Saturday, December 31, 2011

Wishing Everyone a Happy New Year

Just wanted to wish everyone a safe and wonderful new year. I hope 2012 is good to everyone.

Friday, December 30, 2011

Find Joy in the Simple Things

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Here is a card I made this afternoon to send to a friend who has been going through some trials in her life. I started with a 4 1/4” X 5 1/2” white card stock base for my card. I added a pink mat cut to 4” X 5 1/4” and the added the patterned paper from a DCWV All About Girls mat stack cut to 3 3/4” X 5”. The mushroom is from the Simply Charmed Cricut cartridge. I cut the all the layers of the mushroom at 3 1/2”. I adhered everything flat to the card. For my sentiment mat I cut a piece of the pink paper at 1 1/2” and used an EK Success border punch to give it that open scalloped border. I then cut a piece of white card stock at 1 1/4”. Finally I stamped my sentiment with some Tea Dye distress ink and added the small buttons for a little more pop of color.

I think this will put a smile on my friends face, don’t you. I can’t help but smile when I look at the little mushroom. Thanks for visiting.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Happy New Year!

I sure hope everyone has been having a great holiday season. I had a little time to craft and put together this New Year’s card to send to a friend.
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My card is 4 1/4” x 5 1/2” portrait card made from Smooth Bazzill Card stock. The solid colored paper is from my scrap bin. I cut a purple mat at 4” X 5 1/4” and the patterned paper is cut at 3 3/4” X 5” and is from the Echo Park Summer Days paper pad. Finally I cut a pink mat 1 1/2” X 3/3/4” and a purple mat at 1 1/4” X 3 1/2”. I used my ATG Gun to adhere the layers together. I cut the bird at 4” from the 3 Birds on Parade Cricut cartridge and adhered the layers and added some white stitching with my gel pen. This image has a cupcake it cuts out in the birds hand but I didn’t want the cupcake so I cut it off and did not cut the other cupcake layers. To finish off my card, I added some Want2Scrap Rhinestones to the birds eye and the four corners of the sentiment layer. I stamped the sentiment in some Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I added the bird to the front of my card with some foam tape. I hope every had a great and prosperous new year!
Items from Cutters Creek:
Smooth Bazzill Card stock
Echo Park Summer Days
ATG
Want2Scrap Rhinestones
Memento Tuxedo Black

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

A Child's Year Christmas

I had a bunch of Christmas Cards to finish up this weekend and had to keep them simple. I decided to use the A Child's Year Cricut cartridge for a few of the cards.



My cards are both 4 1/4" X 5 1/2". I used white for my card base and my top layer. Both card images were cut at 3 1/2". I used the Swiss Dots embossing folder on the white and red card. The paper on the green card is from Echo Park.

Monday, December 19, 2011

Not a Creature Was Stirring

When I got the Cardz TV stamp Home for the Christmas stamp set I knew how I wanted to use the Not a Creature was Stirring stamp.
I started with a 5" X 7" white card stock base. I added a dark blue patterned paper mat and a light blue snowflake patterned paper mat. The patterned paper is from a DCWV paper stack from last Christmas. I cut the mouse image from the Winter Frolic Cricut Cartridge at 3 1/2". The little mouse was attached to my card with some foam tape.

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Holly Jolly Christmas

The current challenge over at Simply Crafts is to make a card using the Stocking cut from the Jolly Holidays Cricut Lite cartridge. Here is what I came up with.

My card is a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card. I added a red and green and white mat. I cut the stocking and its layers at 4". I embossed the white mat with the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder. I left the lower 1 1/2" out of the un embossed so I had a placed to stamp my sentiment. To finish my card I added some ribbon and two felt gingerbread buttons and I added some stickles to the stocking to glam it up. I have been a card making machine this weekend and hope you will come back to so my other posts this week.

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Merry Christmas Poinsetta Card


I made a card this afternoon with the Spellbinder Poinsettia Die. Love the die. I decided instead of doing a traditional red Poinsettia I wanted to do a white one inked lightly in pink. I started with a piece of white card stock cut and scored to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card base. The patterned paper is from My Minds Eye and I opted to use both sides of the paper for my mats. I cut the green mat at 4" X 5 1/4" and the red poinsettia mat at 3 3/4" X 5".  I cut and embossed the flower with my Cuttlebug and the No More Shims mat as well as the Cuttlebug mats. Before removing the cuts from the dies I lightly inked the embossed areas with some Spun Sugar distress ink. I also inked the flower tips once I removed them from the die. After allowing the ink to dry a bit a lightly sprayed the flower layers with some Tattered Rose glimmer mist. Sure made them sparkle. Once it was dry and adhered the flower layers together and added a yellow pearl for the center. I adhered the leaf to the flower and attached everything with some foam tape to my card base. I am not happy with how the sentiment came out. I decided to emboss the sentiment and used some Versamark to stamp the sentiment and some Satin Pearl Transparent embossing powder but it ended up a looking a bit gray but otherwise I love the card. the sentiment actually looks a bit better in the light in person.

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Ho Ho Ho Garland


For my Cutters Creek Design Team Blog post, I have a garland or banner that I made to decorate my office at work. All of the colors and patterned paper were printing and cut on my Imagine using the Snow Angel Imagine Cartridge and the Mr Frosty Patterned Imagine Cartridge. The stocking is cut at 5" using the Simply Charmed Cartridge. This picture was taken with my cell phone at work hanging on my white board in my office.

Here is a close up of one of the stockings. I adhered all the layers with some Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive. The letters were added with some ASI Kool Tac Clear Foam Pads. I cut the patches for the toe and heel of the stocking out of white card stock as well as the top cuff. I used my Xyron to add some adhesive to the top of each of these white pieces and then covered them with Ultra Fine White Flower Soft. Finally I used my Crop-a-Dile to punch a hole at the top of each stocking. I ran someDoodlebug Twine through the holes to hang my stockings. Below are close ups of the other stockings.
Thanks for visiting.

Jingle Bells

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The current Cricut Cardz Challenge is to make a project based on one of our favorite Christmas Carols using any colors and cartridges you like. The current challenge at Paper Cutz is Jingle All The Way, to make a project using a Jingle Bell image. So my card will be entered into both challenges.

I started with  white card stock cut and scored to make a 4 1/4” X 5 1/2” card base. I added a dark red mat, then a dark green mat then the patterned paper mat which is from My Minds Eye 12 Days of Christmas 6” X 6” paper pack.

My Jingle Bells image was cut at 3 1/2” from the Creative Memories Tis The Season Cricut Cartridge.  I cut all the layers for the image. For the Jingle Bells I had a thin metal sheet here in brass so cut the bells with that. It is actually very thin and I used a pressure of 4 and blade depth of 4 and I think I could have backed off the pressure one more. Because the metal is so thin it was not possible to get the images off the mat without wrinkling them so the bells look a little worn but I love how they turned out. To finish the card I added some snowflake buttons and Christmas Red stickles to my letters to  help the stand out. I adhere the whole image to my card front with some foam tape.

Thanks for visiting.

Friday, December 9, 2011

Christmas Wishes

I made a couple of quick Christmas cards using my Imagine and the Enjoy the Seasons and Snow Angel Imagine Cartridges.

This first card is a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card. I started with a cream colored card stock base. I added a dark green polka dotted patterned paper mat and then the Kraft card stock with the snowflakes. I sprayed the cream colored card stock with some Old Lace Glimmer Mist. I sprayed the Kraft snowflake patterned paper with some pearl Glimmer Mist, and in person this card sparkles. My image is from the Enjoy the Seasons Imagine cartridge cut at 4" using the layers feature on the Imagine.  I used foam tape between the layers for dimension and added added some red pearls to the branch. I also added a dark green stitched ribbon and tucked the branch bottom under the ribbon. Finally I stamped the image with some black ink and the sentiment is from the Cardz TV stamp set Home for Christmas.


My second card uses a Kraft card stock base also  4/14' X 5 1/2". I used the same green and Kraft patterned paper for my card.Then I cut one of the cut little snowman from the Snow Angel Imagine cartridge. I used a Sakura glue pen and some extra fine glitter on some of the snowflakes on the Kraft card stock. I used foam tape between the layers of the Imagine cut and used the Sakura glue pen and glitter along the snow under the little snowman. I added my sentiment and another Christmas card done.

Thanks for visiting.

Monday, December 5, 2011

Baby It's Cold Outside

The challenge this month over at scrappy frogs is to make a project that uses stitching in it. I decided to make a tall card, this card fits in a standard business envelope.
I started with a piece of Kraft card stock that I cut to 8" X 9" scored and folded it to make a 4" X 9" card base. I added a red card stock mat cut at 3 3/4" X 8 3/4" and some patterned paper cut to 3 1/2" X 8 1/2". I believe the patterned paper is from a DCWV paper stack I picked up last year. I cut the bird at 3" from the 3 Birds on Parade cartridge. I cut the sentiment at 1 1/2" from the same cartridge. I added some metallic blue faux stitching around the edge of the Kraft card base and the snowflake patterned paper. I also added some white faux to the red mat and to my little bird. Finally I had some white snowflake buttons that I sprayed with some glimmer mist and added some glimmer glaze to. I attached my cute little bird with an action wobble so he shivers when he moves. I add my sentiment with some foam tape and the buttons with some glue dots.

 I am a little behind in my posting and have a few more projects completed or almost completed so I hope to get those photographed and posted soon. Happy crafting everyone.