Be Mine!

Add a little pizzazz to your home with this adorable Be Mine! Perfect for Valentine’s Day and beyond, this banner is a great way to add some perennial décor to your home! Each banner is made of sturdy, lightweight plywood for easy display and storage. These adorable wooden banners are also easy to personalize.  Whether you’re going to keep it in your own home or give it as a gift, you are sure to please with this too-cute banner!

The special includes one banner kit with 5 wooden hearts and an SVG file that includes a heart shape and fun word accents to help you add your own unique touch to this banner. 

This special is available from January 15 to February 29, while supplies last.

Cricut Stuff

Hi there,

All I can say is "baby steps" I really want to be more consistent, but alas!  Here I am anyway, today I played with some adorable svg files and I made a Butterfly Fairy House, from Dreaming Tree.  So cute, there's a set of three, I'll start the next one tomorrow, yay!

Just so you know, I took creative license with this project.  That's my only excuse.  But hey! It was fun and I love it.

I'm Back

Hello
I've been gone way too long.  I've haven't had a good year and I want to change that by getting back into my crafting.  Creating is good for ones soul.
Earlier this week I had some friends over to help me make up some corsages for our group.  I think they turned out pretty cute!

It was tons of fun and everyone loved them!
It did get my creative juices flowing so I'm working on some cute containers to hold chocolates, I'll probably get them finished to show off in a few days.
Take care!

New Classes and Workshops!

The seasons are upon us!  Soon the Halloween costumes will be put away to make way for the fall decor for Thanksgiving!  Such beauty in all of it, well, except some of the costumes!  They go way out sometimes, but what fun!

The following is a photo of the projects from a class I did earlier this month. They were so fun!

I've got some new classes posted after a long and fun break.  I've been having lots of fun with family and friends, but now it's time to get serious with the crafting!  I love papercrafting and love to share with friends.  I hope you can join me.

Go on now, get creative! Have a great day!

Sit Down Saturday

How funny, I just can't figure out how to create a blog title so I'm going to 'wing it' for awhile until I come up with just the right ones.  But if you're reading this I appreciate that you're not running off.  Thank you!

The card I created for today is so cute and simple.

It's a 4x4 card.  I used Colonial White for the card base, Sarita for the mat, Goldrush and Buttercup for the flower, cut using Artiste (pg.55) and the banner cut from Buttercup using Artiste (pg.35), Happy Birthday is from the Banner Wishes, My Acrylics stamp set.  All are products from Close to My Heart.

Don't forget to make a comment and/or follow my blog to be entered into this months drawing!

Have an enjoyable day and get creative!

Timely Cards

I'm a member of a card club.  They are a super group of ladies, monthly we take turns hosting and coming up with ideas for cards or, well, sometimes, anything.  This month the challenge was sympathy cards, sadly something that we all need occasionally.  The girls made some beautiful cards and I am very appreciative for all of them.

This is the card I made.  I'm pleased with it and everyone seemed to like it.

I used White Daisy cardstock, Twilight ink, the design element was cut using the Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge (pg. 26), the stamped element was from the Swirls Around stamp set.

All are from Close to My Heart.

I did make two designs but opted to use only one of them.

I'm getting a late start this month, but there will still be a drawing.  This month the prize will be one of each of the items I post each day, that I make.  Sometimes there may be items I share that are made by others and those won't be part of the drawing and I will remind you of that if it happens.

The drawing will be over at midnight, August 31, 2014, Pacific time.  You can enter by making a comment and you'll get an additional entry if you follow me.

Have a great day, now go get creative!

Good News!

The new Idea Book is here!

So many great new products and so many of your favorites still available! Let me know in your comment if you want one,  you can also see it online at my website click here!

Happy August

I have been traveling around this summer.  Not a lot by some folks standards but for me... a lot!  I've acquired a few things along the way and want to share with some of my BUNCO peeps.  I play BUNCO twice a month with 11 other girls each time and on Fridays I organize a group at the Kennewick Senior Center.  So my craft today sort of shows a bit of craftiness and frugalness.

(I did my best with the photography.)

I found some really cute post-its in Disneyland.  There were so many of them I decided to divide them up to share with lots of my friends.  I cut the tag from White Daisy cardstock using the Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge.  I sponged the edges with Blush, Creme Brulee, Heavenly Blue (sorry all retired colors) and Sweet Leaf. So there you go with some tightwad craftiness.

I hope you have a wonderful day.

I have a couple of classes scheduled.  

Rosette Christmas Tree

 Sunday, December 8 at 1:30pm. $10 supply fee.  Please bring a paper cutter and/or a scoreboard, IF you have them.  There's only room for 8 so reserve your spot soon!

Cricut Class

Get the most from your Cricut

Wednesday December 4 @ 6pm

or

Saturday December 7 @ 2pm

Bring your Cricut, some paper, mats and whatever else you think you might need.  This class is for the Cricut Expression so bring the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge.  Each class is limited to 4.  Sign up soon to reserve your spot.

Halloween Fun!

I wanted to make a treat for the ladies in my BUNCO group.  I made 12 milk cartons, Artiste, page 46.  I'm a tightwad so I cut four on a 12 x 12 piece of cardstock, they were cut at 2.5".  I made six of each color using Smokey Plum and Sunset, they're quite tiny but I think they're cute.  I used the Magic Potions stamp set for the labels, cut from Artiste using the suggested sizes on the package.  I'm sure if I'd had more time I could have done more embellishing, but I'll give myself more time next year.

Then later...
I always say I work better under pressure.  I wasn't really under pressure but since Halloween is today I wanted to use up some things I made by mistake.  They say there are never mistakes in crafting and I don't remember the rest of it, so it must be that it gives you a new chance to show your creativity.
So I had an extra treat tube, a coffin box and popcorn box cut from Artiste, as well as extra labels.  It could have been done with a variety of colors but still the old man won't care what his candy is in as long as he gets to have candy.  

Have a great day.  Go do something for yourself, maybe a breast exam?  

Baby Shower

Last weekend there was a baby shower for my son and his wife.  They are expecting my fourth grandbaby in December.  Yay!!

The girls who threw the shower asked me to help with decorations, another "Yay!"  I created a diaper cake, a banner, centerpieces and party favors.  I had so much fun!  The colors they chose were green, blue and orange, using an Irish theme, because the couple loves Ireland!

The photo above shows how the cake and banner were displayed. It wasn't long before the table filled with gifts!

Above is a close up of the banner.  I used Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge, Banner3 on page 39.  Cut at 8" using Ruby Cardstock, 6" using Colonial White cardstock and 5.5", again, using Ruby cardstock, for the layering. I'm not sure of the yellow paper and stamp set used.  The lettering was cut using the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge, using Topiary and Sunset cardstock.  I used this particular design because I tried to mimic their family coat of arms.

 Above is a close up of the diaper cake.  96 diapers rolled and banded around a bottle of Champagne, Mommy can celebrate after baby is born!  The cardstock used was Topiary and Sunset, they were just a wonderful match to what I wanted to create.  The shamrocks were created using Heart1 on page 27 of Art Philosophy cartridge, cut in various sizes.  The roses were cut using the Artiste cartridge, Accent 2 page 54, cut many different sizes.  The "celtic knot" was cut from Art Philosophy, the Decorative layer on page 51. 

This is the center piece

and this is a top view.  I used the same shapes and colors that were used on the diaper cake.

 This silly thing was the "favor."  The popcorn box is in Artiste page 67, cut at 2", from Black cardstock.  I found the "cloud" shape on page 66 cut at 1" from Sky cardstock.  I used the "A Rainbow" stamp set to emboss the cloud with Silver Pearl embossing powder and the Rainbow onto Colonial White cardstock, colored with markers and cut out. Glued together then filled with gold wrapped candies.

I got lots of compliments and I am so proud of what I made.  

Trick or Treat!

I've challenged myself many times since I began with Close to My Heart.  Today I finished this Trick or Treat for my grandkids.  The base is the coffin from the Artiste Cricut cartridge, cut at the suggested size of 7.5" from black cardstock.  I used the Martha Stewart circle cutter to create the holes in the lid.  The treat tubes are filled with different candies and labeled using the Magic Potions stamp set.  Of course the labels were cut from Smokey Plum cardstock, using the Artiste cartridge.  They were cut the sizes suggested on the stamp set package and stamped using black ink.  I hope the kids love it as much as I loved making it for them.