Finnegan Tails

I finally settled on this layout of Finnegan"Finn".  I've been trying to use up some kits,unfinished or extras from CKC's in the past.  I think these papers were to be a Disney related page,but perfect for my Finn!   I used some vinyl to do the name tag and printed a saying off a cricut cartridge too :) oh, and a bone charm I found!

Door hanging For R.I.

I put this little whimsical deer project from Cricut together on  Burlap frame from Walmart. It measures 12x12 and Ashton decided the deer looked best with this diamond orientation to hang on their front door of the apt. We found a sparkling sprig at Joann's and used a small stem piece for his nose and also some snowflakes that can be placed and glued as well.
This was the 1st time I used my Heat press and it definitely took many passes @305* and 30 seconds each to get the glitter htv to stick!  I used teflon pillows and a dishtowel to lift the fabric as much as possible for the press to lay flat and connect to the material.
I really do like the way its coming together, and can't wait to see it on her door. I left the loose branch and snowflakes for her to glue if she wanted :)

Happy Holidays at the New Apt to the Newly married Schramms  Merry Christmas  Love Mom :)

deepest sympathy

My daughters boyfriend asked if I could make him a card for his boss who just lost her Mom. I had seen this video on youtube and this is what I came up with. It is a 5x7 card
I also made an envelope to fit because of the dimension :)

ribbon : Really Reasonable Ribbon
Cricut E2 and Lacy Labels cart
embossing folder (? cricut)
Tim Holtz distress inks
Perfect Pearls
die cut butterfly
pearls from stash
stamp from stash
card stock from stash

Happy Birthday!

this is a quick card for my youngest daughter Ashton :) I didn't actually have it done in time for mailing or personal delivery.

I used Elegent Edges (loops) for the matting and resized the project idea shown in the cricut book to a card from a 12x12 layout. I used CardzTv stamps for the sentiment cut into a banner. The image is colored with my Copics. I cut the image with my Silhouette.

Hedgies have a special place in her heart and one day she will have one! but for now, Penny Black supplies them :)

card stock is from stash as is the ribbon.

Happy Birthday Ashton!!
Hugs and Love, Mom

Halloween & Fall Fun

inside :

thanks Mary from CardzTv for the great ideas!

I still have a few more to upload and catch up ..
stay tuned soon :)

Tina

CardzTV Inspired!

These 2 cards are  totally all credited to Mary on CardzTv She does fantastic things with Cricut Cartridges and has fabulous video’s on YouTube.

I followed her card and added embossing with Forest & Branches Cuttlelbug folder to the grass, Glossy Accents on the bears nose and Perfect Pearls to the light silver pieces of the trash can.The sky paper was printed from one of my Imagine carts

Dino Valentine's

I saw this post here and I just had to make a couple of these cutie Dino's.
One of them is even on a Wobble. This card is going to my Mom :)

some of the things I used include clear hearts from an old Heidi Swapp kit,google eyes,DJ Valentine font,Love Struck font,Cuttlebug Embossing folder mini hearts,Candi Dot embellies and Stamps{of}Life sentiment stamps and my new personalized signature stamp !

The dino was cut at 3.25(height)from the Create a Critter Cartridge.

Hope you have a Happy Valentines Day! thanks for looking :)

playing on a sunday afternoon

this little cupid is cut at 3" Teddy Bears on Parade cart.

Gift Card for Matt

Alison asked if I would make her a card for Matt. She surfed Pinterest and got some ideas and then we looked at the cartridges I had :) She wanted an Owl and we found this cutie on Hoot n Holler!

He was cut at 3” and the saying was scaled to fit. I used a couple of sizzix cuttlebug embossing folders and some stickles on the berry. I also used a stamp set from Cardztvstamps.com for the sentiment inside. I made this into a 3fold type card 5X7

                     

Merry Christmas !

Christmas Advent Calendar

 

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This is a countdown calendar that I got a few years back. It is by Karen Foster and is available at Jo-Ann’s right now and on SALE!! I just ordered 2 more! :) !! so I can make some for gifts. The two I am working on right now are for my 2 Girls. One of whom has her own apt. now and could use some holiday decorations. I designed the template in CCR using the craftroom basics shapes and I have uploaded the file to 4share if anyone would like it. I will post up a finished picture when I complete it with all the other little details.

http://www.4shared.com/folder/FJUQOAiI/My_4shared_Sync.html

I’d love to see yours if you do one up. If you have any problem with the file please email me.

One of the next ones I do, I am going to do it double sided! Halloween and Christmas :)

thanks for looking :)

Happy Birthday Giraffe

Alison turns 30! Oh my gosh, I’m getting older! lol  She adores giraffes, especially since we went to Disney this past year and stayed at the Animal Kingdom Lodge. The giraffes would water during the day and bedded down right outside our room! She named them all Geoffrey (like Toys R Us). I found it fitting to do this little card for her. I used the Zooballoo Cartridge. The card is cut at 8.5 x 4.25. I then used some chocolate flocking for his spots and his ears. It’s hard to see, but I chalked the clouds with blue. Enjoy :)

Halloween Frame

Hi again! I made a mini album for a co worker who’s daughter just had a baby earlier this summer and she has decided to use the remaining pages I didn’t decorate for the holidays thru the end of the year. I came up with this little frame using the Happy Hauntings 3D freebies and a cute little pumpkin from the Artiste cartridge. The papers were from a DCWV fall paper stack and welded in CCR. I made this to fit the 5 1/2 sized pages. The frame is cut at 4.45 height and is 4.25 with the welded pumpkin. The opening will fit a  2 1/2 oval picture. I’d be happy to share the file, just PM me :) if you’d like. Thanks for looking

Bones

I cut these two fellas from the Artiste Cartridge. I was using the cart for the other little cuts on my cards(previous post) and they caught my eye! These are just very simple put on the mat and cut away. I wanted to have my daughter show her BF’s sister what crazy possibilites we (CRICUT/Imagine Fanatics) have to help her decorate her new classroom. She is a special needs teacher and just got an official teaching position in a local elementary school. They basically gave her an empty room, with no blackboards,desks etc, so its building a class from ground zero! We also found out she cut 150 leaves by hand!  totally not necessary!!!

anyhow, the Boo is at 1.6” for height in CCR and the skeletons,one flipped are at 11.15” height and the head is 1.569” height. 2 fit on the page.

I am finding so many other cool things on this Artiste Cartridge,  it’s becoming a fav :)

Canning and gift labels to match

I did up some Mustard Pickle and made this cute little tag for it. I used the CCR and welded 2 canning jars together. I used swiss dots cuttlebug to emboss bumps for the pickles,branches to the gray piece I hand cut from a single cut of the jar to give it some ridges like the real twist caps have and circles for the jars to resemble pickles. I used Savory for the canning jar and Just Because Cards for the pickle if you would like the ccr file,feel free to email me :)

Easter Egg Parade

just a quick card I colored up with copics. The digi is from Hambo Stamps.com. I used the Close to My Heart Art Philosophy cartridge for the mat cuts at 3 and 3.25. The image is done with the center point feature of the cricut :) I used Elegant Edges for the little 1/2 inch  (x2 for each side) border pieces behind the mat and the ribbon came from Reasonable Ribbon. I think Mom will like this one :)  Oh and the sentiment stamps are from Stamps of Life

Ahoy Birthday Card for Paul

I thought I’d get a jump on a  card for Paul’s birthday next month. Being the boat man he is,he will have fun with this fella made using the Imagine Buccaneer cartridge :)

It’s a 4x5 card size. I layered him up with a simgle thickness of foam tape. The papers were also printed from the cartridge. Beads are from stash. The "Ahoy" is from Create a Critter and filled with the color on Buccaneer cartridge.

Don’t look too close you will see I put the bottom strip on upside down! arrrrghhhh (lol)

quick St. Patricks

card for my Mom. I hope I remember to mail it!! :) I wanted to try a shaped card, so I used the shadow feature on the Designer's Calendar cart and welded them together to form the card base in the Cricut Craft Room. Then I cut another one for the front top layer slightly smaller then the base card. The card stock on the base in Coordinations and I sanded the edges to give the green border(which was the backing color). The sentiments are from a Stamps of Life set.
the ribbon is stash from AC Moore or Joann's
This fits a 5x7 envelope

Valentines cards

Everyday Cricut and Scrapping Under Influence Blogs that I follow on Google Reader were the inspiration for 2 of these cards. The other, Hearts with little tag LOVE I just did up using my Imagine and the Echo Park Yours Truly paper pack. All fantastic papers and stickers for Valentines Day!

There was one other that I made for my Oldest Daughter of a Koala holding a heart balloon that I forgot to snap a picture. I'll get it when I visit her :) He came from the Create a Critter cartridge.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

it's officially new years day and I am hoping this post will keep me going for one of my resolutions this year. Normally I don't bother making any as things always distract me from following through; maybe that should be one..hmmm follow through. Well, anyhow. I started this cross stitch project near 25 or more years ago. My stitching phase took a back seat when I started in on scrapping and card making with the cricut, so that's about 7 years now maybe.My goal is to try and get him finished by the end of this year. I do have a large amount of him done, so I think that is a reasonable goal.A few hrs every other day or more and it should work. I started in on him on 12/28 to get the juices going :)
I'll try and post a progress picture every month :)

the other resolution I have is to make at least 2 projects form every cricut and imagine cartridge I own.. over 93 as of today!
off to the craft lair I go :)

Stash of Tags

these are all set and ready to go for next years gifts :) I might even keep on making some others ! I love Christmas time crafting