Thrift Store Valentine

I found this wooden tray near the toy section of my local thrift store. The tray had a few magnetic dress-up bear pieces in it. The thrift store clerk gave me the tray because there were so many missing pieces. 

• I painted the tray a reddish pink color using paint pens and glued various scraps paper from my stash into the try spaces.
• I used Home Accents for the love sentiment, Gypsy Wanderings with shadows for the hearts. I cut the swans using Splish Splash.
• I cut one of the swans regularly and flipped the other swan using my gypsy. I folded a piece of cardstock to form a box to "pop" the love sentiment from the frame.
• I added a sticker to the heart on the top right and hung it from the top of the tray using fishing line. The heart at the top center are white and red foamies. I poured clear melted UTEE into an old bottled cap then sprinkled some melted red embossing powder top of the clear embossing powder.
• The large heart at the center left is from gypsy wandering cut with matching shadow.
• The figure at the bottom left is from my dd's Lego set.
• I added jewels using my I-Rock to the bottom pattern-paper strip.

I think this is one of my favorite projects!!

 

A New Year and A New Baby Gift Bag

Hello everyone! It's Angela from Angie's Paper Passion, (TiffysMom on the Cricut MB). Well, it’s a new year and my new Grandson will be here very soon! (less than 2 weeks!) So today I’d like to share with you a gift bag that I made that’s perfect for a new baby gift! (Sorry about the photos, it’s been overcast here for several days – not great photo taking weather!)

I started with a large white plain gift bag from Michael's and added cardstock and patterned paper as the base. I cut the stork and baby from the New Arrival cartridge and the crib, mobile, and onesie from the 9 Months cartridge.

I love using lots of layers on my cuts and putting pop dots between the layers to give my images even more dimension. Then I added some Glossy Accents and Distress Inks to my cuts. The rug is just a circle that I modified in Cricut Craft Room and turned into an oval. I created the tag with my Grandson’s initials on it in CCR by welding a 2” circle to a 3.5” x 2” rectangle using shapes from Cricut Craft Room Basics. Then I welded a slightly smaller rectangle inside the larger one to create an open ‘window’ and then welded his initials in the opening using Gypsy Font. I cut an extra tag layer without the window and initials as a base and used pop dots between the two layers. A mini brad and twine are the finishing touches.

One of the little gifts that I am adding to this gift bag is a hat that I knitted myself with my Knifty Knitter (which is also made by Provo Craft!) I hope that he will be able to wear it when he comes home from the hospital.

The cutting recipe for the gift bag is on my blog - Angie's Paper Passion.

Thanks for visiting and Happy Crafting!

Angela

Info and Supplies Used

Designed By: Angela Cromwell

Project Type: Gift

Project Theme: Baby

Cricut Cartridges: New Arrival, 9 Months, CCR Basics

Cricut Machines: Expression

Other Supplies: Large gift bag - Michael's, doily - Wilton, cardstock - The Paper Studio & Coredinations, patterned paper - The Paper Studio, Glimmer Mist - Tattered Angels, ink - Tim Holtz, Glossy Accents - Ranger, twine - Pink Paislee, brad, pop dots, Knifty Knitter - Provo Craft, yarn - Bernat 

Go somewhere...

We are will into fall and beginning the holiday season. As I look at the past summer, I really enjoy organizing my photos and reminiscing. I picked out a few of my favorite photos for today's layout. I played around with Heidi Swapp's color shine papers and spray(gold lame, mint and turquoise). Also, I used stickles, staples, twine and an old clock face. The Cricut cartridge I used was the craftroom room basic and Gypsy font. I created old fashion Poloroid frames from squares. I welded the somewhere together and cut out the other words.
I hope you enjoy the layout. God bless and keep crafting!

Halloween Charger Plate

Hi There,

Yvonne here from Ink-spirations. Great to be back again and this time I want to share my Halloween Charger Plate. I love making these. They are quick, easy and you can make them for every occasion. After the season has passed storage is easy.

I used several cartridges on this project.

Bats - Happy Hauntings cut at 1"

Happy Halloween - Celebrate With Flourish cut at 2"

Flourishes - Gypsy Font (monogram feature) 1", 1.4" & 1.6"

Border Skulls - Wall Decor & More (border feature) 1.5"

Fence - Wall Decor & More (border feature) 2"

Tree - Happy Hauntings 4.5"

Small Skull beside tree - Indie Art  1"

Bird on Fence -  Animal Kingdom - 1"

All images were sized and cut using CCR. Welded two flourishes together on right side of plate.

The fence had a rooster sitting on it and I cut that off and used a more suitable bird from Animal Kingdom.

There are different ways to work with vinyl. I set my machine to cut the image out through both the vinyl and the backing. I do not use a transfer tape. When I'm lining up to layer my vinyl I peel just a small portion of the backing away and make sure I have the image exactly where I want it and then adhere the vinyl layers together. I then proceed to peel back a little more of the backing and adhere that down. By doing it this way I'm not trying to work with a piece of vinyl that is trying to stick to everything it comes in contact with.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Happy Halloween

Yvonne

Cricut Info & Supplies Used:

Designed By: Yvonne Balmer

Cricut Machine Used: Imagine

Project Type: Home Decore

Project Theme: Halloween

Cricut Cartridges Used: Happy Hauntings, Celecrate with Flourish, Wall Decor & More, Indie Art, Animal Kingdom, Gypsy Font

Other Supplies Used: Vinyl, Black Charger Plate