Cricut Halloween treat bags

Hello everyone and Happy Halloween,

The clocks have gone back an hour but my body clock has not yet registered the fact so I awoke at my usual time and have a precious additional hour to my day. Instead of starting the decorating we have planned for today, I thought I'd slip in another post to share some of the Halloween treat bags I made for the smaller children who will call here tonight:-

I used a toadstool stamp from my stash and my Cricut Wild Card and Paper Doll Dress up cartridges and just added a few googly eyes. Inside are some spooky jelly sweets and some chocolate biscuits along with an enormous scary spider plastic ring.

Thanks for looking.

Hugs,

Carol x

Baby card

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. I went to a Craft and Chat session yesterday and as 2 of the members had birthdays, we had lots of cake and other yummy goodies, so I'm trying to be good today. I was very tempted to buy more crafting stash, especially some of the gorgeous Christmas papers that are around this year, but I'm proud to say I resisted because I've promised myself that I will use up some of the gorgeous papers that I couldn't live without last year! I'm sure you know the feeling. I made up some Halloween treat bags for Sunday and I'll show them here once I've taken a photo.

Today, I'd like to share another card I made for the boxes of cards I mentioned in an earlier post:-



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This is a 5"x5" card using the lovely baby stamp from Lily of the Valley and some baby paper from my stash. I coloured with Copics and did a polka dot pattern for the hat and foot trim, and blankie.

Hope you have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by.

Hugs
Carol x

Cricut Cindy Loo card

Hello everyone,

I hope you had a good weekend and are refreshed for the week to come. I'm still working on my box of cards but I thought I'd share a Cricut card today:-

This is an A5 card using the Cindy Loo cartridge, and the scalloped borders, flowers and sentiment are all on there. The only additional things I used were a PTI leaf stamp, some gems for the flower centres and my sewing machine. There isn't a shadow feature for the sentiment on this cartridge, so I cut it in black and offset it a little to give the effect of a shadow.

Hope you have a great week,

Hugs,

Carol x

LOTV?PTI card

Hello everyone,

I don't know where the week went but its Friday already and the start of another weekend! My son has just got a new job and I'm cooking a family meal tonight to celebrate, but I just wanted to have an hour out of the kitchen. Before I settle down with a cup of tea, I'd like to share another card with you. I'm trying to make some little card gift packages for my daughter to sell at her school and like the card posted earlier in the week it is a 5 inch square card. I'm trying to cover a variety of occasions so the first one was Thank you and this one is Anniversary:-

I stamped the lower half of the card with PTI Background Basics: Hearts, in Color box warm violet ink and then covered the edge with lilac stitched ribbon. I stamped the Lily of the Valley bunny image, cut it out with Labels Nesties and also cut a lilac mat to mount it on. The image was coloured with Copic markers and I inked the top of the panel with chalk ink to suggest sky. The butterfly was stamped with PTI Butterfly Dreams and I just stuck it down through the body of the butterfly to give it some dimension. The sentiment came from PTI Round and Round.

Have a great weekend and thanks for looking.

Carol x

PTI card

Hello everyone,

There was frost on the ground this morning but it is a crisp, sunny autumn day and I just love it. The colours are beautiful and the leaves will be falling soon. We have been having some work done in the house and the builder has had all the doors open so I have been freezing all week but the sunshine today has cheered me up and I am curling up to finish the book we have been reading for my reading group tonight (I'm always on the last minute, but honestly, if I read it too early in the month, I have forgotten half the characters before we come together to discuss it).

Anyway I would like to share I card that I made for the Passion for Papertrey autumn colour challenge. I made the card and then forgot to enter it. Duh!!

I used the Waltzing Mouse sentiment and frame stamp and masked off the perimeter before stamping the large dahlia and small leaf from PTI Delightful Dahlia, which I then coloured with Copic markers. As you can see, I am still working on my colouring skills! I cut the strips with the PTI ric-rac die.

Hope you are all having a good week.

Carol x

Cricut card

Hello everyone,

I hope you are having a good weekend and enjoying our autumn sunshine. I haven't had much time to craft this week because we have had visitors and we are also getting some work done on the house. This has meant wandering round the shops choosing tiles and bits and bobs to go in the room and its amazing how much time it all takes. Anyway, I thought I'd share a cricut card I made with the Walk in My Garden Cartridge at a Crab Apple Crafts workshop a couple of years ago now.

The sunflower reminds me of the gorgeous ones I've seen in a local garden recently. Have a lovely day, and thanks for looking.

Hugs,
Carol x

PTI Make and Take Day

Hello everyone,

I've finally got some time to tell you about the fabulous PTI Make and Take afternoon in Sheffield organised by Kate and Aimes over at Passion for Papertrey. Around 18 of us met up in a church hall and made some wonderful goodies designed by Kate and Aimes using PTI products. You can see the samples of what we made at http://apassionforpapertrey.blogspot.com/2010/10/make-and-take-day.html.

It was really good to meet up with fellow enthusiasts and put faces to the names of people I'd come across in blog land. Kate and Aimes put a lot of work into organising the day and had provided yummy refreshments and a lovely take home bag of Papertrey goodies that will be very useful in future projects. Everyone was very friendly and it was good to chat with them about what they do craft wise. A card swap had been arranged and these are the cards I made to swap:-

A simple card using PTI Snowflake Serenade and 2009 Holiday Tag Collection with fresh snow ink and dotty organza ribbon.

The Christmas tree and leaf corners came from PTI Believe and were coloured in with Copic markers. The frame was hand drawn using a cutting frame as a stencil, the Peace stamp came from Kaisercraft, and I'm not sure where I got the red dotty ribbon.

This card was embossed with the cuttlebug swirls folder and the gap at the end was filled with a scallop border trimmed to fit. I used the PTI mat stack 3 die to cut a mat from cream card and stamped it with some snowflakes from PTI Snowfall in creamy brown chalk ink. The focal point was from 2009 Holiday Tag Collection mounted onto a brown mat cut from a scallop circle punch.

This card used the PTI Delightful Dahlia stamps and dies. I embossed the flowers with Chocolate ink and added a brown button centre tied with some brown leather jewelery cord. The frame was stamped with Home and Heart wooden stamp.

This used a cuttlebug folder and a scoreboard to emboss the lines at the bottom. I cut red card from the PTI mat stack 3 die and stamped it with polka dot basic stamps. The circular focal point was the tree tag from 2009 Holiday Tag Collection, which was over stamped with the merry and bright stamp from the same set. A little rustic cream button twine finished it off.

Grateful thanks go to Kate, Aimes and Caryn for organising the day, and thanks too, to all the friendly people I met who made it such an enjoyable day. I came back over the beautiful hills from Sheffield in glorious evening sunshine to be greeted at home by my lovely daughter, Laura, who had visited whilst I was out  and welcomed me back with a glass of wine and and a scrumptious dinner. Days don't get much better than that do they?

Hugs,
Carol x

Christmas Card

Hello everyone,

I hope you are all well and looking forward to the weekend. I am off to a Papertrey Ink Make and Take afternoon in Sheffield on Sunday and I'm really looking forward to it. It is being organised by Kate and Aimes from A Passion for Papertrey and it will be so good to put faces to names of some of the lovely people I have come across on the blogs. I have been busy making cards for the card swap we are going to have and I hope to share them with you next week. In the interim, I'd like to share a really quick Christmas card I made with materials from Craftwork Cards and PTI.

I used a 6 inch square card and embossed it with a sizzix dotty texture plate. I then added a strip of pearlescent dotty paper from Craftwork Cards and stitched it down, before adding three pearlescent poinsettia flowers with card candy middles, down the centre. I then stamped and embossed the circle sentiment with a PTI 2009 Holiday Tag stamp, and punched it out with a scalloped circle punch.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Hugs

Carol x

Cricut/PTI Christmas Card

Hello everyone and I hope you had a creative day on World Cardmaking Day yesterday. I couldn't get inky because I was having a great time at the singing workshop in Cumbria, but I had felt I was missing out so I got my supplies out first thing this morning and came up with this card. As it has squares on it (do rounded squares count?), I thought I might have it as a second entry into the Passion for Papertrey 'hip to be square' challenge. I am also going to enter it for the Sweet Stampin Challenge to use die cuts.

I used PTI kraft card as a base then I used my Cricut Mini Monograms cartridge to cut out the letters for JOY in PTI sweet blush, berry sorbet and ripe avocado card. I discarded the letters for use in another project and used the negative space to cut 3, 6.5 cm squares. I backed the squares with PTI text-style polka dot parade paper, stamped and embossed a little snowflake on the centre of the O, and then rounded the edges. I punched 3 little tags in the same colours, stamped the sentiment from PTI Snowfall, and attached them to each square. I stuck the squares onto the kraft card, raising the centre square for some dimension, and finished it off by inking the edge in fresh snow ink and adding some knotted ripe avocado ribbon.

That was fun!

Thanks so much for your lovely comments, I really do appreciate them.

Have a great day,

Carol x

Cricut notebook

Hello everyone and welcome to another Friday and the start of October. I can't believe how the year has gone by so fast, and now all our family birthdays have passed, it will be Christmas before I know it.

We are off to Cumbria tomorrow with our choir for a music workshop and then we shall be singing in a concert in aid of a cancer relief charity. I love the Lakes in October, and we may get out into the fresh air in the afternoon, so I am keeping my fingers crossed for good weather.

I'd like to share a gift shopping list I've made using my Cricut Cindy Loo and Wild Card cartridges.

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I scored some dark green card to cover the notebook and matted some Brenda Pinnick patterned paper along with a strip of card that went through the SU scallop border punch. I then used a machine zigzag stitch to to hold it all together and cut 2 different leaf boughs from Cindy Loo and the sentiment from Wild Card and outlined them with white faux stitching. I strait stitched a mat onto the bottom half  and added the shapes so that they overlapped each other. I finished it off with a PTI flower that I die cut and stamped from Beautiful Blooms 2 and added a tiny button that I knotted some twine through. I put some magnetic strip on the back so that the shopping list can be left on the fridge. I want to try this in some other colourways because it will make a lovely extra to add to presents.

I hope you have a great weekend and find time to get inky.

Thanks for looking,

 Carol x