Chick Easter Basket

I have been saving these little green baskets that strawberries and tomatoes come in at my farmers market since last year. These little altered baskets were all the rave on splitcoast last year. I made mine by weaving 3/4" strips of pawsitively prints SU paper through the slats in the basket. I embellished with the Chick from the Simply Charmed cricut cartridge, grass pieces from Create-A-Critter, and eggs from the Doodlecharms cartridge. I adhered fabric flowers that I embellished with my iRock. I simply tied a ribbon the sides of the basket to use as a handle. I then covered the knot I made with another fabric flower.

Welcome and thanks

I wanted to extended a big thank you to all my new followers out there. I am also thankful to Momo for allowing us to link up to her page <3's, so sweet! I hope to have something new to show you all tomorrow and soon I'll be posting my take on a sketch that I am submitting to a design team call!

Regional Swap Card

Here is the card I created for regional swaps.  I used Stampin Ups bugs and kisses stamp set and colored it with a Tempting Turquoise marker and a Versamarker. Then I embossed the wings with Iridescent Ice. The paper is Tempting Turquoise card-stock and designer series paper. What I like most about this card is that I was able to create something elegant from a stamp set that is traditionally for kids. It also reminds me of a jewel box from Tiffany's

A LO I love and one not so much

This layout was made using the sketch for 3/9/11 at Let's Scrap. I really really love how it came out. I cut the snowflakes with my Winter Lace Cricut cartridge and embellished them with white applique, stickles and rhinestones. I stitched the silver scalloped border and added snowflake brads. I used some rub-ons from my stash to add some titles. I think this was a really great sketch that made the whole layout just come together so easily.

This layout I really really struggled with. It is also based on a Let's Scrap sketch from 2/24/11 but I never completed it in time. I used this grid paper because I have seen so many layouts where people have used it and I really liked it. I had a hard time with it though. I cut my fossils from the Dinosaur tracks cartridge and embossed them with a cuttlebug folder. I found the stickers used in the title on clearance at Hobby Lobby. They are DCWV safari kids collection. The dinosaur border is cut from a paper pack I picked up from Me and My big Ideas. It's really kind of simple but it took me forever!

St. patrick's Day bags of gold

I have been busy crafting these past few weeks but haven't posted anything. I worked for the better part of two weeks on a layout that I am still not finished with. It's a style that is not my typical style and I have really struggled with it. I promise not to start another layout until it's finished though. I made these darling treat bags for St. Patty's Day. The little leprechaun is from the Simply Charmed cartridge as well as the pot of gold I cut into the treat bags. The bags themselves are from tags, bags, boxes and more. I used the gypsy to get the pot cut into the bag. I used window sheets on the inside of the bag so my goodies wouldn't fall out. The bags were cut from retired Stampin Up designer paper in certainly celery. I filled the bags with "gold" in the form of Werthers originals, hershey's nuggets, and hershey kisses with almonds. I was supposed to bring some of them to may parents for brunch today but I forgot them at home. I don't think they'll survive the mail without spilling and getting squashed. Ah well I am sure it won't be hard to find someone to give them to.

I also have been very busy crafting swaps for the Hartford Regional Stampin Up meeting. I took photos tonight and was ready to post them and decided maybe I should wait until regionals are over. I don't mind if others copy my work but I'd hate to see someone make the same card for regionals so those will be up next week.

Easter Fun LO for Cricut class

I have been asked to teach a Cricut class at an upcoming crop in my area. I had a really hard time figuring out how to work this. I know many of you out there in the land of Cricut bloggers have held these type of classes so I'd appreciate any suggestions on how this works for you. What I came up with is to have everything pre-cut in a kit. I would provide detailed instructions on how I made all the cuts and the special Cricut features I used. Then at the crop at the beginning of the class doing a 20 minute presentation demonstrating how I made all the cuts and the features I used. Then I would let them finish their layout at their own pace. I don't think they will all be bringing their own Cricuts and probably won't have all the cartridges I used so I think time wise this would work best. Please comment with suggestions you have for this type of class. Also I was thinking of charging $15 for the class. It includes instruction and all the materials, ribbon, paper, brads, and all the tiny cuts on a strip of Xyron so they don't get lost. Would you pay that much for this?

Who's Ready for Spring page for stamp club

I am trying to get together a group to make a stampers (or scrappers) 10. I want the focus to be on scrap booking and over the course of the 10 months we meet we would complete an 8 x 8 album. I have just created my first sample that I would use for March. Going to email the photo to my small SU mailing list and see if I can get close to 10. Wish me luck!

I used the funky four stamp set and owl punch. The designer paper is playdate. The alphabet stamps are retired SU that I am comfortable using for a class because I just can't see replacing alphabet stamps every time they retire. They are just to pricey  to discard like that.