Digital HELLO THURSDAY Cricut Craftroom Exclusives

Hello Everyone!!

Have you discovered Cricut Craftroom yet?  It's FREE!  You can design with it on any computer that has access to the internet!  Like the gypsy, you will only be able to cut with cartridges that you already own, but there's a bonus... you can NOW purchase DIGITAL images and packages, too!

Provo Craft released 5 sets of digital images a couple of days ago and here they are:

Now don't those look like fun!?!  Click on CCR for more information about the Cricut Craftroom.  Have fun!!

Creatively yours,

Tammy

Hello Everyone!!

Anybody remember the Cricut Lite JOLLY HOLIDAYS from last year?  It's a great cartridge if you were lucky enough to get it!  I just checked and it looks like it is 'out of stock' everywhere.  Except I did find it here:

AMAZON.COM (only 2 left)   $59
SEW, CRAFT & HOBBY STORE  $49

If you have this cartridge for sale or you know of someone/somewhere that has it for sale.... please leave that information in the comments of this post.

Here is a goody box that I made with the JOLLY HOLIDAYS cartridge:

Happy Holidays!

SUPPLIES

Plain kraft gable box

1 - 12x12 Black & Kraft Ribbon Stripe

1 - 12x12 Kraft & Red Mini Dot Reverse

1 12x12 Kraft & Green Mini Dots

1 12x12 White Core'dinations

1 - 12x12 Black Core'dinations

18" Black satin ribbon

Permanent markers (black & blue)

Yellow slick paint

TOOLS

Cricut Machine

(this is a perfect job for the baby bug too!)

Cutting mat

Cricut Lite JOLLY HOLIDAYS Cartridge

Martha Stewart border punch - ZigZag

Scissors

Adhesive

Pop Dots

'HAPPY HOLIDAYS" cut at 2"

"CHRISTMAS TREE"  cut at 5"

'ELF STRINGING LIGHTS' cut at 5"

The tag actually has a tag shape that I chose not to cut

because I wanted to use it more like a label than a tag.

"TO/FROM TAG" cut at 2.5"

I just love this stocking... so fun and oh so easy!

"STOCKING" cut at 4"

I love decorating gable boxes and they make the cutest containers for all sorts of homemade goodies!  Here is another one that I decorated for cookies...

Used HELLO KITTY GREETINGS & HELLO KITTY FONT to decorate this box.

I haven't picked out this year's cookie recipe yet, but last

year's cookies were these yummy Chocolate Cherry Cookies:



CHOCOLATE CHERRY COOKIESIngredients:1 cup butter
2 egg
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
2 cup white sugar
1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
3 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1 (10 ounce) jar maraschino cherries

Directions:1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).

2. Beat butter and sugar. Add egg and vanilla and beat well. Add dry ingredients and stir until smooth.
3. Roll into 1-inch balls about the size of a walnut (larger if desired). Place on ungreased cookie sheet.
4. Drain cherries and reserve juice. Press center of each ball with thumb. Place a cherry in indentation.
5. In a saucepan, heat condensed milk and chocolate chips until chips are melted. Stir in 4 teaspoons of cherry juice. Spoon about 1 teaspoon of mixture over each cherry and spread to cover cherry. (More cherry juice may be added to keep frosting of spreading consistency.)
6. Bake for 10 minutes. Makes 2 dozen cookies

NOW HOW ABOUT A GIVEAWAY!!

My bestie, Myrel of SASSY CHIC DESIGNS has graciously donated a personalized gypsy bag to a lucky winner this week!!!

Just leave a comment on all of this week's posts for a chance to win!!  I will draw the winner and announce it next Monday!!  Good luck everyone!

Creatively yours,

Tammy

ART PHILOSOPHY: 'Let the Vacation Begin' LO

Hello Everyone!!!

Can you believe that it is December already!!  Wow!!  I'm so totally NOT ready for Christmas!  Anyone with me?  I have had alot going on this year with a BIG move to California and many other things both personally and professionally.  Well, I'm gonna end this crazy year with another big move BACK to Texas.  Crazy, I know, but you know I like to keep everyone on their toes and always guessing, "Where's Tammy now!".  LOL!  Speaking of traveling... I had the pleasure of cropping with one of my besties, Myrel last weekend.  She and I are working on our Cruise/Disney World vacation books, so we made this layout using ART PHILOSOPHY:

"LET THE VACATION BEGIN"

1 - 12X12 patterned paper

2 - 12x12 Sage green cardstock

2 - 12x12 white cardstock

1 - 12x12 mustard cardstock

1 - 12x12 olive cardstock

white gel pen

chocolate cateye stamp pad

ART PHILOSOPHY Cricut Cartridge

DESIGNER CALENDAR Cricut Cartridge (word 'Vacation')

DON JUAN Cricut Cartridge (words 'Let/the/begin')

My bestie had these Jolee's stickers in her stash and we thought it would be great to use them for this layout.  Frames and shapes cut with your cricut is a great way to display random stickers on a page.

I love to frame photos with the postage stamp shape.  Ink your edges and add a little embellishment with a white gel pen and your good to go.

Another shape from the ART PHILOSOPHY cartridge.  This has fast become my new favorite cartridge, it is so versatile.  Remember that it is an exclusive to CLOSE TO MY HEART, so contact your CTMH rep to buy this one, OR you can get it from my friend, MELANIE BROWN.  The title was done on my gypsy using DON JUAN and DESIGNER'S CALENDAR.

Love my white gel pen!

Take care everyone!!!  Hope your day is a great one. 

Creatively yours,

Tammy