Birthday Cards

Here's a few birthday cards that I made for the local Women's Club. Since they were relatively simple, they were easy to duplicate. I used scrapbook paper that I loved and haven't been able to use on a scrapbook pages. I used retired Stampin' Up! birthday stamped sentiments - great stamps to have in your stash.

Holiday Ornaments

Here's a variety of Christmas, coffee, and beach-themed ornaments using vinyl and the circuit machine. Love the white letters against the green tree. And the black letters look good too, and really pop on a white tree. 

Pets Leave Paw Prints on Our Heart Ornaments

I love this commercial use image "Pets Leave Paw Prints on Our Heart" svg image from DesignBundles.net. It has been a big seller at craft fairs, and I have orders from friends for this too. The above ornament has will a big paw print bow to jazz it up, but others loved it even without the bow. 

Beachy Ornaments

I made some beachy themed ornaments with black and white lettering, sand, and shells. The above saying is a cut from lovesvg.com: https://lovesvg.com/2016/08/let-the-sea-set-you-free/. The one below is from the same website: https://lovesvg.com/2016/08/the-beach-is-calling/. I have the commercial license for both. I didn't transfer all of the graphics that were on the images - some were too tiny to transfer well. What I learned was, depending on the color of the sand, one color font looks better than another. Black lettering on light colors and white on darker sand. And the one below looked amazing on a green tree, as the white tree washed it out a bit.

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Jolly Ol' St. Nick Challenge

For this week's Bitten by the Bug2 cricut challenge, Jolly Ol' St. Nick, I have Santa holding a tree. I love this Santa cut, especially so large, balancing a gift and a small tree. He is about 9 inches high. He is from the classic Joys of the Season cartridge. I matched Santa's coat to the "BELIEVE" under the tree, which is part of the scrapbook paper design, and am using that for the scrapbook page title. All that I need now is a photo from a Christmas past. Thanks for taking a closer look at my project!

Papercrafted Gifts Challenge

I am happy to be hosting this week's Bitten by the Bug2 Papercrafted Gifts challenge. I am a fan of to do lists and for the Holiday Season and created a cute wish list notebook for buying gifts or just keeping track of seasonal tasks. 

I had Staples cut down small legal sized notebooks and using sturdy cardstock, made covers. There are no measurements. I just traced the notebooks onto card stock and wished for the best! I embellished the covers with Stampin' Up! retired patterned papers. I used my cricut for the layered mats and the sentiment. 

The sentiment was one of my user fonts that I uploaded: Back to Black Bold. What's makes it special is that I cut the sentiment on white glittered paper. To speed glueing up and minimize gooey mistakes, I used my Zyron X adhesive. Still was work, but worth it. 

The mat is from Elegant Edges cart and is the Square Scallop Butterfly Label sans the butterfly label. I then sized and layered two squares and cut my mats on cardstock that matched the patterned papers. 

I have been selling these at my holiday craft fairs and have saved a few for gifts. Hope that it helps organize others - and that they love it!