Christmas Card from Francine

This cute little elf Christmas card was made and sent to me by my friend Francine! You can see more of Francine's creations on her blog http://alilbitocreativity.blogspot.com/.

Christmas Card from Narelle

This gorgeous card was made and sent to me by my friend Narelle! She refers to herself as the Non-Crafty Crafter, but as you can see, she's quite crafty!

And here is the birthday card she sent me back in August.

You can get lots of information and tutorials on her blog http://thenon-craftycrafter.blogspot.com/.

Christmas Card from Carolyn

This beautiful cascade card full of rosettes was sent to me by my friend Carolyn! You can see more of her creations on her blog http://cccscraproom.blogspot.com/.

Happy New Year!

The baby is from Cricut Seasonal Characters digital cart and the Happy New Year is from the Phrases cart.

Wishing you and yours a safe, happy and healthy 2014! Thanks for visiting my blog!

Christmas House

A good friend of mine, who happens to be very creative, made this Exploding Christmas House for me!

Isn't it gorgeous? Each wall has a beautiful design and the tree in the center is amazing! Here is a photo of the box closed. The number over the door is my real house number!

Each outside wall has a special design as well!

When you remove the roof (lid), the walls fall open! Here are closer views of the interior walls. The details are amazing! Look at the little door knob!

And the stockings on the mantel, the fire in the fireplace and the nutcrackers on each side!

The windows even have cornice board window treatments!

Here's a closer view of the beautiful tree with the tree skirt and ornaments!

I told you she was creative! Go visit her blog at Chic Green Dragonfly. I love this gift!

It truly makes me want to say "Merry Christmas. . .from my house to yours!" I hope you had a wonderful day regardless of how you spent it or what you celebrated!

A Disney Mini Mini Album!

A while back, I made a little mini mini album for a friend who had her first grandchild {you can see it HERE} so she could easily carry pictures of her beautiful grandson with her. Since I had designed that file in CCR, I decided to "tweak" it a bit and make a Disney version for a friend headed to Disney World!

This is the front cover. It opens at the bottom and is held closed with a velcro dot. It's approximately 3 x 3 inches. I used the Mickey Font cart.

This is what you see when you open the "ears" and flip the first section up.

Flip the middle section up to show all 3 photo or journaling spots.

And then each section flips open to reveal another photo/journaling spot as well as a pocket that has a removable square, again for photos/journaling.

I also cut a few Mickey heads and hands. I didn't adhere them because my friend is quite creative herself and can choose to use them or some other embellishments.

And, because the back was just plain black cardstock, I added this image! After all, who doesn't love Disney?

I sure hope she has some super special pictures and memories to add to this little Disney Mini Mini Album!

Another Disney Planner Folder

Seems everyone I know is going to Disney World. And without me! So not fair! :) But I still created this Disney Planner for my friend using a pocket folder from Staples. I've made a couple of them before {you can see them HERE}. It was so cool that Staples had "twisted" folders with one color on the outside and another color on the inside and they happened to have a red and yellow combo!

All you do is fold each side to the middle fold and then make it fold accordian style. The ribbon is only attached to the front cover and wraps around the back and ties to keep the folder closed.

Then all I had to do was add some Disney themed paper and some cuts from the Cricut Mickey Font cart! I made little divider pages for each section so she can separate the different pieces of info in that section or she can add photos and journaling and use it as a keepsake of her trip.

The person getting this one, hasn't gotten it yet {hopefully by tomorrow} but I sure hope she likes it! And I wish her the most magical of trips!