Warm Wishes Card

Cartridge: Winter Woodland
Card stock: Recollection Gem Collection
Pattern Paper: DCWV Christmas stack
White gel pen, black glaze pen, stickles, black ink, brown ink, Dollar stamp, fiskars border punch, decorative edge scissors.
Card size: 4 1/4 by 5 1/2
Snowflake was cut from winter Woodland at 1 3/4 inches
This card was made with the scraps on my table. The blue paper was left over from a circle cut. I used it to frame the snowflake. Went around the inside with the white gel pen. Used stickles on the snowflke.
Went around the card with the black glaze pen to add the 2 lines for added interest.
Used the dollar stamp with black ink and cut the edges with decorative scissors and inked the edges.
A  great way to use up scraps. Enjoy!

Blog Award! and Gift Card Holders

I just received this award from FitterTwit  http://fundamentalchange.blogspot.com/. Just want to say a big thank-you for this award.

 Here is the front of some gift card holders I am making.

Here is the back of the holders.
Cartridges: Winter Frolic, Plantin SchoolBook, Create-A-Critter, Winter Woodland
Cardstock: Martha Stewart Christmas pack, K ans Co Christmas pack
Designed the holder in my gypsy. Used a square and sized it to10.34 inch wide by 5.48 high. I used the end cap feature on plantin schoolbook number 41 on the gypsy screen. Used that for the holder of the card inside the card.I scored the card at 2 inches on one side and 4 inches on the other side.
Used Brown ink for all the edges of the holders.
I cut decorative pieces for the front of the card to hide the flaps where the card goes. A cut out the saying from Winter Frolic at 4.16 inches wide by 2.73 inches high.
I added I rock gems to the letter F for decoration.
I tied a ribbon from the inside to the outside for decoration.
On the back of the holder I added the scallop circle from Winter Woodland cut at 2.5 inches and used the blackout feature and the shadow feature. It is for the snowflake but I wanted just the scallop circle.
I cut the reindeer from Winter Frolic at 2.00 inches and the other reindeer from create-a-critter at 2.00 inches. I added google eyes to the reindeer.
I think these look better then the ones you buy at the store. Enjoy!

Christmas Penguin

Cartridges: A Child's Year,  Winter Frolic, Winter Woodland
Pattern Paper: DCWV Christmas Stack
Card Stock: Recollections Black, White, Red, Green and yellow
Black glaze pen, White gel Pen, Google Eyes, See Dee's Christmas Stamp
Card is 5 1/2 by 4 1/4
Cut the background using A Child's Year cartridge using the card/shift function button at 5 1/4.
Attach to card front.
Cut penguin out using Winter Frolic cartridge at 3 1/2 inches, put together and add google eyes.
Cut out the scallop circle and the shadow from Winter Woodland at 1 1/2 inches.
Stamped sentiment on to the circle and attach with pop-dots.
Using the black glaze pen go around the edge of the scallop background and scallop circle. Enjoy!

Happy Holidays

Cartridges: Smiley Cards, Christmas Solution, Winter Woodland, Joys of the Season, George and Basic Shapes
Cinnamon Stickles, Xmas Red Stickles, Black Diamond Stickles, White Gel Pen
Card Base is cut from Smiley Cards at 5.5 inches
Circle is cut from George and Basic Shapes at 4.25 inches
Trees are cut from Winter Woodland at 4.00 inches
Snowman is cut from Joys of the Season at 3.00 inches, snowman is popped up with pop-dots.
Banner is cut from The Christmas solutions cartridge at1.5 inches, banner is popped up with pop-dots.
Add the stickles to the tree trunks, scarf, hat, boots and broom.
Add white dots to the scallops around the card. Enjoy!

Winter Woodland Snowman card

This card I used the Winter Woodland Cartridge. I used the tag function for the snowman cut at 4 inches. I used design studio to size the snowman for the detail cut. I also used the hide button to hide the eyes and buttons on the snowman. I cut the hat and the bottom layer of the scarf with light blue. The detail layer of the scarf and hat were cut with dark blue. I glued all the layers together and put it on the snowman tag and attached it to the card front. The buttons on the snowman are black brads. I used a swirl stamp on the background paper and inked the edges of the paper with brown ink and used a white gel pen for the white stitch marks. I went around the edge with a dark blue ink to show the tag off a bit. The Happy Holiday is a Studio G $1.00 stamp. Enjoy!

Week 2 of the 100 Cricut Cartridge Giveaway!!!

Here is the word from the Cricut Message Board:


Help us celebrate our 100th Cricut cartridge—Winter Woodland! That’s right, we reached 100 cartridges. As a thank you for our great Cricut community members we want you to celebrate with us. So, we’re giving away 100 cartridges over the next five weeks (20 per week). Here’s how it will work. Each week we will be posting a thread. When you respond to the thread you will be entered to win. You can enter once by replying and you can enter a second time by posting on your blog about the celebration and linking back to the cartridge product page. Here is the link to include in your blog. Once you’ve posted on your blog with the link back you can post again to this thread. http://www.cricut.com/shopping/ProductDetails.aspx?id=361&s=1&sc=2
Thanks for your continued support.
Good luck to everyone who enters.