It's Offical....I am the Queen!

In STL every good West County girl has her initials on her back window. I had a simple monogram on my window for about a year but it was looking shabby and I knew I wanted to redo it. I purchased last Christmas at Target silver contact paper (on sale! SCORE!)

You cannot tell but there is black vinyl behind the silver crown. The crown is from Home Decor and my monogram is from Lyrical Letter. I altered the crown by stretching it some to make it fit my monogram more. If you would like the cut file you can go this CAR DEAL I do have my monogram in the .cut file so you can use the size to.

It is Mardi Gras Time (another cut file)

Mardi Gras is a big deal here in St. Louis. We have the second largest Mardi Gras celebration in the country. I have already had a piece of King Cake and I didn't get the baby and there are beads everywhere you look. With all the celebration preparations I have fleur de lis on the brain again, so I thought I would share another layout that I used the fleur de lis medallion, but there is a bonus! I also created a fleur de lis border to go with the medallion.

 This border in the pictures is actually the bottom layer there is a top layer that has more detail that I didn't cut for this layout. The paper lace under it is a Martha Stewart border punch. You can make a lace border if you cut it on both sides. A little tricky but it can be done.

Here is the fleur de lis medallion you can look back at the previous post for the cut file.

I have  been using this butterfly a lot lately. I just love it. This is from the Cake Cartridge.


Oh, I guess you want the cut file for the fleur de lis. Here It Is. The cartridge used is Home Decor.

Card Crazy

I never, never, thought I would be a card maker, but here I am making cards. Go figure. I am really proud of myself , because this is all my own. I didn't look to anyone but myself and ALL the paper I have. (I truly have a problem with buying scrapbooking paper) I needed some thank you cards and this is what I came up with. While the layout is the same there are slight  difference in each one.

I entered this card in the Frosted Design Fabulous Friday Challenge

Can you see the little branch the owl is sitting on it is from the Home Decor and more Cartridge and the tag is from George. (Good ole George) Oh, yeah, remember all those decorative scissors we bought way back when well I got one out and use it to trim the bottom of the front of the card. Yeah for me. I also used the Swiss Dot Cuttlebug Embossing Folder.Oh, one more thing I used Ranger Distress Ink on the Embossed 3x3 square. :) I off to do some more projects.
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Decked Out Mailbox (for all to enjoy:including the mailman)

I love to decorate my mailbox and had this boring black up for a year or so and never having the time to paint it, so....one day I was cutting some vinyl with my Cricut and it occurred to me that I could use the vinyl  to decorate my mailbox, so I whipped out some white Wall Pops and got busy.

So this is what I came up with. I used the Cricut Cartridge Home Decor. It was so fast and easy, I can see changing it out with the season's. Ohhh a Christmas one will be so fun! One thing to remember when cutting your vinyl you need to use the flip feature on your Design Studio or your Gypsy for the other side so they will match.

Here it is up close and personal. If you try this I would love to see what you come up with. You could go crazy with this but for now I really like this simple design.