TBBM/Create a Crittter/A Child's Year

I've been MIA, but here are some pics of the latest little batch of goodies I've been working on. These little heart-shaped boxes are from TBBM, and they allow you to cut them with a little heart window without any fuss. To seal the windows shut I used Martha Stewart acetate and my ATG. To add emphasis to the shape I drew the faux stitching with my white Gelly Roll pen, and then embellished the other sides. On one side, each box got a different sticker from DCWV, and the remaining sides got a heart from A Child's Year, and the LOVE phrase from Create a Critter embellished with little buttons on the center of each heart. I actually decorated all sides of the boxes before gluing them together with my hot glue gun. This made it much easier to put them all together and made them nice & sturdy. To finish them off, I added cello bags with Valentine-colored M&M's. YUM!





Hummingbird Card

I made this little card today to inter in the weekly challenges a Cricut Cardz Challenge and BBTB2. The first was to use the colors RED, WHITE, and BLACK in your card, the second was to use a hummingbird image.
Recipe:
Card base in black: 4.5" by 5ish inches-I wasn't accurate!
Red mat : 4 4/16" by 5"
Black mat: a little smaller-  dry embossed with Cuttlebug & Swiss Dots folder (my fav.!)
Hummingbird: 3"from Disney Princesses DCT with two wings for dimension, dry embossed and de-embossed to soften the effect.
Eye: Inkssentials Gloss in black.
Flower : 2.45" from Gypsy Wanderings with Hearts at 1" from DP welded in center. Embossed to add shine, and popped with dimensional adhesive.
Heart Layer: 1" also from DP.
Tombo adhesive was used for everything else.
The interior is matted in white, the small flower was made using the cut-outs from the larger flower and embossed. The border is a sticker from my stash. TFL!


Mini Book/ Playtime

I made this mini book known as the "Santa baby" from Paper phenomenon. Since it was after Christmas, I decided to make it with more of a  "Valentine" flair. It is for a little girl, and I used the new Playtime Cart available at Walmart with the E. 
The cover is simple, since the little girl is very young so I only added 3 lil' stickers from my stash.

This little girl is named Lauren- she is wearing bows in her air & matching piping on her dress-I also added buttons made of felt. I changed all the girls faces to suit my style...

This is Tina- she's got a pearl in her bow & bling buttons. Her shirt is a little off- she had too many cupcakes I suppose!

This is Jessica-she has a flower in her hair & her she's holding her cat who happens to have a lil' bitty pink nose! The hearts on her background are stamped and doodled on with a white-gel pen.

This is Lucy-she's wearing 3 little flowers via Fiskars and the little cakes behind her are all glossied up as well as hand painted.
Back to LAuren-she's pointing at the bird. It opens up to reveal a little journaling spot.
She's singing "Why am I such a misfit? I am not just a nitwit...."

I also used puffy stickers on some of the pages rather than doing more inserts. 
This lil' piggy went to the market & got the bling treatment too. The scallop border  belongs to the insert for that page.
Here's another page with ribbon and embossing-love my cuttlebug!

inside...

Another sticker on the spine & ribbon ties it shut on the other side. Hope you like it!

Thank you cards/ Paisley

I made these thank you cards using the Paisley cart for the 1st time. I love owls, so naturally I wanted to use that image first. The frog prince is "charming" as well, so he was next. I added little bits of detail here & and there too...






Her eyes are actually rhinestones on top of felted stickers. I also added those stickers to the centers of the flowers. So pretty!

This little guy has embellished eyes finished off with black brads & his crown has stickles on it!

The owl is sitting on self-adhesive ribbon, and the flowers were from my stash of embellishments.

Christmas Banner




Sorry people- New camera= no uploads of current activity. Therefore- this post is late, but better late than never. I will edit this post at a later time when I figure out what I used to make the banner. The pictures are finally here though!

Gift Boxes-Christmas cuts

This silhouette is backed with several layers to add dimension & I used some "snow" effect on the little hat thingy. I also used my white gelly roll pen on the perimeter.

On the opposite side, I placed this ornament die cut with the same "snow" on top, and the holly is accented with stickles. The remaining two sides only have the holly. I finished it with two colors of ribbon.

A little bling nevah hurt anything! All the die cuts are also embossed, yay!

The snowman is from Gypsy wanderings...


Reindeer is also fom Gypsy wanderings. I finished this one off with  three kinds of ribbon. 
Well, I guess I've not been posting much due to my lack of picture-taking lately. I have been busy making Christmas goodies however and here are the latest little boxes I've learned to make & YES, another new favorite!!! I got the instructions from Cricut chick's page. Her tutorial is on video for those who really need to see how this is made, but seriously, it's probably the easiest thing you'll ever make. So give it a try!! I didn't use elastic on my boxes since I didn't have any handy, and I really needed my sweatpants to last me at least one more winter, so I wasn't about to rip those up. A huge thank you goes out to Cricut chick for posting her versions of these!!

Advent Calendar/ Christmas/ Plantin Schoolbook

Well here it is, my first Advent Calendar! I got the directions from Kathy at Paper Phenomenon, and although I couldn't get it to look perfect, my kids were happy with it (free candy every day for 24 days??-they better be happy!). So I did my job!
The paper was from DCWV, I picked it because it matched our décor and the Santa and sleigh were from the Christmas cart. The numbers were cut at 1" from the Plantin Schoolbook cart, and I made Santa's gift bag & will be adding it also.
Who are these people?!! And where's my reindeer??!!

You can't see it, but there's a lil' box behind the sleigh!

Totally matches my walls!!
A couple of things I learn every time I try one of Kathy's projects are that I am not good at handling a glue gun-no matter what! And, boy can I improvise!! Hey, it's a gift, and I intend to use it. Poor santa looks perplexed, he doesn't know whether to title this list as Nice or Completely Naughty! Enjoy...

Here's my latest project!

Boots & Bouquets, TCK#74

Hello friends, Today is reveal day for Tonic's craft kit: Boots & Bouquets. This is easily the greatest value available for exclusiv...