Christmas Gifts & Cards Part 1

I know, it's been a LONG time since I've posted anything. I have been very unmotivated and kinda depressed with the crafting world! I knew I had to get back out there for Christmas, so here are some of the projects I've made so far for gifts!

First, the cards:

I decided to try my hand at making my own snowglobe card, so I used George to put this one together. Added on the cute bird from Jolly Holidays and voila!



I used my new Paper Trimmings on this one - love those cuts! Got out my glimmer mist for a snowy background and, once again, pulled a cut fox from Jolly Holidays!



Made my own simple round card and added on a cute teddy from Christmas Solutions.



I also made some coasters for the first time - so easy and fun - and they look so nice!




I used a 2x4 to create a desk block for my son's teacher. One side is personalized with her name, and the other side I put on this quote from Yoda:



I also created these bags for my son's teachers. I used the freezer paper method, and let me tell you, I love making stuff with that! I have done several things this year so far!

Riverwalk Fun

Another entry for my son's 2nd year book, this has taken me a while. I am not finding any time to scrap and it's a little sad, but I hope to get in a couple hours sometime this week!

I tried a new technique on this one - an emboss resist using the Cuttlebug! All in all, it was pretty simple. I wanted to stick with the simple colors and I am really happy with how it turned out!

Magazine Challenge - Pop Up Neighborhood

This magazine challenge asks us to use Pop Up Neighborhood to create a project. Well, this was SO much fun. First off, I LOVE this cart. It's probably my favorite Circle cart yet. I wanted to create some artwork for my kids' play room and this is what I drew up. I used a fabric background and fabric for the forefront hill and everything else is paper. My husband even helped me convert a frame into a shadowbox!

The size is 12x18 because I wanted to get a lot of little detail in it. I think I succeeded! It turned out just how I hoped it would and I hope you enjoy! Since there are SO many cuts, it's impossible for me to get into the sizes of each one but it took me about a week working on it some each day. I hope you can take the time to appreciate all the shading I did and all the shimmers to capture the sunlight. I am an artist at heart so I got to use lots of skills in this creation!

More teacher gifts

While I'm on the topic, here are some cards and fun things I made for my son't teachers for teacher appreciation week. The cards are for his music, preschool, and Spanish teacher, respectively. The lunchbox I decorated and filled with goodies and cut out the fabric bird for a little bag as well. I had SO much fun doing these!

Used Live Simply and Cindy Loo on the lunchbox

I used Nifty Fifties for this bird design I just LOVE!

Weekly Challenge 17 - B.A.B.Y. Challenge!

Here are the rules of the BABY Challenge - it is NOT about babies!

• (B) = Brads
• (A) = Aqua
• (B) = Butterfly
• (Y) = You as the Subject

This was coming at a perfect time because I was just about to start a scrapbook of my husband and I from the time we met until the time we had the kids - a way to tell them our story. So, I started with a page about me when I first met my husband. This was 13 years ago so these are old pics, but I love them! I spent the whole week on this as I had sick family here, but was really proud of this, and totally forgot to take and post my photos last night. I woke up this morning VERY upset remembering it! BUT, I will post them now!

Weekly Challenge 8 - Vintage

This week's challenge was to use a layout provided and create either a layout or card with a vintage feel. I had a lot of fun and decided to design a baby shower card. Here's what I did!

Cricut Weekly Challenge #7

I LOVE the colors used in this week's challenge. They are magenta, apricot, golden yellow, and deep olive. Some of my favorite colors! I don't feel like I did it justice at all and was not entirely satisfied with my creation, so I may redo it. But, in the meantime, here is what I have!

Think Pink Entry!

I know it's been WAY too long since my last post, and I have done a couple projects, but life has been very busy! When this challenge was posted, I was really excited to participate! I decided to do a layout of my little girl in her sweet tutu. I would love to dedicate this to my MIL, a wonderful lady and a queen!

I used Once Upon a Princess to cut out the Poodle and phrase, embossed the poodle using a French script stamp and black embossing powder and adorned with pink pearls. I used pink and purple ink on the phrase and scalloped accents and embossed them with a holographic powder. I used Cindy Loo for the glitter frame, flower, and the bird, added a purple ribbon accent and black ribbons from the bird's mouth and embellished with pearls. I am working on the other side of this 2 page layout now and hope it won't take me a week to do, but it might! Will post when it's done!

Labor Day Layout

We had a great time with the kids this weekend and I did a layout for my scrapbook and for the Circle to show it!

Song Bird Sweetie

Another page done in my baby's scrapbook! I had a lot of fun with this one as well! I LOVE the colors and I love my carts!

A new cart and another page!

I picked up Cindy Loo last night and I love it! I also picked up an I Rock and I'm working on learning the skills. I do love the gems - sorry, I can NOT bring myself to use the word "bling" - totally hate it...and dangit, I just said it! I'm FINALLY working on the scrapbook again - this is, after all why I started scrapbooking anyway - go figure! Just been making cards lately! I will get my little girl's 1st year done before her 2nd birthday!