Happy Birthday, Lil' Sister :)

Today is my sister's birthday!!

I made this for her:

I'm SO excited with how it turned out!! And it was unbelievably easy! (I like easy.)

The frame is a 12" x 12" frame from Michael's that is marketed as an "LP Frame".  Remember them?? Vinyl LP Records!  This frame cost $4.99...when just a few shelves over, the "Scrapbook Layout" frame of the same size was $16.99.  Gee, which one will I buy?  And add to that a 50% off coupon, and really, it's a steal!

So, the frame has glass, and I cut black vinyl and applied to the FRONT of the glass.  The Eiffel Tower is cut at 11" and is from the Summer in Paris Seasonal cartridge.  The words "Vie. Rire. Amour." (Live. Laugh. Love.) are cut from the Creative Memories Divine Wedding cartridge.  I love love love that font!  (If you're looking for a great CM Consultant, check out my friend, Denyse!)  I can't remember the size, I think it was 2" or 2.5".  The little flourish is from French Manor, cut at 2" and the smaller letters are from the Elegant Cakes cartridge and measure in at 1" tall.

I cut the pink background from standard cardstock and glued it to some grey cardstock and assembled it UNDER the glass.

For a little extra, I took a "Love" brad by Making Memories and attached it to some pink grossgrain ribbon that matched the paper and glued it to the top of the tower, on top of the glass.  There are a few pearl buttons here and there on the letters of the vinyl as some accents.

Happy Buggin'!

What are YOU crafting today??

Mini Bathroom Makeover

This is our new vanity...coudn't get much smaller, eh? We actually had to return the original "new" one that we bought. At 24", it was way too big :( The entire bathroom measures just under 4'x4'.

So Mr. Bugger installed this clean (yet boring-looking) vanity, to replace our slightly un-even, organizationally-challenged, dingy, pedestal sink (kicking myself for not taking 'before' photos of the sink - we were just so excited to have it gone!). Even though it's small, it offers up that little extra storage underneath which will allow for *most* of the clutter in this tiny bathroom to be hidden out of sight.

Also, if you look at this cabinet, it is made to open from the right. Well, we need it to open from the left because of the door and size of the bathroom. But there is no option to change it. It comes the way it comes, which of course we didn't notice until AFTER is was cut to fit the piping. The vanity comes with the hole already drilled for the knob. Because of that, to change the door to open the other way, the hole for the know is in the wrong spot. If you look closely in this photo...there it is waaaaaaaaay down at the bottom on the left. *sigh*

What to do, what to do??

This was my solution.

I cut some vinyl on my Cricut to bling up my cabinet a bit. "Wish it. Dream it. Do it." is cut using SCAL and the EK Fairy font. "Believe in yourself" is cut using SCAL and the CK Cursive font. The two heart flourish images are from the Straight From the Nest Cricut cartridge (one cut at 1.5" and one cut at 2") and the two corner flourishes are from the French Manor Cricut Circle cartridge cut @ 2".

I filled the pre-drilled hole with hot glue, just even to the surface, lightly sanded the top with the end of my nail file and placed the flourish image right over the hole.

Not an entire bathroom make-over, but definitely enough oomphf to get us by for awhile!

Happy buggin'!



Cricut Circle Cartridges

Since I'm limited to only 10 behind-the-blog-scenes pages, I thought I'd throw in the Circle carts and information here.  There have been 3 cartridges released so far, the first was French Manor, in Summer of 2010.  Shall We Dance? was the second, released in fall of the same year, and just announced is Cricut Everyday which was just released and should be arriving any day now.  These cartridges are exclusive to the Cricut Circle club. Cricut Circle is a unique membership-only club offered by ProvoCraft and these cartridges are only available to members.

French Manor (Summer 2010):

Shall We Dance? (Fall 2010):

Cricut Everyday (Winter 2011):

Now to put on my creative thinking cap and see what we can't come up with using these!  I see Shall We Dance as more of a girlie cartridge...and having a house full of boys, that could be quite the challenge.  I think I'll have to dig out some wedding photos for that one!  I can't wait for Cricut Everyday to arrive...that one will be used to replace my labels in my craftroom and scrapbooking those photos of my friends and I scrapbooking.  (You know you're addicted when...).

Happy buggin'!