Thinking of Spring

With snow on the ground and temperatures in the low 20's, I'm really looking forward
to Spring and lots of flowers and color.  I just got these new Impression Obsession bunny
dies and I just love them.  They cut great and are just too adorable!!

I also die cut the basket from my Cricut Doodlecharms cartridge.  The eggs were die cut
from some scraps I had from a 6 x 6 paper pack by My Minds Eye.

The second card was made using the Cricut Create a Critter cartridge.  I use this cartridge all

the time.  I had the paper left from a Spring DCWV 12 x 12 paper pack.  I love dimension on my cards so I popped up a few of the eggs and embossed the green hill.

Thanksgiving Place Cards

I am truly blessed to have my daughters and 3 grandsons coming for Thanksgiving!  My grand babies are 2, 4 and nearly 5 years old.  I wanted
to make some fun place cards for us to enjoy at our Thanksgiving table.
My favorite Cricut cartridge is Create a Critter and it's my usual go to cartridge especially for paper projects for kids.  I created a card base measuring 3 1/2 x 3 inches.  I embossed a background piece in a light cream color.  My turkey measures 3 1/2 inches and I cut the pieces using four different colors, off white,terra cotta,pumpkin and dark brown card stock.  I glued all my pieces together and added small eyes with a black pearl pen.  This gives a nice dimension to the eyes.  I added my turkey and then die cut a small label using my Spellbinders Large Oval dies.  On Thanksgiving Day I will have the older children fill in the names of all our guests.

Supplies used

Cuttlebug embossing folder
Cricut Create of Critter cartridge
Kraft, off white,dark brown,pumpkin,terrace cotta and beige card stock
Spellbinders oval die cuts
Viva black pearl pen
adhesive

What to do with an old punch!!

At one time I purchased quite a few punches.  Then all those punches just sat in drawers in my craft room.  I recently pulled out a punch I purchased and came up with an alternative use for the design.
Because I have been creating Christmas cards lately, I was thinking of a Christmas tree and looked at the punch and a light went off!!  Sorry for the lousy picture, my camera broke and I had to scan this card.  Haven't been able to edit the picture better.  I'm going to pull out more punches and think outside of the box.  Can you guess what this punch is ?  It is a Fiskars small hand punch. Great for using for kids cards, but also can be used to create a Christmas tree!!  The thumb is hidden under the layers and I just cut the thumb off when I came to the edge of tree.

I started by die cutting a Christmas tree base from the Create a Critter cartridge.  The reindeer page had a tree which was perfect for my card.  I used green and light green glitter paper from Joann's Fabrics and Crafts.  Then I started punching out lots of hands.  I covered the tree base with adhesive so my hands would stick well.  Starting at the bottom, I layered hand alternating the colors.  I had red and white pearls which worked great as Christmas balls.  I used my embossing folder to creat the white dotted background and found some great snowflake acetate stickers for snowflakes.  I cut a strip of white card stock to create the hill and added a strip of glue and glitter for  some snow.  I popped up my snow bank because I love dimension on my cards.  I just love the way this tree came out.