A Couple fun Birthday Cards

Hi, I am trying to catch up on my blog posting.  I have been busy creating cards

but have just not found much time to post them.

This is a card I made following a sketch, it is pretty simple but I love the colors.

The background paper is from a DCWV paper stack that I got a long long long time ago and was probably one of the first stacks I bought.

The center circle sentiment I made using Microsoft Word.  I do not do it very often so I really have to play around with it to get it right.  Then using my Cameo and Make the Cut software I was able to cut around that sentiment.  The center is a canvas button sticker from CTMH, I was trying to keep this so it could be used for a male so I hope that flower doesn't throw it off.

Here is the second card to share with you.

 The papers are CTMH Lucy paper pack.   I hosted a challenge and my extra credit was to use a negative cut.  Well where the flowers are is a window, the rub-on stickers are on a paper behind the main strip.

The bow I cut using the Artiste cartridge, I love to cut the paper bows, that way they match your project exactly. 

Here is a closer look at that rub-on and the bow.  I also added some rub-ons to the paper the bow was made from.

Glad you stopped by I hope you enjoyed my 2 cards today.

Welcome Baby.............

Hello and thanks for stopping by my blog today.  I have a card to share with you today that I made following the sketch this week at Mojo Monday.

Boy has it been a long time since I played along there.

Well the timing was right as I had to make a baby shower card for one of our granddaughter's shower next week.

As you can tell she is having a girl and her name will be Lily.  Boy how that has changed since I had my kids years ago 40+ you never knew what you were having till it popped out. :)

I used my MTC software to set up the scalloped circles so they would layer and shadow each other.  Then I added the text using my sketch pens and my Cameo to write out the text, then go back and have MTC cut out the circle.  I love MTC but I just have to make myself use it more to learn all the cool things it does, plus Andy is constantly updating it and adding new features.  

The papers are some Heidi Grace papers I have had around here for a couple of years.  

The flower is a crumpled flower I made a long time ago but it just matched this perfectly so I added it.

I am please with how this turned out as I struggled with every detail, I love the pink and green combination.

Well thanks for stopping by and hop on over to Mojo Monday and join in the fun.

Collage of Flowers

Hi, glad you stopped by.

A few weeks ago I made this card following a challenge and one of the extra credits was to make a collage card.  So the images on this card came up when I 

Googled collage images.  Not sure it was what I had in mind as a collage but I loved them nonetheless so I used them.

I do love the look of this card.  Background paper is from the K& Company Best of Brenda Walton stack. 

I matted each layer using a rust like color.

The "happy birthday" I wrote using my sketch pens in my Cameo.  

Well I hope you enjoyed looking at my card and will leave me a comment.  Thanks!

A Fabulous Day

Hello everyone hope you are enjoying your Sunday.

I have a card to share today that I made using some papers from

the Best of K&Company paper stack.

The center brad I made using my iTop brad maker to match the paper.  The crocheted green center was a goodies that came in my box from Websters Pages.  That box was just packed with fun things and papers.

Here is a closer look at that crocheted piece.

All the cuts were done using the Artiste cartridge.

Well thanks for taking a minute to stop in, I would love to hear your comments.

A Couple of Thinking of You cards

Hello, I know it has been some time since I posted on my blog, it just seems like I run out of time sometimes as I am sure everyone does now and then.

So today I have two "thinking of you" cards to share.

The first one is made from some papers I have had in my stash for many years, and the flower I had made awhile ago so I am not sure which cartridge it came from.

I love how these colors look together, to me they are a soft look.  

The second one was made using CTMH papers from the Flirty paper pack which unfortunately has been discontinued.

Both of the sentiments were stamped using a stamp from the CTMH stamp from the Card Chatter Sympathy set

The flowers were cut using the Artiste cartridge.

Thanks so much for stopping by, I hope to keep up with my posting a bit better in the upcoming days/weeks.  Thanks again

Over the hill...............

Hello, I have a humorous birthday card to share with you today.

My brother-in-law is a very funny guy and him and I are are always joking with each other so I could not resist making him this card.

I cut the "hill" and sun using the Cricut cartridge Country Life and then mounted it on a card that I had covered with cloud paper.  I stamped a hot air balloon lightly to look like it was off in the distance.  

The old fashion bicycle I cut using my Silhouette Cameo as I find that is cuts finer lines much much better than the Cricut does.

Here is a closer look at the bike, which I pop dotted.

For this to all make sense you have to see the inside.

 

 This is the Just a Number stamp set from CTMH, it has some really cute stamps for birthday cards.

Well my BILs birthday was early this month and he got a nice chuckle out of his card.  Thanks for stopping by to take a peak.

You make me Smile.....

Hello all, I have a bright fun card to share with you today I love how this came out and I actually think I am getting a bit better ( an little bit) at coloring with my Copics.

Back in October Barbara at Forgotten Scraps had posted this cute image that her 9 year old daughter (along with her help) drew this adorable butterfly as a fund raiser for the Monarch Butterfly Fund.  You can read all about it HERE and purchase it if you would like.  While you are there spend a little time looking around Barbara's blog Forgotten Scraps she is amazing at coloring with Copics, she makes things come to life.

So are you ready to see how I colored Hola Butterfly?

The papers I used are from my Websters Pages warehouse box I got last month.  A couple times a year (I think) they offer a warehouse box packed full of goodies, like paper, ribbon, flowers, stickers etc etc.  This was the first time I ever got the box but it was so exciting ti dig through it and see what inside.

I wanted to color him to match the papers so he is a bit off the mark as far as a true Monarch Butterfly, but I love him in the bright colors.

Here is a close up, I added some Sakura Glitter pen to the trim on his hat but you can't see it too well in the photo.

The 3 flowers along the edge are actually buttons.  I created this card following a sketch this week from the Cricut message board RAQs Sketch Challenge and the extra credit there was to use buttons.  If you like to make cards following a sketch come on over and join us, it is a fun group of ladies.

The sentiment label I cut using Cricut Craft Rooms basics and then stamped it with a CTMH stamp.

Well thanks for stopping by my blog, I would love to hear what you have to say about my butterfly and I hope to keep up with posting on my blog more often.

It has been way too long..............

Oh my, it has been forever since I posted on my blog, I am so sorry to my followers or anyone else that stops by.  This Christmas season was especially busy for me this year.  I have two grandsons in the Navy and they both got to come home for Christmas, it was a wonderful time.  With both of them Sonar Techs on submarines, we do not know when that will happen again so we savored every moment we could.  Also one of them is going out for deployment so his wife and 2 year old daughter moved back here to Tucson, AZ to be near family while he is gone for 9 months instead of being clear across the country in New Hampshire all by herself.  

Since I have not posted in so long, I will share with you some Christmas cards that I had made, as always it was a rush to get them all done and mailed in time.

I got a Silhouette Cameo over the Summer so it came in handy to make some of the cards since there are cut files that cuts out the whole card.  Here are a few of those cards.

Here are a few other random cards I made.

So there are several of the ones I made this year.  I know Christmas is well past but I still wanted to share them with all of you.

Happy New Year to all and thanks for stopping by.

Birthday Card & Memory Box

Well after 3 weeks I am finally back to post another project, it just seems to be so hard to get here lately and put up a post, I guess life got in the way.

My daughter's birthday was last Sunday so here is a card I made for her.

I tried to go with a Vintage look because likes that kind of stuff.  The paper is from a K&Company paper stack, then I added a stick pin I received from a swap I was in this past summer, I think it fit perfectly into the design.

Then I also made a matching "memory box" for her.  This is my first time making something like this, but overall I am pretty thrilled with out it turned out.

Here is a side view.

 

I covered it with the same paper as the card using decoupage .

This was a small round balsa wood box that I received years ago with candy or something in it.  I glued lace around the top edge of the lid and then around the bottom of the box.

On the top I printed a picture of her granddaughter in the sepia color then torn the edges and burnt them a bit.  I spread decoupage over the picture, then added some pearl swirls and a small angel.

You can see the angel a little better in this picture.  The large flower I made, but the others I had so I just sprayed the all with Glimmer Mist in a color I thought would go well and carry out the vintage look.

I gave this to my daughter on Sunday and she loved it.  She said she was going to put it on her desk at work. 

Now let me tell you, this little one is quite the handful and is no angel, this was a rare somber photo of her but it fit my design perfectly.  

I am so glad you stopped by today to take a peak at my blog, I really would love to hear what you think of my first memory box.  I enjoyed making it so I am sure I will be making more.

Thanks again for stopping in.

Clementine Paper Pack

Wow, I sure have not been very good at keeping up with my blog lately.  I have been creating just life got in the way of posting, so I will try and get some of the cards posted that I have created over the past few weeks.

I love the papers in the CTMH Clementine paper pack, the CTMH papers
make putting a card together so easy because all the papers coordinate so well.

 All the papers on this card are from the Clementine pack and the cuts are made using Art Philosophy.  The flower is a canvas sticker from the Clementine Canvas Shapes pack.

Well thanks for stopping by and hope you like my card.  I will try and get another post up in the next couple of days