Sweet Sixteen

I made this card following the sketch this week at Mojo Monday.  It was designed for a girl turning 16 that loves Zebras and purple.  It seems that Zebra is a very popular print right now.

Isn't it cute?  I just love the way it came out and the color combination, one I would never had done myself if it had not been requested.  Most the cuts are from the Art Philosophy cartridge, the scalloped circle, and the banner. The numbers is cut using Sophisticated cartridge.  I Cuttlebugged the light purple using the happy birthday folder.  Oops forgot where the "sweet" came from.

I sprayed the 16 with Glimmer Mist and then covered it with Diamond Glaze.

Glad to stopped in to say hello and hope you are having a Happy Easter.

Challenges for this card
Allsorts  Bingo  Purple/Stripes/Ribbon   ends - 4/12
Make it Monday  Always anything goes   ends - 4/15
Forever Friends  embossing  end - 4/30

A Couple of Birthday cards

Boy, I feel like I am so behind at posting on my blog that I will post two birthday cards on this post.

The first one I made following a sketch and it called for the vertical saying so I welded the birthday in the Cricut Craft Room using the Alphalicious cartridge.  I like using CCR (when it works correctly) as it makes welding and designing very easy.

The striped paper has some glitter on it and is from the DCWV Nana's Kids stack.  I cut it at angels and then sewed it onto the base paper.  Added some large eyelets to the corners and put a skittle in the corner of each.

The second card was also following a sketch.  I love these colors together and the paper made it easy to combine them.

The background pink paper I bought at Michaels and it was already embossed with the flower pattern.  I rubbed my Versamark pad over the raised areas so it would show up better.  The happy birthday is from the Birthday Cakes cartridge, added a few pearls to the corners for accents.

Thanks for stopping in and sorry I haven't posted much lately but hope to be a little more regular soon.

Birthday Princess Card

One of our Granddaughters turn 17 tomorrow.  She thinks she is Papa's princess (well aren't all granddaughters princesses :) so I thought I would make her a princess card.  I made this card following the sketch this week at Mojo Monday, I love this sketch.   I sure wish the pictures would should the colors better.

 

The card base is a very pale pink, and the chocolate color is pearlesence like paper.  The crown is cut from Gypsy Wandering cartridge at about 2 inches and the birthday princess is from Birthday Cakes.  I cut it twice and layered them.  The top layer I covered with Diamond Glaze, the paper it self is Cored'nations glitter card stock and the glitter shows through the glaze.  I added some bling to the band on the crown and also along the top.

The bow I made using the "tye a bow on a fork method" and left it with some extra loops, also added some bling to the center of the bow. 

The inside I printed the sentiment on vellum paper and then immediately sprinkled embossing powder on it when it came off the printer (seconds are crucial for this to work) and heat embossed it.  Added a couple strips down the side punched with a Martha Stewart punch.
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My First card using Hello Kitty

Thanks to the Cricut Couple I won the "Hello Kitty Greetings" cartridge.  I never would have bought this cartridge, but right now I am tickled pink with it.  It has so so many cute images on it and lots of greeting also, hence the name I guess. 
Well yesterday I was sitting there trying to figure out a card to make for our Great-Granddaughters 1st birthday, when my husband came in with the mail and handed me a box.  It was my goodies from the Cricut Couple that had the Hello Kitty cartridge in it and lot of other goodies:).  That sure helped me decide on the card to make.  A few weeks back I was at Wal-Mart and bought some pink balloon stickers that said birthday girl on them with the intention to put them on the card for this granddaughter.  As I was paging through my Hello Kitty handbook (always do this when I get a new one)and right there was Hello Kitty holding a bunch of balloons.  You can only imagine how excited I was when I saw that cut.  Button number 12.  IT WAS PERFECT!

 I cut the Hello Kitty so the balloons would be large enough to use the stickers on, so it turned out I cut it at about 6 1/2 inches.  So that meant it had to be a big card, 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 a whole piece of paper folded in half.  Then to top it off I got to use my flocking that I had bought and never used.  I just happened to have the perfect colors.  The bow and scarf (?) are covered with bright pink flock and the eyes and mouth with brown, I guess I should have done the mouth in pink? anyways I think it looks cute.  I also cut a #1 and covered it with pink flock and put it on one of the balloons(see it peaking through up there).  The balloons were flat and rather thin stickers so I stuck them on white card stock and then cut them out to give them more weight plus without the white you could see through them and see the balloons underneath.    The happy birthday I cut from Birthday Cakes cartridge at 2 inches out of a pearl pink paper.

Here is a close up of the flocking............I love this stuff now, it gives such great dimension and special effect to an image.

 And I did the inside, I am getting better at printing directly inside a card.  The biggest part is remembering to do it before you put the card together.

I sure hope you like this card as much as I do, what do you think?  I think you will be seeing more cards from this cartridge :).  Thanks

Spots, Polka Dots & a Homemade Flower

If you know me you know I love to use flowers on my cards, but I especially love to make flowers or crumpled flowers as they are called.  I made this card for RAQs Challenge this week on the Cricut message board, this was a fun sketch, thanks to Sandy Palmer our hostess this week.
The spotted paper on the left side of the card is from DCWV Nana's Kids (woo they named a stack after me LOL) stack.  There are some very bright and cheery colored papers in this stack.   The very light lime green piece on the right side started as a plain white piece of card stock.  I sprayed it with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Hula Hoop then embossed it with the Cuttlebug folder Spots & Dots.  I love to use Glimmer Mist on paper especially white to see what it turns out like. 
The flower I cut from Birthday Cakes cartridge starting at about 2 1/4 inches and reducing it from there in Design Studio, this particular flower has 6 layers.   I cut all the flowers out of regular text weigh white copy paper and sprayed them with Hydrangea Glimmer mist and crumpled them up stacked them together and added a glitter brad to the center.  I will do another post with more instructions on these flowers, no it won't be a video (don't even go there LOL) but will have more pictures and instructions.

The happy birthday is a stamp that I heat embossed with white embossing powder.  The colors are so pretty and the light green in very shimmery from the Glimmer mist.  Let me know what you think, I love comments and followers :)

Here a close up of the flower, it is very light purple and has gold highlights on it.