Sandy Hook Ele. Snowflakes (post 4)

Happy Birthday to my 8 year old daughter Zora!!

 

 

Here are the final Sandy Hook Ele. snowflakes. Together with my past 3 posts they show a complete set. I'm hoping these flakes bring them joy.

 

This set of snowflakes really made great templates (masks) once it was cut out using the fit to page function. Now I can use chalk, spray ink, ink pads etc. to create this snowflake pattern on 12x12 paper for a layout. I'm going to do it too. You'll see my post later in the month. I'm determined to try every tool and concept I have in my craft room this year. You wouldn't believe what I've had for 2 or 3 years and have never even opened. Anyhoo, I digress...

 

 

 

Cricut Cartridge Graphically Speaking - I made this one double sided using DCWV glitter cardstock.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Both of the above are from Cricut Cartridge Joys of the Season using Bazzill cardstock.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the final two are from Cricut Cartridge Sophie. The black and white is from DCWV (all dressed up stack? Don't quote me...)

 

 

http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2013/01/sandy-hook-ele-snowflakes-post-3.html

http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2013/01/sandy-hook-ele-snowflakes-post-2.html

http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2013/01/sandy-hook-ele-snowfalkes-post-1.html

 

 

La-Vie

My 2010 Christmas Card

In 2010 I was ready to create my Christmas cards again. I made 100 and included this family photo from our (then recent) trip to Jamaica. The house card and layers was created using Cricut Cartridge Wild Card. I printed the dotted design and cut the card with my Cricut Imagine machine using the Imagine More cart. The topiaries in green foil cardstock are from the Cricut Cartridge Joys of the Season. The red foil door is accented with a white brad from my stash. I used my ATG gun, xyron 5" sticker machine and zots glue dots as adhesive. A religious Christmas sentiment (Stampin Up!) is included inside.

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Christmas Card for the Troops

I designed this Christmas card to thank the troops for their service. A group of young children age 3-6 from my Jack and Jill of America group assembled several of the cards and they were sent in care packages for the troops through Give2thetroops. This was our community service project.

Here's the recipe:

• card base - cricut cartridge plantin' schoolbook
• card layer - white glittered cardstock Die Cuts With a View, punched with Martha Stewart Punch Around the page
• reindeer - Cricut cartridge create a critter
• Joy - cricut cartridge joys of the season
• googly eyes
• sentiment inside - Stampin Up!

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Teacher Christmas Gifts - Homemade Christmas

And then there were 8! I'm so glad to have more followers today than yesterday! Ok so on to the crafting!

I have a bit of an obsession with collecting Cricut cartidges. I have so many that I have not really dug into what each has to offer. As a challenge to myself, I set out to make every card on the Cricut wild card cart (one of my favs!)

What started out as a cool idea to learn about a cart and to create a card stash became gifts for my children's teachers. I decided to create 5 to 7 unique blank cards to give to each teacher for their personal use throughout 2011. Sounds reasonable right?

Although this labor of love was time consuming, I was really feeling good about it. Then I got worried... I was trying to thank the teachers by giving them a gift that they would not untimately keep. What kind of gift is that??? I was pleasantly surprised that everyone went nuts over the cards. I discovered it's the kind of gift that keeps on giving. Our family gives to theirs and they can share it with those they love and receive love back. priceless and not the run of the mill gift.

While I didn't take a picture of all of the cards, I did snap a few of my favorites. How do you like them? I packaged the cards in a cello bag and topped it with a card I made using another favorite Cricut cartridge -create a critter. The sentiment "Joy" is cut from Cricut Cartridge joys of the season.

La-Vie