Create a Critter

This is an Easter Card I made for a friend. I used Create a Critter for the bunny, DCWV Blossoms and Butterflies for the background, and some little Prima flowers on the basket. I wrapped ribbon around the cut the top of the basket for a little zing. Thanks for looking.

Rock Princess

I used the Rock Princess cartridge for this card. The background paper and her mini skirt are from DCWV Butterflies and Blossoms. I also embossed the blue paper with the CB Spots and Dots Folder.  The "V" charm is from Making Memories.  I used a little Stickles for her eyeshadow and bracelets, along with a little bling. This is my first attempt at doodling and I'm still learning how and where to add accents to make your card pop. I like the way it turned out.  What do you think?  I wish I had the Laffy Taffy faces by Peachy Keen but there are on their way!!!! I can wait to make another Rock Princess card with those stamps.

Thank You

My mom is planning to move and a lot of the members of her church have been soooo helpful with packing and putting things into storage for her.  She asked me to make a thank you card for one of the ladies who had really given her a lot of help.  The paper and butterfly are from the K&Co Value Stack.  It comes complete with everything including pop dots.  I put a litte Tim Holtz Crackle Accents on the butterfly, along with some Stickles around the edge of the wings and on the body.  I also outlined the cream flowers with Crackle Accents along with some Prima ribbon and a few pieces of bling.  The stamp is by Anna Griffin.

A Starfish flower?

I've had the Cuttlebug Build-A-Flower die for a long time.  I picked up a pretty big haul of dies about a year ago when Big Lots had the folders and dies on sale.  I had been wanting to try this for a while and finally got a chance when my mom asked me to make a card for my Godmother's birthday.  I was going for a "clean lines" card with a simple flower in the middle but the original design looked more like a starfish with a huge rhinestone in the midde.  LOL.  So I reworked it using some Bazzill wings, Recollection flowers and Prima petals.  It's a lot busier than I was going for but when I heard that my Godmother loved the card so much, that she pulled out her card from last year to display with this one, I liked it a lot more since the whole point was to make something she would enjoy.  Her card from last year was probably one of the first cards I ever made.   

MY MVP

Here is a card I made for a friend whose husband loves soccer.  I stamped the letter and cut them out using some alphabet stamps by KI Memories (is that right?).  The scoreboard is from a sports themed Colorbok paper pad and I colored in the score with gel pens.  The soccer player is on an another action wobble.  I love the inside, which reads "I still love kickin' it with you". 

Just In Time for Easter

This is a card that I made for a friend. It was originally a birthday card but I think that it would also be perfect as an Easter card.

My First Cricut Gypsy Card

I know it's pretty simple, but I am so excited that I finally got this right.  My cut kept being off center when I tried to fold it.  I learned that you need to 1) flip one of your images when your welding and 2) make sure that your images both line up in the same spot on the "x" or "y" axis (depending on which way you have your image turned).  When I made those two adjustments everything worked out just fine.  I used Sports Mania for the football and inked with Tim Holtz Vinage Photo.  I used the Cuttlebug Tiny Mosaic folder to emboss and give some texture.  I've seen tons of welded football cards online but this one is beautiful - - because it's mine.  Awwww.  This card is actually pretty big.  I cut it at 6.5" on the shadow feature so that I got a small border on the front of the card. It fits in a 5.5 x 8.5 envelope.

I Won - I Won

So I was just about to upload a couple of pictures of the cards I finished last night when I checked my blog favs and found I won 9 cards made by LovetoCreateCards.  I think her work is amazing and I very excited that I'll get to see it up close and personal.  How often have you looked at something online and wished you could see the actual item.  Check out her site.  You're sure to see something you luv!!!

You are Fabulous

Here's a card and matching purse envelope.  I used theWedding cartridge and really nice paper for the shoe and purse.  The shoe is made from a flocked velvet paper and the inside of the shoe is a pearl shimmer swirl.  Umm, it was to die for.  I backed the sentiment with some Anna Griffin acetate and the sentiment is stamped with a combo of a PTI stamp and Studio G stamp.  Go figure.  I used Sworovski crystals around the card sentiment, inside of the shoe and on the envelope.  I love to personalize my cards in some way so that the person knows that each card is just for them.  I used to try to use the first name but sometimes there isn't enough room or it just doesn't look good.  Still finding new and exciting ways.  Please leave a comment if you have any more ideas.  TFL.  Have a great day.

A little something different - A Diaper Cake

So one of my boss' had a baby and we gave her a Surprise Baby Shower before she left.  I work with a very talented and nice group of collegues and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.  The theme was baby jungle animals.  This is my first diaper cake.  It was a lot easier than I thought it would be.  There are some great tutorials on YouTube.  I wanted to cake to sit higher than what the basic directions called for so I sat the base on my own glass cake stand and I put a Wilton Cake Tier in the second layer of diapers and sat the Monkey and last tier of diapers on that.  It came out perfect. I also made a second single layer cake with the remaining diapers, covered it with the other blanket that came in the package and put a smaller monkey on top.  The big monkey mouth is in the shape of an "0" so it looked like he was drinking from the bottle.  It was so adorable.  I will come back later and link to some of the YouTube vidoes that would be helpful if you wanted to make a diaper cake.

Here's the matching card.  I now prefer using googly eyes or rubber stamps for faces.  Sometimes it's a lot easier than trying to make those tiny, tiny cuts fit and for me, I still can't get those tiny cuts to cut neatly. 

This is another card I found on YouTube by Yoliebean.  The card size and cut is fabulous.  It actually opens twice - the first time the blue sky opens to reveal a vellum baby quote and then the green grass sections opens to reveal a regular card.  I left this part blank since there were a lot of people that needed to sign the card. You really gotta watch her video to get the full effect.

Hope's It's a Real Hoot

Here's a card I made for Grandma.  I had just gotten the Create a Critter cartridge and I had been dying to use it but didn't have enough time.  Hmmm, does that happen to anyone else -- I'm looking at the cartridge, the cartridge is looking at me.  And then along came Grandma's birthday.  I've seen so many cute owl cards on different blogs and I had been dying to do one of my own.  Here it is.  The background paper is DCWV Flower Shower and the green glitter cardstock is from Target.  They have tons of glitter paper in great colors.  I think I have all of them - but beware, the glitter get ALL OVER your mat so I use an old mat with masking tape to hold the paper down when I cut with glitter paper.  I don't alway like stamping directly on the front of the card so this time I stamped on coordinating paper, cut it apart and there you have it. 

You Rock Card

Ok, so really.  What's a new blog without a You Rock card.  They are all the rage these days.  Especially with all of the cartridges that have images to go along with this theme.  I cut this from the Stamping Cartridge too.  I edged the tuner keys with a little silver metalic ink.  The inside of the card uses the back side of the paper for the sentiment along with another strip of the front side to give the holes some pop when the card is closed.  I used an EK Success punch for the border, but I don't know the name of it.  It looks like swiss cheese.  A couple of Making Memories buttons, an embossed stamp and voila.  You Rock.  I also cut the word 'jamming' from the Paisley cartridge in the same bright orange gliiter paper as the guitar - so the inside sentiment reads "Hope your day is jamming". 

Love those Dolphins

This card is for a young man who loves football and the MIAMI DOLPHINS.  Woo hoo.  It's a pretty simple card - and not one piece of bling.  How did that happen????  The football is from the Sports Mania cardtridge.  Those corner elements are great.  The sentiment is computer generated.  It's supposed to be the Miami Dolphins font.  What do you think?  I used the CB Stars folder for the background.  I love that folder and use it all the time.  It's great for sports themed cards.

I used another corner element on the inside of the card as a gift certificate holder.

Hope it's da bomb

This card was inspired by a card I saw on this blog and I thought it was da' bomb.  LOL.  It made me realize that I need to look at my cartridges in a different way.  This cut is from the Indie Art cartridge which has a lot of fun images that can be used together.  I also put the bomb on an Action Wobble which made it shake like it was just about to go off.  The red flame around the fire and on the tip of the match is a bright red holographic paper which gave the card a little pop.  I think I should have used a second color around the "burst" on the bomb.  I know I'll be making this card again.  It was a lot of fun.  I'll try it then.  TFL!!!  Have a blessed day.