Help Diane

Yes, I know I haven't posted in forever. Life is really busy, but I promise I'll get there eventually.

In the meantime, please go help Diane win a Cricut Cruise if you aren't already doing so.

Thanks,
Jill

Ariel Card

Our trip to Dallas in August was also intended to celebrate Layla's 4th birthday. Unfortunately, Layla was running a fever and her birthday celebrations had to be rescheduled. Anyway, above is her card. I thought she would really like Ariel.

I didn't want to just plop Ariel on the card, so I decided to layer some of the sea plants. And what's a little girl's card without glitter?


I had a lot of trouble with her eyes but finally used Stickles for the pupils and took care of that. I selected the Wish on Gypsy Wanderings for my sentiment cut at 1.25.


I wanted some dimension to the card, so I used the 3-d glue dots to pop Ariel and pop dots for Wish.


We were able to spend some time with Layla and present her with her gifts and card, all of which she loved. Along with the gifts Denise and Brian got her, they kept her busy most of the night.

I'll have to remember to make Avalee a special card next year. Her birthday was a few weeks ago. We knew we wouldn't be able to go back but gave her gifts to her while we were there. Although she loved her first very own Barbie, she really wanted the cars we gave Ben. Sure do miss all of them!

Jill

Little Bo Peep

What a beautiful weekend! Great temperatures, beautiful weather, winning Razorbacks and lunch with Matt, April, Josh, Tosha and Uncle Herman. Awwwwwwwww.

We finally made it to Dallas two weeks ago so that I could deliver Alyse's nursery rhyme album to Darci. Well, we did other things, but I was glad to finally make delivery.

The inside of the back cover on her album has a plastic pocket intended to hold a cd. I decided to use it to hold a card instead.


Since the pocket was square, I opted for a square card and decided on 4.25. I probably should have made it a bit smaller with all of the layers, but it fit.

I like the design of the monogram cuts but needed mine to be square, so I used Design Studio to alter the solid one found on the WlcmBaby key.


The 6" cut was close to the width I needed, so I started there. I then changed both the width and height in the Shape Properties box to 4".


My second issue was that I wanted the design to reflect the scallop along the bottom edge instead of being straight. To get around this, I first created my cut page with the design and it's shadow together as they would appear on the card:


Then I placed the adjusted mat where I wanted the scallops:


And finally I moved the design so many spaces to the right using the arrow key on my laptop, clicked on the mat to make it active, copied it, pasted it and moved the new mat the same number of spaces to the right.


So all of the scalloped edges lined up just right.


We had a great time in Dallas with lots of kid time (although never enough), visiting with friends and a little bit of shopping thrown in.


Here's my cut file if you're interested: Bo Peep Card

Hope you're all having a wonderful weekend,
Jill

Envelope for 3 x 3

I need to get this on the blog before I mess around and throw the paper away that has this information. It's amazing that it has made it this long on my scrap table.

When I made Rose Mary's cards a few weeks ago, her envelopes were a bit haphazard as my score board didn't have the dimensions to fit and I was out of time. I plan to make more 3 x 3 cards and didn't want to go through that with the envelope again. So after we got home and I had a bit of time, I experimented until I found a good size.

Cut a 5 1/2" square and score at 2 1/8" on all 4 sides. Clip, fold and add tape.


Working at my table today and hope to have more to share soon.


Hope you're somewhere nice and cool.

Jill

Back to School

It's about that time once again. I am so dreading next week as traffic will be horrible once again. Since I no longer have one in school, I don't have the other issues of back to school. Yea!!!!!

I hope to get some projects accomplished this weekend but thought I'd just remind you of my school related projects from last year.

There are the luggage tags I made for Logan and Bella here.

And the sign for first day of school pictures here.

Gosh, looking at these, I sure wish we were back in Branson. We haven't been back since that trip and I'm really missing it.

I think I need to go make a list of the projects I need to work on so that I don't forget something.

Have a great weekend,
Jill

Hello Kitty

Hmmmmm. Maybe that's why I never shared the Hello Kitty luggage tags. I can't find a picture of them. I think I made these for Abby sometime last year, and I helped Rose Mary make some for Emma a while back.


Here's the picture of Meadow's.


And a print screen of all three.

The cut file includes a Paper Setup page for the Cut Page and a separate one for the Rainbow. The setup page for the rainbow includes some instructions. Because the rainbow parts are grouped with only 2 "contours" to a cut, it is impossible at this time to "hide selected contour" part of it and it still be hidden when you reopen the file. Therefore, you'll either have to hide the parts yourself or just cut all of the parts twice. Make sense?

To "hide selected contour", click on the part you want to hide to make it active, right click anywhere on the mat and click "Hide Selected Contour" on the pop-up menu.


Just a rerun of Miller, Sebastian and Meadow's tags.



Are you or a little friend a Hello Kitty fan? Thinking of you on this one, Susan.

Hello Kitty Luggage Tags


Where's Friday,
Jill

Fire Breathing Dragons

OK, so they aren't fire breathing, but they sure are cute.

When I created Aidan and Maddy's birthday cards (link here), I started work on tags to match but ran out of time. Then I needed a tag for Sebastian, so I decided to do his and Aidan's at the same time. I'll see Kay in a few weeks and hope to have Maddy's made by then too.


I cut the dragons but then remembered how much better they looked using the Cri-Kit pens. So I started over and drew with the pens before cutting.


Doesn't it make a world of difference! I need to remember to use them more.


Since I was working with Nursery Rhymes for Miller, I went ahead and used that font for everything. I rather like it anyway.


Now, I need to get Maddy's done along with making some for Layla, Alyse and Avalee.

Dragon Luggage Tags


Have a good day,
Jill