Lavender Sachet

When we were in France in the Spring, Tom bought me some lavender.  I dried it and used lavender oil to infuse it.  I can put it in soap, throw it in the bath, or just use it for sachets, which is what I did here.  I used mostly scraps to create the envelopes.  I used an envelope from almost every cartridge that I had to try these out.    I've made 20 so far and still have plenty of scraps and lavender to make more.  I think I will toss them into Christmas presents and into a few of my own drawers.  These are just a few.  

 

Cartridges used here: Wedding Solutions, Plantin Schoolbook, Walk In My Garden,Paper Pups

 and New Arrival

Fill with your favorite fragrance, poke holes in both sides.  I tried to hide my holes under the flowers or in the pattern in the paper.  I used some prima flowers but for the most part, I cut flowers from scraps using Walk In My Garden or Plantin' Schoolbook.  

This is a very easy project and quick gift idea. I even made some for men that say, "My Socks Smell Good"  no flowers on those, and more manly colors. 

Hope you have a very fragrant day!

Shoes

Hopping around the internet today one of the challenges at Cricut Cardz Challenge was to do a project, card, layout, with shoes.  I have wanted to try to do a 3D high heel, so now is as good a time as ever.

 

My Shoe won first place at A Crafty Little Place! 

The shoe is from Wedding Solutions, The bag is from Once Upon A Princess.  The flowers are from Walk In My Garden.  The shoe is filled with dark chocolate kisses.  The bag has lip gloss and fingernail polish, in that really pretty pink, of course.  

The shoe is cut at 5", twice.  I used a flocked heavy card stock.  I cut the inside of the shoe just like you would see the inside sole of your shoe, folding it along the edges by 1/4" clipping the edges as I curved it up.  I made a square of the same material as the shoe to fit the heel around and then covered the bottom part with a small black strip to simulate that little heel cover.  

The flowers are made by punching two small holes (button hole punch) in each flower and layering 5 to 7 flowers and then folding each one up to create a depth.  Green leaves from Walk In My Garden added in.  Stickles were used on the shoe opening and along the edge as well as the center of each flower for a little bling.  The ribbon has a nice sheen to it too.

I added eyelets and ribbon to the top of the shoe to tie around the ankle.   A flower eyelet and a magnetic closure to the bag, along with some ribbon. 

This project was easier than it looks, I think fitting the sole was the most difficult part.  I fancy myself a cobbler with paper. ha ha ha. 

I am entering this project in the following challenges:

Eyelets - Practical Scrappers

Cricut Cardz Challenge - Shoes 
Anything but Square - A Crafty Little Place
Cute Card Thursday - Anything but Square

Cupcake Craft Challenges - Dazzle Us
Corrosive Challenge #67 Use Die Cuts 
Wedding Theme Contest - Oh My Crafts 

BRIDAL SHOWER

This item for a bridal shower.  The groom has a red truck.  Made with New Arrival for the Truck and Wedding solutions for the windshield and tailgate. 

 

Truck cut at  4.5 inches 4 times in black

Truck bed is small Whitman's Chocolate box bottom (could be small jewelry box)

 

Hood and top of truck cab measures 4" by 5.5"

 The cans are loop brads with the prongs cut off, ribbon roses bumpers are rolled up gray paper and attached with glue dots. It turned out pretty cute, I think.  I submitted to the Cricut Chirp.  Who knows if they will like it enough to publish it.  But, it is wedding season. We'll see.

Announcement finally out! - Easter Bonnet Parade

I stayed up until 2:00 am to watch the My Pink Stamper Live to see if I got one of the designer spots I tried out for.  I didn't, but CONGRATS to the winners.  Now I can post one of my cards that I sent in.  I understand she is going to have a gallery of photos, but I don't think that my little pun cards would be in it.  It was really fun to try and think about being a designer, but I'm almost relieved that I didn't get it!  Oh the anxiety.  I'm truly happy for those that made it and not sad a bit about not making it.  There are lots of places to try!  So, now it is nearly 4:00 am, I have headache,  I'm going to post my card and go back to sleep.

I FOUND OUT I MADE THE PINK STAMPER TOP 100 GALLERY!!! Here is the link to her blog and the new gallery. This card was the one that made it in there! Yippee!!!!
MY PINK STAMPER GALLERY

So, when I made this card all I could think of was the song, "If I could write a sonnet about an easter bonnet...........la lala lalalalllaaa, Easter Parade. :0)  So I thought where would they hang their hats after the easter parade?  Then the pun came along and WAHLAH, one of my kind of cards developed.

  

Lyrical Letters

George

Wedding Solutions

Walk in My Garden

Bo Bunny Papers

THIS CARD WON A CHALLENGE AT 

Entered in Challenges

Cricut Cardz Challenge 18 - Easter,

Cute Card Thursday - Challenge 105 Dimentions

Fantabulous Cricut - Easter Challenge

Fussy and Fancy - Easter (my easter bonnet) 

Paper Cutz Challenge - Easter, No Bunny/No Chicks

Mint for My Heart

Tic-Tac's are coming in all different colors of boxes now and I did some as snowmen for Christmas, so I thought I would do some for Valentine's day too.  The red boxes made it perfect for the open heart.

 

Back of Tic Tac's

Paper cut on Cricut, Heart from Wedding Solutions Cartridge,

Rectangle from George,

Stickles, Rhinestones, Paper (Stash). 

This item entered in the following challenges:

CBC82 Belli Challenge - Rhinestone or Glitter 

Practical Scrappers ~  Bling

Bitten by the Bug2- Valentine Contest - Add Purple 

Happy New Year - Time to Try New Things

The Front with Digi Stamp

No sentiment yet because it could be several things.

The back.  Like I said the other day, I'm really thinking about the backs of cards lately,  They need a little something, don't you think?

This card is for CPS-Year In Review, Pick Your Own Sketch - CPS #93

Card Positioning Systems

Also for Pile It On Challenge 29, Anything Digital

Papers provided by Allison Pennington

Digi Stamp - Coloring Book Page, scanned in and sized

Cricut Wedding Cuts

Pile It On Challenge

Clay Creations

My favorite design that ALWAYS attracts my eye is the swirl -   I always doodle these and am attracted to anything that has them on it.

I have a logo:  P

This is a PSL (my initials combined)

These are my clay creations

These are some of the wedding cake toppers I have created as well as other clay items. Fimo clay is a wonderful tool.

Party Favors

These were the little party favors I made from TBBM. I sold them on Ebay for a while.
These are were the most popular ones I sold.