Christmas Ornaments wth Gypsy~ She's A Sassy Lady Guest Designer

Today I am a Guest Designer at

She's A Sassy Lady

Thanks Sheila for the opportunity!

I saw these ornaments on a K&Company ornament pack
and thought I could create using my Gypsy and Cricut Expression

Tutorial: Gypsy
1- place a rectangle 3.75 h x 12.11 w using George and Basic Shapes
    (or any other cartridge with rectangles Gypsy Wanderings has some rectangles too)
    on mat lined up at the edge (it will be outside of the E's mat cutting area, but that is what you want)
     make sure you un-click the Width/Height chain so that you can manipulate.
2- place somewhere else on the mat 9 of the #23 (on key pad) signs found on the Independence Day Cartridge at 1.5" h

    a) you can see that they are aligned on the Y axis
    b) click group
    c) under advanced tab click Kern and enter -0.05
    d) click weld

now you have them as a group
3- duplicate group by clicking the mirror button
4- flip design by clicking on the flip (up and down)

Above you can see copied or mirrored

Above you can see the design flipped

5- arrange your design my making sure the X axis match

    (I have them at -.56)

6- now weld the rectangle with the other designs.



I hope I have not confused anybody yet?

To recap: 1-you need a rectangle 3.75h x 12.11w,
                2- the sign #23 9x from Independence Day grouped, -Kern -.05 and welded
                3- flipped and arranged on both sides lining up the center of the last signs at the ends of the rectangle.

On to the next step

7- using Gypsy Wanderings click on the Décor Tag Creative Feature Key and choose design #44 on the keypad.

8- For this step I used this design by stretching it (making sure the Width/Height chain was un-clicked) to 1.02w x 1"h   ~    see below

I placed eyeballing one each on the center/middle of each sign at the bottom, I continued by placing another one of the designs on top making sure that the X axis match.

If this is too difficult to follow and you wish to make this ornament, just emailed me and I will attempt to send you the Gypsy file.

On to the fun part:

I decided to place two on a mat and cut

You have to score at center (lengthwise)

Score on each intersection

Fold (zigzag)

This is the reason you want that extra piece at the end.

You just cut on one side and leave on the other so you can glue together.

I moved on the the other side

I finished by placing some glue on the center front and back,

inking and embellishing/decorating.

Thanks for visiting!

A Simple Card with Cricut Smiley Cards

At the last minute....
Update Blog Hop with Smiley Cards
Hope you just got here from Craftyscentiments
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This is most definitely a very, very simple card just to try and see if the Gypsy (weld) and the Expression  (cut) would communicate with each other.  And they did!!

I believe this is a mug intended as a beer mug - it has as a layer/sentiment "cheers" but I used it as a latte mug.
The cart is full of cute emoticons and designs and cards and sentiments with layers...
Cute cartridge in my opinion.  It has Layer 1, Layer 2, Card/Typeface, Emoticons, Emoticons Layer and Shadow functions..
I used puffy paint and heated (could not wait 4 hours to dry!!) and triple layered the sentiment (I think I over did it!)
Thanks for visiting!

Cricut Smiley Cards Gypsy Digital Download

I received an email stating that I had been randomly chosen to Beta test the digital download at around noon today (noticed it later).  I had a bit of trouble and it would not download the content.  At around 5:45 PM  I noticed a third email stating that they had cancelled the download due to problems with download, that they would notify me when the Beta would be up again......  Did I wait to receive email?  People that know me, know that the answer is NO!!!!, I persisted and VOILA!! Finally, it worked!

A Day At The Zoo

I created this Two-Page LO to enter Emma's Thursday Throwback.  We are to use Zooballoo or older animal Cricut cartridge.  I do not own the Zooballoo cartridge, but I do own the Animal Kingdom cartridge.

The bird, tiger, crocodile, snake and hippo and the word zoo were created using Animal Kingdom.  The gate was created using the Christmas-Noel cartridge using the hide countour feature and adding two rectangles from the George and basic shapes.

For the trees I used the Serenade cartridge .

I used a Fiskars punch for the little flower and a MS punch for the butterflies.

For the frame on the middle picture I used the Stretch Your Imagination cartridge.

For the word zoo and the butterflies I used Smooch paints. (I do not realy like the tuxedo color, it made the word be silvery shiny/metalic instead of tuxedo black shiny!)

I used my just received Dew Drops for the center of the flowers.

I used Copic sketch markers to color the bird.

Finally, most everything was inked.

Thanks for taking the time to visit and since you are here, don't leave without posting a comment!

(like my BFF stated, we bloggers feed on these!!! hehe)

One more Two-Page LO for Yessie

The wedding is in July, but the next bridal shower is in two weeks. My initial intention was to create a couple of LO, but I'm on a roll! I might even fill the album (that would be 9 two-page LO and two single LO for front and back of album).

This LO was again created with the Linen Closet from DCWV (I bought several stacks, the print, the solid and the mat Linen Closet stacks because it goes perfectly with her wedding colors) and inspired by PageMaps.

Everything was inked with Tim Holtz Distress Ink antique linen with the exception of the chairs and table.  I used the vintage photo ink for them. I used pop-up foam squares to give the chairs, plate and Dinner word a 3-D effect.  After stamping the sentiment, I colored around it with Prismacolor pencils.

Stamp sentiment - Cloud 9

Chairs, table and cadle holders, Silhouette designs cut with Pazzles

Plate and flatware cut with From My Kitchen cart

Title cut using Gypsy to weld and Base Camp cart

Blue Puffy Paint

EK Punch

Thanks for stopping by and looking, leave a comment!

Another Two-Page Layout for Yessie

I created this layout with Becky Fleck's Oct. 2008 Page Map inspiration and with DCWV Linen Closet paper.
For a closer look click on the picture.

I used my Gypsy and George and Basic Shapes cart to weld the letters/words.

The photo frame is from Colorbok transparency frames.

I used the white Signo pen for the journaling and I added some pearls to the journal block.

The dresses and the dress forms are Silohuette designs cut with the Puzzles Inspiration, I than Cuttlebug them using Cuttlebug folders Swiss Dot, Perfectly Paisley, Textile and Sizzix Flower-Large folder. One dress has a ribbon, the other a flower bling, the next one Stickles-Star Dust and the fourth one glass beads. The metal mini hangers are from Klutz.

Uploading George and Basic Shapes Cartridge to Gypsy

Did you know that George is the only cart that you can only download/upload to your Gypsy through your Cricut machine. I call it the Funny Cart. In other words, you cannot upload/load your George cart to your Gypsy by simply plugging it to your Gypsy with the cable provided. You must place it on your Cricut machine, plug your Gypsy to your Cricut machine and follow the prompts on your Gypsy.
["Please ensure the Cricut cartridge is connected to the gypsy. Press "OK" when ready." ]
After pressing "OK" you get the following message:
["Gypsy could not read the cartridge! (that is because you do not have the cart connected to the linking cable, you have it on the Cricut machine) Please check the connection and click "OK" to try again. If you are trying to link "George & Basic Shapes", please click the "George" button."] Yes, there is a George button!
["To link "George & Basic Shapes": Plug "George" into your Cricut; Plug this Gypsy into your Cricut; Turn on your Cricut and wait for "George" to display on the screen; Press "OK"]