Cricut Meow - cat theme gifts

One of the ladies I work with is due for her birthday next week, the day before my 40th EEK!... She LOVES cats so I recently bought the Cricut Meow cartridge to be able to wrap and decorate her cats theme pressies.. Hope she likes them...

Cricut cards, bloom fence, alice in wonderland, bumble bee, mosaic fairy

Here are some cards made over the last few nights, firstly a fence from the bloom cartridge.







Next Alice from the disney classics cartridge....











Next a cute bumble bee from create a critter. This card design is from the cricut magazine - which I am loving! I gave up buying magazines as they cost so much and you end up with so many and nowhere to store them all... since buying the new cricut magazine, I cannot resist as they are so many great ideas in them.....
Lastly a fairy from a childs year cartridge which is also a design in the cricut magazine.....

Cricut cards

And the last of the nights creations, a lovely pink poodle with elegant edges frame. Mountain fishing scene from camping critters (my favourite) and a cowgirl from once upon a princess.

cricut animal shaped cards and matchbox

Here are some animal shaped cards using the animal kingdom cartridge and the gypsy to copy the image, flip then join the two together to make the fold out card, then added layers..

The matchbox is from bags tags ans boxes cartridge...

cricut cards - sea theme

Here are a few cards I made last night using my cricut machine...
The yatch and lighthouse cards are from Life's a beach cartridge,
and the surfer is from Dude cartridge...

Photography pages and awards

The first scrapbook page is a photo I submitted at camera club whihc got an honours... I tooke three photos using AEB auto exposure bracketing that is 3 photos at different exposures and then did the HDR high dynamic range merge in photoshop to get the best parts of all three images....

Next are two photos I entered at the interclub competition held in Hawera recently, hosted by the Hawera club - in the recent photographers section with interclub being stratford, inglewood, hawera and new plymouth clubs.. one of my DPIs got second and another third. You could only put in two DPIs and two prints. I didn't make it to interclub as I had a bad cold after finishing a busy couple of months backstage with 42nd street with the operatic society... I can't believe my photos were placed and they awarded ribbons! I have never had ribbons before... very cool.

And lastly a scrapbookpage using a couple of night photography shots of the port which I haven't even entered at camera club...

Cricut Cupcake wrappers

After a day and a half at the dunkleys craft fair (best craft fair every year!) I finally had time to make some cupcakes so I could try some cricut cupcake wrappers and toppers. The first few went okay at 2" each for the standard cupcakes, however the boy wrapper came out a lot shorter in length on 2" and would fit a very small cupcake... Maybe I need to work out how long I need them all as the 2" is based on height and varies with the different designs... If anyone has any advise on this please let me know... thanks

Cricut create a critter vinyl aminals on jar

Tonights creation, vinyl animals onto jar cut with the cricut - create a critter

Wonder what else I can use the vinyl on??

cupcake candle and card

Here is tonights creation made for a lady at work who is turning 40 tomorrow. I found the instructions on Splitcoast stampers and it was so easy and a lot a fun. The cupcake is made by covering a battery operated tealight candle.... really pleased with how it turned out.... just need to locate more battery candles and then can gift lots of them....

more bookmarks - cricut

I don't know what I was thinking the other night when I made some bookmarks as every one of the is black! so last night I decided I had to try more but this time with lots of colour... I think they look much better!

cricut bookmarks

so made time for a little more crafting today as has been a very long time since I have had the time to do some.... I have a terrible cold though and a sty on my eye, often the way after busy with a show for 6-8 weeks.....

Should really be doing my study as amonth behind on that too!

Long weekend coming but a craft fair in town, Dunkleys, that could be expensive!

so here are some bookmarks made with the animal kindom cartridge with the bookmark which is shaped based on each of the animals you can choose, there is also a bookmark with out shapes on top so you can design your own... the last three are made using the bookmark but merging the shadow of other cartridge images, e.g. elmo, pooh and tinkerbell....

snowboard cricut

And the last creation of the night, a very cool snowboarder from Cricut Dude cartridge.... the snowflake embossed sky was my last scrap to use up, so very pleased and relieved to have my scraps used and now have some order again.....

cricut jandles

here are some very summery jandals...... from the Life's a Beach cartridge...

cricut golf cart

After remaking lots of cards and using up all my scraps yesterday arvo, i then made 3 new cards, which I have to say was much more fun rather than trying to create things around using cuts and embellishments I was trying to use up.....lets hope I don't hoard any scraps any more....

This very handy golf cart comes with the every day dress up dolls cartridge.... very handy for golf enthusiasts.....