The Name Game

Good Morning Everyone,

I know that I have told some of you that I was thinking about changing

my Etsy shops name now that you can change it . When I firsted started

my etsy shop the name I really wanted was already taken so on a dare

from my husband because I had tried other shop names but they were

also taken I ended up with SnowflakeDreams1. I would like to get some

feedback on three shops names that I have been playing with.

1. Velmas Creative Tidbits

2.Velmas Crafty Tidbits

3.Velmas Snowflakes and Dreams

Please leave me your input. I know that there are alot of you that stop

by and read but never leave a comment. Let me know what you think.

Ok so now on to my header picture. I have been working with this

cardstock package lately but I haven't been making cards or scrapbook

pages with it. I've been using these pages for a different kind of art. The

next two pictures are of the cardstock pages that I have been working

with and hopefully it will come together soon so I can blog about it.

Aren't the pages so rich in color? I just love this scrapbook cardstock

package that I bought three of them. Once I share what I'm doing with

it you will see why I needed three packages of it. Now I have all of you

wondering what can it be. Hopefully it will only be a couple of days

before you get to see the finished product. Kind of a mean teaser. Sorry.

Until my next post

Have a Splendid Day!!!!!!!!!!

Thinking outside the box using my Gypsy

Good Morning Everyone,

This is the very first tutorial that I was going to do but as we are still

learning to use our new video camera I thought I would just go ahead

and do a picture tutorial. In my header picture is a pink ribbon. I did

not have a cartridge that had a pink ribbon so I put on my thinking

cap as to how I could come up with one. Using the Christmas Cheer

cartridge I made a discovery that using to candy canes in shadow or

blackout and my Gypsy it could be accomplished. Most of this is done

by using the advanced part in the Gypsy as pictured below In the next picture you will see that I used the flip side ways. Then I used the rotate to rotate only one of them so that it would

sit right when I overlapped them. Once I got it to overlap just right I used welding gizmo on the Gypsy

and welded them together. Once they were welded I cut it out with the Cricut. I cut it out in pink

because I wanted the ribbon for Breast Cancer Awareness month but

you can pick your color of choice. Yellow for military maybe. If you payed close attention you will notice that the ends of the ribbon

are rounded but if you want a more finished end add squares to the ends

of the ribbon making sure they overlap just right and welding it together

before you cut it out. Hope this has helped some of you discover the

endless possiblities if you think outside the box and are trying to decide

which cartridges would be the best to purchase. Make sure to at least get

one cartridge that has alot of just shapes. I am working on a few other

things. Hopefully I will be posting these types of tutorials once a week.

Until my next post Have a Splendid Day!!!!!!!!!

Thinking and creating outside the box

Hello Everyone,

I know it's been a few days since I have blogged. As I said in one of

my blog posts I have been working on some things that have kept

me busy. With the way the economy is these days I think alot of

us are trying to keep our spending down. I am not rich by far so I

can't afford to buy every new Cricut cartridge that comes out to stay

on top of the trends. My mother always taught me that with a little

creativeness and ingenuity with what you have you can almost come

close to the new in thing. So with that said in my header picture is

what I call a little paste, erase, and cut that I did with the help of my

Gypsy. I used the Christmas Cheer cartridge as pictured above. I also used

the Sophisticated cartridge and the October 31st Cratridge. Using the Christmas Cheer cartridge with the Gypsy page 128 I

placed the square frame on the mat. I made sure to take the aspect

ratio off and changed the width and length to make it big enough

so that I could make a Lantern. Once I had the square looking more like a rectangle I used the argyle

from the Sophisticated cartrdge page 61. I did the same thing to it

with the aspect ratio turned off and made sure it fit inside of rectangle

overlapping just a little bit. I then went to the advanced portion in the

Gypsy and welded the pieces together. Now it is ready to cut. To make the panel with the gargoyal I used the square again and

turned it into a rectangle then added the gargoyle from the October

31st cartridge using the same steps I used with the argyle. Making

sure that it overlapped so it could be welded then cut out. As you

can see in the picture below it came out pretty good. I will use color

vellum to hold them together to make the lantern.

What I am learning is that if you make sure to have a cartridge that

has just shapes you can almost create anything. The next project I

I did a little hiding of contours. Iwanted to do this as a video tutorial

but we are still trying to figure out our new video camera because

our other one died. Until next post hope you are all having a Great

Evening.

Good Morning Everyone,

It's been a pretty good week for me I have won a couple of giveaways

the header picture is of the afghan that I won from The Wug's Backyard

blogspot. Isn't it beautiful? It is really soft. I can't wait for a really cold

evening when I can wrap myself up in it and just watch television. The

other giveaway is a set of scrapbooking papers. I will make sure to take

pictures of that when it gets here. My card that I made for the Breast

Cancer Awareness link up won me that giveaway. The picture below is

a page that I made for a contest at Fae's Book and Craft store in Moses

Lake.

I know my pictures are just not looking great these days. My camera is

not being cooperative. I brought out the manual to see if I can resolve

the issue. Wish me luck....LOL....

The next two pictures are of some tags that I received from the tag swap

that Velma Griffen hosts every month. There are some very talented and artistic people out there. It's been a little crazy here. My guys have been out hunting and this is

the last weekend of deer. With them out of the way hopefully I'll be able

to get alot of crafting done and get my camera figured out too. Until next

post Have a Splendid Day!!!!!!!!!

Changes are a coming.

Good Morning Everyone,

With time comes change. In the header picture is my cousins daughter

who just celebrated her 15th birthday and to the hispanic culture its a very

big thing known as a Quinceaner. It's almost like having a wedding , all the

elements are there. The dress, flowers, maids , chaperones, dinner, dance,

ect. ect. It is a very spendy right of passage I guess you can say. In the

pictures below is her bouquet and her cake. Her theme for her party was

Mardi-gras.

Just thought I would share what I did this weekend. Now on to some

other changes. I don't know if any of you have heard but Etsy is doing

some changes. Now you will be able to change your shop name and I

have been playing with the idea of changing my shop name. If I do it will

not be such a big change. We'll see what I decide tomorrow. That is

when Etsy will have changed thier templates which allows the change. Let me know what you think about these new changes to Etsy. Oh and

I have a favor to ask all of you. I am trying to win a Cricut Gypsy package.

If you will do me the favor and go over to Honeybearz Designs at

facebook link is below.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Honeybearz-Designs/221044101276738

Like their page and then tell them that I sent you I would be most

appreciative. There are only four days left to try and win. Thank you to

all that do me this favor. Until my next post. Have a Splendid Day!!!!!!!!

Breast Cancer Awareness

Hello again everyone, I have been pretty busy lately creating. I've had these ideas rolling around in my head for a while. As I've been busy working on some new projects I didn't want to forget about Breast Cancer awareness. I did get a couple of cards out that I have sent to friends as reminders to make sure they have a check up. I hope that I'm reminding those of you that stop by here. The card you see in the header picture is two of two that I entered on Just Yolies blog. They have some great prizes. There are over five hundred projects entered. If you have the chance visit her blog and see all the creative and talented people that are out there. To visit Yolies blog go to http://www.justyolie.com/. Wow two quick posts today. Amazing isn't it...LOL..... Oh before I forget I have to give credit where credit is due. The heart on my card comes from Far Far Hill which has a digital store. You can visit her web sight at: http://farfarhill.blogspot.com/ This store carries alot of Vintage digitals. Until next post Hope you are all having a Splendid Day!!!!!!!!

Quick Post

Hello Everyone,

I almost forgot to post this card for Breast Cancer Awareness month.

I can't link it up if I don't post it. Over at Just Yoli they are having a

contest and the best cards will win some wonderful prizes. There are

only a few hours to link up your creation. Her web site address is below.

http://www.justyolie.com/ Hope you are having a great day.