cricut flowershop and sweet tooth

Here are a couple of things I tried to make with my new cartridges, the first flower was okay but the second one was a disaster and looks like one!maybe the middle is too loose?? any advice welcomed! Obviously I need help with these.....

The box I made was not quite big enough as I was hopingto put tealight candles in it but will have to try making a bigger one when time allows.....

Cricut cards, baby, icecream....

Made some time tonight to make a few cards with my cricut... I love my cricut so much it has take over from my stampin obsession. I spent some of the weekend re-labelling the labels on my blog so visitors can search things more easily... hope it is helpful.

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??