Dream Pop Birthday

Hello all, I hope you are having a fabulous week and not too busy getting all those kiddos back in school.

I have a card to share with you today that I made following this week sketch at 

MOJO MONDAY.

I made it using the papers that came in the CTMH Dream Pop paper package.  It was a special that was run a few months back, but I just know got around to using some of the papers in it.

All the papers are from that pack, which is nice and bright colors.  The thing about this card that I am most excited about is the "stitching" around the larger white circle.  It is actually stamped using the CTMH stamp set Stitched Together.  These are straight line stamped but I curved them onto my acrylic block to match the circle.  It makes these stamps so much more versatile  and was not hard to do at all.  After I stamped the stitching on I embossed it using my Cuttlebug.  I stamped happy birthday using one of the stamps from the CTMH Joyful Birthday set.  I used a piece of colored binding tape and added a Ribbon Slide to it.

Well that's it, there is still time left, hop on over to Mojo Monday and join in the fun.

And remember tomorrow the new Cricut Artbooking Z1906 cartridge kit from CTMH comes out.  It you like making layouts and/or mini albums this is a must have cartridge.  Just visit my website tomorrow and check it out.  Thanks

A few Birthday Cards

Since I am so far behind in posting I thought I would share a few birthday cards I have made lately.

All the cards have been made following sketches each week on the Cricut message board 

Wednesday's Weekly Sketch Challenge click above for the

link to this weeks challenge.  If you have a Cricut we would love for you join in the fun.  I can not tell how doing this challenge over the last 4 years how much my card making improved.

The first one, the papers were all printed using my Imagine and the Lori's Garden cartridge.  The dragonfly is a sticker I have had for sometime in my stash.

 Next is one with a newer technique that I tried.  I stmped the wine glass imagine on 3 pieces of paper in descending size then matted them with black paper.

I wanted to give it a vintage type look so I Google vintage paper and found this one.

Pennants seem to be pretty popular to use on card right now, so I strung these pennants cut from Art Philosophy on some twine.  I also printed the papers on this one, last week Sassy Designs had a sale on their digital paper packs.  They were just 24 cents each, although I do NOT need more papers I could not pass up this bargain.   It is nice to have these papers ready to print in whatever size you need, plus they are easier to store. :/.

One last one for right now.  Quite some time ago I bought some Washi tape (just had to have it) and rarely used it, so I used it to make the background of this card.  I added some flowers I made and a stick pin behind them.  Not sure what this card will be used for so will add a sentiment at that time.

Well that is it for now, hope to be back in a couple of weeks and share some more cards I have made.  We will be leaving on vacation this weekend so not sure I will get a chance to post before then.

Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you have a wonderful 4th of July with family and friends.

Adventure Birthday

Hi, wow another post LOL.  One of the challenge blogs I love to do each week is Mojo Monday.  This week in Mojo Monday #300 and so they are having a big celebration and giving away a lot of prizes, so if you get a chance pop on over and make a card following this sketch 

Mojo #300

Here is my interpretation of the sketch.  All the papers I used are from the CTMH Tommy Paper pack.   I also used some of the canvas stickers from the coordinating sticker pack.

The happy birthday was cut using the CTMH Artiste cartridge as was the banner cut.

Also in case you haven't heard, CTMH came out with a new Cricut cartridge that will be available for purchase on August 1st.  It is called Artbooking and is great for scrapbooking and also has many cuts for making mini-albums.

Thanks for stopping by I hope you enjoyed my card.

Daddy has my Heart

Well hello all, hope you are enjoying the summer so far.  It has been unbelievable hot this year in Arizona.  Our monsoon rain storms have been building over the mountains over the last few days so that means we should have some storms soon.  It cools us down however it does make us humid.

One of the reasons I have not been posting too much we had our Granddaughter-in-law and 2 year old great-granddaughter staying with us while Miss Emma's daddy was deployed on a submarine.  As you an imagine it is hard to get much done with a very active 2 year old running around.

One of my other granddaughters saw this somewhere so I told her instead of buying it I would make one for Emma to wear when she saw her Daddy.

This was my first project using iron-on vinyl and I loved it!  I think I have a new addiction, Miss Emma may get many new shirts.  LOL

It is hard to see in the picture but the anchor and swirls on the heart are silver glitter vinyl. 

I used Silhouette Design Studio to set up and cut the file.  I played around with different fonts till I got ones that I was happy with.

I tried to get a picture of Miss Emma wearing it but she would not stand still and kept turning away from the camera.   The poor child has had a camera in her first since the minute she was born so now that she is a bit older she is now very cooperative.

Well now they have moved back to Maine to be together as a family, so it sure is lonely and quiet around here. :(, we miss them terribly but I know her Daddy is enjoying her.

Thank you for stopping by today and hope you all have a very Happy 4th of July, be safe and Gold Bless the USA.

Challenges for this project

Challenges 4 Everyone   Anything Goes

5 Simple Things   Anything Goes

Hiding in my Craft Room  Freestyle anything goes

Using Glubbers

Hi!  Back again to share another card I made.

This was my first time using Glubbers by Cosmo Cricket.

They are actually very large glue dots that you can wind thing up to make embellishments.  I love the idea of them, but I think I picked the wrong ribbon to use as I had some trouble getting it to stick, or I just touched them too much putting it on.

The papers are all from k*i Memories paper stack.

The stamp is a CMTH stamp.

Thanks for taking a peak at my blog today.

Teal & Purple Combination

Hi I made it back with two posts in one week!  Yeah!

I love this color combination, I think the teal and purple look so pretty together.

I hand cut all the square so that they would all line up correctly.  The papers are from a DCWV paper stack.  I cut out ovals and stamped it using a Gina K stamp, then added some crumbled ribbon that I laid flat.

This is a 4 by 9 card and fir into a #10 business envelope.

I am glad you stopped by, I would love to read your comments.

 

Bright Buttons

Hello everyone, I am so trying to get back posting regularly on my blog and thank those of you that have still come around when I do get a chance to post.

I have quite a few cards that I have made lately that I had not posted to I will try and get them on here.  The first one I have to share is this bright and cheery card.

The papers are from a K&Company stack.  

I added some matching buttons and tied some bakers twine in the middle.

The cuts are made using the CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to get some more cards posted later this week.

Wedding Card

Hello everyone, hope you have great plans for this Mother's Day weekend.

I have a wedding card to share with you that I made for my niece that is getting married and I am unable to attend so I wanted to make something special.

I can not take credit for this card as when I saw the card on the Team KNK blog I knew that was the special card I had to make, so it is totally scraplifted.

The cut files are all designed and set up my a lady that goes by Bird.  She

is so very talented and extremely generous as she shares are her files for FREE, so make sure you go check out her blog.

My card is pretty much a replica of hers except that I added a touch of pewter color as that is the wedding color.  Everything was cut using Bird's files, Make the Cut software and my Cameo.

Just like Bird I used a variety of paper textures, mostly pearl white textured papers.  I embossed parts of the cake to give it a little decorative look. 

Here is a close up of the flowers & leaves that are all made from vellum. 

I carried the same theme to the inside.  I printed the verse on vellum using my Canon printer.  The ink does not dry immediately on vellum so the second it came out of the printer I sprinkled it with pewter/silver embossing powder and heat embossed it.  I did the same thing on the small saying on the front of the card.

I added a couple stickers to dress up the inside.

Since this card was a bit bulky and it had to be mailed it would not go into a regular envelope so I made an envelope box for it's travel from Arizona to Chicago.

Here it is all tucked away in it's envelopbox.  I place this into a padded envelope and added some foam and other packing to make sure it arrived safely. 

I got word that it did arrive at it's destination safely. :).

In case you are no familiar with Make the Cut software you should check it out HERE,  It is by far the best die cutting software out there.

Well thank you for stopping by, I would love to hear what you think about

my wedding card.

Hope everyone has a very Happy Mother's Day.

Party Till the Cows..................

........................Come Home!

Hi everyone, I have a card to share with you today that I made for my Granddaughter (in-law)that just turned 21 and was looking forward to it.

I am thrilled with how it turned out.

I cut the cow using my Cameo and an image I bought in the Silhouette store.  I did a print and cut then covered "her" with Crystal Lacquer.  The barn cloud were also purchased in the Silhouette store, I love just being able to go there and get what I need and immediately use it.

I Cuttlebugged the barn with the distressed stripes folder then inked it a bit.  The background paper was computer generated.

I typed the saying using the Design Studio and then used my sketch pens to write it and then went back and cut the cloud around it.

Here is a close up of the little cow.

Now on to the inside.

I did the saying the same way I did the one on the front of the card.

I just think this card came out so cute and our granddaughter loved it and got a chuckle out of it.

Well thanks for taking the time to stop by and visit my blog.  I would love to hear what you think of my card.

A Variety of Cards

Hello everyone, just having trouble posting daily on my blog so in an effort to catch up and show you what I have been working on I will post several cards on this post.

The first couple cards I made using the CTMH papers from the 

Chantilly Paper pack, love the colors and patterns in this pack.

The bow I cut using the Artiste cartridge and my Cricut Expression.

The center paisley is a matching chipboard piece that comes in the Chantilly Dimensional Elements.

The next card also uses the Chantilly paper pack and dimensional chipboard pieces.

This card fits into a #10 size business envelope.  I always forget about making this size card.

One last card for now.

This was made using CTMH papers that were in the Dotty for You paper pack from last year. 

I love the Dotty for You paper pack, but unfortunately it is no longer available.  Maybe it is because I love polka dots.

Well thanks for taking the time to stop by my blog, hopefully I will get another post up real soon.