My Heroes

For my son's 12th birthday me and his dad took him to Alton Towers amusement park.  It was a fun packed, stomach churning day.  My two brave boys went on Oblivion - I held the coats :) 

Life's a beach

I took this picture on New Brighton beach in Merseyside.  In the middle, if you look very closely, you can see my mum and my nephew.  The panoramic effect is done with a clever iPhone app.

Juicy

I really loved this card when I made it with solid coloured Bazzill card so I thought I'd have a go using patterned papers - I think it looks really good, I much prefer this to my original attempt.  The papers are from Basic Grey's Lemonade collection (6x6 pad).  I stamped the phrase using alphabet stamps and brown ink on Sour Apple Bazzill card. The cut is from Cricut's Country Life cartridge. 

Rock n Roll, baby!

These cards are made from the Rock Princess Cricut cartridge.  I am really liking the cutesy look but with attitude - cherry skulls, OMG -  I'm in love. 

The characters on this cartridge work well as shaped cards.

Even this sweet little strawberry card was made with a cut from the Rock Princess cartridge.

Suzel has left the building :)

Shaping up nicely

Here are a few more shaped cards I made using the shadow feature on the Country Life Cricut cartridge.

I think the cherries are sweet but I wish I had used softer greens for the pea pod.  Oh, maybe I should mention the size, these are about 6-7 inches tall.

The really nice thing about these cards is, when they are on the shelf, they don't look like a card; they could sit there looking pretty long after the event they were given for.

Rosey red yumminess

I made this shaped card using the Cricut Country Life cartridge.  The shaped card is made using the shadow feature cut twice and then glued at the leaf with the crease being in the back half of the card.  I used American Crafts paper for the apples and Echo Park paper for the tag.  I am rather pleased with this card; yup, I love my Cricut ;)

My new Cricut

Here she is, I think I will call her Fred :)