Cricut Acrylic Calendar Album

My sister Shell made this to show the customers in the shop that its not only cards you can make using your cricut, calenders too!

* 8 x 8 cm Acrylic sheets x 6.
* On each one she has ripped/torn, sanding, aswell as scrunching then sanded 8 x 8 cm core colour card stock.
* Shell used making the grade alphabet.
* Contrasting colours for each page.
* Leaves are from stretch your imagination, and the same leaves on another page have been cut usung the silhouette function.
* Moon and stars are from paper dolls.
* The holly is from stretch your imagination boarder.
* Glitter has been added to the flowers and wings.
* Walk in my garden for flowers and ladybug.
* Flower petals have been edged inked.
* Printed off the calender months on the computer, and decorated it accordingly.

I'm gonna be a bear!

Santa Silhouette card

This is the second card my sister Shell taught in her cricut card class. Simple yet effective.

A5 apparture card. Message completed in silver shadow, & base black. Santa & reindeer cut @ 2.5 inches in matt black, blackout santa & reindeer cut @ 2.5 inches in silver. Trees cut @ 2.5, 2, 1.5, 1.25 and 1 inches. Sparkle black card put behind the apparture to give the night sky that twinkle of stars look!

3D Village card from Noel Cart.

My sister Shell made this in a cricut craft class she taught in Grimsby the other week, she was so impressed by the end result that and wanted to share it with others, as she is presently not connected to the internet, I told her that I would add it to my blog.

2 Strips stuck together facing other 2 strips like so:














White card 14cm x 8cm stuck to back flaps, black card 5cm x 8cm stick to front flaps:














Card 16cm x 14.6cm, score at 4cm & 8cm cut into 4 - 4cm x 14.6 strips. Valley fold score lines, place 2 strips back to back sticking the 6.8cm lengths together, repeat with other 2. Lay wth folds facing each other, white card 14cm x 8cm stick the 4cm flaps flush wth bottom, 5cm x 8cm black stick to front flaps.

Black card for behind houses 1 & 2 @ 6.8cm x 8cm; behind church 8cm x 10cm; behind snow tree 5cm x 8cm, and whitecard for snow, add glitter for sparkle.

House 1; house 2; church; lamppost; & trees all cut @ 3 inches. Snow tree cut @ 3.5 inches.

The village folds flat and fits inside a C5 envelope, when stood it's a little shorter, the messages go on the back of the white card.

Christmas Cracker Cut File

With the festive season approaching fast I wanted to make my own christmas crackers, the snaps are avalable to purchse from ebay - type in 'christmas cracker snaps'.The cartridge used to design this was George and Basic Shapes, using the design studio to weld the shapes together.

To download the cut file just click on the title.

2 Awards...wowsers

Hi everyone, well what can I say, Lana has sent me 2 awards, yes 2, thank you Lana please check out her blog.

Now I need to choose 5 blogs from the many I love to visit, here they are:

1. JenC
2. Mardenz
3. Caz
4. Rima
5. Shelly

Please do go over and pay these wonderfully creative people a visit, you will not be disappointed.

And the winner of the Rak is.................................

I would like to thank everyone who entered into the rak, and for the poems.

Alyssa pulled out the winner of the RAK as...........................................

Lindaf1967 Congratulations

To receive the Rak please send your name and address to the email address at the top Right hand side of the blog page.

Alyssa and the Lapland Reindeers

Alyssa is getting excited now she has seen real reindeers and Father Christmas walking around the shopping centre, to which she shook his hands and politely said I would like 'Diamond Castle Barbie', for Christmas! Sweet!

Shoe shaped birthday card - pre cricut/DS!

Again these cards were located on an old phone and were for my daughters, friends birthdays in 2007. I designed these cards myself made from my own templates. They did however look better when made the pictures don't do them any justice!! The camera is not too good on the phone!

Bookatrix Wedding cards/boxes x 2 looks

Found these pictures on my old phone, they are old May 07 hence the fuzziness of them.

RAK for over 5000 Downloads of cut files since June!

I have a Rak on offer as I have reached over 5000 downloads from my cut files, since June; alls I would like from those who wish to participate is a poem for the arrival of a new born baby, it can be for either sex. Leave the poem along with your name on my blog. The Rak contains the following:

Base Camp Cricut Cartridge
Anita’s coloured Stickers ‘Reindeers’
Papermania card stock stickers – Alphabet
50 Adhesive quote sticker pad ‘LOVE’
Alphabet stickers in green/gold and silver
Small pack of papers 6”2
Papermania element stickers
Gold and Red Glitter Pots 16g
Anita’s clear reindeer stamp, includes clear block
2 Whisper Pens Red & Green
Craft Ribbon Brown/Blue
Papermania 3 pigment Stamp sets
Papermania fabric Accessories (2 flowers and 2 butterflies)
Studio 2 x Miniture stamp Sets

Ampersand: Slugs '&' Snails baby card

Here is the card, which is made up from the cut file posted on here yesterday. Please visit August post for the first card I put together, and for a link to another designer who too has designed similar, but has used her carts rather than design studio creations. What do you think??

Sugar '&' Spice baby card

I have made this card before and have posted it earlier on my blog, but thought that I would place the improved cut file screen view here next to the boy cut file of the Ampersand card, so people can see how they look together.

Designed using New Arrival; Printing Press and Pooh Font carts. To Download simply click on the title.

Slugs '&' Snails baby card cut file..

Ampsand card shape came from Printing Press Cart, the slug and snail were designed using George 'n' basic shapes, Storybook and paper dolls carts; the wording is from the Pooh font and the baby from new arrival, I have almost completed this card and when completed shall post it. To download this cut file please click on the title.

Nurses hat... cut file

I designed this hat after somebody on the Cricut Design Studio forum requested one. The hat was designed using George 'n' basic shapes cartridge. To download simply click on the title.

Santa's roof top stop card cut file

I designed this cut file for a christmas competition for my work, I have yet to cut it out, but have a feeling it's gonna be a winner, if not at work personally. Simply click upon the title to download the cut file, which is designed from Christmas Cheer Cartridge and George and Basic Shapes.

Ampersand....Shaped Card cut file

The And is from Printing Press cartridge using the design studio and the baby bug. Simply click on the title to download the file.