Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all! I hope you are blessed to spend this day with family and/or friends!

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~Hugs, JennRo~

Pink and Green Frosty Card!

Only 3 more days until Christmas!! Is all your shopping done and wrapped? My shopping is done and everything is wrapped! I had a hard time wrapping this year; my hips just didn't like standing in one place. Thankfully my Mom was very helpful and did a lot for me. Thanks Mom!! Well, this is my very first "wobbly" card I've made. I saw a great tutorial on it at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge a week or so ago and thought I'd give it a try. You can see the video here! This week at ABC Christmas Challenge the challenge is "Zero Time" because there is zero time left for Christmas card making and mailing. We could choose any of the previous challenges to do over or do if we didn't have a chance to do them originally. I decided to do F is for Frosty and G is for Glitz for a combined challenge. I made this cute card using some Glitzy paper I had from last Christmas' crafting journeys! All three papers are glittery (see below for better pictures). The Frosty image is called heartline and is from Dustin Pike. I made the image wobble as shown in the video below. So easy and so fun! I added glossy accents to his hat and Stickles just about everywhere! Cotton Candy stickles on the hearts and Frosted Lace stickles on Frosty's body. I used two stamps from Hero Arts; "Make the Season Bright" is on the outside and then "Merry Christmas" is on the inside.

--This project is entered in the following challenges--
ABC Christmas Challenge - Zero (G is for Glitz and F is for Frosty)

Digital Tuesday - Celebrate (the Season)
PaperTake Weekly - Anything Goes

Kaboodle Doodle - Clean & Simple

Pixie Cottage - Celebrate (the Season)

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~Hugs, JennRo~

CANDY ALERT!

Three Trees {paper} Creations has some Christmas Blog Candy for you to win! Check it out!
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Christmas Greeting Card Holder!

This week over at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge, the challenge was to "Deck the Halls"; meaning make something to decorate your "halls" with. I decided to create a Christmas Photo card holder. I always get great photo cards but there isn't a good way to display them so I made a way! I used skewers (at different lengths) and hot glued mini clothespins to the ends. I also hot glued little red bows to the clothespins so they looked finished. I used a tin bucket and tied a red starry ribbon around it, hot gluing it in place. I cut Santa using my cricut and the Doodlecharms cartridge. His white elements were cut from sparkly white cardstock though it doesn't show up in the picture. I love this Santa cut; from what I've seen, I think he's the cutest of all the Santa cuts. I only put a few skewers in my holder but it's very versatile and can be made with more or less.

--This project is entered in the following challenges--
Fantabulous Cricut Challenge - Deck the Halls

ABC Christmas Challenge - Zero (D for Decoration and S is for Santa)

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

PaperPlay - Anything but a Card

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~Hugs, JennRo~

Happy 5th Birthday Card!

The challenge over at Polka Doodles this week is to make something "age related". I made this card for my nephew's 5th birthday. I used the Cricut Alphilicious cartridge and the Design Studio to create the 5 and added a chipboard die cut of Lightning McQueen. I used the Alphalicious cart for "Gear Up" and the Design Studio for the inside writing as well. I faux stitched around the yellow cardstock as well as the "5".

--This project is entered in the following challenges--
Polka Doodles - Age Related

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Totally Gorjuss - For someone special

Lots to Do - Favorite Card of 2010

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~Hugs, JennRo~

Happy 3rd Birthday Card!

I made this cute little Snow White card for a dear friend's daughter on her 3rd birthday. Snow White is a chipboard die cut and I used the George cartridge and the Cricut to cut out the "3", once in shadow and one regular cut. I added some bling, mounted all on red cardstock and rounded the corners for a finished look.

--This project is entered in the following challenges--

Polka Doodles - Age Related

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~Hugs, JennRo~

Snow Friends Box!

I love to make these little boxes from Cricut's Tags, Bags, Boxes and More cartridge. This one is the purse cut and I think it came out just so cute! I cut it at 5.5 inches and used a Dustin Pike image called Snow Friends. I stickled using Frosted Lace, Red and Gold stickles and added the K&Co poinsettas. The tag was cut from the same paper as the image's mat and was cut using the TBBM cartridge at 1.5inches. I added some red ribbon for a "handle", tied on my tag and this project was finished! I love it when it comes together the way you pictured! This little purse/box is ready for a small gift such as earrings or even some candies!

--This project is entered in the following challenges--
Polka Doodles - Something to hold a Gift

Stamp Something - Digi

Totally Gorjuss - Snow

Just Cute Bears - Anything but a Card

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~Hugs, JennRo~

HO,HO,HO Gift Card Holder!

Good evening everyone! I hope all is well in your little part of the world. Here in Northern CT, USA the weather has turned to snow from the drizzle rain that stuck around all day yesterday and today. This week's challenge over at Polka Doodles is to make something that can hold a gift. My first project is a gift card holder. I've seen so many people make them out of toilet paper rolls and wanted to try my hand at that! I cheated though, because I used the end of a wrapping paper roll! I wrapped it with one of my favorite papers and zig zag stitched around three sides leaving an opening along one short side. I cut a tag using my Tags, Bags, Boxes and More cricut cartridge at 4inches out of coordinating paper and tied gold ribbon on the end. A few stickles here and there and this project was done! It amazed me how easy it was to do!

--This project is entered in the following challenges--
Polka Doodles - Something to hold a Gift

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~Hugs, JennRo~

Penguin Tag!

I created this cute little penguin tag for a winter birthday I have coming up. I used my Cricut and the Tags, Bags, Boxes cartridge for the tag; and the Create A Critter cartridge for the penguin. Isn't he just so cute??!!

--This project is entered in the following challenges--
Just Cute Bears and Friends - Anything but a Card

Kaboodle Doodles - Tag You're It!

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~Hugs, JennRo~

Baby, It's Cold Outside Card!

This week's challenge over at Dustin Pike's Doodle Dragon Studios was to create something using a recipe: A DDS image, embossing, metal and bling. I love this cute little snowman holding the birdhouse image and after coloring him in with pencils, I backed him with red/white snowflake paper. I decided to use the blue cardstock to offset the red. I stitched zigzag around the edges, not so straight, but there nonetheless! I stickled around the snowman with Frosted Lace stickles and added some red bling to the white circle. I embossed white cardstock with the Sizzix Texture Boutique and the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder to make it look like falling snow. I added some metal snowflake brads and blue ribbon.

--This project is entered in the following challenges--
Doodle Dragon Studios - Recipe Challenge

Digital Tuesday Challenge - Baby, It's Cold Outside w/ digi

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~Hugs, JennRo~

JOY Gift Tags!

Here is another set of gift tags. I used the same green tone on tone paper and zigzag stitched around the edge. The stocking is from the Doodlecharms cart while the Joy sentiment is from the Create A Critter cart. I used Diamond Dust stickles on the snowflake in the middle of "Joy", Green stickles on the 'J' and 'Y' and gold stickles on the stocking card. I added some cute K&Co poinsettas to the "Joy" card.

--This project is entered in the following challenges--
Cricut Cardz Challenge - 3x3inch Gift Cards/Tags

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~Hugs, JennRo~

Santa and Rudolph Gift Tags!

Here is another set of 3inch by 3inch Gift Tags I made using the Cricut and the Doodlecharm cartridge (Santa) and the Create A Critter cartridge (Rudolph). Both Santa and Rudolph were cut at 2 inches. I zigzag stitched around the edges of the plaid tone on tone green paper and then cut the images. I added a few drops of Gold Stickles to each card to finish them off.

--This project is entered in the following challenges--
Cricut Cardz Challenge - 3x3inch Gift Cards/Tags

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~Hugs, JennRo~

Snowmen Gift Tag Set!

Greetings all! I've been working on Christmas cards and tags lately. This week, over at the Cricut Cardz Challenge, the challenge was to create a set (2 or more) of 3inch by 3 inch gift tags or cards. Each card must have some sort of Cricut cut on them. Here is my first set. This snowman cut from the Doodlecharms cartridge is one of my favorites from this cart! I chose this great red snowflake paper and stitched around the edges. I used gold ribbon and stickled around the snowmen with Diamond Dust. I used pop dots to pop my snowmen up off the tags. Assembled and done!

--This project is entered in the following challenges--
Cricut Cardz Challenge - 3x3inch Gift Cards/Tags

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~Hugs, JennRo~

Christmas Present Tag!

Keeping with the 'Twas the Night Before Christmas theme, I created this cute Christmas present tag! I used another cute image from PeggyLovesVintage and some cute reindeer paper. I arranged it so there are 8 tiny reindeer!! :) I inked all the edges with Vintage Photo distressing ink and added some vintage Christmas ribbon. I also rounded all my corners. I topped my tag off with some gold ribbon and wrote "to" and "from" by hand. I better get cracking on more of these tags if I want to have enough for Christmas!

--This project is entered in the following challenges--
Polka Doodles - 'Twas the Night Before Christmas

ABC Christmas Challenge - X is for Xmas

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~Hugs, JennRo~

'Twas the Night Before Christmas...Card!

Good evening everyone!! I recently won some free vintage Christmas digis from Ms. Peggy at PeggyLovesVintage and needed to put them to good use! Over at PolkaDoodles this week the challenge is "Twas the Night before Christmas". This cute image reminded me of the point in the poem when the narrator sees Santa. I used some Christmas scraps I had and inked them up with Vintage Photo distressing ink. I sewed around the red holly paper and layered my papers. I used my Cricut and the Tags, Bags and Boxes cartridge to cut out a 2inch scalloped tag which I inked as well. I was fresh out of thin brown twine so I used thin white twine and inked it to make it look brown! The sentiment is handwritten. I topped off the card with a flower and called it done business! Thanks again to Peggy for the great set of Santa cutouts!!

--This project is entered in the following challenges--
Polka Doodles - 'Twas the Night Before Christmas

ABC Christmas Challenge - X is for Xmas

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~Hugs, JennRo~

Happy Thanksgiving Card!

Howdy all! I hope you're having a great Saturday and aren't we all loving the long weekend?! I was bestowed an awesome gift by Mr. Dustin Pike (free digis!!!) and needed to put it to good use right away. The Thanksgiving challenge is still going on over at Doodle Dragon Studios Challenge Blog and so here is my second entry. I absolutely LOVE this image. The great thing about this digi is that it came colored already!! LOVE that! Made it easy for me to create this 5.5x5.5inch card. I used my good ol' distressing tool to distress the edges of the background papers and then inked them with Vintage Photo Ink. I also inked the white image square. Some twine and stick on flowers topped off the card!

--This project is entered in the following challenges--

Doodle Dragon Studios - Thanksgiving

Polka Doodles - Give Thanks

Sentimental Sundays - Thankful

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~Hugs, JennRo~

Thanksgiving Thanks!

Over at the Doodle Dragon Studios Challenge Blog, the theme this week is Thanksgiving. As I don't have a turkey image from Doodle Dragon (it's on its way!) I went for a harvest-y feel. For me Thanksgiving is all about being thankful for the people in your life and the blessings around you. So here is a little creation I made to use as a Thanksgiving Thank You card. I used a Dustin Pike image and colored him with pencils. I distressed all the edges (even the mat circle!) and used Vintage Photo Ink to ink them all (including the white inner circle). I used the same ink to stamp the thank you sentiment. Topped this cutie off with some neutral flowers and a twine bow!

--This project is entered in the following challenges--
Doodle Dragon Studios - Thanksgiving
Sentimental Sundays - Thankful
Polka Doodles - Give Thanks

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~Hugs, JennRo~

Thank You Turkey Card!

I hope you all had a great weekend! I created this cute little turkey card today. I used some nice vintage papers and my cricut with the Create A Critter cart. I inked the edges of everything in Vintage Photo Ink and created the little Thank You sentiment on the computer.

--This project is entered in the following challenges--
Sentimental Sundays - Thankful

Polka Doodles - Give Thanks

Papertake - Autumn Skies

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge - Thankful

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~Hugs, JennRo~

Quick and Easy Christmas Card!

One more Quick and Easy Christmas Card for you tonight! This image is from Dustin Pike. I colored him in using watercolor pencils and matted him with a metallicy green paper. I doodled around the white edge with red for a finished touch. I used my Sizzix Texture Boutique and the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder on the white cardstock. Added the red ribbon and adhered the image. DONE! Again, SO easy!

--This project is entered in the following challenges--

Polka Doodles - Quick and Easy Christmas

Doodle Dragon Studios - Anything At All

PaperPlay Challenge - Circles

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~Hugs, JennRo~

"S" is for Snowman Card!

Here's another Quick and Easy Christmas Card I whipped up tonight. I used the Cricut and Stretch Your Imagination cart to create the circle frame and Doodlecharms to make the snowman. I cut the frame at 5inches and adhered it to a 5x5 white card. I cut the snowman at 2inches twice, once using the blackout feature and once using the regular cut. I colored his nose orange (instead of cutting the snowman again in orange...trying to save paper! lol) and traced around his outer edge with Diamond Dust Stickles. I added the Merry Christmas tag and DONE! Super easy!

--This project is entered in the following challenges--

Fantabulous Cricut Challenges - Circles and Green

PaperPlay - Circles

Cricut Cardz Challenge - Christmas w/ an "S" (Snowman)

Polka Doodle - Quick and Easy Christmas

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~Hugs, JennRo~

I've Been Framed Christmas Card!

Good evening! I'm still not used to this time change. It feels like it should be so much later in the day! Anyway, I've created a few things for your viewing pleasure today. The first was inspired by Digital Tuesdays Challenge called "I've been Framed". This challenge blog always requires a digital image and whatever the weekly challenge may be. I chose to use this cutie patootie image from the wonderful Dustin Pike. This card was so super easy to do and the challenge over at Polka Doodles this week happens to be "Quick and Easy Christmas".

Wanna know how easy?

Ok, so I cut the circle frame using the Cricut and the Stretch Your Imagination cartridge at 5inches. I adhered it to a 5x5 red card, colored my image and adhered it and the sentiment tag to the card. Done! SO EASY!

--This project is entered in the following challenges--
Digital Tuesday Challenge - I've been framed!

Polka Doodle - Quick and Easy

Just Cute Bears - BW and 1 other color

PaperPlay - Circles

Doodle Dragon Studios - Anything Goes

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~Hugs, JennRo~

You Turkey!

This first cute turkey card was inspired by the Bitten By The Bug2 "Flourish" Challenge. I used the flourish from the Stretch Your Imagination cartridge, the Turkey from Create A Critter and the sentiment from Tear Drop. I distressed the edges of the background paper and inked all the pieces with Vintage Photo Distressing Ink. The Flourish was cut at 4 inches and the turkey was cut at 2 inches. I'm submitting this "Thanks so Much" 5x5 card for the Fantabulous Cricut "Bird Bonanza" Challenge.

I was smitten with this little Turkey I decided to make a shaped card of him too! He was cut at 5 inches. Isn't he so cute??

--This project is entered in the following challenges--
Fantabulous Cricut Challenge - Bird

Bitten By The Bug - Flourish

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~Hugs, JennRo~

Well, Hello There!

Wow! How have you all been? I can't believe I haven't posted anything since July! I haven't been all that busy but I guess my creative mojo hasn't been flowing the last few months. So! Hopefully, I'll be getting back into the swing of things, atleast a little bit! :)

I'd like to share a cute birthday card I made for my sister who LOVES Koala Bears. I used the Create A Critter cartridge and my Cricut machine to create this cute little lovey. I cut the Koala using the shadow feature twice. Adhered them together and then cut the layers (light gray and dark gray). I used pop dots to add dimension between layers. I cut the heart balloon from the same cartridge and used a rub on to add the sentiment. Finishing touches include the pink rhinestones on the heart balloon and the purple bow in the Koala's ear. SO easy and SO cute!
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~Hugs, JennRo~

Giraffe Birthday Card!

I created this cute little giraffe birthday card for a family member who loves giraffes. It just so happens the challenge over at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge was to create something with a Cricut Zoo Animal! The papers are mostly by Creative Memories with a little Bazzill thrown in for good measure! :) I used the Create-A-Critter Cricut Cartridge to create my little giraffe and used the phrase function from the bear cut to create the "Happy Birthday" phrase. I rounded the corners and added Luster Baubles to finish it off! The giraffe is dimensional and the phrase is popped up off the paper as well.

--This project is entered in the following challenges--
Fantabulous Cricut Challenge - At the Zoo

Rosie D's - All Creatures, Great and Small

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~Hugs, JennRo~

Bunny Birthday Card!

Wow! I haven't blogged in quite some time. I apologize as the weather here has been rather crappy which gives free reign for my Fibro to act up. Thus, I've been spending less time at my craft table. I have quite a few family birthdays in July so here is another birthday creation! I received this cute little bunny stamp from my blogfriend Jenny in the UK and I use a lot! I LOVE him! Thank you Jenny!!

--This project is entered in the following challenges--
Rosie D's - All Creatures, Great and Small

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~Hugs, JennRo~