The Beaver

I loved this cut as soon as I saw it, but what do you do with a beaver?  Then Tom kept saying, "you are doing so many projects!  It's just one project after another."  That sparked this card.

I used Create a Critter for the beaver.

 

The trees are from my world, the log, stump and beaver are on Create a Critter. I used some pearlized papers on this one and I'm not so sure how I feel about it. 

I used Pooh and Friends Font for the wooden letters that went perfect with this project.   Just one project after another! 

Challenges

Anything Goes - Aud Sentiments

Is it HOT where you at?

 I was having a kind-of corny day, I imagined a corn cob sitting on a chair enjoying the AC.  Then I wondered what if it wasn't..

Might as well get out some salt and butter.

My friend told me that at a farm down south it got so hot that the corn in the fields started popping and the cows thought it was snow and froze to death.  Ha ha ha.  How's that for southern humor.  Hope you have a cool day!

My World for the Corn

Paper Doll Dress up for the Chair

Hand drawn pop corn kernals.

Celebrating Dad

The challenge at Fantabulous Cricut this week is to celebrate Dad. That was easy!

You've always pointed me in the right direction.  But, I still don't know which way is North or South or those two other ones.

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The girl is from My Community cut at 2.5 inches.  She is actually Jack climbing the bean stalk, but I used the hair from the teacher on the same cartridge cut at 2.5.  I snipped the little bit of Jack's hair off that would have shown.  The clothes for Jack are on the layer button and I just cut them twice out of two separate papers and layered them for a more girly look.  I made the walking stick with a scrap piece of paper. I tied little bows in her hair, doodled and done. 

The Compass is cut at 3" twice and shadowed.  The papers are from a book of Travel Papers my children bought me at Tuesday Morning last year.  It was perfect for this card. The DAD is from Beyond Birthdays.

I am spatially challenged  and can never remember where I've been or how to find it again, but my Dad can remember nearly everywhere we've been and what side of the street it's on.  I didn't get that talent  :0/   This card will make him laugh and it will also be poignant since he gave me a good moral upbringing as well.  

Happy Father's day to all those good father's out there. 

Challenges:

Paper Cutz Challenge - For Dad
Cards for Men - Crafty Cardmakers

CELEBRATE the TEACHERS!

This week on FANTABULOUS CRICUT the challenge was to create something for the teacher with an apple shape on it.  Teacher appreciation week is coming up, May 3-7 and I wanted to do something fun for my sister. 

This apple pen holder is made out of toilet paper rolls.  

 

Apples cut at 5 inches on heavy card stock, four times, twice in red, twice in white. 

Shadow feature, apple cut twice at 5" on heavy card stock.

The toilet paper rolls were were wrapped inside and out and around the bottom with black card stock. then glued together.

I attached the apples on both sides and then filled with these fun colored gel pens. 

I read that teachers say they would like anything that shows appreciation, just no more coffee mugs. Ha ha ha.  This is a simple gift and could even be filled with candies or other goodies.  

Show your appreciation and then post your photo at Fantabulous Cricut! 

Saturday Sooner than it should be...........

My life has been a series of Tom saying hello and goodbye.  From the very beginning of our relationship Tom was saying hello and goodbye.  Twenty years in the Navy of Tom saying hello and goodbye and now more than five years of Tetra-Pak and Tom is still saying hello and goodbye.  Today was goodbye.  I always know it is coming and dread the day it arrives.  The time when he will emotionally separate from me and go into the other room to do the ritual packing and mental departure, while I sit in the other room trying not to be any kind of emotional mess that makes it more difficult for either of us.  There are lots of rituals we go through as he prepares to leave, lots of little routines.... years and years of these.

This Saturday came sooner than it should. I didn't want it to come. He's off traveling the world again. I'm alone again. Just me, my little apartment decorated with the paper chain from all my crafting scraps, the blinking solar Christmas lights that twinkle until they have used up the days supply of sun and my cricut.  I dream about my cricut at night and design cards that never really look like what I actually create in real life.  I've discovered this week that I am not very good, I'm okay at my craft but not great.  I want to be great. So, I'm not going to put up another card onto any of the competition sites or the cricut messageboards until I have one that I think is great.

Like all these years of coming and going, hello and goodbye, if you practice at something long enough, you become accustomed to just what it is, a routine in your life, for good or bad, it is a routine. I want excellence to be a routine. 

So, these are the last of the cards that I have made for my Cricut Card Fairy Army today after Tom left and I went through my normal ritual of his leaving:

 

 

 

 

Routines are good things in life even when we don't want them to be.  They let us set up a pattern for whatever it is we need to accomplish. I'm working on my accomplishments.

 

Onward and Upward,

Super Saturday

Tom came home last night!  I'm so happy!  I made a Twilight card for my daughter-in-law, but I don't want to post it until I mail it to her. Then I made this Lemon card and with the left overs from the tree the other day, I made a little tree and trike card.

**UPDATE** My lemons card was mentioned in the Provocraft Cricut Newsletter.  I'm so excited!  I am coming along in my card making skills and that was such a boost to my ego.  Especially since I have had such a bad week.  Here is the link to that newsletter. Cricut Chirp Newsletter

Praise God in all things.  He knows how to lift you up!

First Thursday in November

I finished 3 cards today.  Two of them aren't worth posting, but this one is one I worked really hard on and has a lot of layers.  It is memorable of how it looks outside today on the first Thursday of November.

Gettin' Busy

I was a designing fool today.  I sat down with my DS this morning and designed 5 cards and layed them out according to the colors that I was going to need cut.  I did really well with 4 of them, but the last one I ended up needing to cut more pieces.... more because the cricut messed up than my designing enough cuts.

Tom had some favorites among these cards.... and his choices surprised me.  He liked the Snowman and the Frost on the Pumpkin cards the best.  These are the days work.

Snowball Snowman

Snowball Snowman Inside

Frost on the Pumpkin

Fall Tree & Pumpkins

Pumpkins with Wheat Stalks

Funny Reindeer

This last one was my favorite because besides the fall colors, I really love Spring

I didn't put any of these on the Cricut Boards yet because I don't really think they are "worthy" of the boards.

I might add one or two to the gallery.   It was a good days work.

Cow-A-Bungee

COW -A-BUNGEE!

Used George for the Cow, My World for the Bridge and Lyrical Letters for the inside.

A rubber band for the bungie on the outside and coiled wire for the inside. This card is fun, I hope it makes you smile.

After I did the first one... and following comments from my DH. I did a second one. As is common. I liked the second one better than I liked the first. So I posted that one too.