I Won!

For the first time I entered a card into blog challenges. A week or so later I was surprised when I was reading new posts from the blogs I follow and all of a sudden I read my name and saw my card! I won!
This on its own was exciting as I've only recently gotten into blogging and this was the first card I entered for challenges.. so I sent an email to claim my prize and was told as that weeks winner I had the opportunity to be a guest design team member for the following week.

You can check out the post over at Anyone for Anya? About halfway down under this weeks challenge my card shows my take on Shabby Chic Christmas.

I used the shadow box card again, but this time made it larger.

I stamped the word background on blue paper, cut a lace design on the cricut in some shimmer white paper. A few pearls were added to the sides, and of course the image is coloured with copics.

If you would like the lacey cut file head over to The Scrapoholic and you can download it for free!

*Its the third one down called Scrolled Lace Mesh

Straying from the holidays

I havent used my cricut for so long. It sits on a shelf above my desk right in front of where I sit when I'm working on something. I look at it almost every day but the laziness in me thinks about hooking it up to the laptop (I use Sure Cuts A Lot) and clearing a spot on the desk for the paper to move freely. Needless to say I dont use the Cricut as often as I should.

The svg cuts the paper to the right size to add to the card, and cuts the flower petals as well as a hole in the center of each flower. I dont remember where I got this svg from. I've searched for free svg's and have a large collection, unfortunately I didnt organize them to remember where I found them.

I used a regular white card as the base and added the purple paper cut from the cricut to the front. The flower petals are cut so you can bend/fold them up to add dimenion. I used a copic marker for the yellow middle, then used sparkle embossing powder on the petals.

The stamp is from Whiff of Joy and I think she is so adorable. She's coloured with copics and I'm really pleased with how she came out. I think I'm starting to get better with shading and blending!



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Wedding Binder Follow-up

I had a chance to cut some of the bride svg's I talked about here and tried them out for the cover of the wedding binder. I ended up going with the bride with flowers. I cut the words and dress/flowers with a shimmery white that I think adds that special touch. To coordinate with the background paper I used light purple for the base of the bride.

I cut this sillhouette in the shimmery paper as well. I matted it on light purple but felt it was missing something so I added velum under that too.

I think this image is beautiful as well but the other worked for the binder project. I'm sure I'll find another project to use this one on.. and as I'm sure you've figured out, her wedding colour is going to be purple!

Wedding Preparation

My best friend is planning to get married in about a year. Loving everything DIY I offered (well almost insisted lol) to be the wedding planner.
I found a site with a great Wedding Organizer Set. You can download a few or all of the worksheets and put them in your own binder. I've seen packages in stores with similar information for $50-$100... So I figured my first wedding related DIY would be this organizer!

I'm going to take a regular three-ringed binder and put in all the printed worksheets. I found a few cute pictures and made a SVG files for the cricut. I'm going to play around with the images and papers to make a cover and I'll post pictures of what I've come up with.

Wedding Organizer Set

Bride
SVG contains two pieces show in black

Bride & Groom
SVG contains two pieces shown in grey and white

Bride with Flowers
SVG contains two pieces shown in black and grey

Shooting Stars!

A while ago I found a phrase I thought would be cute to put on the wall of a childs room. For New Years I spent the evening with my best friend and her new family. Baby Lily (3 1/2months) needed some decorations in her room and I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to use the phrase (Twink twinkle little star). And also a perfect excuse to use my new cricut expression!

The walls are greenish so we did the words in a dark blue and the stars yellow.. I'll post a pic soon if I can.
After applying the vinyl and admiring our work, my friend mentioned it would look nice with a shooting star as well. So of course I must get a shooting star for Lily! Today I searched for some inspiration and made a super cute design.
I'm still new at making svg images but thought I would share it.
If you use it for something I would love to see!

Shooting Star svg

Here is a single star incase you want to add a smaller one inside the big star.







**Feel free to use any of my files for your own personal use**