On a roll

I am really on a roll, 2 projects and it’s only the 1^st week of January!!!! This project also came from SVGCUTS.COM. Ok right up front they do give you a video you can watch and walks you through these projects…. And boy did I need it! I wish they were on paper so I could go back and work at my own pace. This book was a bit harder for me; ok A LOT harder for me. I am not sure I will try this one again anytime soon.  There are 5 projects in this file so I am sure I will find one I love in it too.  Customer Service at SVGCUTS.com was amazing! I had lost part of a file after I downloaded it I emailed them and they opened the file up again for me and told me if I ever needed it again just let them know they would be happy to open it for me anytime. Now that is great for someone like me who has computer issues on a regular basis. Let me know if you have tried their files and what you think.

Blues Clues Chair

A friend sent me this picture and asked if I could make a cut file out of it. She wanted to make birthday invites with the Blues Clues Chair and this is what I came up with. It isn’t perfect but I think it will work nicely. As always if you would like the file I can e-mail it to you. I just don’t want to mess with setting up an account to post them to. Hope everyone has a wonderful week. It is in SCAL2.

1st post of 2011

Some of the cricut things we did for Christmas gifts. My youngest son Mitch wanted to do these Call of Duty Black Op window stickers for his and his friend’s cars. We used shelf contact paper to test cut them and then went and got the more expensive cricut vinyl.  Mitch put the ones we cut out of the shelf contact paper on his car “just to see how it looked”, they stuck well and looked good. In the end the shelf contact paper worked better than the cricut vinyl for what we were doing. They have been on the cars in the snow, rain, wind and crazy freezing weather. He put one on my car too, I just took it off today (totaly not my style). It was stuck well but came off easy enough. He also made his girlfriend a cupcake for her car but I didn’t get a picture of it yet.

I also made this T-n-T sticker for Terry (hubby) and Travis (oldest son) for their pro fisherman logo.

Halloween

 I had a little time to play today, these are all cased but I really don't remember where I got them all from but I love them! I was going to play for the rest of the day and track down where I CASED these from but, I just got a call, my oldest son has lost the only set of keys to his truck in the lake so I am driving 3-4 hours to pick him up and take him to the Dodge shop some place in Texas and hope they can make a key with the vin #. Wish me luck and I hope everyone has a great rest of the weekend

Texas Trip Scrapbook

Front of album

Back of album

My boys are such good sports when it comes to giving me great pictures for my books.Here is part of my Texas trip scrapbook, I still have a bit of embellishing to do but I wanted to share it with you. We had such a great time and I just love our yearly family vacations. Even though the boys are all adults they still look forward to spending a week all together. I hope we can keep this tradition going forever.

The license plates come from work, we get a lot of trades and end up with a ton of plates so I am always looking for ideas to use them.

Fun new blog

I am still working on my vacation scrapbook and will have some of it to show you later today. If I get out of the pool long enough to take the pictures.
I just wanted to pass this blog site on to you. If you use Sure Cuts A Lot or if you are thinking about getting it this just might push you right to it. I found this blog today and I will never have to buy another nestie again. Penny Duncan has done all the work for us and she has posted them on her blog. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Nice to be done with this little gift. I think it turned out very well and I know it will be loved by the bride. I could not go to bed until the wee hours because I just couldn't stop working on it. lol I will be working on our Texas trip book tomorrow. And here is the inspiration picture, isn’t she just a beautiful bride. I cut the boots with my cricut and an SVG made in Ink scape.

Class of 2010

I have been working on a scrapbook for my youngest son's graduation. I still have some work to do on it but this is a good start.

Mitch didn't go to 7th grade he had chemo that year. He had just finished chemo when he went back to school for the 8th grade (his hair had just started to grow back).

I used cricut design studio and sure cuts a lot to design all the shapes and cut them with the cricut. I am so thankful this is the last child we have in school. I am looking forward to NEVER doing homework again!

Youngest son's graduation.

I have been such a bad blogger as of late. I have been busy and will have some scrapbook pages to post very soon. I am working on a scrapbook for our youngest son's graduation next month. I also have to make a bunch of these cupcake wrappers. You can find a bunch of SVG's for the cricut Here.

I have done my first digital scrapbook for my last Make-A-Wish shopping spree and when that comes in the mail from snapfish I will share it too. Snapfish donated 100 digital books to Make-A-Wish  I made 2 copies, one for my wish kiddo and another one for the wish office. I only had to pay the freight. I still don't think I am a digital type gal. I am making a personal one for my in-law's for Christmas because I think they will get a kick out of the book and they are so hard to shop for.  I was going to use my Stampin up design studio but it cost a lot more to print the book through Stampin Up.
If anyone has ideas for graduation pages or party… really anything for graduation. I would love to hear about it.

Not back but a little better

I still can’t really think of things I really want to make so I cased this bird house and I think it is cute. The original was made with the mini stampin up sizzix die. This one is not that small and was cut with an SVG cut. I will fill the birdhouses with candy and give as a gift. 

The card was fun; the shoe is from the cridut wedding cartridge. I like the easel cards so thought the shoe was perfect.

Quick answer to a question

I just wanted to answer a question that was asked on a post. This coffee sign is a SVG cut I found here. I have it hanging in my office at work over my coffee pot and I just love it. Hope you all enjoy it.

When people see it in my office they ask me to make them one too. Just let me know what color.

Top note tag set

I had a great time making this today, I thought I got the tutorial from this blog but looking back at her work I can’t find it. Sooooo I am not sure where it came from. I hate to leave you hanging so if anyone knows where the original is please leave me a post and I will add it here. Anyway you should check out the link above this gal is so talented. I always find great ideas there.

Butterflies for a friend.

A friend of mine asked me to keep my eyes open for open butterflies. I found these and a few others that can be cut with the SCAL and Cricut. These are just proto types and won’t be used. I just wanted to see how they looked cut out. The flower on the blue card is from the Stampin Up design studio. I used it in the SCAL program and had the Cricut cut it out. This is my first try at converting a design studio image to SCAL and it worked great. I love it when things work the first time round.

Smore Birthday

Oh I know you were expecting another black and white card. I will make one for tomorrow because I wouldn’t want to disappoint anyone. Lol This is the under the stars set from Stampin Up. It is one of my favorite sets and I tend to use it a lot. I made the clouds by sponging a little ink around the oval scallop I punched for the birthday sentiment. I used liquid appliqué for the middle of the marshmallow and heated it until it looked a little burned.