Easter Banner with the Cricut Explore

Hi Crafters,
I love quick little home decor projects. We have a post on the side of our fireplace between our great room and kitchen. I have a little screw that I use to put up seasonal decor. Here's some fun spring Easter decor I made last weekend.

I started with 3 simple banner pennants and used several cricut images to make it perfect for Spring.

The egg is from Gypsy wonderings. It's cut from a thick glitter paper, I used the custom glitter paper setting on my explore and it cut perfectly.

The rabbit is from Give a Hoot.

The little chicky is from A Child's Year. I cut it first in cardstock then I used some heat and bond on the back of felt and cut it on the felt setting using the strong hold mat. It did well, it struggled a bit with the feet but I wasn't planning on using those so it was no sweat!

Thanks for stopping by,

Easter Cards

Hi crafters,

I was able to spend some time making cards yesterday.  I won a set of stamps Faith in Bloom from Taylored Expressions at their Facebook launch party last month.  They are such a pretty and inspiring group of stamps.

I used Give a Hoot for the bunnies (cut at 2 inches) and Gypsy Wonderings for the sentiment shape.  The cards are standard A2 size cards.  The patterned paper is cut at 2.75x4.00.

The stamp reads "My soul finds rest in God alone; My salvation comes from Him."

They've made great progress on the house in the past few weeks.  The roof is on and the siding is almost finished.  We chose Smoky Olive by valspar for the color.  The rock is on the outside of the chimney. They started hanging the dry wall and that should be finished and ready for mud by the end of the week.

Enjoy this beautiful week Crafters!

Easter 2011

Hi Crafters,

This picture of my husband and me makes me smile! My older sister caught a great candid moment.  My niece definitely steals the show here though!

Here's a layout I made for Easter 2011.  The eggs and font are cut out of Recollections glitter paper using A Child's Year.  The grass is from Plantin Schoolbook.  The little flowers are dies from the cuttlebug.  I used the Jolee's hotfix tool to add bling for the center of the flowers.

Happy Crafting,

Easter

Happy Palm Sunday!

It's a dreary day here in the foothills of the mountains.  I'm hoping that the warm weather will be back this week.  Spring break begins on Friday and I can tell already it's going to be a long week!  I made some quick and simple Easter cards.

This one I used Designer Calendar for the Easter and Indie Art for the cross.

I think this little bunny is just adorable!  He is from Gypsy Wonderings as is the grass.  The font for this is Gypsy font.

I also made a birthday card for the Cartridge Exploration Challenge over on the message boards at cricut.com.  Every week they pick a cartridge to explore and people post their creations.  It's amazing to see how JAMMED packed each of the cartridges are.  

This cupcake is from A Child's Year

The sentiment shape is from Storybook

The stamp is a Studio G stamp.  The sentiment will get place inside the card once my stickles dry.

Happy Crafting!