Mistakes are good

This is not quite the card I had imagined in my head. It was supposed to be straight, everything lined up perfectly. But, since we don't live in a perfect world, my matting ended up crooked...not a lot, but enough to be noticeable.

So when your mats are cock-eyed, put everything at an angle and who can tell??!

The topiary was cut with my cricut and I used Flower Soft to give it color and dimension. You can buy it most anywhere or online at flower-soft.com.

The stamped saying and ribbon are from Stampin Up.

Nativity Gift Tags

I purchased my first SVG file. It was such a good deal! I bought it at SVGCuts.com for only 6.99. It's called O Holy Night and it has the entire nativity...Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus, 3 wise men, 2 shepards, animals, manger, and different sayings.

I've made some gift tags with it so far.

I ran the tags through my Cuttlebug with a snowflake background embossing folder.

The multi-colored parts on the wise man is actually shiny paper and the angel wings are done up in fun flock.

This has quite a bit of paper piecing but it comes with great instructions and a full color picture to show the final product.

Birthday Card

A quick and simple birthday card for the person who really likes green!!

The string for the balloon is scrappers floss and the white highlight is a white sharpie.

The stamp and ribbon is from Stampin Up!

The balloon and white portion where cut on my cricut.

Cuttlebug

I used my Cuttlebug and the "under the sea" dies and embossing folders. This was my first attempt to line up the die and use the embossing folder too.

I actually think the background paper has stolen the show on this one.

I picked it up when we were camping this summer.

Mixer Card

Can you tell what my sister is getting for christmas? I cut this image with scal and my cricut. It's kind of hard to tell but the "for you" and the strips on the mixer and very shiny!! I pulled the shiny cardstock from a toy that my kids received.

Bow Easy

Have you heard of the bow easy tool? I just watched this video on Stamp TV and this is definitely one tool I am going to have to get!! I love the idea of being able to make perfect bows! It comes in two sizes; small, which will make good bows for cards and scrapbook pages and large, for packages and wreaths!!

Final Christmas Card

This is the card that hubby and I decided on for this year. This card has the sentiment printed with my Cricut using Cri-kit pens but that didn't work so well as the gel pens don't like the printed paper very much.

I just printed "merry christmas" on the paper with my printer, cut the tree and star with my Cricut and punched the christmas balls with a small hole punch.

You can't see it in the picture very well but the tree, star and christmas balls are all done with glitter paper.

Simple but we like it!