Love Letters

Today I'd like to share with you the project that I made for my husband's Valentine's Day gift.  I found these wonderful little 3 in x 4 in paper bags at Michael's and just knew I had to have them.  Especially since they were on sale 50% off.  I loved the idea that they had the space for journaling on the bag and thought they were the perfect size for making tags and hoped they wouldn't be too big to fit in one of the mailbox tins I had.  After discovering that they weren't too big off to work I went.

I used a variety of cartridges on this project including:

Going Places for the globe

Create a Critter 2 for the owl, phrases and bee

Handyman for the hammer and nails

Paper Dolls for the moon and stars, and the weights

Graphically Speaking for the smiley face

Suburbia for the fan

Indie Art for the dice

Wild Cards 2 for the boat

Mini Monsters for the monster

TBBM2 for the tags

This is a picture of the front of the tags

And this is the back of the tags.  As you can see I printed different sentiments to coincide with the graphic on the front of the tag.

Once they were all put together I matched them up with the paper bag that also had the sentiment written on it.

Then in to the mailbox all but 4 went.  Throughout this week I've left one tag in different hiding spots (truck, lunch bag, bowling shoes, shaker cup) for my husband to find at some point during his day.

For my mailbox - I cut a strip of 4 x 12 paper, wrapped it around the box (cutting out a spot for the flag).  I then traced and cut out the pieces for the front and back.  The stamped sentiment is from Cardz TV Stamps snail mail.

Tomorrow I will place the mailbox - along with a Mine Craft Creeper plush (he's a huge Mine Craft fan) I picked up - in the front seat of his truck.......

The Measure Of A Man.....

Today I'd like to share another card I using one of the sentiments from the You're the Man stamp set.  The Cardz TV design team featured this stamp set during a two day blog hop this past weekend and if you haven't checked it out yet you really should.  Father's Day is quickly approaching and this set is full of endless possibilities!

 

For this particular card I used the cricut cartridge Handyman.  The background paper is titled Fixer Upper from the Moxie Do It Yourself line.  Isn't it just perfect for this cut and sentiment?

 

The inside sentiment for this card reads:

 

...is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.  ~ Samuel Johnson

 

 

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And for even more fun I'm entering this card in the "Pun" Linky party going on over at Craftin Desert Diva's. You should go check it out.

 

Mr. Fix It, You're the Man...

....and we're having a You're the Man blog hop over at Cardz TV.  Mary has divided our team up into two teams for this fun blog hop so if you missed out on yesterday's hopping around be sure to head over to Cardz TV so you can catch up on the fun you missed.

 

Before you go though I'd like to share with you the card that I made for today's blog hop round.  For this handy dandy little card I used the Handyman cartridge.  After finding this background paper in my stash I knew that a set of tool cuts would be perfect AND to make things even better this wonderful stamped pharse was one of the ones from the You're the Man stamp set that we are showcasing for the hop.  How much better can things get?

 

And now that you've seen my card be sure that you hop around at the other stops we have for you today.  Be sure to check them all out because I understand that there some blog candy to be found somewhere along the way beginning with two sets of stamps that Mary's giving away on her blog.  Just be sure to follow the rules that each blogger has posted for how you can win.

 

That said, your next stop on the hop is Dana.  Or if you'd like to start from the beginning here's our line-up:

 

1. Mary - http://www.cardztv.blogspot.com/
2. Janis - http://www.pausedreamenjoy.blogspot.com/
3. Elaine - http://www.expressionsbyelaine.blogspot.com/
4. Laura - http://www.queenscardcastle.blogspot.com/
5. Jo - http://www.jwscrapshack.blogspot.com/
6. Sarah - http://sarahvaitstamps.blogspot.com/
7. Michelle - http://www.mumoftwoblog.blogspot.com/
8. Shelly - http://www.cardsbyshelly.blogspot.com/
9. Candice - http://www.candiedcards.typepad.com/
10. Susan - http://www.itsmesusanp.blogspot.com/
11. Cathy - http://mimi2trentdrew.blogspot.com/
12. DeNetra - http://essentiallyyourswithdenetra.blogspot.com/
13. Barbara http://www.spotofsanity.blogspot.com/
14. Dana - http://www.iwycd.blogspot.com/

15. Melissa - http://www.melissa-moecreations.blogspot.com/

Christmas on the Beach

I saw a picture of the Jolly Holidays lite cartridge that came out last year and just had to have it.  And since it's July I decided to create a Christmas in July card.  For this card featuring Santa and his elf decorating a palm tree.  I used the following carts:

Stretch Your Imagination for the tree
Jolly Holidays for Santa and the elf
Handy Man for the ladder

Dad's Tool Belt - Take Two

I decided to make another one of these wonderful tool belts only this time I wanted to make the tools using my Handyman cart so I figured out the sizes I needed and went to work. 

The tool belt was made using the cut file from Ruelysi that I mentioned in the original post.  The tools were cut again from Handyman at the following sizes:

Hammer at 5"
Wrench at 4 1/2"
Screwdriver at 3 3/4"
Tape measure at 2 1/2"

I used a gray metallic paper for the main layer and this enbled my tools to look more realistic.

The Best Dad Ever badge is from the Father's Day cartridge and was cut at 2".

Home Sweet Home

This week's Cricut Cardz Challenge was to create project using a house cut from any cartridge we desired.  Add to that a flourish and some lace.  Well, I didn't have any lace in my stash so I chose to use ribbon instead, but I did get the house and the flourish.

As I was trying to decide what I was going to do for this challenge I came across this frame that was part of a set I picked up on sale at KMart weeks ago.  The frames worked with what I needed but I had no need for this one that had Home Sweet Home permanently placed on it so I set it aside.  Thank goodness I didn't throw it out because it worked perfectly for this challenge.

To create this picture I used the following cuts:

Handyman for the house cut at 4"

Accent Essentials for the heart flourish (used to look like smoke coming from the chimney) cut at 1"

Zooballoo for the clouds cut at 1 1/2" and 1" which were embossed using the script folder

Then I used two different shades of 1/4" green ribbon stitched to paper to simulate the look of grass, added some flower brads I had in my stash and viola.....

So now that you've seen my project why don't you come play along with us.  Just create your project following the guidelines above and link it back to the appropriate post by clicking on the link above.