Nana Donna's Card Dreams

Be My Valentine

2012-02-12T00:30:00.010-07:00

I made this card following a sketch, it will be my husband's Valentine card. The hearts are from a couple different cartridges.

I Cuttlebugged each of the heart shapes and the strip down the card. It is very pretty in person as some of the paper is pearl like finish.
Here is a closer look at one of the hearts and some of the embossing. I used one of the Cuttlebug embossing borders that has the "with love' saying.

I am so glad you found your way over to my blog and would love to read what you have to say.

Challenges for this card

Card Crafter's Circle Valentines ends - 2/16
Crafty Catz Valentines ends - 2/16
Hooked on Crafts Hearts ends - 2/24
Top Tip Tuesday Valentine ends 2/13
Crafty Creations Swirls & twirls ends - 2/14

Second Grandson going off to the Navy

2012-02-11T21:10:00.000-07:00

OK, I am so far behind at posting on my blog, I am going to try and catch up. I made this card a couple of weeks ago for my Grandson that left for the Navy on February 2 for Navy boot camp. We had a going away party on January 28th.
Sometime ago I found a pack of K &Company paper on clearance that was American themed and worked perfect for this occasion.

The background is all from the same sheet of paper and the banner I cut out from a second sheet. I had the Navy stickers on hand since I already have one Grandson in the Navy training to be a Sonar Tech on the submarines. The Grandson just going in will also be on the submarines.
Here is the inside

Since my Mom is here for the winter I also made a card for her to give him, that I posted previously.

Scroll down or click HERE to read that post.
Thanks for stopping by, and would love read your comments.

Teal & Purple Birthday card.

2012-02-06T19:46:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, time to catch up on posting on my blog. Things have been crazy around here, so the little time I had I crafted but did not get around to posting my cards.
This one I made for my Mom who is 82 today! She lives in Colorado but come here to spend the Winter we us each year, so it hard to make a card for her as she is always coming in my room and asking what I am working on. So I always have two things going and hide hers and pull out the other one.
She loves purple and teal so here is what I came up with.

I am rather new at using the "crinkle ribbon" so I am still playing around and learning, but all and all I like the way this came out. It is just be learning that every thing does not have to perfect and neat, in this case messy is good, :). The happy birthday is from the MS Elegant Birthday Cake cartridge as is the label.

I printed the sentiment on of white pearl paper and cut it using a Spellbinder die.

I finished the inside simply with the same paper theme as the front.

Thanks for stopping by and here are some challenges I will enter this card in.
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends 2/12

My First Explosion Box..............

2012-01-25T17:28:00.001-07:00

So sorry I have not been around for the last couple of weeks, but with family visiting, re-arranging my craft room and going out of town craft just did not fit in.

I made this explosion box for my Great Granddaughter's 1st birthday. I think it came out very cute. I had seen one that someone did around Christmas time and have wanted to try it since, so I thought it would be perfect for this special event. Even a little prize of a light up happy birthday in the center. Lots of sparkle on this one. Here is an overview of the whole card, so hard to take a picture of this.

The inner pink layer is Core'dinations card stock that I Cuttlebugged with several different folders and sanded it off, then punched the corners with a MS punch. I used Cricut Craft Room to weld the letters together for the "Emma" using Lyrical Letters cartridge. The "1" is also from that same cartridge. They are cut out of purple glitter paper and mounted on white glitter paper ovals I cut using my Spellbinders. Here is a closer look at the Emma.

I used the Create a Critter cartridge to cut out the monkey again all from glitter paper. I added googly eyes, a party hat and one of those party blower thingies.

The center "Happy Birthday" is a K & Company stick that has a button that you press and lights flash on it. Tried to get a picture but hard to capture the flashing lights.

When you fold up all the sides you place a lid on it to hold it together, so here is a picture with the lid next to the card.

I will tie if closed with a white sparkly ribbon/bow. On the MS Birthday cake cartridge there was a cut for baby's first birthday so I cut it out and glued it to the top of the lid with a couple cupcake stickers. I got to thinking since it doesn't lay flat it might be kind of hard to keep as a memento. Oops.

Thanks for stopping in to take a peek, please leave me a comment and let me know what you think of my explosion box card.

Challenges for this box
The Cuttlebug Spot Box ends - 2/6
Crimbo Crackers For a child ends - 2/1

Congratulations are in order!

2012-01-14T15:45:00.033-07:00

I was so busy during the holidays that I did not get a chance to post this card. My son-in-law came home on December 22nd for good after spending 24 years in the Air Force. What an accomplishment!
I wanted to give him something very special to remember his service and I found this place on-line, The Good Wood Store that makes plaques. I was quite taken aback when I saw it as my Dad has a plaque very very similar from when he was in the Air Force during World War II, so this was that special something I knew I had to order for my SIL. I removed his last name from the picture for his privacy.

So now I had to move to making him that special retirement card. I was looking through the book for Stand and Salute an I found a similar image to what is in the center of the plaque. I used CCR to weld the image into an open circle.

I printed some "wood" paper using my Imagine and the Snapshot Nature cartridge and cut it out from that. I added some Crackle Accents to the eagle.

The striped background paper I printed using the Buccaneer cartridge and added a strip of blue that I Cuttlebugged with the star folder and sanded off. The stamped sentiment at the top is a Gina K Design stamp and says "Congratulations are in order". I can't recall what cartridge I used for the USAF letters, maybe Plantin Schoolbook?
I did the inside a little differently, while I was looking for a sentiment I found this one that was perfect............................

But the occasion was so immense that I thought I should include a serious one also. So I out my thinking cap on (sometimes it works LOL) and I made the side almost like a joy fold card and used the star in the corner to keep it closed.
Here is the other verse, I hope you can read it.

He was very very happy with his plaque and did notice that the card matched. Sometimes guys don't notice stuff like this, ha ha, but he did.
I also wanted to share with you what the Air Force gave him for his retirement.

Thanks for stopping in and hope you enjoyed my blog while you were here.

Mirror - Mirror on the wall

2012-01-13T15:21:00.000-07:00

Here is a card I made for my brother-in-law whose birthday was January 6th. He is a very funny person and we joke around a lot. Later in the post I will explain the "joke". I wanted to make the front of the card very serious looking so we would be thrown off track.

The frame was cut from Elegant edges and I backed it with silver mirror paper. The saying was computer generated. So hard to take a picture of that mirror with my camera showing up in it. LOL
Then when you open it this is what you see................................

Well now to tell a bit of the story. One time while we were in Las Vegas, my BIL did a bit too much partying one night and when he got up in the middle of the night to go the bathroom he said he looked in the mirror and there was "an ugly man" in there. Even though he just turned 71 he still has a lot of hair, (some grays ones so I colored them in) so it was quite a mess when he looked in the mirror. The image I colored using my Copics, it is an image from Digis with Attitude and thought it fit the theme of this card perfectly, with him proudly holding up his brew.

I even added a piece of rope for his belt.
The grill I cut from glossy black paper and silver for the grate using the From my Kitchen cartridge. The steak was also cut using From my Kitchen and covered with Glossy Accents.
I printed the grass paper using my Imagine and the Snapshot Nature cartridge, then cut it out using the grass cut from Plantin Schoolbook.

I added cloud paper to the background. The happy birthday is cut from glitter black paper using MS Birthday Cake Art cartridge.

I want to say thanks for stopping by and I would love to hear what you have to say about this card. It was so much fun to make and we all got a big laugh out of it.

Challenges for this card
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends 1/16

Home of the Free......

2012-01-08T21:47:00.001-07:00

......because of the brave. I made this card to follow a sketch and color challenge on the Cricut message board. All parts came together great, a while ago I bought a K&Company red, white & blue color stack and that was the challenge colors. Then last week I got my new stamps from Pink by Design and I had ordered the "Our Troops" set so this all came to mind, with the paper and the stamps.

I am so pleased with how it turned out. The background (stripes & stars) is all one piece of paper and fit perfectly into my theme and sketch.
The banner across the top if from the Stand & Salute cartridge welded together in Cricut Craft Room. The stars were also cut from Stand & Salute. I cut them from white cardstock then colored them with Tim Holtz Distressed inks and heat embossed them with clear embossing powder a few times each, it is almost like covering them with Glossy Accents. The colors Faded Jeans and Fired Red Brick matched the paper perfectly.
Here is a close up of the stars, I stacked 3 on top of each other.

I also finished the inside very simply.

The reason that I ordered this set up stamps in because I have a Grandson in the Navy and another Grandson going in next month. Not that I did not support the military before it just brings it a lot close to my heart.
Thanks so much for stopping by and I would love to hear what you have to say about my card.

Challenges for this card
CES Challenges Anything goes ends - 1/13
Crazy 4 Challenges Something New ends - 1/13
Fund with Shapes No Black Line ends - 1/12
My Mums Crafts Something New ends - 1/14
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends - 1/15

Outdoorsy Birthday

2012-01-06T08:12:00.001-07:00

Hello everyone, well my younger brother's birthday is coming up so I made him this card. I had bought this Outdoor Paper stack a while back to use to start making more male cards to build up my stash. It has some really great papers in it and all kinds of other goodies, tags, embellishments, words, letters etc.

The background papers and the "log" are from the Outdoor paper stack, oh also the center tag where the happy birthday is stamped and heat embossed.
The diamond shapes I made from the Elegant Edges Cricut cartridge using Cricut Craft Room to extend it out. The original shape was a square but using one of the little design handles I was able to pull out the shape and turn it to make it into a diamond shape. First time I used this design handle and I really liked it and think it will come in handy designing. The diamonds were cut from plain white cardstock, then sprayed with Walnut Inks, they are really cool and add a kind of antique texture to the paper. I only have a 4 color pack and really need to get more colors. :).

The pine cone I cut from the camp Out cartridge and covered it with Crackle Accents.

The inside I added another of the diamond shapes and then stamped the sentiment. One of my New Years resolutions is to finish the inside of cards, now this one I had to finish because I will be sending it out to my brother, but hope my resolutions holds up otherwise LOL
Thanks for stopping by, love to read your comments.

Heat it Up!.............

2012-01-04T00:30:00.003-07:00

.....................that is the challenge this week at Crafty Creations. Heat embossing, use heat embossing on your project and enter it in the challenge this week, our sponsor is Pattie's Creations. You could win some of her digital images.
PATTIES CREATIONS:

This is a great challenge at least for me as I heat emboss 99% of the time I stamp. But to make it a bit more challenging I wanted to use one of the digital images from Pattie's Creations so I printed it using my home printer on heavy vellum and immediately sprinkled it with black sparkle embossing powder as soon as it came out of the printer, then heat embossed it. This works with paper that does not absorb the ink right away, but you have to be fast with the embossing powder, best to have it ready with the lid off and sprinkle it on.
Here is my card.

I place the printed butterfly vellum over a pretty piece of flowered paper from the K&Company "Best of Brenda Walton" stack, punched the corners and accented it with a piece of lilac ribbon. The "with sympathy" was stamped and heat embossed.
Here is a close up of the butterfly, maybe you can see the heat embossing here.

It is always nice to have sympathy cards on hand when the need arises and I thought the butterfly image was perfect for a sympathy card.

The inside was done very simply to write a hand written note or stamp a sentiment later.
So glad you stopped by, be sure and leave me a comment so that I know you were here. And would love to see you join in the fun at Crafty Creations Challenge this week.

Vegas Baby!

2011-12-31T15:28:00.000-07:00

Our 26th wedding anniversary was on December 27th. Most years we go to Las Vegas for our anniversary, but this year there was just too much going on that we will have to wait till sometime in January, we love to go to Vegas. So since we were not going on our anniversary I made my hubby this card. It came out so cute, I love it and hope you think the same.

Wow, looking at it I used a lot of cartridges to create this card, well 5 that is a lot for me on one card. The background starry night paper is from an outdoor stack I bought for making guy cards, but it fit perfectly here. The "Vegas" is from the Tie the Knot cartridge and using Cricut Craft Room I welded the word "baby: from A Child's Year cartridge and sparkly glitter paper. The Las Vegas sign is from the cartridge Destinations, I cut it in several layers using a shinny holographic like paper for the skyline, and pop dotted the sign. The rode I cut using the My Community cartridge, it was a freebie I got way back when I got my first Expression, but there are so many useful images on it.

Then I chose the 57 Chevy from the Nifty Fifties cartridge because my hubby had one this exact color when he was younger....................oh so many many years ago ha-ha! I even added a small heart sticker to the back fender. This whole card fell together so well for me, you know sometimes you picture something in your head and it just does not work on paper, well this one did. Yeah!

Here is how I finished the inside. Although the outside of the card is a bit fun and I go with a mussy inside as my hubby does ever so much for me and probably 90% of the housework because I can't due to a spinal cord issue. He is so wonderful and never complains, not even when I buy more stuff I "have" to have, LOL.
Well thanks so much for stopping by, would love to hear what you think of my card.
And a very very Happy New Year to all!

Challenges for this card
Tip Top Tuesday Anything goes ends - 1/3
Make it Monday Always Anything goes ends - 1/1
Party Time Tuesdays Anything Goes ends - 1/2

Baby Sweetpea

2011-12-28T08:38:00.000-07:00

I am still playing along at the CDAC Progressive Challenge , it is so much fun and you can still join in, just click HERE. This round I chose this adorable image from Just Some Lines , (tag "cdacpc9, JSL " .) Every two weeks new images are posted for you to use, if you want to jump in it will only cost you $1.
So I colored my image using my Copics, I am getting better however I am pretty excited about a couple of classes offered my Melissa & Kristy at Created from Color I can't wait as they are both awesome at using their Copics.

I love this color combination, the background paper is from the DCWV Nana's Kids girl stack. The flower I cut using the Flower Shoppe cartridge and spritz it with some Glimmer Mist and added glitter green brad to the center. I made this card following the sketch this week at Mojo Monday , I love following sketches and each Monday, Mojo Monday comes out with a new
sketch to follow.

You can barely see it but I added some "stitching" with my white gel pen to the patch on her jammies. You can also see the flower a little better here. I distressed the edges of the image and the pink paper it is mounted on.
I also completed the inside, with a cut from the Fancy Frames cartridge, and left a plain piece for writing a message, not sure how I will use this card yet. Anyone have any ideas???

Well hope you like my Sweetpea card, thanks for stopping by.

Baby"s First Christmas

2011-12-27T13:20:00.002-07:00

Well I hope everyone had a very Merry Merry Christmas, boy was it ever busy around here! There was so many special elements to this years Christmas that it just seemed like there was something going on every day & night for the last week. I know I may have mentioned it in a previous post but here are a few things that makes this Christmas so special but yet very emotional & memorable. First of all we have a great-granddaughter who will be celebrating her first Christmas, but to make it especially grand her Daddy who is in the Navy got to come home on leave to share in this moment. My son-in-law came home on December 22nd and is retired from the Air Force after 24 years, my sons's 41 birthday was 12/22 and he is working in the oil fields in North Dakota but he got to come home. So it was a huge homecoming for all, especially because in the up coming year, my son and daughter and their families will be moving to the Denver area, my Navy grandson is going into submarines and another grandson is going in the Navy so not sure when we will have another Christmas like this one.
Sorry for the story, anyway here is the card you came to see.....................LOL

The image is from Pink Gem Designs, they have some adorable images be sure and check them out. This one came both colored and uncolored, I tried to color using my Copics but I was having some trouble and running out of time so I went with the pre-colored one. The colors were great anyways. I printed it on white pearl paper and immediately sprinkled it with sparkle embossing powder when it came out of the printer than heated it. I cut it out using the Make the Cut software, it is an amazing software that works with die cutting machines. You can pretty much cut out anything, unfortunately I do not utilize it to it's full ability. The tag that the image is mounted on using foam tape was cut using my Cricut out of white glitter paper, sorry I can't remember which cartridge. The Merry Christmas was also cut from glitter paper using the MS Elegant cakes cartridge. The white strip in the middle I punched using an Fiskars punch and ran red ribbon through it.

This card has a lot of sparkle to it, I used Christmas paper from a DCWV Christmas stack I got a few years ago.
I also finished the inside using several different poems and sayings and adding some of my own touches to personalize it.

I wan to wish each of you a very very Happy New year. Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and take a peak on my card. I would love to hear what you think of it. Make sure you stop back in the next week as I have several cards to post that I had not had a chance to.

Challenges for this card
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends - 1/2
Charisma Cardz Anything Goes ends - 1/4
Cinspirations Anything goes ends - 1/3
Mum's Craft Shop Anything goes ends - 1/3

Crafty Creations Blog Hop

2011-12-21T00:30:00.031-07:00

Hi everyone, ready for a blog hop to get some inspiration for those thank you cards you have to make after the holidays? Well this week that is what is going on at Crafty Creations.
So for my thank you card I made this snowman card using one of the images provided by A Creative Need. I know that it is a very busy time right now so this challenge/hop will last for two weeks.

I colored the image using my Copic markers. The sentiment is computer generated with a cute "snow capped" font that I found on line for free! The top border I cut using the Winter Frolic cartridge and Cricut Craft Room. Here is a close up of those letters that I added a bit of sparkle to the tops.

And the inside I did very simply so you could add a hand written message.

There are a lot of prizes being offered on the Crafty Creations blog so be sure and go on over and check them out. There is even a few prizes along the way from the Design Team. So go ahead join in and hop along with us.

Now remember to join us and post comments to the Design Team for the Blog Hop! You will be amazed at the talent we have on our DT. If you get lost along the way you can always come back here for the next link.

1. Claire

2. Deena

3. Bernie

4. Dawn

5. Juelmarie

6. Kaos

7. Rudlis

8. Jenni

9. Donna

10. Peggy

11. Jaime

12. Lindsey

13. Donelda

14. Kathleen

Have fun and hope to see your creations for this two week challenge. Remember you have till Jan 3 2012 to enter the challenge at Crafty Creations.
Thanks to all for a wonderful year and for all of my followers and blog friends, Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year to all.

Clean & Simple Christmas card

2011-12-13T23:59:00.043-07:00

Hope everyone is well on their way to be ready for the upcoming holiday. I know this year I am behind with getting my Christmas ready and mailed out.
Every year I make most of my Christmas cards the same, it is much easier for me that way. Although leading up to making my cards I enter a lot of challenges so I end up with quite a few different ones, so this year I had about 18 different ones and made 22 of the same for the 40 I need. So finally I finished my cards, I wanted to go for the clean & simple look because I liked this ornament stamp that I got from Stampers Best and wanted it to be the main focus because of all the pretty details. Make sure you go by and check out Stampers Best if you are a stamper as they have some cute images, prices are great and shipping fast, what more could you ask for!
So here is my card.

This one I stamped and heat embossed it using red glitter embossing powder. I made it in several different colors, but this one seemed to show the sparkle the best. I also embossed the background paper with my Cuttlebug using the Mistletoe folder. Since I embossed and used glitter is also fits into the challenge this week at Crafty Creations where I am on the design team. Here is another version using a gold pearl embossing powder.

Then for the inside I had the first two stamps to fit along with the front of the card.

The small "merry & bright" stamp & the small ornaments stamp inside is from Gina K Designs and it matched great with my sentiment that I had.

Not a very good picture but here is a picture of some of the other colors I made, the blue one is very pretty and bright.

So I wish you all a very Merry & Bright Christmas and wonderful New Year. Thanks so much for peaking in on my blog, would love to hear your comments.

Challenges for this card

Crafty Cardmakers Use it 3 ways (heat embossed in multiple colors) ends 1/8

Dream Valley Christmas ends - 1/7

Hooked on Crafts Christmas ends - 12/24

Make it Monday Always anything goes ends 12/18

A little birdie told me....

2011-12-13T20:28:00.001-07:00

I made this card using one of the images for this round at the CDAC Progressive Freebie Challenge. the image is from doodle Pantry and I think it is so adorable. cdacpc8, doodlepantry. I love the images at Doodle Pantry they are so cute.

I think it came so cute. All the papers I printed and cut using my Imagine and the Bubblegum Stripes cartridge, I just got this cartridge and love all the bright colored papers on it.
I colored the bird (chicken or ducky???) using my Copic markers then covered it with Glossy Accents. It is pretty simple, but I think the paper does all the work. For the most part I am not very good at mixing patterns and colors but since I got my Imagine it has made that a lot easier.

I also used my little Jacome sewing machine (thanks Okie) for sewing the pieces together. I always forget about my little machine, but I love it. The "a little birdie told me" is a stamp from Gina K designs.
I added a sentiment inside that I computer generated.

I was runnign out of time so all the papers are put together using repostionable tape and I will go back and sew them together. I will post another picture when I get that done.

Thanks for stopping by and visiting my blog, please leave me a comment so that I know you were here.
Challenge for this card
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends - 12/18
Totally Paper Crafts Anything but Christmas ends - 12/15
Corrosive Challenges Anything except Christmas ends - 12/24

Poinsettia Card

2011-12-09T16:43:00.002-07:00

Hi, I made this card a couple of weeks ago and have just now had a chance to post it.
I had seen on a blog (sorry can't remember) that they used a flower cut from the Flower Shoppe cartridge to make a poinsettia, well I made it and had it sitting on my desk for about a month. When a challenge was posted on the Cricut message board with a sketch that I could finally use this flower on I made this card.

I love the way it came out and I found the perfect background paper in my stash, even has the sentiment going perfectly up the side "Happy Holidays".

Here is a closer look at the flower, it is shimmery. I printed the paper using my Imagine on Cryogen White paper that has a mica like sparkle on it that shows through the printing.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and visit my blog. I would love to hear what you think of my flower.

Challenges for this blog
Cute Card Thursday Christmas ends - 12/14
ABC Christmas christmas ends - 12/19
2 Sisters Christmas ends - 12/16
Crafty Hazelnuts Traditional Christmas ends - 12/16

Blitsy - Check it out

2011-12-08T08:18:00.000-07:00

Not sure if you have heard about this new on-line store but I just found out about it. They have some amazing deals on crafting supplies weekly.
Here is a link to check it out Blitsy

Click here to sign up for the newsletter to receive emails about their deals.

Just wanted to share this with all my awesome followers and friends, after all what are friends for we need to pass on deals to each other and enable them LOL

Puppy Pile of Presents

2011-12-07T00:30:00.027-07:00

Hello all, I know that everyone is probably running around in circles trying to get everything ready for the Holidays.............they are fast approaching and I don't even have my Christmas cards done let alone addressing them and getting them mailed.
So our challenge this week at Crafty Creations will help everyone get that job one step closer. The challenge is to create a Christmas card using a sentiment.

Our sponsor this week is Lily of the Valley:

And the prize is

So I chose to use this darling image from LOTV and colored him using my Copic markers.

Isn't he cute all surrounded by those presents. I cut my presents out using the Snow Angel cartridge then ran them through the Cuttlebug. After the Cuttlebug I heat embossed them using red & green glitter embossing powder, the embossing from the Cuttlebug did not show up too well after that.

The frame around the image I cut using the Elegant Edges cartridge. I twisted a piece of white & red ribbon to make it look like a candy cane. There is a lot of sparkle & glitter on the image but you can't see it too well. I used some Sakura gel pens to highlight the presents.

Here is a closer look at the presents. The label where the "Merry Christmas" was stamped is a Spellbinder.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you are all enjoying ready for this special time of year and take a minute or two and join in this challenge this week at Crafty Creations.

Challenges for this card
So Artful Challenge Christmas (red & green) ends - 12/15
Make it Mondays Always anything goes ends 12/ 10
Jingle Belles Rock Christmas link party ends - 12/22
Crafty Anns Christmas tic-tac-toe(glitter, presents, ribbon bow) ends 12/15
ABC Christmas Y = Yipeee Christmasy ends 12/19
Penny's Challenges Merry Christmas ends 12/20

Winter Scene Stair Step Card

2011-12-01T21:37:00.003-07:00

This is a pretty simple card looking back at it. It would be a good card to mass produce for Christmas cards. I think I will make more for my cards this year.

The whole card was made using the Imagine Snow Angel card. I saw the background paper in the book and thought it would be the perfect backdrop for a stair step card. I love making these if I can out all the pieces together right and this cartridge made it so easy. The front two folds I ran through the Cuttlebug using the swirls folder and then sanded it to look like snow. ??
That is what is nice about printing the paper with the Imagine is that is makes it a white core paper that can be sanded.

Here is a side view where you can see how the pieces are put on. I added some pearl pen to the "snow" on top of the buildings and a couple of the trees in the background. Behind the house, I stamped a verse.

There was layers that could have been cut out for the snow people and the house but I chose not to cut them since the pieces would be layered on the card. I embellished the snow people with some brown pearls.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you all had a great week and having fun getting ready for the holidays.

Challenges for this card
Scrap Creations Christmas ends 12/14
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends 12/4
Squiggle Fly Winter Wonderland ends - 12/4
Kaboodle Doodles Bundle up for Winter ends - 12/6
Hooked on Crafts Winter Wonderland ends - 12/11
Polly Craft Challenge Christmas Fun ends - 12/18

Decking the Halls...........

2011-11-30T00:10:00.015-07:00

This card reminds me of the front hall/entry way to a house that is all decorated for the holidays, hence the title.
It has been so very hectic for me of late as I am sure it is for everyone. I had about 6 birthdays and a wedding going on along with Thanksgiving and having the family here for dinner. So with all going on I was not sure I would be able to get the project done this week for the Crafty Creations design team that I am on, but I did get one done.

This week out hostess is Bernie and our sponsor is

The challenge this week is to use a picture as your inspiration, follow the picture, color etc, however you interpret it. I normally shy away from this kind of challenge as I think I have a hard time with them, never knowing to follow the photo, color or whatever. So I went ahead and tried it I am pretty pleased at how it turned out. Here is the photo inspiration

Interesting and so many ways you can take it, so here is what I came up with

I am so excited with how it turned out! What do you think, can you see the photo in it or what I was trying to convey?

The desk is cut from the French Manor cartridge (Circle exclusive) at about 2.75 inches, I cut it from plain white cardstock ( I do this a lot to check on sizes) then I covered it with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo ink and distressed embossing powder and heat embossed it. . It has a lot of texture to it and way happy with the way it resembled wood. I cut it again from chipboard and glue them together to give it more weight to pop dotted it. Added some gold half pearls for the handles on the drawers. The "mirror" I cut using the Fancy Frames cartridge at about 2 inches, out of a metallic DCWV paper and added a layer of foil silver for the mirror part.

Using some stickers I had I embellished the whole thing to make it look like it was decorated for the holidays. I think I will add the sentiment "Deck the Halls".

Thanks for stopping in, please let me know what you think of my card and we would love to have you join in the challenge this week at Crafty Creations.

Challenges for this card

Make it Monday Always anything goes ends 12/4
Crafty Cardmakers Heat Embossing ends - 12/10

Craft Your Passion Tis the Season ends - 12/4
Divas by Design Anything goes ends - 12/13

Cricut Circle Blog Challenge

2011-11-28T20:59:00.000-07:00

This week the challenge in the Circle blog was to create something using some of your flowers from your stash and incorporate at least 2 Cricut cuts into it. The prize is a $25 credit to your Cricut.com account.
Here is my card, it was also made following a sketch this week on the message board.

I have had this poinsettia flower and leaves in one of my Prima flower packs for some time now. The background plaid paper was print and cut using the Imagine cartridge Santa's Village. The white is pearl paper I Cuttlebugged with a plaid flower that was in a Christmas set of folders.
The flower pot was cut from Walk in my Garden , I Cuttlebugged it and then put Crackle Accents on it. Here is a close up of the pot.

The stem of the flower is the letter "L" from the Ashlyn's Alphabet cartridge.
So I guess that covered my two cuts and 3 if you count the plaid paper.

I did the inside very simply and will stamp a sentiment is it later.

I also added some of that plaid paper from the Santa's Village cartridge. All the plaid papers I printed on pearl paper so they have a very pretty sheen to them.
Thanks for stopping by, would love to hear what you think of my poinsettia card.
Challenges for this card

Make it Monday Always anything goes ends - 12/4
Lil Red Wagon Christmas ends - 12/6

A Hole in One Birthday

2011-11-27T17:27:00.001-07:00

It was my son-in-laws birthday earlier in the month and he loves to golf so I made him this card using a Tiffany Doodles golf ball image. I love her images, make sure you stop by and check them out if you like to work with digital images.

He is the son-in-law that works in a print shop and often brings me some gorgeous paper to use, so I wanted to make his card extra special, however I was a little late so I added the bleated birthday which was computer generated and added some eyelets to the edges of the strips of paper.
The grass paper I printed and cut using my Imagine cartridge Snapshot Nature. I printed the golf club and ball image twice, once on white paper and once on silver.
As soon as the silver piece came out of my printer I sprinkle it with black embossing powder and heat embossed it so the black part is raised. The golf ball I ran through my Cuttlebug using the dots folder then covered it with Glossy Accents, I shadowed the edges with a gray a bit to make it stand out.

Then I had another moment and I thought I would add the inside sentiment printed on paper printed with my Imagine to look like sand. The using the Give a Hoot cartridge I cut it in the shape of a "sand trap".

I also used the grass paper on the inside and added a hole flag from the Everyday Paper Doll cartridge. I think the whole thing came out rather cute, what do you think?
Thanks for popping in and taking a look at my card, I sure hope you liked it enough to look around my blog a bit. Would love to hear what you think.

Challenges for this card
Paper Crafting Journey Anythings goes ends - 12/7

Feelin Crabby?

2011-11-23T20:05:00.002-07:00

I made this card following a sketch on the Cricut MB, but I think it came out so cute. The image is a Tiffany Doodles (tagged "cdacpc7, tiffanydoodles") image that I got for free for playing along at the CDAC Progressive Freebie challenge. It is so much fun, if you like working with digital images be sure and check it out.

I colored the image using my Copic markers, then cut him out and covered him with Glossy Accents. I cut 3 circle using the George cartridge out of acetate and then colored it using my alcohol inks and Cuttlebugged it using the Bubbles folder.

I added so some cute red googly eyes. The stripe behind him is black glossy paper.
I got to thinking and thought it would would make a great get well card to try and cheer someone up. So here is what I put inside.....

It actually came from my head can you believe it??? Sometimes I do come up with something good LOL.

Thanks for stopping by and I hoe while you are here you will take a look around at mu other creations. If you like what you see leave me a comment or even better become a follower.

challenges for this card
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends 11/27
CDAC Freebie use images offered ends 11/30
Creative Craft Free for all ends 12/5
Lollipop Crafts Anything goes end - 11/26

Snowflakes

2011-11-20T00:01:00.011-07:00

This is a very simple card, that I let the paper do most of the work. The paper is from an older Christmas stack I had from a few years ago.

The 2 snowflakes are from a couple different Cricut cartridges, I covered them with very fine crystal glitter and pop dotted them. The sentiment is a stamp that I stamped directly on the printed paper and heat embossed with white powder.

This was my first time using crumple or crinkle ribbon that I just got from an exchange on the Cricut message board. I am not sure I know what I am doing with it yet. Do you think it looks OK? I will learn as time goes by.

Thanks so much for taking the time to visit my blog. And I wish everyone a very wonderful Thanksgiving holiday with family & friends.

Challenges for this card
Christmas Inspirations No images but must be Christmas ends - 11/30
CES Challenges Snowflakes ends - 11/25
Crafty Catz Snowflakes ends - 11/24
Moving Along with Times Let it Snow ends 11/23

An Apple for you

2011-11-19T14:43:00.003-07:00

We just got a new set of some great images from amazing artists for this series of challenge at CDAC Progressive Freebie challenge. This is the second series and it would be a great time for you to hop in on all the fun. It is really easy, just go to CDAC and join up and get your free images, then all you have to do is create one project using at least of them and post it by the deadline, then you will get the images for the next round. easy peasy and fun too!

So this time I chose this cute apple image by Heart Song Designs how kind of them to offer this image for us to work with. Make sure you check out their site for other images. Tag - cdacpc7, heartsong

I colored the apple using my Copic markers and then glazed over it with Glossy Accents and Crackle Accents in the center. The papers are from the DCWV Autumn stack, I love the papers in this stack. The brown paper is sprayed with Glimmer mist so it has a gold sparkle to it.

You can see the glossy and crackle better in this photo. The "for you" is a stamp that I have had for some time, I stamped and heat embossed it with gold.

The inside I did very simple and let it blank for a hand written note.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I am so very glad blogger restored my blog so I have some catching up to do.

Challenges for this card
Raise the Bar Food Time to Feast ends - 11/24
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends 11/20

And the Celebration continues

2011-11-19T08:25:00.000-07:00

..............over at the Cricut Couple blog.
Bobby & Jill at the Cricut couple were having a 500 follower celebration & giveaway. I sure hope you didn't miss it, because not only did they show us some fabulous amazing, incredible and awesome cards they had great prizes.
Well in true Cricut Couple style they are having a continuation of the celebration because they reached 600 followers.
You really need to head on over and join in the fun and check out the HUGE prize they are giving away.

Sledding Polar Bear

2011-11-15T21:24:00.005-07:00

Hi everyone, I am so so glad to be back. For some reason Blogger decided the remove my blog for possible spam. Me? my little blog? I think not, well anyway I contacted them and asked them to do a review of my blog and they re-instated it late yesterday. Bot I sure missed having it.
So today I have to post the card I made for two challenges, one the Crafty Creations challenge, peanut butter and jelly, use Kraft paper, white/creme and one other color, also the CDAC Freebie challenge, where the image is from D2D. Both of which I am a bit late for what wanted to post this card anyways.
The image is from Digital 2 Delight , I colored him using gray Copic makers and distressed the paper he is mounted on.

Coloring "white' is kind of tricky so I just used Cool Gray around his outline and I think that is all I needed to him to get the effect I wanted.
Hard to see but I added some Glossy Accents to the scarf.

Thanks so much for sticking it out with me during my blogger issues. So glad to be back and hope you like my Polar Bear

Challenges for this card
The Kraft Journal Favorite project of 2011 using kraft paper ends 12/25
The Craft Garden Christmas no red or green ends - 11/30
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends 11/19
Creatclocious Challenge Sparkly Christmas ends - 12/10
Paper Sundaes Use a digi ends - 11/19
ABC Christmas Challenge W is for Winter sports ends - 11/21
Scrappy Frogs Use Kraft cardstock ends - 12/3

Old St Nick

2011-11-03T16:31:00.005-07:00

Hi, been so so busy I haven't posted for a while. This week at Crafty Creations our challenge is to use GREEN, PURPLE & SILVER with some "snow" on it. The very talented Peggy is our hostess this week and we where given some images by our sponsor Stretch n' Bubbles Shop. I chose this image and it reminded me of St. Nick.

I used the challenge colors to color him using my Prisma Pencils and Gamsol, then added some white flocking to the little roof ro make it look like snow. I cut the snow flakes using the Cricut cartridge Christmas Noel and covered them with snow glitter and added a pearl to the center. I matted him on green and silver paper that I ran through my Cuttlebug for texture.

A closer look at those snowflakes so you can see the sparkle.
Well sorry this is such a short post but have to go pack, we are leaving for Laughlin, NV in the morning to go to a wedding. I think I might do a bit of gambling while I am there :), well I guess more than a bit, I love all those crazy slot machines.
Thanks so much for stopping by to take a peak, let me know what you think of my St Nick card. I think I will cut out the words St Nick to the top of the card.
Challenges for this card
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends - 11/6
The Cuttlebug Spot Anything Goes ends 11/13
Joyful Stamper Inspire Fridays create a crafty project ends - 11/10
Digital Tuesday Cute & Cuddly ends 11/7
Paper Playtime Past or Presetn anything goes ends - 11/4

A Special Halloween Card

2011-10-27T14:53:00.004-07:00

I am super excited about this special card. In February I was blessed with a great-granddaughter, she is just adorable and I have been trying to make her mementos for her first year. For Halloween she will be dressed as a ladybug, she is a very active 9 month old but not quite walking yet so trick-or-treating will have to be done via the stroller. But at the rate she is going she will be walking by Thanksgiving, she has taken a couple of steps and tries very hard to walk.
So here is that very special card.......................

I cut the "person" and the ladybug outfit from the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge. She is about 6 inches tall so I had to make a half sheet size card. I then had to find a picture (we have tons to chose from LOL) that she was facing forward, I had to print it until I got it the right size. I covered the ladybug part with red flock so it is fuzzy looking and added some black dots that I had. The shoes are cut from glossy black cardstock so they look like pan-ten leather. The spider web, spider and trick or treat bag were also cut from Paper Doll Dress Up. The web was misted with Glimmer Mist so it has a sheen to it. I even snuck my new MS drippy goo punch in there along the bottom

The trick-or-treat back had the words cut into it but did not show up too well, so I set it up on my Gypsy and "cut" it first with my Quickkutz pen in the blade housing then, returned to the design put the cutting blade back in and cut it out. Now the words showed up better. Then I covered to whole thing with glossy accents. This card was made following the sketch this week at Mojo Monday #212. I was so happy when I seen this sketch as I knew it work perfectly for this card.
Now I thought I am going to have to make the inside special also, so here is what I came up with.

I covered it with the same background paper as the front from the DCWV Halloween/Fall stack. Then I went hunting on the internet for a sentiment to use of the inside. They were all scary and way to old for a small baby so I took a few of them and along with my own ideas put this one together. Now lately I have been working a lot with the hinge method to use my Cricut to cut out around things that have already been printed, but until now the shapes were simple, circles, squares etc... This time I went a bit out of the box and cut this cute ghost around my sentiment.
This card has been in the making for several weeks and has changed courses so many times, trying to evolve around the ladybug but in the end I am very very happy with it.
Please leave me a comment on what you think of my Halloween card. Thanks for dropping by.

Challenges for this card
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends - 10/30
More than Favors Anything goes ends 11/1
Scrapbook Sisters Anything goes ends 11/7
Inspire me Friday Link poarty anything goes ends - 11/4
Shellys Images Tic-Tac-Toe (Twine - Free - Punches drippy goo) ends 10/30

An Autumn Hello

2011-10-26T00:30:00.021-07:00

Hi, thanks for stopping in. Today I have made an Autumn Hello card. I made it following a sketch and also this week at Crafty Creations our challenge is to make something with leaves/Autumn colors. Jamie is our hostess this week and she got Whiff of Joy stamps to be our sponsor. So come over to Crafty Creations, you could win a prize from our sponsor.

This card is kind of simple but I think it really reflects the Fall. The background paper I printed and cut using my Imagine and the Enjoy the Seasons cartridge. I also printed and cut all the other pieces also, like the yellow strip and center cream colored piece where the sentiment is stamped. What I like about printing my paper on the Imagine is !). You can get the exact color to match your other papers and 2) I printed this on Cryogen White which has a mica sparkle that shows through the printing.
The large leave is a button and all the others are brads. Pretty simple huh?

Glad you stopped by and be sure and join in the challenge at Crafty Creations.

Challenges for this card
Celebrate the Occasion Fall ends - 10/31
Shopping our Stash Fall/Autumn edns - 10/31
The Paper Shelter Anything goes ends 10/31

Gobble Gobble Turkey

2011-10-24T16:38:00.003-07:00

Over at round 5 of the CDAC Progressive Freebie challenge one of the images we got to use was this adorable turkey from Sew Many Cards. You can still join in this progressive challenge for just $1. Head on over to CDAC and check it out, the new images come out on November 1st. You have two weeks to work with each set.

I colored my little turkey using my Copic markers, then added some Glossy Accents to the heart shapes at the end of his feathers. I do feel like I am getting a bit better with these markers.
I printed him with my printer then colored him, after I was done I realized that I did not have the correct size Nestie to cut him out so I pulled out my Gypsy and set up an oval that I knew he would fit into and used the hinge method to cut out the oval around him,. Because I printed him a bit large I had to make the card a half sheet card (8 1/2 by 11 folded)I am beginning to really like making this size card. I also cut a brown oval (hard to see)and and additional scalloped oval and then added a couple of brads and pop dotted the whole thing onto the card. Because I printed him a bit large I had to make the card a half sheet card (8 1/2 by 11 folded)I am beginning to really like making this size card, easier to get all your elements on it and your Cricut cuts do not have to be so small that they tear up while cutting.
I made this card following a sketch from a challenge on the Cricut message board, so I had to set up the "ribbon" like piece behind the turkey. It was pretty easy using my Gypsy, I just placed a long rectangle the length I needed then lined up a triangle on each end, easier than trying to cut this by hand and keeping it even and straight. I ran it through the Cuttlebug after and inked around the edges.
The Happy Thanksgiving is cut from the Simple Charmed cartridge, I liked the fun look of it. I added a small bling for the dot on the i. The border above the sentiment is an MS border punch.

The background paper is from the DCWV new Halloween/Autumn stack that I just got a couple of days ago. Love it, an awesome paper stack as was their Autumn one last year.

Here is a closer peak on my Turkey, isn't his face just so cute. You can also see the brownish oval.
I will finish the inside later and give it to my great-granddaughter for her fist Thanksgiving. She is almost 9 months old and trying very hard to walk.
As always I am very happy you stopped by, let me know what you think of my turkey and I really feel like he needs a name, any suggestions?

Challenges
My Time to Craft Punches & die cuts ends - 10/25
Paper Playtime Past or Present anything goes ends - 11/4
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends - 11/6

Bold & Bright Card

2011-10-22T11:41:00.002-07:00

Hi, hope everyone is having a great weekend so far. I love working with these colors so when I saw the ad color challenge to use yellow, black & white together I knew I had to make a card. It was also made following a sketch.

The circle I cut using my Cricut George cartridge, this is the cartridge that came in the very first Cricut and it seems like I go to it more often than any other cartridge.

I put a variety of different buttons in the center of the 3 circle and then tied some twine into bows. I had ordered the twine several months ago and I sure don't use it often enough, I like the way it looks especially with buttons. I had a tough time deciding what sentiment to put on this card and then I found the "bee happy" on Just Because cards cartridge, I wish I would have found it first because I think I would have put a bee in place of one of the buttons, I guess I could still put one off to the side?

I even completed the inside of this one very simply and left space for a hand written message.

After typing up this post I went back and I did add that little bee, what do you think?

Thanks for stopping by, I would love to read your comments. :)

Challenges for this card
Joyful Stamper Inspire me Friday Anything goes ends - 10/27
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends - 10/30
Totally PaperCrafts Layers ends - 10/27

Christmas Birthday - Two cards in one

2011-10-19T00:15:00.061-07:00

Hi, at a time of year when most of us are thinking about making our Christmas cards I also have to think about making a Christmas Birthday card and I amsure some of you do also. There are so many people that have a birthday on Christmas day or very near, for instance my son's birthday is the 22nd and he will be 41 this year, he is old not me LOL.
I am hosting the challenge this week at Crafty Creations so I have set the challenge to make that Christmas birthday card.
Also I had a friend sometime ago ask me to make a birthday card for his uncle that will turn 91 on Christmas Day, this is what helped me pick my challenge. The card I made is for him not my son, but I hoping I will get ideas and inspiration for my son's card from everyone that joins in the challenge, so head on over to Crafty Creations and jump in, there is a prize to be won.

This card will be hard to show in just one picture so there will be several. Here is the front of the card.

The paper has like a leather suede feel to it and came in one of my Dazzles monthly kit I get. The clock and sentiment is also from that kit and are Dazzzle stickers. I stuck the clock Dazzle sticker on a piece of that suede paper and then cut out around it. I colored in some areas with my StazOn Metallic ink pad using a paint brush to color just some small areas. I also added a brad to the center of the clock face to hold the arms. Not sure anyone will notice but I put the hands at "9" and "1" for 91 years old. The paper behind the clock is like old catalog paper that I crinkled up and then inked some of the wrinkled places, was trying to go for a vintage look.
Here is the inside of the card

The sentiment was computer generated, then cut out using one of my Nesties. Now onto the Christmas part of the card.

The Christmas tree was cut from the Christmas Noel cartridge and shadowed with the red paper. The Christmas papers are from a K & Company Christmas stack that I got last year. Again the sentiment is computer generated. Here is a front view of the card.

I stuck the two cards together back of the birthday card to the front of the Christmas card. Here is another view.

I hope they like this card, I tried to make it very special since it such a big milestone.

Thank you so much for stopping by, please leave a comment I just love to hear what others think of my creations. And don't forget to stop by Crafty Creations and join in this weeks challenge to make Christmas Birthday card.

Challenges for this card
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends - 10/23

You Rock - a repost

2011-10-18T16:01:00.000-07:00

I posted this card about a year ago, but I had it in my stash and had not finished the inside. HERE is the original post if you want to take a peak. Well my older brothers birthday is coming later this month so when I was trying to decide what kind of card for him I remembered this one. Although he does not play the guitar he does play the drums and still has a set in his living room, yes at 60 years old ssshhhh don't tell him I told LOL. In fact he still has hair down to his shoulders. So very many childhood memories around music in our house/family will tell you a cute story later in this post.

The guitar was cut from the Stamping cartridge as well as the "You Rock". Hard to tell in the picture but the middle part of the guitar is cut from glossy silver paper and Cuttlebugged. I hand cut very small strips of paper for the guitar strings. The guitar itself is also Cuttlebugged.
Now the interesting part of this is the background music paper is from a kleenex box. There were several colors and in the original post HERE I also have a pink girl version of it.
Here is the finished inside, I though this stamp was the perfect verse. I hope it is readable.

I think he will really enjoy and like this card. Now on to that family story. When Mike (brother) was about 14 or so he wanted to play the drums and as I said my whole family loved music but not as much as my grandma so she bought him his first set of drums. As he got older and better and joined a band he saved up enough to upgrade his drum set, well my grandma offered to buy back his first set of drums for she paid for them (to help him out) and she took that set of drums and put them in HER living room and she played them! She had an ear for music and never took a lesson in her life but if she could sing a song in her head she could play it on almost any instrument. She had a concertina, the set of drums and later she bought herself an organ and boy could she play them all. I don't know how much you really want to hear but I am on a roll and this story popped in my head. While I was living in Tombstone AZ she came and spent sometime with me, we would go into town and she would say "come on let's go to the Crystal Palace for a beer" so we would go and she would order her beer. One day in the afternoon there was a small band playing and she went up to them and said "let me on the stage I will play those drums" and sure enough she did, she was probably in her 70s and she kept right up with that band. She was so amazing and we lost her way to soon to cancer because I can only imagine what other memories she would have let us.
Thanks for stopping in and letting me reminisce.

Non-Traditional Colored Snowflake

2011-10-17T16:13:00.001-07:00

Hello everyone, I have another snowflake card for you today. I love the way it looks even though it is as far from the color of a snowflake as you can get.

I thought I would follow the colors in the paper to make this snowflake. I made this card following a sketch (of course) and using papers from a DCWV Christmas stack from a year or so ago that I had in my stash. The I guess since it is Breast Cancer Awareness month the pink fits right in. It is actually pretty simple, I printed the circle sentiment using my printer on vellum then using the hinge method cut the circle out using my Cricut. The more I do this the easier it gets.
I cut the snowflake in three layers from the Christmas Noel cartridge, there are a lot of cartridges that have a snowflake cut on them but I seem to like this one a lot.

Here is a closer look at the snowflake layers. I cut the larger or shadow layer from a dark red paper and sprayed it with glimmer mist, then the next two layers I cut from kind of a hot pink color. The middle layer I ran through my Xyron and covered it with pink glitter, the top layer I again sprayed with glimmer mist. Then I added a few pink accent pearls and that's it.
So let me know what you think of my "pink" snowflake. Thanks for stopping by.

Challenges for this card.
Paper Craft Weekend Challenge Think Pink ends 11/16 (special challenge)
Make It Monday Always anything goes ends - 10/23
Squiggle Stamps Christmas Cheer ends - 10/28

Let it Snow

2011-10-14T17:29:00.004-07:00

I made this card for one of the entries at the Cricut Circle Blogiversary. We had to use one of the Circle exclusive cartridges. I used Sophie, which was the last one we got and by far my favorite so far. It has a card feature and since mostly make cards I love this, it also has some fabulous dollies. She here is my card, the prize is to win $75 to your Cricut.com account that would be cool!

It is so sparklie in person, The large snowflake has three layers that I sprayed each one with Glimmer Mist, a darker color on the bottom layer. The top layer I put crystal glitter on it. What do you this about the blue & silver dots, do they look OK? I have not glued them permanently yet, they had sticky on the back but that doesn't stick real well to the glitter. It was not my intention at first to have part of the snowflake cut off, but when I cut it out using CCR and my Expression, I thought I had the 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper in the right direction but the cut ran off the edge of the paper on the bottom two layers of the snowflake so I thought I would just put it off the edge of the card and cut the top layer off to match. I really think I like it better than placing the whole snowflake on the card. Happy accidents, don't ya just love when that happens. :). The smaller snowflake is cut from the Christmas Noel cartridge at slightly larger than 1 inch. The card is a 5 1/2 inch square card. The "Let it Snow" is from the Winter Frolic cartridge and I flood filled with the same snowflake pattern as the background, but CCR put a green border around it and you can see it, so it is on there temporarily because I am not sure I like it there. I wish they would fix that border bug in CCR as I love to use this program especially when I am using my Imagine.
The snowflake background is printed/cut from the Snow Angel cartridge, is is printed on Cryogen White paper that has a sparkle through it that shows through the printing.

Here is a closer picture of the snowflakes where you can see the sparkle a bit more. The top layer of the small snowflake is pop dotted.

Thanks for stopping by and I would love to hear what you think of my partial snowflake.

Challenges for this card
Belli Challenge Flower soft, glitter or felt ends - 10/15
Anything challenge Die Cuts ends - 10/17
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends 10/18
Crafty Cardmakers Anything goes ends 10/16

Circle Blogiversary Sketch Challenge

2011-10-13T16:15:00.001-07:00

This October celebrates one since the Circle Blog was started. There is always so much inspiration, fun and giveaways on the blog. So this week we had to follow the following sketch and the prize is An Imagine!

I had fun with this, as I love to follow sketches and I think it came out so pretty. You had to follow the sketch and use at least 2 different Cricut cuts.

I had cut this adorable teapot a couple weeks ago when I got my Everyday Pop Up cards cartridge. I just love this cut so I left it on my desk to be used when I found the right project and this was it! It is cut at 3 inches. I Cuttlebugged the yellow part with the swirls embossing folder, I did not want the embossing to be so deep, so I ran it through again under the embossing folder to flatten out some of the embossing. I did the same thing with the yellow flower. The flower was also cut from the Everyday Pop up cards cartridge.
All the papers were printed and cut using the Imagine and CCR, the white piece was cut but of course not printed. The background flower paper is printed from the Imagine cartridge Blossom and it was all printed on a mica coated paper which has a slight sparkle to it. Happy birthday was cut from the MS Elegant cake cartridge, it was printed with the blue but I covered it with blue ink and heat embossed it with sparkle so it would sparkle. So with all those cuts this card should qualify for the challenge.

Here is a closer look so you can see the difference in the embossing. I used the swirls folder on the white but did not flatten it out. I added a bling for the dot on the "i" of birthday. Lots of other bling on this card. It is a large card, half sheet of letter size paper.

So glad you found your way to my blog today, I would love it if you left a comment for me to read.

Challenges for this card
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends - 10/15
One Stop Craft Challenge Anything goes ends - 10/14

Scaredy Cat!!

2011-10-12T00:30:00.058-07:00

This image is an Design 2 Delight image and is an image from round 4 of the CDAC Freebie Progressive challenge. If you are not familiar with this challenge be sure and check the link above and get in on the fun. This week it worked out perfect for me because I also used this image for our challenge at Crafty Creations this week. Our hostess this week is Deena and our sponsor is Willow Designs.

Here is the 3-2-1 challenge Deena has set for us

1. Use 3 designer papers

2. Two embellishments

3. one image

Here is my card

My 3 designer papers are from three different paper stack, the one you see the most the plaid is from DCWV Autumn stack. My 2 embellishments (well there are more than 2) Bow, brads and purple bat on the bow, and the image of course from the CDAC Freebie Progress challenge. I had the scaredy cat sticker in a pack of stickers and I thought it fit perfectly. The green strip behind the image I punched using my MS drippy goo punch.

Her is a closer view. I was going to cover the pumpkin with Glossy Accents but I forgot. Still might go back and do it? I colored the image using my Copic markers and cut it out with my oval Nesties, then I wanted a scalloped shadow layer (my 3rd DP) so I used my Gypsy and cut it so it would show behind the image, can't remember which cartridge. :/

So come on over to Crafty Creations and join in the 3-2-1 challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.

Challenges for this card
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends - 10/16
Cupcake Craft Challenges Halloween ends - 10/16
Everybody Art Challenge Halloween ends - 10/17
The Beary Scrap DT Free for All (anything goes) ends - 10/14
I Did it Creations Anything goes ends - 10/15
The Scrap Master Use Orange ends - 10/15

Lori's Garden Birthday

2011-10-10T21:37:00.003-07:00

.........I am still playing with my Lori's Garden cartridge, I just love all the images and the papers on this cartridge.
This one was made following a sketch on the Cricut message board.

This car is rather simple however I added some bling to it by putting some Stckles on the flower. I printed some of the patterned paper on vellum and just love the way that turned out. Hard to see but it is the pink piece behind the vellum that the happy birthday is stamped on.

I think you can see that better in this picture. Lori;s Garden makes it so easy to make a card.
Thanks for stopping by leave me a comment so that I know you were here.

Challenges for this card.
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge Sparkle ends 10/13
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends - 10/16
One Stop Craft Anything goes ends - 10/13
Penny"s Cahllenges Anything goes ends- 10/11

Fall colors Wedding card

2011-10-08T20:37:00.006-07:00

We have a wedding to go in early November and the wedding colors are Fall colors. At first I thought that this colors might be a bit dark for a wedding card, but in the end I like the way it came out.

Since I needed to work with Fall colors I pulled out my DCWV Autumn stack from last year, this is still one of my favorite paper stacks. I chose the dark red paper that has a slight black line design to it. The base of the card is white pearl paper and I left a small edge of the white behind the red paper. I embossed the top half of the background paper, but since the paper was thin it torn a bit and you can see the white, but I think that kind of gave it a nice effect and picked up the white border. The border across the center is a very very pretty pearl like gold paper, it is so hard to see that in the picture. I cut the border from the Martha Stewart All Occasion Cake art cartridge, and saved some of the small hearts and glue them on the bottom half of the card.

The heart were also cut from the MS All Occasion cartridge. I printed the names on a piece of pearl white paper in brown and immediately sprinkled it with clear embossing powder the second it came out of the printer. The pearl paper doesn't dry as fast so you have that window that you can sprinkle it with the embossing powder and then heat emboss it.
Now the tricky part was getting the hearts to cut out exactly around the names. I used the "hinge" method. I set up the hearts in my Gypsy then cut them from just plain white card stock, then took the hearts off the mat but left the rest on the mat and placed a piece of tape across the top.
Then I lifted that piece off the mat like a hinge leaving it attached at the top and slipped my printed piece of paper under the template to line up the printed names under the cut out hearts. You can see my arrows of which way I had to move each heart to get them lined up.

Stuck my printed piece to the mat, removed the template (hinged piece) and loaded it in my Cricut to cut. I think I made it a bit harder on myself by trying to cut out both name hearts at the same time instead of doing them individually.

Are here are the hearts cut out.

I hope this makes sense. There is a video out there on You Tube on how to do this. I am not too good at tutorials but I am trying
I then place pearls alternating small and tiny pearls around the hearts, cranberry colored on hers and brown on his. The "Wedding Wishes" is stamped and heat embossed in gold. I still have one more card to make for this wedding (for my Mom) so hope to get that posted in the next couple of days.

Thanks for taking time to spot by my blog. I would love it if you left me a comment.

Challenges for this card
Crafty Card Makers Anything goes ends - 10/16
Creatalicious Challenge Anything goes end - 10/14
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends - 10/16
ABC challenge Anything goes ends 10/13

Lori's Garden Birdcage.

2011-10-05T14:25:00.003-07:00

Ever since I got my Imagine in June I had been wanting the Lori's Garden cartridge. It was one that people got at launch but since then you were able to purchase it however it is usually pretty pricey even on Ebay it was $50+ which I think it too much for a cartridge. So I waited patiently and two weeks ago CricutMachine.com had a sale and it was just $19.95. I almost fell off my chair when I saw that this was one of the ones on this special. It arrived last week and I love everything one it, even the papers are pretty. So this week at Mojo Monday I thought the sketch would be perfect for using this cartridge and the birdcage. Here is the sketch I had to follow, and be sure and go over there and join in as this week there is prizes.

Mojo Monday is such a great place for inspiration and they release a new sketch every Monday.
So here is the card I made following this sketch. Plus there is a challenge over at the Cricut Circle blog to make something using your Imagine papers and print out layers, I think this card fits that challenge perfectly.

I am so over the top happy with how this came out. I even think it might qualify as being a Bobby card from the Cricut Couple. After all it was his cards using this cartridge that made me want it so so bad. If you are not familiar with him or the Cricut Couple blog you really need to go check it out both Bobby and his wife Jill are amazing card makers, one of the most talented in blogland Well one of the things that makes it a Bobby card is the size, it is a 8.5 x 11 size of paper folded in half, I am really liking making cards this size as it is easier to get what you want on them and also your cuts do not have to be so small that they are hard to get off your mat.

So on to my card, I used Lori's Garden for the entire card, papers and all. I printed the papers on Cryogen White paper that has a mica like sparkle to it, and it shows through when you print on it. There are several places on line that you can buy it one of them is Paper Temptress, she has a lot of other great papers also.
The Imagine really helps me to put colors and patterns together which is something I struggle with now and then.
Over all the birdcage is cut at 3 1/2 inches and I cut each layer that comes for the design and pop dotted then as I stacked them. Added some pearls to the centers of the flowers and along the bottom of the cage. Then after I get it all put together and even mounted on the scalloped circle and onto the card, I decide I should cut out a bird for in the cage, well it did not look right for the bird to be "outside" the cage, but my design was all assembled already :(..................Hmmm what to do, then I have one of those moments and it pops in my head to print the top layer of the cage on vellum paper and put the bird behind it. Well that meant I had to take all the layers apart, being the anal person I am sometimes I went ahead tackled it and gave it shot. I risked ruining my whole card, Yikes! So carefully using one of my Cricut tools I pried each piece off and set it aside to put it back. So here is it is, all re-assembled.

with my little birdie properly place "inside" the cage. I took a huge chance but I am very very happy I did as it worked out great. What do you think, even in the close up it looks good or not redone?
So would you or do you do things like this or am I just crazy? LOL
I am so glad you stopped by to take a look, leave me a comment so that I know you were here and sure hope you decide to follow me or come back again for another look some day.

Challenges for this card
CES Challenge TotallyGorguss/Girlie ends - 10/7
Simon Says Stamp Sparkle & Bling ends - 10/11
Make it Monday Always anything goes end - 10/9
Crafty Cardmakers Anything goes ends - 10/16

Sparkly Christmas Wreath

2011-10-05T00:30:00.058-07:00

Boy you should see the sparkle on this one in person! This week at Crafty Creations our challenge by our hostess Claire is to make a decoration, when I think of decorations I always seem to think of Christmas especially this time of year. So the challenge is a decoration but it does not have to be Christmas it can be any kind of decoration, candle, wall hanging, Halloween, door hanger, well you get the picture. So make sure you come a play along because Claire got us a fabulous sponsor this week.

You could win a fabulous CD from Polka Doodles.

The Magical Winter CD full of images, papers, sentiments etc....

So here is my decoration, it is a small wreath only about 8 inches big, but I created nearly the entire thing using my Cricut Imagine.

I cut all the branches from the Christmas Noel cartridge, in fact there is 16 in all. I flood filled them with a pattern from the Imagine cartridge Snow Angel. Here is a picture of them still on my mat.

I flipped some of them in CCR so the some would be going in the opposite direction. Then I sprayed them with water and crunched them up, like when you make crumpled flowers so that they would not be so flat and have some dimension to them. Beware, when you get things wet that were printed with the Imagine the ink fades and runs, lesson learned so the colors are not as bright as they started out to be. Maybe if I let the ink set overnight it might not have happened, will have to try it again some time. Here is a picture of them well some of them drying on a paper plate.

Then I cut a circle out of green card stock and chipboard and glued them together to make it heavier and punched a whole in the back for hanging it up. Then using my hot glue gun I started to glue down all my branches in various directions till I completed the circle. When they were all glued down I very lightly misted it with spray glue and sprinkled clear and green glitter over the whole thing, had to do something to make up for the color I lost when I wet all the branches.

While I had my glue gun out (don't get it out very often) I decided to have some fun and make some skittles, I made several small ones to color later, then I got the idea to make BIG ones and sprinkle them with red glitter, after all I was already covered from head to toe in glitter. They came our great, I am very happy with them and they were the perfect decoration for my wreath.

So one of my dilemmas was, what else would I put on there, wanted to do a bow but nothing I had looked right. So Sunday my hubby took me to Michaels to try and find something, well after picking up several Christmas stickers decorations etc still nothing I brought home seem like the right fit. I decided to cut out my own bow. I cut the bow using the Ashleys Alphabet cartridge and coloring it using my Imagine. The top layer I covered with red glitter and it was perfect!!!! I even added one of my special glitter dots to the center of the bow.

You can see some of the sparkle in this picture.

So go ahead jump on in and let's see your decorations.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed my wreath and extra pictures of the process, I always forget to take pictures along the way.

Challenges for this card
Simon Says Stamp Sparkle & bling ends - 10/11
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends 10/9
Anything Challenge Dies cuts and/or Punches ends 10/16
Scrapalicious USA Something that hangs ends - 10/11

Black & Gray Card.

2011-10-03T21:03:00.004-07:00

Didn't want to title this as a sympathy card, but when I put these papers and colors together I thought it would do well as a sympathy card. Besides it is nice to have these around as I find them more difficult to make when you need them.
This is one of the sketches this week at RAQs Challenge on the Cricut message board.

After giving me many fits I think it came out fine. This was one of those cards where you have something in your mind and it is just so hard to get it on the paper how you imagine it. I was determined to use one of the tag cuts from Picturesque that has a butterfly on it because I had paper that would work well with it. Well after cutting out several and flood filling them with the Imagine I finally moved on to something else. The background papers are from the same pack that I originally wanted to use.. What I had a hard time with was that I was also trying to follow a color challenge using black, gray and ivory, well I just could not get the ivory to work so I used white. Close enough huh? The papers are from a Best Occasions stack that I bought a WalMart a couple of years ago, the tag is from the same stack.

I knew one of the cartridges had a cut to match the "Queen Anne's Lace" (as I call it) on the paper so I could incorporate a Cricut cut into it. This particular cut from Lyrical Letters is an extremely fine cut but I went ahead and tried it using my Imagine because it cuts so much better than my Expression, but even using the Imagine the fine lines/stems just fell apart trying to get it off the mat. I so wanted to use this cut and then I had an Ah Ha moment and used my Quickuts pens in my Create to draw it. I set it up in my Gypsy at the size I wanted and then put my black pen in and hit cut, after is was done drawing it I hit "return to mat" and placed a circle around it using George, then I deleted the Queens Anne's Lace and hit cut and it cut it out perfectly! Here is a link to a video on using these pens in your Cricut, just click HERE. YEAH t worked! I cut out a slightly larger black circle to use as a shadow. I colored in parts of the drawing using my Stardust gel pen, the petals part but it is hard to see.

I cut the "with sympathy" from the Wild Card cartridge and added a few dots with my white gel pen. The edge of the gray I torn using a metal ruler that I had found on clearance at my grocery store, works great when you don't want to use a straight edge. Whew well I think it came out fine although it took many many turns along the way.

Thanks so much for stopping by, I would love to hear what you think so leave me a comment.

Challenges for this card
Inspire me Fridays Anything goes ends - 10/6
Crafts 4 Eternity Anything goes ends - 10 6
Creatalicious Challenges Anything goes - 10/13
Make it Mondays Always anything goes ends - 10/9
Ooh La La Sympathy ends - 10/16

Happy Holidays Snowman

2011-10-02T08:47:00.001-07:00

Well it seems I have been on a Christmas card roll lately, well at least I am getting a bit of a head start. Also at the Cricut Circle blog weekly challenge was to make a card using your Cricut, well this card was all made using my Cricut Imagine.
I made this card following a sketch this week on the Cricut message board.

I used the Imagine cartridge Snow Angel to print the background paper and the snowman.

I layered the snowman and added a few extra embellishments to him. I used brown pearls for his buttons and a brown rhinestone for his eye. His carrot I colored using my Copic markers and then covered it with Glossy Accents. For the "ice" I covered it with Crackle Accents to make it look like ice. Using the Crackle Accents on the Imagine printed images gives it a bit of a different effect. The Crackle Accents makes the colors bleed a little, in this case it was a good thing, but I will have to remember that because some times it may not be good. LOL
I a very happy you took the time to stop by, leave me a comment so that I knew you were here.

Challenges for this card
The ABC Challenge Anything goes ends - 10/13
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends 10/9

Christmas Ornament

2011-10-01T13:29:00.004-07:00

Well happy World Card Making Day everyone, I hope everyone is having a lot of time to play and make some cards today. Here is my card I will submit on the Cricut Blog where they are having a giveaway of the Cricut cartridge "Happy Hauntings" and the October issues of the Cricut magazine. So stop on over for you chance to win and to see some inspiration. But you better hurry cut off is midnight tonight.

The card is a half sheet sized card ( 5.5 x 8.5), so the ornament is cut rather big about 5 inches. It was cut from the Christmas Noel cartridge using all 3 layers. I cut them all from plain white card stock and then sprayed each layer using a different color of Glimmer mist to color them. The top green layer I covered with Glossy Accents for some added dimension and shine. Even the striped background paper I printed using my Imagine and the Mr Frosty cartridge. I printed it on Cryogen White paper which has a light sparkle to it. The sparkle shows through the printing. I think I will have to get more of this for printing with my Imagine.

Here in this close up you can see the Glossy Accents a bit better. The green border/strip was cut using the MS Elegant Cake cartridge, using Cricut Craft Room I welded three of them together to make it the correct size I needed. Wow Cricut Craft Room will really be an awesome program when it is released. They are still working out a few minor bugs but I am sure it will be released soon. I added some red stickles to the border to look like holly berries?? The Merry Christmas is a stamp.
Thanks so much for stopping by to visit, I love to read your comments.

Challenges for this card
Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes ends - 10/4
Truly Scrumptious Clean & Simple ends - 10/4
Penny's Challenge Anything goes ends - 10/11
Catch the Bug Anything goes ends - 10/8
Paper Crafting Journey Die cut and Punches ends - 10/12

Bowl of Apples

2011-09-28T20:00:00.035-07:00

This is another great image I got for playing along at the CDAC Progressive Challenge and this images is by Glitter Babe digis. If you want to join in the fun make sure and check out the CDAC Progressive Challenges you will have to pay $1 to join in and the new images come out October 1st. You will have two weeks to work with those images and then the next set comes out, the best part about it is all the images after that are FREE, all you have to do is make sure you make at least one project using the images to be reliable to get the next set. So here is my bowl of apples.

Not sure for what occasion I will use this card so will add a sentiment and finish the inside later. I used my Promarkers to color the apples because I just did not have the right colors in my Copics, the bowl however was colored using my Copics. Looks like I have to fill in some gaps in colors of my Copic collection.
I cut down the image and rounded the corners, then I mounted it on a piece of olive green paper. I took my Tim Holtz distressing tool and distressed the edges of both pieces and added some red square brads to the corners.

I also added Glossy Accents to the apples. I think they look pretty cool. I added a couple buttons on top of each other with brown cord off to the side op top of a green strip of paper that I Cuttlebugged with a button pattern.

Thanks for stopping by and I would love for you to leave a comment.

Challenges for this card
CDAC Progressive Challenges Use free image ends - 9/30
Penny's Challenges Anything goes ends - 10/11
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends - 10/2

Fall Sunflower Birthday

2011-09-28T12:02:00.001-07:00

Well according to the calendar it is Fall, but you can't tell by the temperatures we have been having here is Arizona. We have still been in the high 90s, I am so ready for it to cool off. So I thought making a Fall like card might help me remember it is Fall. This image is a freebie JustInked image that I got to use for participating in the CDAC Progressive Challenge. It is a lot of fun and if you want to get in on it the cost is only $1, it was free if you started from the beginning. You get a set of new images to work with every two weeks. Check out the CDAC link HERE as the new images come on October 1st just a few days away.

I am really working on coloring with my Copics and feel like I am making some progress. I colored the sunflower and the butterfly I did twice so I could layer the second one on top. The top butterfly I covered with Crackle Accents to make it a little stronger and to give it shine and texture. After I colored the sunflower I had a little trouble trying to figure what colors I should use on the butterfly. Then when I picked out the paper I was going to use for the frame it helped me to pick the colors. The paper is from the DCWV Autumn stack from last year, hard to see in the picture but there are light dots on it. The whole frame background is pop dotted to give it more of a framed/window look. The happy birthday I cut using the Martha Stewart All Occasions Cake Art cartridge and flood filled the color using my Imagine to match my color scheme. Love my Imagine for being able to get that perfect color I need. The leaves in the corner are from a package I bought last year at Michaels and I added a brad I made using my i-Top brad maker. I love that thing, it makes it so easy to make something to match your project.

Here is a closer shot of the butterfly. If you look close you can see some of the crackle. I also used my chalked to shade the white behind the image to tone down the white a bit. To set the chalk I sprayed the whole thing with Glimmer Mist and it also gave it a bit of shimmer. This card is 8 1/2 x 5 1/2, (a letter sized piece of paper folded in half) I am really beginning to enjoy making these bigger cards, something I have been inspired to do by blogging buddy at The Cricut Couple blog. OMG if you have never visited there blog you are really missing something. They have to be some of the most talented card makers out there.

I am so glad you stopped by today, I really do love to read you comments so let me know what you think of this card. I will be my daughter's birthday card (hope she doesn't visit my blog) which is in November.

Challenges for this card
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends - 10/2

A Clean & Simple Birthday card

2011-09-27T23:00:00.001-07:00

Hello everyone, this week at Crafty Creations our challenge is to make a "clean & simple" birthday card. I really love this style of card but some how have a hard time making one. Amy is out hostess this week and not really sure how she is keeping up with it as she just got married on Sunday! Congratulations and best wishes Amy to you and your new hubby.
OK, back to challenge, our sponsor is

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The winner will receive 4 digital images from Elizabeth Mae Designs

Here is my clean & simple card for this week

I am pretty please with how it turned out. It is an A2 (5 1/2 x 4 1/4)size card I haven't made a card this sizes in ages, but I knew I wanted to use my Cuttlebug and emboss it and since most of the folders are A2 I thought I would make the card this size. Both the flower image and the happy birthday are Gina K Design stamps and they are heat embossed with a purple pearl embossing powder, to match the pearl white paper I used.. The oval are cut with my Spellbinders. I even finished the inside.

Rather simple, but at least I finished it. LOL So come join in birthday cards are always easy to make. Don't forget to post your creation on Crafty Creations Challenge blog. You have till October 4th.

Challenges for this card.

Allsorts Challenge Clean & Simple ends - 9/30

Make it Monday Always anything goes ends - 10/1

Truly Scrumptious Clean & Simple ends - 10/4

Simon Says Anything Goes 9/30

Baby girl card

2011-09-26T20:54:00.004-07:00

Hi, I don't really need a baby girl card right now so this one will go in my stash box. I made it because I thought the theme where I am on the design team was babies but it wasn't so to my stash box this will go. But that is OK because we do have a great-granddaughter coming in November.

I like the way it came out. All the cuts are from the Cricut cartridge New Arrival. It is an older cartridge so i was so glad I got to pull it out and use it. The top part I embossed using my Martha Stewart score board and the envelope insert. I love that you can make this nice diagonal pattern and ti can be any size.
Here is a couple of close ups.

I added pearls here and there because I just could not resist adding some bling!
Well thanks for stopping by to take a peak at my card. I would love it if you left a comment so that I know you were here. :).

Challenges for this card
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends 10/2
New Challenge every Saturday for a child ends - 10/1
Whoopsie daisy Challenge make your own embellishments ends 10/2

Birthday Party Hat & Balloons

2011-09-23T20:04:00.003-07:00

This card is very bright and shinny. I made it following a sketch (of course).

The card is 6 1/2 by 5 inches, The party hat and balloons are cut from the Celebrations cartridge. The cuts were cut from glitter paper, the balloons I ran through the Cuttlebug with 3 different folders, then covered each with Diamond Glaze, pretty neat because the glitter shows through the Diamond Glaze. I also covered the hat with Diamond Glaze and then added some bling to it.
I cut the "happy birthday" using the Create a Critter from the same glitter paper.
I glued it to the white square and then put matching brads on the corners. Then I forgot that I wanted to run it through the Cuttlebug, so I thought well what the heck I will still run it through, so it embossed the happy birthday AND it also smashed the brads and left the embossing pattern on them. That is how much pressure out little Cuttlebug's can put on things. You can see it better in this picture.

I tied some cord around the bottom of the balloons then mounted them with different heights of pop dots.

Thanks for stopping by, i hope you enjoyed looking at my card and while you are hear take a look around my blog and I hope you find other cards you like.

Challenges for this card
Kaboodle Doodles Layers ends - 9/25
Simon Says Stamps dies and/or punches ends - 9/27
Ooh La La dies cuts/punches ends - 10/2
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends - 9/25
The Paper Shelter Anything Goes ends - 9/27

Birthday Fairy

2011-09-21T00:30:00.036-07:00

Well it was nice to have that one week break over at Crafty Creations, time to get a few things done and get caught up or just kick back. I was still in my room everyday working on cards but it was nice to have that small break from a deadline. Also at the Cricut Circle blog the challenge this month was create something about a window. I think this is a window type card

Our hostess this week is our talented Deena and she has challenged us use images from our sponsor Lily of the Valley stamps. She has some very very pretty images and you could win a voucher to use at her digi shop if you play along and win. So your challenge is to use fairies on your cards or whatever you decide to make. I chose this cute little girl fairy.

I am not a fairy person but I am so happy with how this card came out. There are a couple special things going on here on this card. I colored her using my Copic markers, I was going to use my Prisma Pencils because I think I am a bit better at shading with them but I went ahead and used the Copics and am please with how it came out. The only think that is a bit messed up is the sentiment, I stamped it and heat embossed it with a Gina K stamp, but a little of it smeared, I guess I had too much ink on the stamp.
One of the kind of special things is I cut the frame using the Storybook cartridge and used the negative or what was left after the center was cut out. I then cut it again out of chipboard so that it would be sturdy to pop up. I sprayed it with Glimmer Mist and without thinking I glued it to the chipboard, then I remembered I wanted to run it through my Cuttlebug, and I though "oh no it will be too thick" but I went ahead a tried it and with a lot of really pushing the handle it went through. I am surprised I did not break my plates! Plus the card is 5 x 7 so I had to each end through to get the whole thing embossed.
I added some pink and green pearls around the edge of the from to dress it up. This card had a lot of sparkle on it. I added some stickles to her wings to give them a glittery look and small shiny sticker spots to her headband and wand. Also a pearl for her pony tail.

You can see that a bit better in this picture. In the left corner I wadded up some holographic type paper that I had bought at Michaels on clearance a couple years ago. I glued some ribbon flower onto that wadded up paper. The pink background paper is the special part, as I was cleaning my room last week I found a few sheets of paper that I had MADE a long long time ago. My hubby had made me a wooden frame that sat over a box. He put screen inside the frame for me to put the paper pulp on and press out the moisture into the bottom box. I can remember grabbing what ever I could to add to my paper, I love the way the screen print shows through as a texture. This is a great way to recycle things also, the pulp is made mostly from wold paper that I shredded and add to the blender along with water, can't remember what I used to color it. I also sprayed it with Glimmer Mist for some added sparkle. I was a little worried about spraying it with moisture that it might fall apart, but it actually held up very well.
Well I am so glad you found your way over to my blog, I would love for you to leave a comment they are very inspiring to me.

Challenges for this card
Pixie Dust Recycle (homemade paper) ends - 9/27
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends - 9/25
All Sorts Challenge Recycle (homemade paper) ends - 9/23
Kaboodle Doodles Layers ends - 9/25
Crafty Boots Wings ends - 10/2
Flutter by Wednesdays anything with a fairy ends - 9/28
Stamp With Fun Anything goes ends - 9/25
Cricut Circle Blog window ends - 9/30

Another different card

2011-09-19T11:46:00.002-07:00

I try to make more male cards and sometimes it is hard. Many times I start out with a male card and somehow it evolves into a more girlie card. This one I think stayed on the male track enough.

The color follow an ad color challenge on the Cricut message board where we were to use Blue, Tan and Brown a great combination for a male card. I found this paper in my DCWV Mi Casa paper stack and they were perfect for the challenge. The cutout on the tan (don't want to call it a flower LOL) was cut from Accent Essentials cartridge. The center is a brad I made using my i-Top brad maker using Accent Essentials to cut out the template cover from the same paper stack. The small tan piece is run through the Cuttlebug using the clock work folder although it is hard to see.

The side pieces were hand cut from some scraps I had left over. I distressed the edges of both the tan piece and the blue piece and inked the edges.

I finished the inside simply by using some of the same papers. I will add a sentiment stamps later.

I am so glad you found your way to blog, however that may have been, so please leave me a comment so that I know you were here. I love reading them and the inspiration they give me.

Challenges for this card
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends - 9/25
Crafty Ribbons Anything goes ends- 9/28
The Squirrel and the Fox Anything goes ends - 9/28

I don't know about this one

2011-09-16T20:32:00.002-07:00

what do you think? I really don't think I like this one. Maybe it is not my style, but then again what is my style, I really don't think I have a particular style do I?

The card is 4 x 9 inches and fit in a business size envelope. I made it following this sketch from Card Maps

I love the sketch and was trying to do something using my Cricut/Imagine. All the papers and the flower image were cut using the Better Together Imagine cartridge. The flower I cut into three pieces to follow the sketch but it is hard to see that. I put blue Stickles all over the flower then covered it with Glossy Accents, I think I should have skipped the Stickles as you really can't see it anyways.

You can see the cuts better in this picture. I also pop dotted three layers on the flower. I like the colors and the papers but just don't think I like this card. I probably would not have even posted it if I had something else to post. LOL

So a question I have, so you think I have a style of card making if so what would you call it?
Well thanks for stopping by and leave me a comment to convince me I should like this card or what I can do to make it look better.

Challenges for this card
Crafty Our Passion the letter "F" Flower ends - 9/19
Totally Stampalicious Anything goes ends - 9/17
I Did it Creations Anything goes ends 9/17
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends - 9/18

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2011-09-14T20:01:00.000-07:00

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Yellow, Purple & Silver

2011-09-13T18:11:00.001-07:00

Hi everyone, for the first time I am entering a card in the Circle Blog (exclusive to Circle members)weekly challenge.
This week the challenge is to follow this sketch.....................

It looked like it could be a lot of fun and so very versatile. To qualify the project to enter had to be a newly created project, have glitter or bling and at least two different Cricut cuts.. For the glitter/bling part I pulled out my DCWV Lemon Flower stack. I love the papers n this stack. Well my card evolved a bit as it went on. Here is what it first looked liked.

Although pretty, I felt like the circles were a bit to plain. So I brought in some color! Here is what I came up with.

Much better don't you think. Although it looks like the background is matted on the darker color it is not. The darker color is a very thin frame I cut using the George cartridge by placing one rectangle inside another. Wanted to make sure I cut my qualifying cuts in, the circles were also cut using George. I also used my Gypsy to set up the plaid rectangle cut so it would be the correct size I wanted. The corner I cut with my trimmer just from a scrap of paper that I had.

The butterflies were cut from the Martha Stewart Elegant Cake Art cartridge. They were cut from plain white cardstock that I sprayed with Deep Plum Glimmer Mist spray, then added some silver bling down the center.
The "happy birthday" was a stamp that I heat embossed with silver embossing powder.
I did the inside very very simple for now and will add more when I go to use this card.

Told you t was plain LOL. Well thanks so much for stopping by, please leave me a comment so that I know you were here.

Challenges for this card
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends - 9/18
Robyn's Fetish - I did it challenge Anything goes ends - 9/16
Catch the Bug Punches and Die Cuts ends - 9/17
Crafty Boots Anything Goes ends - 9/18

Howl at the Moon

2011-09-12T07:59:00.003-07:00

I am so so excited at how this card came out, at the Circle Blog the monthly challenge is to create a "window" well this is exactly how it looks out my back window. We have mountains right behind us and lots of Saguaro cacti. The easel style of this card makes it look even more like a scene looking out a window.
I love how all the layers look and because it has so many layers I will enter it in the Pile it On challenge.

The "sand" like paper I printed using the Imagine cartridge Nature, then I torn the tops to look like mountains and inked the edges. I took a couple extra pieces and torn them also and place then behind to give it more depth. The night sky paper is from an Outdoor stack that I have.
The cactus and Coyote I cut from the Old West cartridge. I cut the cactus twice and pop dotted it so it would stand out against the mountains.

I used the Imagine cartridge, Ancestry for the pattern on the cactus. I also printed a pattern on the coyote but it doesn't show up in the picture.
Here is a side view on how the card stands up. I also matted the bottom with the same sand paper.

The saying are stamps from Mark's Finest paper that I stamped and embossed with black embossing powder. I the sentiments worked out perfect for this card.

Well I would love to hear what you think of my southwestern card. And thanks so much for taking the time to stop by.

Challenges for this card
Pile it on Layers ends - 9/17
My Mum's Crafts Layers ends - 9/13
Stamp-n-Doodle Anything Goes ends - 9/12
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends - 9/18
Totally Gorjuss It's a Man thing ends - 9/16

Warm Holiday Wishes

2011-09-10T12:55:00.004-07:00

Hi, hope you all are having a great weekend so far. I am still trying to get my Christmas card idea so I made this card following a sketch on the Cricut message board. I made it into a gatefold card.

I wanted the snowflake to hold it closed but am having a little problem with that part and will have to work on it. It think it is a bit to stiff or heavy to hold the card closed. Well I guess it will stayed closed in the envelope when I mail it LOL.

The snowflake I cut using the Winter Lace cartridge and it has 4 layers. All the layers are the same cut 2 are cut at 1 3/4 inches and 2 a little smaller then I sprayed them with Glimmer Mist to give them some shimmer and glued them off setting the pattern as I stacked them. Added a silver snowflake bling that I had bought last year, and added a few of the same bling snowflakes on the upper left hand corner. The paper is from Paper Wishes that came in one of my Dazzles kits. The oval and scalloped over were also cut using my Cricut, then stamped it and heat embossed it in silver.

I added a light blue strip across the from and punched both sides using an EK Success punch. The card is 5 x 7 1/2 so it is a larger card.

The inside I did very simple cutting a shape using one of Nesites from white pearl paper. I will add a holiday sentiment later.

I really appreciate you stopping by my blog today. Please leave me a comment, I just love reading them.

Challenges for this card
Creative Crew Anything goes - ends 9/11
The Paper Variety Use a stamp ends - 9/12
Lil Red Wagon Use a die cut ends - 9/13
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends - 9/11
Simon Says Stamp Multiple folds ends - 9/13

Spooky Halloween House

2011-09-08T12:02:00.002-07:00

I never usually make Halloween cards, because I am not sure what to do with them afterwards. LOL But when I saw this house on the Imagine cartridge Enjoy the Seasons I could not resist, besides I could use this for one of the sketches on the RAQs Challenge on the Cricut message board this week.

I had the dots background paper in a K & Company mat stack that I got last year in some "candy" that I won. The purple strip is a Martha Stewart punch that I punched on both sides of an 1.75 inch strip of paper and then added a piece of black glitter paper down the center. I just love how this turned out and it made me love my Imagine even more. The house is about 3 inches high. I set it up to the size I wanted in Cricut Craft Room, put in a white piece of paper and waa laa I had my Halloween house all printed and cut out. It cuts in five different layers.
Here is a bottom side view

I inked the edges and pop dotted all the layers to give it a lot of dimension. I cut an extra oval out of gray to mount it all on so it would not get lost on the card base.

I added the "boo" and witch on the moon (you can see her better in the first picture) which are from some Halloween confetti that I had. They were the perfect size. The witch was orange and I wanted it black so I colored her using my Copic marker and it worked great.
I also did the inside rather simple and used some more confetti there.

Sure hope you enjoy my Halloween card. Thanks for stopping by.

Thanks for taking the time to leave me a comment. I love to read them, besides that way I knew you were here to take a peak.

I will also enter this in the following challenge
Southern Girls Lots of Layers ends - 9/14
Art with no Boundries Anything goes ends - 9/17

Christmas Wreath

2011-09-07T00:30:00.034-07:00

Well this is my first Christmas card of the year. This week at Crafty Creations the challenge given to us by Dawn is "Anything but a Square", so I made this card 8 by 4 inches. Our sponsor this week is Wags & Whiskers, join in so you could win some of these adorable images.

I didn't cut part of the wreath off on accident, I was following a sketch that had a partial circle on the front. I thought that gave me an opportunity to make a Christmas card. The wreath is made using the Martha Stewart branch punch. I cut a circle base using my Cricut then glued each branch onto it. The branch pieces were punch from pearl white linen paper. It is so pretty and sparkly in person. Plus all the bling I added to the wreath really made it sparkle. The bottom area is also that same pearl white linen paper that I embossed using my Cuttlebug and a Christmas branch folder.

Every year I make about 50 Christmas cards and I try to make them all the same, it is easier for me plus then I don't get confused year to year what card I made. I would love to make this as my Christmas card, but I just don't think I can punch out that many branches, I think this card took about 30+ and they are not that easy to punch out of heavy paper. The Happy Holidays is a Gina K stamp.

So come on it is not that hard to make "anything but a square" and join in the fun at Crafty Creations.

It is time to get thinking about your Christmas cards and get started if you need some inspiration and want to join in a challenge check out this blog Christmas Crafting, I wll be entering this card there. It has a lot of sparkle!

Thanks for taking the time to leave me a comment. I love to read them, besides that way I knew you were here to take a peak.

Challenges for this card
Paper Take Weekly Anything goes ends - 9/12
Whoopsie daisy Bling it ends - 9/11

Back to School Book Worm

2011-09-05T12:22:00.004-07:00

This is just the cutest little book worm image. It is an image from Jen at the CDAC Freebie Progressive Challenge that is going on right now. It is so fun to play along, they provide you free images and every two weeks you have to post a card using one of the images. Go ahead and click on this link for all the details CDAC Freebie Challenge
Since it is back to school time that was the theme of the images this challenge. Also the challenge theme at If the Shoes Fits is back to school so I will also post this card there. I was so excited to find out that my card was chosen as one of the Top 3 last week at If the Shoe Fits.
On to on card, I colored the image using my Copic markers and then added Crackle Accents to the book.

I had this paper in my stash for a few years and thought it would work well with this theme. I finally used my Bakers Twine, I got it a couple of months ago because I love how it looks on so many cards I have seen but just have not used it till now.
Here is a closer look at the Crackle Accents on the book. I thought about putting Glossy Accents on the worm but couldn't decide so I just left it off, guess I could always go back and add it. What do you think, should I add it?

The apple I cut twice using the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge from plain white cardstock then colored it using my Copics. I did it that way so I could color the apple, stem and leaf separately. The two layers are pop dotted. The A-B-C I cut and welded using the new Cricut Craft Room out of shinny gold paper. I added a pretty heavy coat of Glossy Accents to the top apple and when it was near dry I put the A-B-C on top of it and right after I did it I though "Oh no, should not have done that" I wanted it to sit op top but it immediately started to curl and I thought I was going to have a mess on my hands and would have to start over. Well I left it for a bit and keep checking on it as it dried further and pressing down each end of the letters till it finally held. WHEW! I think in the end it worked out.

Well I feel like I went to school and learned a bit about Glossy Accents when it is still wet. LOL
I hope you all enjoy your Labor Day and for those going back to school, I wish you a very good productive school year.
Thanks for taking the time to leave me a comment. I love to read them, besides that way I knew you were here to take a peak.

Challenges this card will be entered in
CADC Progressive Freebie Back to School ends - 9/14
If the Shoe Fits Scrap it Back to School ends - 9/14
One Stitch at a Time Use a Digi ends - 9/10
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends 9/11
Sweet Stampin Challenge - anything but a birthday ends - 9/9
Card caravan Challenge Use twine ends-- 9/17
Fantabulous Cricut ABC - !@# Back to School ends - 9/11

A Dazzling Dragonfly

2011-09-02T16:22:00.003-07:00

Hi, here is a simple card I made this week. I did not use my Cricut on this card, all you cut just using my paper trimmer. I have found if I cut squares with the Cricut there is paper waste in between the cuts. Sometimes using your Cricut it a bit more accurate and straight but does leave some paper behind.

The papers are from the Best of K & Company stack. The dragonflies are Dazzle stickers I get each month in my monthly kit. I love the Dazzles they add such a great touch in the right place, plus it saves time because you don't have to color them.

The happy birthday is also a stick but not a Dazzle. And I did finish the inside of this card, I figured since I had out all the papers I may as well go ahead and do the inside.

Thanks for taking the time to leave me a comment. I love to read them, besides that way I knew you were here to take a peak.

Challenges for this card

Pocket full of Poises Card

2011-09-01T13:06:00.004-07:00

The colors in this card came out so pretty. The background paper came from the DCWV Pocket full of Poises stack. Card was made following a sketch (aren't all mine LOL) on the Cricut message board.

Everything is sparkly, the background paper has some glitter on it and all the flowers have been sprayed with Glimmer mist. In fact the flowers were all cut our of white linen paper using the Flower Shoppe cartridge and then sprayed with different colors of Glimmer Mist. Even the blue shadow behind the happy birthday was white and sprayed with the same blue as the large flower.

The center of the flowers I used Viva Decor Ice White pearl pen. Because the sketch had a half circle near the top I cut one of the flowers in half.

I guess it looks OK, The center circle I Cuttlebugged, this also follows a color challenge of using Pink, Orange and Hot Pink. There is orange there.
I am glad you stopped by :)

Challenges for this card
The Paper Shelter Anything goes - end 9/5
Make it Monday Always anything goes - ends 9/4
Creative Crew Anything Goes - ends 9/19
Bearly Mine Flowers, Flowers, Flowers - ends 9/12

Thanks for taking the time to leave me a comment. I love to read them, besides that way I knew you were here to take a peak.

CDAC Freebie Challenge Red & Aqua color combo

2011-08-31T00:30:00.062-07:00

This card came together for a couple of challenges plus for Crafty Creations where I am on the design team. Our challenge this week at Crafty Creations is to use at least three dies cuts, anything from punches to dies cut machines etc etc... My die cuts on my card are the flower cut from the Cricut cartridge, Flower Shoppe, the circle from the George cartridge and the brown strip is a Martha Stewart border punch. The fan was hand cut by me if that counts as a die cut LOL!
Our sponsor at Crafty Creations this week is Crimson Cloud, be sure you stop by and check out their web site.
Speaking of the fan it is a Priscilla Styles digital images that I got from CDAC. You really need to check out CDAC as there are so many talented people there plus right now they have a challenge going on where you get free digital images to work with.

This fan is one of the images from Priscilla Styles that I colored using my Copic markers. I am getting better at the shading thing. I am pleased with how this turned out. I also have a problem some times with colors but this worked out well. I added a red glitter brads to the fan and some sheer silver ribbon.

The flower started out white and I inked the edges with Distress ink and then sprayed the flower with Glimmer Mist. The background aqua paper I Cuttlebugged with a flower embossing folder.
Well sure hope you enjoyed your visit and will check out Crafty Creations and join us and also CDAC and see what freebies you can get at and play along with us.

Thanks for taking the time to leave me a comment. I love to read them, besides that way I knew you were here to take a peak.

Other challenges
Daisy Doodles Anything Goes (must include a digi) - ends 9/4
Creative Crew Anything Goes - ends 9/19
Make it Monday Always anything goes - ends 9/4
Bearly Mine Flowers, Flowers, Flowers - ends 9/12

Sending Prayers

2011-08-30T17:31:00.003-07:00

Hello, I made this following the sketch this week at Mojo Monday #206, although I love to play along each week with Mojo Monday I just don't seem to get to it very often. The sketch could be round, square or any shape you prefer.

All of the papers are from the DCWV Linen Stack, the papers in this stack are so soft and comforting so I thought I would make this into a "sending prayers" card which could be used as sympathy, get well or just receiving bad news. Always good to have this type of card on hand in case you need it. I feel they are harder to make when you actually need them.
I set this all up in Cricut Craft Room on line software so I would get my sizes correct to fit into a 5 1/2 inch square card. I cut the circle and the scalloped circle from the built in images that are in the Imagine.

Some of the papers are glittery ans the circle where the sentiment is stamped (a GinaK stamp) is pearl paper.
Thanks for stopping by today.
Thanks for taking the time to leave me a comment. I love to read them, besides that way I knew you were here to take a peak.

Challenges for this card
Mojo Monday sketch to follow - ends 9/4
Make it Monday Always anything goes - ends 9/4

Way to Go Card..........

2011-08-29T20:00:00.000-07:00

..............Beep Beep. I think this card came out so cute. I made it following a sketch on the Cricut message board, where we had to follow a sketch and use some old supplies that we had. I think I have had the little car brads over a couple of years.

The roads are cut from the My Community cartridge and then I added a piece of yellow paper behind the black. The Way To Go was cutting using the George cartridge which was my first cartridge when I got my first Cricut. The blue background is a Cuttlebug folder from the Boys will be Boys package which I sanded so the white shows through. The yellow paper was printed using my Imagine.

I am so glad that you really can't tell which is the front and which is the back of the cars, LOL that way I didn't have to worry about putting them in the right direction.

Thanks for taking the time to leave me a comment. I love to read them, besides that way I knew you were here to take a peak.

Challenges for this card
Make it Monday Always anything goes - ends 9/4

An Old Fashioned bath

2011-08-25T21:00:00.003-07:00

I got this image free over at CDAC Progressive Challenges, you should go and check out the details. I am running a little behind so you have till 8/31 to get into this challenge. Pricilla Styles creates some adorable images perfect for coloring with your markers and/or pencils. This one I colored mostly using my Prisma Pencils and Gamsol. The grass bunches I did use my Copics for.

The grassy/flower on the bottom was printed using my Imagine and the Snapshot Nature cartridge. I hand cut the "rolling" hills part. The saying is stamped but it did not make a full impression, oops. Don't ya just hate when that happens especially when you are stamping directly onto the card. The old fashioned water pump is cut from the Country Life cartridge.

I added some Crackle Accents to the water, but just did not crack the way I thought it would. I did also add some water "splashes"

I couldn't resist so I put some water "drops" coming out of the water pump, and put some silver dots for the rivets on the wooded water tub.

Thanks for taking the time to leave me a comment. I love to read them, besides that way I knew you were here to take a peak.

Challenges for this card.
Aud Sentiments - Anything Goes - ends 8/30
Everybody Art Challenge - Brown/Blue - ends 8/29

A Pink Giraffe

2011-08-25T14:17:00.004-07:00

Hi, I was a little behind but I think I am caught now! WHEW! This cute image on this card is from our sponsor Digis With Attitude this week at Crafty Creations . Our hostess Juelmarie had challenged us with the images to bring our our inner animal. As soon as I saw this adorable feisty giraffe I knew I wanted her to be pink.
This card also follows a sketch this week on the Cricut message board.

The frame around the giraffe and where the saying is is from the Fancy Frame cartridge. The saying is computer generated and printed on pearl white linen paper. As soon as it came out of the printer I immediately sprinkled it with Crystal embossing powder. Printing on this type of paper does not dry instantly so you have a small window of time to hit it with some embossing powder. The background pink giraffe paper is from the DCWV Safari stack.

I think you can read it a little better here. I added some pearls at the edge of the oval. I colored Gina Giraffe (as she is called at Digis with Attitude) using my Copic markers. Now I have a problem that I hoping you can help me out with, what should the inside say? I was quite pleased when I came up with the front saying as I was trying to show the attitude of Gina, but now what do I put inside? Any ideas?

Be sure and head on over to Crafty Creations and join in our challenge, you could win some of these images.

Thanks for taking the time to leave me a comment. I love to read them, besides that way I knew you were here to take a peak.

Challenges
Totally Gorjuss Cute & Cuddly
Paper Playtime Anything goes - ends 8/27
Craft Us Crazy Anything goes - ends 8/30
Stamps R Us Anything goes - ends 9/4
Make it Monday Always anything goes - ends 8/28
Card Makin Mama Pink - ends 8/31
If the Shoe fits Scrap it Jungle - ends 9/1

Pearl Paper with flowers

2011-08-25T10:47:00.001-07:00

I made this card last week for a challenge, I was still not feeling well so I did not get to post it till now. It was made following a sketch. Even though I wasn't feeling 100% it came out well.

The top paper with the flowers is very pretty and has a pearl sheen to it. I bought a few sheets at Michaels a year or so ago and finally got around to using it. As you may know I love Poppies, this one is rather simple, no coloring to do.

The bottom white is pearl cardstock also that I embossed using my Cuttlebug. The card is 5 x 7 and we all know that the Cuttlebug folder do not cover a 7 inch long piece of paper even though it says it is 5 x 7, the folder is but not the embossing area. Well I embossed it using the large dots folder and it did not cover it all, so I decided to emboss it again in two pieces using the regular Swiss Dots folder, well that kind of messed up so I ran it through the Cuttlebug underneath the folder (not inside) to try and press out the dots. That compressed them some, so then I took my brayer and ran over it several times and finally decided to use it as it. Well let me tell you if I was feeling well, I would have stopped and cut a new piece of paper after the first
try at embossing and start over, but because I just wanted to get it done I used it, and I think it looks interesting. So I guess I learned that a lot of times you can turn "mistakes" into something very different and unusual.
Because of the way the sketch was I added some large eyelets and threaded the iridescence ribbon through the eyelets.

The two tags were cut using the Alphalicious cartridge and then stamped with the happy birthday. Bot words were on one stamp so what I did while I was inking them was to cover one word (birthday) with a piece of paper, take the paper off and stamp it then repeat with the other word.

I would love to hear what you think of my card.
Thanks for taking the time to leave me a comment. I love to read them, besides that way I knew you were here to take a peak.

Challenges for this card:
Make-it-Monday Always anything goes ends - 8/28

A Zebra Hello

2011-08-21T19:29:00.004-07:00

Hi everyone I finally feel like I am getting close to being back on track. For those of you that don't know, I have been feeling very lousy lately one of the things they think I have (and I think so also) is shingles, YUCK. One of the things I think have helped a bit is the nerve medicine I take anyway and since shingles is a nerve problem I believe that medicine is helping. They are starting to fade. They are also doing other tests as I become tired very fast.
Well enough of that, I did finally get to make a card over the last 3 or so days, besides doctor appointments, other things to take care of and getting so tired I had to take a nap it is a big deal that I finally got a card done
This was made following a sketch on the Cricut message board and also a color challenge of using Black, Red, Gray and White.

The Zebra is ribbon, and the "hello" is a stamp. I cut the white swirls from the Cindy Loo cartridge and sprayed it with Glimmer Mist to give it some sparkle. There is a lot of sparkle on this card but does not show up well in the picture. Also hard to see but the red half I embossed using my Martha Stewart score board in a diamond pattern.

You can see that pattern better in this picture, I added a few Sakrua gen pen sparkle dots to the white. The hello I rounded the corners and distressed the edges.
The buckle I cut using Fabulous Finds.

I cut it 5 times and glued them all together. Then I put Diamond Glaze on it rather thick. After it dried using my i-Rock I added some bling. I hope you enjoy my card.
Thanks for taking the time to leave me a comment. I love to read them, besides that way I knew you were here to take a peak.

Challenges for this card
Crazy 4 Challenges Bingo (embossing, die cuts, ribbon) - ends 8/26
Basic Grey Anything goes - ends 9/2
Crafty Purple Frog Anything goes Red hot - ends 8/30
Make It Monday Always anything goes - ends 8/28