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!

Journal Swap

Recently, I participated in my first journal swap.  I've never altered a journal before and I was willing to try.  After I saw some of the ones that other people did, I was overwhelmed with how beautiful their work was.  I feel like mine didn't measure up, but it was my first time and now I will have more knowledge on how to do one.  I just love learning to do new things.  Here is a picture of the one I did and I will put of pictures of the one I get when I receive it. 

 

She wanted to use her journal to record birthdays.  Thus the calendars on the front from young to old.  I included the months inside and pockets to put other notes.

And because my partner was an Army Wife, I made a second one for her to use in her purse or her car, it was much smaller and included a pen.  I got this stamp from 2 red bananas and the sentiment is "I Salute You."  I also had some "Army" silver tags and used them on the elastic closure.

What?!!

Sending this to a friend who appreciates sarcasm.  I got the digi clip from Iclips.  But, my printer broke, so I ended up drawing him freehand by looking at the computer screen.  I got pretty close I think.  I made the scrub-brush freehand too.  I just cut out what I thought the shape would be and colored it with copics.

Bathtub and Duckies from New Arrival

Font is Pooh Font

Copic Colors

Digi image from Iclips (freehanded)

Towel is a cut piece of fleece material for my flocking

Sparkle from stickles

Sarcasm is free.

Challenges:

Crafty Cardmakers - Cards for Men

Practical Scrappers - Glitter and flocking

Pile It On - #23 Summer Showers
A Crafty Little Place - Cards for Him 
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #54 - For Him/Men

Shower The Baby

The Fantabulous Cricut Challenge for this week is  "Shower the Baby."  Create a project that has something to do with a baby shower. Example; invitation, gift, baby album etc..

 This is my baby shower invitation for a boy's baby shower.  I didn't put my real address or phone number on this one to put up on the internet - for obvious reasons. :-)  

The card is postcard style.  Measures 5x7

The stop sign, telephone poles and road signs are on George

The Truck, Baby Shower, It's a Boy are on New Arrival

The Road is on My Community

The little birds and the grass are on Create a Critter

The truck is shadowed and pop-dotted.  The clouds are cat-eye liquid chalks. The back of the card is computer generated with the name of the baby and parents,where they are registered and other pertinent information. 

I also did this wall-hanging of round frames of our grandson Ellis. I'm going to keep adding the round frames until his first birthday in a few months.  

Four round frames cut at 5 inches using the Paper Pups cartridge for the double round cut out frame.

Lyrical Letters for the Font

Computer generated saying:

A baby has a special way

of bringing joy to every day

  

Started with a square of paper measuring 6 x 6 square and cut a 5 inch circle. I welded the letter to the circle in DS but if you don't have DS just cut out  out the letter to the size you want it, mine is 3 inches.

 

I printed the pictures on my picture printer so I could size the actual photo the way I wanted it.

I used some old DVD's for weight

Trimmed the photo down to size

  Punched the holes with my Crop a Dile II Big Bite, which punches easily through the DVDs.  Added buttons, twine, a little red bird and some blue ribbon.

He really does bring us daily joy! 

What's your baby project??  Join us at Fantabulous Cricut and link up your design.

CHALLENGES

GOING AROUND IN CIRCLES - CHARISMA CARDZ

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.

Winged Things

This is my project for the FANTABULOUS CRICUT challenge this week.

 

This is the airplane from New Arrival, cut 4 times  at 7"

The monkey, frog and elephant heads from New Arrival at 1"

I cut off the wings and turned them to be straight out so it was 3D instead of flat.

I added wheels so it would stand up.  And a strip of paper 3" by 7"

folded on each side a 1/4 of an inch and then attached to the two airplane panels to

make the bowl to hold the items. 

The tag is from George and the lettering is Pooh Font.

Fill as desired.

This is a little pictorial on how I put the plane together.  I took it apart so you could see

This is the airplane from New Arrival, cut 4 times  at 7"

I flipped it in DS, but if you don't have DS just put the paper upside down and cut it.

 

When it cuts, the wings are flat.  I cut themoff and cut out the layers assigned to the plane 4 times and glued two together.  I cut a slit in the center of the plane, I put the plane wings through, slayed the ends and glued them in place.

 

I cut a layer in black to hide the mechanics on the inside and to make the plane sturdier to stand.  

Then I cut the circles in George to add the wheels and placed them on the bottom twice. 

 

This is the inside bowl.  The black is the original and folded, the white is the flat layout so you can see.  I folded along the sides 1/4 of an inch to make a lip. 

Mine measures flat 3" across.  I had to experiment with the sizing and you might too depending on what you want to hold.  

I attached it with TERRIFICALLY TACKY TAPE.  It really holds the best in my opinion. 

 

I showed the white attached so you could see it better. I let it rest for a few hours before I tried putting anything in it. 

On the outside you can see a couple of places where I put brads.  They hold it together a little extra and add some decorative flair to the plane.  Decorate and fill as desired.

This is the centerpiece for my friend's farewell party for her son who is going to study abroad. He'll enjoy the goodies more than the plane, but his mom is happy! 

Other things I tried

These are a couple of the other things I put together for the Rain and Water challenge at Fantabulous Cricut.  These are the ones I didn't like as well as the other post about Those Who Bait.....

This first one, the " i "  messed up in the word rain and I just ran out of energy with it.  You know those days when nothing is working right for you, so you just put it away.  I puddled out of this one.

Then......

  

and

 

and

 

And one other scrapbook page layout I did, that I will save for another time.  

That's how those things go.  I know many of you will identify with the fact that even though the actual project isn't that bad, you just know it's not your best work. 

So, someone will benefit from the other projects I did.  

Onward and Upward!

I've been reading a lot and listening a lot these past few weeks.  Listening to books while I work makes me very productive.  I'm currently listening to the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.  Interesting. I thought I would get ahead on some of my cricut cards so here's what I produced today while listening.

This first card is a direct scraplift from Lisa over at Scrappin in NJ, you can see her card HERE.

 

Made two of these.....

 

Heard you feel like a Giraffe with a sore throat.

Hope you feel better soon.

 

 

   

Happy Easter

   

Have a cheery day

If I had Wings......

The challenge at the Cuttlebug Spot is "If I had Wings, What would I be...."  Easy, I'd be a Fairy.  I'd NEVER be an insect as anyone in my family would instantly attest to. At Cricutters Anonymous (Formerly Just Buggin') the challenge is "Form of a Woman."  Of course, I would be a woman fairy.   This card is busy with Spring, a very happy card for someone on my Cricut Card Fairy list (another reason to be a Fairy). I had a lot of fun making this card.

The fairy is the woman pushing the baby carriage on New Arrival.
Home Decor Dragon Fly for her wings (Cuttlebug Divine Swirls embossed)
Walk in My Garden - Flowers, Watering Can
Easter 2010 - Grass, Spring, Bunny
Stickers
Paper from Annie's Attic

Participating Challenges

Cuttlebug Spot - If I had Wings...
Fantabulous Cricut - 002 Easter
Crafty Card Makers - #17 Spring into Spring
Charisma Cardz Challenge - Spring is Sprung
Just Buggin/Cricutters Anonymous - Form of a Woman