May Cricut Class

Happy Spring! The trees and flowers are blooming and the weather is trying to warm up. I chose some pretty, Spring paper for the May Cards. I really like all the cards this month. Click on the photos to make them bigger.

So, first up we have a card from the new Everyday Pop Up Cartridge. I'm having some trouble figuring out the pop up part of the card. Hopefully I can get it figured out so we can add it during the classes.

Next up are some cherries from the Country Life cartridge. The plain and scalloped circles are from Mini Monograms. You can't really tell from the picture, but the sentiment is on a straight pin. Very easy to put together and it looks great.

Next up is a great Father's Day card. This is from the new Wrap It Up cartridge. Melissa thinks it looks like one of the cars from Mr. Toad's Wild Ride at Disneyland. I think it is pretty cute. The will have a sentiment on it. I couldn't find an appropriate stamp so I will have to print something up on the computer. I also used the Accent Essentials cartridge for the label shapes.

Next up is a pretty textured flower from Plantin Schoolbook. I used one of the Tim Holtz texture fades to emboss one of the flowers and leaves. (The vase on the first card is also embossed with the Cuttlebug dots embossing plate.

Last, but not least, we have Thanks a Melon from Simply Charmed and Just Because Cards.

Hope you can join me in classes this month. Classes are: Tuesday, May 10 at 10:30 am or 5:30 pm; and Friday May 27 at 10:30.

I'm also teaching a mini book class on May 17 at 10:30 am and 5:30 pm. I'll post pictures of that class tomorrow.

For those of you who are looking for pictures from our cruise, I'll start posting those on Monday.

April Cricut Class

Here is a look at the cards for the April Cricut card class at Craft Fancy.

This month I decided on a theme of three and used BoBunny dots paper (it's one of my favorites).

So first up we have three butterflies. These are from the Serenade cartridge. The postage stamp is from Create a Critter.

With summer on the way, I hope, a beach themed card seemed like a fun idea. These three are from Create a Critter.

Graduation is right around the corner, so here is a card for the graduate in your life. The images are from Wild Card and the numbers are from Plantin Schoolbook. I'm thinking of coming up with another optional card for those who don't have any graduates in their life.

Are you ready for a Birthday Party? These images are from Straight from the Nest. 

Mother's Day is coming up soon, so here is the perfect card for Mom. This would also be a great card to let someone know you are thinking of them. The flowers are from the Walk in My Garden Cartridge.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to our vacation this month, class dates have changed. 

Classes are, Thursday, April 28 10:30 am-12:30 pm; 5:30-7:30 pm and Friday, April 29 10:30 am-12:30 pm.  In May we will be back to the regular Tuesday and Friday classes.

Here is a list of all my cartridges for those who were wondering.

Accent Essentials

Bloom

Celebrate with Flourish

Christmas Noel

Christmas Cheer

Country Life

Create a Critter

Doodlecharm

Doodletype

Easter

Freshly Picked

Home Decor

Just Because Cards

Lacy Labels

Mickey and Friends

Mini Monograms

Paper Doll Dress Up

Plantin Schoolbook

Savory

Serenade

Simply Charmed

Simply Sweet

Summer Vacation

Straight from the Nest

Stretch Your Imagination

Tear Drop

Very Merry Tags

Walk in My Garden

Wild Card

Winter Frolic

Cupcakes!

We have been eating lots of cupcakes around here lately. Most trips to downtown Chicago involve a trip to Sprinkles and there is a new cupcake place called Crumbs that we haven't tried yet.

There is also a cupcake truck (Flirty Cupcakes) in the city that travels to the suburbs on the weekends. They have some delicious cupcakes too.

Anyway, last time Steve was at Sprinkles, he picked up cupcakes and a couple of cupcake mixes. Today I baked the banana cupcakes. I tried piping the frosting for the first time. I used a ziplock bag and it worked really well. No mess, (well not much) no fuss, and looks great.

I'll let you know how they taste.


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Knitting Contest

The Skacel yarn company is running knitting contest to celebrate 20 years of making Trekking sock yarns. So each month, January to June, there is a new pattern using their yarn. Each pattern is a mystery, one clue per week is given out and at the end of the month, you have a new pair of socks or fingerless gloves. There are prizes given out each week and month and a grand prize of $1,000.00 spending spree in the Skacel warehouse at the end of the contest.

These are the January socks. (Click on the pictures to make them larger) The first clue was for the toes, the second for the foot, the third for the heel and the final clue for the leg and ribbing. A portion of the cost of the yarn was donated to ovarian cancer research.

February's project was fingerless gloves. I'm not a big fan of fingerless gloves, so I've decided to turn these into mittens with a flap. The flap is finished, I just need to sew them on and then I'll have a pair of mittens and will be able to use my iPhone and keep my hands warm too.

The project for March is a pair of socks in pretty tropical colors. These are top down, in a chevron pattern and I'll post pictures of them when they are finished.

Better late than never

Sorry for the delay in getting these pictures posted. I took bad photos and waited until I could get a copy of the lovely ones that April took. Didn't she do a great job?

Cards for men is the theme of the month. You can click on the pictures for a larger view if you like.

First up, a bicycle by a tree. I'm really loving the different trees on the Cricut cartridges and have used several of them in projects. This one is from the Serenade cartridge and the bicycle is from Just Because Cards.

Next we have a truck full of gifts. The truck is from Just Because Cards and the gifts are from Doodlecharms. I love the little tags.

Make A Wish - the letters are from Country Life. I really like the old fashioned alphabet on this one. The candle is from Straight from the Nest and the gift is from Doodlecharms.

For the golfer in your life. The golf bag is from Celebrate with Flourish, and the letters are from Plantin Schoolbook. I used the shadow version of the letters to give them a little more weight.

And finally, Catch You Later! The fish and pole are from Simply Charmed and the words are from Just Because Cards.

The paper I used this month is the Twig line from Little Yellow Bicycle. The colors are perfect for cards for guys.

Hope to see you in class!

Its Your Birthday!

Thought I would share the card I made for my Dad's Birthday. I didn't use the Cricut for this one. Shocker I know!! 

I had fun with some stamps and ink. I really like this Sassafras paper, so many colors to choose from. I'm sure I'll use it again for more cards.

Here are a couple of pictures from the storm earlier this week. The first one was from Tuesday night. Quite the blizzard. We even had thunder snow which was kind of weird. Tonight we get the 11:00 pm-whenever cleaning of the garage roof. They move the snow from the garage to the street and then load it into dump trucks and take it away. A very noisy process.

This one is from Wednesday morning. We ended up with about 18" of snow. One good thing about living downtown is all of the streets around us are cleaned up really quickly.

February Cards

It is almost time for the February Cricut Classes.  Here are the cards we will be making this month.
I used the following cartridges this month: A Walk in My Garden, Create a Critter, Freshly Picked and Straight from the Nest.


Class dates are: 
February 2 - 11:00 am-1:00 pm; 5:30-7:30 pm
February 4 - 10:30 am-12:30 pm
February 8 - 11:00 am-1:30 pm; 5:30-7:30 pm
February 25 - 10:30 am-12:30 pm


We will also have a Cricut Club on Wednesday, February 23 from 5-00-8:00 pm. Bring whatever you want to work on and have some fun.

A pretty Get Well card.

A cheerful card for a friend

Send someone a Smile

A cute little snail

A card to let a friend know you are thinking of them

Hope to see you in class or at the Cricut Club!