Meet Mr Vicious

You can tell our old man is still not feeling 100 percent but he is so much better then he was two weeks ago. He is starting to put on weight and behaving better inside the house. It is a must now that little J keeps her toys pick up for an old man he sure loves playing with the dollies LOL! Do you love his gray beard or what I have to laugh every time he comes up for a kiss.

I have a card done waiting for more sun to come out so I can figure out the best settings for a card pic hopefully get it up for you later today.

Season's Greetings cling vinyl

I had some learning to do with this stuff, then I was horrified when I realized the Names I mailed out to my friends children would not stick the way they were cut. (Don't worry I am making up some new goodies and these will be really cool)

So with the cling vinyl (does not have an adhesive back) it is supposed to cling on glass, mirror etc.

1) If you take it straight from the carrier sheet and place it on your cutting mat the cling side will face the outside of a window. So when you are looking in the image appears correctly.

2) If you take the cling and flip it before you place it on your cutting mat the cling side will face to the inside of a window. So when you are looking out the image appears correctly.

I thought it was just not clingy because I had paper fibers on my cutting mat and they transferred to the cling, not so there is a right and a wrong side to this stuff. The cut I am showing today was at 5 1/2" it is the plain cut and the shadow blackout button (yep, I should have used a color other then green for the shadow blackout because now the leaves don't show up well) the berries are some leftover bling I had sitting on my desk. This is sticky on the letter side so it resides on our back door so people can see it when the come in. I am going to be working on some for our big picture window, I should have the routine down on this stuff now.

I purchased my Grafix cling Vinyl sheets here

Product list...
Cricut Expression
Cricut Winter Woodland
Grafix Cling Vinyl red and green
Bling

Happy Stamp Day!

Winter Woodland Seasons Greetings

Cricut has a beauty of a cartridge in Winter Woodland, I am so blessed that my Sister is letting me use it I have been having a ton of fun. Next on my list is to give the 3d houses a try but for today I am showing you the cardnial, pine bough and Seasons Greetings sentiment. So very sorry I did not write down the cut sizes I do remember the bird was at 2 1/2 inches and the other cuts in the same ball park. There is lots of shimmer and sparkle on this beauty here is how I put the dimension on my creation.

1) inked up the snowflake CB embossion folder with PTI's white snow pad and embossed the card stock.

2) Next I applied shimmer mist in silver and let dry.

3) My next step was to place on some stickles and let dry. At this point I decided to stickle all of the embellies and the sentiment.

4) The Season's sentiment is glued to the card stock while the Greetings is elevated with dimensional dots.



Product list...
Cricut Expression
Cricut Winter Woodland
Cuttlebug embossing folder snowflakes
PTI, ink, card stock
stickles
glitter mist
dimensional dots
white gel pen

Happy Stamp Day!

Faith Sisters Downloads and Blog Train

Faith Sisters has a Friends of Faith blog hop going on today with prizes you can find more by taking this link Friends of Faith Blog Hop Train

They also have a free kit for faithbooking up today you get the download for free by entering the provided code at checkout Faithbooking kit freebie link here.

Last but not least Day 7 download kit for the 12 days of Christmas is posted (these keep coming so fast seems like I just completed one here is more. Not that I am complaining these kits are nothing short of WONDERFUL. You can get the download link by clicking here Day 7 kit

Faith Sisters 12 Days of CHRISTmas Week 6

Here is my layout celebrating day 6 of the song 12 days of CHRISTmas. Day 6 is represented by 6 geese a laying these 6 geese represent the 6 days of creation.

If you have not taken the short trip yet to the Faithsisters site it is so worth it these amazing free digi kits are so wonderful.

Have a Happy Stamp Day!

Altered Legal Pad PTI Swap

Link to PTI card and Notebook swap hosted by Craftycrunchymama on SCS This round has just opened we would love to have you join us.

$8.00 Notebook swap, LOL! The swap girls are probably sick of me calling them the $$ notebooks but I find the exchange so ridiculous I can't get it out of my head. (A known paper crafter sells these altered notebooks on Etsy and people actually pay the $8.00 listed price...some people need a reality check don't they?) Okay, I have it for them...
Staples Receipt for 12 jr legal pads staples brand with two cuts and tax totalling


$11.65
divided by
24 (the amount of cut pads you have in the end)
equals
$.4854
or 49 cents per 1/2 legal pad (this is your main cost for this project.
You then get two covers from a 8 1/2 by 11 standard piece of card stock we will use PTI's price of per sheet of $.18 (when you buy the 50 pack) so cost per project $.09
PTI's price for DP (1 8 by 8 sheet) $.22 and you can get 3 projects from 1 sheet so a final cost of $.07 so lets do the math for the cost of paper product used in this project...

.49 (notebook)
.09 (card stock)
.07 (dp)
.65 (total cost of paper product used per project)

**Note, I have not included price for any products other then the cost of paper**

There you have it my trip back to the reality of a Midwestern small town girl who would NEVER pay $8.00 for one stack of paper, now do you see my humor in it all?


Here is my finished altered notebook for this swap round *I will be replacing the pen with an RSVP brand pen* I donated some note pads such as these in October to the Nursing Home my friend was joking that I need a ball chain to attach the pens so they would know where they are LOL. I took her seriously thinking she was onto something here and wanted to figure out a nice looking way to attach a pen to this style of altered pad. Here is what I did...
save the bottom scrap piece of card stock
punch the outer card stock on the back seam with SU's slot punch
thread the card stock through then adhere to the inside back cover
place in the cut notepad
make two score lines 1/2" apart
attach the other end to the outside front cover
adhere your decorator piece of dp
there you have it a notepad with attached pen;)


Product list...
jr. legal pad cut in half
PTI scarlet jewel card stock, ribbon and ink
PTI stamp set Sweet Love
Bo bunny dotted dp
BasicGrey Bittersweet DP
SU slot punch
SU scallop circle punch
1 1/2" circle punch
Crackle Accents by Ranger
White Gel pen

Happy Stamp Day!

Joy to the World

I used the Cricut Winter Woodland Cartridge and my PTI stamp supplies to create this beauty. Not original CHRISTmas colors but I am working with what I have and loved the church in the Cricut Winter Woodland hand book so I went with it and it led me to PTI's dotted DP. I completed covered the assembled church in glaze and let dry before placing on my card with dimensional dots. I also ran the assembled Joy cut through the Swiss Dot embossing folder before applying to card.




A challenge for you this Holiday Card making season try a non traditional color combo on your creation. If you take me up on this challenge leave a comment in this post so we can all see.

Product list...
Cricut Expression
Cricut Winter Woodland
Church cut at 4"
Joy/shadow cut at 2 1/2"
cuttlebug embossing folder Swiss Dots
PTI DP, Ribbon, Silent Night Stamp Set, card stock and ink
cross bead (hobby lobby)
Head pin (hobby lobby)
Dimensional Dots
SU word window
SU pretties Kit
Glaze

Happy Stamp Day!