Fun with the Cricut

Well Today I had in my head I wanted to work on cutting a few things from my cricut (of course using my gyspy)  So I sat down and cut out some paper hearts to put in my craft room window for Valentine's Day and I made the 3-D Eiffel tower just because.  Yesterday I altered a few baby food jars for an up coming art gathering.  I just cut K&company paper into strips, cut a bunch of heart out using a sizzex die with my cuttle bug and embossed Happy Valentine's Day in black embossing power.  I think they are simple but very cute.

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A little Scrapbooking this weekend and some tags done

Full 2 page speard

Close up of first page

Close up of second page

Close up of title

May Tags Complete aside from tassels 

Well this past Sunday I had the girls over to craft (my bestie included) and we had a very productive day.  I completed this two page layout that I love.  I got some of my childhood pictures back awhile ago and I pulled these out and said to myself that I would scrapbook them before most of the rest.  I love the fun free color and lighting in the photos.  And the pictures of me playing with the balloon are just amazing and then of course my favorite is my Grandma Edith eating the cotton candy.  I wish I remember what the reason for the day was or a little bit of how it felt to be running around but I left it simple with just the title "Fun".  All the embellishments and papers are Sassafrass lass, the cardstock is all bazzill.  

Then I got my tags done for my Twelve tags of the year swap.  These are for May...So I now have January, February, March and May done.  I have an idea for April and its started but I have finished yet.  I also help my Best Friend Tabitha with her 12 cards for a swap at her Stampin up Stamp Camp and then another 24 for the teacher at her school (that I was going to scrap lift today but couldn't find the awesome stamp she used.  I left Micheal's so very disappointed today, with just 2 12x12 cricut mats and a couple pack of felt embellishments.  I HATE that Micheal's doesn't allow you to use a coupon on the cricut mats and don't understand why they don't when AC Moore does.  I keep trying to remember to go to AC Moore to get mats but its out of my way.  Then to top it all off I had to go get someone to open the case to get me the mats out...are you kidding me really are they in such high demand (and being shop lifted) that we must put them behind glass and a lock.  I understand the cartridges but the mats.  I should have walked out but I needed the mats, so I bit my tongue.

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March fairy tags

These tags didn't come as easily as my first two months.  But after a lot walking away and hard work I think they came out pretty cute.  I didn't go crazy with them just applied some ink with the blending to the tag and some other papers before diecuting them.  Paper pieced a rainbow, cut the little fairies out from a image sheet, colored their wings a different color that worked a little better with the tags as a whole with Smooch and embossed some shamrocks in white embossing powder.  

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Valentine's Day Altered Tag(s)

tags 1 and 2 side by side

Tag 1

Close up of the altered "Be mine"

Tag 2 close up

Back of tag 2

Back of tag 1

So I was inspired after completing my first tag for the Tag swap in the Vintage room, so I moved on to the next month already.  There are a lot of techniques used in this tag.  I started with a blank tag then I inked it (using the blending tool) using Tim Holtz distress inks (Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet, worn Lipstick).  After letting it dry I took heart shaped paper doilies and put it half on and half off the paper then sprayed with Brick Tattered angel glimmer mist, then lifted the heart leaving the pattern on the tag.  After letting that dry I put a light coat of Distress crackle paint (clear) over the whole thing.  I let it dry before layering stamped images in Vintage Photo distress ink and stickers.  The metal "Be Mine" embellishment was originally pink with would have went fine with what I was doing but I wanted it to stand out so I used Tim Holtz idea from this years twelve tags of Christmas and painted it with white paint then covering it with embossing power (white) then heat embossing.   I think it really makes the tag more eye catching.  At the end I added Glitter glue and some ribbon and altered pompom trim ( spray with Brick and Cupid pink glimmer mist).  Now I'm moving on to March already.   Pin It Now!

First of the 12 tags swaps for the year

So my group of friends at the Vintage Room are doing a swap similar to Tim Holtz's twelve tags of Christmas but instead of just Christmas we are doing 1 tag a month.  So here is my first tag I'm really excited on how it came out.  I'm already started on the second one.  It will be posted soon I'm sure. Pin It Now!

some Christmas Crafting for my home

So I have been a little busy with some Christmas crafting.  Most of which are for presents so I can't share but this was done kind of for myself.  I sat down on the floor and start to make myself a paper chain like I did as a child, but the new and improve version of course.  I used my beautiful scrapbook papers.  So after two nights I have beautiful paper chain in my bathroom.  And then I starting doing some research on how I could make a paper wreath and decided to go for it.  I'm not very good with a hot glue gun I burned myself quite a few times before my Wreath was done.  But one old book, a foam wreath base, lots of hot glue and two nights later I had my beautiful book wreath.  I wanted to do something different with mine of course cause it seems everyone leaves their's oh natural.  I sprayed mine with glimmer mist and wiped some pine green distress ink on it.  I want to put a bow on it but I need to do some brain storming because I don't want it to be  forever.  I change my mind often and I want to to be able to change whenever I want.  I think its because I don't want to put my wreath away.  I can't even imagine trying to store it so that it wont get ruined.  So I want the bow to change with the seasons.  So I will update you later when I decide on what I'm doing.  So I most go I need to get some sleep I'm off to NYC in the morning for Christmas shopping. 

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Tradition take 2

Patches enjoying her food

Penny's 2nd thanksgiving

Notice how she leaves her veggies till last

Penny mid chew she looks pretty mean doesn't she?

my dainty child

takes her dear sweet time 

Sassy was already finished when I got to her with the camera

getting the crumbs off the floor

The turkey did its magic.  Passed out. 

 Well here I am up a 4 o'clock in the morning on black friday.  Not because I'm hitting all the sales (I honestly saw nothing worth while that I knew I would get, so why bother).  No I'm up because my phone woke me up (nothing exciting I promise).  So I figure hell why not share another Thanksgiving Tradition with the world.  Its kind of a silly one.  So the family dogs are like...well like family and what does the family get on T-day... Food.  So a silly family tradition in our house is that we make the dogs plates (on the china) for them to enjoy thanksgiving dinner after we are done.  This year was Patches first Thanksgiving with us so I took pictures and again I figure I will scrapbook my silly tradition.  The tough part about it for me was it was our first thanksgiving without Buster.  Even though I had to make the same amount of plates as last year I still felt the empty space.  I am a sappy, sentimental person and Buster was by far my best friend.  I literally would talk to him when I felt I couldn't talk to anyone else and he always just sat there and listened and let my just cry on his shoulder.  Penny and Patches don't sit still let alone listen on let me cry to them.  There will never be another Buster in this world.  I'm thankful that he's not suffering anymore and that I had so many years to cry on his shoulder without judgement, but I'm sad that he's not here for me to stop and just lay with him during my day or just pat him on the head and tell him I love him.  I hope someday it will be easier, but at the moment I'm not sure it will ever be.

RIP Buster I miss you

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