Just a Note

This week's Cricut Cardz Challenge was anything goes.  That's right.  Any theme.  Any cartridge/s.  Any color/s we want.  It's all fair game.

I chose to create a card of encouragement.  Actually, I had started designing this one on my Gypsy a while back and never finished it for some reason so this was the perfect time to get 'er done.  To make things even more exciting I found a new mat stack at Hobby Lobby this week.  It's called Faith by Paper Studio and I love the papers in this stack!

To create this card I used:

Gypsy Wanderings for the 'placard' cut at 5" and the note cut at 1 1/4"
Gypsy Font for the verbiage cut at 1 /4"
Home Decor for the bird cut at 3"

Now that your creative juices are flowing - come and play along with us.  Just create your card, click on the link above and follow the directions to link your card and be entered for a chance to win the October prize.

Santa, I Believe

This is a card that I created for this week's Santa Slackers Challenge #5.  For this week's challenge we had to use a Santa cut and at least one tag on our card.

For my card, I used Paper Doll Dress Up for the santa cut at 4".  I flocked the red portion of the hat and used Flower Soft for the white fur trim.  I then used Gypsy Font for the words cut at 1".

My tag is a shipping tag purchased from Office Depot, embossed with D'Vine Swirls and then inked with Broken China and Vintage Linen Distressed inks.

Raining Hearts

This is a card that I created for dh for Valentine's Day and I chose this format as a project challenge for one of my card groups. I actually designed part of this card using my Gypsy and part of it using Design Studio. The reason for that was because I wanted to use the Gypsy font cartridge for the main heart and the only way to do that was to use my Gyspsy itself.

My other cuts are as follows:

Child's Year for the umbrella - cut 3x for the dimension and the handle

Every Day Paper Dolls for the monkey

Home Decor for my "raining" hearts

Keeper of the Stars

I designed this card on my Gypsy last month while on vacation in Alabama. I was inspired by a wall hanging I saw in a 'flea mall' there but just got around to cutting and putting it together last night.

For this card I used:

Gypsy Wanderings for the snowman cut at 4"

Gypsy Font for the words welded and cut to the sizes needed

A Child's Year for the stars cut at 3/4"

The next time I make this card though I'll have to chose a different color for my words or put it on a less color back drop. ;o)

I pray that you all have a very blessed and Merry Christmas!

Snowballs - Gypsy Design

I am so loving the fact that I have my new Gypsy. Yesterday word came down from corporate that they wanted dh to stay on-site (we work for a 500+ unit Condominium site and dh is the Director of Engineering) due to what was then Hurricane Ida. Needless to say we were less than prepared since we live an hour from site. BUT, I had my Gypsy. So after a trip to Wal-mart and dinner we settled in our room and away I went.

This card was created using:

Gypsy font for the verbiage,

Gypsy Wanderings for the snowman,

Winter Woodland for the snowflakes,

George for the snowball stand