Cardz TV Gallery Picture Frame

I have a little photo frame to share with you today that I posted over to the Cardz TV Gallery page. I made this to highlight a Disney World photo of my granddaughters with Mickey Mouse. I used some fabulous metal dies from My Creative Time to make the words Smile and I (heart) you, the little instamatic camera with the photo coming out the bottom and the black frame. After assembling all the pieces of the instant camera I added a sentiment from Cardz TV stamps This 'n' That stamp set (Oh SNAP!). Then I heat embossed the Picture perfect! sentiment from the Cardz TV stamp set Simply Said onto the black photo element. I totally love how this turned out and I know my granddaughters are going to be so happy to have this picture momento from their trip to Disney World. Today (October 28th) we are at the Magic Kingdom for Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party. It's going to be so much fun being there with Payton and Paige. I'll be sharing some pocket page scrapping with you soon of this event. Stay tuned!

The Cutting Cafe Halloween Jar Shaped Card

This week on The Cutting Cafe Blog the Design Team is featuring Halloween and Fall in a Jar Shaped cards. This set features the following:  12 filled jars in small and large sizes, a plain small and large jar and 34 sentiments. I chose the jar with the spider in it. Who knew a spider could be so darn cute! This file comes in SVG, PDF, WPC and MTC formats. I used the PDF version and printed it out then hand cut it. I'm so weird because I find that I enjoy hand cutting my files. I find it very relaxing. Plus, it's good therapy for my hand rehab after my surgery. I decided to color my spider with Copics and added some orange gems for his eyes. To give the web a little defining I used some black Stickles. To finish it off I added a few enamel dots (that I made myself by melting pony beads in my oven), then tied a sentiment on with some black twine to the neck of the jar. My lid is cut from some textured silver paper. Don't forget to head over to The Cutting Cafe blog October 21st to see the rest of the DT projects. I know you'll be inspired.

Cardz TV Gallery Fun Countdown

Hello my crafty friends!  I have a cute and quick little project to share with you today that I made for the Cardz TV Gallery. Hubby and I are very excited. In less than two weeks now our two granddaughters, Paige (5 yr.) and Payton (8 yr.) will be coming to Florida for a Disney vacation. Hubby and I have resident season passes to Disney World so we will be joining them for lots of fun memory making time while they are here.

I used my Cricut and the Mickey and Friends cartridge to cut the mouse head and the thumbs up images. Next I added my title with some alphabet stamps in my stash. I embellished it even further with lots of cute sentiments from Cardz TV Stamps. I cut some paper strips in red, yellow and white so the girls could make a paper chain. Every night before they go to bed they tear off one strip.

I used the following Cardz TV stamp sets:

• Cardz TV Stamps-"FAQ's"
• Cardz TV Stamps-"Good Times"
• Cardz TV Stamps-"Picture This"
• Cardz TV Stamps-"This 'n' That"

There are so many other ways you could adapt this project to other occasions. You could make one for a child to count down the days until their birthday or any holiday just by changing up the main image and adding appropriate sentiments. You could use a party hat to count down days until a child's birthday or a tree for Christmas. It's an easy project that a child can help with by making the links into a paper chain. If you haven't crafted with a child lately, consider this a challenge to do so. 

My granddaughter Payton will be having a special sleepover night here at our place while visiting. I sent her an email (she just got her own email address) and asked her what she would like to do while she is here. The very first thing she said was "craft together". Yep, she's my girl. I'll share the project that I'm planning on making with her in a future post. Thanks so much for stopping by today. 

My Creative Time Challenge Thanksgiving card

Today I have a Thanksgiving card I made for the current challenge at My Creative Time. This card has been in the works for months. In fact, since Emma's summer release of the Surf's Up stamp and die set. As soon as my set was delivered and I was looking at it I knew the surfboard would make perfect turkey feathers. Funny how the mind works sometimes, isn't it! Then I had to design a body to go with my feathers. I used several different My Creative Time sets to accomplish this. I will have a list at the end of my post. Can you guess what I used for the turkey's gobbler and his feet? I hand cut a triangle to use for the turkey's beak. His eyes are from Peachy Keen. Here is the photo for the color inspiration.

List of MCT products used on this project:

• All Around Holidays-Small stitched leaf
• Bunch of Fun Circle Dies-Turkey's feather base and head
• Hello Spring egg die- Turkey's body
• Loyal Friends-Turkey's gobbler (dog spot) and turkey's feet (dog bone), Fence
• Mixed Holiday Sentiments
• Piles of Smiles-Stitched leaf
• Stitched Cartoon Cloud Dies
• Stitched Grass Die
• Surf's Up-Turkey's feathers

The Cutting Cafe Pumpkin Shaped Card

It's the spooky, scary, haunting time of the year. Today I have a quick and easy Cutting Cafe Pumpkin Shaped Card Template and cutting file to share. I've always been drawn to the taller, skinnier shaped pumpkins. That's why I love this shaped card so much. I used the PDF version and printed it then hand cut it. There were only three pieces to this card-the base of the card with the fold, the top piece and stem. I cut the base from orange cardstock, the top from an orange chevron print and the stem from a textured woven kraft cardstock. I printed the sentiment from another Cutting Cafe set called Pumpkin Treat Box onto a label. Last I embellished with a couple pompom spiders and a black gingham bow.