Cricut Creations

I have been busy working on a few recipe swaps that needed to be completed. I decided to use the cricut design studio this time. Here is what I came up with....

The swap could be any recipe but you needed to have a bunny theme going on. I was kinda tired of what I had been doing on my swaps and was trying to come up with something different. So I started playing around with the cricut design studio and my Geroge Cartridge and came up with the little "Mesh" as I call it of flowers and circles, made with the polka dot paper. That was all cut using the cricut. Then I needed to add the bunny theme. When I saw this little guy I knew he was right. Here is a close up shot of him.

Ain't he cute!!

I am also involved in a Recipe Divider Swap. Each participant could choose 2 sections to make dividers for. I chose snacks and desserts, two of my favorites things. After the success of the Mesh I had created, I went back to the design studio for my divider. Here it is, what do you think?

I used the Doodlecharms, Alphalicious and George Cartridges to create this little frame. I am very pleased with the way it turned out. Now I only need to make 10 more.... but not today,

Today I'm off to a specialty cake decorating class. My DIL gave me an all day class on specialty cakes. Last year for her birthday, I gave her lessons for the Wilton Cake Decorating Class, I also bought the lessons for myself. We had a great time, so when this came up, she bought us both a ticket. Tell you more about the class next time.

Fab 5 List

I was tagged by Jewels to list five things about me. Well, here goes....

1. I'm a mother, sister, daughter, granddaughter, grandmother and friend.

2. I love Roses. I have been rose gardening since I was about 8 years old. My first home in the late 70's included a rose garden with three rose bushes and every home I have had since then has had one. Today I have over 50 bushes.

3. I love music. Just about any type will soothe me. I perfer to listen to music then watch tv. I mostly listen to country.

4. Reading is another passion for me. My reading material must be light and entertaining. Nothing depressing or scary for me.

5. I love to journal in little notebooks. Well, okay maybe its the journals I love. I use them for all sorts of things. Taking notes at workshops, recording my daily events and I particularly love handmade notebooks, I am waiting on an altered journal swap to be returned to me anyday now.

Whose next to list their fab 5???

My Lastest Projects

I've been creating in the studio again. This time I played off of the Tropical Pradise theme from the Drinks Tin and created an altered journal for a swap. After I completed the entire project, I gave it two coats of Modge Podge and a final spray of Clear sealer to protect it. I love the way this turned out.

The sand is actual sand and glitter mixed. It is applied by running the tan colored cardstock, which has been torn by hand to give it an uneven shoreline like edge, so the adhesive is on the top. After the adhesive is applied, you just sprinkle your sand and glitter mix over the adhesive and press with your palm to make sure the majority sticks. After that, I just add a thin layer of modge podge to seal the top. Once the entire front cover was finished, I again added several coats of Modge Podge to seal it well. After that drys completely, a couple of days, I spray the entire surface with a clear sealer. I have found that without this last layer of sealer, the modge podge remains tacky and will stick to anything... The palm tree was cut from the cricut using the doodletype palm, I then hand cut the fringed edges, I find it gave it more dimension.

This is a quote on the inside cover of the notebook.

Here are a couple of recipes I did for two different swaps. The top is for a Chocolate swap. We had to use pink and brown colors and the recipe had to contain chocolate. The bottom recipe was for a March Recipe. It could by any recipe but it must contain the word March somewhere on the card.