My Favorite 2010 Cricut Cartridges

I can’t believe that it is New Years Eve and this will be my last post for 2010.  Yesterday I made a post of my favorite Cricut Card Ideas for 2010, which made me think of all of the cartridges that I have and if I had to pick just one, which one would that be.

So after looking though my library of Cricut cartridges, I Love them all, but picking just one favorite would have to be… 3 Birds on Parade.  I purchased this cartridge when it was an exclusive on HSN, but now you can buy this cartridge everywhere cricut cartridges are sold.

This Cricut Cartridge has a bird for every occasion, really fun phrases, accessories for each bird.  Look how cute they are ~ I love the football one ~ Are you ready for some football?

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Then there is another cartridge that I received with my Gypsy update, and it has got to be my next favorite.  It is the Smiley Card Gypsy download cartridge.   This cartridge is not available as a cartridge it was only available as a download as a promotion.  I do hope that if you didn’t get this download because you don’t have a Gypsy or the you missed the deadline to get this cute download, that  one day real soon, Provo Craft will make this a cartridge that everyone can have.  The images on this cartridge can really make you smile that is how cute they are.

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This past year has been a little crazy, with my health being not so good and just normal life situations that we encountered.  So, I can’t wait for the New Year.  2011 is going to be the best year yet.  I plan on making more cards using my Cricut Expression Machine,also my Cricut Gypsy and Cuttlebug and then sharing all of my Cricut Card Ideas with all of you.   I am looking forward to a fun, happy, healthy and creative year.

Wishing You and Your Family A Happy New Year ~ 2011

Make if a Great Year and don’t forget to leave time to Craft!

My Favorite Cricut Card Ideas from 2010

I have had so much fun this year making and sharing the cards that I have made with my Cricut Expression Machine with all of you.  I can’t believe all the Cricut Card Ideas that you can have with just one cartridge, then when you have alot of cricut cartridges the possibilities are endless.

But looking though all of the posts that I have made, I think that my favorite  Cricut Card is….drum roll

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This was the card that I made for Mother’s Day.  I used the Sweethearts Cricut cartridge for this and some flowers from Walk in my Garden cartridge.  Our Mom’s loved it I think because they were able to see our faces on a card.

My second place favorite Cricut Card is….

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I made this birthday card for my brother-in-law after he ran the New York City marathon.  I used the Paisley Cricut cartridge for the sneaker and for the background was a city border from Plantin Schoolbook cartridge.  I put his running number on the back along with the same medallion that he received on the side of the sneaker. It looked like a subway token.

I have always said that making handmade greeting cards is like you are giving a present too!

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

Merry Christmas Everyone

12 Days of Christmas with Joans Craft World

On the twelfth day of Christmas…

Twas the Night before Christmas and all though the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.  The stockings were hung by the chimney with care….

I hope that Santa brings you everything that is on your list.  Maybe a Cricut Expression machine, or a Cuttlebug.  How about a Cricut Imagine or Gypsy, a camera so that you can take alot of pictures and then scrapbook all of those memories.  Or how about a stocking filled with glue dots, tape runner adhesives, copic markers, rubber stamps, and some ink pads.

It doesn’t matter what the weather is like where you live, Santa will find his way through a blizzard or the clearest of skies.  Just last week I thought that I was going to have a white Christmas, but the New Mexico sun came out and melted it all away.  If I really want snow, all I have to do is drive 30 minutes to the east and I can see all the snow that I want on the Sandia Mountains.

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Everyone celebrates Christmas differently. There are so many old traditions that are being followed down through generation and there are also new traditions being made.  Today I have been listening to Polish Christmas Carols and singing around my house as I get ready for some friends to come over.  My husband is not Polish he is Swiss/Italian, but after being with me and my family for 30 years  he even knows some of the words.

My family in New Jersey are going to the Christmas mass at 4 o’clock to worship and listen to my niece sing in the choir and my nephew/Godson is going to be an alter server at the same mass.   Then my husbands family is going  to mass together to worship and Celebrate Jesus birth.  I wish we were there to celebrate, but we are so there in spirit.  No amount of miles will keep us apart, we are always in each others heart and even more during the holidays.  Paul and I will be watching midnight mass of television tonight from the Vatican in Italy.  Since I just had my last chemo treatment in the beginning of the month, I still cant be around alot of people so we will be celebrating Christmas mass at home.

After church my family will go back to my sister house for dinner and then opening of presents.  Paul’s family is going to his sisters, to eat lots of Italian appetizers (fresh mozzarella cheese with soprasata) my mouth is watering just thinking of that platter. Oh can’t forget the black olives.  These are the traditions that memories are made from.

However you choose to enjoy this holiday season, just be kind to your fellow man.  Just a simple smile can really make someones day.

Wishing You and Your Family a Very Merry Christmas!

12 Days of Christmas with Joans Craft World – Day 11

12 Days of Christmas with Joans Craft World

On the eleventh day of Christmas…

I can’t believe that tomorrow is Christmas Eve.  Are we ready?  Are the cookies all baked and the packages all wrapped and all of the Christmas cards out in the mail? Did you get/decorate your Christmas tree?

Well I finished wrapping and mailing all of the presents . Yesterday was a little crazy but now I’m feeling good and getting ready to relax and start celebrating.

I’ve been reading some other blogs and a question that I have have seen come up is when is the 12 days of Christmas, because some say before and some say after.  I wrote Joans Craft World’s 12 Days of Christmas before, just because I knew that I was going to be busy with the holidays and figured that you would be too busy celebrating with friends and family and wouldn’t be reading my blog.  But technically, it is really suppose to be 12 days of Christmas starting on Christmas.  The Bible tells us that when Jesus was born on Christmas Day it took 12 Days for the 3 Kings to get to Bethlehem to see him and the Epiphany is 12 Days after Christmas.

So, if you didn’t send your cards out yet or your not done baking cookies, no problem it will be Christmas for 12 days after the 25th.  Whatever you have to still accomplish, just be happy and don’t stress.  You will get it done, you know that you will, so just enjoy every moment.  Sing your favorite Christmas carols, play in the snow (if you have some), drink some hot chocolate, and do what the song says:

“Oh By Golly Have a Holly Jolly Christmas This Year!”

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

Wrapping Presents Can Definately Get You In The Christmas Spirit!

12 Days of Christmas with Joans Craft World

On the tenth day of Christmas…

I hope that you all are having a great day.  Today I have to stop crafting with my Cricut Expression and my Rubber Stamps and start a different kind of Christmas Craft.  The craft of wrapping Christmas presents.  That’s right, I haven’t started wrapping presents and that means that I haven’t shipped our gifts to our family in New Jersey yet either.  Doing this at the last minute makes it more fun.  HoHoHo!

I have the ABC Family channel on watching  “A Dennis the Menace Christmas” while I am surrounded by Christmas wrapping paper and presents.  I thought Christmas tree paper would look really cute with the gift tags that I made the other day with the Christmas Cheer Cricut Cartridge and my Cricut Expression machine of different colored Christmas lights.

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The small gifts are all wrapped, now it’s time for the “real” presents to be wrapped.  Sorry can’t show you what’s inside just in case my family is reading this.  As soon as I am done wrapping, we will be off to the Post Office to use Priority Mail shipping and hoping that they get to our family in time for Christmas Day.

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

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