Disney/Pixar Mator

 Happy Friday everyone. My 4 year old son just absolutely loves Mator from the movie Cars. Well I have 2 hobbies, 1st papercrafting/scrapbooking/card making and sewing. The sewing is a newer hobby for me. I alternate every month so I can dedicate equal time to both hobbies. Well when it was time for paper crafting, my son gets really excited. He saw me take my Cricut Expression out of my cabinet and put it on my craft table. He ran to my cabinet where I store a few frequently used cartridges and takes out the Cars cartridge. He then goes to my other cabinet and pulls out brown card stock. Hands them both to me and says can you make Mator for me,"here's the cartridge and paper". So I finally said OK. this is what I made him. I did use my trusted Gypsy to lay everything out before cutting. I cut him at 7.85" He did come out big, but perfect for his door. I hope you like it.

 I hope you all have a wonderful week-end. I know I will, this is my crafting week-end. So I will craft til my hearts content.
 Have a great week-end, and Happy Crafting

Scallop Circle Flower

 Hello there everyone, I hope you are all having a wonderful Friday. I am sure looking forward to this week-end. I plan on getting some crafting done. Today's project was inspired by a good friend Erlinda. She put a post up on her blog, on how to make your own beautiful flowers. If you have time, check out her work and send her some love. http://stampinwitheerlinda.blogspot.com/

 To start, get some scrap paper that you would like to use. Now you can either use a scallop punch from Stampin Up or you can cut the scallop circles using your Cricut Expression. Either way it will have the same results. I used both for my flowers. You will need 3 scallop circles for 1 flower.

I tried the pattern paper scrap, just to see how the flower will come out. Then you will need to run them thru a paper crimper, about 12+ times, to loosen the fibers enough to pull the layers apart.

Once you have the 3 circles crimped and pulled apart, you will need to crumple them some more. I just rolled them up in a ball.

Once you have rolled them, you will need to open them up and stack them together inside side up. I alternated with the soft side and the patterned side, just to see what it would look like.

Now, with a paper piercer you will need to pierce a hole in the middle of your stack.

Don't remove the piercer until you have a brad ready to put in its place. Any brad will do, you will barely see the brad when the flower is complete.

From this point you will need to start bunching up the layers individually.

Once they are all bunched up, just lightly fan them out, This will be a matter of preference. If you want a tight flower don't fan it out to much, but if you like it loose, then fan it out more. Play with it until you find the way you like your flower to look like.

I did take it one step further and added a little touch of Stickles on the edges randomly.

Here are a few more sample flowers I made.

On the black flower, I did use some glimmer mist, just to see how it would look like.

It gives it a little shimmer finish.
 Check out Erlinda's blog, she did a beautiful layout using the flowers she made. This is a great way to use up any scraps that you may have accumulated. I know I have tons of scraps. Another great idea is to make 2 of the same flower and get a craft stick and sandwich them together to make a carnation. This would be a great gift for Mothers Day, Flowers made with love. I just thought of that, as I was typing.
Enjoy your week-end. Please let me know what you think.

Car Vinyl Decal

 Well hello everyone. I hope you all had a great week-end. I sure did, I spent time with my husband and kids, I also got to get some mommy craft time on Friday. It's all good here. I wanted to do a  layout but the time just flew on by way too fast. But I did manage to cut out a vinyl decal for our car. I had designed this a few months ago, but I finally cut it today. This was originally going to be a design for a t-shirt, to show our support for our 2 kids karate lessons. I still might make the shirts anyways. But that will be at a later time.

 I used the Sports Mania Cricut Cartridge, Expression, and My lovely Gypsy. Simply white outdoor vinyl that I purchased off of Marilyn on an auction site. Tell me what you think. I hope you like it. I hope everyone has a great week. 

Recycled Christmas card = New name plate

I am a big recycler. I want to help preserve our resources for our children to enjoy in the future. I was taking down the Christmas cards we received and I just couldn't part with this one. My husbands Boss sent it and it so happened to be made of the same ARC Shimmer paper that I have, so I thought for a minute hhhhhhmmmmmm........... I can make a name plate for my desk. So I look thru all my shimmer paper and found the perfect match and I cut a 2 1/2 by 8 1/2 strip to cove the Christmas greeting, and I got my Gypsy and used the Cursive 101 cartridge and welded the letters together to look more professional. I used a gold metallic texture card stock. I also added some clear bling on some of the stars. I punched holes in the corners with my Crop-a-Dile and added gold brads, and this is what I got.
What do you think.