Back to work

This is something I made for my workers, to welcome them back to work after a summer break. I used the Plain Pillow box file from,        The Cutting Cafe

I made them to be 7 inches. I used a spellbinders die to cut out the flap and then I embossed it. I only used half of it
 I added the ribbon for the handle, and that was glued down when I closed the box. I used embellishments for the flap. This file was easy to use.  Check out            The Cutting Cafe for amazing files.

A gift

Here is what my mom made using files from The Cutting Café. She doesn't have a blog so I am letting her use mine. The paper is what we had at home in our stash and the file is called Tea Box holder set. Now I am using my cricut explorer and I was having trouble getting the lid to fit. I contacted Regina the owner of The Cutting Café and she helped me. I was stuck and everything I did, it would not work. She took the time out of her schedule(a couple of nights a go) to help me. She even did another write up and cut it out again with her cricut. I have to say she went way beyond. Some companies would take 1-2 days and this is the holidays so longer, no she wanted to make sure I was able to get it to cut.
Here is the finished product.

Thanks Regina for all your help.

Christmas in July

Here is what I was thinking of making for my Christmas cards this year.  I started with an A2 card  
( 4.25x5.5). The blue card stock is 3.75x3.75, and then I stamped with white ink, the stamp is from Hero Arts-Snowy Winter Nights, The saying is something that I had, not sure where i got it.

Hope to be back soon with other designs, hard to do anything with one hand.

Grad Card

This year is going by fast. It is the time for Graduations, Summer breaks and Father's Day.  I needed to make a graduation card for my mom's boss, she got her Doctoral in Education. Here is what I used:
white and black paper from my stash, WOW Embossing power-Black Glint, Memento Tuxedo Black ink, tomboy adhesive, Creative Imaginations-Signature Collection and Reminisce-Graduation Stripe papers, scallop punch, and a stamp with the saying.

I started out with white card stock 9x6 1/4, then from each end scored in 2-1/4 using my Scor Buddy, the inside middle the black is 4 1/4x 6 and white is 4 1/8 x 5 3/4,. The side panels on the inside and outside 2 1/4 x 6. The band on the outside is 12 x 1, scallop punch, and embossed the saying and embossed congratulations on the white card inside. Please stop by the store to find these items I used as well as other great items. Have any questions please ask KIM and she will be more then happy to help you. Thank for stopping by come back tomorrow when I show you my Father's Day card and tie box I made using my Silhouette Cameo.

Easter Basket

Easter is almost here and I have a quick way to make a simple Easter basket.  I used paper from Moxxie- Just Hatched, this is double sided, while this paper isn't in the store check out some that is. I also used some 3-d pop dots, and stickles- diamond.  I made a copy of the pattern I used. I used 6x6 paper to make the basket and about 1 more inch for both handles(1/2inch each). I scored the paper at 2" and 4" all the way around. Then one 1 side I cut to just the 1st score line, and did that again on the opposite side. In the diagram it shows to cut on the score line at 2 and 4" to the first line. Do the same on the opposite side. The middle square you cut about 1/4 -1/2 off. On each of the 4 corners you cut diagonal, so that you have triangles. Now on one side bring the triangle points to cross each other as much as you want and attached the 2 handles with a brad or a staple and do the same for the other side.
No that you have your basket, just fussy cut any of the chicks that are at the bottom of the paper and attached with a 3-d pop up dot, add stickles and let dry. Add anything to the basket you want.  I hope this makes sense.

Hope this helps in getting ready for Easter. 

Valentine's House

Hello, It is almost Valentine's day and so I thought I would make some cards and hearts, but I came across this SVG file from SVGCUTS.com and I had to make that house. I love it and the fox is so cute. You can even turn this house into may different occasions, just by changing the paper and embellishments.  I hope you like it.

Valentine's Cards

Here are some cards I made using the Stamps of life and the dies that work great together.

I used the BO Bunny paper collection Head over Heels. This is great paper collection.

I will be making some more in a couple weeks please come back to see what's new. Thank you

Happy New Year Card

I made a simple and clean card using a file I purchased from The Cutting Café. The wine glass is so cute.

Please stop by on Sunday and I should have some Valentine's cards for you to see to inspire you this early.

Snowman card for Cutterscreek, 12 days of Christmas

I design for Cutterscreek and here is what I did for my project this week.

Welcome to the Cutter's Creek Design Team 12 Days of Christmas.  We are so happy you are joining us.  Today is the 8th day of the event.  I have made a Christmas card for you that will hopefully give you some inspiration to make some for family and friends. The size is an A2 card.

The following items I used from Cutter's Creek Store:

Memento- Danube Blue ink

Doodlebug  Home for the holidays paper pad 

Doodlebug- Red and white twine

Copic Markers- R27, B04, E15, G03, G09, G17

Stickles- Diamond

 

  Please leave a comment and let us know what you think of our projects.

12 Days of Christmas, Day 2

Welcome to the Cutter's Creek Design Team 12 Days of Christmas.  We are so happy you are joining us.  Today is the 2nd day of the event.  I have made a Christmas card for you that will hopefully give you some inspiration to make some for family and friends.

The following items I used from Cutter's Creek Store:

WOW Embossing Powder- Vodka Sparkle for the tree

WOW Embossing Powder- Metalline Green for Merry Christmas

Graphic 45 Secret Garden Pattern & Solid Paper (light blue paper)

Thanks for visiting! Be sure you come back tomorrow for day 3 and another great project from our design team.  Please leave a comment and let us know what you think of our projects.

Thanksgiving Place card Holder

I wanted to share with you all the cute little place card holder for Thanksgiving. If you have a big crowd or a small one this is something that is cute.

I got the file from SVGCuts.com, the file name is Happy Thanks

These are so cute, the front door opens and in the back you can add some candy mints or put in a battery operated tealight.

Halloween Banner

Hello,
I know next week is Halloween and most of your projects are done and up. But I wanted to add 1 more thing. I bought this file from SVG Cuts.com called Midnight Jamboree. It comes with other files as well. If you need help putting this or anything else fro this file just go to their site find the file and see more and you will see a video on how to put it together.

This is a great file and I love the banner, here is what I made

HAPPT HALLOWEEN
BE SAFE!!!!

Halloween Cauldron

Hello
It has been some time since I have posted, been busy with school. It is getting closer to the holidays and one of my favorite holidays to decorate is HALLOWEEN. I made this cauldron using my cricut and the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge. I did not come up with this idea I made it a wonderful scrapbook store in Covina called
Hearts~N~Crafts. Here is what I made.

Thank you card for Cutters Creek

For my project this week I decided do focus on some of the clubs I am in at Cutters Creek.  I found this paper I had, it had different kinds of fruits so I cut them out. I started with a 4.5 x 5.5 card base and then matted a yellow paper that was from Echo Park collection For the record 2, and then embossed it using Anna Griffin Matelasse.  I used my scotch quick dry glue to adhere it down.  Then I had some washi tape from Doodlebugcalled berry blossoms and put it at the bottom. 

 

 

 

Then I took the cuts outs of the fruit and lined them across the washi tape.  I used my tuxedo black ink by Memento to stamp the saying , Thanks a bunch.  The stamp is from my stash. I used some glue pop up dots on the fruits to give them dimension.  Hope you enjoyed this card and please stop by the store for these items.  The items I used were from a club that Kim has open to all.  It is a go way to try new things as well as getting something you want on a budget.  They are great clubs, come by and check them out and remember ask KIM if you have any questions. Thanks for stopping by.  Have a great weekend.

Calendar Girls' Blog Hop for August

Welcome to our August Calendar Girls' Blog Hop. It’s absolutely amazing when you do a Google search the interesting facts you may find. Such a find is special and unique occasions throughout the year!!! These unique holidays are our inspiration. As Neil Sedaka sang in his song "Calendar Girls" - "August, when you're on the beach, you steal the show!"

Our hop begins today with the lovely and super talented Jearise at http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com.  The entire line-up is available just in case you get bogged down with all the holidaze and craziness as you won't want to miss a single calendar event!!!!

The line-up for August includes:

Jearise - http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com
Edwina- http://edwinascreations.blogspot.com/
Janet ~ http://ladyluvbug.blogspot.com
Laura - http://www.lauraleesdream.blogspot.com
Lynne ~ http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/
Sandy~ http://scrapbookblessings.blogspot.com
Vicky~http://crafting-vicky.blogspot.ca/
Christine - http://creativelivingwithchristine.blogspot.com
Lucy ~ http://love2createitall.com
Michele- http://scrapytaz.blogspot.com

August Monthly Holidays, Special and Wacky:

• Family Fun Month ~ Jearise
• National Eye Exam Month - Lucy 
• Peach Month~ Michele
• National Picnic Month ~ Laura

August, 2013 Daily Holidays, Special and Wacky Days:

3 National Watermelon Day ~ Edwina
4 Friendship Day ~ Edwina
4 Sisters Day ~ Janet
7 National Lighthouse Day ~ Lucy 
9 Book Lover's Day ~ Christine
10 Lazy Day ~
10 National S'mores Day ~ Christine
11 Son and Daughter Day ~
12 Middle Child's Day ~
13 Left Hander's Day ~ Jearise
15 Relaxation Day - now this one's for me! ~Edwina
16 National Tell a Joke Day ~ Laura
18 Bad Poetry Day ~ Jearise
19 Aviation Day ~ Lynne & Edwina
20 National Radio Day ~ Sandy
21 Senior Citizen's Day ~ Janet
22 Be an Angel Day ~ Laura
22 National Tooth Fairy Day ~ Sandy
23 Ride the Wind Day ~
26 Women's Equality Day ~
27 Just Because Day ~ Jearise
28 Race Your Mouse Day -but we are not sure what kind of "mouse" ~
30 Frankenstein Day ~ Sandy
30 Toasted Marshmallow Day ~ Vicky


Here is what I did for peach day.  I found this paper that had these fruits on it so I cut them out for my card.

We are offering some fabulous blog candy to a lucky winners -
Sandy from Scrapbook Blessings will be going through her stash and sending one lucky winner a surprise package.
Laura will also be giving one lucky winner her favorite image from The Stamping Chef.. She is a new release so you will have to wait and see her... (She will be in this hop on my blog)
Just comment and give some bloggie love to each of the Calendar Girls.

 Thanks for stopping by and mark your calendar again next month to see what Holidays to Celebrate on September 14, 2013, for the next Calendar Girls Blog Hop!

Christmas in July Blog Hop

Welcome to the Cutters Creek Christmas in July Blog Hop!  If you came from Jearise’s blog you are in the right place, if not and you would like to start at the beginning please jump to the Cutters Creek Design Team blog.  

We have some great projects in store for you today to provide you plenty of inspiration to help you jump start your holiday crafting. So grab your favorite beverage, sit back and relax, and get ready for some fun, inspiration, and the chance to win some blog candy too!

Here is what I made for you today:

 

2 Christmas Tags, I used my cricut to cut these out.  I used Tags, Bags, Boxes & More and cut the tag at 5inches.  Then I embossed them using Sizzix Christmas Set #3 and Cuttlebug embossing folder Matelassé by Anna Griffen. I know it is hard to see, the snowman has the snowflakes and the penguin has the Matelassé.  The snowman and the penguin are cut out from Create a Critter 2, at 3inches each. I used some ice stickles called crystal ice on their scarf's, hat and mittens. The ribbon is blue and red from what I had at home and then I found some stamps and stamped the saying of winter joy and happy holiday's in red and blue ink.  You can find these and many more items at the Cutters Creek store and if you need something special please ask Kim and she will help you find it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have some awesome blog candy for you.

 

To be eligible for the blog candy, we would love for you to follow us and leave a comment on all the blogs along the way. We will use Random.org to select a winner. The winner will be posted on the Cutters Creek Design Team blog on Monday July 15^th.

 Here is the complete blog hop line up in case you get lost along the way.

Design Team Blog: http://cutterscreekdesignteam.blogspot.com/

Kim: http://kreativekim.blogspot.com/

Deanna: http://deannaspapercrafts.blogspot.com/

Fran: http://scallopsandswirls.blogspot.com/

Mindy: http://www.scrappyandpiggy.blogspot.com/

Anne: http://www.annesscrapcorner.blogspot.com/

Cindy: http://www.cindyvernon.blogspot.com/

Jearise: http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com/

Michele: http://www.scrapytaz.blogspot.com/

 

Halloween clutch

I just made this using a file from svgcuts.com, they have some great files if you like making 3-D items

 

 

Another 4th of July Project

This is  project I did for Cutters Creek for which I am on the Design Team. 

It’s almost 4^th of July, and I decided to make a card.  I got this digital image from online(The cutting café) and it was perfect for this card.  I used a card size 4 ¼ x 5 and then I matted the red poka dot from the Happy Days paper collection from Echo Park. I used Copic markers to color the hat I used Y17,B29 and R46. I used some Ice Stickles on the stars to give it some bling. The saying is something I also found online(the cutting café). I used pop up dots from my stach to give the hat and the words a 3-d look.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Please come by the store to find these and other great products.  Just ask Kim if you can't find something, she will gladly help you get it.  HAPPY 4th of JULY.  Be safe.

4th of July tag

Here is a new project I did for 4th of July, a tag.  I am on a design team for CUTTERS CREEK.  This is my project I did for them and I thought to share it here on my blog as well.

The cut outs are from Quick Kutz / Lifestyle Crafts. I used red cardstock for the tag and the red(barn door) and blue(faded jeans) are from Tim Holts & Ranger distress collection by core'dinations.  I cut the tag out using my cricut and Tags, Bags, Boxes and More, and size about 6inches..  then I just added red ribbon to the top.
Here is a close up

Hope you liked it. Thanks for stopping by.

STARS N STRIPES

Here is something I did for The Stamping Chef Challenge- Stars n Stripes.  I tried to think out of the box instead of something ordinary.

Please visit The Stamping Chef site to see the amazing digi stamps.

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