December Daily Book - Dates Are Finished!!

This year I am going to do a December Daily Book. I will be documenting/ journaling something each day in the month of December. I Will be using Simple Stories Handmade Holiday Collection.
While I'm waiting for supplies. I decided to make up my date tags for each day in December.
This is something new for me. I have never done Project Life or Simple Stories before.
December is a month full of activities and this would be a good way to document the festivities.

Without further ado here are the date tags I made.

Supplies Used:

Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers - Deer and Tree
Martha Stewart - Border Punch and Snowflake Punch
Sizzix Movers and Shapers Die - Scalloped Circle
SU - 1-3/4" Circle Punch
Cricut Mini for the Numbers - Cut at 1" - Using Winter Woodland Cartridge
Cricut Imagine - To flood fill the Snowman outfit from the Imagine More Cartridge.
Cricut Imagine - Santa's Village - For the Tree Cut 1" and Santa and Sleigh cut 1-1/2"
Mcgill - Pine branch punch

I spritzed the Scallop circle, numbers, border punch image and pine branches with Perfect Pearls Mist with Heirloom gold.
I spritzed the snowflakes with Perfect Perals Mists with Perfect Pearl

Snow Folks Winter Snow Girls

I'm working on Christmas Cards.
I just got the Cricut Snowfolks Cartridge.
 
Snow Folks Winter Snow Girls

Card Size: 5-1/2 x 8-1/2

Supplies:

Cricut Snow Folks Cartridge - Snow girls cute at 3.5 true size

Cricut Imagine - Snow Angel Cartridge to flood fill the coats and mittens.

Cricut Martha Stewart Holiday Cakes Cartridge - Merry Christmas cut at W - 5.097 x H - 2.069 in Cricut Craft Room Design Software

For the snow I used the paper tearing technique. Then I chalked the edges.



Pumpkin Carving

Our Granddaughter was over and we had to carve a pumpkin for Halloween.
Well Chuck got in on the action making this his first Cricut project.
Here is the step by step process.

First cut off the top

Then our granddaughter Scooped out the middle

She said it was gooey

Our Granddaughter Picked out the pumpkin face from the Pumpkin Carving cartridge.

I cut it out on the Cricut Mini.

Chuck traced the face on the pumpkin

Here it is.

Then Chuck carved the face

Then our granddaughter pulled out the pieces to the face.

What a great team!!

Our granddaughter wants to keep the cut out pieces.

Here's a close up of it all lit up.

Now I get to scrapbook it!!

Happy Halloween!!!!

Bat and Ghost Mobile

Bat and Ghost Mobile

I made a Martha Stewart Bat Mobile. It's super easy to make.
All you need is a branch, bats, ghosts and some cheese cloth.

Supplies:

Cricut Cartridge Happy Hauntings - Bats and Ghosts
The Bats were cut at 5-1/4"
The ghosts were cut at 4-1/2" I got the idea from the Martha Stewart website.

Found here.

Martha Stewart Bat Mobile




 

Wedding Card

Wedding Card

 Card Size: 5-1/2 x 8-1/2

Supplies:

Cricut Cartridge Wedding -  Doves and Heart
Cut Size: Doves and Heart 7.569 x 3.958

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to all the Dads out there!

Happy Father's Day

Supplies:

Cricut Craft Room - Father's Day Card
I embellished this with brads and ink.
I used foil paper for the background.

My Crafting Smash Book

I finally started My Smash Book! I am so excited to bring this to you. I started this book to document/journal about the things that I love seeing and doing. My Gardens and Crafting for starters. I haven't worked up to my gardens but I did start with my crafting pages!!
How it all began to pictures of my craft room and all the things I love.
I found an awesome Imagine Cartridge called Word Of Mouth. It works fantastic using these images in Smash books. I will also be posting about on my other blog Mary's Crafting Spot since this is about using the Imagine Cartridge Word Of Mouth. I also used products from K&Company and CTMH. I was able to get a good start on this book and I have been having a ball working on this book today. I will try to get all the products used listed below.

I am just thrilled with this cartridge and how well it works for using them with Smash Books.

When I started flipping through the hand book. I just kept getting more and more excited about the possibilities this cartridge has!!

I started out my book with pictures of me and  my craft room and words of inspiration.

On these pages I used:

Cricut Imagine Cartridge: Word Of Mouth - All Images cut at 2.5"

I used CTMH rubons - X7149C - Lucy

CTMH buttons - Z1370 - Pink Assorment

CTMH twine

I used K&Company - Stickers

On these pages I used:

Cricut Imagine Cartridge: Word Of Mouth - All Images cut at 2.5"

I used CTMH rubons - X7149C - Lucy

CTMH twine

I used K&Company - Stickers

DCWV -  Vellum Quotes Stacks

On these pages I used:

Cricut Imagine Cartridge: Word Of Mouth - All Images cut at 2.5"

CTMH Stamp Sets

I used K&Company - Stickers

Things I want to have in my smash book about crafting

• Pictures of me and my craft room
• Things that inspired me to craft
• Some background to when I first started crafting as a young girl to now.
• How crafting evolved over the years.
• Things I want to learn
• Tips and Tricks 
• Stamping Techniques
• Coloring techniques
• Pictures of projects I've made

As I'm getting more into making this book I get more and more ideas of what I want in it.
Since I am getting more ideas I see a book 2 in my future.
I don't have a lot of time to work on scrapbooks. I thought this would be a good way to keep crafting.
I'm also using this book to experiment a little more with the Smash book concept and other techniques.
Then bring some things I do in this book to my scrapbook pages and cards I make.

Friendship Card

Friendship Card

Supplies:

The stamp set is S1205 Friendship Bouquet Stamp of the month set from May.

Working In The Garden

I have been busy working in my gardens. Getting them pruned and moving some plants around.
I worked most of today in this garden as well as trimming some bushes around the house.
This still has some work that needs to be done. I am happy with how it is coming along.
I am getting some photos together so I can add to my garden scrapbook.

Friendship Card

Friendship Card

Supplies: 

Close To My Heart - S1205 Friendship Bouquet - May Stamp Of The Month 

Close To My Heart - Florentine Paper Pack 

Pebbles Chalks to color the flower. I used a blender pen to blend the colors.

I set the chalk with Extra Hold Aerosol Hairspray.