My Sister's Birthday Card

My sister has a great yard filled with tons of flowering plants and trees.  She has a garden of fruits and veges throughout  her yard as well.  She literally removed all her grass and did plants and paths everywhere.  So for her birthday, I did a Strawberry Pop Up Card!  She's got a ton of those too!

The card is part of a set at SVGCuts.com and I made it on my Cricut using MTC software.

I post on Facebook and forget to put things here!

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Sincerely,
Mary Eisen

Birthday Boys Gifts

Three brothers, three birthdays and they all love sports, so I made three hats and filled them with gift cards, Big League Chewing gum and sour patch kids!

The logo is two of the brother's baseball team's logo.

I purchased the file from SVGCuts.com and cut it all on my Cricut.

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Sincerely,
Mary Eisen

Teacher gifts

My Daughter Jeanie asked me to make something special for her student teacher and her teacher.  These are what I created with SVGCuts.com:

 

The front little pocket is for decoration. Going to fill them with candy and gift cards! The paper is from when I started at CTMH 8 years ago!  Loved it then and works great for this project now!

Thanks for looking!

Mother's Day Card

Sorry I've been away from scrapbooking for awhile.  Here is a card I made for my mom for Mother's Day:

 Layout was purchased from SVG CUTS.com

 Card folds up and fits into an envelope

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Mary Eisen

Spring in a Jar - My first contest!

SVGCuts.com is having a contest with their kits.  I had to use only the contents of a few kits to create something new or update something they did.  So I created a acetate jar with Spring inside.

This jar is from the Toil and Trouble Kit - it's a potion jar that I did at Halloween.  

This one is over a foot tall!

Here is some pictures of it all going together:

 It was a feat of magic to put the lid and jar together - did you know if you bend it too far it snaps in half!

 Here is my Cricut cutting lots of colors all at once - ran this machine about 4 times full of leaves.

 The Clematis leaves were used to create a base and make the ground uneven and full of greens.

 I love Clematis plants.  My current house doesn't have one. Can't get it to grow.  Now I have one all year round in my house.  I plan on making a bigger one for my bedroom wall.

 The fence is rectangles twisted into pipes and then I took twine and made it look like it's holding the plant.

 Some flowers are added and more leaves.

 Finished the plants!

Thanks for looking!  Check out SVGCuts.com for all their kits and you can follow the contest on their Facebook page: Spring Challenge.

Wish me luck!

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Sincerely,
Mary Eisen

New Product Blog Hop!

If you are coming from Elizabeth's blog, you are on the right track, if not, start here and keep jumping and you will do a complete circle.  Here is some great ideas to do with the new products from our New Catalog!

I worked with the paper called Chantilly!

I created this 3D picture frame!

 My daughter just celebrated her 7th birthday and we did it western style.  

All the girls created their own little cowgirl hat.  

My daughter is wearing her real one.  

The ones in the background on the table are the paper ones.

 Here is a mini one I cut for giggles.  The bigger ones below are big enough for their heads.

 They decorated them with large craft diamonds, unlike the Sparkles I used on the mini one.

My picture frame is complete with sides and a back.  

Got the cutting file from SVGCUTS.com - Love this place! 

Her name is stamped onto a Dimensional Element piece from Chantilly DE Pack! 

Hope you like my project.

Now got to Melinda's Blog for more great products and ideas!

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Sincerely,
Mary Eisen

Batty over Halloween Decor!

 I don't have a mantel so I'm doing my couch table!

I love Halloween and dressing up and decking out the house for the occasion!  This year it's no different!  I created a coffin from our new Cricut Cartridge Artiste and then I modified the top to add texture and a pattern.

 See here is the added piece that I embossed with my Cuttlebug and then took our Daisy White pigment ink and gave it an eerie glow/dusting!

At the end of this post is how I created the top piece in Cricut Craft Room. 
I am willing to share this file if you have this cartridge!
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These jars are my inspiration!  I found them on SVGCUTS.com and loved them.  I bought our Magic Potions Stamp set and had to find a vessel for the stamps. When these jars came to me I had to have them too!  This is how they look (above) without the camera's flash.

 With the flash on my camera these jars glow!  It's the pigment ink showing off!

 The spider sits higher than he looks, he's raised up on 3 foam squares and I tipped his head down.  That's almost a whole pack of Black Sparkles on his body!

All of these jars open and are great for gifts or candy jars!  Even the witches shoe is a candy dish - gotta go buy candy now!

 So I laid out the coffin pieces and then using triangles from that cartridge I started following the base of the cover.

 Above is 2 triangles I'm using to cover the inside surface of the cover.  The cover I told it to DON'T WELD- so nothing would blend in with it.  The triangles were all WELD.

 Here shows the two triangles welded together.

 More triangles. . . .

And more

 (the highlighted "box" above is really a triangle, but a box would have worked too.)

 In the end I used an oval to cover the leftover holes.  When I first put the circle on top, it acted like it wasn't welding but cutting out an oval.  After clicking on all the pieces again and DON'T WELD and then clicking WELD for each piece it suddenly worked and I got this shape:

 TA DA!!!
Now, all the pieces are still separate.
I drew a box around the pieces and then clicked GROUP
so that it won't accidentally get moved and come apart.
 I am willing to share this file if you have this cartridge!
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Thanks for looking!