More Christmas gifts.

 I have a couple of friends at work that I try to make something for each year.  I made a small box out of the CTMH Artiste cartridge to put a small Christmas ornament in that I bought for each while on vacation in Vermont this year.

Then, I made each of them a set of 4x4 cards and envelopes and the box to keep them in.  The box I made using my Envelope Punch Board.  Then decorated the outside of each the same way.

The base of each card set is the same color, I just did

each card differently.

 

 

 

I thought they came out rather cute.  Hope they like them!

Another Christmas gift for my mother

I've shared so things in the past that I've made for my mother. I try to make them very tactile for her because she looks at them over and over again.  Each time, she finds something that she didn't notice before and that makes it new again.

The book came from the Close to My Heart Artiste cartridge.  Most of the items inside came from the same cartridge or CTMH Art Philosophy.  Other cartridges from Cricut that were used are: Lacy Labels, Elegant Edges and Botanicals.

 Inside the card with the dove:

 

 

 Inside the heart card:

 

 The card on the left is one of my favorite 'little' cards to make.  It opens up

and shows what's inside.  Sorry for the glare there, it's a Bible verse.

 

It's nothing really elaborate, but it does give her pleasure.



Gift Card Holder

Here's a simple gift card holder that I made for a couple of my bosses.

 

The template for the card is found of

Close to My Heart's Artiste cartridge.

I think the label and frame if from the same cartridge,

but it's possible it might be from Cricut's Elegant Edges.

 

 

Now, while you can leave the 'card holding' area free standing

I decided to stick it down to the back side.  (These are for guys, so

I kept it pretty simple.

 

I added another label inside (Cricut's Lacy Labels cartridge) to sign, and I

added a small Christmas tree for decor.

 

The I used the Envelope punch board to make an

envelope to go with them.  And I embossed their names

on the outside of the envelopes.

 

Simple enough.

I've been super busy.....

Well, I've been super busy since I last posted.  Trying to get ahead of Christmas crafts.  Some I can share with you right now, some will have to wait until after Christmas.

I decided to make some gift tags and a couple of cards.  First the tags, there are a couple of different kinds.  Some small ones to attached to gifts, and the others are a bit bigger to add a note if you like.  And a couple of them have the envelopes incase that is your preference.  Heads up:  I'm sorry for the quality of the photos, for some reason I couldn't get a good focus on these.

 

These are 3x3 cards

These have the envelopes....

And these next two are 4x4 cards with envelopes



I see a zombie and some ghosts

 

Here are the ghosts that I promised.  I got the idea off the internet and

these are pretty darn easy to make.  It called for white bridal paper bells,

cheesecloth and some black paper.  You assemble the bells per instructions,

cut out the eyes and mouth out of the black paper and drape with

cheesecloth.  I added the tea lights underneath to help

with the effect.  I thought they came out really cute.

 

 

And here's the Zombie from the Movable Monsters on the

Cricut craftroom site.

 



Weekend full of this and that.....

It's been a busy weekend and I've managed to complete several projects with various themes.  First up, the last card of the ones that a friend asked me to make for her.

My second attempt at a 'swing card'.  I think it came out pretty cute.  My friend was pleased with all the cards that I had made for her, plus 2 extras that I took along in case she wanted to 'change' some out.

 

Next up, Halloween decorations. We're decorating at our office and I was able to whip up a few things to hang around.  I've got one more thing that I made, I'll have to take pictures after I set it up to let you see.

The witch came off of the Movable Monsters cartridge

that Cricut has.  I purchased the abbreviated version thru the Cricut Craftroom.

I just realized I made a zombie too and forgot to take a picture of it.

 

These skeletons are cute, I did three and I'm going to dangled them from something to

that they hang.

And of course, where's Halloween without spiders.

 

The project that I managed to finish up is

our Christmas cards this year.

 

There are 2 mains ones, that I did several of, plus a single

card.

 

I thought this came out really cute.  I saw a video over on Youtube

 the other day showing how to do this how to do this pinwheel and I just

fell in love with it. The video is by 'stampwithtami' if you want to

give it a 'look-see'.  It's really not that hard.

 

This one is the single card:

 

 

Plus I have another friend who has a

birthday this week, so I did a quick card

for her.

 

I thought it came out pretty cute.

 

OK, I'm tired, later!

 

Birthday cards for a co-worker

I had a co-worker as me the other day if I would make her some hand-made birthday cards for her.  I told her I would.  Her only request was that at least one of them had to have pearls on it. (inside family story).  She asked for 6 cards and I got 5 of them made this past weekend.....one to go. But I thought I'd share those that I've completed so far.

 

This one flips up to show Happy Birthday inside. (with pearls on the outside)

 

This one opens from the middle to display Happy Birthday (additional one with pearls)

Opens to the right, and I took strips of paper and wove them to

make the background.

I love this card shape, I've used it before and just think it's so cute.

 

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One with a flower and rhinestones

 

Hope she will be pleased with these.

New craft room

I took some time off last Friday to do a few things around the house.  The main project was to move ALL of my craft stuff to one room.  Most of my card making supplies was in the office room.  As crafts do, it grew and grew ultimately requiring more space. 

I also have knitting supplies and sewing items.  I felt it was time to create a dedicated area in the house.  Which meant moving some (HEAVY) exercise equipment out of a small bedroom into the rec room and moving all my other needs into that small bedroom.  I was able to do a lot of it myself, but honey THANKS for helping with that treadmill!

Here's the result:

Not too bad huh?  I was able to utilize the closet space also for lots of storage and organizing.  But I forgot to take a picture of it for you.

Also, since this room is upstairs hubby thought I might need a little heat.  He found this small space heater that does the job.  That way I don't have to heat up the whole upstairs area when I just in this one room.  It's really cute, looks like a small burning wood stove when I turn it on.  And the cat is fascinated with the flickering light on the wall behind it.

Simple cards

 I made some quick cards this week for my mother to use. These first

ones are 4x4 inches in size.  I made the envelopes

to go along with them by using then Envelope Punch Board.

 These next ones are 3x3 inches in size and again, made the

envelopes to go along.