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Mother’s Day Card

An SVG to make a card for Mother’s Day. #affiliate

As a mom, I have to say some of the best presents are homemade. I love it when my daughters take the time to make me something. I’d rather they not spend money on me. This Mother’s Day Card is one with a few steps but it isn’t difficult to make. I think any mother would appreciate a handmade card.

I work with a few different companies and with this card, I was able to combine their products. The following links are affiliate links, they cost nothing for you to use and in fact, they help support this site. Thank you for using them.

Materials:

White card stock
Personal cutting machine (Cricut Maker)
Patterned scrapbooking paper (small pattern)
Rinea – red foil
Adhesive (ScraPerfect the Best Glue Ever)
Card SVG file [free svg]

Directions:

Using the free SVG file listed above, cut the white card stock with your personal cutting machine.

I am using a Cricut Maker. I set the red line to score and added the scoring tool.

This card is made from three parts, the cut cardstock,
the polka dot card stock cut just shy of 6″ x 8″,
and a piece of Rinea red foil paper 4″ x 2.25″.

I used the Best Glue Ever to attach all the layers.

I applied glue around the word Mom and around the outer edge of the Rinea foil paper.

The back of the red foil paper is gold.

Hopefully, you can get a sense of the luminous red foil from the above photo.

Using the same process, I attached the polka-dotted scrapbooking paper.
The paper I chose had a white back, making the inside of the card ready for a special message.
The folded size is 6″ x 4″.

How To Make Faux Leather Earrings

How to make faux leather earrings with a Cricut. Includes a free SVG file. How to Make Jewelry Using a Cricut Machine.

Making earrings with your personal die cutting machine is a current hot topic in crafting. I’ve done it before [see post here], but these leaf-like earrings are my newest design. This version of earrings was made using The Best Glue Ever by ScraPerfect. It really made making them and attaching the layers together easy. The tacky glue dries quickly but leaves enough time to maneuver the position of the layers.

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Materials:

2 colors of faux leather (Cricut Brand)
Personal cutting machine (Cricut Maker)
The Best Glue Ever
a weight (I used a tile)
2 crystal beads – blue
2 silver jump rings – small
2 earring wires – loop on 1 end
2 fish hook ear wires
jewelry making tools (wire cutter, round nose plier, flat plier)
free SVG file
To save as an SVG click the image and do a save as SVG

earringsfaux Download

Using a Cricut Maker, I cut the faux letter

cut pieces of faux leather

using The Best Glue Ever

Once glued and in place, I used a tile to weight
the layered faux leather down.
Let dry overnight.

I used a T-pin to poke a hole in the faux leather and
attached a jump ring and earring wire.
Threading the crystals and finishing off the wirework
to make the finished earrings.

How to Make an Alternative Halloween Pumpkin with Cricut

Make an alternative bucket pumpkin with Cricut.

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Cricut. The opinions and text are all mine.

I was intrigued when I first saw the bucket camping lights people were making. We don’t camp so I thought they might be a great alternative to a carved pumpkin as a DIY Halloween Craft. So I pursued how to make the bucket lights and changed it a bit for an alternative Halloween Pumpkin with the assistance of my Cricut Maker. I used the Cricut to cut out the bats from vinyl and felt. The Cricut Maker has exchangeable blades that were used. The Rotary Blade™, with its gliding, rolling action, cuts through virtually any fabric and I used it for the felt. I used the Fine Point blade to cut the permanent vinyl. Both of these blades come with the Maker, there are additional blades available.

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I want to personally thank Cricut for providing materials for this post.
I am a design team member at Cricut.

The following links may contain affiliate links. They help support this site and cost you nothing to use them.
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Materials:

bucket and lid (sold separately at the hardware store)
black Cricut Vinyl
patterned Duct Tape
drill
wire
black Cricut Felt
Cricut Maker
glue – The Best Glue Ever
2 rolls of Halloween themed ribbon (the Dollar Tree)
Battery operated light

Directions:

Begin by using the bat template from Cricut for cutting vinyl. Using an entire sheet of 12 x 12 black vinyl, cut out this design.

Bats after being weeded.

Using the bats like a sticker, apply them to the bucket in a random design.

Cut out the felt.
Using the same design as the vinyl. Edit the file to only have the medium sized bats.
Then cut the felt with the Rotary Blade.

Glue two felt bats together.
Follow the next step before gluing together.

Place a rolled wire between the two felt bats.
Allow them to dry overnight.

Bundle the wires together.

Decorative ribbon from Dollar Tree.

Using both entire rolls of ribbon, make a bow.
Wrap the wire from the felt bats around the bow.

bow to lid - alternative pumpkin with Cricut

This is where it gets a little tricky.
I tried hot glue and super glue to attach the bow to the lid.
Neither worked.
I then drilled a little hole in the center of the lid, wrapped another wire around the bow,
and fed it through the lid to hold the bow in place.

Here is the Alternative Halloween Pumpkin or “Bat Bucket” done.

Here is the bucket with the light inside turned on.

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Cricut. The opinions and text are all mine.