Smiley Card Book

Well Provo Craft finally came out with a booklet for the Smiley Cards Digital Cartridge for the Gypsy.

So I printed the book and man there were a lot of pages, even though I condensed it. Now I have 28 sheets of paper, wasn't quite sure what to do with them. So I pulled out my Your Story. I got a Black cover and inserted all of my sheets and bound it with the Your Story. Only took a few minutes.

After the book was bound, I got some leftover designer paper and started to decorate it. I took a 12x12 sheet and cut it to 11" and scored it in the middle. I should have taken pictures, but I didn't sorry. then I took a coordinated cherry die cut sheet and placed it on top. Added googlie eyes and with a Sharpe drew on a mouth and eye lashes. I also added 2 embellishments from the same set of paper. And TaDa here is the finish Smiley Card Book. What do you think?

Cricut Smiley Cards Handbook

They finally made a Smiley Cards handbook her it is.

http://www.cricut.com/res/handbooks/SmileyCards.pdf

Have fun crafting with Smiley Cards

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.

God Bless America Card

Here is a simple card I made using the Stand and Salute cartridge. I would to take credit for this one but I did copy this from a blog. I am truly sorry but I don't remember which blog it is, but the card was so nice I had to make it.

This is a very easy card to do. Here is the recipe:
using the card feature cut a God Bless America  at 3 3/4 in blue textured paper and in white glitter paper(make sure you use the multi cut feature on the glitter paper). Make sure you trim the white glitter cutout so it's slightly smaller than the blue.I offset the white and blue to create a shadow.
I cut a scrap piece of paper in red to fit as a background and embossed it with Cuttlebugs Star embossing folder, then I used Martha Stewart's white ink to run over the stars to create a bit of dimension.
 I used some bling in the center of the stars.
For the base of the card I used an 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper and cut it in half, so I can make 2 cards from 1 sheet.
This would be a great card for 4th of July or even to send to our troops over seas, to let them know we are thinking of them.
 I hope you like it.

 I found the blog I copied this from http://joyslife.com/god-bless-america-card-using-united-we-stand-cricut-cartridge/

Toy Story Paper Piecing and 2 page layout

I made this 2 page layout from the left over characters from my sons 4th birthday party. it took me about 2 month to make all the characters from the Toy Story Cricut cartridge. The background  paper is Bo Bunny (petal pushers) ,the paper for piecing is Bazzills and ARC Shimmer paper, I also used Stickles.

For Mrs. Potato Head I used ARC's shimmer paper, which I just love love love. You should get some.

I also used shimmer paper on Bullzeye.

I know this is older work but I thought I would share it with you, It was an experience to make all of these characters. I truly found my calling with the Cricut Expression. I love to do characters, they are a bit challenging sometimes but in the end all the hard work is so worth it.
I hope you have a great day. I would love to read your comments.

Mom's Christmas Cards

Well my friends, Christmas has come and gone, But I forgot to share this other card I made for my mom. I made this in November, but I forgot to take pictures of it. So I finally got 1 back to share with you. I had literally just got into stamping, (Thanks Gail) lol, so I wasn't very creative. I did copy this from the
 Stampin-Up Catalog. I honestly don't remember all the colors I used, oh well. I did use stickles,a SU Border punch,a glitter marker,distressing stripes Cuttlebug embossing folder,SU Stamp,and a gold ribbon.
The picture doesn't show but I did color the image with color pencils, but it's so light that the camera did not pick it up. So this is, to be honest my first stamped card I made.

Paper Punch Storage

This is what I started with. I purchased 2 of these off of Craigs List last week for $1.00 for both. What a deal, couldn't pass it up. So I had my wonderful Handy Husband cut the separators out and drill 4 holes on each side so I can insert 3/8 size dowels. I would probably use a thicker dowel for the larger punches.This is the end result. What do you think?

I had to cover it with paper and I also used a Martha Stewart punch to dress it up. Not sure if I like the way it looks decorated wise, but the functionality of it is great. The good thing is I can change the look when I get a better idea of what I want it to look like. Most of these punches I purchase at http://www.buy4less.com/.
 The second one I am going to use to store my Stampin Up ink pads and have my husband drill some more holes so I can either store more punches that I plan on buying or to store ribbon. Not sure yet. I will post that when when I get it done.

 Merry Christmas to you all, stay safe and enjoy your time with family and friends.