One Little Monkey Hanging From a Vine

This project came about as a request from my sweet sister-in-law. She sent me a picture of a monkey wind  twister and wanted to know if I could make something similar to it with my Gypsy. Here is what I came up with:

This thing is really LONG, it is about 2 1/2 to 3 feet long (maybe longer, I still need to measure it). It has two intersecting tree limbs, a long swirly vine and a double sided monkey stamped with darling Peachy Keen Stamps all interconnected with baker's twine.

This was A LOT of fun to make. I will definitely be making more in the future.

Here is a picture of the original inspiration. I changed some things up just by personal preference.

And here is the cute little double sided monkey again! I wanted to submit this for the Scrappy Mom's Create a Critter challenge.

Items Used:

Create a Critter Cricut cartridge
Don Juan Cricut cartridge
Cappuccino Twine from The Twinery
Peachy Keen Stamps - Everyday Character Face Parts
Peachy Keen Stamps - Basic Paper Doll Faces
Black Zig Marker
Sakura White Gellyroll pen

Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge 29

For this challenge, Peachy Keen wanted to see our favorite yummy summer BBQ or picnic recipe! And they wanted us to feature it as a recipe card! This was a fun challenge. My Mom has a super yummy macaroni salad and I thought this would be fun to make and add to a scrapbook layout later. I have to thank my husband for helping to pump my creative juices for this.


I wanted Mr and Mrs Macaroni having a picnic to be the theme for the recipe card. This is actually a recipe card pouch. You pull on the sunshine and get the recipe.


I used my GYPSY and a whole bunch of cartridges for this. I also used the Peachy Keen Stamps Critter Faces for the faces.

Here is a final picture with the recipe card pulled all the way out.

NSD Challenge #10 "May Day"

This challenge was to make something with flowers or something springy. I tried to incorporate both.

This is a candy bar wrapped with floral scrapbook paper. I stamped a butterfly on a circle cut from Mini Monograms along with a scallop circle from mini monograms. I tied ribbon around it and added the thanks sentiment (it is from the Don Juan cartridge).

NSD Challenge #2 "Getting Scrappy"

This challenge was to use our scraps. I have tons of scraps and always like to look for ways to use them. Here is my card for this challenge I made an envelope to match too:


These papers came from my scrap pile and the thanks sentiment is from the Don Juan cartridge and I did some doodling with a Sakura white gel pen.

Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge 26

It is time for another Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge. For this challenge we were supposed to make a card that contained the following items:

1. Stitching (either by sewing needle or hand-drawn)
2. White and Orange (card could have more colors, but must include these two in the card)
3. Contain one upcycled item (something that could be thrown away but instead will make its way onto your work of art!)
4. Any Peachy Keen Stamp
Here is my card:I used Peachy Keen Stamps set PK-M16 You are my sunshine. Isn't it such a cute set? I colored it with my Prismacolor pencils and then I blended them. I designed the card on my Gypsy. The circle and the sentiment rectangles are from George, the scalloped circle is from Mini Monograms, and the card is from Don Juan (it is on the stitched function key). I hand sewed around the card and added some ribbon as well. My upcycled item was actually part of a cardboard box we were going to throw out. I used the cardboard to pop up my sentiment and the sunshine instead of using pop dots.

GR8 2B 33!

My incredible husband just celebrated his 33rd birthday. He is REALLY into collecting and entering My Coke Rewards points. So my little girl had a plan, she wanted to make her daddy's birthday theme using powerade caps. She is SO cute and VERY creative. She gathered some powerade caps and we made a little box for them. (We used tags bags & boxes cricut cartridge for the box and the tag, Sans serif is for the font which we welded using the Gypsy, the circle caps on the sides were cut from a a blackout tag from tags bags and boxes too). According to my dd the sides of the box had to have 'caps' with codes on them, this evolved into the theme for my dh's birthday GR82B33.


Here is the card my daughter made for her daddy (notice the black cap & code):




Here is the birthday card and cake I made him (the card is SUPER simple and the cake would have been better if we would have remembered that we were out of ingredients for the frosting. Oh well, we had fun making it and he enjoyed it too and I guess that is what matters most). We used Don Juan for the font (I don't have the Cricut Create machine that Don Juan comes with but I was able to get it with reward points from Cricut rewards). It is a fun cartridge.

My Pink Stamper Designer Entries

Well I didn't make the My Pink Stamper design team, but I wasn't really counting on it either. My style is quite simple. I don't have a lot of time for crafting but I love to do it and so I thought I would give the design team a try. I was really excited that Emma (My Creative Time) is on the team. I really love her work. I don't know any of the others, but I can't wait to see what they have to share. Well here are my entries.







Have a happy weekend everyone!!!

A little CARD time!

In December and January I was on a tight schedule which ended up putting me on a card making drought. I'm happy to say a little free time has come back during the month of February and the drought is over. A group of ladies at my church were getting together to make cards. I made a few simple cards to help them get their creative juices flowing.





That little flower was fun, but next time I think I will go with a two tone flower to make it pop a little more.



I like how the spring green and pink look together. Yay for spring.