Crafty Wednesday / Card Design #1

I had a great time at the Crop Your Heart Out all-day crop last Saturday. Add to that my new Cricut Expressions machine, and now I have a new stash of cards that I’ve made. I decided a long time ago that I’m not really a scrapbooker, and that’s fine with me, but I do really enjoy making cards. So, every Wednesday, at least for awhile, I’m going to post a new card design. They’re mostly just for you to get inspired to make your own, but if you *really* like mine, I would sell them to you too :)

So, here’s the first one:

Supplies:

• 5.5” x 4.25” card blank
• Green cardstock 1.5” x 5x5”
• Green cardstock – two very small strips for stems
• Green cardstock – “grow” inverse image cut using Lyrical Letters cartridge
• Yellow quilling paper or strip
• White quilling paper or strip

I just took a quilling class at Capture about a month ago, so I’m still learning the techniques. I think this was the first one I tried outside of the class since I just bought a quilling tool this week.

~S

Crafty Wednesday - Tie Shirt

Okay, I finally finally got to my Cricut project that I've been wanting to do for weeks now. I watched this video a couple months ago and got really excited about it, then just didn't have the supplies or the time to do anything with it.
Here's what I made:

This is what my little man will be wearing for Easter.
I got the shirt on clearance for less than $1 and the fabric was on sale at JoAnn's (don't know how much, I think $4/yard, and I got 1/4 yard). I still have a lot of the fabric and interfacing left too, so I can do many more projects with it :)

For instructions on how to create your very own, watch this video:

I used paint to draw a tie since I couldn't find one and then used Make The Cut software to cut it out. It was an extremely smooth process, loved loved it! Now to find some more shirts to embellish...

~S

Crafty Wednesday - Make the Cut 1

I just bought Make the Cut, a program for my Cricut that allows me to cut ANY font that I have installed on my computer. There's a {ton} of really cool things you can do with this program. Here's my first foray:

I welded the letters together using the font Wish I Were Taller from Kevin and Amanda.

Just a cute little card to get started. More to come...

~S