WOW - I won something else!!

I'm loving this blogging stuff - I've just won a CREATE A CRITTER cartridge from Tammy Skinner at Creative Critters Cricut Club!  http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cricutcritters/gjxc/~3/OtyZxvCVq5Y/winners.html

Woohoo!!

Thanks Tammy!

xoxo Deb.

Flaunt It Friday - Challenge #2: "Deb's Silhouette"

 Good evening Friday Flaunters (it's Saturday here in Melbourne, lol!)  I LOVE this particular Flaunt, as the PDDU cart is pretty much my all-time favourite!  Check out the challenge to 'Flaunt' the sleigh on P.74 of the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge at  http://flauntitfridays.blogspot.com/2010/12/fif-2-blog-hop-1-winner.html

Oh, and congrats to Erika for last week's win!  Woohoo!!  This blog stuff is fun!! :)

Here is my effort for this week: a 12x12 layout, with "Space" paper from Disney/Pixar as the background, using the cloud-covered moon from the Disney - Princesses Dreams Come True cartridge.  I then used the reindeer from the Christmas cartridge, copied and welded in pairs using my ever-wonderful Gypsy (of course!), and the blackout head and Santa hat from the PDDU cartridge, (welded it into the sleigh) - all in black to give the 'silhouette against the moon' look.  I added some feature to the clouds using Pebbles chalks, and used a some Kindyglitz in Crystalina to highlight the sleigh.  Hope you guys like it!

This layout is inspired by one of my happiest (and possibly earliest) Christmas memories - when I was about 6, I got out of bed on Christmas Eve and looked at the moon, and to this day I still believe I saw the silhouette of Santa's sleigh and reindeer pass by.  It's such a lovely thought, and I wanted to share it!

Deb. xoxo

Then there's the Grade 6 Graduation...

... Bearing in mind my School-aged children are in Grade 2 and Prep next near (respectively), it is only natural that I should work on the Grade 6 Graduation (?!?!!).  Once again, my son's teacher 'volunteered' my services to the lovely Grade 6 teachers - perhaps Deb could help out with the invitations, etc.?

Well, I had just come into possession of the Wild Cards cartridge, and there is the delightful Graduation Hat card and envelope - match made in heaven!  So, with the colour scheme of Magenta Pink, Grape Purple and Silver to work with, and my trusty Left Arm Extension (aka Gypsy), I set about making the graduation invitations.

I set up a production line of willing parents for the construction of the cards, which involved the sticking together of the liner inside the envelope, scoring the envelope fold lines and sticking it together, sticking the information on the inside of the hat and attaching the tassels with mini-brads.  I made the tassels from Anchor stranded cotton. All of the lettering had been pre-prepared and pre-adhered to make it easier - I didn't want the dots of the 'i's to go missing!

The invitations were a huge hit with the students (not to mention their parents and teachers alike!), and it appears that I have been roped in for Grade 6 Graduation committee duties for the next 7 years that my children are associated with the school!!  Happy to do it - this Gypsy and paper crafting stuff is way too much fun!!

Deb.

Roped in to helping the Fundraising Committee...

OK, so I eluded in an earlier post that the Fundraising Committee may be able to use my services, and that of my Gypsy...  how you may ask??  Well, to really reach out to our small school community, and get them amped up for a fantabulous Fundraising BBQ, we need some great signage, right?  Enter the Gypsy, with some A3 paper on my 24x12 Expression Cutting mat, and some Cricut Markers and Cri-Kits gel pens - voila!  (Too many different font cartridges used to name them all!)

We then photocopied this, double-sided, and had the students colour it in to take home and put on their fridges.  We also used additional coloured-in copies to put around the local area in shops, etc, to drum up more interest.

Also occurring around the school at the same time was the annual Disco night, and so an additional poster was required... (using the Hannah Montana cartridge)

My Gypsy and markers were kept very busy in the lead-up to the Fundraising BBQ, as laminated signs for each stall were required.  Here are just a few...

 

 
There were many parents up many nights colouring these ones in, prior to laminating.  There's even a bit of Kindyglitz (similar to Stickles) on each of them for a bit of pizazz!
It was a fantastic night (apart from a thunderstorm that forced the whole event indoors!)

We were only just scratching the surface of what we could now achieve with this little marvel called a Gypsy...
Deb.

Trip Around the World!

Hey guys, just adding my photo, taken by a friend of mine last Thursday evening (thanks Al!) - the rainbow is sitting on the top of my house (with the brown roof)!!  How freaky is that - havent' been able to find the pot of gold...!  

Our weather here in Melbourne?  Stormy, steamy, 30degC+ each day - ewww (not sure how that equates in F - around the 85-ish I think)!  I'd much rather have the snow (not that I've ever seen snow - but I certainly do prefer the cold to the heat!)
This is for the "Trip Around the World" post on Made by Momo's page http://madebymomo.blogspot.com/2010/12/img00343-20101205-1040jpg.html

Have a great day!

Deb.

Flaunt It Friday - Challenge

OK, this is the first time I've ever taken part in a challenge, so here goes!

I don't have the Winter Frolic cartridge, so I used my Gypsy to create my own version of this adorable little snowman from Page 29.  I used images from the Wild Cards cartridge, George and Basic Shapes, and even used a bumper fender from the Cars cartridge (for the top of the ear muffs!), then hid the parts of the images I didn't want, welded it all together and took a scarf from the Every Day Paper Dolls cartridge.  I finished off with PKS Everyday Character Face Parts for the face and the buttons down the front, and added some KindyGlitz in Crystalina (similar to Stickles, I'm assuming!) for some bling on the scarf and on the ear muffs.  I cut my snowman out 3 times on Bazzill Weave and stuck them together to give some dimension (using my Xyron 5").  The backing paper on the card is Making Memories Glitter Diagonal Stripe, and I cut the sentiment "Greetings" out of the Christmas cartridge on plain black cardstock.

Hope you like him!

Cheers!

D.

First blog hop!

WOW, I've just gone on my first 'blog hop' along the Flaunt It Friday's design team - some very talented ladies there, that's for sure!

I think I might go and get creative for the next hour and a half, and then pile into bed.  I may be able to post something, but then again, I might not!

D.