Cricut Card

Sometimes I get very frustrated with my Cricut...other times I love it!! This is one of the "love it" times!

Halloween Pumpkins

I used my cricut to cut my stencil for this years halloween pumpkin. This is the coffee cup that is on the "lyrical letters" cartridge (I believe that's correct!).

I set my cricut to cut this at about 4.5 inches as it was a pretty small pumpkin.

I loved the way it turned out though!

Party Crackers

This is a fun project that can be modified to fit any occasion. They make wonderful goodies for special trick or treaters!

For this project you will need the following:

1 empty toilet paper roll
1 6 1/2 X 12 sheet of designer paper
2 1/2 X 8 inch strips of coordinating paper
tag punch
ribbon, cord, scissors, adhesive






Cut the toilet paper roll across the middle almost in half. Leave about 1/2 to 1 inch connected. Fill the tube with candy, confetti, novelties, money, whatever!! (Don't forget to fill before wrapping!)






Wrap the 6 1/2 X 12 sheet of paper around the tube, so the paper sticks off the tube for the ends. In other words, the length of the tube and the length of the paper go the same direction.




Squish the ends closed and tie with the cord. You can skip the cord and just tie with ribbon but I find it easier to tie it with the cord first.













Wrap the thinner pieces of paper around the ends for accent.










Make a tag and embellish however you want and you are done!

Easy-Cheesy!

Stamped Cookies

You see.....this is why I love stamping so much!!

I was making cookies to take camping and after I had them cut out and laid out nicely on the cookie sheet I thought....why not.

So I went down to the craft room and picked out some stamps I thought would look great on cookies....washed them very well and stamped the cookies before baking.

I used this recipe, which is great for this type of cookie as it doesn't spread while cooking.

toes, toes, toes

My sister came from the east coast for a visit so of course she, my daughter, and I had to go have pedicures!!! These are the pictures I took. I can't wait to scrap them. I'm going to start with an 8X10 digital page and then put that on to a 12X12. I'll post the results!!

Birthday Card

I made this card for one of my friends. I used Stampin Up stamps, paper, and brads.

I cut the tag by hand and cut the base with my cricut.

I love all the white showing....makes it look clean!

Page Maps

If you're like me you sometimes get stuck for a really great idea for a scrapbook layout.

Here's a website by Becky Fleck I found that has hundreds of layout "maps". Unlike a real map, you don't have to follow it exactly to get where you want to go.

I printed out a bunch of the maps and plan on taking them to my church's scrapbook overnighter tonight.

Just click on the link below to access all the wonderful layouts she has in her archive.

Page Maps