An Autumn Note

Yesterday all of us Cricut girls got together for lunch and a play date.  The best part of it was that Nikki brought her little Baby Nolan to meet us.  It was good to see Nikki and her seven week old baby.  He is so very cute.  And actually, he is just perfect!  He is blessed to have such a good Mommy and Daddy. 

I started working on today's card while they were here, but Nolan and Nikki had my attention.  After dinner I finished the card.  I used an embossing folder from Stampin' Up for the background.  The images are from stamp sets by both MFT Stamps and Sunny Studio Stamps.  You can't see it too well, but I also used some copper thread in the pumpkin arrangement.  The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted's Sweet Little Sentiments set. Have a great Labor Day weekend!

Halloween Lip Balm Holder

Still using previously purchased Halloween paper, I created this lip balm holder.  The lip balm box is from The Stamp Doctor.  The cat was punched using the cat punch from Stampin' Up and retired designer paper.  Since the paper was not that thick, I lined the back of the lip balm holder with black cardstock which was edged with a SU punch.  The best thing is the orange embossing powder.  After stamping the sentiment in Versamark, I embossed it using retired Tangelo Twist embossing powder.  Since it is so old, I thought it might not work, but it did!  The spider was created on my Cricut.  This would be the perfect box in which to put money or a check. Have a great day!

Haunted Street

 I have seen some cute Halloween paper but this year I am not going to buy any until I use the Halloween paper I already have!  The pattern papers used on this card are from retired Stampin' Up collections.  The sentiment is from SU's Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set.  After stamping the sentiment on Tangelo Twist cardstock, I punched it out with a retired SU punch.  I trimmed that down and adhered it to black cardstock that was also punched with the same punch.  The Halloween twine is something I purchased a long time ago from either Amuse or Lawn Fawn.  It will probably last longer than I since there is so much of it!  Have a great day!

Cards For Grandma

My neighbor children's Grandma is going to have surgery.  So I thought I would cut things on the Cricut that the children could use to make get well cards for their Grandma.  The turtle and the whale were easy to cut and put together.  Then I thought the little duck in the umbrella would make an adorable "Heard You're Under The Weather" card.  And then I started cutting and layering!  This card took a whole lot of time so Grandma will not be getting one like it.  I have a duck stamp with a little duck under an umbrella that the older girl can stamp and color! 

I haven't used my Cricut in ages.  So it was fun to get back to it and refresh my memory on writing with it and cutting layers.  I spent ages trying to figure out how to change the color on the canvas only to find out that option is in a new place in Cricut Access. I need to watch more getting reacquainted videos! Have a great day!