Give a man a lawn mower and can (or 8) of spray paint...

... and you end up with a Jack-o-lawntern!

Mojo Monday inspired

Boy it seems like I'm making cards like there is no tomorrow anymore. A co-worker is having surgery soon and I wanted a card that we could all send to him. Argh, yes, the dreaded masculine card. So I headed out to my favorite websites to find some inspiration and decided to use Mojo Monday this time. I love this argyle paper from DCWV. I've used it on several cards and I think it goes well on a masculine card. I just had to make one little change to one of my Stampin' Up stamps to remove the I and hand-insert "We". Fortunately I was able to put it together in minutes and still make the Cricut class tonight.

Oh, and I should add that my helpers were quiet tonight. Tigger has adopted the extra chair in my craft room and Chewie found a hidey hole in the entertainment center (or maybe I should call it scrapbooking center since it only houses my scrapbooking stashes now?).

One last thing, it seems that no matter where Matt leaves his jersey, Tigger finds it and camps out. Maybe he's dreaming of the 'hawks bringing home the Memorial Cup? Considering they are 10-2, at the top of the WHL US Division and have the most points of any team in the whole league, that dream may become a reality.

Marine word book

Here's a word book I designed in Inkscape this weekend and cut with my Cricut for a friend. She's off to visit her daughter, the Marine, over the Christmas holidays so I thought she needed place to put the picutres she'll take.

Clean & Simple inspired

So I've needed to make a get well soon card for my cousin Teresa for a couple of days, but I just couldn't find any inspiration. So tonight I was trolling the craft blogs looking for something to jump start me when I came across the current sketch on Clean & Simple. It did the trick and I immediately knew what I was going to do. I ran my paper through the printer for the sentiment (using Walt Disney Script of course) then cut the paper to size and ran it through the Sizzix with a couple of Cuttlebug embossing folders to add a little texture. Then a coordinating Mickey shoe yellow ribbon (although I wish I had the wider ribbon in this color - maybe next Michael's trip) and cut a cute Mickey with the Cricut Mickey and Friends cart. With a pop dot, he was done. Finally I cut a "get well soon" sentiment from an svg I picked up from someone's site for the inside and, viola, card done. Of course, I can't fail to credit the big helper I had too.