A different colour Pallette for me today.

I've been trying to get to all of my pads of beautiful paper that have sat unopened and unused because they are just too darn pretty. I bit the bullet and ripped all sorts of paper out and started cutting, and gluing, and I-rocking, and embossing....a whole lot of product went on this card - and here it is!

Have a great night everyone - I'm off to bed *yawn*

Wishing for Spring

I still have many more months of winter ahead of me - and spring is all I can think about.

It looks as though my spring fever has also leeched it's way into my birthday card as well :)

I used my Gypsy for this card.
I used WildCard for the card base, used some Stampin' Up stamps for the sentiment.
Got out my Irock and Cuttlebug and went to town on those butterflies and the front of the card.

Hope I brought you a little bit of spring today. :)


Magoo.

Short and Sweet Valentine Blog Hop!!!!

Hello!!  If you're participating in the Short and Sweet Blog hop you are in the right place!  You should be arriving here from Love to Create Cards by Steph

I am stop #6 on this weekend blog hop, below is a complete list of all the wonderful blogs you have and will be visiting:

http://www.217Creations.blogspot.com - 217 Creations by Elizabeth

http://crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com - Crazy About Cricut by Jenny

http://lvscrappin.blogspot.com - Bling Queen by Wendy

http://www.thebugbytes.com - The Bug Bytes by Pam

http://lovetocreatecards.blogspot.com - Love To Create Cards by Steph

http://cricutinspiration.blogspot.com - Design Create Inspire by Myamagoo*right here!*

http://scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com - Scrappin' My Stress Away by Lori

http://sweetsassydiva-gspot.blogspot.com - Sweet Sassy Diva by Bobbi Jo

Valentine's Day is the theme, anything goes.  After thinking about a project to make, I decided my house was lacking in the Valentines Day decoration department.  I came up with a very girly, very 'blingy' Valentines Day Banner (or some people call them bunting?).

A few things about this project:

1) All the pattern paper I used in this project I designed (yay me!)

2) I have a giveaway posted at the end of this blog post

3) I will be sharing this file with all of my wonderful followers (gotta love it when someone does the work for ya right? :)
4)  I used Cindy Lou (for the font), Hannah Montana (for the hearts) and Tie the Knot(triangles) for this project.  If you don't have Hannah Montana feel free to delete those hearts, and substitute hearts you do have on your gypsy.

And away we go!

I started off by getting all my paper out and placed on my mats.  I used 12x12 mats for this project.

Once cut out I laid everything out to see how it all looked before I started gluing (a very hard lesson to learn, it took me some time lol).

Everything looked great, so I glued my scallop borders onto my base triangles.

Next I ran the letters through my cuttlebug machine, I used the swiss dots folder

This project sort of evolved and grew as I went along.  I found the letters to be sort of 'blah' and didn't really pop enough.  Out came my pop dots lol!!

I still found them 'blah' and I love glittery sparkly thingies, plus my rhinestones and Irock wanted to come out and play.   How could I say no?   I would NEVER have attempted gluing down all those by hand - my Irock is the bomb!! Took me 10 minutes to do all the letters (I just used the dots from the embossing as my template).

I forgot to take a pic, but at this point I got some red paper and some of my patterned paper, popped it into in the cricut and cut out 6 hearts really quick (3 full hearts and 3 with a cutout). The pic below shows how I glued the red heart down (after I ran it through the cuttlebug first).  Then I folded the other heart in half and glued it along the spine.   I held it in place for a little bit and it voila - instant dimension :)

Got my Cropodile out and punched some holes in each corner so I can thread these and hang them up later :)

What's this?!?!  'blah' hearts?  no way!!....get the Irock!!  

p.s.  TULIP  rhinestones (found in Walmart) work fabulously (is that a word?) with the Irock and at a fraction of the price!  I found I just needed to hold it a touch longer - does anyone else like the smell it makes when you're melting the glue?  or am I just weird? :)

Next up was to string all my pretty triangles up on some metallic cording.  Then I dug through my ribbon ball (notice I didn't say extremely organized ribbon box?) and snipped away.  Then I just tied, and tied, and fluffed and fluffed until the ribbon looked ok.

And here it is hung up and looking so festive :)  Mini Magoo just loves it and wants these EVERYWHERE in the house.....oh my, I've created a monster :)

There you have it folks!!  Thank you so much for stopping by :)  

Don't be shy!! Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think (I really do want to know, I'm curious and nosy like that)

Now, your next stop will be at:  Scrappin' My Stress Away

Wait!!  If you've just happened to stop by today and aren't yet participating in the blog hop this weekend - Jump right on over to where it all starts ---*  217 Creations  *--- there are some fantastic giveaways, gorgeous projects and lots of fun to be had!

As promised, a link to where you can download the Be Mine Valentine Garland.  **Important** this file will arrive in a COMPRESSED (zip) format.  This is a new method of delivering my files to you, it became necessary to include my copyright and terms of use within the download.  Once you've decompressed the file you will have 2 documents.  Please read the Terms of use document - just use your wordpad or text editor(for mac users).  You will also find the .gypsy file in there too :)  enjoy!

Magoo-Be Mine-Gypsy File

Still here?  GOOD!!  Were you paying attention?  If so you should be looking for a giveaway..... :) :)

How does the cricut cartridge

sound?  Pretty good?  ho hum? Blah?   Well............

How about I also include the digital patterned papers I used in this project?

One of a kind, never seen before patterned paper designed in 8.5x11 so you don't need a special printer in order to use it!  

I've designed 5 special co-coordinating papers (plus for those digi scrappers out there I'll put in an extra little surprise for use in Photoshop and Elements) just for this blog hop!

Just be sure to leave me a comment and how I can reach you - of course followers are ALWAYS welcome :)   GOOD LUCK!!!

~MAGOO~

poor Chester.....I'm at it again!

*This is a duplicate post - original post can be found at Tuesday Treats*

Hi Everyone!!!  Myamagoo here with my take on page 126 of Tags, Bags, Boxes and More.

I've never used this cut before and wasn't really sure what to do with it.  

Then one day in the mail not that long ago - I received a package from our very own SASSYLADY.

Once I opened the package and saw all the colourful feathers in there I KNEW what I was going to do with them :)

I started with designing the cake box using the blackout feature so I would only have score marks (to help guide me on where to fold).  For this project I thought I would keep the project to a 12x12 mat....however you could easily expand this and make it much larger for whatever you need.

Here is the cake box after all scoring and folding has been done.

Next I cut out patterned paper to dress up the cake box a bit.

Then I adhered those pieces to my cake box and drew lines with a white pen to mimc stitching (sadly I don't own a sewing machine).  Then used a pushpin to add some holes to try and make it look more realistic.  Not sure if I accomplished that or not :)

Next it was time to add my favourite red WACKY TACKY TAPE ~ this is the best tape to put boxes together with (in my opinion) as I don't own an ATG gun.

Once the tape was peeled off and I put the box together it was time to do something with the top of the box.  I know that normally people tend to make this cut look just like a piece of cake, but I really wanted to use those feathers that Chester donated (Sassylady I'm calling the SPCA on you - he needs those feathers - look at the vest he has to wear now!).

I digress, I wanted to make a nest and decided to make my own.  I used a branch from the cartridge that started it all (Straight from the Nest) and welded it together to make my nest.

This branch comes with leaves to fit by using the shift feature and voila! Perfect leaves for the branches.  I cut everything out all at one time - so convenient ~ JUST make sure you place your mat in the right DIRECTION....don't ask....lets just say I used more paper than I needed to because I wasn't paying attention lol!

Next I wanted to run the leaves through my cuttlebug - and you got it - I used Swiss Dots again  :) :)

After gluing all the leaves onto the branches, I started adding pop dots to my branches to add some height to the nest that is going to sit on top.

Once I had layered all 4 welded branches onto the top of the box, I got out poor Chester's feathers and slid them in underneath and in between openings in the branches.  Don't they make a lovely home for those Cadbury mini eggs??  (those eggs didn't last long after the photo shoot! yummy!_

Just a couple more pics of Chester's feathers ~ isn't he and SASSYLADY so kind? :) :) :)

Thanks for joining us today at Tuesday Treats (and Thursday too!).  Be sure to come back THIS THURSDAY to be dazzled by our favorite layout design genius SASSYLADY!!!

Gypsy File will be available on my BLOG for downloading - it is a 3 page file and uses Gypsy wanderings for the pieces on the sides of the box, as well as branches from Straight from the Nest.

Gypsy file available for download HERE

I am a MAC user and unable to provide a DS version.

Ruffles......and a very late shout out to Cher B!!!

First of all I would like to say what an AMAZING job CHER did on her Tuesday Treats project!! I was totally blown away and I feel so awful that I didn't get a chance to comment on her adorable bags!! CHER they are the BEST!!! do you hear me?? the BEST!!!! :):)

Second of all.....I left this project to the absolute LAST minute...and I mean LAST....as I type this blog post it is 11:55pm on a Monday evening and I should be in bed :) That being said I still wanted to try and get this out somewhat on time.....sorry for the delay!!!! This working for a living thing....geez......

My mission....should I choose to accept it is to create a purse from page 116 from Tags Bags Boxes and More.  I'm so glad I did!!  I DID NOT know this purse had the cutest little strap on it to do it up :)  how sweet is that!?

Here's what I came up with folks :)

Oh don't you just LOVE ruffles????  Here is how I did it:

Now to put this cute little purse together.....

Start by laying out all your paper on your cutting mat - for those of you that are new:  Remember to count how many squares your image takes up on your Gypsy screen as this corresponds to the squares on your cutting mat.  You will get correct paper placement every time if you follow that tip :)

Next you will cut it either page 1 or page 2 - you can only cut 1 page at a time with this file.

Then go ahead and cut the second page once you get your paper on :)

Once you have everything cut out you can either start with scoring your purse, or you can assemble your little butterfly shaker.  I decided to start scoring my purse.

When scoring....take your time to do this as accurately as you can.  A well scored purse will result in a purse or box that assembles nicely, all edges line up properly and there aren't any smushed pieces of paper anywhere :)

And here she is all ready for assembly....

As you can see from the picture all the lines have been scored and the purse is starting to take shape.  So BEFORE I glue the purse together I decided to start 'threading' my ribbon through my slots.  I just went back out one side and brought the ribbon back in through the SAME slot to get a ruffle on the outside.  Then I just moved up to the next slot with my ribbon from the INSIDE of the purse.  Just work your way up and take the time to try and keep your ruffles even....this part takes patience :)

But if you do it right ~ you end up with this :     :) :)

also if you look closely you can see that I just brought my ribbon right around to the other side on the bottom.  It looks very pretty and you don't have to glue anything down.

Once you have your ribbon threaded, just get out your trusty WACKY TACKY TAPE and glue down those folds on the inside of your purse.  Now I haven't found anything better than this stuff to hold purses together....so if you have something that you absolutely SWEAR by - please let me know :)

Once your purse is together you can move on to making your butterfly shaker and the front of the purse.

Remember that piece of purse that we pushed off the mat just to get the front piece?  Go and grab that and get your exacto knife out too :)  Using your ruler (cause I know my hand is NOT steady at all) and trim off all the excess pieces of the purse.  That would be the tabs and the little pieces right at the bottom.

Just set the patterned paper aside for a little bit and grab your 3 butterfly cutouts and your clear transparency sheet (yay I still remembered what it's called!).  Take 1 at a time and glue them on top of eachother.  Your making a butterfly sandwich :)  Once you have them all glued together stick down your transparency sheet on top (this is going to be the top of your shaker and also the side you glue your patterned paper onto.

Be sure to do a good job gluing all around the edges....you don't want any little beads getting out!!!  They are a pain!

Here is the back of the shaker piece.  As you can see I've glued it to the patterned paper and have added a clear window on the back too.  I decided this was necessary after I had designed it on my G - I will add the extra piece in the file.  I also went ahead and cut out a rectangle in white cardstock and ran it through the cuttlebug.

I thought this would look a lot nicer than just a boring orange background behind the beads.  I used my all time fav- swiss dots for the embossing.....I just might have to buy another one it is so well used! lol!

That's it!  Once you have the front all glued together and it's dry - go ahead and glue it to the front of your purse.  You can take a hole punch and punch a much smaller hole (than what the cartridge had on it) for your brad to fit through.  Just use the hole that is on the inside of the purse as a guide.  Insert your brad and TA DA!!  Finished!!!  Not as hard as it looks eh????

Now go and find your FAV gems and glitter and pearls...whatever is your go to embelly and get to work dressing up that gorgeous butterfly :)

Love this pic....it really shows how well the cuttlebugging adds to the background of the shaker.  Gotta love that BLING too ;)

oooohhhhhh RUFFLES!!!

Well, there you have it.....my take on page 116 of Tags Bags Boxes and More.....what do you think?

A hit or miss?

As soon as I get home from work tonight I will upload the gypsy file so you can all download it and take a look at the measurements.  I figured I didn't need to add it in the post :)

HAVE A GREAT DAY!!!  KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED I FINISH WORK ON TIME TONIGHT! LOL!!! :) :)