Happy New Year! 2011 Video Series Announcement

Happy New Year my crafting friends! I have been thinking about what my video series should be for 2011. What I have decided is to feature one cartridge a month. I know many of you have many cartridges just like me and they never get used!

So, for this new year, I am going to pull out some of my older cartridges and some of the newer ones that I haven't used yet and create my projects from those.

For January I will be using "Birthday Bash". I have 2 grandsons with birthdays in February and I would like to get their cards and birthday layouts ready to go in advance...if you can image that! So I won't be so rushed when their actual birthday arrives....as you can see, one of my new years resolutions is to be PREPARED this year for any special event! We will see how it goes!

If any of you have any special requests for a cartridge, and I have it, I would be happy to feature it during a month. Please leave me a note and I will do my best to feature it for you. Also, if you have a special type of card or project you need help with, let me know and I will try to feature something during the month for you.

I want this blog to be a help to you creating your special gifts and cards for your loved ones...so lets work together and have a BLAST this year!

See you on January 1st with a card using Birthday Bash. By the way, the picture is of me and my Christmas present from my husband! Isn't she cute! Her name is Sugar.

I hope you and your loved ones have a safe and Happy New Year!
Hugs,
CindyB

Merry Christmas!

I hope you and your family enjoy this holiday!

Hugs,
CindyB

My Annual Christmas Cookie Exchange Party

Hi Crafters! Last night, I hosted my annual Christmas Cookie Exchange party! We had a super time! Everyone brought an appetizers and we all exchanged cookies! Here are a few pictures from the event...

This is our group picture, I am on the far left.

This is a picture of the table with all the cookies! Wow! They look yummy!

Here is the Italian Cream Cake I made for dessert!
Each year I make something for everyone to take home, this year I made 2 items. This is a cupcake baked in a mason jar, topped with chocolate filling and white icing. I decorated the jars using PTI stamps and cut the scallop and circle using my Cricut.



The 2nd gift I made is a set of gift tags in a small gift box. The tags were cut with my Cricut and decorated with PTI stamps. The gift box was also cut with the Cricut and decorated with PTI stamps.

I hope you enjoyed a few of my photos from a really fun event!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!
CindyB

Episode 20 - Christmas Tree Card

Hi Crafters! Well, I have had a busy week, and next week will be just as busy...but I wanted to get my Christmas cards completed this weekend.

This Christmas card is made using my gypsy and my Imagine. The video is a little long, but I wanted to show you a technique to flood fill an image when using your gypsy. I hope you enjoy!








You can find the gypsy file Here

Thanks for stopping by today and have a wonderful weekend!
Hugs,
CindyB

MIA for a few days!

Sorry, I am going to MIA for a few more days. I have taken a new position at work and I am traveling quite a bit. I hope to have something to post this weekend! Thanks for your continued support of my blog!

Hugs,
CindyB

Someone stole my wreath off my front door!

Can you believe it! Someone stole my wreath right off my front door last night! So, if you make the holly wreath in my previous post, watch out! You need to put under lock and key!

Apparently it is in high demand!

I live in a really safe neighborhood and my house was all lite up last night with Christmas lights! I just can't believe someone would do that!

So now I will have to make another one! I'm not sure if I have the time, but I loved it so much...I will have to just make the time!

Hugs,
CindyB

Episode 19 - Holiday Wreath

Hi Crafters! Well, I am finally back...I have just been so busy these past few weeks...hopefully things will get a little less crazy.....anyway, today I am kicking off my Holiday series..creating Holiday Home decor and other items for you.

Today's project is a Holiday Wreath. I originally saw this idea on one of the Custom Crops video's which you can view Here.

I decide to expand on their idea a bit, and create a gypsy file for ease of cutting and also adding a score line to each holly leaf. Adding the score line really save a lot of time, by not having to score each leaf on a score board.

So...here is the video..its a bit shaky as I held the video camera most of the time..., hope you enjoy!





You can find the gypsy file Here

Have a wonderful weekend!

Oh, a very long week

Hi crafters! Well, as you see, I don't have a project today! I have been in Las Vegas all week on a business trip. I am really ready to play this weekend...so I should have something to share very soon.

Hope you all are having a wonderful start to your weekend!

Hugs,
CindyB

Christmas Card

Hi Crafters! Well, today I don't have a video! I know 2 weeks in a row!!! I have been super busy at work, matter of fact out of town most of this week...and I will be out of town next week also....but I wanted to have something for you to view this weekend! So here is a card I made using the Christmas Card cartridge and Winter Frolic.
The card base is cut at 4.00 and the layer is cut at 3.85, both are from the Christmas Card cartridge.


The Tree is from the Winter Frolic cartridge, and cut at 3.12. I cut the shadow and the layer at the same size. The oval is also from the same cartridge, it is cut at 13.00 ( this is so large because it is a layer on this cartridge) If you use a oval from another cartridge, then the size wouldn't be as large.

I inked around the edges of the layer and oval and added some bling to the christmas tree.
The sentiment stamp is from Papertrey ink.

If you would like the Gypsy file you can find it Here

Have a wonderful weekend!
Hugs,
CindyB

CJToo DT project - Thankful

Hi Crafters! Today is another fantastic day over at CJToo's!

This is a Thanksgiving Day page layout that I plan to use this year. The theme this week is Thankful, and I am Thankful for my family.



The paper for my layout is from DCWV The Autumn Splendor Stack.
I am using the Thanksgiving cartridge, cutting the pie at 2 3/4 and the cornucopia at 2 inches, and the words Gather Together is cut at 3 inches .

The large square scallop is cut at 11 inches using the Storybook cartridge.

Make sure you stop by CJToo's blog and check out the other DT members!

Have a wonderful day!
Hugs,
CindyB