Handbag birthday card

I made this tonight for my friend Amy whose birthday is coming up, she loves handbags and makes them as well and she has been going through a tough time lately and I know this will cheer her up especially on her birthday. I cut a round card using my Wild Cards cartridge and backed it with some green. I then used my Cricut Essentials cartridge to cut out the flower doily shape. I then used my Paisley cartridge to cut out the cute little handbag, I made it nice and glittery with a flower for the clasp using the button feature on the cartridge and a regular button with some twine. I stamped with my Close to my Heart stamps with Happy Birthday.

Twine Wreath

I got my new issue of Papercrafts Magazine the other day, I was going to save it and take it with me to Mexico to look at by the pool but I kept seeing some of the Christmas designs on the cover and decided to look at it now, plus I am continuing to make my Christmas cards so I found an idea I liked and made it my own. They had a few ideas with twine and one was this cute wreath. I die cut a ring from my George and Basic Shapes Cricut cartridge and then wound green and white twine around it (quite therapeutic!). I then tied a Christmas bell onto it and put a tartan bow on it. I used my Cricut Wild Cards cartridge to cut out the scalloped circle card and then went back to the George and Basic Shapes cartridge to cut out a striped circle. I used my Close to my Heart Sentiments stamp set to stamp the Merry Christmas and attached the wreath to the card using craft glue.

More mittens

Here is more of the mittens I have made using my nestabilities die, I'm so happy with how they have turned out they are so cute and I'm looking forward to putting small gifts in them!

Christmas mittens

I wanted a cute little extra gift idea for my special people and I saw this cute little mitten die from Nestabilities that would go through my Cuttlebug machine. I got it and cut some mittens out of felt. I then blanket stitched them. My lovely husband watched the YouTube video with me and helped me master it, now I have it down pat!! I really enjoyed doing the blanket stitching around them, so relaxing. I then decorated them with some felt adhesive embellishments, trim and I stitched on a little jingle bell and put in the little gifts. I'm going to try and come up with a variety of little gifts that can go in. I saw some when we were out during the day, many possiblities. For this one there is a little natural lip balm and an emery board. I'm really happy with these, so cute, I'm looking forward to doing some more!

Glasgow Cathedral

I finished this yesterday as I wasn't quite as busy but today I am so thought I would put this photo on. It's of Glasgow Cathedral when we visited Scotland in April. I really didn't want to busy the page up with too many embellisments as I wanted it to be about the photos which are impressive. I used some different brown toned papers and then used my Cricut Design Studio to weld the font together on the Cathedral word from my "Jasmine" cartridge. I went through my stash and placed a paper border at the bottom as well as a twill saying and a fabric flower.

Christmas box

I made this box a few weeks ago but finished it tonight but putting in the goodies. This is for my friend (won't say who). I made the box using my "Sweet tooth boxes" cartridge out of double sides christmas card and I decorated it using some trim. I made the tag using "Very Merry Tags" and decorated with trim. I picked up this very cute Christmas ribbon at Michaels as well as the little jingle bell and the holly sprig. I think it looks so Christmassy and I'm looking forward to sending it to her but she's not allowed to open it till Christmas!

3 cute little Stockings hung up ready for Santa

Once I'd made one Christmas card today I got my Mojo back to make another one. I really love my little Peachy Keen stamps and I've been looking forward to using them on a Christmas card again so this time I did stockings. I used a white crd and matted it with a cocoa brown colour card to which I border punched with a scallop border punch. I then matted that onto some plaid card and tied a green chiffon bow around it (my mum sent me this ribbon, I do love the way it ties it's very pretty). I then used my Cricut "Simply Charmed" catridge to cut out the stockings. I used the shadow/blackout feature to stop it from cutting out the face as I wanted to stamp that. So I stamped it and coloured in the eyes with a white gel pen. I then decorated the stockings with a mini button on each tied with twine. To finish I used my Close to the heart sentiments set to stamp the Merry Christmas. I think this is my favourite so far, Greg loved it too, it's very cute and cheerful!

Winter Christmas trees

This one I made today, I used a metallic blue card, then some pink sparkly card matted onto that with some snowflake patterned paper rounded at the corners. I then added another mat of pink sparkly card and used my joy stamp to stamp on that. I found that in a bargain bin at Michaels for $1 and it's such a lovely stamp! I cut out the trees using my Cricut Winter Woodland cartridge. I used the layer feature to cut out the snow for on top of the trees and I used my glitter gel pen to make them a bit sparkly. I wound some pink and white twine around it and finished it with a snowflake button.

Birthday card using 3D flowers

I made this card today using the 3D flowers I made last week with my Cricut Flower Shoppe cartridge, I really love how it turned out. I've made this for Greg's mum for her birthday so hopefully she won't see this! I used a cream card and some nice purple paper with a light pattern on it. I cut out the leaves and flowers using the cartridge, it was so much fun to see the flowers to come life when you roll them up. I used a border I had in my stash and cut a butterfly from my Spellbinders dies through my Cuttlebug. I then added a lace overlay to the top of the butterfly as Greg's mum likes lace and flowers so this will be ideal for her birthday. I used some stamps to stamp the greeting along the bottom.

3D flowers using my Flower Shoppe Cartridge

Today I thought I would try out my new Cricut Flower Shoppe Cartridge, I've had this for about a month but haven't had chance to try it yet. I watched some YouTube videos on it first to see how to do it as the instructions weren't that clear that came with it. I was a bit scared at first as I thought "Hmmm hope I can do this" as they looked a bit fiddly. But I thought "Well I will just try it and keep practising till I get it!" so I cut the first one that is on the catridge at 2 inches and it forms the shape of a rose. It cuts in a strip in a swirl pattern and you just keep rolling until you get to the end and secure it with a bit of craft glue. If you want to do smaller ones you can use a quilling tool to roll it. I was so happy with how it turned out. I went in to Greg and showed him, he thought it was cool too so I just wanted to show you what it looked like.