Ornament boxes

Yeah, that’s right! I made boxes for the ornaments! I was putting these ornaments with a personalized water bottle (stay tuned for that one!) in a gift bag, so I thought the ornament should be protected a bit.

Tags, Bags, Boxes, and More to the rescue!

I fired up my Gypsy and chose the square box. I made it as large as I could for a 12x12 mat. There was some open space so I figured instead of wasting paper I’d add some circle tags to use later. I will post those with the water bottles!

I cut the boxes and assembled them. I used the red tape for the adhesive, and I really like how strongly it holds. I haven’t purchased this in a store, but got some with some of my Cricut reward points one time. I like the stuff….very strong adhesive.

I had 12 ornaments so I chose 2 sheets of 6 papers from a DCWV stack I had picked up at Joann’s. The ornament fit in there perfectly. The box could not have been any smaller, for sure! I got lucky there! I should probably have inked the edges or something, but I'm not very good at that and half the time I end up making a mess instead of making a project look better. Perhaps that's one of the things I should work on for next year...inking edges (AND taking better photos...gotta get that camera working!!!)

Here are some of the boxes all stacked up. Nothing too fancy, but it’s just a little added touch.

Hope you enjoyed today’s project! Go and create something!

Lori

Best Wishes Card

This project was created for a wedding. I wanted to make a larger sized card . The card is from Art Philosophy. I used my Gypsy to weld the two “flourishes” together to make the top of the card. The sentiment is mounted on a Close To My Heart dimensional.

I wasn’t sure about these dimensionals when I initially heard about them, but I have really grown to like them. You choose the dimensional and then find the corresponding cut in the Cricut handbook. You cut the shape the size that is specified on the dimensional sheet. You can then stamp directly on the Cricut cut and then adhere that to the dimensional for a perfect fit! You now have a raised sentiment. The frame and “Best Wishes” are both CTMH stamps that are in the Art Philosophy bundle.

The inside heart was cut and then stamped with another CTMH stamp from the bundle.

You can see from the photo below that the heart is inside, but peeks through the cut-out on the front of the card.

Like I said above, I am really enjoying the CTMH dimensionals. They really give a project a neat look. Here’s a close-up of the sentiment on the dimensional.

Be sure to check back here on Wednesday for another crafty project! I'm trying to post on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Hopefully I can keep this up! Leave me a comment and let me know how you think I'm doing.

Go do something crafty!

Lori

“A” Cartridge Challenge

Earlier this week “dlbwright” posted on the Cricut message board a challenge to use the cartridges that we have. The first week was use any cartridge that you have that starts with the letter “A”. I thought this sounded like a great challenge, as I tend to buy and not use, so maybe this would help me discover some things on cartridges that I picked up and never used yet.

For “A” cartridges all I have is “Art Philosophy” and “Alphalicious”. I pulled out the Gypsy and got to work. “Art Philosophy” is new for me, and I’m sure I’m going to get a lot of use out of it, so I decided to create a card using MOSTLY “Alphalicious”. I have actually used this cartridge before on my daughter’s birthday invitation, but it’s not a cartridge that I use a lot.

The photo below is all of the cuts. The numbers are the dimensions on my Gypsy. The first thing I do when creating a card is open a new file in the Gypsy and create 2 layers. I design the card completely on the first layer and then copy each individual cut to the 2nd layer for cutting. I group “like” colors together so that I can lay out paper on the mat and cut everything with one pass through the machine.

So, the cuts:

Next time I will group those closer together to make it easier to see! (Learn by doing, right?!?)

So, we have the “You’re the Best” sentiment cut at 2.39 x 1.38. The scallop circle with #1 inside of it is cut at 1.66 x 1.38. The sentiment outline or shadow is cut in blue at 2.51 x 1.38. The white scallop circle is cut at 2.30 x 1.91. These cuts are all from Alphalicious. The pennants are cut from Art Philosophy and cut at 0.73 x 1.94.

Now, once I cut that I started to assemble everything and realized I had a white ribbon on a white background. Duh! Oh, well, I decided to ink around the scallop, but I had to make sure I didn’t ink into the area where the #1 would show through. I put the blue #1 scallop circle on the white scallop circle and made a few light pencil marks so that I knew where the boundary was. Then I inked the white scallop circle.

I layered everything up, using a dimensional foam adhesive to adhere the ribbon and a Zig pen to adhere the sentiment. I cut a yellow piece of cardstock at 4.0 x 5.25 because the card seemed to need something else. I ran that yellow paper through the Cuttlebug to give it some pizazz!

Here’s what I ended up with:

……and…….

It was a fun challenge and I’m already thinking of what I will do for the “B” challenge! If you’re interested in participating in the challenge go to THIS THREAD on the Cricut Message Board.

I hope you enjoyed this project! If you have any questions please leave a comment and I’ll do my best to answer them for you! If you don’t have a Gypsy, don’t worry! You can still do projects like this, you will just have to figure out the sizes for your cuts.

Enjoy your weekend and I’ll see you back here on Monday with more projects!

Celebrate!

I put this card together for a friend’s birthday card. We have been known on occasion to knock back a few martinis …. or wine …. or whatever …. so I thought this card would be kinda fun!

The card base is standard A-2 size, cut from green cardstock. I then cut a top layer from black cardstock slightly smaller to frame it up.

The “Celebrate” sentiment is cut from a green glittery paper. It is from the “Wild Card” cartridge. The martini glass it cut from lime green paper and silver “mirror” paper. The image comes from the “Jubilee” cartridge.

Both images were cut with my Gypsy, so I'm not sure of the sizes…sorry! I like to lay out the card on the Gypsy and see what will fit and how it will look. Then I separate the elements and try to get it all cut on one mat.

I used a white gel pen to doodle a bit and then stamped the “Happy Birthday” sentiment in black ink on the inside. I also put the lighter lime green paper that I used in the martini glass as a layer on the inside of the card.

I like how this one turned out. I actually wish I would’ve laid things out on the Gypsy so that I could’ve cut two of each image so that I ended up with 2 cards instead of one card and wasted paper! Oh well…live and learn, right!

Once again, I hope you enjoyed my project today. It feels good to be getting my craft on again!

Lori

Back at it….

Well, life has gotten in the way of doing things like crafting, but I think I’m getting back to it. This weekend I spent some time crafting and I have a few projects to share with you. I am going to post them one at a time, though, instead of all at once. Maybe it will make my blog seem more interesting for a week or so!

So, without any further ado….my first project.

I needed to create a “Congratulations” type card for a new baby. I really like doing A-2 cards. I know they’re standard size, and not very exciting, but I know I have enveloped that fit and I know I don’t have to check at the post office to see if there is any extra postage surcharge, so I tend to stick to that size!

The card base is A-2, so it’s cut at 5.5” x 8.5”. When you fold it you get 5.5” x 4.25”. For this project I used white cardstock from Staples. On top of that I have a pale yellow cardstock cut just slightly smaller than 5.5” x 4.25”. On top of that layer I have a print yellow paper that is cut at 5.25” x 4”.

The stroller image is from the Cricut cartridge “Stretch Your Imagination”. I used my Gypsy, so I’m not even sure what size it’s cut at. I used a white gel pen and a black pen to doodle on it a bit. I used a pop-dot type adhesive to make the stroller stand out a bit.

I used a stamp and black ink to stamp the sentiment. That left the entire inside for me to write my message.

And the final product is:

I hope you enjoy this little project! Take some time for yourself & do something crafty today!

Lori