30 Days of Creativity - Day 14 10-minute-card

How to make a card in 10 minutes:
Choose scraps leftover from a kit
pick a challenge that technically ends in 15 minutes
Throw something together FAST

LOL... yeah I got it done today, but today ends in 30 seconds! So here it is!

The Challenge blog this is for is Inspirational Card Sketches!

30 Days of Creativity - Day 13 Gift Tag

Here's a simple gift tag I made. I used the Tim Holtz notebook embossing folder with some interesting two colored cardstock, a sizzix die "angel wings" and accu-cut dies for the tag and treble clef. The music patterned paper is 7gypsies. :)

30 Days of Creativity - Day 12 Frame

Oh man, I have been falling down on the job of this 30 Days of Creativity thing. I'm not giving up though, I'm going to keep working as best I can and maybe I can do better.

This frame was made with accu-cut and sizzix dies. No cricut *gasp*.  hee hee.  Actually it's sort of a DT project for Scrapaganza and will probably be part of a class. :)

Thanks for looking!

30 Days of Creativity - Day 11 Circle Meetup!

Ok so I'm out of town, staying with family. I'm also here because it's really close to the location of the Cricut Circle Meet Up in Des Moines. We were supposed to bring a layout of one of our favorite recipes, the dish itself to share, a decorated birthday hat and our Cricut Circle calling cards.

None of which I got done BEFORE I left home.

So I brought my cricut and stuff to dad's house... barely enough stuff to work with. Only to realize THAT MORNING that I did not have any mats for my cricut. NICE JOB MICHELE.  lol...

Fortunately my stepmom was in Des Moines and I called her and she stopped at walmart for me. So there I am, at 1:30 pm and I have to get a layout, a birthday hat and 30 calling cards done before 5pm. Oh and finish making my taco salad. Good thing the recipe was easy.

Well it all got done but it was all substandard work. I was very displeased with myself. Though, the layout wasn't too bad, it would have looked better if the recipe was at least printed on my printer. But oh well.

But hey, Shannon from Provocraft (whose birthday it was) gave us all a free gypsy! I had a blast meeting my fellow Circle members. :)

30 Days of Creativity - Day 10 photography

I am out of town most of this week and haven't gotten to craft much, but I am practicing with my camera! I enjoy practicing at my dad's house as they have numerous birds visiting, especially hummingbirds.

30 Days of Creativity - Day 9 Falling Leaves

Okay, these leaves came out so cool! I took them to Scrapaganza where I work and now they are hanging from the ceiling!

30 Days of Creativity - Days 7 & 8 Fall Leaves

I'm counting these as 2 days worth! I made over 100 of these.
I always save the acetate packaging from things, namely cricut cartridge boxes, trimmed down to the pieces I can store flat. I used alcohol inks and colored many many of these pieces of plastic, then stamped the new Tim Holtz leaves on them, and hand cut them out. On the average piece of re-purposed cricut box sized piece of acrylic I was able to get 3 of these leaves stamped on it. Like I said, I did well over 100 of them! Took me about 7 hours total, including cutting them out.

I will post a picture later of what these are being used for. :)