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!

More Christmas cards

Here are three more "trial" cards. The santa card started out as a gift tag that was a free make and take at the last scrapbook convention.

The nativity is actually one of the free fonts that I've gotten from dafonts.com

I really like the christmas tree but hubby said "no". It took him too long to realize it said Merry Christmas.

Oh, well, back to the drawing board.

Christmas Cards

Well, once again I've fallen behind in keeping this blog current! I've also fallen behind in figuring out what to do about Christmas cards.

Here is the start of what will (hopefully) be a short process and I counting on the card-making muse to visit my house and inspire me!

All of these were cut with my Cricut using Sure Cuts a Lot software.

For the tree I used my Cri-Kuts gel pens in my Cricut and then cut the tree out.

These were all pretty easy but not really what I was looking for. Guess I'll have to keep trying!

SVG Files

Well, I really love my new Sure Cuts A Lot but have discovered a sad, sad fact. I have no designing talent!

But I am pretty good at searching out the people who are. My latest find is an extremely talented lady from Sweden.

If you are in need of some new files to cut be sure to check out her website.

Monica's Creative Room

She has some really beautiful frames to download, among other things.

Skin Diver

This is my dad's birthday card. He has always loved SCUBA diving. I used the Cricut cartridge H2O. The water is actually pre-textured paper and I just love it.

There was some paper piecing here but not a lot.

The "happy birthday" is a rub on.

Sure Cuts A Lot

This is what Cricut should have been! I bought this program because I've gotten tired of the exclusivity that Cricut has started. I don't like being told "look at this great new cartridge, but you can only buy it on the third Sunday in June when the moon is full!".

Sure Cuts A Lot (SCAL) is simply a program that you install on your computer. It looks a lot like Design Studio but more. It will cut any font on your computer (and we all know how many free fonts there are out there!) using your cricut machine. You can also import images files and the program will detect the lines in the image and it will cut those also.

There are also a lot of web sites that sell images, pre-made and ready to cut. You can buy one, two or 10, just buy what you need.

I am loving this program so far. It does so much more than Cricut and Design Studio, well worth the money! You can buy this program just about anywhere. Amazon sells it. I bought mine from Craft Edge.

Virtual Stamp Night

Geez!! Can you believe that I'm actually posting something here? Life sort of got in the way but I wanted to post the cards I am making during Splitcoaststampers Virtual Stamp Night.

This is one of the ways I get new ideas and pull myself out of a "stamper's slump".