Made a few more cards

The Christmas tree is from the Holly Jolly Lever Cards kit at www.svgcuts.com. The poinsettia and the cardinal cards are both ones that I have created. Not happy with my background paper selection on the cardinal card but I know that now and will select something less busy next time. The card face still needs to be dusted to remove the loose glitter but have to wait for glue to dry - so you'll have to imagine it without all the loose glitter.

Thanks for stopping by to take a look.

Christmas Cards

Worked on Christmas cards yesterday so today when I got home from work, I took pictures to share.

With the exception of the computer & santa, which are my creations, all cuts are from www.svgcuts.com - if you haven't tried Mary's files yet, you are in for a real treat!







Thanks for stopping by and taking a look!

Blog Hop

I've decided to try my hand at something new - I'll be participating in my first ever blog hop Dec 28, 29, and 30! The hop is being organized by Karel at One By One The Flaminogs Are Stealing My Sanity and will feature calendar layouts. You will be able to visit the various blogs and collect layout ideas for a calendar page for each month of 2011. In addition to the main prize being offered on Karel's blog, I will also be offering a prize on my blog for one of the lucky hop participants.

I've never made monthly pages but with the grandkids, I thought it would be a nice way to document their lives without filling volumes of scrapbooks. So, I'm stepping outside of my comfort zone and going to work on designing a 2 page layout for the month of October 2011. The layout will obviously be designed and created using Cricut and SCAL - but I will include digital stamp type files for those who do not have the software so that they can print and cut/color to create the pages.

In preparation for this blog hop, I would like to encourage readers to become followers of my blog. Sign-up between now and December 17th, and you will be entered to win an as yet to be determined prize package (I'll post a pic as soon as I do some shopping).

The rules are simple, become a follower and leave a comment in this post and you will receive one entry. Post a sidebar link on your own blog and note that in your comment and you will receive a second entry.

On another note - what is everyone working on? Me, I'm still busy working on the advent calendars - I should have more pictures tomorrow or Friday. Anyone have any inspiring card designs I can look at? I need to start my Christmas cards next!

Thanks for stopping by to take a look around - I'm off to get ready for work. Have a great day!

The last Advent Calendar

Here's my last Calendar front - now to start assembling the boxes. Hopefully I'll be all done on by Sunday night!

More Advent Calendars

Posting 5 more advent calendar - some are only the fronts - still working on the boxes!

I have some strange color combos here - and for some reason the colors look really off on the computer - going to have to figure out what's up with that.

Awesome Kit available at SVGCuts!

Mary at SVGCuts has done it again - she has created an unbelievable kit for creating custom Advent calendars for the special people in our lives!

Available as a free gift with a purchase of 9.98 or more through Tuesday(11/16/10) or it can be purchased for the very reasonable price of 6.99 - this kit includes cuts for the front and back panels, all of the strips to form the interior boxes, and even decorations and numbers.

I've made two of these so far - they are lots of fun and I can't wait to send them to my grandkids and nieces and nephews!!

Here's the first two of the many I will be making:



Click the link below to see the details on the SVGCuts blog - there's even a video tutorial you can watch on how to assemble the project

SVGCuts Christmas Advent Calendar Kit

Something for next spring/summer?

NOTICE: Please go to the SVG tab at the top of my blog for important information regarding SVG downloads. 

I am slowly but surely working my way through all of my svg files - trying to purge. When I first started with SCAL, I downloaded every free file I could find - then soon realized that 1) just cuz it's free doesn't mean I'll ever use it and 2) not all files are created equal.

Anyway, in going through all my stuff, I found this cute little gift I put together for my grand-daughter and nephews. I found something similar at the store but couldn't bring myself to pay the price for it - and knew I could make a cuter tag using my Cricut. Picked up the sand pails with shovels at the dollar store - added a brownie mix, pudding mix, and a bag of gummy worms and tied it all up with cellophane and some ribbons.

Link to download the cut file is below the picture.