Bee Friends

 

I cased these bees from a Punch art Bee box made by Heather I did not need the boxes as I was doing this for a circle journal but Idecided to do concetina bits like a box behind so I could put the black stripes down the side and make it look more like a bee. When you open the page they seem to pop out at you which is kinda cute. will now have to do some more so I have a variety. Love the flower on the lady bee and my invention of a top hat on the drone.

Vintage male ATC

this is the Vintage MAle ATC I have done for CA

Easter Basket

One of the people who should have received an Easter basket didn't receive it and when chatting on the Thursday after Easter she was somewhat disappointed. I said don't worry I will send you one so I commenced this and sent it the next day. She will have to wait a few days as the post said it would take 1-3 working days and I only posted on Friday.

I used the Cricut Imagine Tags Bags Boxes and more 2 cartridge to make the cup and saucer and then colour added with the Imagine, the lattice basket was made from cricut cardstock which is 2 shades of Purple D's favourite colour. The card was made with the better together cartridge and the words edited in CCR.

The cup & the basket I filled with chocolate eggs. and of course had to add the chocolatte drinks.

I added purple ribbon to the basket and purple bling to the areas on the lattice and onto the handle.

I also added her a poem.
For Dee

I’m sad your Easter goodies didn’t arrive

But here’s a few things to help you survive.

There’s a basket and chocies, A handbag for you

Some are in purple as I know you love that colour too.

The card is a special one to go with the cup

And the chocolatte is cause you probably feel ‘fed up’

You put so much effort in all that you do

You don’t expect that others don’t too.

So to complete this funny little rhyme

I have spent a little time

To make for you just a few little things

And hope that this parcel travels with wings

                                                           By Flo Hill-Rennie

Bird house Pages for Circle journal

This is the pages I did for Rhonda's Circle journal. her theme is Bird Houses so I did these pages.

With this page I used the Imagine and in CCR welded the font from Songbird and filed the letters with a paper from better together printed them on cricut printable vinyl and added them to this page which was made by putting a 6x6 square with rounded edges onto the mat and filling with a background paper. If you look closely the paper is upside down, the silver filigree is stickers and the bird is a dimentional from my stash of years.

Using Lori's Garden cartridge I again did a 6x6 background paper and printed and cut the birdcages. They are dimentioned up at the bottom in 2 layers for the one on the left and the right one has extra on the top and the bottom and is tied to the branch with 4 strands of bakers twine twisted into a rope. Rhonda wanted us to put in a quote or proverb so on the bottom is written "God loved the birds and created trees, Man loved the bird and created cages. This was printed on the computer using a background in a text box.

Between the 2 pages I added a plain vellum pages so the bird cages and houses did not stick together.

The next page has the proverb- A wise old owl sat in an Oak, the more he saw the less he spoke, the less he spoke the more he heard, Why aren't we more like that wise old bird.
This bird house was made by me it sits up off the page by about 5 mm. the front is embossed with a roof and house front and the door handle is a 'Craftworkcards candi' the front embossing I have sanded to show some white core through. The hole in the birdhouse was placed so when looking in you should be able to see a little owl.

The Owl background paper is another Imagine paper and the birds also they have all been dimentioned up.

The last page is a poem I wrote about my crafty friends for the people of Crafters Anonymous who are doing the journal I will add it below. These pages have silver stickers on them just to add something to the page.

As Rhonda's theme was bird houses I tried to keep the poem in line with things birdie or use sayings related to birds. 

  Crafty Friends                                                      

I met some people today

They live so far away

But we have so much in common

We always have something to say.

The net it catches some crafty birds

The old and young alike

For a bird is known by its feathers

And in our case, by the CA web site

We are birds of a feather, when we get together

And chatter about creations we’ve made

We strut like a rooster, our creations are ducky

We not really crazy we are really lucky.

We have something worth crowing about

We have a song to sing

We are crafters of paper

and that’s a fine thing.

                                                 By Flo Hill-Rennie

Circle Journal cover

When I got the E2Aed I wantwed to try out some of the Cricut American Alphabet. I cut the individual letters with a bit of difficulty as the blade cut through one of them. I now think it was because my mat was kinked at the side. (old mat in use) Once I had the letters I wanted a background for them as per usual my projects grow like Topsy. I decided that as I couldn't get the Gypsy to design and cut a background as the Gypsy doesn't have the internal E2 carts linked (yet) I would use CricutCraftRoom and weld the shadow letters to form a circle. Well I got into CCR (well done me!) designed the letters and even got them the right size when I had forgotten what size I had cut the top ones!, and I was pretty pleased with what it seemed to be going to look like. Well my E2 had a wifi card because of the lovely person who ended up getting 3 for christmas and was prepared to send on to me in New Zealand. It had worked in the E2 that I bought but having bought the AED E2 I just swapped it over. Ohoh Oh NO! (quote taken from DGD who said this from about 12 months on). Well although I had connected the E2 the anniversary E2 didn't want to cut on wifi it kept telling me the internet was blocked. Well after thinking what haven't I done right? do I have a lemon? did they not put wifi in this one? Oh NO!.. WELL think logically like a computer.... ah went into the settings of the computer and into the wifi setup (now this is no mean feat I am a computer junkie but for programs not for the inside works) well then I chose something was wrong and the computer asked if it could fix it. I said yes and VOILA my wifi worked on my AEDE2.
WOW WEEEEE I selected the right E2 (there are now 2 in my CCR list) and chose cut!!!!!! OH OH OHH NOOOOO it says I have to put the cartridge in BUT hang on the SuperBUG on the Cricut message board said she had cut with the E2 with the internal carts and it had worked!!!! "Prayers to the one above who knows our inner most thoughts" chose cut ignore the fact that it wants a cart and tell it to cut and see if it works! YYYAAAAYYYYYY YES it did work. now its 2am by this time and I have had the gauntlet of emotions so I am very tired so I drooled over how my cut looked as it was amazing placed the cut out letters on the top and glued them on even more amaging and went to bed. I slept!!!! I have been having trouble doing that but yep slept like a baby!
Now woked somewhat refreshed and ready to start another day(well somewhat ready) Decided to ink the edges with Tim Holts disstress ink in straw and did the same for the edge of the cover. It is quite plain at the moment but I am currently very pleased with it. I may add some flowers or something but for now I am going to wallow in admiration of the technical ability of all the machines and internet and think that a machine can cut paper in New Zealand from a program in USA when it is sitting across the room from the computer and has no physical tie to it. Well done me and Cricut.

Shoes more shoes

this shoe is decorated with green rhinestones in each spot and gold glitter glue round the edges.

video of lantern