Masculine Card!

Brrrr! Its been super cold here the last few weeks. Right now its -25. We have also been hit with some more then average snow fall. I would say out in my yard right now we have around 5 feet of acumulation. Its fine with me tho. I love it! Valdez has roof top snow. That means the snow is as high as the roof tops! I am keeping busy with my little headwrap/hat business. I have been getting around an order a day. Its been great! I am also trying to make some extra for the craft bazaar I am doing in March. Plus being a mom, wife, domestic godess HAHAHAH I have not really had any time to stop and breath. This week I created a theme for our DT and I thought it would be fun to use a sketch and see how differenlty we all make it. My hubbs birthday was on the 5th and I used that opportunity to make him a card using the sketch. I think it is a lot harder to make a card for a guy then it is for a girl or for kids. But thats just me. Here is the sketch. I would love to give mad props to the owner of the sketch but I cant quite read the name on the bottom because I am doing this post from my phone with my new blogger app....

Picked out some manly paper. Used my Cricut to cut out the tree and the moose. Used a brown coffee filter to give it some texture and put it all togehter with some twine. One sketchy manly birthday card!

~*Recipe*~

~* Cricut Cartridge Wildlife and Winter Woodland

~* DCWV cardstock

~* Twine

~*Brown coffee filter

~*Jen*~

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Skate with me!

Hi!!  Lori here from ScrappinMyStressAway with a Winter Blues Ice Skate Card.

I started with some blue and black cardstock and some snowflake paper from my Christmas stash.

On Winter Woodland Tag Feature, I selected the ice skate tag.  I put two on my mat at 4.25 inches.  I flipped one of them and hid the center cuts with Hide Contour.  I put two ice skates sized to 3.08 inches on the mat.

I put the tree tag at 1.78 inches (with the center cuts hidden) and welded all three pieces together to make my card. 

I cut out the card base with light blue cardstock and cut the ice skates out in dark blue and black cardstock.

Now, there is a Card Function Key with an ice skate, but I like to be difficult....I mean different :)

I needed a liner for the card and the paper I selected  (from a  K and Co. Christmas Pad) had a white and silver pattern on the back.  I copied the tag shape twice and cut out two tags.

I glued these two pieces together, snowflake sides out.

I trimmed the two pieces of the ice skate and used my Xyron to glue the layers on.

I poked some holes in the skate and threaded on some twine for the laces. 

I glued the snowflake paper liner to the inside of the card.

My skate needed a pom pon, so I took blue and white twine and made a pom pon.

Here is the inside of the card ~ ready for a winter (or birthday, or thank you) sentiment!  I have a fear of commitment when I don't have a specific purpose in mind for my cards!!!

Thank you so much for joining us at SweetSassyDiva today!!!

Winter Woodland Layout!

Hi this is Misty over at The Daily Scrapper.

I just love playing with my Imagine.

Here is a layout using a beautiful Echo Park paper line called Holly Jolly!!!! I also used Winter Woodland and my Imagine. I added a gemstone for the doorknob on the house.

I put together a fun video for you all to share how I get RGB codes for some of my favorite paper lines and then used them on my Imagine to print elements and background papers to go with the beautiful lines available at my LSS.

Here is the layout.

Here is a video to show you guys how I get RGB codes for some of my favorite paper lines.

Snow Cute!

This week the challenge at Sweet Sassy Diva is "Winter Blues".  Even though I live in Southern California I love using snowmen, snowflakes and penguins on winter layouts.  This layout was made using my Imagine and the Cricut Cart Snow Angel.  I love the  cuts on this cart.  The background paper is from a Recollections Christmas stack I got at Michaels which was the perfect blue background.

I collected pics of my two oldest granddaughters wearing hats.  The ones on the right are all made by my oldest daughter. 

Here is the double page layout  

Closeup of first page.  The title Snow Cute is from Winter Wonderland  Cricut Cart and cut from colored cardstock.  The brown background mat is from Snow Angel cart printed paper. Cut 6 " and used other piece on 2nd page.  Mittens and booties are pop dotted.  Snowflakes on corners are precut from a package.  

Closeup of 2nd page

Closeup of hat, ribbon, and snowflakes 

The cuts as I said were made on the Imagine and I did them in pieces 

so I could pop dot the hats and scarves.  For my mats I used a EK corner punch.  

then I glued everything on the page and added ribbon and snowflakes.  

Hope you will come back this week and join all the Design Team for their take on "Winter Blues" challenge.  Happy Craftin!

- Suzanne

Snow Globe!

 This weeks theme at SweetSassyDiva is Let It Snow... make something with a snowflake, snowball, snowman... you get the idea, and of course, use your Cricut ! I am afraid we are going to have a white Christmas here in New Jersey, so I had to make my snowman from paper. I scraplifted this idea from a fellow blogger, but I am sorry to say I didn't save the site. So I am sending out a big thank you to whoever it was :) I kind of got carried away with the snow theme... snow globe, snowman, snow flakes. I started with the snow globe from Doodlecharms - sized at 4.23, copied, flipped and welded together.

                              The outer circle was done using a tag from Doodlecharms, sized at 3.72

 and a second, sized at 3.24 and centered inside the larger one. 

                                                                                   The trees are from Winter Woodland sized 2.41.

                                                                    The snowman is from Christmas Cheer, cut a t 2.41

           After some stickles, puffy paint, gel pen and ribbon I was happy with my snowman, snow globe.

Supply list: Cricut Doodlecharms, Christmas Cheer, Winter Woodland Papers - Stampin Up, DCWV, Hobby Lobby Ribbon - Hobby Lobby, Stickles Puffy Paint Gel Pen Merry Christmas everyone !
- Mindy!

Peace

Hello Sweet Sassy Diva followers and a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you.  This week the challenge is "Let it Snow".  I tell you when I see all the beautiful pictures of snow my fellow crafters post I am a little jealous but I think I will stick with my Southern California weather.  That doesn't mean I don't love to pretend and make layouts of snow, snowflakes,  and snowmen.  

This is a fairly simple double page layout where I highlighted the paper which I had been saving from last year.  I loved the light blue with a touch of green and white snowflakes.  

Recipe:

Art Philosophy 

Snowflakes cut at 3" white glitter paper page 22, 27 and 30 

Winter Woodland

Peace cut at 3 "- page 64 white glitter paper and green Bazzil

flowers on Peace cut at 2 " page 64 green and lt. blue Bazzil

Rabbit page 58 cut at 3"  green and lt. blue Bazzil

Deer page 55 flipped and cut at 6 '' lt. blue and green

Mats 

White inner mat cut from Recollections pre-embossed core paper and sanded

2 cut at 4 x 6, 1 cut at 4 x 5, 1 cut at 3 1/2 x 4 1/2

Cut blue mats 1/2 inch bigger all sides and punches corners with EK sucess corner punch

Green mats cut 1/4 " bigger than blue

I added some tiny gems to the flowers and Smooch ink 

to leaves and eyes on deer and rabbit.  

Hope you enjoyed the layout. Please come back all week to see what all the designers have made.  

 Wishing you all Happy Holidays and Happy Craftin

The Magic of Winter!

This is Jen, from 3 Cats and a Bug. Part of the requirement to join Sweetsassydiva's design team was doing a Tis The Season project. For my project, I decided to do a Tri Shutter card with more non traditional colors.



Tri Shutter cards look like they may be difficult to make, but they really are super easy. You start out with your card stock cut at 5.50 x 12. Next you start at 1 inch down from the top and 2 inches in and cut a line to the 10 inch mark. Do the same thing again only 1 inch up from the bottom. Now you score your card at 2, 4, 8 and 10. It should look like the photo below.

I decorated my card using two different patterned papers, but you can use only one if you like. I also like to have my patterned papers to be smaller than the card stock. That's also a personal choice, so the sizes you cut depend on what you want your card to look like. I also used my color box chalk to ink the outside of light colored paper.

You can see the green borders once I attached my paper.

I did the same thing with the darker patterned paper, except the inking.

Now it's ready to decorate! Around my house, all winter long and sometimes even into spring, you'll hear me say "tis the season!" to my husband. He's a born and bred Texan! He moved to Wisconsin about 11 years ago and he's never totally adjusted to our winters. After the first winter, he's hated snow and the bone deep cold. So every time it's really cold or the snow flies, I just tell him "tis the season!" I couldn't resist making him a card with that saying on it. lol With the help of my gypsy, I was able to lay out several colors of paper on my mat to cut everything except the words.

I used Winter Woodland for almost everything.

The snow man and woman were cut @ 4.5 with their layers. I also used a black pen and stickles on them.



The mittens were cut @ 2. I used my Gypsy and hide the scarf. I used stickles and gems to dress them up.



The hat was also cut @ 2 and I used pink stickles on that one.



"The magic of winter" was cut @ 3, although I tweaked it a bit to fit in the boxes the way I wanted it to.



"Tis the season" was cut from County Life (my favorite for fonts at the moment!) at .75.



The stamp shape behind the words came from Sentimentals and was cut @ 2x 3.75.

Thanks Bobbi Jo for having me as a design team member again!

Thanks for looking!

Tis the Season!

Hello Everyone!  This is Liza from Hoo's
Crafty!   Happy to be back here for another great SSD DT
project.   This week our assignment was to make a Christmas in July
project.   We could use any Cricut cuts with a twist of summer added
in.    Again, thinking this would be easy.  Well, putting it
together wasn't the hard part, it was looking at the snowmen while sweating that
was hard.




I made an A2 size card.
I used Winter Wonderland to cut the snowman and it's layers {4.5"}

While looking around at my papers, I found this bright snowflake paper by Echo
Park that I knew would have the perfect summer twist.  So I may have gotten
off course into winter rather than Christmas.

I also used cardstock from Core'dinations and AC
Instead of cutting the buttons for the snowman, I decided to add some jeweled
buttons with some zots to brighten it up a little.  I hand drew in the eyes
with a brown archival pen.

White satin ribbon tied at the bottom of the card to add some dimension and even
out the card.




I did cut out the shadow layer in brown and add some 3D foam between for even
more dimension.

Sentiment was from a Studio G clear set found in JoAnn's $1 bin last year.



Thanks for stopping by to see what's new this week at SweetSassyDiva!  
I hope you enjoy all of the great projects this Design Team has to
offer.   Please visit me at Hoo's
Crafty! anytime.