Just Married car card

Hello!  It sure is getting chilly here but we had a beautiful weekend wedding a few weeks ago.  The groom loves cars so I thought I would try to go with that.  Here is the wedding card I made for the happy couple: 

The car is from Nifty Fifties at 3".  It's important to remember that the inches for Cricut cuts are the height of the cut.  This actual card is just under 4" x 8".  The scalloped wedding swirl paper is Making Memories, folded over a black base.

"Just Married" is from the Wrap It Up cart, as are the cans hanging off the back of the car. I made some adjustments so they would fit this car. 

I hope everyone has a wonderful week!  Thanks for stopping by.  I love to hear your comments or just plain ol' how you're doin'! :) 

Bachelorette Sash

Today I am so excited to share with you the bachelorette sash I made for a very good friend of mine.  Earlier I showed you the Bachelorette Bash goody bags I made and now on to the sash! 

First I gathered (i.e. purchased) the materials I wanted to use for her sash. 

 I neglected to take a lot of pictures of the process.  I'll tell you, it was a lot of guessing!  I've never made a sash before so I was just going for it! :) 

I got most of it sewn together and then wanted to plan out how the words would fit.  I used Billionaire as my font and welded the words together on my Gypsy.  I cut out a few sizes until I found the one that fit my sash. 

I used Wonder Under with my fabric and then cut it in the Cricut Expression, just like I would cut paper.  Then I ironed it on to the sash.  I did this before I sewed the sash entirely together because if it didn't work, I was going to have to sew the words on (and boy and I glad the Wonder Under worked!) 

Then I put it all together!  Here's a really silly (or you could say awful... look at the sash not me!) picture of me modeling it because I was so damn proud of it and excited how it turned out! 

A feather-y clip from Michael's holds it closed at the bottom.  This way it would fit her any way she wanted. And the clip matched our feather boas - see below... 
Then here she is opening it!

And three college besties: 

We had a great night!  :) 

It's been a circus around here...

I am the design team member posting on Cricut FANatics today.  Look at this cute card I made: 

Visit my post on Cricut FANatics to see many more pictures and details.  Thanks for stopping by! 

Bachelorette Survival Kit

This past week I had the joy of preparing the party favors for a friend's bachelorette party.  I was so excited to do this!  I love to be creative when other people will be on the receiving end of my projects.  Today I am going to share with you the Bachelorette Survival Kits I made for us girls and later this week the bachelorette sash I made her! Both were super fun projects!

I used paper sacks, folded over the top, punched holes and used silver zebra ribbon to tie it together with the tag I made up.  The bride-to-be had special bling from the Dollar Bin at Michael's. 

Inside there were a bunch of little treats to get the girls through the night.  The tag on the front explained why each item was included in the bag. 

A close-up of the Advil packets.  I folded a 4x2 piece of paper in half and sewed the edges shut.  This leaves one side for easy tearing when the end of the night comes and you need some Advil! The pink stickers I created by printing them on a full sheet label and then using a 1" circle punch. 

I gathered inspiration for these bags from SincerelyKristi, Miss Jillian Designs, and here.

Best Wishes

A super-duper good friend of mine is about to get married!  Below is the card I made for her wedding shower:

My mom subscribes to Cardmaker magazine and in the September issue, there was an accordian Halloween card that I loved the layout of.  There are a lot of good ideas in that magazine! Here is my adaptation. The wedding papers are from an older Making Memories set I have.

The white ribbon is tied around the outside so after you untie it or slip it off, the card starts to open like this :

What I love about this is is looks like there is paper everywhere but when you open it up, there are still black squares and the paper is on opposite sides.

The rings and hearts are cut from Cricut's Everyday Pop-Up Cards cart.  The sentiment stamp is Fiskars.

Here is the entire card open.

I hope you like this card!  My friend did! :)

Thanks for the Memories frame

At the end of the last school year, a co-worker retired.  We have a small department and so we celebrated her retirement with a small party including cake, punch, and gifts!  This is the shadow box frame I made for the sentimental portion of her gift:

We had just gotten together earlier in the month for another retirement so I took the opportunity to get us together for a photo, knowing that I would be needing it for this!

I had already closed the shadow box and was ready for wrapping so I'm sorry about the glass glare!  I took pages from Old Yeller to use one in the background and another to make this flower.  I then used two cuts from Ornamental Iron to give the center a little color.  I used hemp twine and a button to finish it off.

In the bottom corner I used two ribbons from Michael's to add that "school" flavor.   I also used a Melody Ross tag to journal that we would miss her!

The top corner has an epoxy sticker from JoAnns and a cut from Ornamental Iron.

This was like doing a scrapbook page in a frame so I really enjoyed making it!  It was well received too! :)

Stick Pin Swap

Hello!  This project is for a stick pin swap I was in via the Cricut Circle message board and I have been waiting to share them with you for quite awhile!  Everyone should have their boxes back now so today is the big reveal day! I was in Group 2.

So here we go!  Each was wrapped in a clear bag.  When you take it out of the bag, it looks like this:

Then you untie the ribbon and enjoy...

The card opens from the middle to reveal the pins:

Close-up of the pins:

The pearl topped pins were from Bargain Bill's, the green beads were from Hobby Lobby, the graphite beads and clear beads from Michael's, and the ribbon was from my stash.

All of them together before I sent them off:

This swap was a lot of fun and the pins I got back were beautiful!  Thank you to our wonderful hostess, JJewel!

I entered this into the Cricut Circle Magazine Challenge, which is to use our newest Cricut cartridge, Out of Character! This is the enjoy cut at 2", with all layers out of different color greens.  I embossed the front of the card with a Cuttlebug folder.