Steaming Cup of Tea

Here is the cup I came up with for my Tea Pot.  I am not completely happy with it.  It looks lopsided to me, but I made it for my mom and Moms love anything their kids make for them don't they???  Even if their kids are parents themselves!

I just made the pattern for the cup by hand and used small strips of paper left over from my tea pot to put a pattern on the cup.  The steam was from the cricut cartridge Joys of the Season.  I also used my glitter pen to add some sparkle to the "tea" and "steam".

Let me know what you think.

Bear Birthday Card

Here is a birthday card I made for my niece who loves bears.  When you open it, there is a shadow box inside.  To make this card I cut a piece of cardstock at 5 1/2" X 12".  I then scored it at 4", 7 3/4", 8" and 11 3/4". I used the Creative Memories oval cutters to cut the oval shape out for the shadow box.  This is cut in the middle of the 8"  score line and the 11 3/4" score line section of the card.  After folding all the score lines and cutting the oval shape out, lay the card with the inside of the card facing down and put tape on the very last 1/4" section.  Now flip the card over so the outside is down and fold the card at the 8" score line (making sure the adhesive is facing up).  Next fold the card at the 4" score line (over top of the oval cut out section) and make sure that you press the card against the adhesive.  When you open the card you should see a small shadow box that opens as you open the card.

The brown paper I used to make this card with I purchased at Big Lots a few years ago, it is Susan Winget's Spice Lattice.  The bear came from other paper I purchased on clearance by K & Company and is called Teddy Embossed paper.  I used my oval cutters and cut around this bear and the small bear that I used on the inside of the card.   The ribbon is from Paper Trey Inc and I punched the cream colored cardstock with my waterfall punch. 

I chalked around the edges of the oval cutout and each of the bear cut outs.  It is hard to tell from this picture that the inside is a shadow box, so the next picture I turned the cards so you could see the shadow box.

Let me know if you don't understand my instructions or have any questions about how to make your own shadow box card.



Tea Pot

Here is a tea pot I made with a cut file I purchased from My Time Made Easy.  Here is the address,  http://mytimemadeeasy.com/.  Just search under the store for Tea Pot and you will find it listed there.

I created the knob on top from strips of left over paper.  I made two circles and joined them together at opposite directions.  I just love how it turned out and plan to give it to my mom who actually collects Tea Pots.  I would like to try and make a matching tea cup and saucer to go with it, I will let you know if I actually succeed at that!

Thanks for coming by!

My First Vinyl project

I finally used that vinyl I purchased several months ago and made some wall art for the house.  This is my finished project.  It only took a couple of hours to complete and I love how it turned out!

I used SCAL and DS to make this project.  The medallion and the swirls came from the Home Accents cricut cart and the letters were all done in SCAL.  The font I used for the words "IN EVERYTHING" was Times New Romans.  I downloaded a free font called killagraphy to do the words "give thanks". 

This was my first attempt at vinyl cutting and placing and I was surprised at how easy it really was.  The hardest part was designing the layout.  If you are interested, I have the files and am more than happy to share if you want them, you will just have to keep in mind that I used both DS and SCAL so I have two files in different formats.

Portholes

My husband and I went on a cruise to celebrate our 10th Wedding anniversay.  I took pictures of our room and wanted a unique way to scrapbook these pictures.  I decided to create "portholes" that you could open and see the room.  Here is what the page looks like.

To create the "metal' around the windows I just used gold foil paper and used my Creative Memories circle cutters, it may be easier to create the circles and cut them with Sure Cuts A Lot, but I did not have that program at the time that I created this page.  For each porthole I created two gold circles one smaller than the other.  In the center of the smaller circle I attached velium paper.  I used velum to try and create the look of a window.  The little latch at the bottom was created using the Cricut Cart Fabulous Finds.  I cut it out of copper colored metalic paper.  The "rivets" are made from copper colored brads.


Here you can see that I am using the latch to open up the porthole.  When I lift the latch you are able to see the picture of our room.
The background paper I used was a shiney cream colored paper that I thought resembled the outside of a ship.  The wavy water at the bottom of the page was created by using my Creative Memories wavy cutter and blue paper.
I hope you enjoyed my post!

Magical Birthday Card

Here is a birthday card I made for my sister-in-law. When I sat down to do this I was in the mood for some serious "bling" and I just couldn't stop adding it.  I started out using the Wizard  from Cricuts Paper Doll Dress Up cart, cutting it at 4 inches (a calculation error I will explain later).  The blue paper used to make the hat and gown is DCWV glimmer stack.  I backed both pieces with some scrap yellow paper and then filled in each star with yellow stickles.  The very light blue cape and background papers are from scrap pieces of paper that I had.  I also spritzed the cape with some shimmer mist, the shoes also have shimmer mist on them but you can't really see that in the picture.  I used a little black chalk to add some streakes to the hair and cut the septer with gray paper then added silver stickles to it also.  The ribbon was some that I picked up from a clearance bin at Michaels.

If you are very familiar with the Wizard cuts in PDDU, you will know that the hat is not bent like I have it here.  This is where I had to be a little creative.  I realized that I cut the doll to large to fit on the card with the hat that is included but thought it was to cute to leave off, so I decided to cut it and "bend" the top part to look like the hat is bent over.  I then added a little yellow circle to the tip and of course it had to be "blinged up" with some stickles.  I think it turned out OK.  I decided to put the real hat cut on  the inside of the card.

I used the same background paper here that I used on the front and layered it with white so the stamped sentiment would be easier to read.  The hat is the unedited version of the PDDU hat cut. 

I had so much fun making this card. I hope my sister-in-law loves it as much as I do!

Bird Challenge - My Pink Stamper

Here is a birthday card I made for a friend.  It also fulfills the requirements for a My Pink Stamper Challenge. The bird was cut at 3 3/4 inches from the Create A Critter cart.  I just  used some left over paper for the bird and the background.  I popped up the bird and also popped up the wing for more dimention to the card.