You know I don't feel good when...

I get five new cartridges, the first new cartridges I've gotten in over a month, and I barely have the energy to look through the handbooks. It's just so pitiful lol. It was a really really really really good sale though! Oh yes, finally, I am ... Batman (surely there is a tissue compartment in the utility belt!).

Colds Blow lol

I've had a wicked bug the last couple of days and all I've been able to make is a few Christmas cards from a kit and a card for DD I made from bits of my first Club Scrap kit, Jubilee. As promised, I did photograph my second pedestal card.

Joy from Holidays with the Cricut made a terrific pedestal card video.

The only good thing about being sick is that I've had a chance to do some reading. What does a papercrafter read when sick? Murder mysteries solved by crafters lol. I finished Cut, Crop and Die, and now I'm onto Eggs in Purgatory. Gotta love the library : ). Both of them include snippets of information like scrapbooking, recipes. And there's just nothing good that I can think of to do with alllllll these tissues lol. You know you are crafty when...

One of My Favorite Ornaments from 2009

I made this last fall from a K&Co ornament paper pad I bought a couple of years ago. I added red rhinestones I've had about 20 years and some pink ribbon that is almost that old and some brand new green stickles from a Stickles Christmas package. I love it when I don't have to go to the store in the middle of  a project : ). The polka dots were pre-glittered by the manufacturer.

The only instruction they give you in the paper pad is a picture of the end result. So it can be a bit of a brain tease if you haven't made any of these before lol.

The ornament is about 3 1/2 inches from pointy tip to pointy tip. The angel is closer to the camera, it's only about 1/2 inch high, and yes Baby Sister, it glows in the dark lol.

First Pedestal Card

I made my very first Pedestal Card today to include in a RAK (random act of kindness), it was tiny (only 4" x 4") and I added a lot of dimension to the base so it wouldn't slip. I forgot to take a picture lol. I embellished it with a tiny Eiffel Tower stamp. I know, you're shocked I would use the Eiffel Tower lol.

I had a great time making it though and I see a lot of these in my future. Those I'll try to remember to take pictures of before I package them up and mail them out.

More Eiffel Tower Cards

These are going in the Eiffel Tower RAK. Variations on what I could do with the same embossed image.

A better picture of the card I posted earlier.

This one is the embossed image flipped over so it's a depressed image, then the

Depressed image, light sanding.

All the Eiffel Towers are embossed on the same Core'dinations cardstock.

Birthday Card

I'm just tickled pink with this card, even though the only pink things are the little flowers on the cake. DD's friend is studying French and liked my Eiffel Tower cards so I used one of the stamps I made out of the Cricut Stamp Sheets with a pale lilac (also used to ink the edge of the mat). The stamps are from Stampin Up's Bon Moments that I just got yesterday in the mail and I used colored pencils to color in the cake. Oh yes, the cake is raised up from the card with my brand new Dimension Dots (?) from SU.

It took about 10 minutes from blank yellow card to finished. Faster than a trip to the store : ).

I was starting to wonder if it was possible to cut stamps with the Gypsy (no speed control), and then it happened. Brand new mat, deep blade housing (4.5), pressure 4, speed set to 1 (it seems to slow it down a little bit).

Destination: Eiffel Tower

Ok, I love the Eiffel Tower. I made an embossing folder with the Destinations cart and the embossing folder kit from Provo Craft. Just make sure to set the blade to 6 if you are using the regular blade housing and set the multi-cut to 2.

It was a little tricky getting the correct side to peel off to expose the necessary sticky side. There is a great video on making these folders at Holidays with the Cricut. It worked really well with my Sizzix Big Kick.

A card I made with ready-made card and matching envelope on clearance from Walmart. I used the embossing folder with a piece of Core'dinations cardstock and just sanded the top color off the embossed image, around the edges and to distress the background a little.