My Mind's Eye Newsletter Posts 1.0

This is the first project that I made for the My Mind's Eye Newsletter! I'm really excited to share them with you! I hope you like them. They are both using the My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Breeze line. LOVE the Lost and Found lines and this one is no exception! It makes it easy to create with pretty papers!

Tomorrow I will be sharing a card made with the Artful Delight kit, Wednesday will be the second card in my Pumpkin Spice Kit, and Thursday will be the card that is in the My Mind's Eye Newsletter!

Paris

The links below to the Lost and Found Two collection aren't up yet, but they will be super soon, so check back in a couple of days!

Recipe:

• Cartridge: Summer in Paris™
• Patterned Paper:
• My Mind’s Eye: Lost and Found Two: Breeze “Precious” Motif Paper™ (turquoise and off white damask on bottom and behind Eiffel Tower - flip side is light blue scrollwork top left and behind Arc de Triumph.) 
• My Mind’s Eye: Lost and Found Two: Breeze “Fun Day” Today Paper™ (thin stripes on right page)
• My Mind’s Eye: Lost and Found Two: Breeze “Dream” Wallpaper Paper™ (blue and off white stripes found on left page)
• My Mind’s Eye: Lost and Found Two: Breeze “Boyish” Handsome Paper™ (Blue glitter polka dots found on left and right pages)
• Die Cuts:
• My Mind’s Eye: Lost and Found Two “Beauty” Title™
• My Mind’s Eye: Lost and Found Two “Fun Day” Title™
• My Mind’s Eye: Lost and Found Two “Dream” Title™
• Stickers and brads:
• My Mind’s Eye: Lost and Found Two Breeze “Boyish” Layered Chipboard Stickers™ (Cute layered chipboard left page)
• My Mind’s Eye: Lost and Found Two Breeze “Dream” Layered Stickers™ (flag for the Eiffel Tower, banner in top right, and balloon sticker)
• My Mind’s Eye: Lost and Found Two Breeze “Precious” Decorative Brads™ (brads in bottom right of right page)
• My Mind’s Eye: Lost and Found Two Breeze “Everywhere” Decorative Brads™ (brads and tags top right)
• Stamps: My Mind’s Eye: Lost and Found Two Breeze “Dream” Stamps™ 
• Cricut Expression
• Glossy Accents
• Crinkled ribbon: Kris Swain’s Etsy Store in Almost Black
• Crop-a-dile
• Foam Dimensionals
• Colorbox ink in black
• Thickers by American Crafts: Jewelry Box in black 

Instructions:

1. Using Summer in Paris Cartridge cut the Arc de Triumph out of black cardstock and Breeze “Precious Motif Paper” at 5.5 inches.
2. Also using the Summer in Paris Cartridge cut the Eiffel Tower at 10.75 inches. Using scissors, cut off the top flag. It will be replaced by a My Mind’s Eye sticker! :)
3. Cut the “Precious” Motif Paper at 1.5x12” for the strip on the right hand page and 6.25” x 1.5” for the strip on the left hand page. 
4. Using scissors, cut the 6.25” x 1.5” strip at angles to make a snake’s tongue cut. 
5. Cut black cardstock for the photo mats at 3.25” x 11” and 10” x 4.5”. 
6. Cut the Breeze “Fun Day” Today Paper at 8.5x 7 3/8”.
7. Cut the Breeze “Dream” Wallpaper Paper at 5” x 5”.
8. Cut the Breeze “Boyish” Handsome Paper at 7 3/8” x 11” and 1” x 7 3/8”.
9. Add a layered sticker as a flag using the Breeze “Dream” Layered Stickers™
10. Using your hole puncher, punch two small holes on the edges of the die cut “Beauty is Everywhere” and in the corners of the bottom of the Eiffel Tower.
11.  Use ribbon to tie bows through the holes. 
12.  Adhere all base layers down on both pages.
13.  Using foam dimensionals add the Eiffel Tower.
14.  Using Foam dimensionals add the photo mats. 
15.  Stamp “You have all of my love” in black using the Dream stamps. 
16.  Embellish and journal! :) 

I also made this for the Cricut Circle weekly challenge this week: scrapbooking some vacation! I had SUCH a fabulous time in Paris with my handsome husband so naturally Summer in Paris was a PERFECT cartridge for that trip! 

I am a very proud Circlet so if you have any questions about it, let me know! It's an open enrollment period where you can sign up for another year! 

Cuttin' Up Saturdays Book it - Paris

For this edition of Cuttin' Up at the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog we are covering composition books or other books.

I did a 9.75x7.5" typical black and white composition book. Right now there are a lot of back to school themes going around so I wanted to do a back to school - for a high school/college student. When I was in high school I dreamed of traveling to Europe and I was (and still am) in love with all thing Audrey Hepburn-ish. So this is a very girlie, fun, classy and fabulous notebook. I think I will use it! :)

Summer in Paris™ is my favorite cartridge - so watch out when I get the French Manor Cartridge™ - I am going to go crazy! :) All the cuts are from this cart. Since the cuts on Summer in Paris are really intricate, I knew this would be perfect as I was going for "oversized" images.

The Eiffel Tower was cut at 8.5". The Arc de Triomphe shadow was cut at 4". The word Paris was cut at 5", but it ends up being about 3.75" tall after you cut out the Eiffel Tower part. After I cut Paris out, I didn't want double the Eiffel Towers on there so I just cut it out after the fact and made the letters connect. I then ran it through the Cuttlebug™ with the D'vine Swirls Emboss Folder and inked it with some hot pink ink. I used my EAD Designs Vintage Rub-ons and put the shoes on the bottom of the page. Lastly, I put glue on both the flag of the Eiffel Tower and the dot of the "i" and put Pixie sparkle on them.

I cut the black vinyl at blade depth = 5, Pressure = Max, Speed = Max, cut 2 times.

I hope you like it! Head on over to the Cuttlebug Challenges to see what other projects the ladies have in store for your book/notebook covering inspiration! Play along with our Be Inspired Wednesday. You can create anything that has to do with books - bookmarks, re-cover your own books, make a card that has something book-ish on it. And most importantly, have fun... and maybe win prizes too!

Recipe:
Cartridge: Summer in Paris™
Embossing: A2 D'vine Swirl Emboss Folder
Shoes: EAD Designs Vintage Rub-ons
Paper: Glittered pink paper from my stash, black vinyl recycled from the covers/backs of other notebooks. :)
Pixie Sparkle

Have a wonderful weekend!

You Make Me Smile

This green and white card stock is my favorite pattern that I've found. I was considering making it my blog background! I love it. Olive green is my favorite color and while this photograph makes it come out a little more apple then olive - it's a little closer to an earthy olive.

I cut the crown at 2 inches (it's the height - which I had forgotten and cut it out MUCH too large initially). It is cut from the Summer in Paris Cartridge™ (noticing a theme? I LOVE this cartridge!). I cut the background out of white and the front out of raspberry and popped the crown with pop dot to give it some dimension.

I embossed the pink layer on the bottom with one of the folders from the A2 Organic Border Emboss Folder™ set. I inked around all edges of the bottom border. I stamped it with the Hero Arts CL272 stamp set (the only one I own! haha) and my card was simple and complete.

Wedding Card!

I made this card for Cricut Cardz Challenge #30: wedding theme.

I loved this paper from the DCWV Luxury Stack although it's a little brighter blue in person than showed up in the photo.

I cut the cake and cake background at 4.75 inches from the Summer in Paris Cartridge™ with the real dial size on.

I added a little ribbon around the three layers and the bow at the bottom. Then I popped the whole thing with pop dots. Easy Peasy and classically gorgeous.

Balloon Card :)

This is another cut from the Summer in Paris Cartridge™ that I just knew I had to make into a card on the Gypsy™. I cut it as just over 4 inches and all the swirls cut out fine, but the strings that attach to the base of the balloon were VERY delicate and I did end up breaking one. So I would cut it larger next time for that.

I stitched with my little white gel pen around the edges and added a small yellow bow. The sentiment on the inside is from my new Hero Arts™ sentiment stamps that Kourt got me - I'm a bit obsessed with them right now as I've never been able to add sentiments! :)

This card qualifies for the following challenges:
Wee Memories: Stitching
Cricut Cardz Challenge: Vacation Theme

I also made it for BBTB2: Summer theme with a stamp, but unfortunately by the time I got an SD card the contest had closed. Oh well. Their next challenge is to use a fish. I don't even know if I have a fish on my cartridges, but I know I have a whale - I think that counts! :)

The color is off because I am using my little point and shoot right now. The color of the card matches the picture of the front of the card. The inside came out more yellow than it actually is.

Have a wonderful weekend!

High Heel Shape Card

This card was made for the Cricut Cardz Challenge and The Cuttlebug Challenges.

Cricut Cardz Challenge: Shoes
Cuttlebug Challenges: Paint

I love shoes although I don't own too many of them - just enough ;). But I was so excited to see this challenge. I knew I wanted to play with the shoe off Summer in Paris Cartridge™. I simply welded it with the Gypsy™, cut it out, added the black bow, and then.... added nail polish. Yes, you read right, nail polish. I was worried because we don't have any paint in our house and the Cuttlebug Challenges asked for paint. Then I realized that I did - but it wasn't in the form that I think they were expecting. None the less, here is my creation! I plan on writing on the inside, "Happy birthday to a very stylish girl". If you've ever watched Breakfast at Tiffany's, the girl that is with Paul Varjak - his "decorator" calls herself a "very stylish girl" in this wonderfully swag voice.

The envelope is from Wild Card Cartridge™

Enjoy!

Cricut Cardz Challenge #26 - Brads or Eyelets

Well, Shelly (thanks for becoming a follower!) pointed me in the direction of The Cricut Cardz Challenges last night in the Wine Glass Thank You Post. She thought I should enter it over at Cricut Cardz Challenge. Little did she know I was creating a new one just for that challenge while she was writing that!

Last night I made three cards with envelopes that I can't wait to share with you! The theme of all three is chandeliers. I just recently got the Embossing Folders Love is in the Air Set™ (which inevitably has me doing the Samba every time I use one of the embossing folders - reference to the movie Dirty Dancing). But I digress. I love the chandelier in this set and since I recently got the Summer in Paris Cartridge™ and there is a 3D chandelier on that too - I just had to try them all.

This card was made with the 3D chandelier. There is one slit on the top of the first piece and another on the bottom of the second piece so that the two pieces can go together - I really should have taken a picture of this - so I simply cut off the top of the piece that had the slit on the top and glued it on top of the piece that had the slit on the bottom thusly hiding both slits and getting one solid chandelier. I hope that makes sense.

The card shape and envelope were cut from the Sentimentals Cartridge™ at 4.5". - I believe it was the lock button. I used scraps from the edge of the paper after I cut out the card for the inside of the envelope. I love using scraps! I used my Crop-a-Dile to take care of the eyelets.

Enjoy and I'll be posting one of my embossed chandelier cards tomorrow!

Girls Night! - BBTB2

Girls Night!

This Friday two of my close girlfriends and I are going out to watch Sex and the City 2. I thought it would be fun to send them little invites for the occasion! So, I sent these in the mail yesterday with the invite to the movie, RSVP and of course the addresses, but I just put up a blank one here. I have to say I think the other one was a little better (straighter lines and the cut came out better (I think cutting the dress form at 3.75" was too small for the cut), but that's okay, you get the gist).

The image is cut from the Summer in Paris Cartridge™ and the words are welded using the Elegant Cakes Cartridge™ on my new Gypsy™! I love that machine!

I used this cut because the challenge on BBTB2 for this week was using the dress form from Forever Young, but I didn't have that cartridge, so I supplemented this one.

So next time you're going to do a girls night out, send them some invites! It will make it more fun!

Wine Glass Thank You

So, this is from the Summer in Paris Cartridge™ that I just got!!! I was so excited to use it. Unfortunately, I haven't updated Design Studio™ (do they ever get the seasonal/limited edition cartridges in?), so I couldn't weld it. I'm glad I didn't now. I really like the way it turned out. I made this card for my Aunt Ann, Uncle Phil, and Cousin John who hosted us when we went back to North Carolina. They are also wine enthusiasts, so this card is right up their ally. It's really simple, but classic. I just did the background and normal cuts and then "flip"ed them and cut them again. I used the Crop-a-Dile™ to take care of the eyelets and some ribbon to close it. The glass is certainly half full today! :)

Jennifer, I'm not quite sure how to get ahold of you privately, but thank you for your inquiry! :) The wine bottle and class are one image and were cut at 5.5" with the Real Dial Size on. Hope this helps! I think I'll be making this one again :).