Tacky Tuesday Card

My Friend and fellow Joy's Life Design Team member, Ruthie has a Fabulous Challenge called Tacky Tuesdays and I finally had a chance to participate!! This month's Challenge was the Chick cut from page 35 in the Booklet of the "Simply Charmed" Cartridge. I also used the "Smiley" Cartridge that was a free download on the Gypsy, for the Pirate head piece and eye piece. I used Make The Cut to cut out the scroll (it is in the shapes Library) and the Font I used on the "Ahoy Chick" sentiment is "Captain Kidd Demo" and the waves are from a svg that I have in my collection but do not know where it is from (sorry). The Pirate ship is a brad and the sky is Cuttlebugged with the Da Vine swirls CB folder to look like blowing wind! LOL

Super Joy's Birthday Blog Hop WINNER!!!!

Lesley is the Winner of the Fabulous, Super, Fantastic Joy's Life Mother & Daughter Stamp set!!! I also want to thank everyone for coming to the blog hop and a huge thanks to all of my new followers!! Make sure y'all come back next week for a Super Huge 4 Days of Give aways to celebrate reaching 250 plus Followers!!! I am so excited, it involves a Guest Designer and my Favorite SVG Company!! (that is all of the hints for now! LOL)

Happy Birthday to Super Joy - Blog Hop

Happy Birthday Super Joy!! Here is the card I made for Joy's Birthday. I used the Lettering Delights "Love is Sweet" set for the card base and mat, I used Make-the-Cut and my Cricut to turn the #15 scalloped mat into a card, I deleted the frame piece and then created a shadow mat so I could have a double mat. The sentiment is actually three different stamps from three different stamp set from Joy's Life, the "Happy Birthday" is from the "Father & Son" stamp set, the "Super" is from the "Mother & Daughter" stamp set (I am giving this away today at the end of this post!!) and the Joy is from the "All Around Sentiments" stamp set, it is the enjoy and I masked what I didn't want. The cake is from My Scrap Chick's "Sweet Treats" set, it is the "Tall Cake" without the cake stand. The strawberries are from Lettering Delights "Love is Sweet" set.I added some stickles and some stitching, I thought is was cute and Joy will love it (I hope)!!

The next thing I made for Super Joy's Birthday are some Party Hats, the hat pattern is a freebie from svgcuts.com, I used strawberry themed paper from DCWV "Summer Dream" Premium paper stack and I added assorted ribbons and trims from my personal stash.

Next I created a chip bucket for the Party table, I used a sand bucket that i bought at the Dollar Tree for a buck and used some red glitter vinyl to cut the Happy Birthday using the "DN Cursive Bold" font and knowledge I gained from Joy's Vinylology DVD. (if you want to do vinyl projects, Joy's Vinylology is a must have !)
The Piece De Resistance is..................

I made Joy a Birthday Cake!!! I used my Cricut cake that was just gifted to me and I used the Martha Stewart Elegant Cakes Cartridge to cut the lace edging, I will say that there is a learning curve to the Cake and I am still working on mastering it so I ended up piping the sentiment on top. I also made a cake plate.

I used the "DN Cursive Bold" font and a plate that I purchased at the Dollar Tree for a buck!! I also used the red glitter vinyl, this is so cute and glittery in person.
I am giving away the Mother & Daughter Stamp Set in honor of Joy's Super Birthday (donated by Joy herself), so please leave a comment on this post,Comments will be accepted through 22 Feb 2011 (Tuesday) and I will pick the winner on Wednesday. (You do not have to be a Follower to win this but I would love for you to Follow me and once I get to 250 Followers I have having a giveaway!!)

Here is the blog hop list so you will be sure not to miss anyone, there are lots of giveaways so have a great time with us as we celebrate Super Joy's Super Birthday!
Joy - http://joyslife.com/
Amanda - http://amandascraftsandmore.blogspot.com/
Rosy - http://sweetdelightspapernmore.blogspot.com/
Jin - http://www.underacherrytree.com/
Melissa - http://melissa-moecreations.blogspot.com/
Tammy - http://tammyjennings.blogspot.com/ (You are Here)
Jennifer - http://scrapaholicjen.blogspot.com/
Lori - http://www.scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com/
Laura - http://www.lauraleesdream.blogspot.com/
Zeni - http://www.scrappyzeni.blogspot.com/
Theresa - http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/
Kyle - http://thegreencricut.blogspot.com/
Ruthie - http://www.septemberninth.blogspot.com/
Ann Marie - http://www.yourstrulee.net/
Gale - http://www.stamps-and-stitches.com/
Erika - http://crafty-creations-by-erika.blogspot.com/

Be sure to grab Joy's new button, it is available on the top left size of my blog!! Also all of Joy's products are available for free shipping WORLDWIDE!! This is the time to run grab yours!!

Happy Birthday Joy!!!

Links:

LD Love is Sweet

My Scrap Chick - Sweet Treats

SVGcuts.com party hats

Joy's Life Stamps and Vinylology

 

Lettering Delights Friday Freebie!!

Run on over to lettering Delights and grab the Friday Freebie, it is this super cute Chore chart created using the "Sweet Nothings" Collection. It is free through Sunday.

Links:
LD Chore Chart
LD Sweet Nothings Collection

Joy's Life Design Team Thursday

Joy challenged two of us Design Team members to do a scrapbook layout using her stamps, I have not scrapbooked in years (it is a time thing) but I really have been wanting to get back into it, so I accepted the challenge!

I created this Scrapbook Double page layout using digital paper from Kim Hills “Buggy Afternoon” paper set, the trees are from My Scrap Chick’s “Happy Tree Forest” cut file and Lettering Delights "Balloon Craze", I created the title using MTC and the mats I just cut ¼ inch larger than the photos I used Joy’s Life Stamps from both the Father & Son stamp set and the Mother & Daughter stamp set,

I mix and matched them. I also used a svg freebie from Bittbox called “BB Birds In Flight” to add the birds. On this day, My Aunt brought over my first cousin’s children to play with my Grandson, We took an excursion into the woods, the kids were thrilled!

This layout is a multi generational family snapshot, from my very large family!

Links:

Joy's Life Stamps

MTC

My Scrap Chick's "Happy Tree Forest"

Lettering Delights

Bittbox Birds in Flight

Treasure Box Designs

The ladies over at Treasure Box Designs have been super busy creating so many super cute cut files. Their cut files are available in many different formats and therefore will cut with all the different digital cutting machines. They have also just come out with face stamps for their cut files and they are super cute!! Go check them out and grab a few new files while you are there and don't forget the face stamps! I pre ordered mine!! (plus, right now they are having a 30% off sale!!)

Cute as a Bug

I liked my little Love is Sweet card, it was so cute and I sold it within an hour of making it so I didn't get tired of it. I decided to create a new version and this is the result. I used the Lettering Delights "Dougs Bugs" svg set for the bug and the LD "Love is sweet" svg set for the card base and mats (this is actually a scalloped mat but I duplicated the scalloped mat and then welded two together to create a card base). The sentiment is from Joy's Life "Lot of Puns" stamp set and the banner is from svgcuts.com "Birthday Elements" svg set, some Cuttlebugging and a little stitching finished it all off! I hope y'all like it!

Links:
Joy's Life Stamps
LD Doug's Bugs
LD Love is Sweet
SVGcuts.com Birthday Elements

Happy Valentine's Day!!

I made these two heart boxes to fill with treats for my Sweeties using the svgcuts.com "Candy heart Goodie Bags" svg set and the My Scrap Chick "Valentines" cut set. The boxes are from svgcuts.com and the frog and caterpillar (or inchworm) are from My Scrap Chick, together they make super cute goodie bags!! Hugs and Kisses from us here on the OBX!!!

Links:
Candy Heart Boxes
Valentines (frog and worm)

Love is Sweet!

I woke up this morning at 6 am with this Lettering Delights set swirling around in my head! I went straight to the craft room (only stopping long enough to get the Peculator going) and whipped out this super cute card (can you tell I am very ready for spring??) I used MTC and the LD Love is Sweet svg set and a white gel pen to make this card. I welded two of the scalloped mats together to create the card base, deleted one of the mats and you can see the rest. I sold this card this morning! LOL I sold 5 cards this morning, which is so sweet because now I can buy more Lettering Delights sets!! LOL

Links:
LD Love is Sweet
MTC

Joy's Life PB&J Valentine's Day Card

Best Buddies

I used Lettering Delights “Stuck on You” svg collection to create this card, I think it is perfect for my Best Friend, Louise. The heart is also from this set, I did create a shadow for the heart in MTC and the hot pink polka dot paper is a digital paper from Goodness & Fun’s “Bright Fun papers” over at MyGrafico.com. The sentiment stamp is from Joy’s Life “Father & Son” Stamp set and it stamps beautifully, so crisp and clean! 

The cone goodie box is from Lettering Delights “Valentine Cone Boxes” and I reduced the size to 75% and cut it with white card stock, the hearts are also part of this collection and I also reduced the size to 75% as well, I will put some chocolates inside and it will go with the card to my friend Louise for Valentine’s Day, I used the ribbon to close the box, simple and cute. The sentiment stamps is from Joy’s Life “All Around Sentiment” Stamps and it stamped beautifully, this was a quick simple box and it is such a nice gift box! 

Y'all Have a Fabulous Valentine's Day!

Links:
Joy's Life Stamps
LD Stuck on You
LD Cone Boxes
My Grafico Digi Paper

Thomas the Tank Engine Cake

This was Jeremy's 1st Birthday cake and I made it the same way as I made the Tractor cake. Using svg files is really an easy way to create a character cake and you really do not need many special tools. I did use a few special tools on this cake, a few cake decorating tips and some disposable frosting bags but other than that nothing special. I am going to try the marshmallow fondant recipe I have found online to see if it will work in place of the store bought fondant, As many of you know, I do not have a craft store in my area and I bought the fondant when I went out of town. The box of fondant was $20, I did use a coupon but I would rather save that money for craft supplies and make my own homemade fondant plus I can flavor it and make it taste better! I will keep y'all posted and check back later, I made decorated heart sugar cookies for Story Time at the Library today and they turned out cute! (It is non Cricut! LOL)

Tractor Cake

Here it is, Jeremy's Tractor cake! I used an svg from Treasure Box Designs "Funny Farm" Collection to make this and I will tell you how! I baked my cakes, I baked 2 sheet cakes in 9x13 pans and then stacked them together using buttercream frosting and did a thin coat of buttercream over the whole cake (a crumb coat) I used MTC and the Tractor svg, I created a rectangle that was 9x13 ( I deleted this 9x13 mat, it was only used to size everything since my cake was 9x13) and I put all of the pieces of the svg together on the virtual mat, I selected them all and created a shadow layer. I printed out the shadow layer on a piece of 11x17 paper and cut out the tractor shadow shape, this is what I used to cut the cake into the tractor shape. Then I used my expression to cut the pieces that were sized to the shadow that I printed, that way we had our patterns for the pieces to be cut out of the fondant. After we colored our fondant and cut out all of our pieces we used clear karo syrup as glue and assembled the pieces, after the cake was all assembled I used a clothes steamer to steam the cake to make it shiny. This was sun to make and the kids loved it (the grown up kids loved it too LOL)

Links:
MTC
Treasure Box Designs Funny Farm Collection

2nd Birthday Card

Today we had my Little one's 2nd birthday party and this was the card I made for him. I used MTC to create the card base and the number 2 and the shadow layer. The giraffe is from Create a Critter Cricut Cartridge. The Happy Birthday Stamp is from Joy's Lifes Father & Son stamp Set. I have lots more to show you over the next few days, a banner and the cake. I used a Treasure Box Designs file to create the cake and I did not use a Cricut Cake to make it!! It is a super cool cake!!
Links:
Joy's Life Stamps

Joy's Life I Love You Card

I created this card using MTC and the Cricut Sweethearts Cartridge. The card base is Kraft and I used assorted digital papers from Design House Digital and some Bazzille red. The couple silhouette and the heart are from the Sweethearts Cartridge and the banner for the sentiment is from MTC basic shapes. The sentiment stamps is from Joy’s Life “Mother & Daughter” Stamp Set and I pleated some ribbon for some added detail. The inside is also finished. I hope you get some inspiration for your own Valentine’s Day card for your Sweetie! 

Links:

Joy's Life Stamps

MTC Software

Lettering Delights Animal Boxes and Bags

These Lettering Delights Animal boxes and bags are so cute and fun to make, there are a bunch of different animals and you can make any of them into boxes or bags. I have only made these two so far and I want to play with this svg set a lot more! Just as I was getting started my little one (who will be 2 years old on Thursday) commandeered my Cuttlebug and started rolling his crayons though it, needless to say it was time to leave the craft room and shut the door! (some days are like this!) Y'all really need to run over to Lettering Delights and discover their SVGs, they ROCK!!! I have spent the majority of my Christmas money on LD svgs!! LOL I am having a blast and you will be seeing LD's handled boxes in the next day or so as my Little Ones Birthday goodie boxes. Have a great day!!

Links:
Lettering Delights