Reward points up for grabs.....

Hi Friends,
Do any of you participate in the cricut rewards program?  I have an extra "Give a Hoot" rewards certificate to give away.  You must not have already redeemed a Give a Hoot rewards certificate (because you can only enter a reward for a cartridge once).  It is worth 90 points.  Everyone who is interested, please leave a comment on this post with your name and email info and I'll draw a random winner on Wednesday.  Thanks to everyone who takes the time to stop by and read my blog.   

Tweetheart frame

I have another fun project to share.  At a recent crop I was at we were all given a plain wooden frame and told to decorate it with just the supplies we had.  I hadn't packed much extra stuff, just supplies for what I was working on.  This is what I came up with for my frame. 

The word "tweetheart" is from the 3 birds on parade cartridge and cut out of brown vinyl.  The yellow bird is also from 3 birds on parade cartridge.  I cut the cage from the Serenade cartridge and used a couple of pop dots to "pop" it up a bit.  Of course I had ribbon, the paper was a couple of scraps I had hanging out in my bag.  I used my favorite signo white gel pen to add some highlights and wah-lah......  The frame will hold a 3X3 photo. 

I am currently working on some new magazine submissions, one for a Birthday idea book and one for an issue of Cricut Magazine using the  Freshly picked cartridge.  I'll post the projects if they aren't picked.

Happy Crafting friends!

Valentines.......

I have been feverishly working on completing Valentines for the girls at church that I work with.  Ok, that might be a bit of an exageration, because anyone who knows me knows I would rather be making valentine than doing anything domestic, like laundry, dishes, ducting, cleaning,..........  One of the goals for our young womens group this year is to become closer and develop more of a sisterhood.  Nothing draws you closer together than knowing why others love you.  I suggested that we do a Valentines exchange and ask the girls to write a note to each girl saying why they like or love them.  This is my offering for the Valentines exchange.  A simple pillow box cut from the wedding cartridge.  I embossed with a sizzix folder and tied with a cute ribbon.  Inside there is a personal note I wrote to each girl, that starts with "I love you because......".  Since there was wasted space, I filled it up with peanut butter M&M's.

Pillow box from Wedding cartridge.

Because we needed something to put all those love notes in, I quickly threw together some simple and easy paper sacks.
I love the simplicity of these.  If I had more time, I would have added ribbon handles.  Still I think they are functional and well.......pretty cute.  I'd love to hear what you all think.

Lori

I love you to death.....Another Masculine Valentine

This is another Valentine I made for the Masculine challenge.  Again the rules were we had to use pink as the main color, 3 cricut cuts, and tule.  The theme was "I love you to death".  I created a cut file using my gypsy for the box.  It fits 10 Hershey nuggets inside.  I added the chain and charms to help man it up.  The pink tule was a bit much before I added the chain.  Anyway, This will be the cut file we learn when I teach my first 3D gypsy design class the first Saturday in March at the Clinton Roberts.  Thanks for looking.

 

3D Class project  Nugget box

Top view, 3D gypsy design class project

Hello....Any one still there? and an X-rated Valentine.

Hi friends...(if any of you are still around)....  I have had so much going on and I have meant to let you all know what I have been up to.  In the past couple of months, I have started my business Sentimental Expressions, had my newly finished office flooded due to frozen and burst pipes, lost over 75% of my paper and my large 24 inch plotter, furniture, flooring, etc.  We got that all taken care of and my office back together to find my pipes are frozen AGAIN!!!!  Because I don't want to dwell on the bad stuff, here are a few of the great things that I have been up to.  I had my first project published in The Bug Magazine, and now I can show it, so here it is, a version of an oldie but a goodie. ")

Here is a picture of the printed project.

Here is an up close picture, still not a great quality picture, but I hope you get the idea.

Since having this published I have submitted several more projects and will have 3 more pieces published.  I will pieces in the March/April Issue of Cricut Magazine (a Baby project), the March/ April issue of The Bug Magazine (a spring piece), and a piece in the May/June issue of Cricut Magazine ( a home decor piece).  I can't tell you how exciting and satisfying it is to see one of my own original creations in print.

So on to another note, I attended a crop a couple of weeks ago.  There was a challenge placed before us to create a Valentine for a man or was masculine.  The challenge rules stated that you had to use at least 3 different cuts, 3 different papers, have the main color be pink, use tule in your design, and use on of the products from a PC sponsor.  The product I choose to use was the i-top tool which allows you to cover and make your own custom brads.  Long story short, I came up with a fun idea, it turned out a little x-rated, but won the grand prize.  So please don't look if you are easily offended.  My intent was to make a funny valentine for a man.  My 18 years of marriage has taught me that men have one thing on their mind 99% of the time.  So here it is, a candy bar slider......

You're invited

to a peep show.

So again it is not a great picture, but it is all I had since one of the gals who was attending the crop asked if she could buy one to send to her husband in Iraq.  I gave it to her to send to him, but snapped a couple of  quick pics to save.  So I know it is a bit inappropriate, but I would love to hear what you think about this crafty x-rated valentine, do you think I got my point across?
Lori