Winter Magnet Wall

This week's challenge at the Cricut Circle Blog is to use the artwork below as inspiration.
I decided it was time to update the magnet wall in my daycare area and I wanted to do a winter scene. The artwork gave me the idea to make a ski/sled run with all the kids dressed up for some fun in the snow.

I apologize for the dark pictures. It is after 10:30 here so it was hard to get decent pictures of the wall. I had lots of help with this project. My two sons did all the laminating and then triming around the images after laminating. My husband helped with the ski/sledding trail. I love it when my guys help out!

Project Details:

Mountains: Camp Out Cricut cartridge

Trees: Camp Out Cricut cartridge cut at 4, 5.75 and 6.5 inches

Boy Sledding: Winter Frolic Cricut cartridge cut at 5 inches

Paper Dolls: Everyday Paper Dolls Cricut cartridge cut at 6 inches

Paper Doll faces: Peachykeen Funshine Face Parts

Sled: Joys of the Season Cricut cartridge cut at 2 inches

Snowmen: Winter frolic Cricut cartridge cut at 3 and 4.5 inches

Snowmen faces: Peachy Keen stamps winter face assortment

Ski Bunny: Winter Frolic Cricut cartridge cut at 5 inches

Bunny Face: Peachy Keen Animal faces stamps

Copics: YR04, E33, E35, E37

Christmas Candle

This is the Christmas gift I made for my Mother in law. The stamp is Sweet Nativity by Penny Black. I colored the image with copics and then cut it out and attached to the candle. I am sorry but I didn't write down which copic markers I used for this project.

Christmas Gift For My Family

DAD IF YOU ARE READING THIS STOP RIGHT NOW AND WAIT UNTIL AFTER WE OPEN GIFTS!!!

This year for Christmas gifts for my family my son and I made a CD of some of my Grandmother's photos. When we moved her out of her apartment and into my parent's house last year, I was the lucky one who got all of her pictures. My son spent several days scanning, editing and labeling most of those pictures for me. We still have many more of the heritage photos to do but that may have to wait until he has some more time to help me. It was so much fun looking at all of her pictures.

I made this mini scrapbook layout of my Grandparents for the cover of the CD case. The tag will be on the outside of the wrapped gift. I am entering this project into the December contest on the Cricut Circle Blog. We were to make a holiday gift using the following guidelines: use a tag from one of the Cricut cartridges, use red somewhere on the project, use ribbon, and use one of the phrases on any of the Cricut cartridges. The photo I used is of my Grandparents. After I cut the swirl, I decided it looked like the letter S which was just perfect for this layout since my grandparents last name is Smith.

Project Details:

Heart: George Cricut cartridge cut at 1.5 inches

Swirl: Christmas Cheer Cricut Cartridge cut at 4 inches

Love: Heritage Cricut cartridge cut at .75 inches

Cameo: Heritage Cricut cartridge cut at 2.5 inches

Tag: Sentimentals Cricut cartridge cut at 3.5 inches

Antique Linen Distress Ink

Flower: paper punch

Martha Stewart border punch

More Alphabet Ornaments

Wishing all of you a very Merry Christmas! I hope that you get to spend your day with loved ones. We are spending the day relaxing and enjoying being just the four of us at home for a little while before we go to my Mother inlaws for Christmas dinner.

Instead of giving each of my guys a Christmas card this year, I made us all new ornaments for the tree. I stamped each of the images onto heavy stamping paper and colored with my copics. I attached them to the ceramic ornaments using my ATG.

Merry Christmas!!

Happy 15th Birthday To My Son

Happy Birthday to Ben! My youngest son is 15 today! This is his birthday card. My husband wandered into my craft room the other day and I put him to work! He made this card all on his own. My son says his favorite color is pink. I think he just likes to see the looks on people's faces when he says that. Such a typical teenage boy! He loves Chevy trucks so this was a no brainer card form my hubby to make. My hubby drew the Chey logo on the inside of the truck and then traced and cut out.

Card Details

Truck: Boys Will Be Boys Cricut Cartridge cut at 3 inches

Happy Birthday: Sweet Treats Cricut cartridge cut at 1.25 inches

Tilda with Balloon

This sweet little Tilda is from the Magnolia Stamps Winter Stamp Club. I just received my stamps in the mail this week. For this card I used the card feature from the Sweet Treats Cricut cart. I used dimensionals to pop the balloon and center of the bow on the package.

Card Details
Stamp: Tilda with Balloon from Magnolia Stamps
Card: Sweet Treats Cricut cartridge cut at 5.5 inches
Copics: E00, E21, E40, E33, E35, E37, E53, G21, Y21, YR31

Digi Doodle Shop's Best Challenge #39 Anything Goes

Christmas is just a couple of days away and I am so excited. This is my favorite time of the year and this is the first year that I am STRESS FREE!! Yippee! I have been having so much fun making cards, decorating presents, shopping, partying, etc that I haven't felt any stress.

This is our final Digi Doodle Shop's Best challenge for 2010 and the theme is "Anything Goes" I decided that I would use the Poinsettia image from Digi Doodle Shop to decorate one of my packages. I printed the flower out three times on white cardstock. The bottom layer is the entire image. For the middle layer of the flower I cut away the leaves and two of the flower petals. For the top layer I cut away all except for the center and three of the petals. Since I used heavy cardstock, I did not use pop dots for dimension. I simple curled the flowers slightly to give them some added dimension. I am hoping that you can see this in the second picture. I added stickles and some self adhesive beads to make the poinsettia sparkle and shine. My 16 year old son looked at the gift and said, "Mom how long did that take you, it is so pretty!" Awww, isn't he sweet? I will let you in on my secret....this was one of the easiest projects I have made so far and that package is beautiful!

We would love to have you join us for this challenge. Simple make a card or other project and link it up over at Digi Doodle Shop's Best for your chance to wind a gift certificate to the Digi Doodle Shop

Project Details:

Image: Poinsettia from Digi Doodle Shop

Copics: G21, G85, G99, E43, E41

Peace: Joys of the Season Cricut cartridge

Tag: Joys of the Season Cricut cartridge

Stars: George Cricut cartridge

Aud Sentiments Challenge #18 Anything Goes and Design Team Call

The theme for the last challenge of 2010 at Aud Sentiments is "Anything Goes" The challenge is being sponsored by Karber digital Images. They provided the design team with this adorable digi stamp called "Cupcake Leslie" Isn't she cute with her oversized glasses? For my project I decided to make a birthday gift bag and tag set. We would love for you to join us in this challenge. We are also having a design team call for Aud Sentiments. You can apply by linking up your project for this challenge at Aud Sentiments and putting DT after your name.

Project Details:

Image: Cupcake Leslie from Karber Digital Images

Copics: E00, E21, E33, E35, E37, E53, R85, R20

Flower: Sweet Treats Cricut cartridge cut at 4.5 inches

Sprinkled with Fun sentiment: Sweet Treats Cricut cartridge cut at 2 inches

Tag: Sweet Treats Cricut cartridge cut at 4.5 inches

Christmas Alphabet Ornaments

There are a few of the Christmas ornaments I made this year. The letters are ceramic Christmas ornaments from Hobby Lobby. I used a different Magnolia stamp for each ornament.

**Answers to a few questions: I did not stamp onto the ceramic letters. I stamped all the images onto 150lb drawing paper from Canson. I then colored all the images with copics and cut them out. I simply attached each one to the ceramic ornament using my ATG.

Digi Doodle Shop's Best Challenge #38 New Beginnings

Time for another fun challenge at Digi Doodle Shop's Best. The theme for this challenge is "New Beginnings." This theme is so versatile. You could make a card for the new year like me or maybe for a new baby, a wedding, a new house, etc. After you finish your project be sure to link it up over at Digi Doodle Shop's Best for your chance to win a gift certificate to the Digi Doodle Shop.

*I am sure some of you reading my blog post will think that the horse shoe is upside down. Many people put a horse shoe over the door with the horse shoe looking like a U so that they will have good luck. Actually, the horse shoe should be placed over the door just like in the digi image I used. This is to ward off the Devil. This tradition came about due to the story of St. Dunstan who is said to have nailed a horse shoe to the Devil to cause him great pain. Dunstan removed the horse shoe but made the Devil promise that he would never enter a place with the horse shoe over the door. If interested, you can read about St. Dunstan HERE.

Card Details:
Image: Christmas Horse Shoe from Digi Doodle Shop
Copics: E43, E40, C1,C3, C5, C7, R27, R37, G21, G85, G99
Accent Frame: Storybook Cricut cartridge cut at 2 inches
Octagon shapes: Spellbinder Dies

Yum Gingerbread

Isn't this little guy the sweetest? On this card I used several of the stamps from the Lorie and Al Gingerbread set from Peachy Keen Stamps. The gingerbread guy, hot holders, spatula and whisk are all from that set.

Card Details:
Stamps: Lorie and Al Gingerbread Set from Peachy Keen Stamps
Swiss Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder
Ovals: George Cricut cartridge cut at 4.25 and then on shadow
Copics: E37, E35, E33, W1, R24, R37, C1, C3, E27, E29, G21, G85, G99

Christmas Ornament

This card is so simple and fast to make but I love the way it turned out. I made this for the weekly challenge on the Cricut Circle Blog.

Card Details:
Snowflake embossing folder from cuttlebug
Ornament: Winter Frolic Cricut cart cut at 3.5 inches
Branches: Winter Frolic Cricut cart cut at 1.5 inches
birds: Winter Frolic Cricut cart cut at 1.5 inches

Holiday Tag

I used the image Emily the Elf from Sassy Studio Designs for this tag. I colored her with copics and added a jinglebell to her hat.

Project Details:

Image: Emily the Elf from Sassy Studio Designs

Copics: E00, E21, G21, G85, E37, E35, E33, E53, R46, R37, R27, C3, C5, c7, e40

Tag: Winter Frolic Cricut cart cut at 4.5 inches

Digi Doodle Shop's Best Challenge #37

It's my favorite day of the week again. Just love Thursdays because it means another fun challenge at Digi Doodle Shop's Best. This week the theme is "Bow woo, Meow, grrrrr" Which means use an animal on your project. Any kind of animal will do. I chose Stocking Puppy from the Digi Doodle Shop. You can buy him in the shop and the best thing is that all Christmas images are on sale!!

We would love for you to join us in the challenge. Simply create a project using an animal and link it up HERE

Card Details:
Image: Stocking Puppy from Digi Doodle Shop
Scalloped Oval: Storybook Cricut cartridge cut at 3.75 inches
Holly: Christmas Cheer Cricut cartridge cut at 2 inches
Copics: W1, W5, W3, E33, E35, E37, E57, E53, R24, R20, R46, R37, R59, G21, G85, G99

Aud Sentiments Challenge #17 Holiday Planner

It's time for another fun challenge at Aud Sentiments. This week the theme is "Holidays" You must use that word somewhere on your project. I forgot to take a picture of the front of my "Holiday" Planner where I used that phrase. What a dork!!

Anyway, my project if you haven't figured it out yet, is a Holiday planner. You can find directions for making one from an ordinary file folder over at Splitcoast Stampers. For this challenge we are being sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps. All of their stamps are so much fun. I couldn't decide on just one for this project so I used four! I made pages for each of my pockets to help keep me organized this Christmas. I love to make to do lists and I always keep a notebook of our Christmas budget, who to buy for, how much to spend on each person, wish lists and of course keep track of all the Christmas cards I make and send out each year. It has become kind of a tradition for my kids to try and find my Christmas notebook each year. They gave up on snooping for the actual gifts and instead just look through my notebook if they can find it. One of these years I will get smart and leave a fake notebook laying around for them to find.

We would love for you to join us in this challenge. Please make a card, scrapbook layout, Christmas gift, etc and use the phrase "Happy Holidays" somewhere on your project. You can link it up HERE for a chance to win a great prize from Bugaboo Stamps.

Project Details:

Images: Angel, Elf, Reindeer and Snowman from the Bobblehead collection at Bugaboo Stamps

Copics: E35, E37, E53, E43, E40. E00, E21, E25, E33, R27, R29, E27, E29, G07, C5, C3, C7, BG10, YR16

The Dare

This card just makes me laugh! The challenge over at Sassy Cheryl's was to use two of her digi stamps in a project. I put together "Getting Stuck" and "Winter Stamp" to tell a story. To me this looks like a brother and sister out on a winter day and the sister dared the brother to touch the light post with his tongue. Doesn't she look like she is thrilled that he actually went through with the dare? I kept the card simple without embellishments so that the focus is on the image and the story I wanted to tell.

Disclaimer: Any similarity in the story to my brother and myself as kids is purely intentional! Hahaha!

Card Details:
Images: Getting Stuck and Winter Stamp from Sassy Cheryl's
Copics: B93, B95, B97, R20, RV10, RV000, R59, R46, C1, C3, C5, C7, G21, G85, G99, E35, E00, E21, E37, E33, E31, E30, Y00

Noel Wall Hanging

I bought this metal frame at Hobby Lobby a couple of months ago. I just knew it would make the perfect Christmas wall Hanging. All the stamps I used are from the Magnolia fall stamp club. Each one of them is my favorite! Hahaha! Just like I tell each of my kids that they are my favorite. I added snow white flower soft to Santa Edwin's fur and stickles to the candy cane and Tilda's gold dress. The lights are actually miniature ornaments. All papers are from My Mind's Eye. You can see the individual letters up close in my next post. I made this for the challenge over at Magnolia-llicious Highlites. The challenge was to create a letter or word project using Magnolia stamps.

Project Details:

Stamps: Santa Edwin, Peppermint, Gingerbread Tilda, Edwin's Package, Tilda Wants a Hug

NOEL: Base Camp Cricut cartridge cut at 4.25 inches

Christmas Trees: Winter Frolic Cricut cartridge cut at 4 inches

Copics: Gooo, Goo, G05, G07, R27, R37, R46, R59, G21, G85, C3, C5, C7, C1, B93, B95, B97, E40, E41, E00, E21, W1, E33, E31, E35, E37, E51, E43, E53 and E57

Noel Wall Hanging

Secret Tilda Christmas Card

I just love how this card turned out. I used Secret Tilda. I just love this Christmas paper from My Mind's Eye. The blue and green is so pretty together. I added some silver glitter paper as well. I used lots of stickles on the flowers, package ribbon, branches and the snowflakes.

Card Details:
Stamp: Secret Tilda from Magnolia Stamps
Copics: E00, E21, R20, G14, E53, W1, R00, R22, B97, B95, B93, E37 and E35
Large Snowflake: When It's Cold Outside Cricut cartridge cut at 2.5 inches
Small snowflake: paper punch
Branch Punch from Martha Stewart

Nativity

Here's a sweet Christmas card. I used the stamp Sweet Nativity from Penny Black. This is one of my favorite Christmas stamps. The background behind Joseph was first colored with E43 and E41 copics and then I used my gold Spica pen over all of that. when I color over those colors, it makes the gold look more like old gold. I then used a little clear stickles for some added bling.

Card Details:
Image: Sweet Nativity from Penny Black
Frame: Songbird Cricut cartridge cut at 4 inches
Copics: E00, E21, E29, E37, E35, E43, E40, E41, E53, E33, E31, YR20, YR31, W1, R24, R59, R22, R27, C1, C3, C5, C7, YR04, G21, G85, B93, B95, B32

Let It Snow Challenge #36 at Digi Doodle Shop's Best

It's time for another great challenge at Digi Doodle Shop's Best. This week the theme is "Let It Snow!" We want to see projects made with anything that has to do with snow. Could be snowmen, shovels, snowflakes, etc. Be creative and let's see what you can do. For my card, I used the image Christmas Globe from the Digi Doodle Shop. You can purchase it here. You don't have to use an image from the shop to participate but if you do, your project counts twice.
Card Details:
Image: Christmas Globe from the Digi Doodle Shop
Noel: Base Camp Cricut cartridge cut at .75 inches
snowflake border: Martha Stewart Punch around the page paper punch
Copics:YG11, B05, YR16, BG10, YR31, R59, R46, E33, E37, C1, C5, C7, G85, G99 and Y21

Digi Doodle Shop's Best Challenge #35 Red and Green

First I would like to say, "Happy Thanksgiving" to all of my blog followers in the United States! I hope that you have a safe and happy Thanksgiving.

Today is especially fun for me because besides being a holiday, it is also the day we start a new challenge at Digi Doodle Shop's Best! For this challenge all you need to do is create a project using the colors red and green and link it up at the Digi Doodle Shop's Best Challenge blog. This shouldn't be too difficult since many of us are gearing up for the Christmas season. the winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to use at Digi Doodle Shop. For my card, I used the image, Christmas Heart from the Digi Doodle Shop. I first colored the candy canes with a red copic marder and then went over the red with a red Spica pen. The gold ribbon and scalloped circle were first colored with the E43 copic marker and then gone over again with the gold Spica pen. The card is a joy fold card. You can find directions at Splitcoast Stampers.

Card Details:

Image: Christmas Heart from Digi Doodle Shop

Copics: R37, E43, G21, G85, Gold and Red Spica Pens

Happy Holidays; Clear stamp from my stash

Aud Sentiments Challenge #16 HO HO HO!

It's time for another fabulous challenge at Aud Sentiments. For this challenge you need to use the phrase "HO HO HO" somewhere on your project. For my card, I chose to use an image from Sassy Cheryl. Isn't this Santa adorable? I used snow white flower soft on her hat trim. The mini jingle bells I found at Hobby Lobby in the Christmas crafts aisle. I simple sewed them on to the card just like you would buttons.
For this challenge we are being sponsored by Taylored Expressions. They are giving away an amazing prize, a stamp set callet Tweet Hearts. That stamp set will be perfect for Valentine cards!!

Please join us for this challenge. All you need to do is create a project using the phrase, "HO HO HO" and link it up to the Aud Sentiments Challenge blog. I can't wait to see all of your projects!!

Card Details:

Image: Half Moon Santa from Sassy Cheryl's

Ho Ho Ho: Very Merry Tags Cricut cartridge

Copics: E00, E21, R37, R46, E40, W1, W3, R59

New Challenge Blog and Design Team Call

Craft Us Crazy is a new challenge blog starting up in the new year. They are looking for Design Team members and sponsors. If you follow my blog regularly, you know that I love a challenge! Nothing more fun than a challenge to get your creative juices flowing!! This new challenge blog sounds like a lot of fun. The first challenge is set to start in February 2011 but he Design Team call is going on now.

Bella Loves Christmas!

Isn't this a gorgeous digi image? It is Bella Loves Christmas from Mo's Digital Pencil. I have been wanting to use this image for a long time and finally had a chance to make a card with her today. The babbles on the card are from Hobby Lobby. They are actually ornaments for miniature Christmas trees. I think they made a great accent for this card. All the papers are from scenic route.

Card Details:
Image: Bella Loves Christmas from Mo's Digital Pencil
Copics: E00, E21, Y21, G14, YG11, R27, R29, E37, e35, E33, E43
Red and Gold Spica Pens

I am entering this into the following Challenges:
icopic Lover: Challenge #8 use leaf green, real red and egg yolk
Sketch and Stash Challenge: Follow the sketch and use a new item. I used the mini Christmas ornaments and the stamp, Bella Loves Christmas

Gold Tilda

I just love a good challenge. They help me think of new color combos and card sketches. I still prefer a nice clean, uncluttered look to my cards though. This card was made for the Totally Tilda Challenge. The theme is glitz and gold. I used the Christmas Angel Tilda. For her gold headband, wings and stars I first colored them with the E43 Copic marker and then went over the top with the gold spica pen. I used clear stickles on her dress and gold stickles on the flower.

Card Details:
Stamp: Christmas Angel from Magnolia Stamps
Copics: E43, E33, E35, E37, E00, E21