Miscellaneous Cards

My birthday was in July so I made some Thank You cards with the chef Quickutz paper doll since I had received a Crock Pot from my sister.  I had a couple of birthdays in early August so I switched the "Thanks" to "Happy Birthday" and voila!

Also, my husband needed sympathy cards, so I used the Songbirds cartridge and a Sizzix cross.  I made another one with a different bird cage from Songbirds but same color scheme, muted cream and brown.

Yee-Haw Thank You Cards

Yee-Haw!!!! For Christmas, my parents (with a LOT of help from my scrappin' sister) got me the Old West cartridge. Wow! What a fun cart!

I made our thank you cards for our Christmas loot using this AWESOME cart! The "Yee-Haw" is from the Cricut cart, the cactus is from an old Sizzix die cut, the cowboy hat is also from Sizzix and cut from foam. The cactus stamps are from a wonderful store in old town Santa Fe, NM (sorry, but I can't remember the name of the store but it is right on the main plaza and is always a lot of fun to visit). The ribbon was from my stash and the brads are Making Memories which have been in my stash forever, I think!

This was a lot of fun to make and I am totally LOVING Old West!!!

I've also included a photo of Big Bend National Park (bleow) which was my inspiration -- such a wonderful, beautiful, peaceful park. One of my favorites. The photo is taken from the Chisos Mountain Lodge area toward "the windows" -- this was the first time we did the hike but the sunset view is quite famous and during busy seasons, you have to stake out your viewing spot up to an hour before sunset. Luckily, the park was not so busy when we visited this trip so we had some awesome views to ourselves!!!

P.S. I found a free program called Picasa that will allow you to downgrade your high res photos so they can be posted on the internet. How cool!

Kazan's Sketch 23 - week of 30 March 2009

Loved Kazan's sketch this week.

I turned the card 90 degrees to make a quick thank you for someone in the training group who went above & beyond.

The bandana paper is from K&Company, the bling is from Michaels, ink from Tim Holtz (distressed walnut), ink from Quick Quotes powder puff, and I used Going Places & George cricut cartridges. The "no" symbol is raised on pop dots -- not sure if you can see that or not. The rest of the paper is from my scrap pile!


This is also the first time that I've used my Cricut deep cut blade (on the chipboard of the "no" symbol). I think I still have a bit of learning to do since it bogged down a bit at the start of the cut.

Thanks for taking a look and have a wonderful Palm Sunday!

My First Layout using CDS

I got myself a New Year's present to go with the Jukebox my wonderful hubby got me for Christmas -- yeah! Cricut Design Software.

Here's my first layout using CDS. I used Base Camp, Going Places, Fabulous Finds, and Cuttin' Up. Many, many thanks to the Cricut Lovers Guide to Design Studio -- I don't think I would have figured out welding without the terrific directions on this blog.

Still the old scanner thing. I don't have a digital camera and my scanner bed is not 12x12 -- but I think the idea is there. I had some wonderful Scrapworks paper in red, green, and burnt yellow tones -- so earthy and I love those colors.

And just for the history buffs -- Cornwallis was trying to find a way into Ireland and declared "by Hook or by Crook" -- I'm in the picture with Hook Head lighthouse ("hook") and the view behind Andy is the island & waterway ("crook").

We really loved our Ireland vacation and I'm having so much fun with my memories as I scrap the trip! My original goal was to finish the scrapbook within a year after the trip, but packing up my scrap stuff to put in storage so we could move has interrupted that plan...by about one year! ha! ha!