Birthday Hat Lady!

I got this hat stamp about a month ago and it is my all time fav! I love it so much! I only had dye based ink in pink so I tried to heat emboss it but it didn't work perfectly. But it is ok I still am in love with this card. I sent it to my niece for her 13th birthday. I loved it so much I made another one to have in my collection:)

I used the Happy Birthday Cuttlebug folder.

Let me know what you think-

Also I have something so cool to show you tomorrow! I got a preview kit from a new line by the author of Crafting Jewish . It is a great great craft book even if your not Jewish. The ideas are super awesome and her style is really fresh. I actually am going to get to review the book soon and GIVE ONE AWAY! Here is a link to a review on Skip To My Lou. She is not Jewish but also writes about how it is good for everyone. I am going to post about it from the Jewish Perspective since, I am Jewish and all. But the ideas are what matters. I am going to post the stuff I made from the kit. I know the new sets are going to be at the Crafting Jewish booth at CHA so I will see if I can get some teasers before she gets there :)

Any way here is my birthday card!! Sorry to the wholllle long thing!:)

I am back!

Hi everyone!

I know I have been a little Missing in Action lately. But I have been crafting away and am so excited to show some of my new things!

Also I have a give away coming up this week. I know I am a no body but I have something to give away and I thought this would be a good venue to do that in!

I am posting a bligned out birthday card I sent to my best friend. She was having a low few weeks so I sent her something that would really cheer her up.






I used A Child's Year cart for the happy birthday and the cake, I then used Martha Stewart glitter (best stuff on EARTH!) to make it all bling. I used the cuttle bug for the back ground and K and Co paper (I forget the stack)

It really cheered her up.

I have sooo much more to post but right now I am rushing so I will be back later tonight and tomorrow morning with more. Promise!

Thank you and Baby Card

I made these cards in the past, I have some new lay outs I am going to post soon also.

This first card is a Thank you card that I made a BUNCH of.
Here is the Recipe- kind of:




The card itself is a 8 1/2 X 11 Piece of Recollections cream card stock cut in half.
Then I made a 5x4 piece out of Recollections paper and put it through my Thank You cuttlebug folder.

I then took come matching pattern paper, cut it 1 1/2 in X 4 in.
Then the Cricut came out! But only for a little. I used AE square at 1 1/2 inches and the scalloped square at 1 3/4in. I used a Thank You stamp from G Studio and colored it in. I did The Pink Stamper cheater method for the ribon and voola! I made a bunch of these to have on hand.



My next card I made a while ago for my collection of baby cards. I used New Arrivals- I think the boxes were cut at 1in and the blackout in the same size on glitter paper I got at target. I used pop dots and there you have it!


I hope you enjoy these and I will be posting my layouts and a BLINGED out card next!

Matting on my Cricut

So I just wrote a small novel on the Cricut message board about this....I will copy and paste it here in a moment. I have A LOT of new things to post. I have my first ever lay outs, some super duper cute cards ect. As i mentioned my family was in town last week so I was a little MIA. We went to the zoo with the kids and made a big birthday party. It was a lot of fun and I have A LOT of lay outs to make from it. For now I will post my revalation about matting on my Cricut for scrapping. None of this applys really if you have DS or a G. I am planning to get a G for my birthday in a month (little does the DH know!) and since my birthday is on Thanksgiving I am hoping it will go on sale for the holidays OR find some amazing black friday deal on it (yeah right!)

About the matting- Basically I decided rather then going out and buying a new cutter for my photos I would just take a little time and make templates out of some basic images from my Carts and then use those to pick the mat sizes for my photos. I would be able to use center point for my photos on my Cricut without worrying about the people getting cut out.

I am going to scan a PDF of my templates and post them here for all to use. I used AE and SB- I think most people have AE since if comes with most Cricuts right?

Here is the post I put on the message board- by all means skip it if you read it already.

So I have only recently started useing my Cricut for actual Scrapbooking (I just ordered 250 pictures from Snap Fish- I am a little behind but I WILL catch up!) And I was working on how to make matting for my photos. I asked on this amazing board how others use their Cricuts to mat and I found that most people don't. They use other paper cutters.

So I started looking online at other cutters and found the one I want, and started collecting coupons to the various stores to get it (ACM and M) and then I thought "You know Rachel, you have a $250 cutter in your den, why are you buying another $45 item? Can't you figure out how to make the one you have work?"

So I did JUST that!

I went through the carts I have and found basic circles, squares, rectangles ect. Then I took some plain card stock, tan, white and black (I get it in 100 page packs from M for 2.79 a pack-much less then getting the cutter!) and made templates out of the shapes I figured would make good mats. I did them from 1/2 inch to 4 inches. I used mostly AE and SB. But I am going to keep going through the carts I have for more basic shapes to use. I ended up useing my templates on EVERYTHING I made last night (and I did not make any lay outs!) I was able to pick the side of a circle I wanted to stamp on before I cut it, pick the matting ect ect and not have to worry about trying time and time again to pick the right size.

And when I DO get my pictures from Snap Fish I will be able to use these templates and then put the photo in my E using center point to cut pictures.

I was trying to find a way to share these templates with everyone. My idea is to tape them on paper, scan them and make them into a PDF. The way you can print them up and cut them out and they SHOULD be true to size. I will test this out and post here when I get it up on my Blog. I would also be willing to make sets of templates for people and mail them out but I would have to charge a little tiny bit for that because its time and material.

Anyway this is a long post that I am sure no one will read but I felt it was time harness the real power of the Cricut and stand up to our right to not have to buy yet one more thing.

Let me know what you think and let me know if you have any Carts that you recommend I look at for basic matting shapes.

Out of touch

My Grandparents were in town this week visiting so I have not been crafting or in blog land. But I will be back soon with my new lay outs and I will be posting more and promoting more soon!

Super simple cards

My DD was home sick yesterday so between that and the holiday this weekend that I am getting ready for I was not able to blog or craft much. I did work on an invitation that I am making for a dinner party we are throwing in honor of our friends wedding. I will post those soon. For now here are two SIMPLE SIMPLE cards. One is a Thank You card I made for some baby gifts that we got for our DS and the other is a get well/happy new year card for a cousin of my fathers who was very helpful and kind and loving when we lost my Father a year and a half ago. He had some medical issues this summer and I wanted him to know that he was in our thoughts. These are also my very first attempts at stamping. Not the best. I got La Plum II markers, are Copic significanly better? I think these are good, I am just getting the hang of it.
Leave a coment with any advice on my stamping!

ACM Coupons work on Cuttlebug stuff at M's!

Yesterday while I was getting my La Plum Pens I picked up a new Cuttlebug folder (the Thank You one) I had gotten two ACM coupons in my paper this week, but I am not a huge fan of our ACM so I threw them in my bag to see if they were unsaleable at Michael's- Guess what- they are! So I used my 50% off coupons and I got the Cuttlebug folder for half price! It was anouther exciting discovery.