Sweet Baby - Thrifty Thursday

Happy Thursday!

Today is Thrifty Thursday on the My Creative Time blog. The goal of Thrifty Thursday is to use your "scraps", to make a card or project. I have a bin full of scrap paper that I have been working on trying to use up, so this project was right up my alley.

All of the papers and twine used, were left over scraps from other projects.

I made a card for a friend, who is getting ready to have a baby boy. I don't know why, but I am a little obsessed with elephants, when it comes to baby cards. See my last baby card here. 

The card base is from the Cricut Artiste cart. It's a tag shape, I took two and welded them together to form the base of the card. It measures 4.25" x 5.25".  The inset pieces were cut at 4"x 5" and 3.75"4.75". The elephant is from Paper Piecing's by Nikki, he was cut at 3.5". 

Paper: PaperTrey Ink, Core'dinations, and Moxxie
Card Base: Cricut, Artiste Cart
Elephant, Paper Piecing by Nikki, Jungle Animals

Banner Die: My Creative Time, Chocolate Greetings Stamp Set

Sentiment: My Creative Time, Chocolate Greetings Stamp Set
Twine: Timeless Twine, Fire Cracker

For more Thrifty Thursday inspiration, click here.

I hope you have a wonderful day!

Be Mine Door Hanger

Happy Friday!

Hey paper lovers! Today is day five and my last day, as guest designer, on the Obsessed with Scrapbooking blog!  I have had so much fun this week, sharing my Valentine treat idea's with you. I hope you were inspired! It's been an honor to have been asked to do this and I want to thank Joy, for the wonderful opportunity.

Today's project is a door hanger treat.

I designed everything on my Gypsy. I sized the door hanger to 11 1/4" tall and the inset (patterned) piece was sized at 10 1/4" tall. I only used the back potion, so I placed it on the mat so that the back potion was the only part on the mat, hence it was the only part that cut out. I also hid the circle and replaced it with a circle at was 1 1/4", it needs to be larger. I also sized one square, from George Basic Shapes, at 3"x 2 3/4" (front piece) and two at .625"x 2 3/4" (side pieces). The "Be Mine" was sized to 2 1/2"x 1 1/4 and cut out. Lastly, the XL label dies were cut out, everything was inked, assembled, the twine wrapped around the pocket.

I filled the pocket with goodies from the $1 stop at Target and some hand lotion from Bath and Body Works. I attached the lips, lip gloss with a glue dot. I didn't want it to get lost in the pocket.

Door hanger: Cricut, Art Philosophy Cartridge

Be Mine: Cricut, Artiste Cartridge

XL Label Dies: My Creative Time, Stitched XL Label Die & XL Label Die

Papers: PaperTrey Ink, Core'Dinations, and We R Memory Keepers

Twine: Trendy Twine, Valentine Cherry Cupcake

Socks & Lip Gloss: Target, $1 Spot

Lotion: Bath and Body Works

**Giveaway**

So I thought it would be fun to have a giveaway each day too! Today's giveaway is my favorite precision tip craft tweezers.

For a chance to win, all you have to do is leave a comment here and on the Obsessed with Scrapbooking  blog, make sure to add your contact information!  I will pick the winner, via random.org, this Sunday, January 20th and all the winners will be announced on here on my blog, Monday morning, January 21st.

Thanks so much for hanging in with me this week!

I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Candy Flower Treats

Happy Monday!

 I am so excited because Joy over at Obsessed with Scrapbooking has asked me to be the guest designer on her blog this week! I am so thankful for this amazing opportunity!

Since Valentine's Day is exactly a month away, I thought it would be fun to spend the week sharing some fun Valentine's treat ideas. Today's treat is cute, inexpensive, and a perfect craft that kids can help make.

How fun are these lollipop treats?

 I used my Gypsy to open and size the flower, from the Artiste cart, to 2.25" tall and I hid the circle in the center of the flower. I opened a circle from George Basic Shapes and sized it to .30", placed it in the center of the flower, and then grouped them together. After grouped, I copied and pasted as many flowers as I needed to the mat, so that I could cut them out all at once. 

Once all my flowers were cut out, I inked the edges, stamped them in the center with the sentiment, and slipped the lollipop through the center.  You could also cut a small leaf and add that as well. That would be a perfect place to add a classmates name.

Flower: Cricut, Artiste Cartridge

Circle: Cricut, George Basic Shapes

Dum-Dums Lolli's: Dollar Tree

Paper: K and Company

All Around Sentiment: My Creative Time, Classmate Valentines

Pink Tulle Ribbon: Michael's

 Pot: Michael's 

**Giveaway**

So I thought it would be fun to have a giveaway each day too! Today's giveaway is the My Creative Time stamp set that I used on my project!

Classmate Valentines

All you have to do is leave a comment here and on the Obsessed with Scrapbooking  blog, make sure to add your contact information!  I will pick the winner, via random.org, this Sunday, January 20th and all the winners will be announced on here on my blog, Monday morning, January 21st.

See you back here tomorrow!

I hope you have a wonderful day! 

I (heart) you...

Happy Wednesday!

I decided it was time to break out the  new Cricut Cartridges that I bought and never opened. So, I linked everything up, broke out my Cricut, and got to work. It was nice to hear it chirp again. :) 

The Teddy Bear Parade cartridge is so much fun!

I was having a hard time choosing which bear to use, so I decided since we are only about a month from Valentine's Day, I would stick with that. 

My Teddy was cut at 2 3/4" tall. The base of the card was made with a tag from the Artiste cartridge. The base piece measures 5" wide x 4 3/4" tall, I welded two of them together at the top. The pink inset piece measures, 4 3/4" wide x 4 1/2" tall. The square measures, 3 5/8" x 3 5/8". 

Paper: PaperTrey Ink, Core'dinations
Bear SVG: Cricut Cartrdige, Teddy Bear Parade
Card Base SVG: Cricut Cartrdige, Artiste
Sentiment: My Creative Time, Lots of Love Stamp Set
Valentine's Twine: Etsy

I hope you have a wonderful day!

Forever

Happy Tuesday!

I have been having fun working on Valentine's Day projects. I can't wait to share next weeks projects with you!  Next week is going to be full of ideas and some fun giveaways!

Anyway... on to today's card!

I used my Gypsy to size the heart layer at 3.7" x 4.9", the pink layer was sized to 3.9" x 5.2", and the base of the card was sized to 4.25" x 5" and then I welded two of them together at the top.   The hearts measure 3" wide. 

Paper: PaperTrey Ink, K and Company
Heart cuts: Cricut, Sweet Shop Cartridge
Card Base (Tag) cut: Cricut, Artiste Cartridge
Face stamps: Peachy Keen Stamps, PK-293 The Cornies Assortment
Banner Die: My Creative Time, Vintage Stitched Label Dies
Sentiment: My Creative Time, Forever Stamp Set
Twine: Trendy Twine, Water Mellon Taffy

I hope you have a wonderful day!

Just me, thinking of you...

Happy Wednesday! 

Have you seen the new set Eskimo Pie set from Lettering Delights? OMGosh... So cute! 

I couldn't resist... I had to make a card.

 Isn't he so flipping cute!?! I have another card in the works too, I will share it next week.

Paper: PaperTrey Ink, Core'dinations, My Minds Eye
Squirrel SVG: Lettering Delights, Eskimo Pie
Card Base: Artiste Cricut Cart
Banner Die: My Creative Time, Vintage Stitched Label Dies
Sentiment: My Creative Time,  Lots of Love

See you tomorrow!

I hope you have a wonderful day!

Birthday Wishes

Happy Monday!

A couple weeks ago, I bought the new Close to My Heart, Artiste Circut cart. I haven't used my Cricut in forever and I had forgotten what it's little "chirp"sounded like. :) I am loving this new cart! It is chalk full of fun stuff and definitely worth the cost, if you can afford it.  

Today's card is a birthday card.

The card shape/base of the card is from the Artiste cart. It's actually a shaped page for a mini album, but I stood it up and welded two of them together to form the base of my card. Then I took the same shape and shrunk it down and created to layer frame pieces for the front. The overall card size is 4"x 4 5/8". The cupcake was sized to 3 1/2" tall.

Card Base: Artiste Cricut cart

Cupcake SVG: Kadoodle Bug Designs, Pretty Emo Kitty

Paper: PaperTrey Ink, Core'dinations, and My Mind's Eye's, Follow Your Heart collection, bought from Paper Issues.

Ribbon: May Art's 3/4" Turquoise Twill Ribbon with Chevron Stripes

Sentiment: My Creative Time's, Teeny Tag's Greetings Stamp Set

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you have a wonderful day!