My latest projects

I tried to upload these pics last night but I think blogger must have been experiencing some issues. So, I'm going to try it again this morning.

This is a card I made for a swap I was in on one of the Yahoo Groups. I really like how it came out. I love the colors. The card and paper are from a DCWV paper stack; the stamp was one from a $1 pack from Joanns probably, and the light blue stripe is embossed using a Cuttlebugs embossing folder (one of my new favorite techniques). I am just getting into embossing. I've always liked how it looked, but I didn't really have tools to do it. I LOVE the Cuttlebug folders.

I got my new Storybook Cricut cartridge in the mail on Friday, and I had to play with it immediately. It is AWESOME! It may be my new favorite cartridge. I used it to create this altered lunchbox. It is a Family Recipes box for the family reunion I am going to at the end of the month. I want to make some recipe cards yet for the inside with some of the scanned copies of recipes in my grandmother's handwriting (she died in 1984). Due to the light colors, the photo is kinda hard to make out all the detail, but I"m very pleased with it.

These are the recipe box insert pages. I used the Storybook cartridge font on these. Very pretty looking.

I finally got the "Datebook" completed to go in the altered lunchbox I made for the school auction, the one with the handmade greeting cards inside of it. The paper of this book coordinates with the paper on the lunchbox. I made it with the Locker Talk album page feature.

This is an example of inside the Datebook. I used the circel month stamps from my set of Hero Arts months stamps, and created the lined pages in Word, just making each day of the month with a line by it so people can jot down who's birthday is that day. Another good addition to this box would be an address book, but I don't think I'll have time to create that one!

And last, but certainly not least, my altered Blue Bunny Ice Cream container. Yes, that's right...an ice cream container. Awhile back I was in the kitchen and this container was drying in the sink for the recycling. I looked at it and thought that it sure didn't look like paper. When I felt it it was actually more like a plastic material. I have even run them through the dishwasher to clean them. So, I put paper around it, and altered it, and use them for storage in my craft room. The paper from this was from a DCWV Fall stack; ribbon is DCWV adhesive backed; and the flowers are from Walk in the Garden Cricut cartridge; word Embossing is done using Opposites Attract cartridge.