4 T's that were white

My daughter lent me 4 T shirts to play with. My granddaughter is now 4 months old and I so much wanted to play with my new Cricut Imagine doing things I couldn't do on anything else. I used Better together and Straight from the nest to put these cuts onto T shirt transfer paper and this is what I have done. I just love the result and love the new Big Bug. The Crafters Anonymous Challenge I set was Something Old Something New Something Borrowed Something Blue. And 3d well T'shirts are 3d! old well Tyler is 4 months old, New oh of course that is the machine the Cricut Imaging only 3 days old, borrowed is the T-shirts and blue? well take a close look and you will see a little blue bird in the tree.

Get Well card with the Imagine

My first Imagine card and the pick on the right is the side of the envelope. This is for our ward receptionist a lovely lady who ended up in hospital.

Kelly the cake artist

I spent the weekend with my good friend and up line StampinUp Demonstrator Julia. Her daughter Kelly and I spent Sunday night playing with the cricut cake. Kelly made cupcakes and we cut decorations out of fondant on the cc. Kelly did a fantastic job of decorating the cupcakes. I had so much fun as we rolled the fondant sooo very thin and then watched as the Cricut Cake cut it out. Kelly then had the job of using the picker to pick all the tiny bits out of the butterfly wings and flowers. Kelly is awesome and has a lot of talent. I can see her getting a Cricut cake to decorate her cupcakes. My grateful thanks to Julia for putting up with me for the weekend and for letting Kelly and I loose in her kitchen.

Stampin Up Tauranga Extravaganza Christmas Cracker with a difference

As I have said already when I bring things home to do, I do them differently. This was supposed to be a christmas cracker but I ws thinking birthdays and other events so this was my take on the christmas cracker. Inside can hold chocolates, wrapped ones would be best as then it wouldn't matter if they hit the ground. The original one was in the shape of a triangle and the embossing was a flower motif pattern. Mine is round and the embossing pattern more of a crosses pattern and is from the new December mini. The edge is punched with the new mini heart punch and of course the little flowers are dimentioned to the body of the cracker. and the bird well I just love the birdie punch.

Christmas Star in SU DSP

An awesome Christmas star. I learnt the pattern at Crafters Anonymous. I made it in Jolly Holly DSP and spritzed it with Gold spritz.

Top Note Photo Album-Tauranga Extravaganza

As a demonstrator at the Tauranga Extravaganza I got the projects to take home to do. This means I put my own slant on them. I noticed that when the top note die album opened the points hit each other, so I added a spine between the front and back, this is the cherry cobbler paper with the dots. I edged the sentiment with the heart edge punch which will be available in the new mini catalogue December 1st. I spritzed the front with the gold spritz which you can see well in the last photo. The pages have a pocket which can hold journaling or photos.

Napier Cakes Conference

I was privilaged to go to the NZ Sugar Art and cake conference held in Napier this last weekend. I was there in the capacity of helping out one of the trades people demonstrate the Cricut Cake machine. I thought I would just show you what some people are capable of as all these creation are made of sugar in some form.
Check out the photos in a slide show by clicking the title

StampinUp stamp sets

These are 2 little cards I made with sets from StampinUp. The first is "Loads of Love" and I do love the little pickup and the second is Because I care a hostess set of level one. I used the masking technique with the 2nd one with the flower and the corner and edge punch on the 1st one. Made with scraps of card and ink spot colours from SU.

Finished Haunted House

Can you see the table under the tree, the witches in the fences and the ghosts well they are easy. the grass is actually a pic of the grass outside my kitchen last May when the spiders were very busy overnight making wonderful cobwebs all over the grass.

Cards for Julia

I entered a card swap and Julia was my partner. I had to make her 3 christmnas cards. oh easy except Julia is the queen of card making so it was hard to come up with something she might say wow to. Well here they are:

this first one has 3 squares inside each other and 1/2 of each is glued to the side of the card. the left side of the outter and inner squares and the right side of the middle square. Simple it sounds- try it.

the next one is a box card. Now this is not so simple the folding is the easy when you work out how variety and of course I couldn't leave it plain so I made the inside pop out the tree pops out from the back and the snowflakes dangle and sway in the breeze.

Now the last one is simple on the outside just a corner punch around the page type of runner and the inside is a popup helf and pop out trees and of course the penguins made from punch art.

the penguins are supposed to be jumping off the land into the sea where there is an island. What a wonderful imagination I have! but that is the story behind the cards.

and yes Julia did like them!

Haunted House

I could not resist making this haunted house from the cricut cartridge Happy Hauntings and cause I wanted to blog it I haven't finished decorating it yet. I'll see what I can do with some scenery tomorrow.

A Belated Birthday CArd

A birthday card and rhyme for a birthday card that didn't get to the recipient cause I was not so well.

A CA Challenge

A challenge from Crafters Anonymous - "Create a functional holder for domestic use. Your design must include an animal and the colour red"

I could think of no better holder than a handbag and the animal well let's say I love teddy bears! so what better animal to protect your handbag goodies.

Sign for hubby

Well DH came in this morning and said he wanted a sign and could that 'machine' of mine do one. It needed to be big enough for employees to see the emergency phone number. Currently the employees have the phone number written in size 12 font on an A4 sheet of paper in the office. DH felt it needed to be bigger incase there was an emergency. Remember this is only at this specific airport and is for any emergencies happening there. The phone is manned by personell 24/7 and they respond from within and phone the emergency through to any other emergency services they require. The board was produced by DH this morning with what needed to go on it.

This is the first time I have used vinal on the cricut. I cut the lettering from Cake Basics cart as it has a really great lettering font. I tried on the last part to do the 'kiss the vinal' method and that worked but it was easy enough to cut out the letters and peel the backing off and position the letters. I was quite worried about using the vinal with all that has been said about cutting it and placing it but found it was simple if you spent a little time. I didn't use the paper to stick it to just peeled off the backing and carefully positioned it. This would have been much harder if it had been an intricate pattern.

Christening for Ira Mae Y

My friends wee girl was baptised last Sunday and this is what I made for her. The words and date are stick on lettering, the kanji tags come from Cricut Pagoda, the lettering from Hello Kitty which has the shadow and the cutout features in the font. This is how I glittered Ira Mae by glittering the cutout feature. I decided I wanted to put her picture in a heart and I believe her life is now in Gods hands so I used the words 'in gods hands' that led to there needing to be hands, so I searched till I found a pair of hands I liked and cut them out to hold the heart. The lettering for 'In Gods Hands" I painted with a waterbrush and stampinUp ink pads and then I have used stickles to enhance it. The papers and edge punch are from SU. The little sparklie dots are from the lettering the stamp in the background is one I have which was in a fairy set.

A beautiful wee girl as I'm sure you will all agree.