My Gypsy Accessories are here!

My Gypsy accessories arrived today! Now if my Gypsy would get here, I'd be set! lol Isn't it funny how the things you order from one company ship so much faster than others? I ordered my Cherry Blossom sleeve and car charger 3 days after I ordered my Gypsy, and the accessories arrived before the Gypsy! lol

I hope those of you that don't have a Gypsy got to take advantage of the incredible deal on joann.com over the weekend...they were selling G's for $79.98! Great deal! Unfortunately they are sold out now. I can't wait until mine gets here!

Embellished Treat Box

Today was my first attempt at making both a treat box and dimensional flowers with my Cricut. Overall I think my project turned out well! And an added bonus, on this project I got to combine two things I love: beading and papercrafting! Here's a picture of my finished project (the beaded handle is sooooo cute!):

I started by cutting a party favor box from the Sweet Treats cartridge (page 59 in the booklet) at 2.5" using purple Colorbok cardstock. The box was not as difficult to fold & assemble as I thought it would be! Thank goodness!  Then I cut some flowers from the Flower Shoppe cartridge (page 14 of the booklet...<Heart2> and <Heart4>) starting at 2.5" and for each layer decreasing the size .25" with every cut. I used lots of layers to make the flower look full. I alternated patterns with a lilac cardstock and pink/purple printed paper. I cut 2 leaves (page 22 <Ruffle5>) at 2". After I assembled my box I added the leaves and then assembled my flower. I curved the flower petals slightly, and added a brad in the middle to hold it all together. Then I attached it to the box on top of my leaves.

Next is the treat box handle. When I cut the box out, I didn't realize that it did not have a lid or flaps that would meet together to close the box - it needed a handle. I thought about just using ribbon to tie to the box for a handle, but then I thought why not add some beads to this?!? :-) I love beading and have a lot of seed beads that I knew would work perfectly for this. I used some silver lined purple seed beads and strung them on 26 guage beading wire, and attached it to the box simply by threading the wire through the Cricut cut holes on each side of the box. Here are a few more pictures of the finished product, from different angles:

I am entering this treat box in the following challenges:

Exploring Cricut: It's a Box

Hiding In My Craft Room #43: Homemade Flowers

Thanks for stopping by and checking out today's project! Have a great crafting day!

~Melissa~

RAK Birthday Card

Happy Wednesday! Today I've made a quick birthday card as a Random Act of Kindness for a fellow scrapper's daughter's 11th birthday. It's made entirely from scraps! Here's a picture of the card:

I used a scrap of lime green cardstock to cut the card from the Doodlecharms cartridge. The pink cardstock was hand cut and I used a corner rounding punch to shape the corners. The pink cardstock actually started out white...I wanted to ink the edges in hot pink so I started inking and then wondered what it would look like if I inked the whole paper. I inked heavier around the edges, and lighter in the middle. It turned out really cool looking if I say so myself! I love how the texture of the cardstock shows through! I placed some leftover Jolee's birthday theme stickers across the top and stamped Celebrate across the bottom. The Celebrate stamp came from the $1 section in Walmart's scrapbooking aisle. I love a bargain! :-)

I'm entering this card in Hiding In My Craftroom's #42 Super Scraps Challenge.

Have a great day everyone!

Melissa

Happy Mail!

Today I received happy mail from Kathy at 3 Spoiled Dogs And A Cricut! I won her blog candy for participating in the Little Prince Blog Hop, hosted by Jessica at Homespun Elegance. I won a set of Cuttlebug folders that are companions to the Preserves Cricut cartridge. I was already super excited about winning those, but then Kathy emailed me that she added a few extra goodies to my Cuttlebug winnings! It was like Christmas when I opened my mail today!!! Thank you Kathy for all the wonderful scrapping goodies! Here's a pic of my winnings:

Happy Crafting, y'all....
Melissa

A Quick Spring Card

Happy Thursday! Today I've made a really simple and quick Spring card for card challenge. The challenge is for a group on Facebook I'm a member of called "Love My Cricut". If you are a Cricut lover like me, go check out this group! All the members give each other tips, recommend where to shop for Cricut products, post pics of their finished projects, and have challenges (just for fun!). Here are the rules of this challenge: 1. Make a spring theme card using your Cricut, and 2. The background must be embossed with a Cuttlebug or other embossing machine. This is a picture of my finished card:

 

The card was cut from Doodlecharms cut at 12 inches. The butterfly is from April Showers cut at 3 inches. I hand-cut a scrap of white cardstock for the background and embossed it with the Swiss Dots embossing folder. The butterfly was embossed with the D'vine Swirls embossing folder, and I folded the wings up slightly for a little more dimension. I embellished the card with a light pink ribbon and "SPRING" alphabet stickers. That's it! It took about 20 minutes start to finish. Easy peasy!

Have a great day!

Melissa

Blog hop!

I've had the chance to do some catching up on my blog reading as I'm stuck at home with the flu, and I found the Little Prince blog hop. Blog hops are so much fun! The Little Prince blog hop starts over at Jessica's blog Homespun Elegance with goodies she made to celebrate her little prince's birthday, and continues to several other blogs where you see projects all about the blogger's "little prince". Lots of great projects and giveaways-go check it out!

Liebster Blog Award!

Wow! This morning I checked my blog, and I have received a Liebster Blog Award from Melisa at Melisa's Crafty Creations! Thank you so much, Melisa, for the award!

So if you are wondering what the Liebster Blog Award is all about, here's some info that I borrowed from Melisa's blog to tell you more about it...

"Here's a little info about the Liebster award: "Liebster" is German for "Dearest". The award is a "share the love arrangement" given to inspirational bloggers with less than 200 followers.

Here's the to do list for any of the Liebster Blog Award recipents:

1. Thank your Liebster Blog Award presenter on your blog.

2. Link back to the blogger that presented you the award.

3. Copy and past the award to your blog.

4. Present the Liebster Blog Award to 5 bloggers with less than 200 followers.

5. Let them know they have been chosen by leaving a comment on their blog."

I am showing some love to the following 5 bloggers by presenting them with a Liebster Blog Award! These ladies are super talented as you will see on their blog. :-) Go check out their blogs and follow them too!

1. Jessica at Homespun Elegance
2. Mary Beth at ScrapBug Studios

3. Emma at KatelynCo
4. Brenda at Brenda's Joy
5. Tammy at Cricutmouse's Craftynook

Thanks again to Melisa for presenting me with this award...now I just gotta figure out how to add the button to the side of my blog! I'm still new to all this blogging stuff. :-D

Until next time, Happy Crafting!
~Melissa~