Birthday Blog Hop



- cardstock: black from Hobby Lobby
- patterned paper: We R Memory Keepers
- cake diecut and phrase: Smiley Cards cartridge
- DMC floss (2 strands)
- glossy accents on flames and cake frosting
- ribbon: We R Memory Keepers
- brads: stash
Sizes:
- Card base is standard A2 size – 5 1/2″ x 4 1/4″ (5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ folded in half)
- Cake: 3 1/2″
- 3 strips for front: 1 1/4″ x 5 1/4″ each
- green paper: 3″ x 3 3/4″ with the top corners rounded
- (Inside) rectangle: 5″ x 3 3/4″ with corners rounded
- (inside) strip: 1 1/2″ x 5 1/2″
- (inside) circle: 3 1/4″
- (inside) “Ha-p B-day” 2.87″ wide x 1.72″ tall (on gypsy)
Thanks so much for hopping through! Your next stop is Cherie at www.CherieScraps.blogspot.com
Happy Birthday Cricut Mug
Yesterday was my Daddy’s birthday. I bought him a gift card to his favorite place to eat. He’s a beer drinker, so I thought a beer mug would be perfect.
The mug and the “cheers” is from the Smiley cards cartridge. I welded the mug shape into a card and then attached patterned paper inside to make a pocket for the gift card. I made the ‘beer’ inside by cutting the mug smaller than the original. I then cut the handle off and made it wavy at the top with scissors. I embossed the foam with the swirls in my Cuttlebug. The word I printed from my computer on white cardstock.
I would love to make one again but with acetate so it is clear like a real mug. I didn’t have any, so cardstock had to do.
Thanks for visiting! I will be participating in a blog hop starting this Saturday.
Cricut Basketball Project
My daughter’s first season of basketball has come to a close. I decided to make each player a basketball with their name and number on it. I was going to put a white circle on the back too so they could all sign each other’s balls at the end of season party. I thought it was a great idea! So I spend hours making them and excitedly show my eight year old, and well, she wasn’t too impressed, lol. She said, “Can we at least give them a candy bar or something?”. Well, I don’t have time to make candybar wrappers now (that they will just throw away!). So…the little boogers are getting basketballs whether they like it or not:)!
Anyway, here’s the picture of a few of them:

I used the Basketball Solutions cartridge for the ball and a Varsity font with my Make the Cut software for the letters and numbers.
“Be Mine”: Slumber Party Lite Cart
Better late than never, right?!….
I’ve been under the weather a bit. Swinging from sunny to blizzard back to sunny has sent my sinuses haywire. Feeling a bit better now but for a couple days I didn’t wanna get out of bed. I even took a pillow and slept in the car during Cali’s basketball practice last night!
I made this little card from the Slumber Party Lite cartridge.
Supplies:
- My Minds Eye paper (not sure which line) 8″x4″ folded in half
- Bazzill Bling (pink heart and behind the numbers)
- Cut from Slumber Party Lite at 3 1/2″
- “Be Mine’ rubon from a Basic Grey card kit
- Ribbon and bling from stash
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Cricut Card: Smiley Cards Car
I went to get a tire checked out this morning and overheard the man telling how his wife didn’t clear her windows well enough and ended up doing a good amount of damage to their car by hitting a light pole. I kept thinking how horrible she must feel. So, I headed home and made this cute card. It’s the first time I’ve used the Smiley Cards download that we got on our Gypsys. I dropped it off this afternoon. Hopefully it brightened her day when he brought it home to her.

The background card is 4×6 (8×6 folded in half)
All the car pieces are cut at 3.35″ I used mini brads for the eyes.
The strip across the card is 1.5″x6″ and I wrapped black ribbon around it.
Now it’s your turn….grab a cart you haven’t used and get cutting. Or make a card to brighten someone’s day- even a stranger’s!
Hello Thursday: 6 New Cricut Carts
After waiting all day, Cricut finally released their new carts yesterday.

Note that two of them, Car Decals and Ornamental Iron, are only available through CricutMachine.com. Quarter Note is only available through Michaels. Hmm…..
Don’t forget that Joy, Tammy, Robyn and Melanie all have projects and more information on their blogs.
Here are the links to the cartridges on the Cricut site so you can see additional images of each. If you click on PDF it will take you to the PDF handbooks where you can see all the images in depth.
- Car Decals (PDF)
- Ornamental Iron (PDF)
- Paper Lace (PDF)
- Quarter Note (PDF)
- Sesame Street Seasons (PDF)
- Wrap It Up (PDF)
My mind always changes once I see the handbooks and look through each page. Check them out…which ones are your must haves?
Autumn Layout Kit with Instructions
We are gearing up for the pumpkin patch, my favorite thing of the entire year! It made me remember this layout I designed a while back. One of my “one day” things is to make kits again. I love making kits and have really missed it since I quit teaching classes a few years ago.
If you would like the instructions for this layout click HERE to download the pdf…All of my kits are extremely detailed with supplies, sizes, assembly instructions, cutting charts and even images of the keypad overlays so you know what button to push!
MPS Challenge Card and Checklist Winner
My Pink Stamper has started having Wednesdays be “Imagine That Wednesday“. Yesterday she had a challenge to use an Imagine cart and bling up your project. So… I used the Imagine Best Friends cart and added some Stickles.

Also, the winner of the Cricut Checklist App is Lisa Malcom. I combined comments from the blog and the post on Facebook since most people seem to read the blog posts from Facebook. Congrats Lisa!























