New cartridge for me: Heritage!

I lately just got the new cricut cartridge, Heritage. It's soooo pretty, and quite versatile: I'm using a lot of the little tags. In this LO I've cut my pictures into the tag. I always take photos of the names of where we go, particularly because I just can't seem to remember anything these days (mommy brain!). They make great tags! Just run a bit of scrap through your cricut before cutting your actual photo to check alignment!

Yellow Perch Catastrophe!

Again, from Camping last summer. Hannah caught a tiny little yellow perch, and was just devastated! She had desperately wanted to go fish, but the reality was not expected! Font for "Yellow Perch" is Segoe Script; "Catastrophe" is MisterEarl BT (a favorite!). Thanks for visiting!

Long Car Ride?

One of my favorite LOs in a long time! Wiggles was 1 and a half, and we were going camping. Car rides are only fun when your big sister sits next to you colouring, and you can grab her markers! Sadly, puppy got dragged into the action too! Font for "colour" is Morning Limerick BTN, cut with 3 layers: regular, shadow 3 and shadow 5; Font for "Long car ride... no problem" is MisterEarl BT.

A brief post!

Ohhhhh! I'm so excited. I've been really busy lately, and so haven't posted much. But today I got a very good reason to post -- I won a Cricut MB contest! WOW! I have had my new Gypsy about 2 weeks (love love love it!) and made a sample of a little winter-themed word book for donation to my school's winter raffle. Just for fun, I entered this contest, and was successful! The competition is so talented, I'm so happy just to have competed. I hope you'll take a look, and I'll try to get the gypsy file up for download later this week. Thanks for visiting!



The Contest entries

Cricut Messageboard

Thanks, Enfys!

Apparently I was having problems with my comment submission, and it's now fixed (I think!) Thanks, Enfys, for letting me know. I always wondered why I had so few but a relatively popular download rate! Thanks for all who take the trouble to leave a comment, I love reading them and feel appreciated!

Two new Precious Moments

I really like my first PM for this posting. It's a little family, with newborn baby. Included in the cut file is hair to match both mother and father. I've chosen to create a family to match my own, with my youngest daughter Teagan as the baby. This set seems slightly less complex than usual, but will still need to be cut fairly large. My sample is cut at 7". It would make a lovely card, I think.





The second little one is a little girl holding paper or artwork. I plan to use her for a scrapbook page of my girl's colouring. She's a little doll, but lots of little pieces in her hair -- always the case with these curly haired girls!





I sincerely hope you take the time to comment. My blog sends me notification when I have a download, and some of my files have been downloaded close to 1000 times, but I receive very little comments. Make me smile today, and leave me a little note. :-)

Celtic Knot

I'm workin on a few pages to celebrate my father's 60th Birthday, and as we are Irish, we had Irish dancers at his party. The following pages have lots going on. The girls were made with Paper Doll Dress-up and Everyday Paper Dolls (cricut) the font is Medieval Scribish and Edwardian Script, and the knot running down the side I created in Inkscape. The knot is available as an svg file after the pics.






Some comments on creating the knot: It's lots of little pieces that need to be placed exactly. I did this by scoring my base paper with exactly the same cut by changing the pressure to "medium" and blade depth to "1".
This way, I able to line up the cut part exactly. The score lines are somewhat hard to see in the pictures, but you get the point.





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