Leather Hair Sticks! Beautiful Gift Idea...

 Happy Tuesday to you!  I have been having tons of fun in my Studio and am getting ready to have a whole lot more...be sure to stay tuned, you don't want to miss a thing!  :-)

Today, I created Leather Hair Sticks for my jewlery project.

These beauties were so simple to make and work like a charm!  All you need is a cricut for your oval pattern shape, Leather, The Cuttlebug, an Embossing Folder of your choice, a Crop a dile and a Wilton Craft Stick and Voila' a beautiful one of a kind Hair Stick!

For complete instructions, head on over to the Mixology Crafts Blog.  Hope to see you there!

Happy Scrappin'



How to Draw Faces on Cricut Paper Dolls Video #2

The one thing that I have been asked over and over is "How in the world do you draw your Paper Doll Faces!" Since I found my Flip this morning I thought that I would take the time to make a little video showing how I draw them. Be sure and let me know what you think of it and if you find it helpful! Have fun watching!

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Family Traditions

This is one of my favorites! I have a real passion in preserving family recipes! My dad is a Professional Chef and I want to preserve his recipes for future generations of our family!

This is the a Book that is a Clear Acrylic Album! I used the new Deep Cut Blade from Cricut to cut the Acrylic! I hope that you enjoy!



Family Traditions Front of Book




Appetizers


Sides


Entrees


Desserts


Back of Book


The Back and Front of the Book!

Boo Book

This is the perfect book for all of your Halloween Photos! I can't wait to take pictures this year of all of my children dress up and ready to go Trick Or Treating!


Boo Book


1st Page


2nd Page


3rd Page


4th Page

Wonderfully Warm Tea Cup Album

With winter fast approching I though that a hot drink book would be just the thing to warm me up on a chilly fall or winter day! Sometimes I could even use it during the summer as my husband is very hot natured and keeps out air conditioning on 67 degrees F! I tend to freeze! Hope that you enjoy it and the recipes!
Wonderfully Warm Front Cover

Reindeer Tea Recipe

Reindeer Tea Page

Hot Cocoa Recipe

Hot Cocoa Page

Mexican Cocoa Recipe

Mexican Cocoa Page

Cafe Orange Recipe

Cafe Orange Page

Wonderfully Warm Tea Cup Book Back

Trick Or Treat Candy Bucket

I really like this one turned out! This is just the perfect bucket to hand out and display your halloween candy in! I for one, cannot wait until Halloween comes around this year!


Trick Or Treat Candy Bucket


Trick Or Treat


Smell My Feet


Give Me Something


Good To Eat!!!


Trick Or Treat Smell My Feet


Smell My Feet Give Me Something


Give Me Something Good To Eat!!!


Good To Eat!!! Trick Or Treat


Inside of the Trick Or Treat Bucket!

It's Christmas Time....yet again!

Ok, so last but not least.....Here is my last "It's Christmas Time" themed layout! I had made one
with the Nativity, one with Snowmen and now I thought how about Santa! This one didn't win a prize either but I really like how it ended up looking! I used Design Studio and the following Cricut Cartridges: Christmas Cheer and George and Basic Shapes. I also use charms, ribbon, Stickles, Cross stitch tread, brads and rubons on this layout. The papers are by My Minds Eye, Bazzill and Prism. I think now that I have 3 layouts with the theme "It's Christmas Time" I am all set for Christmas this year!

Close up of layout.
Close up of Santa driving his sleigh!

IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME....

IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME!!This layout was created for the same page contest as the Nativity Layout (2nd place) that I did. This one did not win anything even though it was my favortite of all 3 that I did! I used Design Studio and the following Cricut Cartridges: Speaking of Winter, Base Camp and George and Basic Shapes. The papers were Bazzill, Prism and My Minds Eye. I also used rubons, brads, Prima Flowers, Ribbon, cross stitch thread and Stickles on this layout.

Close up of layout.
Close up of Letter I.
Close up of charms Hanging on Journaling Box.

My Way To Store All Of The Cartridges!

When you have as many cartridges as I do, you have to come up with some creative ways to store them. Let's face it! When I would go to Crops, I would have to take several containers just to bring all of my cartridges and once I got there where do you put them all? I now own every single cartridge with the exception of Cricut Sampler and Don Juan! This storage solution is tried and true. I can almost guarantee that once you try it you won't switch to any other storage solution!

 

My Cartridge Boxes Stacked. Notice that I have them labeled Shapes, Disney/Classmates and Fonts.

One of my Cartridges laying out. The keypad is inside of the book. I carefully tear out all of the languages except English. Once those are torn out, there is plenty of space to lay the keypad inside of the Book.

What my cartridges look like when open

The Sachet bags that I use to store the cartridges in on the side of book spine. I alternate in alphabetical order from left to right where I place the sachet bags so the books are balanced in the box.

 

I just loop the bag thru the edge of the spine and Viola....

the sachet bag is ready to slip the cartridge into it!