Hello Card

A friend of mine is having some complications with her pregnancy and is now home on bed rest. I made this card to send her to let her know I was thinking of her and wishing her well. My card is 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" white card stock. I used my Imagine, the Lori's Garden Imagine Cartridge and the stock images to print the patterned paper and the green strip of paper. For the patterned paper I used the 2:3 stock rectangle image and sized it to 4" which gave me a rectangle that was 4" x 6" that I cut down to 4 X 5 1/2". For the green strip I used the 1:2 stock rectangle image and sized it to 3". I cut it down to 2 1/4" X 5 1/2". I then used a Fiskar embossing border punch to punch the edge of of the green strip. I added a blue ribbon and knot bow to the bridge where the two papers meet. The butterfly is also from Lori's Garden Imagine cartridge. I print and cut the butterfly at 3" using the layers feature. Because I plan to mail this card I wanted to keep the dimension down so I just adhered the layers with my zig two-way glue pen. I did pop dot the butterfly to the card front. I added some pale green pearls to the butterfly's wings and some stardust stickles to the body and the middle of the wings. I used some Brillance Sky Blue ink to stamp my Hello on the outside of the card. The sentiment on the inside says" Sending you many happy thoughts." Thanks for visiting.

Blog Award

I was excited to find out that Glenda at Glenda's Cards awarded me with this wonderful blog award.Thank you so much Glenda. Be sure to visit Glenda's blog to see some wonderful projects. I love the teapot card she did recently. It is beautiful. To accept the award, the rules are to thank the person who honored you with the award, tell 7 random things about yourself, and pass the award on to 8 friends.

7 random things about myself, mmm... 1. I am an identical twin, 2. I love to cook, 3. Not too into sweets and chocolate, (weird I know!), 4. I do however love Gummy Bears, 5. Am getting acupuncture for my back and find it helpful (was leery at first), 6. Work for a local county government, 7. Been with my employer for 27 years.

I am giving this award to these talented people. Please give each of their blogs a visit.
1. Fran at Scallops and Swirls
2. Sheri at Twitterpated with Paper
3. Karen at Karen's Fun Blog
4.Mindy at Scrappy and Piggy
5. Linda at Paper Boutique
6. Sarah at Live, Love and Scrap
7. Janis at Pause, Dream, Enjoy
8. Edna at Create with Expression

Freedom Banner

This month the Design Team is featuring some of their favorite Cutter's Creek products. I have decided to feature my favorite tools and the things I always reach for when crafting. The products I am featuring are Glimmer Mist, Distress Ink, Tim Holtz Non-stick Scissors, Tweezer Bee Tweezers, POW! Glitter Card stock, and Scor-Tape.

My project for you today is a Freedom Banner that I made in honor of the 4th of July. I cut my banner from the Birthday Bash cricut cartridge at 6". I cut my base from Red and Blue card stock and the top layer from some Americana paper. I inked the edges of all my cuts with some Tim Holtz Tea Dye Distress Ink to give it a vintage look. I adhered the two layers together with my ATG Gun. I then cut strips of patterned paper at 1 1/4" and scored it every 1/4" to make a Rosette. I used Scor-Tape to hold the Rosette's together.

Scor-tape is wonderful for boxes, and anything that needs a little extra strength adhesive. If you need a tutorial on how to make a Rosette, check out this post Laura did a while back. Once I had my Rosette's put together, I cut stars out at 3" from some gold starred patterend paper. To give it a little more vintage look and add some sparkle I sprayed the stars with Glimmer Mist,

I cut my letters out from the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge at 3". I used more of the dark blue card stock for the shadow and some Marine POW! Glitter Paper. This paper cut perfectly with my Cricut. I used blade depth of 6 and pressure at max. I did not use Multi-cut. This paper is not has thick as the other American Craft Glitter Paper. Both of these glitter papers are gorgeous and cut wonderfully with the Cricut. The glitter on the paper does not come off like other glitter papers. I used my Tweezer Bee Tweezers to adhere the two layers of the letters together. I love these little tweezers. They really help me align and layer the smaller Cricut cuts. I highly recommend these.

Finally I adhered the letters to the stars with some foam tape. Here is another product I hgihly recommend and that is the Tim Holtz Non-stick Scissors. These scissors are non-stick and I love cutting my foam tape with them. No more sticky scissors.

I used some regular kitchen twine to to hang my banner on my fireplace. I thought the twine went with the vintage them. I am really pleased how this turned out and the glitter paper letters and just the right touch of sparkle and shine to the banner. Here are a couple of close up shots of the banner.

I hope you enjoyed my project for you today and found a few new tools to help you with your crafting projects.

Sneak Peak

I know I haven't posted a project in a while. I apologize for that. I have been having major computer issues. I managed to spill water on my new laptop and killed it. Then the back up laptop decided out of the blue yesterday to quit charging. It works plugged in but I don't know for how long. So now I am using my husbands netbook and it drives me crazy. It is very slow. Anyway I wanted to give you a sneak peak at a project I worked on over the weekend. Be sure to check back on Thursday for the post on the complete project. I am really excited how it turned out. See you all on Thursday!

Z-Fold Welcome Baby Card

The challenge this week at Paper Playtime is to make a Z-Fold card. I started with a piece of card  stock 4 1/4" X 11" and scored and folded it at 2 3/4" and 5 1/2". I then cut two pieces of patterned paper 2 1/2" X 5 1/4" and one piece cut at 4" X 5 1/4". I cut the baby carriage at 3" from the Everyday Popup Cricut cartridge and added some lace trim to the carriage and some pink brads to the wheels.

Here is  a look at the inside of the card.

I cut the onesie at 2" also from the Everyday Popup Cartridge. I added a purple mat and white cardstock and stamped my sentiment that says good things come in small packages. To finish the card I tied a pink ribbon around the card and added a prima flower pink pearl in the center.  I want to apologize for the poor pictures. I killed my new laptop by spilling water on it and the pictures were on there and on facebook. I had to download these from facebook. I hope you join in the challenge this week at Paper Playtime.

Happy Father's Day Card

The current challenge at the Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog is to make a project using the color Red. I decided to make a Father's Day Card. I started with a 8" X 9" cream card stock base that I scored and folded at 4" to create card that is 4" X 9". I added a brown mat cut at 3 3/4" X 8 3/4" . My patterned paper is from a DCWV stack and is cut at 3 1/2" X 8 1/2". I then cut a mat 2" X 8 1/2" and a cream mat cut at 1 3/4" X 8 1/2" I ran the cream piece through my cuttlebug and embossed it with the Tim Holtz texture fades embossing folder Steampunk. I adhered this cream mat to the brown mat and then to my card front just slightly lower then center. I cut my car from the Nifty Fifties Cricut cartridge. I believe I cut the car at 2" cutting all the layers. I added some black nail heads to the center of the wheels and applied some Glossy Accents to the windshield of the card. I pop dotted the car to the front of my card and stamped my Happy Father's Day sentiment. I hope you join in the challenge over at the Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog.

Father’s Day Card

I made a Father’s Day card this afternoon without using my Cricut. I decided to challenge myself to do something a little different. I started with a 4 1/4” X 5 1/2” Kraft card stock card base. I cut a blue mat 4” X 5 1/4” and the patterned paper which is from a DCWV paper stack I bought last summer was cut at 3 3/4” X 5”. I then cut another blue mat 3” X 4 1/4”. I used a stamp I had in my stash and stamped it with some brown ink on a piece of smooth white card stock cut at 2 3/4” X 4”. I colored the palm trees with a green colored pencil. I then stamped the image again on a piece of golden yellow patterned paper and cut out the hammock and glued that to the hammock on the image and added a little shadow underneath the hammock.  I added a piece of ribbon and stamped Happy Father’s Day in brown ink and then added 3 lime green buttons that I attached with pop dots. It was a quick fun card to make. Thanks for visiting.

Just Because Card

I recently got the Kate’s ABC’s Cricut cartridge and knew immediately what I wanted to do when I saw this image on the cartridge. This image reminded me of the chives in bloom that I grow on my back patio in pots.

My card base is an A2 4 1/4” X 5 1/2” cream card stock. My orange and patterned paper is from a Basic Grey 6” X 6” paper pad I got from Cutter’s Creek several months ago and is no longer available. I really encourage you to get some of the 6” X 6” pads that Cutter’s Creek sells like the new Echo Park pads. They are great for card making, the patterns are shrunk down to be in proportion to the size and work great for cards reducing waste. Check them out.

Back to my card. I used the Elegant Edges cartridge for the decorative mat and cut both the shadow and the base image from page 38 of the handbook using the oblong creative feature.

My yellow layer of the decorative mat was actually cut out of white card stock. I used some Wild Honey Distress Ink and my Inkssentials Blending Foam and the Alcohol Ink Applicator to apply the ink in a circular motion over my entire piece of white card stock. Then I sprayed it with some Sun Sister’s Glimmer Mist. Once I sprayed the card stock and lightly blotted it with a paper towel and let it dry.

While the card stock was drying I cut out my image from page 67 of the Kate’s ABC’s handbook. I cut all the layers at 3” and followed the colors as they worked for what I wanted to do.  After adhering all the layers together I got out my Sweet Pea Flower Soft and my Flower Soft Glue and got to work. I applied the glue to the flowers and sprinkled the flower soft over the glue and tamped it down using my finger. I allowed it to dry and then gently tapped off the excess and loose flower soft.

To finish my card, I added a piece of twine from my stash to the pot and attached the image to my card front with some foam tape . I then added some pink I-Rocks Glitter Gems in two sizes using my heat set tool to each corner of my yellow mat. Love this gem set, it has several different colors and each color and several different sizes. I opted to use two sizes with a larger one in the middle.  I haven’t stamped a sentiment yet as I haven’t decided who will be getting this card and for what occasion.

While the cricut cartridges are not listed on the Cutter’s Creek site Kim might be able to order them for you, just ask.