Mother's Day Cards

Happy Mother's Day!!
and Oh so happy day for those of you that do not have children!!

 I created these cards for my three younger sisters.

 Different lighting above.

My youngest sister loves to dry her hair everyday!

 Second to the youngest loves to work in her garden.

And my other sister loves to sew! (she can make some mean wedding dresses! and is the first sister that I have inspired to get a Cricut Cake and Create).

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Birthday Banner

I created this tutorial for She'sASassyLady Blog
My Sister Monica recently celebrated her 40th B-day and I want to show you how I created this banner. I was inspired by a banner Jana Eubank created back in October for Halloween.
After deciding on the design and my sister's likes and her colors (yes, we were all asked to wear black and turquoise!..that's my family! Never mind be happy that I show up to you party, and maybe bring you a gift, but I must wear specific colors? lol... we actually enjoy that kind of stuff!) I set out to create or design on my Gypsy.

For the design: I first had to decide how many pieces/flags I needed for my banner: -HAPPY- -4OTH- -MONI- That is a total of 16 pieces/flags (I cut her name short, phew!!...kidding again, we do call her Moni). Next, I had the colors, black and turquoise and finally I had to decide on the actual theme. Even though my sister is on dialysis, she still keeps her spirits up by always wearing make up and wearing dresses and stockings with high hills most of the time. So there it was the other part of my design!
My next step was to see how much card stock and pattern paper I needed.
After I gathered all the pieces I decided to use
Cricut Country Life, Forever Young, MS All Occasions Cake Art, MS Seasonal Cake Art, and Base Camp cartridges for my project.
Using Country Life I cut 16 of this banners at 11.5" our of very thick heavy DCWV card stock.

I cut 16 of the layers using patter paper also at 11.5"

I adhered the base and layer together using my ATG gun.  I want to mention that I did not need to cut the layer using card board because there was no need since the base card stock was heavy enough, otherwise I would have had to cut the layer twice, once in card board, the other using pattern paper.

My next step was to create 16 rosettes, one for each piece/flag

Using the MS Seasonal Cake Art cartridge and my Gypsy just to see how many I could fit on sheet.  I was able to fit 6 pieces cut at 2".  I used 4 pieces for each rosette, so I had to cut 64 pieces or 10 times a whole sheet plus an additional sheet with only 4!!! My Expression was churning!

Here you can see that I had to score at each peak and valley.  That is 64 x 11.. that is 704 times!

Yes, my fingers were sore!  And I had to fold them too! (now you know why I cut her name short! lol)

This is how I folded each piece in a zig-zag motion.

Next I had to adhere 4 pieces together. You do this by overlapping the ends or two peak and one valley.

This is what it looks like when all 4 pieces are adhered to each other.

Next step is to bring it down or push it down and inward.  It is much easier than it looks. Here I am using one hand so that I can photograph with the other. But with a little finesse and both hands, it is not that hard.

At this point you need to have some 1" circles already punched and the glue gun ready!

Oh, you will be so glad you have a glue gun!

I forgot to take a picture of the scalloped circle I cut to use in between the flag/piece and the rosette.

I cut 16 scalloped circles at 5" using MS All Occasions Cake Art

This was my basic piece/flag for my banner.  I now had to create something to decorate each one of them.

I am not very please on the location of the banner's placement.  I don't think that it highlighted the design and colors, but the party was not at my house! I feel that a banner like this placed on a flat colored wall or surface would emphasise the design much better! What do you think?

For the 3D star I used a Sizzix die and for the 40th I used my Gypsy to weld everything together and create the layer/shadow. The 4 and 0 were size 5" and the t and the h were cut/welded at 2.88" using Base Camp.

She was cut using Forever Young at 7" and her layers. Added a little bling and tulle to her dress.

The lipstick was also cut at 5" with its layers using the Forever Young cartridge.

Added bling and Glossy Accents.

I additionally cut and decorated a piece/flag with a nail polish cut at 5"; the high hills/shoes at 5"; the perfume bottle at 4"; and the boots at 6" using the Forever Young cartridge.
All the letters were cut using Base Camp at 5" with their respective layers.
I finished the banner using lots of black and turquoise ribbon and black tulle.

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Treat Bags/Purses - Cricut Forever Young and Mickey and Friends carts

I created this Purses and Bags for my goddaughter and her cousin's b-day party.

I used the Forever Young to cut the purses using 12x24 cardstock and decorated with Minnie Mouse.

The boy bags I purchased at PartyCity and decorated with Mickey Mouse.

I welded the letters to for Abby's name on Gypsy before cutting purse. It created and opening, I than placed a piece of cardstock on back and glued the little pieces previously cut? huh?

Lots of little pieces to glue!!!

Here you can see a red purse's back and a yellow purse's front.

I also used Imaginisce to create buttons with little Abby and Chris' faces and added some ribbon and bling. My first button was of Mickey's face, the other of the b-day kids.

The purses can hold plenty of candy!!!!

First Cake using Cricut Cake

It was fun and messy!!! and some wasted frosting sheets!!!!!

My BFF Abby invited me over so that we can decorate our first cake using the Cricut Cake together!

This is me (top) learning how to work with fondant! (the white powder is powder sugar so that the fondant won't stick to your surface!)

This is the end result! Abby brushed brandi! yes, brandi so it becomes shiny and you see no white powder!

We discovered that the fondant cuts beautifuly, but not the frosting sheets.... or was it that larger size cuts such as the 2" edge you see cut beautifuly with fondant, but when we tried cutting a "happy birthday" layered sign/sentiment, it ruined the frosting sheets... it would cut nice going one way, but as soon as the Cricut Cake came back to cut the rest of the sign/sentiment it would pull the frosting sheet and mess up the whole thing.   I think we tried 3 times before giving up and just cut RINA in bigger letters!!

Project 12 March

Project 12 March
I created this layout using Becky Fleck's map for March/Project 12.
All the paper is Core'dinations except the white is DCWV.  During the month of March I created treat bags using the Cricut Expression and the Sesame Street cartridge for my Nephew Jonathan's first birthday! and for my Grandbaby Jasmine I created treat bags and purses using the Hello Kitty and the Forever Young cartridges. I also made marshmallow Hello Kitties under the direction of my BFF Abby and sent them to her.

Oh, I alsmost forgot I also decorated a plain bag as her gift bag using Hello Kitty cartridge.

MPS Pink, Green and Black Contest

I guess there is always a first... and this project for me has many firsts...
First Card
First time using Wild Card cartridge
First time using a stamp on a project
First time using Copic markers
First time using Stickles

Ingredients:

Cricut Expression

Cricut Design Studio software

Cricut Wild Card cartridge

Forever Young cartridge

DCWV - black cardstock

Core'dinations - grassroots/green cardstock

? - white cardstock

Stamps Happen - Right Accessories stamp

Archival Ink (the wrong ink, I discovered!)

Copic Sketch Markers- 100, 0, W5, YG03, R20

Stickles - Cotton Candy (on flowers)

Therm O Web - foam square (for flower)

Double sided tape

Tacky glue

Cricut-Forever Young Treat Purses

I made this treat purses for my grandbaby Jasmine! using Forever Young, Hello Kitty, Dreams Come True Cricut Cartridges and cut the tag with my Pazzles.

and did I mention I also made marshmallow Hello Kittys under the direction on my best friend!

Its all edible!

Her purse had additional tiny flowers, ribbon, a tag and stitches!

This is the back of the purse.

For the boys I made bags.

I used Forever Young to cut the purses using my Gypsy.

(largest size possible using 12x24 Cricut purple cardstock)

I used the "Dreams come true" for the word Jasmine.

I welded it/placed it on top of purse and cut.

And the Hello Kitty Cartridge to cut Hello Kitty's face and flowers.

The little flowers on the b-day girls purse were punched.

The tag and lettering for tag was cut using my Pazzles.

For the b-day girls purse I added stitching (I tried the sewing machine, but was a mess)

with a white Uniball pen,

and I colored the "hardware" with a silver sharpie.

Oh, and added/glued plenty of bling!

The back of the purses.

The "hardware" in silver.

I also decorated a plain bag/gift bag using Hello Kitty and My Community Cartridge for the grass.