Turkey Card

Here is a quick Thanksgiving card I made using the turkey from the Create-a-Critter cartridge. He was cut at 3 1/2". I cut all his layers. The card base itself is 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" Kraft card stock. The orange mat is cut at 4  X 5 1/4". The patterned paper is a scrap from my stash and is cut at 3 3/4" X 5". The golden paper behind the turkey is cut at 2 3/4" X 5.  I added some orange rhinestones to the turkeys back tail feathers. I also added some rust colored pearls for his eyes and added some doodle dots with a copper colored gel pen. I added a dot in the center of each of the turkey's red tail feathers with the gel pen as well.  I haven't added a sentiment to the outside and am not sure I will. For his hat, I added some orange stickles where the cut was for a hat band to dress him up a little. Thanks for visiting.

Gingerbread Man Card

I picked up a new paper stack at Joann's over the weekend and this paper from the stack just called to me and said it would perfect with a little gingerbread man on it. So of course I had to listen.

My card base is Kraft card stock from Recollections and is 4 1/4" X 5 1/2". The red mat is 4" X 5 1/4" and the patterned paper is 3 3/4" X 5". The gingerbread man is cut from the From My Kitchen cartridge and was cut at 3" out of same brown card stock. I also cut his eyes from white card stock and his little buttons from red card stock. I added some faux white stitching around the outside edge of the gingerbread man and the red mat using my white gel pen. I also added some red stickles to the buttons on the gingerbread man and added some red and green buttons to each corner of the card.

I think he turned out really cute. I haven't decided on a sentiment yet for this card. Thanks for visiting.

Flower Soft Birthday Card

I needed to make a birthday card for my boss and thought this would be a good masculine card. My card base is 5 1/2" X 5 1/2" green card stock. The orange mat is 5 1/4" X 5 1/4". The patterned paper is cut at 5" X 5". The smaller green squares are cut a 2" x 2". For the leaves, I cut them from the Straight From the Nest Cricut cartridge at 1 1/2".  I used my Ultra Fine Flower Soft to cover the leaves. To get the variegated look I mixed together some of the Burnt Sienna, Toffee, Pine, and Sage. I ran two of the leaves (the upper left and lower right leaves) upside down through my Xyron and coated them with the Flower Soft, pressed down firmly on the leaves to be sure the Flower Soft was adhered and then tapped off the excess. For the other two leaves I also added a little of the Strawberry Flower Soft before applying the Flower soft.  I used some quick dry adhesive to attach the leaves to the green squares.  I added the Happy Birthday stamp with some Moss green ink. I really like the look I got with mixing the colors, the leaves look as if they are in the middle of changing colors.

 

This card was one I made as a guest designer on the Cutters Creek Design Team blog.

Christmas Ornament Card

As promised here is the card I made yesterday. The card base is 5 1/2" X 5 1/2" made from white card stock. I have a pink mat cut at 5 1/4" X 5 1/4". The glittery patterned paper is cut at 5" X 5" and is from a paper stack I bought last Christmas, I think it was called Peppermint Forest.

The ornament was cut at 3 1/2" from the Winter Frolic cricut cartridge. I cat all the layers. I cut the little hook at the top of the ornament from white card stock. I used a clear embossing pad to get the paper wet and then added some silver metallic embossing powder by Zing. I heated the embossing powder to the the silvery metallic look. I then glued it to the top of the ornament. The pink striped trim I ran through my Xyron sticker maker and added some Sugar Cube glitter by Martha Stewart. I did the same thing to the little white star in the middle of the ornament.  I mounted the ornament to the card front using some foam tape. I added a ribbon again something leftover from last Christmas.

I didn't have a stamp for the sentiment that would fit the space I had so I printed my own on my computer. I believe this was printed at 22 pts. I apologize, I don't remember the name of the font. I think it was Brush Script.  I used Lacy Labels to cut the scalloped oval. I used the Center Point feature on my expression to cut the sentiment out at 1". I then cut the scallop again at 1.15" using my Gypsy to get the shadow. I also adhered this with foam tape.

It feels good to have the energy to start crafting again. Thanks for visiting.

Featured on Cutters Creek Blog

I have another card featured on the Cutters Creek Design Blog today. Cutters Creek Design Team Blog. This card also features the Flower Soft Ultra Fine. I would love it if you would check it out. I am finally starting to feel better and will have a card ready to post for you tomorrow, just need to get it photographed.

Updates - and - Exciting News!

I just wanted to apologize for not getting any projects posted this weekend. I have been really sick for the last couple of weeks and just was not up to crafting this weekend. I am starting to feel better so hopefully next weekend I will be able to start creating again. I appreciate everyone's patience.

Now for my exciting news! I was asked to be guest designer this month for the Cutters Creek Design Team. Kim has asked to highlight projects using the new Flower Soft Ultra Fine and the Flower Soft Diamond Range products I purchased for her. My first card is posting tomorrow, October 18th. I don't have post dates for the other cards and I still have a couple to make. I will let everyone know when I have dates if you want to take a peak.

Thanks for visiting.

Autumn Leaves

I received in the mail yesterday my order from Cutters Creek. It included several containers of the new Ultra Fine Flower Soft and some Diamond Range in Gold and Silver and some beautiful American Crafts glitter card stock. Of course I had to use something right away so decided to start with the Ultra Fine Flower Soft. Love it! The card is 4 1/2" X 6" from some Kraft card stock I bought at Joanns. The orange  paper is 3" X 6" and I used my Fiskars Treading Water border punch along the bottom of the mat. The patterned paper mat is from DCWV a Fall stack I bought last year and is 2 1/2" X 6. The narrow orange mat is  1 3/4" X 6". I inked the edges of everything with some brown ink. The leaves are cut at 1 1/2" from the Straight From the Nest. I ran them through my Xyron sticker maker upside down so the adhesive was on the front and then flocked them with Burnt Sienna (the darker orange) and Toffee (the lighter brown) Ultra Fine Flower Soft and attached them to my card with foam tape. I added some gold colored hemp cord at the top of the card. The sentiment says  Wishing you a Beautiful Autumn. I am really pleased how this turned out and am super excited about trying my other new Flower Soft purchases from Cutters Creek. Thanks for visiting.

Halloween Wreath

Here is a Home Decor project I just finished up. It has taken quite awhile because I have been sick with a nasty cold that has knocked me flat. However this afternoon I decided I just had to do something for a few minutes besides sitting and sleeping.

I started with a plain black wreath that I picked up at Michael's. I found some spider lights at a local store and adhered them to my wreath. I cut a ghost, pumpkin, witches hat and the witches cauldron from the Mini Monsters cricut cartridge all at 3 1/2" I glittered up everything with glitter and added orange shadows cut from some DCWV orange glitter stock.  I then colored Popsicle sticks black with my Bic markers and hot glued them to the backs of each cut. I then added hot glue to the bottoms of the sticks and glued them to the wreath. I added a bow (which I am not very good at tying yet) with hot glue to the bottom of the wreath.  We are going to hang the wreath in our front window.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Cricut Cardz Challenge

Here is a card I made for the Cricut Cardz Challenge #44. The challenge was to make an S-Fold or Z-Fold Halloween card. My finish card size is 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". My patterned papers are from the Cloud 9 Seasonal Paper stack that I picked up from Joann's a few weeks ago.

The bats were cut at 2" using the real dial size button on my Gyspy from the Paper Dolls Dress Up cartridge. I used my Gypsy to hide the faces so they wouldn't cut. Once cut, I ran them through my Xyron sticker maker upside down and applied black Martha Stewart flocking to them. I then added some orange heat set rhinestones with my Bedazzler heat tool. While it doesn't show up real well in the picture in person the eyes of the bats look as if they are glowing.

The pumpkin is from the Pumpkin Carvings cricut seasonal mini cartridge. I added one of the faces to the pumpkin and hid the outside square on my Gypsy. I added some yellow glitter to the eyes and green glitter to the stem.

The frog is from the Mini-Monsters Cricut cartridge and he was cut at 1 1/2". I inked around his edges with some moss green ink. Again, I added some black rhinestones for his eyes. The tag was cut at 2" X 3" and I rounded the corners. I inked the edges of the tag with the same moss green ink. the sentiment was stamped with embossing ink and embossed with some amethyst colored embossing powder. The sentiment and little witch are both from a Hero Arts Clear Halloween stamp set. Thanks for visiting.