Valentine Card

I saw this card in February's Issue of Scrapbooks etc and just HAD to try it out.  I happened to have some of the cork to make the trees and of course I have lots of papers and embellishments.....

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Love Cats

I found another great digital stamp company! Wink Wink Ink! The cats are a digital stamp called Love Cats, but using the magic of Make The Cut, I was able to cut out the silhouette on my Cricut. The sunset behind the cats is from another favourite place of mine - Pioneer Woman. She has several BEAUTIFUL high-res photos you can download.
I created my own "fence" by simply embossing straight lines on the cardstock using my Score-Pal, then using black chalk to make the "boards" stand out.

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Using my photo studio

 Here are a few cards I made a long time ago - Since I never took photos of these I used my little photo studio. I am working on some valentines cards - stay tuned to see these soon!

Bloggers Delight - A Light Box Studio!

For Christmas my husband (Santa) gave me a light box so that I can take great photos of my papercraft creations. I set the photo box up in the guest room (it is easy to take down should we have guests). I had my camera set up with my remote control as well - very sweet setup, I must say!! I took photos of these christmas cards in it. I tried one with just the blue background and one with some gold garland in the background - which one do you like better? I still have a lot to learn to take really great photos this way - such as - I think my lights are too high and need to be set more to the sides. I noticed a bit of shadow under one of my other photos and there should be none.
I would like to be able to take photos of my cards that look like the ones in Papercraft Magazine.

Merry Christmas to all!!

On behalf of Jason, Sabrina, Kaitlyn and myself, we wish everyone a happy, healthy and fun Christmas!

Birthday and Christmas Gifts

I recently sent a package home to my mom filled with Birthday and Christmas gifts.  Here are photos of some of the handmade items I created for them.  These are the packaging for the gifts inside.  I made these with the Cricut Tags, Bags & Boxes cartridge and some DCWV paper.  I used really small powerful magnets I had lying around to close them.  This one is a gift for my niece who's birthday is Christmas Day - Happy Birthday!!!

The rest of these are gifts for my family for Christmas....

Craft and Bake Sale photos

Finally, these are some photos of my table.
I forgot to mention the approximately 200+ chocolates I made.  In each of the pretty boxes on the table are 10 handmade chocolates (coconut and cookies and cream fillings).  I have a display box there as well showing how you can turn the box into a lumiere once you eat all the chocolates!  I just put a dollar store battery candle in it.
I also had quite a few packages of 6 chocolates, but they were all sold before I took these photos. 
There are two gingerbread shaped chocolates and one tree shape chocolate in each of the clear bags - kids liked those.
See the cookies in their packaging????   Soooooo pretty :)

New christmas cards.

These are some of the new cards I made this year for the craft fair.  I still have some left - perhaps you will find one in your mailbox in the next little while!

Cheers!

I'm baaaaack! Still busy, but I'm back!

The craft sale at the community club is over, so I now have time to show you what I have been working on!
There are so many things to show you and since you all have been soooooo patient - I'll show you the best thing first!

For a few years now I have been trying to make the "Ultimate Christmas Cookie".  I was at a holiday party a few years back and they had these beeeooootiful cookies that were almost too pretty to eat.  I always wanted to make some just like them.
I finally succeeded this year.  The comments at the craft fair were "They are too pretty to eat!".  So I know I achieved my goal.

Let me know what YOU think.

I found a delicious sugar cookie recipe and made my cookies one day.  It took one whole day to line the cookie edges, flood the inside (wait for it to set), cut out the fondant flowers and paint them with edible luster dust, then decorate with the white icing and add the candy pearls.  Once the icing was good and set, I packaged them up.  You can see them in their packaging in the craft fair photos.

Fall Decor

I made these flower arrangements a couple of weeks ago, but forgot to take photos of them.  For the first one I used a white craft pumpkin from Michaels, and cut open the top, glued down some florist foam and started arranging.  I had enough left over that I was able to re-use a basket I had, added floral foam and voila!  I had a second arrangement.
The one in the white craftt pumpkin is in the entrance cut out and can be seen from the entrance and from the living room.  The smaller one is on a shelf in the living room adding some much needed colour.

I hope you like them.