Bauble shaker card

This one I finished today, I started it last week but only had time to finish it today. I used my Cricut Design Studio to "weld" the bauble together which I got off my "Joys of the Season" cartridge. I also had to weld a piece onto the top so that it could fold down so I could make it into a shaker card. I used some glittery green cardstock for the card and used some Christmas papers for the inside of the shaker and also the inside of the card. I put some acetate on the front with my confetti so it would be a shaker card. I then used my "Simply charmed" catridge to cut out the cute little Santa. I used my Peachy Keen face stamps to stamp his face and decorated him with a white pompom for his hat as well as a clear glitter pen to give his belt some sparkle. I cut out the "Ho Ho Ho" from my "Very Merry Tags" cartridge and finished that with a gold bow. I then layered some silver card on to the top of the bauble.

Very Merry Tags

I've been making some Christmas tags over the past week as my lovely Greg found a rare Cricut cartridge on Ebay called "Very Merry Tags" at a good price so I was excited to use it. I have made all of these tags from this cartridge and decorated them with embellishments, trims and stamps!

The Sweetest of Days

I finished this one off today when I got back from the gym. I was looking for more inspiration on my layouts. My lovely husband (it's great having him home for many reasons in the day including this one: he is my advice giver and gives me his honest opinion!) said why not try something different with the photos. I normally do a grid pattern but this time I mixed them up on different angles and I"m really happy with the result, it just made me more excited to see the end product! I used some blue cardstock and then I was so pleased to be able to use some of these cupcake and coffee and tea papers I got in a stack recently, they are just so cute! One of the pages were cut into borders. I also had a label that I bought from a Scrapbook shop ages ago, it's meant to be a journalling block but I'm not keen on handwriting on my pages so I used it with the title on top. I cut the title out of my "Cuttin Up" cartridge and welded the letters together on my design studio. I then used small rub on letters to put where the location was and cut out a little cupcake on my Cricut using "Sweet Treats" and decorated that with glitter glue sprinkles! Then I used a adhesive embellishment, a cute little tea cup by the side. Really happy with this page, nice memories of a nice time at a cute little cupcake cafe in Scotland that we got to spend together ♥

Sweet House

I have been really looking forward to trying out my new cartridge "Sweet Tooth boxes", so today I gave it a try and I am really thrilled with how this cute little house turned out. I have made it for my friend Conny's birthday coming up an I know she will love it. It was all cut out using the cartridge and assembled and glued together. I decorated the flowers with some buttons and some extra flower stickers on the lawn. I then used my "Sweet Treats" carridge to cut out the Happy Birthday on top. I half finished it early this afternoon and then my lovely husband and I went for a walk and got the sweets go to go in it. I know Conny loves M & Ms so I got some fun packs of these and also a little box of M & M's cookies. I know I"m going to be looking forward to making another one really soon!

Edinburgh Castle

I finished this today, we had a nice afternoon in after going to get our shopping this morning. The weather was hot and sunny this morning then a storm came so it was good to be inside together ♥. These pages are a double page spread on Edinburgh Castle. I used a dark green cardstock as my base, then my lovely husband was out and about recently and found me these nice tartan papers which I layered on top. I then went through my stash and found an "olde worlde" looking grey coloured papers which reminded me of castles. I cut the scalloped rectangles on my "Storybook" catridge to add a bit of interest. I layered my photos on that, I am a big fan of the grid look as I can get a lot of photos in this way. I cut out the title from "Storybook" on my design studio so I could "weld" the letters together. I printed out my journalling and matted it on black. I also used "Storybook" to cut out hte border along the bottom, it wasn't quite long enough so I "welded" it with another one on my design studio to go across the bottom. I decided not to add more embellishments and keep these pages simple so I can let the photos do the talking!

Cupcakes & Castles

I finished this page today, it's continuing on with our Scotland photos and this one is of our day in Edinburgh in the gardens with the Edinburgh Castle overlooking us at we ate our cupcakes. I had soem nice green and striped papers and used those for the base and then matted my photos onto some olive green. I bought a great new border punch on Saturday, It was a bargain at only $4.99 from Marshalls (normally they are about $17), so I punched borders out of grey to go along the sides. I did my journalling on the computer and had some Making Memories stickers in my stash for the little chipboard flower and saying at the top left. I cut my font out of my "Base Camp" cartridge and used my design studio to weld it all together. I put a shadow on it too to make it stand out. I finished it off with some tartan ribbon. The little cupcakes are actually buttons that are adhesive. I didn't have the right thing in my stash so we took a walk to Michaels last night and my lovely husband managed to find the perfect cupcake button (blingy too) which finish off the page nicely.

Bookmark Birthday Card

My last creation of the week is going to go off with a nice finale with this lovely card. I have to say I'm quite happy with this and proud of it! I made this for my friend Conny who likes to read for her birthday coming up in October, it's like a gift and card in one (even though I will get her a gift as well!). It starts off as a trifold card, one side is scored with the bone folder and the other side is perforated with a little perforator tool that Greg got me recently (what a guy!). I used my Storybook cartridge to cut out the nice little ornate frame in black and then layered on a pretty pink mat on top of that. Then I used my "Cricut Essentials" to cut out the scalloped circles. I stamped happy birthday and added a paper flower and brad and some ribbon. The second picture shows the perforated line. I decorated the first inside layer with the same colours and also the bookmark. The second page I cut the same scalloped circles and rumaged around in my stickers and found the smile round sticker which was perfect and also the gingham ribbon. I had some very pretty chipboard letters so I used the letter "C" for her name. Then is the fun part the book mark which she can tear along the perforation and use in her reading! That is decorated in the same colours, then I stamped the saying (I found that stamp today at Michaels for only $1 what a bargain and a nice inspirational saying). I then added a dotty paper flower and brad and set and punched a half circle in the white and added an eyelet and ribbon.

Be Merry Wreath

This is today's card, another Christmas card. I had the red scallop circle already made so I thougtht about what I could do with it and here's what I came up with! I used a green card and matted it with striped green paper. I then used my border punch to punch a green border and stuck a very cute Santa and Elf border on that which I cut strips out of a 12 x 12 paper. I layered the red scalloped circle on and then cut a green outline scallop circle to go on top. I cut the wreath out of my "Christmas Cheer" cartridge and decorated with some glitter glue and a white bow and stamped Be Merry and added a Christmas tree brad to finish.

Christmas birdies

I made this card for Greg today for Christmas (long way off I know but I"m getting organized early). I made a red card and then matted it with white card. I then cut out a scalloped circle and a spotty circle using my "Storybook" cartridge. I cut the cute little birds out of my "3 birds on parade" cartridge and used the flip feature on my Cricut to flip one of them around. I used some google eyes for the eyes and tied some red and white twine around it with a little Santa hat charm. I found a lovely little quote font on the internet so I printed that out and put it on red card..very cute, I know Greg will love it at Christmas ♥

Happy Day

This is my last one for today, I really love my new Peachy keen faces stamps and I wanted to try another type of card with them and my Cricut (hope the photo came out ok with the light and the flash). I made a little card on my "just because" cartridge and envelope. I used some different spotty paper to use as a mat and cut out the little wheelbarrow and flowers from "A walk in my garden" cartridge. I then found a little round badge sentiment for the corner. I then got my Peachy Keen faces stamps to stamp the very cute little faces on the flowers and finished with a scrap of floral ribbon I had in my box!

Gingerbread man

This was the other one I made today. I used my "Winter Frolics" cartridge to cut out the joy and the gingerbread man, I used a shadow feature for the joy. I had a 12 x 12 page of Christmas borders so I used that on top of some red and white ribbon. I tied a small piece of ribbon around the joy saying and decorated my cute gingerbread man with gemstones and I used my new Peachy Keen faces stamps to stamp his cute face and coloured in the whites of his eyes with a white gel pen and did some stitching around him with the white gel pen.

Have a jolly Christmas

I made another Christmas card today as I haven't done any crafting for a fair few days with being busy and then feeling unwell but today I made this cute card. I "welded" a card together on my Cricut design studio and matted it with some lime green and then some stripey paper. I then tied around some sparkly ribbon and sewed a button to it. I cut out my stocking using my "Winter Frolics" cartridge and decorated it with a scrap of sparkly ricrac. I stamped on the sentiment to finish.