My Valentine LO

Hello my crafty friends! My Little Stinkerbella turned ONE in November and I am WAY behind in my scrapbooking! One of my {goals} for 2011 is to scrap last year's holiday/occasion before this year's is here! So, on that note I got to work and completed her 1st Valentine's Day LO! I am also entering it into the Cricut Circle Blog's Weekly Challenge!

Here it is:

 

I used the Simply Sweet cartridge for this LO. The font is adorable! I {heart} this cart, and got it for FREE from the rewards site!!!! (Thanks PC!)

I put the letters for Valentine through my Xyron upside down, and then "sugared" them with glitter! Doodled around the scalloped border, and added some tiny heart brads (I had in my stash).

I used Making Memories tiny alphas for the "2010". The hearts were all cut using the Doodlecharms cart. I also "sugared" the pink hearts and then used Glossy Accents on top of the glitter.

The "love" was also cut using the Simply Sweet cart, "sugared" with glitter, and then also topped with Glossy Accents.

I added some bling to the title circle and on the corners of the page, a super sparkly prima flower, a button, and some bakers twine. I also doodled around the m and y of "my", and on the scalloped borders.

Papers used:
*Stampin Up
*Recollections

I was overwhelmed by the amount of crafty friends that enjoyed my Polar Express LO so much, and downloaded the Gypsy file! I planned this LO all on my G (with a little help from some old sketches I had printed off and in my stash) and thought maybe someone out there would like this download too!

Here is the Gypsy file for this LO 1st VDay Lo

**For this LO you will need Simply Sweet, Doodlecharms, and Plantin Schoolbook
If you decide to download the file please leave me a comment and let me know if you would be interested in more Gypsy downloads! ;) Also, know that I am already entering this into this weeks Cricut Circle Blog challenge.

Thank you for all of your fabulous comments! Keep on craftin' <3 Kristy

Turkey Day cards and Tuesday Treats

This is my 1st time posting a project for Tuesday Treats! Please hop on over to Tuesday Treats and leave me a comment. Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving to all of my fabulous followers!

My family {my hubbie and our 1 year-old daughter} and I will be heading to Southern California to visit our best friends for Thanksgiving! While we are there we will also be seeing my bestie's family, and her hubbie's family so I thought why not make them all a Thanksgiving card!

Here's what I came up with:

 

I used the Doodlecharms cartridge,  the Lacy Lables cartridge, and of course my trusty Gypsy to get this card started! First, I chose the "turkey," "shadow," and "shadow for the plate." Next, I sized them at 2 1/2", and then used the {duplicate} button to add more.

Then, I used the "Flower2" label from Lacy Labels. I "unlinked" the width and height so that I could make it 5" x 5".

Paper Recipe:

Base of card-Kraft card stock from JoAnn's cut at 5 1/4" x 10 1/2". Then scored and folded in half to make a 5 1/4" x 5 1/4" card.

Brown-Stampin' Up Chocolate Chip

Pattern paper-K & Co

Blue-Stampin' Up Baja Breeze

Cream Parchment-Recollections

Ribbon-Stampin' Up Chocolate Chip Satin

Brown and White Bakers Twine-from a local scrapbook store

I glued the pattern paper down onto the brown paper using my super cute Pink ATG. Then I used the "cheater method" of taping the ribbon to the back of the card stock before adhering it to the base of the card.

Next, I attached each of these to the base of the card. I love to add dimension so I used pop dots to adhere the turkeys to the cards.

Then, I tied on the bows, typed up a sentiment on my computer, punched them out with a SU circle punch, added bakers twine, and attached the sentiments to the bows.

I have a confession to make....I had first cut out the turkeys using the dark brown chocolate chip color (because I liked the way it all matched), but as I was putting them together they looked like {BURNT} turkeys to me! ;) What do you think?

Well, I hope you all enjoyed this easy, but elegant Thanksgiving card! Thanks for having me at Tuesday Treats, and please feel free to hop on over to my blog anytime Craftin' on my door!

Happy Turkey Day Everyone!

<3 Kristy

Christmas in July part 3

Hi everyone! Here's another Christmas gift idea.

 I found these cute little cards at Michaels, and decided to "doctor" them up with the help of my fabulous Cricut! Most of the cuts were from the Christmas Cheer, Accent Esstenials, and Doodlecharms cartridges. I also used Stampin' Up papers, punches, ribbon, and stamps. As you can see I also added some bling!

Here's another version I made:

The cute little snowmen on these boxes are from the Gypsy wanderings cart on the Gypsy. Don't you just love the cute little pizza boxes?! They were super easy to make with the help of my super duper Scor-pal! The Scor-pal website also has tons of tutorials on how to make different projects like a pizza box. I played around with the dimensions so that 3 x 3 cards would fit perfectly inside.

I had a group of girlfriends over and we made a bunch of these together. It's always more fun to "create" and craft with a friend! So, call a friend and invite him or her over to craft I'm SURE you'll both have a great time! Happy crafting!