I've been having too much fun making paper succulents and flowers with my Cricut.  Here's some I did over the weekend.

This paper is shimmery and has metallic colored pencil accents.  For size reference this is a 4" embroidery hoop.


My coworker loved this and bought it from me.  It's in a 4x6 frame.


These are seriously fun to make.  Thanks for looking!

I got a Cricut last week and I love the darned thing.  Also you can cut felt with it!  My dad had to have emergency gall bladder surgery yesterday (but he's doing fine) and I wanted to make him something.  So I thought I'd try these succulents I saw on Pinterest.  I found a nice plant pot at Hobby Lobby and glued in some river rocks to make it look fancy.

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Thanks for looking!

I bought a Cricut because my husband said that's how all those people on the internet make their car decals and I was like "I want to make decals."  I thought the Cricut was still some lame die-cut thing like it was when it first came out and I didn't even think I wanted one.  I got it home and proceeded to make a card using the welcome tutorial.  Then I made some cut-outs for some ATCs.  Then I made some decals and even some iron-on things for my plain t-shirts.  But I had no idea that it could do pop-up cards and 3D paper flowers until I started poking around on Cricut Access and Pinterest.

Anyway, I'm sure you don't want to be bored with my life story and would like to see some pictures now.

I made this tonight- I think it turned out pretty rad.  The flower is 3D.


I also made these paper succulents.  I don't have a lot of scrapbook paper or cardstock right now so I just grabbed something green.


A sweet Kraken card that my co-worker is totally getting. I also made the nautical compass envelope you can kind of see.


And some roses.


So overall I'd say the Cricut is a good purchase and something I'll use a lot.  Thanks for looking!

I figured I’d try my hand at ATCs and they’re super fun and consuming my life.

My favorite one. She’s cross stitched.


Madame Leota


Metallic gel pen lanterns


I have a bunch of diamond painting drills, so I spiffed up this Rainbow Unicorn.


Under the microscope and Erte Art Deco inspired moon tarot card.


Metallic gel pen skull girl


Thanks for looking!

Still working on the major arcana, but here’s what I have so far.

The Fool


The Empress


Death


I sort of messed up on the Bride’s lips. I’m having trouble tracing over pencil with colored pencil. But I’m happy with how all of them turned out. Thanks for looking!

Ok I forgot to measure this and I’m too lazy to go do it, but it’s pretty big. Like poster sized I guess. This is the first painting I’ve done with square drills (diamonds). It took me 4 or 5 weeks. You can sort of see the sparkles in these pictures. I got the kit from Diamond Art Club. I like them because they are US based and their kits are good quality.





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So diamond art is pretty addicting and I've made 2 more.  My favorite is the elephant.  He's about 8"x8".



Sparkly


My husband picked out this design.  I can't remember the measurements, but its around poster size.


Thanks for looking!

I kept seeing diamond painting ads on Instagram and it looked like fun. A lot of kits are geared toward kids or older people, bu I finally found a neat one to try. This is a kit from Walmart, the brand is “Dazz.” It fits in a 16x20 frame.

Yeah, I hopped on the latest craft fad. What can I say, I like sparkly things and keeping my hands busy.  My question is this: where can I find kits that aren’t, uh, geared towards an age-specific audience?  I tried Etsy but most of the shops selling kits are in Asia and I don’t like to buy from international shops because the post office loses things.  There are kits everywhere, but a lot of them are cute fluffy kittens or flowers or ‘Merica. That’s fine, but not my style. Anyone know of somewhere I can find some different designs?

I got an embroidery machine and learned that you can make stuffies in the hoop!  The Mew pattern is from SoapyBacon on Etsy, the Eevee pattern was free (https://pin.it/cq5uqezwk36j7w), and the Toothless pattern was from the Plush Parlor on Etsy, although I do not recommend doing this pattern unless you have a 5x7 hoop, because the 4x4 is lacking some files and instructions.  I made all of them beanies because I thought they were cuter being a little floppy.

Mew






Eevee


I love the little feet.


And Toothless






Thanks for looking!