Cricut For Sale

Cricut Expression, Gypsy and many Cartridges

would like to sell cartridges and Gypsy together

·         Cricut Expression – slightly used 12 x 12 mat and Plantin Schoolbook (synced with Gypsy) (new $269) asking $150

·         Gypsy and Cover (new $129 and $20) asking $50 for both

·         12 x 24 mat (new $14) asking $10

·         12 x 24 mat slightly used (new $14) Free

·         Deep Cut Blade (new $20) asking $10

·         Cartridges - all synced with the Gypsy (new for non-gypsy cartridges approximately $630) asking $300 for all

o   Christmas Solutions

o   Create a Critter

o   Doodlecharms

o   Elegant Cakes – can be used with paper       

o   Forever Young         

o   Graphically Speaking

o   Gypsy Font Digital (Gypsy only)

o   Gypsy Wanderings Digital (Gypsy only)

o   Happy Hauntings

o   Holiday Cakes - can be used with paper

o   Indie Art Solutions (Gypsy only)

o   Joys of the Season

o   Kate's ABCs

o   Mini Monsters

o   October 31st Seasonal

o   Potpourri Basket

o   Rock Princess

o   Sentimentals

o   Smiley Cards  (Gypsy only)

o   Songbird

o   Storybook

o   Straight from the Nest

o   Tags, Bags, Boxes, & More (Gypsy only)

o   Thanksgiving Seasonal

o   Wild Card (Gypsy only)

o   Winter Lace Seasonal

o   Winter Woodland

o   Martha Stewart Crafts™ All Occasions Cake Art –Can be used with paper

Send me an e-mail danadesmond3 AT gmail.com if interested.

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,
Dana Desmond

Lemon Flower Card Stack

I went a little DCWV Lemon Flower stack crazy. I made one card, then just couldn't seem to quit. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed making them. (P.S. I gave them all away in card packs.)

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting.

Dana Desmond

Peaceful Snow Card

Just a quick and simple card today. I used my Gypsy to create the snowflake border. I cut the border and the word Peace out of DCWV glitter cardstock.

I cut the shadows out of Baja Breeze cardstock from Stampin' Up. I used my Snowflake Cuttlebug folder to emboss the background, layered this on another piece of Baja Breeze cardstock, and added a ribbon. I attached this to a standard A2 card base.

Thanks for Stopping by and Happy Crafting!

Dana Desmond

Snow Swirled Tree Card

This tree was cut from the Christmas Cricut cartridge at 4 1/2 inches. I used DCWV white glitter paper for the snow bank across the bottom of the card, the "snow swirls" on the tree and for the snowflakes, which were punched with a $.97 snowflake punch from StudioG.

The second layer of the swirls on the tree was cut out of Baja Breeze cardstock from Stampin' Up. The tree background was cut from Wild Wasabi from Stampin' Up. I received this sentiment free in a sample magazine a few months ago, but I can't remember what company makes it. I embossed the sentiment using Versamark and white powder. I punched it out with the small oval punch from Stampin' Up and layered it onto a piece of the glitter paper that I had punched with an oval punch, also from Stampin' Up. I added ribbon from my stash and adhered the snowflakes.

The background is a piece of Baja Breeze cardstock that I ran through my Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder. Then I lightly rubbed my Dazzle Versamark ink pad across the raised dots so they would standout a little better.

Stay tuned for more post of Holiday cards.

Thanks for Stopping by and Happy Crafting,

Dana Desmond

Baby Girl Scrapbook Page

I've been gone for a while, but rest assured, I have been crafting/scrapping. I've been working on mini albums and scrapbook pages lately and haven't created too many cards. I want to share a page I made of my oldest daughter. She's now in college, so that tells you how far behind I am. Luckily, I'm not a chronological scrapper. I scrap photos I love and then put them in order later.

Unfortunately, I can't remember the paper manufacturer, but everything is from my latest LittleRedScrapbook.com kit.

The background paper has stitched flowers and a sequined and ruffled border at the bottom. Just beautiful. I used my Gypsy and Cricut to cut the title.

This big pink flower is from Prima. The other flowers were part of a LittleRedScrapbook.com kit.

The teddy bear charm was made with a Stampin' Up stamp, copic markers and shrink plastic. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up as well. The doilie image was embossed on yellow paper. I made quite a few of these, cut them in half, and placed them all over my page.

I have several mini albums to share, but that's not an easy thing to do with still pictures. I've been thinking about posting videos on youtube.com of my more complex projects. The only camera we have is my daughters Flip. I'm not sure the quality will be good enough. I love watching videos and think it would be fun to share my projects on youtube.com.

Thanks for stopping by,

Dana Desmond

Butterflies in a Jar

I haven't had much time lately to do a lot of posting. I went back to college this fall and it's taking up quite a bit of my time (I actually should be studying for my midterms, but hey, you know how that goes).

I have been doing small projects here and there, I just haven't been posting them. So, I wanted to post this quick card I made using the Kate's ABCs Cricut cartridge.

Instead of cutting the background layer for the jar out of cardstock, I wanted the blue sky to show through, so I used vellum.

Looking at it now, I should have sponged clouds or something on the blue background to give it more interested so you could tell it is a transparent jar.

Materials

Cricut, Gypsy, Stampin' Up papers, Kate's ABCs

I told you it would be quick and simple. Thanks for stopping by,

Dana Desmond

Peachy Keen Challenge LFIF

I started with the patterned paper for this design and then came the sentiment. Then I found a cute strawberry shortcake image on one of my Cricut cartridges and the rest just fell in place.



The sentiment is from Stampin' Up and I punched it with the Large Decorative Label punch.



I used Decorative Chalk for the cheek color, my Gelly Roll pen for the whites of the eyes and Glossy Accents to make the eyes pop.

Materials

Cricut

Gypsy

Cricut Cartridge Smiley Cards

Cricut Cartridge Holiday Cakes

Peachy Keen Stamps Everyday Character Faces Assortment

Stampin' Up Eat Chocolate Stamp Set

Stampin' Up Patterned Paper and Cardstock

Glossy Accents

American Crafts Brad

The Paper Studio Ribbon

Stampin' Up Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by,

Dana D

Challenge #3 for the week

This challenge submission is for Peachy Keen Stamps Sketch Challenge #54. You can find the details of the challenge here.

I used my Gypsy and Cricut to cut the teacup image from Kate's ABCs.

Materials

Paper: DCWV Lemon Flower stack

Stamp: Stampin' Up Teeny Tiny Wishes

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black

Ribbon: Ellen Hutson

Tools: Gypsy, Cricut, Stampin' Up Punches, Cuttlebug, Cuttlebug folder Swiss Dots

Cartridges: Kate's ABCs, Gypsy Wandering 

Thanks for stopping by,
Dana

Emma's Throwback Thursday Scrapbook Layout Challenge

My submission for this challenge is a scrapbook page of my son playing at the park when he was a little boy.

It's two 12x12 pages.

I used patterned paper from DCWV Nana stack and cardstock from my stash.

I used the Martha Stewart grass punch for the border.

I used Straight from the Nest to cut the tree at 6". I cuttlebugged the tree trunk and top leaf layer and inked the edges. I used scraps from punching the grass border and layered them at the tree base.

I cut the frog at 2.5 inches from the Create-a-Critter cartridge. I inked the layers before putting them together.

I couldn't find a sun shape on any of my cartridges, so I used my Gypsy and made one using some of the tag shadows on the Gypsy Wandering cart and a stick shape from Doodlecharms.

Thanks for stopping by,

Dana Desmond

Peachy Keen LFIF Challenge - Challenge 12

Here's another Peachy Keen Stamps LFIF challenge. This week the objective is to create a project that includes Peachy Keen Stamps faces AND a handmade flower.

 The vine and butterfly stamp is a set I just bought. It's called Beauty Stems from Here, from the TCP Studios. I embossed the vine in green and colored the inside of the leaves with my Copic Markers, YG13 and YG17. Then I added pink brads.

I used the dragonfly image from Doodlecharms. I cut it at 3" and 2". I stamped each using the Everyday Face Assortment. I love all the sizes you get in this set.

Since I'm not fortunate enough to have a cartridge with a good flower image that would work for what I needed, I used my Gypsy to weld together five egg images from Create-a-Critter and a circle from Plantin Schoolbook. I cut this in several sizes. I layered them together, added a brad, and fluffed up the petals.

Thanks for stopping by,
Dana Desmond

Emma's Throwback Thursday Challenge - March 17, 2011

Emma's challenge for this week is to create a project using green. I decided to create an Easter card.

All papers and ink for this project are from Stampin' Up.

There's quite a bit of Gypsy work on this card. First I welded together egg images from the Create-a-Critter cartridge to make the card base, which I cut out in Marina Mist cardstock. I cut another egg, a little smaller then the base, out of Whisper White cardstock. I inked the edges of the white egg with Marina Mist ink.

I used my Gypsy to hide the contour of the chick face. I cut all layers of the chick out of Daffodil Delight, So Saffron and Crushed Curry cardstock and the egg out of Very Vanilla. I inked the edges of the chick with Daffodil Delight and So Saffron ink, assembled the chick. I added the face from my Critter Faces set from Peachy Keen Stamps. I inked the edges of the egg with Crumb Cake and used my E11 Copic marker to add the cracks.

Using my Gypsy, I welded several images together to make the grass. I cut two layers and sandwiched the chick and egg pieces between them.

I cut the sun out of Daffodil Delight, Crushed Curry, and More Mustard, inked the edges with Daffodil delight. I assembled the sun, stamped the face using my Everyday Face assortment.

To finish the card, I added flowers and sparkle brads from my stash.

I didn't post pictures of this project on my Gypsy. If you would like to see those, leave a comment below and I will post them.

Thanks for stopping by,
Dana Desmond

Challenge: My Creative Time with Emma

Emma over at http://www.creativetimeforme.com/ has had a rough few days. So, if you get a chance to head over to her blog and give her some words of encouragement, I know she would appreciate it.

This week's challenge for Throwback Thursday is to use any older cartridge, but it must be something for St. Patrick's Day.

I used my Gypsy to plan this whole project.

The frame is cut at 5 1/4 from the Storybook cartridge. I used Stampin' Up cardstock in Soft Suede for the base and Very Vanilla for the layer. I inked the edges of the Very Vanilla with Crumb Cake ink.

I didn't have a cartridge with a shamrock on it, so I welded together 4 hearts from the Gypsy Font cartridge. I used an exclamation point from the Blackletter cartridge for the stem. I used the hide contour feature to turn off the point of the exclamation point.

I cut the shamrock out of Old Olive cardstock and ran it through my Cuttlebug using the Swiss Dots folder. I inked the edges using Crumb Cake ink from Stampin' Up. I added a stitched brad from the Paper Studio.

My card base is Old Olive cut at 11" x 5 1/2", folded to 5 1/2" x 5 1/2". The designer paper is from DCWV. It measures 5 1/4" x 5 1/4". I inked the edges of both pieces with Crumb Cake ink.

The sentiment is from Stampabilites. I stamped it in Old Olive ink on Very Vanilla card stock. I layer everything together, popped up the shamrock and  finished by adding pearls and a brown piece of 5/8" ribbon from my stash.

This card was so much fun. Every time I use my Gypsy to plan a project, I'm not disappointed.

Thanks for stopping by,
Dana Desmond

Peachy Keen Stamp Challenge #46

I'm back with another Peachy Keen Stamp challenge submission. The sketch for this challenge can be found at http://peachykeenstampschallenge.blogspot.com/.

 All papers are Papertrey Ink. The patterned paper is from the Egg Hunt pack. I used my Gypsy to weld the shadows of the duck and umbrella. I cut this in light blue. I cut the remaining layers, inked the edges using Stampin' Up Classic ink and assembled the focal point.

I used Peachy Keen Critter Faces PK-745 for the duck's face. I used my white Gelly Roll pen to color the eyes and add stitching to the umbrella. I colored the beak with a colored pencil. The raindrops are epoxy stickers I found at Michael's  for $.49.


 

The sentiment is from The Paper Studio-Card Sayings. I used my Spellbinders Labels to cut, emboss and ink the tag. I ran a strip of Papertrey Ink ribbon around the focal point.

This card could be used for so many purposes. It would make a great baby card.

Thanks for stopping by,
Dana Desmond

It's been a while...

The weather has just thrown me all off. I've been working extra hours to make up for the time I had to take off for the blizzard we had here last week. I did get a few cards done while I was off, but I didn't get them posted.

I tried to go down and craft last night, but I spent all my time running up and down the stairs trying to cook supper, make a snack for snack day at work and clean the kitchen. I finally gave up.


I've informed my family that starting Friday night, I will be spending all my time in my craft room and I don't plan to resurface until Sunday.
 
Here's a few of the Valentine's cards I worked on while the blizzard was happening. It was so cold in our basement, but I managed to brave it long enough to make these.
 

This one is my favorite. I'm going to make more

of these in different colors and patterns.

The blue one was another happy accident. I cut the heart out of white paper and added the same swirl stamp to it that I used on the background, but the image was too delicate and there wasn't enough surface area on the heart to tell what it was. So, instead of cutting the heart again, I used my Pacific Point stamp pad and completely saturated the heart with ink. I found that the edges of the image picked up more ink that the center, giving it an outlined look. I still wasn't happy with the results. So I covered the whole surface with Versamark Dazzle ink and used clear sparkle embossing powder over the entire surface. When this was cool, I repeated the process. I love the iridescent look it gave. 

All cards are 4x4 and use Stampin' Up cardstock. I've found that it cuts the best on my Cricut. While at my Stampin' Up club meet a couple of weeks ago, I learned a new aluminum foil technique and had to try it. I love how it turned out. I had a little trouble on the card with the stacked hearts. I put too much glue on the foil and it "popped" though the front, so I sprinkled glitter over the glue. It turned out OK, but the next time I used the foil, I put just enough glue to make it slightly sticky and it worked better.

I used my Gypsy to plan these about a month ago and I can't remember all the different cartridges I used. I know for sure I used were Doodle Charms, Gypsy Wandering and Create-a-Critter.

Thanks for stopping by. I promise I will do my best to keep up with my posting. Have a great day!
Dana Desmond