Baby George's Ice Cream

I used the Sweet Treats and Platin Schoolbook Cricut cartridges, vinyl & Ice Stickles to personalize Baby George's ice cream container.  The container is from Amazon "Zak Designs" under $12.  It holds 1 pint - which is perfect for my ice cream machine and it has a gel lid that when frozen keeps your ice cream frozen up to 90 min.  Pefect for picnics and BBQs. 

Step by Step Memo Board for Georgie

Follow along as I walk you step by step through creating a Memo Board.  This particular one I made for my friend Rachel's new baby boy's room.  (if you scroll down you can see a picture of another memo board I made "the Rooster board" earlier this year - back in February.)

Here's the materials & tools you will need:
1 - 18"x24" Stretched Canvas
Batting (I used Soft & Lofty hi-loft batting from Joanne's)
Material of your choice (I used a quilted fabric) minimum of 30" x 22"
Ribbon to match your color scheme - I always by 3 spools of 3 yards - I've been using 3/8" however, it's really a matter of preference on the look.
5-7 buttons
Staple gun
2 saw tooth picture hangars
hammer
needle and matching embroidery floss




and for the final steps :)

Father's Day Card and Envelope (with gift card holder)

Here's a card I made for my Dad this year and a matching envelope I created using Hallmark Card Studio 2010.  It's a full-sized greeting card and on the inside I used the EK Success "photo corner" punch to hold the gift card.  For the envelope you can get a great looking design by layering shapes. 

Clear Stamp Storage and Brother p-touch labelmaker demo

I'm sure there are more professional ways to store your clear stamps, but, I was desparate to get semi-organized :)

Mom's 2010 Card

Here's the card I made for my mom this year.

Cricut Mat Cleaning Tip...

Do you have one of those handy 3M lint rollers laying around? I was cleaning the lint off my coat the other day and I had a light bulb moment... this might just work to clean up those little "leave behinds" on my cricut mat. You know those nagging little tiny pieces of paper that are a pain to remove? Try this method, I think you'll like it. I think you can get a 5-pack of these for about $15 at Amazon and it might be even cheaper at Costco or Sam's club when they have them.

Do you ever want to just check out all the Cricut images before you buy?

Hi everyone - as you might have noticed I've been on vacation. I'm back and haven't made a new video, but I thought I'd share this tip.

If you want to check out the images on a new cartridge (or an old one)before you purchase it, just go to this link http://www.cricut.com/information/cartridge_library.aspx

You can view or download the pdf file for the handbook and then page through the entire booklet to see everything.

I love this! In fact I download the handbooks and save them to my laptop so I don't have to drag out the handbooks all the time.

Now you don't have to wonder what you can cut while you wait for your cartridges to arrive. You will know exactly which image you want to cut first. Happy Crafting:)
Twila