Merry Christmas

Christmas Creations

I hope you all had a great Christmas creating all sorts of new things!!  We had a great family time and I had a blast creating so many Christmas cards.  I so enjoyed making our Christmas cards this year. I make ours every year since we've been married and I love it. It seems like every year we keep adding more and more friends and family one day I think I'll have to get our cards printed instead, but for now I can still make our cards. 

You can see the different variations I made and those are only 2 of the several different ones. And it is so fun to say that every year we make cookies in a jar and give to friends in family. So simple and So fun to do this as a family activity!!  
Well I hope this inspired you to go out and do something creative!!

Booked

 Hey out there things have been going great sorry so long... I guess i'm just excited to say... we finally got things set to start making videos for this website.  I guess I've been wanting to hold back till we can air them. I will air my first scrapping video in January!! I'm so excited to bring you all fun techniques with the cricut, gypsy, cuttlebug and simply so many other things.  The lines are open to e-mail me about questions and I will do everything I can to find the answers to them.  I have already been asked to post videos about using cricut and different techniques so KEEP IT UP!!! I love requests ...

And no I have not forgotten to post the how to for the halloween card I just decided to post it up ... ON VIDEO YEAH!!!  Hopefully we can all have fun At this time I do want to post a project that I was booked on. 

My husbands job every year asks me to do something for a holiday this year they asked me to make a card.  This was no ordinary card, they wanted a 12x12 scrapbook card for the top honcho (however that's spelled). You see he is helping build a school for Haiti children and he wears the funnest socks ever.  They wanted the card to reflect that ... and this is the sock I chose!!!

Anyways I was thinking "how am i gonna do this" This is what I came up with

So much fun!!! It was such a challenge but it was so fun the empty slots are for all the coworkers to sign it so they could send it to him. They where supposed to present it to him at the Christmas party but he wasn't able to make it oh well he'll recieve it soon!!

Advent Christmas Calendar

Hey everyone I am very excited to say that I have launched our company store at Etsy.com it is very exciting but to be honest we don't have very much posted at all we are still creating and will be working hard to keep posting our creations. It's just exciting to get our first creation up and running! This is a Christmas Advent Calendar. All number tops can be removed  I like to place paper strips behind and as days are counted down the family have an activity to do
such as:
~Make cookies
~Go see Christmas lights
~12 days till Christmas
~Sing Carols
~Secret Santa shopping
~Grandmas house
~Make Gingerbread Houses
~Mail Santa's letters
~Watch Christmas movie
etc.

That way kids will be so excited to have see that day's event (remember to plan early) Best yet we have a delicious Chocolate Mousse cupcake recipe included with it so on the 25th day you can take everything off of the cupcake sheet and make mini cupcakes for you family and start that tradition!! Recipe is placed behind "Happy Christmas" card. We can also custom make these so if you want a color scheme (white and blue, green and red, gold and red, etc) you can ask for it right here or e-mail me at scrapinisty@gmail.com before placing order and I can have that ready asap!! Hope you enjoy
          Etsy.com (Scrapinisty)
                             Merry Christmas ~Misty~

Connie teaching this week!!

Hey Everyone Craft night this Thursday!!
 Oct 21st
Connie is teaching this week and we are working with freezer paper.

What you'll need to bring!!
~whatever you want to work on (shirt, bag, onsies, etc)
~exacto knife (optional)

connie will have everything else to teach us how to write or do WHATEVER you want!!
Sure hope to have you there Thursday place and time still to come!! Any questions ask and we'll get the answer back to ya!!

Vinyl on tile!!

Stephs Tile

So I had a friend call me up and say "hey do you want to work on tiles with vinyl?"  I was excited because I haven't done it in such a long time Silly us we tried  to work with single small letters on 6x6 tile!!! ARG it was crazy we were working on them FOREVER I finally was able to get my cricut updated firmware (using our desktop because my laptop wouldn't work on it don't know why) and use cricut design studio for it  It turned out wonderful Steph did such a good job on it!! We all learn and this definately was learning time for us!!! phew lots and lots of work!!

If anyone has question on how to work on this let me know and I'll post it up!!

We can create whatever you want!

GYPSY PROMOTION

Buy and register a Gypsy by Cricut by October 31 and receive 6 (SIX!) free cartridges downloaded to you Gypsy - including the exclusive, all-new "Smile Cards" cartridge (and don't forget about Gypsy Wanderings and Gypsy Font cartridges that come pre-loaded on the machine). It's a $419 value!

FREE CARTRIDGES INCLUDE:

~ Smiley Cards (new and exclusive to this promotion)

~ Tags, Bags, Boxes & More (not available in retail)

~ Christmas (not available in retail)

~ Blackletter (not available in retail)

~ Printing Press (not available in retail)

~ Indie Art (not available in retail)

All current Gypsy owners are INCLUDED!! Simply register your Gypsy by October 31, 2010 and get access to all downloads. Register at www.cricut.com/gypsy.
Downloads will be available through a special update to your Gypsy starting November 1st!!
New Gypsy cartridge downloads are easy! Just connect your Gypsy to your computer and you'll automatically be prompted how to start. In just a few steps, you'll be able to download all six cartridges containing thousands of images! And with the Gypsy, you'll have all the cartridge artwork and keypad overlays on your Gypsy screen, so there's no actual cartridge, handbook or packaging.
You only have a few weeks. Don't miss out!
 Oh my goodness I saw this and I"ve been wondering if I should get the gypsy for this Christmas or Sure Cuts ALot I know I'm going to get both eventually but this just persuaded me to stick with the gypsy I'm so so excited I'll get Sure Cuts Alot for my birthday I think!! Remember you have to get it REGISTERED by Oct 31st and if you already have one that is registered just link it up Nov 1st and you'll get the cartridges but you HAVE TO HAVE IT REGISTERED!!
 

If anyone has any questions on were to get one let me know I'll let you know where I've found the most inexpensive one brand new!!

Great turnout!!

Wow last night was AMAZING the turnout was great and we talked about how to make so many different projects with just using a few simple techniques.!! I will have those techniques up on next week so anybody can make ANY project using simple step by step instructions!!

Halloween is on its way and I sure hope you all have started counting up (or down) to this SPOOCTACULAR Holiday! If you want me to check out your blog

just let me know post your blog here!!

Host your own party and use backround spooky music we loved the station we found. just click here to be sent to the bone chilling music, and click on Halloween!!

So I sure hope you are all joining in to the "you've been booed" craze

and boo your neighbors with a sweet little treet and the FRIENDLY ghost!! I googled "you've been booed" and found some amazing links to the poem and ghost duo to print off!! I can't find my camara but I sure hope I can show you the simple little treat that spreads so much HALLOWEEN cheer that I've made!!

Thank you all for joining last night to our projects!! Connie will be teaching in two weeks how to make your own customized shirts, bags, etc!! WE'll have more info here!! Have a SPOOKY weekend!!

BOO!!

3rd Halloween advent Calander and card

I"m very excited to show you all my 3rd Halloween Advent calander.  I love LOVE it. my husband cut this tree out for me from an outline I found.  You can also find it at the heartland paper store made by kaisercraft. 19.99 my husband made it for I believe $2.00 maybe a bit less but it did take some time to carve out!! He's so great.!!  I cut the tags out using one of the merry christmas cartridges with tags.  the numbers with cartridge Jasmine I paited the tree brown so I can use it as an advent calander for all three major holidays Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas!! I attached candy onto each of the tags using ribbon I love it!!

This card will be the card everyone can make at the girls night we're having on Oct 7.  I will make a step by step post on how to make this card (since I don't have my video camara yet) next week Monday

 I had to show the back of it because it just is so fun!!

and here is one of the tags I made with the techniques I used on the card.!!

Advent Calanders!!

 Hey everyone it's Misty here!!  So I will be posting crafts I have made and am excited to say that this is one of my first Halloween projects of the year Yahoo!! I made this ADVENT CALANDER using the paper doll cartridge dress up.  I got the numbers from HeartlandPaper you just print them off on your printer I used an orange 8x10. The HAPPY HALLOWEEN is used with the JASMINE cartridge This is on a magnet board you can put this on your fridge and let your kids count up to HALLOWEEN where the "Happy Halloween" is the last piece you put up on the 31'st

and the tree is already up on the first of October!! I you have any questions about sizes you can just leave me a message I'll get to you!! Now this Calander I made last year It's a reagular calander you can hang up on your fridge or magnet board and you can attach something on each day to count up to Halloween if you want !! I used glue stamps and topped the month days and "beware" with glitter! I can also fill you in on more if you want more info on this!!

So these are just some of my creations these are creations we're having on girls night with crafts this coming up week I have one more advent calander I need to work on and finish and a cute card I made for MAKE A CARD DAY I just need to photo it in!! 



Welcome!!

So I am so excited to get this blog up and running again I know its been FOREVER since I've even had this blog running mostly because I wanted a blog for family life.  Now that I have it and i've been posting crafts on there too, I realize that I should continue a seperate blog for my craftiness mind!!

I absolutely love to make things look nice and be creative I used to say "well I just don't have time for that"  But now I wake up earlier WAY earlier to fit in that time.  I love to read and follow blogs and I sure hope you will love to read and follow my blog!!

I am in the process of getting a video camara to fit videos into my blog but that wont be till maybe the beginnig of 2011 next year!!  So for now I will settle with pictures.  If you guys have suggestions questions or information on any scrapbooking product that is absolutely awesome then let me know because I love LOVE to compare and find what works best for a busy mom but believe me

I spend a ton of time of my projects cuz I love perfection!!! haha I know it's not smart

especially starting a small family and trying to achieve that but anyways!!  I try to make things look nice!! I hope you all love my blog if you want me to check yours out let me know hopefully we can all be inspired together!!