Flaunt it Fridays Turtle

Lucky for me I got Create a Critter for Christmas!!! So this was the first thing that I've done with my new cart!! One of our good friends found out they are expecting #2, so I made a card to send their way. I really wanted to try to do something that wasn't a card....but I was stumped with it being a turtle.....so I caved in and did the card :-) hope you like!!

Happy Crafting!
Sarah

Sleigh Card

So this is my card for Flaunt it Fridays!! The challenge was to use a sleigh. I don't usually use a Sleigh in my Christmas stuff, I'm more of a snowflake girl, so this was good to get out of my zone. I used the Gingerbread Cart. It's so cute and I've seen such great projects with it. I wanted to stay away from reds and greens too, just to keep it fresh. I am also in love with the gem tones paper from Joanns, it can add alot to the right projects.

I used white gem tones paper for the base of the sleigh, with a dark blue outline. The patterned paper is from DCWV stack from last year. Hope you enjoy!



Thanks!
Sarah

Gift Sets

So this is the first time I've ever made Christmas presents. I did card gift sets for some of the ladies in my family. I did packs of two and gave each of the ladies 2 pack all tied together with a bow. This was pretty fun to do, since I could make any kind of card I wanted it was great. It really got me using some of my new carts that I haven't used yet. I did most of this in one very crafty day in my craft room.





The "quite the pear" stamp is from the dollar bin at Michaels....check them out, good stuff!!




I did one themed set for my mother in law. She lives at the beach and loves everything beachy!! So I made all her cards with the Life's a Beach Cart.


They all go in the mail home on Friday!!
Happy Crafting!
Sarah

Crafting to the Rescue!!

Well it's bound to happen every time we put up decorations, something is going to break. As my husband was putting the topper on our tree this year (mind you the whole time this is going on I'm saying "be careful, be careful, be careful") there was a tumble down the tree.....and the crash of an ornament. When I went under the tree to survey the damage, I found one of my favorite ornaments, the Santa belly!! Remember now I'm still recovering from the BOX of Christmas decorations that the movers broke this year.....and now Santa Belly.

Cute right?? Thankfully it wasn't a sentimental ornament....but still one of my favorites.

Well once I started looking at it, I thought....hey, I could make that!!

So with a tube of red ornaments from the dollar section at Target, 2 pieces of felt, gold glitter glue, a white paint pen, and the hot glue gun I began!!

First I cut a strip of black felt to make the belt around his belly. Then I free handed a collar that matched the one from the original ornament. Once I had both of those the way I liked I hot glued them on. Then I made the belt buckle out of the glitter glue and added 3 white dots with the paint pen for the buttons.

Here is the finished product

I know the size of the ornaments are different, and the top of the new ornament is not frosted...but pretty good right?? here is the side my side

So my crafting has officially saved the day....my husband went on to break a tree topper and a plate that night.... he has been banned from touching anything breakable for the rest of Christmas!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Sarah

Snowman Picture

So part of the fun in being married to the military is that every couple years (or less) you move to a new home and have to plan your decorations again., or you have to see what decorations have survived your last move. I had an entire box of decorations that bit the dust in our move across the country this time :-(

Well I said all that to say this..... now we have a half bathroom downstairs, so in my Christmas decorating I've been working on my bathroom. I'm going with a snowman theme. I got it all done and realized that my wall was lacking. I had a picture there for everyday, but it didn't really go with the snowman theme. Out comes the cricut and here's what happened!!

I started with an inexpensive 8.5x11 frame from Joann. This is a part of their LA Collection, which doesn't go on sale...but that means you CAN use a coupon on it... so next time you have a coupon and think everything in the store is on sale.....hit this up.

After the frame it's time for design and paper. Thankfully (haha) Joann was having a paper sale to help inspire me!! 5 for $.95!! So I got a couple different shades of blue to use for this project.

I got my DS out to design my snowman. I used Winter Frolic for the snowman. I cut him out in a pearlized white, then an orange nose, a blue patterned hat, and red scarf (both from my scrap stash). Once I had pieces cut out it was time to put it together.

Once I got him all mounted up and in the frame I thought that it needed a little more. So I added the words, then I had some foam snowflakes and used those to give it some more dimension.

It looks really good in my bathroom!! I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!!

My First Canvas

OK....so this is my first BIG adventure with Canvas and Vinyl. I'm pretty excited with how it turned out, and see endless possibilities with the mixed media. I'm already starting to work on round 2! :-)So here it goes. I realised the other day that we have nothing on the walls in our bedroom, that needs to change!

I bought 3 5x7 canvases from Micheals (I think), I wanted to start small and see how it went.

Then I gathered my paint colors. The colors in our room are khaki, red, and blue...I added the metallic gold just to lighten it up a bit.

First I painted all the canvases in the khaki color as a base coat.

After that I did random swipes of the other three colors. I used a paper towel to help fade the colors so that they weren't too intense. I wanted a washed or faded look to the colors so that they all blended and worked together without being too overpowering.






The one on the far right was my first one....as you can see the red got to be a bit much, but once you see the end you'll see it won't matter....or you can always go back and add more of the neutral color.


Next I used my DS and the Songbird cart to make the words I wanted at the sizes that I wanted. I chose Faith, Hope, Love. Once I got them all set, I put them on one cut screen in DS and cut them on paper first to make sure I liked the look.
Now that it was ready to go....I loaded up my black vinyl (I get mine from craftvinyl.com) and let it cut. Once cut I added them to the finished canvases. They are currently up on the wall in my bedroom. They are small on the wall since this was a trial....so I still need to work on the wall but I think they came out really well!!

I think this kind of project has alot of potential and that's what is most exciting!! If you haven't tried vinyl yet, I think you should!! You may surprise yourself!!

Love and Vinyl!

Sarah

Gobble Till you Wobble Treats!!

So here is what I think is going to be the last Thanksgiving treat for this year!! I was inspired for this project by another blog, but now can't find it....so I had to change it around to make it work for me!!

I used Honey Buns, but I really think you could use any round, wrapped, treat. I used Animal Kingdom Cart for the Turkey head. I used my DS to make it the deminsions that I needed it to be to fit on the Honey Bun... it's about 3x3.

I couldn't find any good feathers to use for the back of the turkey....then I though, duh!! REAL feathers :-) So me and my 40% off coupon headed to Joanns!! They even had like a "turkey" colored pack with reds, oranges, and yellows.

I used my craft glue on the back to attach the feathers and then let it dry. After they were dry I just used square mounts to stick the turkey head to the front....and wamo!! turkey treats. I think the girls at work will like these....any time I come it with treats they usually attack me as I come in the door!!

Thanks and have a great night!!

Sarah

Sleeping Baby Sign

So things are starting to pick up in the project department. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas projects (not to mention things have to be done earlier this year because everything has to be mailed across the country) the cricut has been doing overtime!!

In the middle of all that some of our friends here just had their 2nd little girl. So I've made two dinners, a desert, and a breakfast for them. I also worked on this the other night and finally finished it today.

(in the planning stage)

I used Home Accent Essentials to do the big scalloped circles, the white is at 11 inches and the brown at 10".I used Lyrical Letters to do the words, I welded them and sized them to fit perfectly in DS. Then I used the baby on Stretch you Imagination and fixed her to be the size I needed in DS. I punched holes in it before I had it laminated so that it would be easier to punch out after. Then I tied the pink ribbon with white polka dots so that It could be hung.

The only thing I would add/change about this project, I would have put the babys name and birthday or something like that on the back....but once it's laminated it's done :-) So just a note to myself for next time.

Just one more thought for tonight....The more I work with my DS the more I have to tell you it's worth the money. Now that Provo craft is all about Gypsy you can get DS at a really good price if you look. I LOVE it!!

I've got some Christmas projects that will be posted next, so check back to see those!!

Hope you enjoy!

Sarah

Joann Paper Sale

Have you ever noticed when Joanns has good coupons, everything is on sale...so you can't use them?? Joanns is in the next town over, so I only go when they are having a big sale, or I have good coupons to use, and I usually take the Joann and Michaels coupons and get more bang for my buck :-)

I went today for the paper sale. 5 for $.95. I've been working on some projects and needed to restock. So back to my coupon. Since almost everything over in the scrapbook section was on sale, I had to look pretty hard to find something to use my coupon on....and I think I've found a new "gem" in my scrapbooking collection. It's called Shimmer Spray, it's in the same section as the Tim Holtz stuff. I know that there are other things like this out there....but this is the first time I've used anything like it...and I love it. It comes in a couple different color packs, I got frost and sparkle....pretty everyday kinda colors.

I wanted to make a card for some friends the live far away from us and use my new spray. Sometimes you sit down and it just comes to you right?? I used my new Simply Charmed Cart and made a 3" sunshine, shadow and sunglasses. The misted it. I put the paper on an old rag to catch the overspray. It was like 4 sprays an we are good to go. I should have done a few "warm-up" sprays in the sink to help it out, but over all LOVE it. I let it dry about 5 mins before I messed with it. The glitter holds up pretty well, I hate it when I glitter one thing and it ends up all over the house :-)

After I got my sun all worked out, I used my DS again (which I'm really falling in love with), to make my words using Plantin Schoolbook. Attached my words. Then used 3-D dots for my sun...and done :-)

Simple...but cheery none the less!

Leave a comment and let me know what you think or become a follower to see what I'm up to!!

Sarah

Animal Book

So this is a project that I've been wanting to do for a while, it just took time to get the inspiration (and the Animal Kingdom Cart to go on sale :-). To be honest I'm super excited with out it turned out!!

I used Boxes, Bags, and Tags to make the tags at 7" with the hole. Then I used the Animal Kingdom Cart at 3" (I think) to make the animals, and last I used Lyrical Letters Cart to make the words. I formed all my words and welded them in DS.

This was my first time using my DS too!! which was so much fun...and the fact that all the work is done and saved and I can print them out again is awesome!! I made all the words 3" x 3" in DS so I knew they would fit. I also picked animals that had small names so that you could see them in that 3" x 3" size.

I'm going to have it laminated and then do a ring to keep all the cards together!! I'm going to get another one put together for my Etsy site, so if you are interested be on the look out, or shoot me an e-mail if you want something custom!

I was so happy with the way the Halloween buckets came out using the vinyl with my cricut, I've ordered some more last night so be on the look out for those Christmas projects...my creative mind has been working overtime.

Thanks for stopping by!! Leave a comment or become a follower :-)

Sarah

Sweet Treats

So I stole and modified this idea from the Halloween Taste of Home Magazine. Their cover showed these really cute rice krispy treat pumpkin pops.....Mine turned out a little different, but were eaten just as quick.

The original picture had these babies on sticks...which was the goal when I started. But after I made them and poped the stick in the weight of the rice krispys made them slide down the stick and start to break apart....not so cute. So I re-molded them and put them in a tray, they looked like a pumpkin patch.

As far as decorating them...again some modification based on what I could find. I used Tootsie rolls cut in half as the stems, they too where a bit heavy and I had to cram them in the pumpkins to make them stay. They used airheads to do their steams...all I could find was a huge pack, that was mixed colors, for more than I wanted to spend for 3 packs of green candy. So I got Giant Lifesaver Gummies and cut them in 4th and "glued" them in with a little orange frosting.

I highly recommend these. They are pretty easy, and super tasty. I great spin on a classic treat! Halloween is on Sunday and I'm super excited. I have a pretty spooky menu planned, so check back to see how that goes :-) have a safe and happy Halloween!

Halloween Projects

Well Halloween is fast approaching, so I've been busy working on all kinds of tricks and treats :-) I borrowed this idea from ScrapGuy. I got 2 of the Halloween buckets from Michaels this weekend, and a roll of Cricut black vinyl.

Then using my Pumpkin Carving Cart at 4" I made these two faces, one for each of the buckets.

I then used Plantin SchoolBook at 4" to put each of the boys names on the back. I'm going to fill them with candy and other treats. It may be too much for my 29 year old hubby and his friend....but they humor me....plus it has candy in it right??

Hope you guys are gearing up for a great Halloween yourself!!

Love and cuts!
Sarah

My New Blog

Welcome to my new Crafty Blog. I have been so inspired by all the cricut, scrapbooking, and crafting blogs out there, I wanted to show off my own projects...all in the hopes that I can inspire someone else to make something amazing or try something different.

For my first post I have 3 of my most recent cards. Theses were all made with the Mini Monsters Cartridges. I was so excited when they came in the mail, I got them after work and stayed up WAY too late playing with it. I'm really into googly eyes right now...so this cart was perfect for that :-) I hope you enjoy!!

Don't for get to become a follower of my Blog so you are first to know of all my updates! If you see something you love...leave a comment....I want to know what you think :-)