Photo frame of my girls for Father's Day

I decided that I wanted to use some of the things that I have hoarded. This is what I came up with...

I used:

Autumn Leaves- Foofala paper

Black and White Primas

letter brads- spell out d-a-d

Studio G rubber stamp

Bazzill cordoroy brad

Dollar store frame

Felt bags and cards

I got this idea for the felt bag from Jennifer McGuire on the Two Peas website. I filled the bag with cookies. I thought it would be a nice little treat bag. Leah has already asked if I could make them for her goodie bags for her birthday. (She's planning for the next one already- lol)

The cards are 4x4 and made with the new paisley Cuttlebug embossing folder my friend Cindy sent to me, American Crafts chipboard shapes, Studio G wooden stamp from Michaels, and some miscellaneous ribbon. The "bling" is from Heidi Swapp.

Sunsets at Fort Niagara

This is the time of the year when I love to sit by the water at Fort Niagara and watch the sunset. My mother used to take me and my brother when we were younger and now I am carrying on the tradition with my girls. They love it just like we used to. The bonus is that we live within walking distance. This is a picture that I took of the girls last year wading in the water. I just love it.

School Paperbag album

I made this album for Leah's teacher. I used some Cricut, sizzix, and my BIA. The paper is from the new DCWV Grade School Stack. Love it!

Altered clothespin

Here's an altered clothespin I made yesterday. I found them at AC Moore in a bin for $1 each. I've always wanted to try to alter one and at $1 each I couldn't pass them up. They come in a natural wood tone- I took it apart and painted it white. I even found some of the elusive "skittles" at Michaels yesterday and added a clear one to the center of the button.

Another altered Notebook made for DD Kaileigh

Kaileigh picked out the papers for this one.

DCWV Rockstar stack. The paper is flocked.

Plantin Schoolbook font.

Leah & Ray

I know I don't usually talk about my family- but I wanted to share this picture. Leah's birthday was last week and she had a list of what she wanted. One of those things was a very hard-to-find Webkinz. It was the tiger snake and it was found! Look at the expression on her face. She loved it! She went straight to the computer to register him and named him Ray. It was the sweetest thing. My mother gave it to her and my Mom's brother recently passed away (his name was Ray). My mom and I looked at each other and had tears in our eyes.

She wore him around her neck to Applebee's for her birthday dinner, too. LOL

Hannah Montana and My Journal Altered notebooks...

Matching card...

I made the Hannah Montana notebook for Leah's friend's birthday using the tag from the pajama set that we bought her. Once Leah saw the notebook she didn't want to give it away. She made me make another one for her. She picked out the paper and ribbon. I like the way they turned out. I have always wanted to alter one and after watching the video on The Pink Stamper blog http://www.thepinkstamper.blogspot.com/ she made it look sooo easy so I decided to give it a try. What do you think?

Making another for other DD. Will post when I am finished... I'm loving these books. So much fun.

Birthday card made with Paper Pups

Cake Album made with SYI, Celebrations, PS

4 Inch Treat Box Made with Cricut DS

Cadbury Egg Box Made for DH

Made this special for DH's Easter goodies. He LOVES Cadbury eggs.

Tag Bag/ Box

A new design that I made with the Cricut design studio...

Here's the .cut file for you all.

http://www.mediafire.com/?4jjw5bmzgom

Hope you like it.

Mini Cupcake Bakery Box

Hi everyone! Here is the Mini Cupcake bakery box that I posted on the Cricut website. Alot of you had asked if I was sharing. Of course I am.

Here is the .cut file...

Hope you find this little box useful.

You will need the Expression, George, and Accent Essentials for the window in order to make this box- although you could substitute another shape for the window if you don't have Accent Essentials.

Thanks again everyone for your kind words.

Happy Birthday to You... card

Erin go Bragh card

More new projects

Here's a couple of things I've made today.

Trying to make good use of my time during this

snow storm that we're having.

My scraproom

Here's my room when it was clean. It looks like a tornado hit it right about now. LOl

Baby Book using BIA and DS

This is a book I made for the dentist I work for and his wife. I really enjoyed making this little book for them.

Cupcake box inspired by ScrapyRuby on the Cricut Website...

Thanks again, Ruby, for your awesome ideas.

Cupcake box

Here's a picture of the cupcake box that I made with Design Studio last night.

The cartridges that I used were George and Fabulous Finds.

For You

Here's a card I made using my Cuttlebug embossing folder and my Cricut.

Crisscross Train Card

Here's one of my favorite boy cards that I have made...
I love the train from the New Arrivals cartridge.

Max

Here's a layout I did yesterday of Max and all of his nicknames. The collar, fire hydrant and the bones I made with Paper Pups. I haven't done a layout in a very long time.

I finally got to scrap again...

I decided that I don't need to use my Cricut on everything that I make and I think it helped me to think outside of the box. Whenever I scrap I tried to see how the Cricut fit into all of my layouts and would get discouraged and not do anything.




This card I made for DH for Sweetest Day. There really isn't much Cricut involved. Just the heart and "est" on Sweetest. I used chipboard stickers, rub-ons, machine stitching, my Cuttlebug for embossing and the tag, and my Sizzlits for the frame around "happy". The patterned paper is by Foofala.

I have a very large stash of chipboard, paper, ribbons, embellishments, buttons, etc. in my scrap room. You name it, I have it. I am going to try to start using a little of it on everything that I make. I have been afraid to use all of my pretty stuff. Not anymore because I am thinking "outside of the Cricut box". LOL

We went apple picking for the first time this weekend. We got a little over zealous with the picking. Ended up picking 2 half bushels and now we have apples growing out of our ears. So far we've made apple turnovers, apple butter, and apple pie slab. I am looking for an apple spice cake recipe next. Whew! Won't be making that mistake again. We had a great time together, though.