Todays svg freebies : a couple of swirly hearts

Here is a  couple quick Valentine element freebies for you svg users: HERE

A couple of cards I made

I am having oh so much fun making these magical little slider cards!  You pull the top layer and a bottom layer pops out to amaze your friends :)   The first one  I did to send tea to a friend.  I used the svg I made yesterday for the teapot.  The second one is a birthday gift card using my new paper lace cart - If you are a card maker and going to buy one cart-this is the one! I just got it, they are selling for about $25 with ship on ebay-and it is packed full of fun meshes, borders and verses.  I actually can't wait to use some of the meshes for my scrapbooking too.  Paper on these cards are from DCWV (Linen closet and sweet stacks...I'm trying to use them up so I can justify buying a couple of the new stacks)

Thanks for looking!

Teapot, tea cup, sugar, creamer svg freebie

Just a quick freebie today, I'll show you why I made these tomorrow.  Link is only active for one week. Happy Monday!

PSI_Teatime svg -expired

A Quick "For Santa" scrap page

The boys left notes and an apple for Santa, and a carrot for each reindeer.  I though it was so cute and a great excuse to use my Jolly Holidays cartridge (I got this a month ago and still hadn't used it!).  This is an 8x8 page with Santa cut at 4 inch and the deer at 4.5 inch.  Font is Kirsten ITC.  I used dazzling diamonds on the reindeer nose and flocking on Sants hat.  Polkadot paper is Stampin Up.

I also want to give a heads up about some blog candy over at Jacquesmagnolias blog . Deadline is tonight so hop over and check it out!

Cindy Loo and Lacy Lables friend card

Today's share is a card done with Cindy Loo and Lacy Labels - the Doily is from CL is cut at 4 inch, the friend and the inside(2.5inch)/outside (4inch) frames from LL.  The stamp is a new stamp I got from stampin up - well actually its an old retired stamp but new to me.  I answered an ad on the craiglist the other day for some older stamps.  The gal lived about 1/2 hr away from me but happened to be coming to my neighborhood for a football party.  So there we were in the parking lot of the local mini-mark, pitch dark out, about 20 degrees out, two women  digging through the trunk of her mini-van-going through stamps. It makes me laugh still to think about how it looked- like the stampers version of some other kind of "deal".   Anyway, I like this set because of the verse: May today be a happy memory with the promise of many beautiful tomorrows - which is stamped inside.

Here are my Christmas Thank you cards:

I actually made a bunch of the snowflakes back in Early Dec, so I can't remember what size I cut or even what cart - I think Christmas Solutions.  I ran them through the xyron and covered them with dazzling diamonds (if your making one, why not make 20!).   Having them all ready ahead of time made assembling thank you cards a breeze -I should make up embellishments ahead of time more often.  They are very simple but with the glitter, pop dots and sparkly centers they are still fun in person.   Thanks for looking!

Todays little project - Chair makeover

This is not my normal cricut project, but I thought I would share anyway.  My mother had this chair in her garage in the going, going, going pile.  She's had it forever and it had seen better days-ripped seat and drips of paint all over.  I love the little flower on the back though, so I snagged it and thought I'd fix it up a bit.  I sanded it down - mostly. I left some of the dark on the edges and creases (see photo 2), partly because I was going for a shabby chic-distressed look, and partly because I was sanding outside in the FREEZING cold and wanted to hurry inside to thaw.  Then I put on a layer of Minwax stain and finish.  I tore off the old seat cover only to find another underneath - I guess I wasn't the first one to redo it.  I stapled on the new fabric, screwed the seat back on and POOF - fabulous new chair.  I started about 3 and had it done and back in the house by 6, not to bad.   Thanks for looking!

The edges are left with the old stain

Chair before :

Happy New Year! First scrap page of the new year....

Hope you all had a great first day of 2011!  I don't think I got all the scrap pages done that I meant to for 2010.  Hopefully this year will go better.  Here is my first scraplift of the new year.  I got the layout from this months Scrapbooks Etc. and the supplies are from EchoPark (Wintertime collection).   Thanks for looking!