Say Cheese!

I made this card this weekend using my all time favorite Cricut Cartridge Create a Critter.  I handle advertising at my job and we are working on making a new brochure and some new ads so I had to pick a number of residents to be models in the various pictures we were taking.  So I thought since they were all so accommodating and good sports about getting their pictures taken I would make them all thank you cards.  So this is what I came up with. On the inside it says "Many Thanks".  I had to make 18, which wasn't too bad once I came up with the idea, after that it was like an assembly line. 

Happy Spring!

I sure wish someone would tell Mother Nature it is supposed to be spring!  Bring on the warm weather!! I have been very busy with non-crafty stuff since Christmas time.

My baby turned 16!

 

Went to Disney World in February with Katy and the Interboro High School Marching Band --

we had a blast! 

Then Katy had her her FROSH Dance also in February

Then I had the big crop to benefit the Marching Band. Thanks to everyone who attended and helped out.  We raised $700 for the band! 

I have had a little time to get a few projects completed.  Me and my fellow Scrap Tarts had three swaps due from January through March.  We are swapping them this Saturday, can't wait to see what everyone did!

Sympathy Card Swap - simple and classic.

Card stock, a simple ribbon and a prima flower along

with a short and simple sentiment complete this card

Recipe Swap - Chicken Tortilla Soup

Again kept it simple since I didn't have a large space to work with.  Card is 6x6.  Printed out the recipe double matted it.  Added to Mexican themed cuts from my Cricut.  Sombrero came from Designer's Calendar and the cactus was from Toy Story.  Added a flower brad to cactus for some visual interest.

Part of the fun this Saturday at our "Swap Crop" we are swapping Easter Baskets filled with scrapbook goodies!  I will take a picture and add it soon.  Here is a card that I made for each of my swap buddies.  The pink layer was embossed using a Cuttlebug folder with larger circles, they are hard to see in this scan of the card.   I cut the Bunny and Carrot from Create  Critter (still my favorite cartridge ever!) and then I added a cute springy ribbon across the top.  The pink paper looks a little lopsided on the scan but doesn't look like that in person.

I am going on a scrap book retreat weekend to the Hamburg Hideaway next weekend with 8 other ladies.  I leave Friday morning and will be back on Sunday afternoon.  I am hoping that three days of uninterrupted scrapbooking brings back my mojo and I can fill my blog with all of the wonderful cards and layouts I get done!  Be sure to check back soon!

Some Recent Cards I have Made.....

Here are a few cards I made using my cricut.   I love making the cards, I just need to figure out how to squeeze more time into the day.  It is marching band season and I am very active in the Music Boosters so that really takes up a lot of my free time.  But any way here are three cards I made recently.

Girls Rock!  Using my brand new cart - ROCK PRINCESS, I really think I am going to love this cart!

Pretty Pony - I made this card for my DD's boyfriend's little sister's birthday (got that?) and I absolutely LOVE how it turned out!  Made using CREATE A CRITTER my all time favorite cart.

Happy Day - I made for my SIL's birthday.  I really like this cart, first time I used it and I will be on my go to cart list from now on.  Cart used - HELLO KITTY.

Scrapper Block Continues....

I am still feeling less than motivated to create anything.  I did do a card and a cut both from Create a Critter last night.  I got my new Peachy Keen faces stamps in the mail and wanted to try them out.   They are just adorable.  Here is what I did.

The penguin came out cute, but when I was trying to do the new hide contour feature on my Gypsy and as you see by the little line beneath the beak I missed something I should have hidden!  I also didn't have any of my colored pencils handy to color in his beak. 

This I was pretty happy with how the card turned out.  I might make the cuts slightly smaller if I do this one again.  I think the fawn was cut at 3.5 inches and this is an A2 size card.   I messed up her face a little bit.  The stamp smeared a little bit and when I used my white gel pen to finish her eye it smeared too!  I may take a black pen ad try to touch up her eye tonight. 

I doubt I will do any crafting tonight the Flyers are playing at 8:00 and then tomorrow night my DD  has music lessons and I have to help her start studying for finals.  So this weekend once again I will try to break out of my scrapper's block and get creative!

Waiting for the weekend!

I went to AC Moore on Sunday to get one of the new release Cricut cartridges, even after telling myself that I really didn't need them and would wait for the long anticipated "CAT" cartridge.  I picked up not ONE but TWO of the new carts!   I got them price matched for Joann's sale price of $39.99.  I picked up Cindy Loo and Freshly Picked.   I have them out of their box and linked to my Gypsy but haven't done anything else with them.  It has been a busy week so I am looking to play this weekend!  So by the weekend I promise to have projects using all of my new cartridges posted.

Here are my two new aquisitions from this past weekend.

Here is my eBay find for only $26 incl. shipping!

And just because I love this cart so so so much I thought I would ad it to this post too!

Cards from Saturday's Crop

I wasn't as productive as I had hoped I would be at Saturday's crop.  You know how it is, you get together with all of your crop friends and you talk more than you create sometimes!  But here are the few cards I did get done.   The two farm one's I scraplifted from someone on the cricut message board, I apologize that I don't remember her name (my bad) and then the hedgehog is pretty simple but I just love him!  I also used My Pink Stamper's Punylicious stamp set for the sentiments on the cards.  The deer I ran out of time for getting her on a card but she was just so adorable that I couldn't leave her out!

Cards

Here are some cards I made this past Saturday at the crop I went to in Quakertown. I had a great time and made some fun cards I gave to my mother for Mother's Day. Here they are:

I used CTMH paper and inks, the stamp and punch were SU and I embossed with a cuttlebug folder.

Paper, stamp, ink and rick rack all CTMH and the adorable Hippo is from the new Cricut Create a Critter (CAC) cart.

Cardstock, stamps and ink CTMH, Patterned paper is Basic Grey Kioshi and the Panda is from CAC.

Again paper, stamp and ink CTMH and the Owl is from CAC.