1.00 bin. That how I stamped Sisters are forever friends:) I bought the stamp set last week and I love them. I can stamp any sentiment now ;) I think it was a great buy for $1.00.

I made (3) of these for my sisters. I hope they like them. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day:)
This project is for Crafty Cards challenge to use embossing on project.

Flower clips!

2011-05-15T21:51:00.006-04:00

Hello, friends! I hope you all had a great weekend. Here is some flower clips I made. This is my first time making these flower clips and I really like the flower I used too. I bought flowers at the $1.00 dollar store and they are so beautiful. The smaller flowers measures 3 1/2 inch and the larger flowers measure 5 inch.

I like these flower clips because they can be clipped to a card, hat, purse, shirt, hair, headband, flip flops, etc. I thought I would make some of these to sell at the craft fair. Here is the back of flower clips. I used the prong clips and alligator clips. These flower clips are so easy to make:)

Here is a tutorial on how I made the flower clips. Here is everything I used to get started. Some flat laying artificial flowers, prong clips or alligator clips, wire cutters and hot glue gun shown in picture below. First, I cut all the flower stems off the flowers.

I added hot glue in between layers of flower center so the flower would not fall apart. I glued where ever needed to keep flower together:)I hot glued the prong clips and alligator clips on back of flower. That about all to it! I hope you like this flower clip project and you are inspired to create some of these beautiful flower clips too.

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