25th Dec - last day of the 25 Days of Christmas - NAVITY scene

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25 Days of Christmas,

with 25 Cricut projects a day.

Don't forget to stop by Erica's blog to see 24 more projects today....

and every day in December.  As this is the Last day of our 25 days of Christmas - I thank Erica for allowing me to be a part of her Seasonal Team and can't wait for 2012 for much more creativity as she graciously accepted me to be on her DT. (oohh so excited!!)  I thank everyone for their nice comments and hope you left them on everyone's else's!  Please it is never to late to go back and see the past 24 days of creativity and a season of Joy, faith and happiness!

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Merry Christmas!  Today I celebrate the BIRTH of Jesus!  What a blessing his birth has given to me.  Today, I wanted little to no frills, just a plain view of what Jesus and his birth represented.  I hope that I display that for you today.  My inspiration for today's Home decor as I was singing and Worshiping in church this past Sunday, this song just stood out at me as I stared at the words and thought THIS WAS PERFECT!

Creating these awesome Home Decor was using the cartridges; Inspired heart cutting out the Nativity Scene at 8.85in H.  The Star was created using the cartridge; Christmas cut out at 16.41in H.    More directions, info along the pics below.  The back board is a piece of thin cardboard bought at Hobby lobby, I covered it with Silver paper using 3in strips. (it only took 2 strips).  I inked around the edges using silver ink pad.

Printed via my computer I typed only a few verses that pertained to the "light". 3 verses total.  Printed on white cardstock that was first inked all over using the gold ink pad then printed. Tore around the edges and re-inked using the gold inkpad.  Wanted the "old' effect.

oops on the side view.  I used the Christmas cartridge as this was a suggestion from another blogger and it was awesome.  I used the contour hide feature to hide the Christmas tree as I only just wanted the star.  Using the Icicle Stickles - I coated the top layer of the star and used pop dots (2 levels high) to give it depth off the board.

here is the partial song to The First Noel.

side view of the star before it was stickled...

wanting a simple yet not frilly look to the wonderful event, I used gold and silver poinsettas from the company Prima Flowers called Holiday Metal. So pretty aren't they.

Wishing you and your family a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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24th Dec - 25 Days of Christmas - Santa

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25 Days of Christmas,

with 25 Cricut projects a day.

Don't forget to stop by Erica's blog to see 24 more projects today....

and every day in December.  Please it is never to late to go back and see the past 23 days of creativity and a season of Joy, faith and happiness!

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NOW onto my Santa project 

He's checking your list.. 
gonna make sure whose naughty and nice......

Can you believe tomorrow is Christmas!  So today's card is based on Santa..   Give it up for Santa!!

**I JUST LOVE my Cricut Imagine and the new Imagine cartridge of November Santa's Village.  Santa is cut out at 3.5in as well as the Merry Christmas paper background cut at 6in and then trimmed to fit.  This shape is found within the shapes in the Imagine machine.
              (don't throw the pieces trimmed - they make awesome borders on other projects)
**The larger frame that is embossed is cut at 2in and the smaller at 1.5in.
**The background paper on the base is from the Christmas Stack from DCWV pack.
** the 2 fibers green and red are from an awesome set from Making Memories Funky with Fibers.

see the embossing behind the Dear Santa..  It is embossed using the PC countdown to Christmas.  DEAR SANTA is stamped with Ctmh D1383 Santa's List and ink pad cranberry ink pad.

Please make sure you head back over to mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com  and be  more inspired from fellow Seasonal DT members!   Please leave a comment as these always make my day!!

19th Dec - 25 Days of Christmas - a hot drink :)

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and every day in December.

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I love coffee, tea and hot cocoa - so what to make..  hmmm,,   Well today I made hot cocoa since my 7yr old loves it more :) I was thinking..  I can do this.... what do I think of when drinking.. sipping on a hot drink...   music; so hence the background for this yummy card!   enjoy!

 ...

Cricut Imagine; Imagine More on page 38 is the card  & the side border is on page 26 the one with music notes. (I separated them out and changed the color.  As you see the music notes is now the background paper music. The green frame is created using the install images on the Imagine and I just colored it green.       The coffee mugs are from Christmas Cheer and cut out at 2.5in.  using the paper colors from the Imagine More cartridge.

The ribbon is a wire ribbon that was left over from a stash I have..  it's silver and was just perfect!!

MMMM....snow, music in the background and a good cup of hot cocoa with marshmallows. PERFECT!   I used the snow marker from Uchida and heat set.      the green paper is from the Imagine;  Imagine More

I was looking for a fun quote or even part of a song regarding cocoa and Christmas - nothing.. nada.. zip  so I went with something simple yet perfect since the font matched the paper.   Stamp set is from CTMH:    and stamped in chocolate ink from ctmh.

 Please go on back to Erica's blog and check out the other cards.. Please leave a comment on all blogs!  Merry Christmas and have yourself some hot cocoa with marshmallows  YUMMY!!

National Cupcake Day Hop 15th Dec 2011

Today is National Cupcake Day!  Today's card serves 2 purposes...  to celebrate a yummy day AND a Christmas card!  enjoy...  I hope you like.
I have a friend who is on the I'm not sure I believe in.. but..  so she likes cupcakes and so why not..

  You should have just arrived from a very creative Dandy  BUT if you are here by chance. (thank you) but please start from the beginning of our awesome leader and crafter GILL

Inside card says...   The Birth of Jesus Christ.....   Merry CHRISTmas

 Supplies used:
* Cricut Cartridges:  Once Upon A Time  (cut at 2.95h & 2.06w)
* Paper:  all paper from the DCWV paper packs Christmas (a few years old)  The cake "paper" is cut from paper that had christmas bulbs on it.
* Stamp sayings are from Ctmh set D1336 Cupcake Sprinkles
* Stickles: star dust, Xmas red, yellow, & lagoon
* I used a PK face and then because it didn't really show up very well  -I did the next best thing...  stickle it!!  (imagine it being frosting)
* Ribbon:  gold and silver - ctmh

So there you are....  HAPPY CUPCAKE DAY!!  Have a cupcake in honor of such a yummy day!!  Please be sure to comment :)
1 - Gill - http://creationsbygillm.blogspot.com   the beginning of such a yummy hop

2 -  Linda S - http://lindasimpsoncraftypieceofheaven.blogspot.com/
3 - Linda M - http://www.thefruitofmyhands.blogspot.com
4 - Pam -  http://pammejo-scrapbookflair.blogspot.com
5 - Haidee-http://created2bunique.blogspot.com/
6 - Becky - http://www.beckscricards.blogspot.com
7 - Valerie - http://canonburycreations.blogspot.com
8 - Ashley - http://www.theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com
9 - Dandy - http://dandylicioushair.blogspot.com/  JUST CAME FROM
10 - Doris - http://mybugandmecreate.blogspot.com   ME
11 - Barbara - http://barbarab3.blogspot.com/   NEXT
12 - Lisa - http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/
13 -  Jearise - http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com/

Please head on over to  BARBARA  and  see her yummy cupcake!!

**Will also enter this card into the Erica's 25 days of Christmas day on the 17th Dec. Baking.**

14th Dec - 25 Days of Christmas - Ornaments

I was to make my card using the Imagine.. BUT my Imagine had a defect and went back to PC - so I changed to a card.... BUT my Imagine came back to me the other day and I haven't been able to stop playing with it!  So here is a CARD with using my Imagine!!   but first...

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Welcome to Erica's Craft Room

25 Days of Christmas,

with 25 Cricut projects a day.

Don't forget to stop by Erica's blog to see 24 more projects today....

and every day in December.

Please head on over to see more inspiration and creativity over at:

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 NEVER TO LATE TO HEAD BACK TO THE 1ST 13 DAYS AND SEE THE CREATIVITY THAT WE; THE SEASONAL DESIGN TEAM HAS CREATED!!  YOU CAN SEE DAY 1,2,9 AND 13 HERE ON MY BLOG!

Creating with my Imagine only..  I used the cartridge.. Snow Angel.   along with some ribbon (gold & silver) from ctmh. on a green background card.  Stamp set is from K. Andrews; Winter Wishes.   ornaments cut out at 1.8in & The outer frame at 4.5in and the inner patterned frame cut out at 4.0in.

 The fun part of this card is I did a lot of changing of the designs to create what you see here.
**In the snow angel booklet on page 32 the 2nd design (has a girl & boy holding a present with lots of swirls in different colors: for those who don't have an imagine) I changed this to create the color of the background paper  and then again at a smaller size and changed to pattern paper..  ( I SO LOVE MY IMAGINE).  I also changed a little color on the ornaments.

I inked around the edges using ctmh ink pad; Sorbet.   The bling - you can buy in a bag from Walmart



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13th Dec - 25 Days of Christmas - Penguins

 I just think Penguins are so adorable..   
          Christmas Cheer is used for the penguin.  Slumber party is used for the popcorn!

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and every day in December.

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Cutting the penguin at 5.35h using the Christmas Cheer cartridge and the popcorn cut at 1.82 h & 1.41w using the Slumber party cartridge.    I embossed the top half of the glittery paper from DCWV (winter stack pack) using the Cuttlebug embossing folder Snowflake. 

 All paper used is from DCWV Christmas packs of patterned paper  and then inked around the edge of card using the Cranberry ink pad from ctmh.

Feet embossed using the Swiss Dots folder and a lil white around the edges to give the appearance he was in snow.  Enjoy the delights of December  is from Ctmh D1179 Festive Thoughts.  Inside it says ... and the hope of the New Year.

I tore the bottom of the sparkly paper!!

Do you see that he strung Popcorn.  I used the 1 1/16th hole punch in the popcorn to string onto the ribbon from ctmh - gold ribbon.    His hat is heat embossed using the Marvy Snow Marker paper & fabric embellishment and then heat set.   Using Peachy Keen Stamp - Winter faces PK 521 1 1/8  for his adorable face and then colored in using ctmh pencils red, orange and blue.

 

 

I embossed his tummy with Glossy Essentials

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9th Dec 25 Days of Christmas - Animals theme

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and every day in December.

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 Merry Christmas!!  Hope your holiday planning is going well and you are being inspired by the many crafty ideas found at starting here at http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com  -

so define animal... -   this is my version of an "animal" (at least for today)  lol!!  Here we are on Day 9 already.. Can you believe it!!  Are you all pumped up to make Christmas cards or Home Decor, etc...  I am!!
WELL... Onto today's Animal card..

Cartridges used: Dinosaur - Create A Critter cut at 4.H ~  hat- Christmas Cheer  ~  scarf- Christmas Cards cut at 6.73h (just hid the hat) ~ Santa's list - Christmas Cheer.  I wrote on the list..

Bazzill paper  - solid c/s.  Inked on the yellow paper using chocolate ctmh ink pad (later referred to as chocolate ink) to give that old age look.

More directions as you look at the pictures.

Ribbon at the top is from American Crafts.  I just love googly eyes!  The red paper background is from the paper pack of DCWV.  have had it for years! ( picture at bottom of this post) BUT I then embossed it using the Christmas Countdown Cuttlebug embossing folder,  sanded lightly and inked over using chocolate ink,

nothing wrong with a lil bling for a boy dino!  perfect for his scarf!  which is from a stash of small but can't throw away scraps - perfect for his scarf!  then inked with chocolate ink.

Embossed dino using the Animal Prints Cuttlebug embosssing set (4 animal prints in this set) and then lightly sanded and then inked edges using chocolate ink (ctmh).  His HAT has red fluffies on the front using a RED puffy Velvet Fabric marker and then heat set.   The white ball is liquid Applique and white ctmh re-inker, mixed and set using a toothpick and again, heat set!

My 7yr old insists this is what a Dino boy would want!

"Dear Santa" is from the rub-on - Making Memories mini Christmas 2 set.  "i" is from making memories rub on alphabet and "Believe" is from The Paper Studio rub-on's.    

My original thought was.. "Never to old to believe.."  BUT that didn't pan out..

This is the patterned paper used that I then embossed on using the Christmas countdown embossing folder

Please head on back to  http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com  to see more cards & projects in this awesome 25 Days of Christmas sponsored by Ericka!!.  Leave some love along the different blogs as well as mine.please.   Merry Christmas to you and your family!

2nd Dec - 25 days of Christmas - SNOW PLAY -cuttlebug

 SNOWBALL FIGHT!!!  Who doesn't love this part of winter...  I know I still do!!  So why not these cute snowman. Snow Friends cartridge is such an awesome one for winter.. cut at 3.43h & 2.31 w  and the snowballs you see here in various sizes.  Winter Frolic for the Snowball Fight at 2.25h & 5.w  -I couldn't resist an ol' fashion snowball fight... 

Using Peachy Keen PK521 Winter faces 1 1/8th  for the adorable faces.  a little red from the ink for the cheeks.  I used the Liquid Applique with orange re-inker to create the depth in his nose and his mittens, heat drying it to create the 3d effect.

Christmas stash of misc ribbons were used for the scarves and some stardust stickles to enhance it.

The snowballs are created using the Liquid Applique and white re-inker from ctmh.  mixed together and using a toothpick -  I put the mix onto the snowballs and then heat dried the mix to create the look of snow.

Cuttlebug (pc) embossing folder SNOWFLAKES was used.  I sanded down the snowflakes  and then added the Icicle stickles to enhance the feel and look of the snowflakes.    Using white ink from ctmh I inked around the edges of the yellowish paper and the blue embossed background.

Do you like his hat.  It is created using this little baggie of snowballs that I have had for years..  held on by glue.

Mr snowman's feet.. I mean boots were created using Black Metal from Stickles.   

Snowball fight was enhanced using the pen -   sharpie poster-paint.  you keep pressing up & down on the spot you want.. in which the entire word was touched up to have the look of snow on here.  I hope you can see it.  What do you think??

this brad  -cute huh..  is from Making Memories

I just love his hat made from lil snowballs I had in my stash - I "believe" they were from Making Making  It was my 7yr old's idea to make his hat like snow.  snowman - snow hat - snowball fight...  makes sense - right mom??  YUP, your right!  :)