17 birthday

My boys turned 17 today and had to make masculine cards so Indie Art and Blackletter Cricut carts to the rescue.
I use the swing type card to create the cool flip action. My boys loved them.
We took them to Red Robin for their Birthday burger - a favorite place of ours. Yummm...
Entered this card at One Stop Craft Challenge "One for the boys" and at A Crafty Little place.

Gift ideas - etched glasses and a candle dressed up

My neighbors birthday was this week and I wanted to make her a few items.
I bought 4 glasses from a local store and etched them with the stencils from Cricut Blackletter Font.
The Letter G is cut from vinyl at 1 1/2" and the swirl was cut at 1".

The candle is a 3 oz (small) one I picked up at the same store as the glasses. Added some paper and ribbon and bling.

Directions for the glasses are here.
Directions for the candle are here.

My first Etching!!!

So this is my first time trying the etching cream, I've seen lots of folks chat about it and wanted to etch some glasses also for my brother's birthday gift.

I first cut the vinyl on the Cricut - Blackletter Font used at 1 1/2" at slow speed - blade at 3

Used mesh tape to create a 'ruler" so all monograms would be the same height on the glass.
Added the etching cream and wait 20 minutes.
Oh the glasses are from Ocean State Job Lot 1.00 each.

Washed off the cream, removed the vinyl and awesome results! Whew! Now I think I'm addicted!

Dream and it shall be

Made this inspirational card for our daughter in college.
I bought the Ancient Chinese Coin stamp at Michael's and cut the font from Blackletter Cricut cartridge at 1".
The odd swirls also cut at 1" from Blackletter.

I cut the aperture with my Coluzzle through three layers of card stock.
The coins took me awhile to figure out what I really wanted to do and how to hang them.
Lots of inking and they are back to back so when you turn the card to read the inside - the coin is a complete double sided coin.

Inside I hand wrote a sentiment to make it more personal.
Followed the color scheme mint, chocolate and cream at

Colour Create Challenge and the activity of stamps and Cricut at Bitten by the Bug 2

Happy New Year - a couple cards

To all my followers and blogger friends - Happy New Year and hope this year brings you with good health and memorable times.

Here is a card I made last night with my new Cricut Cart and Embossing HSN folders I bought myself for Christmas... well I had my husband wrap them as it's safer and I like to buy on sale!

Anyway - The Cricut cart was the solutions BlackLetter that I wanted forever - which I purchased online for 25.00 and it has 20% off. Yahoo what a bargain I thought.
THe letters were cut at 1"
The back ground is one of those new HSN Cuttlebug Embossing (it was a set of 6) folders. I think this one was called Flurries.

Click on the pic to get a better view. (PEarls and inking as well)