First fleece rag style quilt

My mother had this kit and never started it.   When we cleaned out her house I took it, and it sat in my closet for 4 years.  I took it out and in 2 days it was done.   It came out great!   I had not tried this rag technique before, the con is that you have to be sure not to catch the fringe in your stitches.  My mom probably would have donated it to St. Anthony's in SF where she volunteered.   I decided to donate it also, my sister will give it to a women's and children's shelter in Northern CA for me that she knows could use it.  I've already started another quilt using smaller squares for a baby.  Stay tuned!

Partially Organized Craft Room

It's true, most of the time my scrap and sewing room combo is a mess.  I never seem to get it totally organized and looking sleek and clean like the ones I see on Pinterest.   It's never going to happen.  A few of my design sisters over at BBTB2 sometimes have this same issue.   So we decided to bond together and organize and clean our scraprooms and present them to you this week.     Thus, my title "Partially Organized Craft Room".   I took two areas of my room and am ready to show them to you.   The Cricut area is a built in desk that was there when we moved in.  I have this old wooden mail cabinet and green spice rack that used to be my dads that I use to hold my cartridges.  They are in alphabetical order.  I have a plastic case for cartridges for ones that don't have a box.  My Cuttlebug and a lunchbox of folders complete the desktop.  Inside the desk I keep my Cricut mats, pens, vinyl and my hot glue guns.

The 2nd area I would like to show you is part of my storage.  This IKEA shelving unit holds my plastic cases of die cuts, stickers, paper collections, stamps, projects, etc.   I have labeled most of them.   The big plastic box on the right holds all my ink pads.  Lower shelves hold flowers and buttons along with a shelf for Stampin Up/Amuse/CTMH/misc unmounted stamp sets and a container of ribbons.  I like to display a project or two as space allows.

Maybe in the next month or so I will attack the rest of the area and share that with you.  Until then, please be sure to enjoy the scraproom makeovers of my design sisters over at BBTB2.  Enjoy!

ATC Swap - made into V-day cards

I participated in an ATC (artist trading card) swap on the Cricut Message Board.  They came back this week, and were so pretty I just had to use them.  One person puts them in an ATC sized tray that displays 12 cards.  I decided to make some easy Valentines Day cards with 3 of them.   I added another contrasting mat frame, and then made them into A2 sized cards, adorning the bottom with Red/white ribbons.  I inked them and added scraps inside for some color.   Ready to send out tomorrow - Happy Valentine's Day.

Valentines Heart - Puzzle and Holder

This week at BBTB2, we are challenged to create a Valentines project with a heart.   Today, I have two hearts to share with you.  Both cuts are done from the Cricut Artiste cartridge.   I took a 4x6 picture of my daughter and her then to be husband and glued it to pink cardstock.  I sized the heart puzzle cut from Artiste at just under 4" using the CCR, and cut it out.   The folded red heart is really an envelope and it will hold the puzzle pieces along with some little cuts of the word LOVE.  I stuck in a heart so that my daughter can write a personal note to go along with the puzzle.  I inked the edges of the envelope and the 'my valentine' cut, which are from Artbooking.

Happy Valentines Day. I'm looking forward to see your Heart creations using the Cricut on BBTB2.

Sweet as Honey Baby Layout

This week's theme challenge at BBTB2 is a 'baby project or layout'.  One of my favorite subjects!!!  When my granddaughter was barely a week old, she wore this adorable yellow striped dress and shorts set.  I thought she looked like a cute little bee, so that is how I had to scrap these pictures.   There is room on the bottom for journaling (which I am so bad about doing).  I got two bees in a swap on the Cricut message board a few years ago, so this came together very easily.  "Sweet as Honey" is from Don Juan,  the bee on the bottom left I made from Art Nouveau, and the top left bee is from Walk in My Garden.  The border of bees was from my stash.  Here's the link to the BBTB2 blog, take a peek at the incredible projects this week.

Get Well Cards

This week at BBTB2, Emily is hosting and she has selected a Get Well Card as our challenge.   I usually don't make get well cards, but I occasionally need one, so thought I would make several.  I made them with different overlays from the Artbooking cartridge.  The 'Perk Me Up?" message is something I came up with myself when going though the cartridge books to come up with an idea.  I'm sure it's been used before, but I thought I was being pretty clever.  The percolator and the "Perk Me Up" is from Suburbia, and the "Need a Little" is from CCR basics.  For the text bubble, I took a LOL in a bubble from the Artbooking cartridge and edited it in CCR.

Which of the 4 versions is your favorite?   I like the red backgrounds the best.  Now head on over to the BBTB2 blog to see what the team has in store for you this week.

Happy Birthday - 30 years old

Our challenge from design team member Caroline over at BBTB2 this week is to create a Birthday Card with a number on it.   I choose to create a CHEERS card with the number 30 - a special birthday for a close relative.  I emphasized the cosmopolitan drink in an extra large size to play up the occasion.  

Only 2 Cricut cartridges were used for this card - Suburbia for the lady and the word Cheers, along with Nifty Fifties for the martini/cosmopolitan cut.   These are two of my favorite cartridges, I love the vintage look.

Come join us this week and submit a Cricut card with a number on it.

Christmas Figurines Layout

Our challenge today at BBTB2 is to showcase one of our hobbies.   I have lots of hobbies, one of them is collecting Lefton and other brands of Christmas figurines.  It started out with collecting angels, and then I added in cute little girls, and Santas, and choir boys, ==== well, you get the picture.  I also collect lady heads (bottom left pic), and put my Christmas ones on display.   This is just some of my collection, I probably have about double what is shown in the top picture, but because I have a 2 yr old granddaughter around once in a while, I didn't want to risk an 'accident'.

I used several Cricut cartridges on this one.  The 'vintage' tag is from Forever Young, the bracket is from Home Accents, the "I Collect" is from Suburbia.  The ornament is from Christmas Cheer, the word Christmas and Figurines, as well as the journaling tag are from Artbooking.  The poinsettias are from Celebrate with Flourish.

Come on over to visit our talented BBTB2 designers and see how they presented their hobbies.

Snow Friends Gift Tag

I made a bunch of these cute snowmen to use for gifttags.   Of course the pink version is for the girls, and a blue version will be for boys.   This snow-girl is made with the Snow Friends cartridge.   Go on over to BBTB2 to see the other gift tags made by the creative team.    Merry Christmas to all, now let's go have a snowball fight!!

BBTB2 - Christmas Tag You're It

This week's challenge at BBTB2 is a Christmas tag - our hostess is calling this "Tag You're It".

I made this using the Cricut Artiste cartridge, cutting the ornament at 5", using white cardstock as the base and gold glitter paper for the detail.  The poinsetta was cut at 4 different sizes, creased and layered to give it a 3D effect.  Gold gemstones were added in the middle.  The name tag was also cut from Artiste, and the white name is cut using Don Juan, that cut can be done at 1/2" very easily, so I use it a lot.  The beads and ribbon were from my stash, I know I wanted to add a spring or a bow at the top, and this just jumped out at me.

Hop on over to to see all the Christmas tags the team has created.   TAG - YOU ARE IT!