Here is our February Card project.

I just love this Irish Blessing I found on line. I don't really believe in luck although I am Irish. But I do believe through prayer God will bless us. So, I used this Irish Blessing or Prayer for the focal point of our St. Patrick's Day card.

I cut this cute card base from Cricut cartridge "Bridal Shower" (events cartridge). It has this lace look that I love. I framed the Irish Blessing prayer a couple of times. I found some cute clover ribbon at Jo-Anns' and attached it down the side next to that cute lace cut on front of the card.

Then I used Paper Doll Dress Up (one of my most used and favorite cartridges) and cut the clovers out of green and green glitter paper (also used on the framing), and layered the larger and one small one and then put two small ones and added green pearl sticker beads. The clovers were attached with foam squares. I cut them in half which works fine and saves money. You girls know I am all about saving money.

Here is the card and the envelope that you can cut from this same cartridge. It also has that cute lace edge. I did not show the inside, but I took some patterned green paper and cut 1/4 inch smaller than the inside of the card and it shows up behind the lace cutout (very cute) than I cut a piece of white card stock and made sure it did not hang over and show through the lace. And I used that for the space to put your own words. I added an large and small cover to the left top of the inside to top off this adorable card. I really had fun with this card. I hope you love it.
Marye Bird
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February "Craft & Crop"

Ok, I know you ladies are waiting to see what we will be working on for February and here is the pages. Remember we work a month in advance, so we will be doing our St. Patrick's Day page and I have not yet finished the craft and card yet. But as soon as I do I will post it.

 I was inspired by this wooden wall plaque I found at Jo-Ann's in the seasonal section. I came home and starting thinking of ways I could recreate this cute Angel using my Cricut and other supplies I had on hand. And her it is. It came out so cute.

I used some glitter paper I thought I would never use. I used my favorite Martha Stewart punch, I had to draw freehand the angels dress I could not find a similar cut in any of the cartridges I owned. I cut white clovers and used my Sizzix Texture Boutique and textured them and then used an ink pad of green for one and rust for the one hanging from the angel. I used green around the phrase "Irish Blessings" and punched holes in each hand and the clover, ran a string through all and used a green bead to keep the string from pulling through. I took the scraps from the glitter paper and cut the diamond shape designs out and glued them along the bottom of the dress. She has a halo of white glitter paper and I used scraps for the trim on her sleeves.

I used green ink around the phrase "Irish Blessings" and punched holes in each hand and the clover, ran a string through all and used a green bead to keep the string from pulling through. I took the scraps from the glitter paper and cut the diamond shape designs out and glued them along the bottom of the dress. She has a halo of white glitter paper and I used scraps for the trim on her sleeves. She has goggle eyes and a sheer ribbon bow at the neck.

 

 

Page two, I used some last years clover ribbon that was just waiting in my ribbon box. I made a smaller version of the angel head, hair and sleeves, attached them above the picture frame. I found this darling Irish Blessing and framed it a couple of times. Cut out letters for St. Patrick's Day and framed it and them placed the other white clover.

 

 

Here is a view of the hanging clover

Here is a view of the smaller angel over the picture frame on page two.

I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did creating it. Join me and the other ladies at February's "Craft & Crop" at Jo-Ann's in Hurst. It is across from the North East Mall. You can sign up over the phone if you can't get in. But remember the spots go fast and they are limited. Hope to see you there.

Marye Bird

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January "Craft & Crop" at Jo-Anns'

 

Januarys' "Craft & Crop" was so great! I wanted to share a couple photos. This is the new education classroom at my Jo-Ann's in Hurst. and we take up the whole room.

 

Here are some of the ladies who love to join me here once a month to create a two page scrapbook kit that I create for them.

 

 We also will put together a card for the same theme for that month.



 The ladies also get to create a craft that goes with what ever theme we are working on. We have so much fun.

 Each lady brings a dish that they want to share with everyone. Some will print the recipe so if you really enjoyed a dish you can recreate it at home. We all have fun visiting with each other. When they are finished with crafts we can go shopping. The store closes at 9:00pm and we are there till 11:45pm so they have the store to themselves and enjoy walking around together shopping with no lines to stand in, we treat them like royalty. You can come and be a fun part of the evening. Call and sign up spaces are limited. The next date is , Saturday February the 23rd. 6pm-12am. Hope to see you then!

Marye Bird

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Valentine "Craft & Crop" pages

I could not get my blog to post photos when it was time to share this page, but I wanted to share it anyways. This was the free page kit that was given to all who attended our once a month "Craft & Crop" for January at Jo-Ann's in Hurst.

 

 



 

Hope you enjoyed this one too.

 

Marye Bird

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" Love Is In The Air"

This is the the theme for our next Just-a-scrappin Design Team project.
I just created this Valentine card for my ladies for our Valentine "Craft & Crop" night at Jo-Ann's. They loved it, hope you like it to. You can change it up to what ever design you like.

This is a Gate fold card with a elegant double band around it.

 Inside is a pink and white frame where you add your message. Stamping was added to the bottom of the white layer before it was added to the card.

The band has two layers. The first layer of dark pink was folded around the card and glued . the second layer is lighter pink and slightly thinner and the heart stamp was applied across the bottom and turned and applied to the top also. Then just free cut around the hearts as shown here. Now fold it around the dark pink band and glue. A piece of ribbon of your choice is added around the whole band and glued. Then for the center it is 5 of the heart punches glued on a small circle and then the gray and pink circles were added and finished with a pearl. This cool stamp is from Inkadinkado it is a double heart design and the pigment ink pad is from Hampton art. This is a class you can take at Jo-Ann's for February there are a couple of other crafts done in this class too. Check it out. Saturday during Open House you can get the class at 50% off. Hope you enjoyed this project. I enjoyed creating it. I have not worked much with stamps so this was fun for me. Thanks for joining me again.
Marye Bird
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Original Cricut Expressions Machine

Price:$199.99


Some of you ladies know how much I love the Cricut Expressions and we don't have the machine at Jo-Ann's at this time. But you can get them elsewhere. I found this sale in my email. It is from Cricut.com. This is a website that carries a lot of Provo Craft products. They have the Pink Cricut Expressions that was designed to support Cancer Research. You get the two normal cartridges that I received with my machine and in addition you get a special cartridge called Journy, that you can only get with the pink machine. It is priced at $199.99. You also get two mats instead of the one 1 I got with my machine. And you get a pack of Vinal. I printed the add details.  You can go there to their site and order it. Craig's List, EBay and Amazon, are some other places you can go. There are still some stores who carry them too. There are some other online stores who carry then. Just Google it and they will come up. I have seen them for $169.00 on some of the sites. I know some of the Walmarts still carry them. If you have any questions about the machine or want to learn how to use the many buttons etc. I have a 2 hour class for called "Cricut Workshop" for $5.00 at Jo-Anns' in Hurst where I teach and show you all the great things you can do with your machine and give you some cool tools to use with it. The Cricut is not just a Scrapbooking tool as some think. I use this machine for  so many craft projects, school projects, cards, Girl Scout projects etc.

 

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Marye Bird
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Look what you can do with a Mistake!

Over at Just-a-scrappin.com, they asked us members of the Design Team to create something for Christmas but not to use the traditional colors of red or Green. Here is what I made by accident while I was trying to print these cute pictures of a Snow Friends, I ran out of ink and printed two pages of them but in Black & White for our last  "Craft & Crop" night card project. I was going to through them away. But, when I was asked to make something with out green or red, the idea came to me to recycle these instead of discarding them. And here is what I came up with. They came out so cute!

I cut out the Black & White Snow friends pictures and framed them using scraps from black , white and glitter paper from Martha Stewarts' Birthday Party pack. Then I created 4 1/2 X 5 1/2 (A2) cards I cut out of left over card stock from Cloud9 Specialty pack. I found a darling quote and printed it from my computer, cut it out and framed it in black. Aren't they adorable? So, you can recycle those mistakes and make them beautiful gifts.  Hope you enjoyed this as much as I did.
Marye Bird
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