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Back to my Handmade Custom Christmas Cards

Back in September I was telling you about an idea that I had for my Christmas cards this year.  Well my idea in my head sounded great, but I just couldn’t get it right on paper. So now I am really behind in my card making, but not too worry. I just finished a sample of this year’s card. It is a fun card, with a lot of color and layers. I will share my card with you in December only because if my family & friends read this blog, they will see the card that they will be receiving in the mail.  And if you like my Christmas card, you can start making them for your cards next year.

Now it’s time to talk about Cricut.

If you never heard of a Cricut, you will start hearing a lot about it from me.

I have had this personal cutting machine for a year already but am just seeing how much you can really do with it. It’s too cool.

This machine is amazing. It is great for all of those Scrapbookers out there as well as Greeting Card Makers.

After you cut an image (from whatever color paper you want it to be), you can embellish it any way YOU want, not how the craft store and manufacturers sell it to you.

So when I am done with my Christmas Cards, I will share with you all of the new creations that I will be making with my Cricut.

Make it a Great Day and don’t forget to leave time to Craft!

More Handmade Halloween Decorating Ideas

Do you need a container to put your Halloween candy in?

Here is a great fun basket that will also look great in any room.

You will need to purchase a basket, white felt, black felt and some fiber stuffing for filling up the ghost

I didn’t use a pattern it is all done free hand.  I know that you are a crafty person too so this will be really easy to make.

Cut (2) Ghost Shaped from your white felt

Depending on the size of your basket will determine the size of your ghost.

Using a glue gun, glue both pieces together leaving the bottom open for stuffing.

When you are done gluing and stuffing your ghost, glue the bottom closed.

Glue it to the back of your basket

Cut (2) black eyes and (1) mouth from your black felt

Glue then on the ghost and you are done.

If you like you can also cut letters out of the black felt to say Happy Halloween or Trick or Treat and then just glue then to the front of your basket.

Make it a Great Day and don’t forget to leave time to Craft!

Getting Ready for Halloween

Are you getting ready for all of the Ghost & Goblins in your neighborhood?


I just finished decorating the outside of my house with Scarecrows, and pumpkins.

And I even decorated for fall inside. Years ago I made a felt Ghost banner with sequence that I hang on the wall, along with ghosts made out of a white sheet and a Styrofoam ball for the head. I even made the felt hat. If you like the way it looks here is how you can make your own Hanging Ghost:

  1. Cut a piece of white cotton fabric into a square (you can make it any size that you like)
  2. Cut fringes on the bottom
  3. Take a Styrofoam ball and add two pieces of wire or coat hanger to the bottom of the ball (this is so that it doesn’t just hang droopy)
  4. Place the piece of fabric over the ball
  5. Then tie a piece of ribbon, raffia, or thread around his neck
  6. With a fabric marker (so it doesn’t bleed) draw his eyes and mouth
  7. If you like you can cut out of felt the word BOO and glue to his chest
  8. Add a hat made out of felt. Cut a circle for the base
  9. Then cut another circle and make into a cone shape (glue ends together)
  10. Add a ribbon to the top of the hat for hanging (glue into place)
  11. Hot glue the hat to his head
  12. And your Ghost is ready for hanging

Make it a Great Day and don’t forget to leave time to Craft!

Balloon Fiesta 2008

Here in my home town is Balloon Fiesta.  All balloonists from around the world come together for a week of the most fantastic ballooning.  We have open space and box winds.  This means that they can actually take off and land in the same place.

Picture this, waking up in the morning and looking out the window and the skies are filled with the most colorful balloons in all different shapes and sizes.  You just have to go and get your camera even though it does not do it justice.

Now that you have just seen the widest range of colors, you have no choice but go and get creative. I know that I will.

Make it a Great Day and don’t forget to leave time to Craft!

Rubber Stamping and Watercolor Paints

The buzz in the stamping world is Watercolors.  That’s right good old watercolor paints.There are sooo many cool ways to use watercolors with your rubber stamps.  Just remember to use waterproof/permanent ink like StazOn or if you don’t have that make sure that you emboss the ink that you have so that it doesn’t bleed all through your image when you are coloring with your watercolors.  Also watercolors work best with watercolor paper.  This paper holds its shape when wet and will not get all lumpy and bumpy.  Try to find a smooth watercolor paper, just because your stamp image will look better.

If you are going to make a greeting card, a great idea would be to stamp your image on a piece of watercolor paper, and also paint on that piece of paper, but when you are finished, cut it out and layer it onto the cover of your card.  This look will be so professional and if you put a border around it your image it will look like a beautiful framed painting.

I can’t believe how many different types of watercolors are on the market now days.  We have the good old fashion kind, the dry “circles” in a long case that you just put a wet brush on to get the color, or there some that are in tubes and are wet already you just brush them on, some come in jars, pencils, and even crayons.

Watercolors are the easiest way to create shading, just by blending more ink and less water or visa versa. If you have too much water on your paper all you need to do is blot the excess with a paper towel.

Have a Great Day and don’t forget to leave time to Craft!

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