SOUS Ornament challenge

Welcome December, Welcome Christmas!  My favorite time of year.  It is the most wonderful time of the year by far!    Today is SOUS Friday and this weeks die cut challenge, create an ornament.  I could not wait to get my hands into the new Cricut cartridge by Anna Griffin, Winter Wonderland.  The shadow box below is what I came up with.   LOVE LOVE this !!   I added  depth with foam pop dots.
satin trim and glitter.   I used red ric rak along the inside of the glass on the upper portion and think this really gives it the vintage look I was going for.  The outer fame of the box was covered in gold glitter paper and aged with Tim Holtz inkers.     I see lots of new projects on the horizon with this cartridge.  Thank you for stopping by and thanks to you Anna Griffin for a great and Wonderful partnership with Provo Craft.

The Cuts !!

The below you can see the inside side walls covered in a classic basic grey paper. 

Berries were covered in Stickles.

Compliments of the Season

So very hard to believe that Christmas of 2012 is now behind me.  This year seems to have just flown by.  I commit in 2013 to slow down embrace small everyday moments and hold them close to my heart.  

Today is Friday Die Cut SOUS reveal day and we love those days !!  For this challenge and in keeping with the spirit of Christmas we were asked to create using a 'deer' cut of some kind.
Because we deeerly love Christmas this was a wonderful challenge :).   I created a few cards for some crafty friends.  Hope they inspire you to pull out your holiday photos and start creating.

 

For these cards I used the Cricut Carts, Sophie, Damask Decor and TC Dec 25

Be sure to go back and check out all the designs our team has created on the official SOUS blog.  As always they are an amazing bunch of gals!.  

Wishing you and yours the best of the season and hopes for a wonderful 2013.   Happy New Year to you!

The Greatest Gifts of all

If I have learned anything recently its that the smallest kindest gestures of love, family and friends are the greatest gifts I will ever receive.  How many of us can recall physical gifts received from childhood, the paper and the bows ?  from Santa or from Grandma?  yeah... me either.  But I can recall so may moments from my childhood where the memories will forever be etched onto my heart.  I can so recall playing kitchen with my Grandad where I would pour fake coffee and he would always played along.  Or snapping peas on the porch with Grandmother and as a toddler following my brother to the fishing hole in the neighborhood where he would bait my hand made fishng pole of a stick and found fishing line.   I think I could tell stories forever and not a single one would consist of the opening of a box and finding some sort of treasure.  Thus my title of this layout for the latest Stuck on U die cut challenge.  We were asked to create something with GIFTs.  
The photo not yet taken ;).... will be one of my sweet neice at Christmas.  

Hugs to you and yours this holiday season!! 
 Be sure to check out the SOUS blog to see what the fabulous Die Cut gals have created but not before you check out my photos.  :)

 

 

 



 

 

Cricut Cartridges used were Birthday Bash and Teresa Collins Sophisticated

 

A few ornaments created

Ornaments created for my friend. I love the holiday and could not create just one. So ..... one was painted, the other altered and glittered and the last one.. well she loves vintage and the snowflake just reminded me of the old pipecleaner ornaments from my grandmothers tree. :)

Gingerbread Ornaments

Yes Mam, you guessed it. Another 'sweet' project for my friends. I think I'll be doing many more of these as the holidays get closer. For this project, the words of inspiration were " All hearts come home for Christmas ". I again took a little spin, and settled for ' All hearts come home for Cookies '. This little guy was a gingerbread ornament form I purchased at HL recently. He is covered again in Basic Gray paper then I chalked his cheeks, face drawn on and puffy white paint used for the icing on both the front and the back. The finishing touch was to glitter him all over to give the effect of glistening sugar. How could you not crave cookies after seeing this fello? Thus, this project called for a box of sugar cookies to tie him to.

 

 

 

Holiday Block Head

So its June and I have made my first Christmas item :).
I so love the holidays and in creating for my Gibbs challenge, " your such a block head charlie brown " I thought I share a bit of the holidays with my partner.
This was intended to be a ornament for the tree but ended up too large so, i added wooden beads for feet and it became a table top decoration celebrating the JOY of her children.