Nemo Frame

When Cricut came out with the new Disney cartridges I knew I just had to have them, I absolutely love everything Disney!! Finding Nemo is on the Disney Best of Pixar cartridge and I love it!

 I started out with this 5x7 chipboard frame that I found at Michael's. I used FolkArt True Blue acrylic paint and painted the whole frame I think I did it twice.

 My mess in progress. I cut all the images out on my Cricut and glued them all together. I cut out the seaweed @ 8", the bubbles @ 6" and the sand @ 2" and layered all those with pop dot for some dimension. I cut all the Nemo parts out @ 5" and put him together, now I must admit I have never done one of the charater cut before and have been a little scared to try but it was actually pretty easy to figure out and really didn't take that long to put together. The treasure chest I believe I cut @ 3 1/2".

 My Nemo, he's just to darn cute for words!

Ta-da!!! I really liked the way this frame turned out. I left the top open to add a name (whenever I figure out who it for), but it needed to be made. I'm glad I got over my "fear" of these characters, it really was a lot of fun to do. I'm thinking Bambi maybe next.


Hope everyone has a great day! I'm back in the ICU for the next two nights, my other love.

Allison

My First Award!!

I'm so excited, I've received my first award, The Stylish Blogger Award!!! Thank you so much MulticafterAmy for this award for Emily's Bedroom Door. I feel so honored!!

8 Things About Me:

1. I created this blog to increase my confidence about my crafting.

2. I love to bake especially cheesecakes, canollies, and cakes.

3. I am the biggest procrastinator in the world.

4. I can't go shopping without going into a craft store.

5. I always have at least 10 projects that I am working on or are getting ready to start.

6. I began crafting to make scrapbooks for my kids, but have never completed a layout.

7. I love to look at other peoples blogs for inspiration.

8. My goals for this year, actually complete a scrapbooking layout, participate in some blog hops, craft more   often and learn new techniques.

I Have To Apologize

First let me apologize to everyone, I did not mean to disappear. We unfortunately lost a very close family friend unexpectedly and have had some things to deal with. It was not until today that I realized that it has been almost a month since I've been here... so I apologize. My intent when I started this blog was to have several posts a week and that is still my intent starting now.

The weather here in central New York is terrible today, so I am snowed in and crafting like crazy! My hope is to have some new projects tonight or tomorrow morning for you.

Thanks for understanding (hopefully)!
Allison

Emily's Bedroom Door

I'm not much for football especially if it doesn't involve the Bills, so I made this for my daughter's bedroom door yesterday. I really liked the way this project turned out. I had bought this with no particular use in mind but my daughter had other ideas, she loves to look through all my cartridges and find things for me to do.

This is the sign I bought at Hobby Lobby. I love finding things there that I can play with.

 Emily found the Effiel tower on the Wall Decor and More Cartridge and I made some adjustments with my Design Studio, I also used SCALs for her name. I don't remember which font I used though.

I hung this on her door this morning, she'll be surprised when she gets home from school today to see the finished product. I know she'll love it, it goes great with the rest of her room.

Allison

A Few Questions Answered (Hopefully)

Hi Everyone! I've had a few people on the Cricut message boards who have asked what cartridges I've used on a few projects. If I didn't list a cartridge I didn't use one. I used a software called Sure Cuts A Lot, this software is amazing! It allows you to use files called SVGs and any, yes I said ANY true type font that is on your computer to cut fonts and images. SCAL is a little expensive, but well worth the price!

Now please don't get me wrong I still buy cartridges (mostly cause I'm addicted to all things Cricut), but you have so many more options with SCALS.

All the tiles I've made were made from SVG files that I bought or got off the internet. The nice thing about SVGs is that there are millions for free on the internet and some wonderful site that you can buy beautiful images very cheap! If you have any questions please let me know, I would love to help!

Allison

Christmas Tiles

Ok, I will admit, I think I'm addicted to vinyl, I think I would almost rather cut with vinyl than paper... almost.  I made almost everyone something this year for Christmas with my Cricut and the vinyl projects seem to work up quicker than anything else I could think of. Here are some of the tiles I made:

I made this tile for my mom. She loved it and started crying, which of course set me off ... oh boy should have seen us.

I made this one on a smaller 6x6 tile for my babysitter, it just seemed appropriate.

I made this one for my hubby's grandparents. What do you get people who have been married 50 years and have everything? This was very time consuming but so worth it. I loved the way it came out.

Glitter Ornaments

My kids wanted to make something special for their teachers this year but of course they told me this the week before break (ugh), so had to think of something fast. I had seen that everyone was making these glitter ornament on the Cricut Message boards so I thought we'd give it a try. They were so easy and worked up to fast!

Ok, mostly easy. I cut the words out of vinyl and they were small so we had to re-cut a few but no pain, no gain right?

Families Are Forever

I made this clock for my mother in law for Christmas, I loved the way it turned out. I made it on a 13x13 floor tile and used my SCALs software to cut the image out of vinyl. I think clocks are my new favorite projects to do, the hardest part is drilling through the tile... I leave that for my hubby.

Welcome Home Bouquet

This is one of the first projects I made with my Cricut. A friend of ours daughter and husband were bringing their new adopted baby home from Africa and his bedroom was all safari animals.

I used Animal Kingdom and Pooh and Friends cartridges for this project.

I'm So Excited!!

It's time for my first post! I don't know if I'm more excited to have my first post or that I was able to create this blog for myself.  I love to do all things crafty and inspire others to do the same. My hope for this blog is for you and I to just have a LOT OF FUN!