Some new cards finally

All my creativity has been sucked dry lately. I haven't played my violin, and although I stare at my craft supplies everyday as I sit here at the computer or watching TV, nothing is happening. Well it didn't help I travelled for work the past 2 out of 3 weeks either.

It was actually a local radio station that got me going today... they do continuous Christmas music starting around now, and they started yesterday. I put it on, and was able to churn out two cards!

Started with the cute house mouse image and then played around with my cricut. The tree is cut with the Christmas cartridge. Then I put tape on the back of it so the sticky side showed thru and trimmed all the edges. Then dumped green glitter all over and pressed it into the sticky. The white snow was cut, then I put thru my xyron to make them sticky and them dipped in diamond dust. The flower is made from two flowers punched from the 5 petal stampin' up! punch. The leaves are from the poinsettia from JOTs, I think. The star on top of the tree is a sticker.

Another House Mouse card

Wow this was a tough one to color. Used both pencils and markers on it. I'm not thrilled with the outcome, but the card all put together is nice. The poinsettia is made with Joy of the season, the other flowers are punched flowers.

Tag card with Flower

Tag card made with Joy of the Seasons, flower cut with Plantin Schoolbook. Center is a $1 punch from Michaels. Closeup of the flower to show the work to make it pop.

Floral punch craft

Found another cool craft that I had to try - it's all about making homemade flowers using paper punches. I've been making little flowers all week and tonight made a quick card. While I was at it, I thought I could also use my cricut. Here's the "recipe"

Pointsettia: Joys of the season

Daisies: medium EK Success 5 petal flower

Daisy leaves: same punch, cut out teardrops from the petals to make leaves. It's hard to see, but all leaves are veined. There are tools to do this artwork, but I am using a darning needle, a piece of fun foam and a transfer rub on tool as well as a stylus to do all the shaping and veining

Inside of flowers: $1 punch found in the dollar bin at Michaels.

I have a couple more cute flowers put together, just need to figure out what to do with them and then I'll post those too. The leaves are bigger and inked, so you'll know what I mean by the veining.

Standup Card

I wish I was creative as some of the people out there. The card itself is not my own idea, you can find instructions for cutting and folding at http://www.cricutchristmas.blogspot.com/. But the rest is all mine. Package cut with Joys of the season at 4". Cuttlebugged and sewed the background and cuttlebugged the package too.

Christmas Card

Rather quick card...I think it needs something, but it will do. Done with Noel, Joys of the Season and George cartridges. Stamped with versamark with a couple of snowflake stamps.

Drippy Goo Holiday Card

I got a Martha Stewart Drippy Goo punch and had to try it out. This was hard to photograph as it's all metallic paper. The "snow" is glittery paper which you can't tell either...

The ornament is made from Joys of the Season and cuttlebugged.

Gift card holder

This is a copy of a gift card holder that a gift card my husband got for Christmas last year came in. I pulled it apart and re-created it with design studio for the cricut. I used Plantin School book and George for the holder. I need to play a little more as this prototype came out small but a Target gift card fit in it! The snowflake was done with Joys of the Season but there are many possibilities for decorating. It's sealed closed with re-positionable glue so that it can be opened and closed.