November Card Workshop

I recently had the November card workshop where we made 6 Christmas cards. I have to admit, Christmas is my all time favorite time of year. I love the smells, the sights, and the music. In the hustle and bustle of this season it's so easy to lose the true meaning of Christmas. So before everything starts going haywire, let me be the first to say Merry Christmas. I hope I don't offend anyone with the word Christmas, but that's what the season is truely about so I refuse to be politically correct with this holiday.

For the cards we used the Believe line of pattern paper and the Christmas Love (D1492) set.

This first card is my absolute favorite. I started with a white card base then layered on Topiary cardstock that I had dry embossed earlier, then holiday red cardstock that was prepunched with a Martha Stewart snowflake punch. a Piece of ribbon(not sure of the manufacturer) and a bow of the same ribbon. Chocolate and white cardstock were layered with one of the stamped sayings from the set and a topiary button to complete the card!

This card starts with a holiday red base, then add a scalloped square using the striped paper and a fancy square (both images were cut using the Art Philosophy cartridge). The Christmas tree image was stamped on using topiary ink and holiday red ink, some sparkles were added along with a white stamped Joy!

This card starts with a white base, then layers 4 strips of pattern paper. I aheared the ribbon to the chocolate piece before attatching it to the card. The oval was cut using George and Basic Shapes cartridge and a stocking was stamped on the oval and a gift on a canvas badge button.

For this card I started with a holiday red card base. layered the pattern paper, added a piece of jute, a couple pieces of ribbon and the banner pieces cut using the Art Philosophy cartridge.

This is probably my next favorite card for this month. It starts with a sky base, layer the pattern paper in 3 different sizes to resemble gifts, add a piece of ribbon and a rhinestone brad for a bow on top. This card is supper easy, but I love it!!
This card also starts with a white card base although you can't see the base. I cut about an inch off the outside edge before adding the cardstock. I put the chocolate cardstock flush to the folded edge then added the holiday red and topiary. I stamped the saying with vanilla creme ink and added a pretty gingham ribbon.

Exploring Cricut Daily Project: Happy Boo Day

This project was very simple to create. I started with a basic layout using Mischief pattern paper from Close to My Heart. One of my best friends little boy had a birthday in October so this was a page I intend to give her the next time we get together. It will either be for his birthday or for Halloween, she could use it for either.

Besides the Mischief pattern paper, I also used cardstock in black, red barn, sunset, and desert sand also from CTMH.

The title Happy Boo Day was cut using the Alphalicious cartridge and it was cut at 2 inches in Sunset.

After adding the title I then cut out the pumpkins from Stretch Your Imagination, also at 2 inches. I cut each image three times, 1 in sunset, 1 in sunny yellow blackout, and 1 in topiary also in blackout. I cut off what I didn't need and layered the rest. The yellow blackout was adhered to the back.

Advent Box

I decided to try something a little different this year. I added a special project to my workshop dates. My card group got together this past Friday to create Advent Boxes and I have to confess I thought they turned out super cute!!!

The box itself was super easy to create. We started with a white box and covered all sides with pattern paper from the Believe line (CTMH). For added dazzle we put pom pom ribbon and red sparkles on the front of the box. These were also from CTMH.

For the inside of the box (we had 24 cards to decorate). We covered each card with a 3x3 piece of pattern paper, added a 2x2 piece of cardstock (sky, holiday red, sweet leaf, or topiary). We cut 24 big circles and 24 smaller circles and stamped them with numbers 1-24. then before adding the circles to our cards we added a paper "ribbon" which came from the zip edge of the pattern paper. Then for the finishing touch each person added their own traditional advent projects for each day to the cards. Super cute!!!!

Exploring Cricut Challenge #3

The challenge over at Exploring Cricut this week is to use leaves and an acorn from any cartridge. They do need to be in Fall colors. For my project I used the leaves and acorn from the Art Philosophy cartridge.

The card base is 5.5 x 4.25
The blue leaves paper(CTMH) is 5.25 x 4
Chocolate cardstock (CTMH) 3.25 x 2.25
Colonial White cardstock (CTMH) 3 x 2
The 3 orange strips are .75 x 3
Embellishments: opaques, chocolate/colonial white grosgrain (CTMH)

The acorn was stamped with chocolate ink using the 2nd generation technique. The leaves have the awesome texture because of the way they were stamped. I inked the entire stamp with Sunflower ink (which is a yellow), then used a tissue to dab on some goldrush ink, to finish it off I used autumn terracota with another tissue to dab the ink just on the edges. This technique gives you a lot of bang for just a little bit of extra effort. Hope you enjoy my card! Don't forget to post your project to the Exploring Cricut blog. I always look forward to seeing everyone's ideas!!!

Exploring Cricut Project #2

This project was created for a special little girl who is truly a princess. She is my best friend's littlest angel and she will be turning one soon so this is a goodie bag for her.


All cuts are from the Once Upon a Princess cartridge which I thought was very appropriate.



The bag was cut at width 11.45 inches, height 6.41 inches (I used my gypsy to get it to that size. I'm sure you could do the same with "fit to page")

The handles are part of the same image as the bag so automatically cut to the correct size.



The crown was cut at width 3.64 and height 3.0 again using my gypsy to get this size.



materials used are

pattern paper: Sophia (CTMH)

cardstock: Blush and Pear (CTMH)

October card class

Due to having obligations at my real job, card class for this month had to be postponed. I struggled with ideas for this month, but for the most part I'm really pleased with what I was able to come up with.

For these cards I used

Pattern paper: Dreamin' (CTMH)

Cardstock: Goldrush, Pacifica, Colonial White, Bamboo (CTMH)

Ribbon: Colonial White twill, stitched ribbon from Honey collection and brown striped(CTMH)

Embellishments: glitter brads, yellow brads, opaques, natural hemp, and bronze glitter glue (CTMH)

stamp set: Harvet Happiness and other fall stamps for sayings (CTMH)

The Versatile Blogger Award

I recieved this from a great friend, Lori, who is a co-design team member at exploringcricut.blogspot.com

As a recipient of The Versatile Blogger Award, there are 3 rules to follow…1. Thank the person who awarded you.2. Tell 7 things about yourself that your readers may not know.3. Award 7 other bloggers with this award.

Thanks Lori, you're the greatest!

7 Things I haven't mentioned

1) I drive entirely too fast.

2) I'm always running late, hense #1

3) Ella is my first Pomeranian and the first dog we've had that is truely mine

4) I teach special education to middle school and high school students and love it on most days.

5) I collect Cherished Teddies (not so much anymore cause they take up room that I could use to store all my scrapbooking stuff!

6) At one time I wanted to be an attorney

7) I'm a special aunt to 3 great babies (ok, one of them is 4 and no longer a baby)

7 other blogs for the Versatile Blogger Award(in no particular order)

1. Diane: http://www.happyscrapperdiane.blogspot.com/

2. Sharon: http://meemeescreations.blogspot.com/

3. Lezlye: http://lezlyes.blogspot.com/

4. Sara: http://sarakscraps.blogspot.com/

5. Diana: http://craftypeepdb.blogspot.com/

6. Kim: http://littleredshood.blogspot.com/

7. Leah: http://mycraftandchatcafe.blogspot.com/