Monday, May 31, 2010

Aged to Perfection

I made this card for the Jitterbuggin Challenge this week. The recipe was to use a Cricut food cut, use plaid and use some black and to follow the sketch. I had a little harder time with this because of the plaid. My card is a 5 1/2 X 5 1/2" card. I started with a white card from a pack I picked up quite awhile ago at Joann's. I cut a light purple mat to cover the white card front. I then cut a light green mat 5" X 5" and then one with my plaid paper 4 1/2" X 4 1/2". I cut the bottle and glass from the new Summer in Paris mini cartridge at 3 1/2" and the grapes are from the Preserves cartridge cut at 3". My black element is of course the bottle base. I cut all the layers for the grapes out of scraps I had here. The sketch had a flower in each corner but flowers didn't seem to go with this so I opted to cut some corners from the Straight From the Nest cartridge. I used the new hide contour feature added to my gypsy with this latest update, to hide the inner cut on these corners so I got a solid cut and not just a frame. I cut these from the same dark purple I cat the base layer of the grapes. The corners were cut at 1". The sketch also had a tag for the sentiment, so I cut a tag using the Sentimental Cartridge. I used my Gypsy to set the width and height I needed to fit my stamp and cut that in white and again used the hide contour feature to hide the small hole in one end of the tag. I then used my Gypsy again to create a shadow of the tag and cut that from dark purple again, the same color as the corners. I used some ink by Memento in Purple Hydrangea to stamp my sentiment and to ink the edges of the white tag. To adhere the tag, I just used some my tape runner. the bottle and glass are adhered with one layer of foam tape and the grapes have two layers of foam tape to make them pop a little higher. I am please how it turned out. Thanks for looking.

Friday, May 28, 2010

Lighthouse Card - My Pink Stamper Challenge

I just recently got the Life is a Beach cricut cartridge and to use the lighthouse cut to make a Father's Day for the challenge on the My Pink Stamper blog.  The card is 4 1/2" X 6". I cut the lighthouse and its layers at 3 1/2". I had some paper in the DCWV Stack 6 paper pack that looked like sand and used a cut from Everyday Paper Dolls that I cut it at 4 1/2" in width using the Real Dial Size button. The sea gulls are also from the Lifes a Beach cartridge and cut them at 1 1/2". The clouds and seashells are from the Create-a-Critter cartridge. I used some gray chalk to provide some definition to the clouds and the sea gulls. I also used some maize colored chalk to provide some definition to the sand and the scallop shell. The star fish I used some peach colored chalk on top of it to give it an orange tinge to look like the star fish I see at our beach. I also used the new Hide Contour feature on my Gypsy to hide the face that would typically cut out on the star fish. I love that feature of the new update released today. The stamp is a Studio G $1 stamp that I picked up at Craft Warehouse. Thanks for looking.

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Baby Girl Card

Here is a quick card I whipped up last night for a former co-worker who had a baby girl over the weekend. The card is an A2 card made from white card stock. The patterned paper is from the K & Company Best of Brenda Walton paper pack. Ribbon is from a Martha Stewart pack that I picked up at Big Lots. The onesie was cut from the Straight From the Nest cartridge and was cut a 3 1/2" using the real dial size button on my cricut. This cut is on page 46 of the handbook. The cut is actually of three shirts/onesies hanging from a clothes line. To get the cut I wanted I set the cut up on Gypsy. Since we don't have Hide/Contour feature yet, I simply placed all the items I didn't want to cut off the side of the mat. The sentiment was cut at 1 1/2" cut from the Nursery Rhymes cartridge. The cut is from page 65 of handbook using the Font feature button. The shadow was cut using the Font Shadow feature button.  I embossed the onesie with my Sizzix three dots folder using my Cuttlebug. I adhered the cuts with foam tape to provide some dimension to the card. Once I had the card done I spritzed it with some Pear Glimmer Mist to give it some sparkle and added a small Prima flower in light pink and a darker pink pearl to the center of the flower.

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Jitterbuggin' Challenge


I made this card today for my first sketch challenge on Jitterbuggin' Challenge Blog. The recipe was you had to use pink and purple, you had to use a bug from a cricut cartridge, and you had to use a flower as well as follow the sketch provided. So here is what I came up with. I cut the worm from Create a Critter at 2 1/2". The circles were cut from George and Basic shapes at 3" and 3 1/3". Card base is light pink. The patterned paper is from a K & Company The Best of Brenda Walton paper pack that I picked up at Michaels. I used Prima flowers for the card. I added some small googly eyes to the worm and some Eucalyptus stickles to accent the green stripes on the worm. I have never made a card from a sketch so it was fun.

Saturday, May 22, 2010

A Little Birdie Told Me

The challenge this week for Cricut Cardz Challenge blog is to create a card using a bird or a butterfly, any color any theme. Here is what I came up with. the card base is white card stock and is 4 1/2" X 6". The green mat is 4 3/8" X 5 7/8" and the patterned paper is 4 1/4" X 5 3/4". The pattern paper is from DCWV Stack 7. I cut the bird from page 28 of the Straight From The Nest cartridge handbook. I cut the shadow and all the layers at 2 1/2". I cut the phrase from page 29 of the handbook. I cut both the shadow and the base layer at 1 1/2". The paper is from my scrap stash. I added an orange pearl to the bird for an eye to give it a little bling. The ribbon is from Stampin Up. I added some doodle dots to the phrase to help it stand out.

Friday, May 21, 2010

Cherry Wishes!

I recently received the Preserves cartridge and a 6 X 6 pack of Basic Grey paper called Lemonade that I ordered. I loved the Cherry paper in the pack and knew just wanted I wanted to do with it. Well today I finally had time to put my idea together, and I am pleased how it turned out. The card is 4 1/2 X 6". The card base is Core de'nations gemstone card stock. The patterned paper is from Basic Grey and the pink paper as well as the paper for the cherries are all from scraps in my stash. I cut the cherries and the layers at 3".  I used my Gypsy to weld the Cherry Wishes together using the font from A Child's Year and it is cut at 2". I used my EK Success dotted scallop border punch to punch the edge of the patterned paper. I embossed the pink paper with the three dots embossing folder from Sizzix using my Cuttlebug. The green ribbon is some I picked up at Michaels. I added some bling to the words and the dark cherry with my pink stickles and used the fruit punch stickles for the lighter cherry. I am pleased how it turned out and it was a nice cheery card to make on this cold, wet, rainy, windy day.

Just Because Birthday Card


Here is a quick card I made for my husband who's birthday is Tuesday. I just received the Just Because Cricut Cartridge and really wanted to use it. The card base and layer were both cut at 5 1/2" and is from page 56 of the handbook. The pickup and its layers were cut at 4" and is from page 42 in the handbook. I ran the wooden planks through my Cuttlebug and embossed them with the distress stripes folder. Instead of using the little circles cut out for the wheels I used some brads.To give the window a more realistic look I covered it with glossy accents. It doesn't show up in the picture very well. I then stamped the side of the truck with Birthday Wishes using some white Colorbox ink. The paper for the card base and layer is from the Home Interiors DCWV paper pack. The paper for the truck is from scraps I had on hand. Thanks for looking.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Happy Anniversary

My husband and I celebrated our 22nd Wedding Anniversary on Friday. We had a nice dinner out together. Here is the card I made him. I didn't want it too frilly or feminine. The card is a standard 4 1/4' X 5 1/2". The patterned paper is from the Best of K & Company paper stack that I picked up at Joanns. The hearts were cut from the Wedding Solutions cartridge. I used a cream card stock for the card base, a brown mat and then the patterned paper with each mat cut 1/8" of an inch smaller than the previous layer. I inked the edges of the patterned paper with some Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink by Tim Holtz and used the same ink to stamp the Happy Anniversary sentiment. The ribbon is some sheer brown ribbon I had in my stash.

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Happy Mother's Day

I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Mother's Day!
I hope you all enjoy your day and get pampered by your families.
Have a fabulous day!

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Cupcake Card

Here is a quick card I made for my sister for her birthday. I used a pre-made A2 card base from a pack of cards by My Minds Eye. I then used a piece of scrap paper and a punch by EK Success for the scalloped bordered paper. The cupcake is from Sweet Treats and the pearls are some I picked up in the dollar bin at Craft Warehouse. The flowers are Prima Flowers. Thanks for looking.

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Mother's Day Card


 My Pink Stamper is having a bunch of challenges today on her blog in honor of National Scrapbooking Day. The first challenge was to make a Mother's Day card. So I decided to play along and get the first of several Mother's Day cards I need to get made this weekend done. The card is 4 1/2" X 6. I cut 3 green mats at 1 7/8" X 4 1/4" and 3 mats with patterned paper at 1 3/4" X 4 1/8". The card base is cream Bazzill card stock. The other paper is from my scrap pile. I also cut a mat green 4 1/2" X 3 1/2" and a cream mat at 4 1/4" X 3 3/8". I used the cricut Mother's Day cartridge for the sentiment. I cut both the base layer and the shadow at 2 1/4" out of green and pink card stock. The flourish is from the Home Accents cartridge and is cut at 2 3/4". I added some Pink Prima flowers to the corner over the flourish and added some bling with a little pink rhinestone jewel. Thanks for looking.