WELCOMING 2011

Hello my friends
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The season is getting busier and busier and hardly anytime to craft. 

I had to make this project work for two blogs for lack of time. But, this is good in its own way.

Nilda from The Cuttlebug Spot and Sassy from She's a Sassy Lady will have to share the stage today...wink-wink

Because one of my RESOLUTIONS for the New Year is trying to be more FRUGAL...hehe  I am going to start re-purposing what ever I can just because.

The above frame I bought it 5-6 years ago at the Dollar Store. I bought a green one and a blue one. They measure 5 x 5, kind of a shadow box with a plastic flower inside, but like most things from the dollar store, the glue came apart on this one. I took them both down when my husband re-did the half bath in the fr. I never got rid of the frames because I really liked them and thought to fix it but never did :0 until yesterday morning when I had to make a project for Nildas Cutllebug Spot and Sheila's at Sassy Lady. ha! talk about last minute.... hehehe 

Happy 2011

it will be a gift with a name already :)

Did you realized that the first date next year will be

1-11-11

:p

I did not use the glass part but the frame only.

The cardstock used for the whole project is DCWV embossed with the cuttlebug using a Tim Holtz embossing folder called Patchwork. I am loving these Holtz' folders. They are really neat and the embossing comes out perfect.

The "happy 2011" were cut using A Child Year's font
and the embellishments are from a K&Co chipboard set.

The alpha's are metal brads from J's brand. I purchased them what it seems years and years ago, lol. I cut off the prongs and adhered them with my glue gun. They spell the last name of the recipient.

This is the side view.

I hope you enjoy it!
It is so very cute.

I am not sure if Nilda has a sponsor for this week or not (we are not told all the details) but even if she just has the challenge, hop over and play along and enjoy the work of my colleagues. I bet they are awesome as always.

Please, do not forget the Blog Hop for The Lime Light
this Friday December 17. Please, try your best to hop along. I know there will be lots of prizes and myself is finally giving away the Cricut Cartridge I mention a few months ago. I guessed I was waiting for the right time and that time has come.

Love you all!

and keep sane during the holidays, lol.

A THANKSGIVING TAG

Mid November already,

What can I say but Happy Thanksgiving to you all

There are so much we have to be grateful for, not just on thanksgiving but everyday you are alive and have a roof over your head and bread on your table and no terminal illnesses around.

Yes, everyday I get up and I say

"Thank You God for another day in our lives here on earth",
actually, Lulu and I say it every morning before we get off the bed. I am so blessed I have no words that can explain the joy in me.

Anyhow,

another term here at my dear Sassy Lady has come and since time is getting very valuable for all of us, after Thanksgiving we have Black Friday and then Christmas, I needed a project that would be easy and fast to make.

Let's count together.......

One, Two and Three
and I made a

Thanksgiving Tag
5 inches high
Psss!  don't believe me, it did not take me a second to make, lol.

I will be using this tag for my hostess gift.

The tag I found in the A Child's Year cartridge (first one showing up in my Gypsy, lol) and you will find it too on page #11. I used another tag for the sentiment also from the A Child's Year from page #9 and cut it at 1.35"H and 2.73"W.

I embossed the tag with a cuttlebug folder named Textile and distressed the tag edges.

I used my Cri-Kits to write Happy Thanksgiving inside my smaller tag using Lyrical Letters. I then used my Sharpie markers to fill in the letters and I used my glitter pen for some bling on it.

The cardstock is from Debbie Mumm 2008 Harvest and Holiday collection.

The gorgeous button is a vintage button that belonged to my 80 something years old neighbor who RIP with the lord and I got to inherit a lot of buttons.

I hope you enjoyed your short visit today at Sassy's.

Love you All!

Note:
The "s" in Thanksgiving is my handwriting cause I forgot the s when on the Gypsy. I bet you couldn't tell, lol.

SPOOKY

Hello friends, followers and visitors.

My name is Agnes aka flowerdisco from

http://flowerdiscosscraphut.blogspot.com/

As some of you might know I am one of Sassy's designers and I want to share with you a card I made for  

Halloween.

(I am so very happy to be here but still a bit shy among so many other talented designers).

Below is the card I made to share with you.

Spooky

This card is a 5 X 7 inch tall.

I used the Happy Hauntings cricut cartridge for the front phrase and a Martha Stewart punch for the fence. The Spooky sign was cut at 4.86"W by 2.08" H.

The black base cardstock is from American Crafts and the patterned paper from My Mind's Eye Scary Sparkles Halloween.

This is the inside TEMPLATE from an old book I have.

  and this is a visual of how I adhered it to the inside.

(EDITED TO ADD THIS COLLAGE OF BETTER PHOTOS THAN YESTERDAY)

 The hand was cut at 1.70"W by 3.66"H. I cut this hand twice. One as seen on the handbook and the other is a mirror image so I could add the floss between them to adhere it to the oval opening.

The technique I believe is called Pop-Up Twirl card.

This is how everything looks on my Gypsy screen.

This another view of the finished card.

I am so very proud I did not give up on this card because I started making it yesterday after what I had in mind did turned out as planned. It was one of those days where I dropped everything and everything hurt too.

Did I mention the photos were taking in the evening and they do not do justice to the real piece when looking at it in real life.

I really hope you enjoy my project. It is not a new technique but I never made one like this before.

Thank you so much for stopping by to see what I made for Sassy's design team AND another Thank You to Sheila for allowing me to share my work in her blog.

Hugs!

BACK TO SCHOOL TEACHER'S GIFT

NOTE

This is a copy and paste of my post at  

Sheila's aka SassyLady

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Hello fellow bloggers and friends. 

Some of you might know me already but for those who doesn't a proper introduction is due.

My name is Agnes aka flowerdisco and I run a blog where I share my creations, mostly cards, for your entertainment. A few months ago I bought a Flip with hopes to make lots of video tutorials but soon realized I was no teacher. My goal and hopes still there, I just need to get there and do it, right? lol

I am also one of Sheila's aka SassyLady new designers and I am super excited to be here and share with you a project I made. Since I was thinking about the videos and teaching, I also realized school starts soon in my area. One of my neighbors is a retired teacher but she still does substitute a lot. I made my project with her in mind and I will be giving it to her before school starts.

 I decided to use the one inch bag again from the Cricut cartridge Tags, Bags, Boxes and more because I love how simple and well made always turns out to be.

This bag is the one I made for one of My Pink Stamper Designer Team Projects and I also had a couple of giveaways kits with it too.

This is the project I made and I sure hope you like it.

BACK TO SCHOOL TEACHER'S GIFT

5.50 inch tall

I also made some bookmarks to go with it. I used Create a Critter for all of the Animal Species. There are 6 Animals Groups: amphibians, birds, fish, insects, mammals and reptiles. I am no teacher remember, so please, correct me if I am wrong :p

I made the frog (amphibian) from page 24, the chick (bird) from page 53 and the fish (fish) from page 43. All of them are from the Create a Critter cartridge.

They were all cut at 2.25 inch high but you can see a big difference in the width.

I also made a dog (mammal), a butterfly (insect) and a turtle (reptile). Does it sound like a science class yet? lol. I cut the turtle at 2 inches, the dog at 2.25 inch and the butterfly at 2.50 inches.

I cut some chipboard at 1 by 9" and the patterned paper at 2.50 by 9" to cover the naked chipboard and to make my bookmarks.

 Here is a collage of the animals.

(remember you click on all the pics for a bigger view)

After  I was almost done I decided to add to the sides of the bag the word "bookworm" since inside it you will find bookmarks. I always have problems adding a shadow when is none in the cartridge but I didn't want to fuzz too much more and at the end I always like the result anyway. Who said we have to be perfect, right?

Below you will see the "bookmark" word on the sides and another view of the front of the bag.

I hope you enjoyed my humble project and if you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask.

You can find me at 

http://flowerdiscosscraphut.blogspot.com/

Thanks for stopping by 

and

a big hug to all.

I AM A SASSY DESIGNER

We all know  

SASSYLADY

from the Cricut Message Board (MB).

Her name is Sheila and she is also a designer for 

THE BUG BYTES

and

TUESDAY TREATS.

Sheila also is a great friend and a very helpful soul. I have learned lots from her and from Pam aka Bug Bytes.

I am so very honored she has invited me to be one of her designers. I will add more info as soon as I know. I know I will be debuting on August 10th and every second Tuesday of the month. 

I am very excited for this other opportunity to meet more friends and to share my humble work.

Please, wish me well.

Thanks!