Girl Reading

• Cricut Cartridge:  A Child's Year.  Base Camp.
• Designer Paper:  Authentique "Summer" 6"x6" pack.
• Sentiment:  CardzTV "Encouraging Thoughts" stamp set.
• Twine:  the Paper Studio
• Punch:  Martha Stewart Fence punch 
• Other:  Tim Holtz Faded Jeans Distress Ink.

A2 sized card = 5.5" x 4.25"
Cricut A Child's Year
Cricut Base Camp

Card Recipe:

• Mat 1 (black) = 5 3/8" x 4 1/8"
• Mat 2 (print pattern) = 5.25" x 4"
• Tag = cut image and shadow at 1" from Cricut Base Camp cartridge; [ilov4evr] found on page 124 of the folder.  Bow made out of twine from the Paper Studio.  Edges inked with Tim Holtz Faded Jeans Distress Ink.

• Girl Reading = cut image and shadow at 3" from Cricut A Child's Year cartridge; [Reading] found on page 47 of the folder.  Image is mounted with foam tape.
• Sentiment = from CardzTV "Encouraging Thoughts" stamp set.

Inside of Card

Inside of Card:

• Mat 1 (black) = 5" x 3.75"
• Mat 2 (beige) = 4.75" x 3.5"
• Fence = 1" x 4.75" from Martha Stewart punch

Thank you for visiting my blog today.  As always, comments are welcomed and appreciated.

~ Marilyn

Let's Play Dress-up

Little time-out stool for Neely painted in a melon color.   The little girl playing dress-up is from A Child's Year Cricut cartirdge.   Font for "Neely" is from Songbird Cricut cartridge.   Flowers are from Accent Essentials Cricut cartridge.   Paper colors are from Imagine More Cards Cricut cartridge.  Stool is accented with ribbon, butterflies, stickles and Glossy Accents.  Green twine used to accent ribbon image on front of dress.

Card has been added. Castle on front of card from Life a Party Cricut cartridge.

Cowboy Themed Time-Out Stool

Howdy Partner!

Time-out stool for Clive.   Stool is accented with a red bandana and comes with a baby shower card.   Cuts are from A Child's Year and Old West Cricut cartridges.   Blue twine used for the rope and yellow twine adds accent around the sheriff's badge.  Gold stickles used on spurs.   Glossy Accents used on sheriff's badge.

Picture This - Baby Gift

How adorable - how unique - how easy and inexpensive can this be!

Honestly, it didn't take me 15 minutes to pull this baby shower gift together.   Genevieve's mother-to-be will love it.

I purchased the photo frame at Hobby Lobby using a 40% off coupon.   I believe I ended up paying less than $10 for it.   Also at Hobby Lobby I picked up a pretty sheet of paper to use for the background.

Back at home, I cut out the Girl and Bird image using white cardstock.   The image and pink shadow were both cut using A Child's Year Cricut cartridge (6.25").   I ran the white cut thru my Cuttlebug using the Swiss Dots folder.   Image was then glued to front of the background paper (that had been cut to 8" x 10").  

Inset into photo frame.

Next I went to the Cricut Craftroom (free application) and created a welded font text of "Genevieve" that I cut out in white vinyl.   Text was sized to be 6" long and created using the Songbird Cricut cartridge.   A simple application of the vinyl to the front of the glass using Transfer Tape and I can call it done!

** Update ** 

I decided that I wanted make a more 3D effect to this project.

Using some leftover background paper, I cut out one of the yellow butterflies and glued some light yellow twine outlining the wings.  

I also apply some Tacky Glue to rest of wings and sprinkled on glitter.

I attached to butterfly to outside of glass using Glossy Accents.   Also, applied Glossy Accents to pink center of butterfly.

I like the 3D look.

Baby Decor ~ Boy

Baby Decor for a Boy:   The Boy and Sunflower were cut from A Child's Year at 6".

Closeup of Letter "P".   Cut using Storybook at 5 1/2 ".   Letter has been embossed using Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder.

"Perry" is cut from vinyl using Songbird Cricut cartridge at 2.12 inches and has been placed on the outside of the glass.  I used the Cricut Craft Room to weld the letters together.

Total cost was around $10.   Frame found at Michaels on closeout.   Paper was on sale at Michaels for 14 cents.  This is an 8 x 10 frame.

Boy and Girl Pictures together. 

Baby Decor ~ Girl

Baby Decor Picture.   Girl watering flowers cut from A Child's Year Cricut cartridge.

Photo frame purchased at Hobby Lobby at 1/2 price.   Contents of photo removed and a pretty pink paper background was added.

Closeup of the large initial "K"; this was cut using Storybook Cricut cartridge.   Letter was embossed using Cuttlebug Daisy folder.

"Kennedy" cut from vinyl using Songbird Cricut cartridge.   Letters were welded together via Cricut Craft Room.   Vinyl letters are on top of the glass.

 Pink ribbon added to back for hanging.   Total cost around $11.00 :  Frame $10 (1/2 price cost), pink paper $1.20.   I already had vinyl and ribbon on hand.   This is an 8 x 10 picture frame.

Boy and Girl pictures together.