Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas!

I did,  over all the day was really good. Lots of presents, food , napping, 

and watching Christmas movies.

My boys are in the states at the moment, and even though Christmas was really good,

it wasnt the same without them here.

But in saying that, they had a great Christmas too. 

I have been away for awhile, but I thought I would post a few things I made for Christmas.

Almost Easter

 Happy Easter everyone,

I think it is important that crafters be informed of their options. 

There are some really good die-cut machines on the market

at the moment that are of high quality materials. And can cut proper circles!

Here is a quick list of some of them, and these are in no certain order:

1. Silhouette SD

2. Boss Kut-Gazelle

3. Black Cat Lynx

4. Black Cat Cougar

5. E-craft

6. Pazzels

And please, please research these cutters to find out which is best for you. You can go here and read the reviews of some of the machines. Jin has done a fab job:) 

And OMG Lettering Delights hit 10k members on FB!!!! Congrats everyone, and to thank their fans they are giveing away free sets!! 11 freebies to be exact and you can find them here.

Lettering Delights is awesome!!! Love their SVG files!!

Also I will be putting a list of sites on my blog to other blogs as well as stores that have FREE SVG files and sell SVG files. So be watching for that :)

So ok, I thought I would post a few things I have been working on for Easter. 

I hope you like them :)





Cadbury Egg Box
 This is the top and I used a Free SVG file from SVGCUTS.COM you can find it here

 This is the inside of the box.

Easter Baskets

 These are cute Easter Baskets I made using MTC Software.

This Basket was made from a 12x12 piece of cardstock. 

I put lace around the top of it to spice it up a bit lol. 

And on the sides there are flowers where I joined the handle.

I also made a macthing card.

The stamp is from Penny Black: Easter Bonet

I used Promarkers to colour the image in and then added some glossy accents to a couple places.

Small Easter Baskets

The bunny SVG is also free and you can find it here at Jennifer Scrap Shack. 

I kept proportions and sized it to 3and 1/2 wide

I used my Sizzix texture plate to emboss them and then added a bit of cotton wool for the tail. 

The top basket is for a boy and the one beneath is for a girl. On the boy baskets I used dark colour buttons instead of flowers where the handle joins. 

Also I stapled the handles on to give them a bit of re-enforcement.

These easter baskets were sized at 8x8

The handle was 1and1/2 inches wide by 10 inches long....

might of been shorter cant find the paper I wrote it down on lol , 

so size to whatever suits your needs.

Thanks for looking :)

Cheryl

Bat Man Cards

Happy Monday everyone,

Hope everyone has had a good weekend. 

I have been doing alot of SPRING cleaning, 

got part of the loft cleaned out. And have gone thru my kids winter clothes to 

get rid of things I know won't fit them next winter.

Painted both of my kids bedrooms the last couple of weeks and everything is finally finished. 

So am hopeing to get pictures takin to show how much better they look. I have learned to not paint rooms hot pink and dark blue. LOL Trying to paint over those colours was a nightmare. 

Both rooms took 5 coats of Magnolia paint each!! 

But they look soooo bright and fresh and the light just bounces all around in their rooms. 

So once I have takin pictures I will post them :)

Now onto some cards. As some of you may know, I use MTC software to 

create images or I use free SVG files that my Cricut Expression machine cuts out. 

So I thought I would post a couple new ones that I have made the last few days.

If you would like to know exactly what MTC software
Does and Does Not do, you can have a look at my post here 

My husband is a HUGE Bat Man and Super Man fan So I created this card for him. 

I am so excited, I have not ever worked with vinyl before, but my husband liked this card so much he wants a t-shirt with the image on it . So I am going to be buying some vinyl to try and do that for him. It will be for his Birthday. Still have a couple months til then though hehe

This is the card I made my husband for his Birthday. He hasnt seen this card.

Thanks For Looking :) 

Cheryl

Baby Eeyore

Its sooo sunny out today! Am loving this weather, still a bit cool out though. 

Below are some projects I have made using MTC software.

 Baby Eeyore card I created this from a picture I have. 

 Aloha Card

 These were free SVG files I found online.

 Minnie Mickey Peppermint Card

I created this card from a picture I have

 You're Ok Card 

This was also a free SVG file

 Truck Card 

The truck was a free SVG file I found online. I then used my Every Day Paper Dolls cartridge to cut out the head and hair from my Gypsy

Rocket Man Card

This was a free SVG file I found online

I then used my Every Day Paper Dolls cartridge to cut out the head and hair on my Gypsy

Have a Great Day:)

Cheryl

Happy St. Patricks Day

Happy St. Patricks Day everyone!

Hope everyone is having a fab "green" day :)

I have some projects for you today from Valentines Day.

Am still trying to play catch up on my posts, so will also show you my

St. Patricks Day cards I made as well, along

with a birthday card for my niece who is turning 1 in a couple of weeks:).

And while I have been away I won an award from Jennys Creations 

you can find her wonderful blog here Thank you so much for thinking of me :)  It really means alot to know that I inspire people :)

So Thank you again

Now onto some very cute projects:) 

I will start with the Valentines projects and work down to the St. Patricks Day Cards:)

This is the card that I made for my kids for Valentines Day. I created it on the Gypsy. I welded 2 hearts together from Gypsy Wanderings and then duplicated some of the hearts and made them a smaller size so they would fit on top. I then used an embossing folder to give it a bit of depth.

This was my husbands Valentines Day card. I again used my Gypsy to weld 2 hearts together from Gypsy Wanderings and hiding bits on it, I then used my MTC software and cut the flame and "Hot 4-U" svg out. I popped that up with pop dots. I then used TGF stamp and coloured her in with Promarkers. And added some light pink heart gems and used a white gel pen to finish it off.

 I created the box for it by cutting some old scrap paper ,folding it  and then glueing it in the shape of a square and made a slit in the top for the card to sit in.

This is the treat bags I made my husband and kids. I used a Childs Year and cut the image at 3.50 width and 2.45 height. For the layer of the background I sized it the same and hid the center pieces. I used a Nestability and folded it in half for the image to sit on. and glued that to the tops of the bags.

This is the card I made for my niece that is turning 1 in a few weeks. I used MTC to create this card. 

Isnt Tweety sooooo cute :) The inside of the card says 1st Birthday. 

I punched some flowers and used my Kandis Rhinestone setter to put gems in the middle. I made this card so that they could cut Tweety from the card and put it in my nieces scrapbook:) The card is 6x6

And finally, this is the St.Patricks Day cards I made for friends. I used my Gypsy again and welded 2 hats from A Childs Year together and then cut out the lucky from simply charmed. I put black cardstock at the back of the card that had sticky tape on it. and then rubbed glitter onto the shamrock and the black bit of the hat to give it some bling. I cut out the buckle from the hat by welding 2 rounded squares together from Accent Essentials

Thanks for looking:)

Cheryl

Am Back!!

Happy Thursday Everyone ,

It took a little bit longer than I thought to get my computer back,  my mates shop was very busy!!:( 

He owns a PC repair shop, and our computers get fixed for free,

so if he has a lot of work in at the time then we wait :) 

But I cant complain its fixed for free !!

My computer had to be totally reformated :( 

But before that my mate was able to save all of my documents and pictures :)

So a HUGE Thank You to him :) 

My daughter, Emma's 8th birthday was on the 11th of Feb.!!

My o' my how time flies!!!

Seems like yesterday she was still in diapers! hehe

I did some really cute projects for her birthday. Emma is VERY girlie girlie!! 

She loves pink and purple, fairies and butterflies, her Barbie dolls and she loves to dress up!!!

Complete opposite of me lol, I was more of a TomBoy growing up, 

climbing trees, playing with little metal army guys, rideing bikes, fishing, 

and being covered head to toe in bruises from all the accidents I had lol. 

In saying that...I did have Barbie Dolls  and all sorts of things to go with them and

I loved all of them!! I kept everything so that one day I could

give them to my daughter.

So having a little girl has made me also become more girlie girlie!!

I love going shopping with Emma,  painting her nails and toe nails. 

I have taught her how to braide hair as well !! 

So every year on her birthday we try and do something special for her. 

Now know I also have 2 older boys...but they are not into having birthday parties or stuff like that.

They would much rather have a couple friends around, pizza and cake and watch movies. Hide out in their man cave (bedroom) with their mates lol.

Emma isnt into having big parties either, but she does like having a couple of her friends around , and she likes wearing party hats and having treat bags and things like that. So this year, she helped me decide what we were going to do for her birthday.

Below are some of the pictures from her birthday.

And this is Emma showing off the party hat I had made. Its a free SVGCUT which you can find here.  I used a 12x12 patterned paper. And I sized it to fit the whole page. Then I cut some strips of scrap paper and made the rosette. I cut out the #8 from one of the fonts on MTC software. Added some ribbon to the top and stapled some elastic string to the inside before putting the ribbon at the bottom. Super easy to make and it turned out really nice.

This is Emma with her best friend Hanna

This is the Tutu I made Emma, it was part of her birthday gift. She had told me she didnt like the ballerina ones and wanted a more fairy type tutu. This is a No-Sew tutu you can find directions on youtube on how to make it. This one took about 3 hours to make but only because I used longer strips and then sewed some bells to some of the tulle fabric so it would jingle :). Super easy and super fun!!

This is her birthday cake I made....I am no Betty Crocker lol but I do try :) And if you have not made one of these cupcake cakes....its soooo easy!!!! I used the Giant Cupcake Tin by Wilton. Took 2 cake mixes though...but its a pretty big cake!

Emma blowing out the candle :)

And last but not least ...these are the treat bags that I made for her class. Since they had got out of school the day before her birthday and were not going to be in until after Valentines Day, I sort of combined her birthday and Valentines Day together.

I used A Childs Year cartridge to make the boy /girl images. The size for them was 3inches.
I also used a nestability and folded it in half for the top of the cello bags. And the sentiment is from Whiff of Joys summer collection from last year I think it is.

Thanks for looking:)
Cheryl

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy New Year Everyone!!

I hope everyone has had a wonderful and bright Christmas!

I know we did, it snowed on my birthday!! And alot of snow at that!!

I also got some really cute crafting bits for Christmas!! More on that in a bit.

So to get the New Year started off, I created a new blog, from my previous blog you will already know and understand why. 

But there was a couple of reason behind the change:

1.Just some rather rude comments about the name of the blog...rude comments!

2.People were just really having a hard time either remebering the name or they couldnt find it .

3.So it was the right thing to do !

So...What did you all get for Christmas?

I finally got a Cricut Gypsy!! And a couple Cricut cartridges, and a Kandi Rhinestone setter. If you have not seen the Kandi Rhinestone setter yet, it is a very cool tool!! 

So new things I have planned for this year:

Going to hopefully be making some video tutorials on different things!

Also going to be doing some product reviews of different items.

So I hope you all will join me:)

Thanks again,

Cheryl