Creating of a different kind

well I had hoped to do some paper creating this past weekend. However, I did some creating of a different kind. I have been re-organizing my craft room yet again, still trying to get it just right and fully functional. I hope to post some pics in the next couple of days, of course that is if the heat breaks long enough to keep me from continuing to melt. I have started a digital scrap book using Creative Memories, Memory Manger and Storybook Creator. I hope to post some sample pages. I would like to give a shout out to the best CM consultant in the whole Wide World: Sandy Anderson.
http://www.mycmsite.com/sites/sandyanderson

a little about me

Had a wonderful weekend at the lake house with family. I hated to leave but also needed to come back to work so I can pay for my craft addiction. Speaking of which.... My new cuttlebug and folders came in the mail today. So watch for some interesting posts using this. In addition I came back from the long weekend to find that I have my very first follower. I am sincerely flattered.

Submission for MPS Color Challenge

My Pink Stamper issued a color challenge using pink, green, brown and orange. Here is my submission. I used Stretch your Imagination cricut cart. I cut AUTUMN at 9 inches and then the shadow. I cut the tree at 3.5 inches. I used a variety of creative memories paper. I added stickles to the pink ribbon and used dimensionals behind AUTUMN and the tree. I did need fine point adhesive to work with the little leaves and tweezers. ENJOY!!!

Happy Fathers Day or any day for that matter

A card is nice but isn't candy even better. Rather than make a card for fathers day I decided to make a candy bar wrapper instead. I used the Paisley Cricut cart
(pg 35)for the frog. I used Every Day paper doll Cart (pg. 48) for the Hand.
I always learn something when playing with my Cricut. I believe I cut the shapes at 3.25 inches and that was for the larger candy bars.

Did freezer paper stencils with John and Emma this past weekend. The T-Shirts came out super cute. ( as does everything we do ) Anyway couple of lessons learned the hard way.

1) Freezer paper and wax paper ARE NOT THE SAME THING! You need freezer paper.
2) freezer paper sticks to the Cricut mat better if the shinny side is up. But when you iron with a Dry iron shinny side is down.
3) make sure your paints are well stirred and a little on the thicker side.
4) when doing names be sure you use the flip function on the Circut and you also need to spell the name backwards as well.
5) Freezer paper is pretty cheep so don't be afraid to experiment. I also use regular white printer paper when experimenting to get just the right size for other projects. However this method is not useful in setting cutting depth and pressure for different kinds of paper

Additional Pictures from Mothers day wine charms.

In early May Emma and I created Wine charms for Emma's mom for mothers day. Her are some images of the charms and of the packaging. We used a cricut Expression with cartridge Bags, tags, and boxes for the packaging and we used doodlecharms for the shapes. In the jewelry section of our local craft store we purchased some hoop earrings. We used Grafix paper (AKA Shrinky dink paper) to create the charms. Be sure you use the multi cut function on your cricut when cutting this material.
The grafix paper will dull your cutting blade pretty quickly. I would say you only get about half as many cuts. So if shortly after doing anything will Grafix paper your cricut starts acting funny. ie: tearing the paper, replace your blade.