Luau

This is what I was up to today with one of my girlfriends. Her son's school is having an end of year luau so we made some fun decorations.


The flowers were cut using Pagoda at 3, 2 3/4, 2 1/2, 2 the layered atop and put on skewers, The jars are stuffed with tissue paper trimmed at the top, and Aloha was created using my gypsy, thanks Maggie I love it, We lavered palm trees, flip flops and turtles around the covered pasta sauce jars. We even made flowered hair clips for the girls. Happy cutting.

Shaped Baby Album

I love this album, I found a video online explain how to do this. I adapted it myself to make a baby album. I used the design studio to put the shaped pages together. I used various Cricut Cartridges, George and Basic Shapes, SYI, Beyond Birthdays, and Wrap it up. I embellished it with Cricut Imagine Cartridges. Mostly I used Nursery Tails and Imagine More. This was a lot of work but lots of fun, too!!

Happy Spring!

This is a card I made last year for Spring and Easter. I would just change the saying at the top. I made many of these last year ( I have since learned not to do that! lol). So I had enough to send out this year, and maybe the next two years!! Oh yes, do not do that!!!

Jersey Shore Baby, Beachy

I made this card for my Aunt and Uncle who came to visit for my dad's wedding. The reason for the tri-fold beach theme is because they life on the Jersey Shore where our whole family is vacationing this summer. I wanted to not only thank them for coming to GA because we had a blast but also remind them that we are coming.( and they promised to take my kids crabbing) The card dimensions are 7 inches and the score line are at 4, 6 1/2, and 9. Fold the card and you are ready to go. There are endless possibilities with this one. You can do family to fun and kiddish to adult humor. I love this fold.

Multi-purpose elegance for men and women

I have been getting a lot of use out of this cartridge lately, I think I am becoming borderline obsessed. This is a standard 7x5 card. the opening is scored at 1 3/4 and glued to he othe 7x5 paper to create the card. I used black and white because of its elegance but any color or image would work. For the left side, I attached a 41/2 x 1 1/2 white scrap strip, then a black strip at 1 1/2 x 4 and adhered my images. I used pg. 78 of Stretch your Imagination, but any will work fine. Flowers would be pretty or ghosts for Halloween. For the other side a 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 square in white, cut 4 2 x2 square and put my image on top. I love the way the card opens. Its fun and unique, but I do love different fold for cards. Have fun creating and if you are using a black card remember o put a sheet of paper in it to write on or use a silver sharpie.

Wedding Cards

My dad is getting married this weekend and I wanted to make him and his new bride a fun, personalized wedding cad. Their colors are navy so I added accents of navy to the card. I just had fun with this one. (and I really hope they don't look at the blog until after the weekend, if so, please act surprised) The images are cut from Strech Your Imagination. I used the card from pg. 73 and went to town with all of the other wedding designs from this cartridge. For the letters I used the Jubilee cartridge. I added some decorative paper, frames and dimensionals to create a one of a kind wedding card.

Wedding Invite

Ok, so my dad is getting married and it is a low key wedding so he asked me to make invites. After numerous attempts at different styles, they decided upon this one. The colors are navy blue and white. I made it using the Stretch your Imagination cricut cartiridge. It is cut out at 7 inches. On the inside, I used translucent paper to make the invitation statement and attached it with brads. It is super easy and elegant.