More Christmas Projects

I have been busy busy busy again... and I openly admit to scraplifting some of this stuff. But that's why we share with each other, right?

I got this great svg pattern from Denise's blog. I made 3 of these and put them on 12" round mirrors to give as gifts to very special friends this year. 

My mother asked me to make some cards for her siblings, and these are what I came up with. I used the Christmas Solutions cartridge to cut out the tree onto some mounting paper. I got the different colors by taking out only certain parts of the design and adding some "Glamour Glitter" to the sticky page. Sorry the pictures don't do these justice. It is a very cool effect to have the entire design in glitter. And the Glamour Glitter is so fine that this design is smooth to the touch. I used some Flower Soft for the snow and on the embellisments on the inside of the cards.

We have some little friends who turned 2 on December 5th. So I quickly created these cards using Design Studio, Sesame Street Font and George.
This one is for Brooklyn...and this one is for Will. The glitter is Martha Stewart and it GLOWS in the dark! The little kids loved them!

I totally scraplifted this one off of the Cricut message board - but it was worth it! Such a cute idea! It was for my mom and she loved it too. Kind of fun to see her reaction when I know she loves something I've given her. Love ya mom!

I used Paper Doll Dressup to cut out these images, and embellished them with a whole bunch of different stickles, inks, fun flock and paints. Although it is not my design, I did save my .cut file if any of you would like to have a copy of it. 

Tried it and it Worked!

So I was blog hopping and read something about welding shapes to make cards. (There are some beautiful cards out there by the way...) I thought this looked like a lot of fun and would be so cute to do too! So, I welded some shapes in DS from the cartridges I already have. These particular cartridges do not have the "card" option as a feature - which made this doubly cool to me! Here's what I came up with -

Aren't these adorable?! This opened up a world of possibilities for me! All I had to do was load two shadow images, flip one and weld them back to back. Then I simply created the original cut from the cartridge and attached it to the front. One lesson I did learn with Cookie Monster here is to use a light color for the shadow... Black is hard to write on! I'll figure something out for the inside of this one - but what fun!

Now I can hardly wait until my Sponge Bob cartridge gets here! I'm itching to try these as birthday cards for the kids this summer.

Many Creations and Happy Father's Day!

I finally finished my cards and boxes for my Stampin Up club card exchange last night. I made 10 but here are 7 of them.

I got the idea for the boxes from Dawn's Stampin Thoughts and I used Hello Kitty, Pooh & Friends, Paper Doll Dressup and Mickey and Friends on my cricut to cut the shapes. I got the font from the Sesame Street Font cartridge. I do not know where the paper came from, or the ribbon for that matter. It was stuff from my stash...

The pictures are a little blurry - but I think they turned out really cute!

I've been try to work with my new SCAL program too. I've been able to find some really beautiful cuts - but I'm still struggling to find my inner creativity with this one. I'll get there.

I did make some things with it for Father's Day though. Here is a picture of what we gave DH for Father's Day this morning. I made the card, and the decorations for the can with SCAL and DS.

The card was a downloaded idea from another girl (who I'd love to give credit too - but can't remember where I got it from! I'll get better at this - I promise!) and the cans are a combination of some Stampin Up stamps with embossing and my Storybook cartridge. Really cute idea too! We used the Tupperware can opener that opens cans on the side, washed them out really well, filled them with candy and super-glued the lids back on. Dad LOVED them! He also got waffles for breakfast, a Boston Pizza chocolate and a clay dragon in a CD case. He also got a chocolate bar at church. Not a bad haul!