Dragonfly Swing Card

Here's another swing card I made using my left over paper and cuts.  I think they go well together!  Loving the little bug and dots and stripes.  Hope it makes someone smile!  

http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/2020/07/challenge-559-spots-or-stripes.html

http://cardztv.blogspot.com/2020/07/cardz-tv-anything-goes-challenge-119.html

Bear and Deer Double Slider Card

Here's a cute double slider card.  I just love how these turn out.  So stinkin' much fun and realatively easy to make.  So so cute!  I think it will make a good masculine card also.  Those are always the hardest for me.  I'll stamp a sentiment on it when I decide what occasion I will send it for and it will be done.   I am loving these!  The next one I want to try is a iris fold card.....what is your favorite card to make?

http://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com/2020/05/challenge-201-boys-will-be-boys.html boys with diecut deer

https://trimmiescraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/06/challenge-558-masculine.html masculine

https://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/2020/06/challenge-637-anything-goes.html AG

https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2020/05/sos-421-stuck-on-you.html stickers bear

It's Your Special Day Double Slider Card

I am loving these double slider cards!  This is another birthday one for my sister-in-law.  So so much fun!  I hope she likes it.  I am the only crafter in my extended family so it is fun to send these special interactive cards for my family.  So so fun!  I have a couple more fun ones that I want to make but I will probably make a couple more of these first.  So much fun!

http://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.com/2020/05/tuesday-throwdown-458-craftygirl.html  Blues, yellows, whites

Perkins Layout

We lost this sweet kitty a couple years ago.  She had been the best cat that we've ever had and she never did wander off.  We found her in the woodshed and half of her backside and body was one big scab.  We think someone threw her out of their car and she had road rash.  My then little girl brought her in so upset because she was hurt and wanted to keep her.  Sadly, people drop cats off out in the country all the time.  I didn't really want to keep her because she was a female and females have kittens ALL the time in the country and I didn't want the vet bill of another cat to spay but she was hurt, my daughter had just lost her cat, and what's a mom to do?  We kept her, nursed her back to health, and had her for many years until she just got really old and sick and we lost her.  She must have already been spayed also because we never did have kittens so we never took her in to be spayed.  She was a great mouser, always stayed home, and allowed my daughter to pack her all over.  She really was a good cat and I'm glad that whoever dropped her off, dropped her at our house afterall.  :-)

http://scrapourstash.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-recipe-challenge-design-team.html Recipe challenge
https://2craftycrittercrazies.blogspot.com/2020/06/challenge-39-sponsored-by-lili-of-valley.html critter

Love You 2 Pieces Layout

I have been trying to get caught up on some scrapbooking and so I have been watching challenges to get me going.  Today, I a challenge to use stripes and an anything goes.  I had this striped paper on hand and decided it would go well with these photos.  Yeah!  Once again loving the print and cut!  I had made a couple of these titles awhile ago and it worked great for this layout too! Love using those items I have on hand with new ones.  Another page done!  Yeah!  Title I made myself but the print and cut are from Treasure Box Designs.

http://kcclayoutchallenges.blogspot.com/2019/11/lm-472-patterned-paper-prints-stripes.html stripes
http://cardztv.blogspot.com/2019/11/cardz-tv-anything-goes-challenge-102.html AG

Happy Birthday Layout

Just a quick happy birthday layout.  The little bird is a a Miss Kate's Cuttable file and the little bears are Kristi W. Designs.  Hope you like it!

http://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com/2019/05/challenge-175-birthdays.html birthday layout
http://2craftycrittercrazies.blogspot.com/2019/06/challenge-27-sponsored-by-rick-st-dennis.htmln critter

Christmas Jar Tags

I LOVE how this turned out.  I still need to add some twine on my tag, but LOVE it.  On the back I did a print and cut that says "From our house to yours" and then our names.  I think these will look so cute on our neighbor gifts.  So much fun!  This was modified from a file from My Scrap Chick.  Instead of a card, I just made a tag.  So fun!   I don't remember what stamp set my Merry and Bright came from, but it was a perfect fit on my tag!  

http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/2017/11/foodie.html food

http://alohafridaychallenges.blogspot.com/2017/12/109-anything-goes-woptional-twist.html AG

http://avenue613.blogspot.com/2017/12/challenge-204-anything-goes-optional.html AG

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2017/12/himcr-329-christmas-colors.html Christmas Colors

http://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com/2017/12/challenge-136-christmas-song.html Christmas song... It’s Beginning to Look a Lot like Christmas – “With candy canes and silver lanes aglow”

https://dianamlarson.blogspot.com/2017/12/dlart-december-linky.html  linky

http://cardztv.blogspot.com/2017/12/cardz-tv-anything-goes-challenge-24.html AG

https://die-cut-divas.blogspot.com/2017/12/winter-time-with-dies-r-us.html winter time

http://trimmiescraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2017/11/challenge-444-30th-of-november.html christmas present

http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/ AG

July 4th Layout

This cute little frog is a Marjorie Ann Designs file.  Isn't she cute.  I happened to have one lone frog left over from a layout I did on the fourth of July from pictures from a couple years ago.  I had intended to put her on a card or something, but never did.  While I was putting together this quick layout, I snagged her and put her on. I think she looks like she was meant to be here.  There are so many cute designers out there and she is one of my favorites.  Always such cute files.  The flower was jut a basic shape I found somewhere but it looks cute on the top!  

http://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com/2017/06/challenge-125-patriotic-red-white-and.html red white blue
http://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2017/07/sos-challenge-311-cas-for-simplicity-day.html simple
http://kcclayoutchallenges.blogspot.com/2017/07/lm-352-4th-of-july-adventures.html 4th
http://pileitonchallenge.blogspot.com/2017/07/pile-it-on-132-primary-colors.html primary colors
http://4craftychicks.blogspot.si/2017/06/4cc357-crazy-egganything-goes.html AG
http://conniecancrop.blogspot.com/2017/07/connie-can-crop-monthly-challenge-60.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FPaFIR+%28Connie+Can+Crop%29 stash - all my paper and frog

School Notebook Makeover

 Here's a remake on a little notebook.  The worm and books are from Little Scraps of Heaven Designs.  I think he makes a cute little addition to this notebook.

 http://www.craftindesertdivasblog.com/2016/07/cdd-photo-inspiration-linky-party-week-1.html photo challenge school

Christmas Gift Cards Print and Cut

Christmas gift card holders.....ok....so like everyone else, I like to give a personal touch to my Christmas gifts but let's face it, it can take a LOT of time.  This year since I bought a used Sillouhette SD machine, I thought it was the perfect time to make a project using Print and Cut.  (Let's face it....they usually end up in the garbage anyway and since I'm trying to simplify, this is one of the areas I did it in.)  I decided to use the cute little file from Treasure Box Designs.  I got 6 of them on an 8.5x11 piece of paper and cut them out using my new SD.  I'm pretty impressed.  This is only my 3rd print and cut I've done and it cuts pretty close to the original design.  Not perfect but for now I'm ok with it.  I made these cute little gift card holders that open and have a place for a greeting and an slot to hold the gift card.  I think they are a fun way to give a gift card.  Hope my friends think so also!  Overall, pretty pleased with how they turned out and a much quicker way to make them then by hand.  Yeah!

http://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.com/2015/12/tuesday-throwdown-272-cute-and-cuddly.html Cute and Cuddly
http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com/2015/12/dlart-december-linky-challenge.html Linky challenge
http://www.silhouettechallenges.com/2015/12/silhouette-challenges-32-featured-artist.html AG
http://toocutebyjessicadt.blogspot.com/2015/11/tcbj-dt-winter-challenge.html Winter
http://pileitonchallenge.blogspot.com/2015/11/pile-it-on-97-use-red-and-green.html red and green
http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2015/11/himcr-227-any-holiday.html any holiday

Print and Cut----Looky looky!

These are my first attempts at print and cut!  To say that I am thrilled is underestimating it!  How fun is this....I wish I could say that they were "faster" but by the time I figured it out and got it to read the registration marks it wasn't any faster, but it WAS a lot of fun!  So glad that they turned out.  I still have some things to figure out....why one car cut out the window and the other didn't but I will figure it out.  Just pleased that I got it to finally work!  Yeah!  Now if my printer just made better prints....have I mentioned that I dislike Epson????  (The photo is enhanced...not true to how they printed sadly....)

Print and Cut

Woohoo! I just had to try this new feature in the MTC beta version. This is my first attempt at print and cut! Who needs the Cricut Imagine???? Not me or anyone else who has this wonderful program! It's not exact....my printer is an HP and took a little tweeking, but for my first try, I'm not complaining! It wasn't too far off, but between my Cricut and the printer I had to adjust quite a little. I printed him at x=1 and y=1, but when I cut him, I had to adjust x=1.25 and y=.9375. It's late so I'll have to play some more another time with a different image and see if these numbers hold true, but for now, I'm pretty happy with the results. Interestingly, many Imagine customers aren't getting any better results with a $500 machine. Yikes. I've heard of several of them returning them because they didn't preform like they expected them too for the price. Overall, I'm quite pleased with the results! What do you think?