Monday Mingle - November 9th

I made a mistake and originally posted this Vlog here on my craft blog. I have reposted it on my personal blog. If you click here, you will be redirected to the correct post. Sorry about the confusion! Serves me right for trying to do this at 1 in the morning!

Two Cards for Twins

Here are two cards I made for a co-worker who's twins just turned three. I cut Ariel at 3 and 1/2" and the lettering was cut using Plantin Schoolbook at about 1", methinks, using the shadow option. I don't have the Disney Cars cartridge (yet) so I had to get creative. I found an image on Google, printed it out four times and layered certain parts with pop dots for a 3D effect. Notice the mouth is cut out on the topmost layer. I like how that turned. The colour didn't print out as vibrantly as it appeared on my monitor so I coloured it in with a red glitter pen to add a little pizzaz. The paper is DCWV.

CPS Challenge #137 - Cinderella Birthday Card

Yes, it's a little too late to be entered in the challenge but I have been too busy to create this post. Three loads of laundry and about a dozen ironed shirts later, I can finally post my version of the sketch for last week's challenge while my husband puts my eldest to bed. I was asked by a colleague to make a personalized birthday card and when she saw it, her jaw dropped. I wish everyone would have the same reaction, it made me feel so good about it. She just loved that it had Emily's name on it, too, and she's put in a request for her twins' upcoming birthday.

I cut Cinderella using the shadow option with the Happily Ever After cart at 3 1/2" and Plantin Schoolbook for the name again using the shadow option at 1 1/4". The paper is from the DCWV Sweet stack.

A bunch of Thank You cards

It is with great sadness that I announce to my blogging friends that my father-in-law has recently succumbed to his illness. He died on September 17 to AML, an aggressive form of leukemia, at the age of 72. It has been a difficult time for my husband and his family, seeing as he was only diagnosed this past April. He was surrounded by his immediate family during his final moments, which were relatively peaceful. We must take some comfort in knowing that we now have a guardian angel watching over us from above.

I offered to make some thank you cards for my mother-in-law to send to the amazing hospital staff at Princess Margaret and to the wonderful funeral director. I just finished a batch of some other thank you cards to send to those who kindly sent flowers or donations to the Princess Margaret Foundation. These are a few that I came up with.


The large flowers were cut with my new Cricut Stamping Solutions cart at 1" and the little daisies were cut using a mini punch. The first sentiment was printed using my computer and the other two were cut using the Stamping Solutions cart as well. I also used the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots and Argyle embossing folders for some texture and a Fiskars border punch.

Spreading the Word

And the word is full of sentiments! Suzette is celebrating her birthday by giving away this lovely set of stamps and you can win it by following the easy steps she has posted on her blog. The contest ends October 10 so be sure to enter before then.

Cricut Celebrates 100 Cartridges!

Help celebrate Cricut's 100th cartridge—Winter Woodland! That’s right, they reached 100 cartridges. As a thank you, they want to give away 100 cartridges over the next five weeks (20 per week).

Here’s how it will work.

Each week they 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.


this may be helpful :)
http://www.cricut.com/shopping/ProductDetails.aspx?id=361&s=1&sc=2

Good luck!

Wedding Card in Pink, White and Black

Here's a card I made using my new Cricut Weddings Solutions cart. I embossed the cake using the Cuttlebug D'vine Swirls folder and I think it was cut at about 3" twice, once in white and then in black. I cut the cake stand off of the white layer and placed the cake on the black layer. I added some faux pearls, heart brads and ribbon, and used my new Swiss Dots folder as well. The cake was adhered using dollar store dimensionals and the stamp is also from the dollar store. I lightly inked the cake edges with black and added some Icicle stickles to the heart. I can't wait to make more of these!