This week I am trying to get a head start on my display for the next month and making up a lesson plan for the next Cricut class.  So I cut a couple of St. Patrick’s Day favors.  The hat was very simple but the pot has proven to be a bit of a pain to keep together.  I used extra sticky tape but it still comes apart when I leave it sitting. I’m going to have to fix that before I put it on display.

I need to work on some Easter but it is a little early for the stores here to have anything for it.  So I guess I’ll have to find something else to do!!!  Maybe something for fun instead of work.

The Cricut class is an advanced class. We are going to learn to import images from the internet and how to create our own things like Steve and I have with the cards and hearts. I’m a little nervous but have a week or so before class so I can get it all down!!

Miss all my Utah friends!!  Thanks for all encouragement!!!

Lu

This week I wanted to make some woven hearts from fabric. I did this years ago out of Christmas material for ornaments. But the funny thing is that I have never done any for Valentine’s. So this year I asked Steve to help me program it into the Cricut and got some Valentine’s fabric. I like the way this came out, I hope you do too!! Oh and you can do them out of paper too! (that’s the single one.)
Thanks for stopping by!!!
Lu

Well I finally got the things done for my display done! It is so much fun when things work out! So I made a pop up card, a mailbox, a layered scene, a cup and candy holders. The mailbox, card, and layered scene were in Design Space by Cricut. The cup was my idea and the candy holders I found online. Steve helped me improve it, so that once you eat the candy you still have the cute holder, and helped me resize it so different candy bars fit. He also helped me get the cup paper so we could cut it on the Cricut. So here are a bunch of pictures!!!

Thanks for reading!!

Lu

This week I am trying to get a display ready for my classes at Joannn’s. The projects for my class are a multi layered card, window cling and iron on.

The iron on was supposed to be a tote with a US map but I don’t want to do that so I did an apron!! Besides now it can be part of my Valentine’s display!!

It was tough to design and then figure out the tricks to the iron on and I made a mistake or two but I think it turned out cute! Next time sure won’t take me as long. This time took me about 2 hours. That is way too long but now that I have done it once I think I could do it in about half the time. The colors didn’t come out too good either.  the burgundy looks black in the photo. But the colors are burgundy and fuchsia.

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(The yellow marks are from the light box and are not on the apron)

I’m doing all kinds of things for my Valentines display this week so I will post more of those ideas as I get them done!!

thanks for reading!
Lu

Sorry this is late, Christmas is throwing my schedule off!!! Not news to anyone that knows me!!!  But I wanted to send out some cards to all my friends that take the time to read my ramblings, and that took a little time.

I had one more card that I wanted to make and I got a few new stamps that I wanted to try out! ( they are Close to my Heart)  I love the pine boughs and pine cones!!! And I got these small Christmas greetings!!  So this was a fun card to make!!  Yes it is the bigger size but I made an envelope too!!  Another new thing for me was this pen that someone here in Missouri told me about that lets you add a little sparkle to your work.  It’s hard to tell in the pictures but there are glitter highlights on the stamped images and the “flower” punches!  They have these pens in lots of different colors but I could only find the clear one here.  That was fine with me because then I can use it everywhere!!!  The pen is called “wink of stella” and I found it at Micheal’s by the glues.  I think in Utah you could probably find it other places. It was not cheap here but supposedly it lasts a long time, I’ll keep you posted on that.  I did look online and Walmart had a good selection. so I will order from there next time.

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I hope you all have a happy holiday and a blessed new year!!!

Thanks for reading!!

Lu

This week has been really busy for us again!!!  But I thought I’d show you how a pretty box can make a fun addition to your gifts!  And give you a little bit of help as to how they assemble best.  I cut this box, lid and bow out on the Cricut.  That was all pretty easy and self explanatory. But because of the way I see things assembling it was the hard part for me.  The Cricut scores all the lines that need folded so that is where you start.  You think everything folds to the inside but some of the tabs fold the opposite way.  So with some help from Steve we figured it out so I could help my ladies do it in class.  This is a fairly easy thing to do unless you have stiffness in your hands.  The folds are small and the space to put glue is small.  I have used several different adhesives and the ones that seem to work best are the 2 sided tapes that are extra sticky.  Make sure your folds are good and tight before you start gluing.  I applied tape to everywhere before I started to put it together. And that is another reason I like the 2 sided tape, because you can put all the tape on but not peel the paper off until you are ready to stick that area.  I like this box because the tabs (when you do them correctly) help stabilize the box (and lid). The tabs are meant to fold inside and attach to the side of the box that it is not attached to, so the adhesive is on both sides of those little tabs.  The tabs really are the key to a stable box and lid because they fold onto the opposite sides and make the corners good and crisp.  The bow is  pretty easy, you just line up all the middle curves.  The Cricut example has the bow just stuck down the sides of the box. but I wanted mine to open without damaging the box. So you can see that I adhered it to the side of the box and then cut it off and adhered it to the lid.

Ok a video would be better but I’m not that good yet!! lol lol lol

I made this box to take a gift to a gift exchange. I put a necklace in it. The box was the hit.  I also took the sample paper ornament cut outs I did for my demoing at joanns and those were a big hit. Sometimes I’m surprised what people like and what isn’t so liked.  Guess I just need to do more!!!!

Thanks for listening to my rambling!!!

lu

Well, this week I got the lesson plans from Joann’s for the first 2 Cricut classes they want to be taught.  So I have been working on the first one.  It makes a card, a box and bow, and a vinyl monogram for a notebook.  I didn’t want a notebook so I did a mug.  I thought if I did them all 3 in the same colors then when I do the project samples for the second class I could use a different color and it wouldn’t be confusing.  So here’s what I came up with…

And now Steve wants me to make cards for his work. I need a dozen all the same so I’m working on that today.  I got it done.  The one on the left is the design for Steve.  The one on the right is with another tree sticker that I had.

Lu

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It has been hard to get excited about Christmas this year for me. I think some of it is that the weather is still so nice here! Today is the first day we have had frost on the car windows and by 9 am things are completely melted off.

It has helped that we are getting something ready to send to our kids and granddaughter. And we went shopping for some things for a 2-year-old for a Sub For Santa this weekend!
Also this weekend we went to one of the local stores and did these darling make and take mini coffee cups!

So today I’m just going to post some pictures of the things we have been doing. It doesn’t seem like it is very creative but it has been fun!

This is just a simple card I made for my kids. We decided to do 12 days of Christmas with just some cheap, fun things we found. It is kind of a tradition that we put funny sayings with their packages so we did that and have things the same so we can all open and do the same activity or have the same thing each of the 12 days!  There are actually 20 days because we got carried away! lol lol lol That doesn’t sound like me at all does it?!!!  We are hoping to get them out of here and on their way to Utah and Montana today or tomorrow!  We just have one more goodie we want to make and put in!!!  Alex’s is a little fuller because there are 3 people in his little family now!!

Hope you are all working on fun Christmas projects of your own!!  If I can help in any way, please let me know.  I’d love to help!!!!!

Lu

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Ok MJ asked if we could cut that orange card from fabric, I haven’t tried that but I did do a shirt for my granddaughter.  Here it is. You have to use a stabilizer on the back like heat and bond, but then you can see (hopefully) that it cuts pretty fine detail. The detail in the feet and the thin space between the ear and body!  Thanks for the question MJ!!!!

Lu

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I’m playing with my Cricut some more this week because we are having a lot of people ask me to show them how to do different things!! I’ very grateful that I can help and have fun at the same time!! This week I learned how to take a lace design and incorporate it into a card! I think it turned out really pretty! I also learned how to add the score lines! So the card can fold in the right place for the lace. I’m excited to play with other shapes to form this gate card!!!!

Lu

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