A Pillow Box - Autumn Splendor! Color Challenge

Weekly Challenge #3: AUTUMN SPLENDOR! Color Challenge

I created my first Pillow Box

It is 8" tall

It was a bit hard to combine colors outside of my comfort zone, but I think I did pretty good!

The colors are grey, orange, tan and burgundy. And I kept true to them!

 Materials used:
Cricut Expression
Gypsy
Tags, Bags, Boxes and More
French Manor
AC Cardstock - Autumn Collection
Basic Grey - Ambrosia Collection
Recollections cardstock
Ranger Distress Ink - Walnut
Sequins - Orange/coppery
Beads - Orange/yellowish


Instructions:
Pillow Box cut at 9.71"
Eiffel Tower cut at 5.06"
Label cut three times using hide contour at .59" outer and inner part and third one at .63" outer only.
Key hole cut at 1.25"
For half circles I used the layer for the ciao word and drag it to the edge of the mat so I would not waste paper~ cut at 3" (raised it from the mat a tap to cut it a bit bigger with tan cardstock).
I inked everything.

Thanks for stopping  by my blog!!

A Purse for Cooking With Cricut

For this week I created a Purse or Treat Purse!

Using one Melin's amazing designs!!

You must go visit CookingWithCricut Blog to see all of Melin's beautiful designs!!

Instructions and Materials Used:

For Purse Base

Cut purse at 11 3/4" on 12"x24" mat

from Cricut Tags, Bags, Boxes & More

Cricut Black 12"x24" Card stock

For Purse Print Paper

Trace and hand cut front lower part of purse

and front top of purse

used K&Co Spooktacular Stack

Signo black pen for faux stitching

Matching ribbon from Michael's

Orange rose - Recollections

Tag

DCWV Mignight Spell Stack

Tim Holtz ball chain

Cat Carving Pumpkin

CookingWithCricut Melin's file

cut with Pazzles Inspiration

Inked everything with

Ranger Distress Ink - Antique Linen

If you like what you see, leave a comment!

and go see what the other DT Members cooked!!

A Purse for Momo's Challenge

Momo has a challenge twice a month, and this month is anything except a card!

So I created this cute little purse!

You can see here what I used to create this in addition to a 12"x12" piece of patterned paper and the Cricut Tabs, Bags, Boxes & More cartridge.

Here you can see the difference between cutting the same image/design on a 12"x12" vs a 12"x24" piece of card stock.

The small purse will accomodate three 3"x3" cards and the larger one will acommodate 3 A2 size cards.

You can get away with a little bit larger purse either size if you use your Gypsy vs just using the fit to page feature.

If you like what you see, leave a comment.



Bag using TBBM and Sponge Bob

I created this bag for my niece's 8th B-day party on Sunday. She just love Sponge Bog!

The bag was cut at 11 1/2" on a 12"x24" cardstock

Sponge Bog was cut at 5"

Pineapple was cut at 8"

Best Day Ever was cut at 3"

I was supposed to make 10 bags, than kids started to cancel, than I was supposed to only make 5, on and on....

I just made hers and for the other kids I prepared 8 plastic Sponge Bob bags I bought at Party City!  (less work for me!-- 3 showed up!)

She had a lot of fun at Chuck E Cheese.

Purse with Cards

I created another purse with cards.  This time I used the beautiful Mariposa stack from DCWV.

I used one sheet of Cricut 12x24" card stock for the purse cut using Tags, Bags, Boxes and More cart and from the leftover (plenty) I cut some butterflies with MS classic butterfly punch.  With one sheet of 12x12" from the Mariposa stack I was able to decorate the purse and the outside of one card that will go inside the purse and the small card that will be given to the recepient of the purse.

I did not take a picture, but with another sheet of Mariposa I made two more cards to go inside the purse.

I need  to create 4-5 more of this purse gift sets for the special people or co-workers at the two high school were I am a librarian/teacher before Thursday (last day of school for teachers).

(I better remember to buy the velcro dots to use so the purse can close)

Thanks for looking!

Purse - Paper Dolls Dress Up

As I was trying to create something to enter Emma's Thursday Throwback Challenge I decided to make a purse to give to my niece who is getting married on July 11th.  I will give it to her before the wedding as a "just because" gift with thank you cards in it so that she can give the cards to others after the wedding.

Her wedding colors will be Black-White-Tiffany Blue

I cut the purse with Tags, Bags, Boxes and More on a 12x24 piece of black Cricut black card stock to get it at is largest possible.

I cut the bride from Paper Dolls Dress Up at 4"

I cut the head and the hair twice

I colored the bouquet with Copic markers and glued it to the veil so that when the purse opens, the bouquet stays with the veil (or with the illusion that the bride's hands are in the front).

Used Peachy Keen stamps

Pink Chalk - cheeks

White Signo Pen - eyes

A Card, A Purse with Cards... and another Card

My sister Gladys text me on my way home from work asking me if she could come over after she dropped my nephew to attend Grad Night at Disneyland so that we can make a card for our niece Vanessa who is graduating tomorrow (or shall I say today!). Of course my reply was yes.

We made more than a card. We made a purse and three cards to go inside the purse and a Pot Flower card.

Oh, our niece loves Tinkerbell and we had but a few hours to improvise and create...

I suggested items that I had previously create with other papers...

First the Pot Flower Card

Than a purse with cards

We created a purse using 12x24 card stock from Provo Craft

I found a sheet of Tinkerbell vellum so we hand cut the purse flap

I had the ribbon but it did not have wire, so we improvised and used some wire I had and sandwiched it between to pieces of ribbon.

We than created three cards with envelopes to go on the inside of the purse for her to give as she pleases. The Disney Tinkerbell cart was used to cut the flower (Duh, I forgot I had the cart before we cut the other flowers and it was too late to redo.)

The inside of the cards read "small is the new Big" from the Tinker cart.  We thought it was so appropriate since my niece is very petite (OK, short!).

I almost forgot to mention that our 7 year old niece Arianna also wanted to participate in the fun, so we gave her some stickers, paper, glue, etc. and with a little help this is what she came up with!

Thanks for visiting!