Flaunt It Fridays - Tweetie with HUGE Lips Shape Card

For this week Flaunt it Fridays we had to use the lips from Indie Art. I was really stumped. Finally I thought that I would make a huge set of lips for a critter and put them on an action wobble. So I chose this little tweety bird. I made the lips extra big and put them on the wobble. I used the biggest googly eyes I had. I added some ink for some blush and some glossy accents for the lip gloss and some stickles for eye shadow. I think my birdie matches the sentiment...she looks a little crazy for sure. I used the little beak as a nose. I made this card in my gypsy.

This should fit a 5x7 envelope.

Hope you enjoy...now you can participate too. Click on the FIF button to the right side of my blog and go to the post there to join in and share your creation with us all!

Hope you enjoy.

Birthday Card - Sister and Butterflies

I welded this "Sister" together in my Gypsy and cut it out. It is very hard to tell but the dark pink paper is glittery. This is a very simple card but I was just playing around. I kind of like how it turned out and hopefully someone's sister will really enjoy it. Hope you enjoy to.

Episode 12 - Father's Day or Birthday Card - Dad

Hope you enjoy Episode 12. I still can't believe I had to scratch my card base. Oh well...this never happens to me off camera. I decided not to start the video over and just roll with it. Hahaha. Hope you enjoy.

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Key Chain - Cow for my Sister

Here is the last of the key chains I have made so far...I just could not show this one before now because I made it for my sister towards her birthday present. She loves cows and loves this cute one from Create a Critter. I changed this one up in my Gypsy and removed the typical circle cut outs and made them into hearts. Super cute. I totally love how it turned out. However there is a glitch with the cow button on the cartridge as well as when you use it in the Gypsy and so I don't think I will be doing anymore Gypsy cows. The glitch is easier to deal with when just using the cartridge in the Cricut itself. Hope you enjoy.

Birthday Card - Card for my Uncle

This is the card that I made for my Uncle Rick...he is also my Godfather. I struggle with masculine cards. I decided to go very simple...but I really love this. I made this word in my Gypsy using Gypsy Wanderings Font. I welded the letters together and then welded the shadow letters together. I absolutely love how this font turned out. It is so awesome. My uncle loves greens...so I went with that. I got this wide ribbon at Wal-Mart. I wanted the Uncle in the brighter green with the white shadow so it really would stand out. I cut the green layer 4 times and the white shadow once. I wanted the Uncle to be really raised up off the shadow so 4 layers certainly does that. Then I used pop dots to raise the whole word. I am going to be making many more cards like these for various men in time for my next craft sale, whenever that will be. My uncle loved it so that was what really mattered to me. Less than a year and a half ago he was almost killed in a near fatal car accident in which he survived and also was truly lucky. I am so thankful he is okay and still here with us. Hope you enjoy his card.

Birthday Card - Strawberry Doily

I made this pretty card using a card base from Wild Card. I just am totally in love with this for a card base. I wanted to make some pink strawberries to match my ribbon. I just wish in hind sight I had made the berries a tad bit smaller, but no sense wasting them...it is still pretty. I love the colors so much! Really this is just a very simple card, also one of my first using kraft card stock too! Hope you enjoy!

Wedding Card - N & S Custom Card

This is a wedding card that I made for my aunt for a wedding she has to attend. She wanted something that wasn't too feminine and I came up with this idea if interlocking those scallop hears and using the initials of the bride and groom first names. To make those hears like that I had to weld another heart out of the center so they would be like frames. I did that on my Gypsy. I think the result is very elegant. I did some embossing with my heat gun on the top part and the embossing folders on the bottom. The sentiments are all by My Pink Stamper. On the inside of the card I made a money pocket large enough to fit a bill without folding it at all and I adhered the centers of the hearts there as well as another sentiment that fits the card! Hope you all enjoy.

Birthday Card - Flaunt it Friday Strawberry Lemonade

Welcome to week three for Flaunt it Fridays!!! This is my project for this time around. We were asked to make something using the lemonade glass and lemon from Simply Charmed. As soon as I saw this selection I knew I wanted to make a shape card. So I got my lovely Gyspy out and got to work. I welded the glass and then added another top layer so that you can't see that. I love to drink Strawberry lemonade so I decided that I had to make some. I took my Cherry Staz-On ink and dabbed it with a tissue then swirled it across my lemonade to give it that strawberry swirl. I decided to add some strawberries and I chose this one from Country Life. The only thing is that the strawberry had some extra layers I didn't find necessary and I eliminated them. Instead I cut the base in the green paper. I took the top red layer and I copied it and then I made the black layer just by hiding the contour on all the little seed cut outs. This way you can eliminate all those extra layers. I found it pretty easy. I knew I had to have a strawberry and a lemon wedge hanging off the rim of the glass so I made my own lemon wedge just using a circle maker and a little creativity. I just love how this card turned out and I topped it off with a Scrappy Moms Stamp which I love from their new set Simple Sentiments!

I hope you enjoy my project! I made this card to fit a 5x7 envelope! Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to head on over the FIF so you can join in for our challenge too!

Flaunt it Friday 1st Blog Hop and 1st Challenge!!!

Thank you so much for joining us for our first BLOG HOP! If you have arrived here from Amanda's blog then you are in the right place! If not, CLICK HERE to start at the beginning. Remember to leave comments on every stop along the way, and leave a 2nd comment on the Flaunt It Fridays blog saying you've visited everyone and left them comment love for a 2nd chance to win the Grand Prize sponsored by Peachy Keen Stamps!

For my blog hop project I decided to make a little treat bag using the Tags, Bags, Boxes and More cartridge as well as Winter Frolic for the tree. I may use this type of bag for some Christmas goodies for various people. I hope you enjoy my little project and below you can see my first design team project too.




I am also submitting this to Momo's Tuesday Challenge, at www.madebymomo.com.





This was my first design team project for Flaunt it Fridays. Our task this time was to use this snowman from Winter Frolic. I decided to make a Winter Decoration. I designed this in my gypsy and I made the snowman quite big. I welded the circle cut out into the belly of the snowman so that it would create an open window to place my snowflake in. I love how that turned out. I coated that snowflake with glossy accents so it shines nicely. I also embossed snowflakes onto the belly of the snowman too. I added diamond stickles in little dots all over to resemble snow. I had to cut one piece of the scarf away so it didn't cover the snowflake. I added some bling to it's cheeks and scarf. I used the pink ribbon as a way to hang it. I really love how this turned out!

Now, I'm sending you to Stephanie who is your next stop on the hop. Remember, if you get lost along the way, CLICK HERE to start at the beginning. Don't forget to leave comments on every stop along the way, and leave a 2nd comment on the Flaunt It Fridays blog saying you've visited everyone and left them comment love for a 2nd chance to win the Grand Prize sponsored by Peachy Keen Stamps!

I hope you enjoyed your stop here! Feel free to become a follower if you aren't already and enjoy the rest of my projects too!

Home Decor - Happy Holidays Penguin

This is another request from my sister. She loved the penguin Christmas cards I had made and since they sold at the craft fair she asked me to make her something with the penguin. I had my Gypsy with me on Thanksgiving so we designed this together. She decided on a large penguin all decorated that she is going to give to her suite mate to hang on their door at college. If you ask me this is going to be totally adorable! I added some snowflakes to it just for an added touch with some pink gems and then stickles around the gems. The stickles weren't quite dry when I took the picture, as I had to get this posted for her tonight. I am really happy with this. I was thinking how when you have a Cricut, you really have no reason to buy decorations, when you can so easily make your own! Hope you all enjoy.

Birthday Card - Beehive and Bee Shape Card

Look at this cutie!!! I am so in love with my Gypsy now. As soon as I was flipped through my carts on there and saw this bee hive I knew I had to make it into a shape card and add the adorable Bee from Create a Critter. Look how cute this is. I made the height of this so it fits in a 5.5x5.5 envelope. I just welded it but from the front you can't see that because I put the entire front over the welded front. The bee is darn cute. I added black stickles to her black parts and pink stickles to her wings and cheeks. I added some bling and silver stickles to each of the flowers. The flowers were an accessory or layer on another Create a Critter button, I just can't remember which. I used my black Micron pen to stitch all around the bee hive and the bee and that just gives it an added touch and makes it stand out more. I used black Staz-on ink for the sentiment. That is my favorite so far. I really love making shape cards and now with the Gypsy I can do it so much easier!!!

Let's see...just for fun, I ask you to leave me a comment on this post with a link to a shape card you have made. If you haven't ever made one, give it a try. But if not you can still leave me a comment anyway, cause I really love your comments. They brighten any day!

Hope you enjoy.

Oh and don't forget to see the amazing post directly under this one to check out a new Challenge Blog... You wouldn't want to miss that!

Congratulations Card - Turtle with Hearts

Here's my second Gypsy card. I remember a while back seeing on www.craftingwithcristina.com a layout she made using this cute turtle from Create a Critter and she had taken out the circles and replaced them with hearts. So I decided to try that, because I love turtles and I wanted to do that one since I saw hers. So I hid the circles and added in the hearts in these two sizes. So cute. I really love how this cut turtle turned out. I just added some grass and embossed the yellow paper and then added those buttons. Pretty simple. Oh and I totally am in love with how I can just lay out my papers on the mat to match my Gypsy layout perfectly. And now this turtle is saved so I can make it any time I want to again. Gee what did I do before my Gypsy!

Oh I have 22 more posts to be made just from stuff I made before the craft fair...so I will try to mix some things in between them so you don't get sick to death with Christmas.

New Home Card - Very FIRST Gypsy Card!!!

Awesome news....as my readers know I have been working my tail off for a craft fair that was yesterday. I mean I really was spending nearly all my free time the past many many weekends making as much as I could. I am really proud to say that it went very well, and even considering I had the worst location at the craft fair, I did great! I made enough to get my Gypsy finally and I even have some money left to do other things with. I feel very happy about this. The mini notebooks I was making were a HUGE hit. I had 102 with me and came home with maybe 10. Other than that I sold cards, lots of cards. None of my quilled art work sold at all but I will list it on Etsy...and I can always use it for gifts now that it is all framed nicely.

Anyway...I came home and I played with my Gypsy...first I had to update it and all that jazz. Then I watched all 9 of Christina's videos on the Gypsy Series at www.creationswithchristina.com. I highly suggest you watch her videos. Just go to her blog and click on video series and then you will see her Gypsy Series. Once I watched all 9 I pretty much know how to do everything I need to do on my new toy! I love it, and I am grateful for her video!

So onto my first Gypsy card. Some of you know I had made shaped cards without a Gypsy by creating my hinges, but of course being able to do it with welding is much better. So I decided my first card would be a shape card. I used this little house from Create a Critter, from one of the accessory buttons. I just love it. I made it to fit a 5.5x5.5 envelope. I welded and the two houses together, hid the contour on the back side of the house so it wouldn't cut out the etch marks. Then I cut another front of the house so there wouldn't be the flat side. I cut another house without the etch marks and just trimmed the side off to go onto the inside layer. I did the layers so I hid some of the cuts with the hide contour so that I could get my roof a different color and the heart and so forth. It was so stinking easy to lay these pieces on the mat and know exactly where they would cut. I love that. No more messed up sizes.

I made some punched out flowers for the window box, and I placed the white paper on the inside so that the window would appear white from the front. I drew the black lines there. Then I felt that it was missing something around the window, to make it prettier, so I just punched using my normal hole punch a whole bunch of circles and glued them around the window...I LOVE how that turned out. It just makes the window pop to me. The roof I felt needed something too, so I cut those thin strips of pink paper and attached it and then just used a lot of pink bling to further decorate it and a little stitching with my white gel pen. For my sentiment I just wanted it on the pink paper and I added that beneath the window.

On the inside I added a gift card pocket. I like the light pink house layer inside to make the back of the card more sturdy. I really adore how this turned out and I cannot believe how easy it really was. I hope you enjoy....