The Creative Crafter Challenge #70 Anything Goes

 

It's time for a new challenge over at The Creative Crafters. Challenge #70 starts today. It's Anything Goes.

My card base is heavyweight white cardstock cut, scored and folded to make an A2 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card. 

My pattern paper is from American Craft that I received in a Simon Says Stamp card kit. I was immediately drawn to this paper. I cut the pattern paper to 4" X 5 1/4". I matted it on some gray cardstock that I cut to 4 1/4" X 5 1/2".

I used the burnt orange cardstock that came in the kit and an image from the Cricut Elegant Images image set to cut a label for my sentiment.

I did some ink blending with some Distress Oxide inks then cut my foliage with my Cricut Joy Xtra. My acorns are a print and cut image in Cricut Design Space.

I stamped my sentiment with some black ink then added my foliage and acorns to my sentiment. I then attached this to my card base.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you will join our new challenge over at The Creative Crafters.

A Day Just for You!

Here is a birthday card I made for a friend at work. The card is 5" X 7"  white card stock base. I added a black mat cut at 4 3/4" X 6 3/4". My patterned papers are from an American Crafts Pebbles Garden Party 6" X 6" paper pad. I cut the paper with the squares at 4 1/2" X 5 1/2"   I then cut a coordinating pattern from the paper pad at 4 1/2" X 1 1/2" and then used a Martha Steward border punch for the lower edge. To cover the seam I used some bakers twine that I wrapped around 3 time and then tied into a bow.

The two seed packet covers are also from the same paper pad. I cut two of them out and matted each one with black card stock. The Daisy piece is added to the card with one layer of foam tape. The Forget Me Nots are attached with two layers of foam tap.  I stamped my sentiment with Teal Zeal Memento ink.

Be Mine Card

I have another Valentine Day card for you today. I do think this card would work great for an Anniversary or even a Birthday too. Or just to say Hello to someone, and let them know you are thinking about them. So the last card I made used some Hero Art stamps. While I later found out that Hero Arts makes a die that fits those stamps. (Yes, Kim can order Hero Arts products. Just contact her through Customer Service at Cutters Creek.) Of course I had to get them. Then this idea popped into my head and this is what I came up with. My card is a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" white card stock card base. I love using the Bazzill smooth white card stock for my card bases. It is a good sturdy paper and since it is smooth everything you layer on top lies nice and flat. I added a black mat cut to 4" X 5 1/4" and then the patterned paper mat cut to 3 3/4" X 5".  I added some Washi Tape from American Crafts at the bottom of my patterned paper for some color. For my heart balloons I cut both sizes of the small dies out of some patterned paper. For my sentiment I stamped that in some Memento Tuxedo Black ink on some red card stock. I used my eBosser to cut all the hearts out. Got to love the eBosser! I did use my magnetic shim which works great to help keep your dies in place. In case you are wondering, the machines shipping now come with the magnetic shim. For those of us that got in on the first shipment they did not but Cutters Creek sells them. I then attached some of the Doodlebug twine to each of my hearts and adhered them to my card with some foam tape. The red heart and pink heart are both on two thicknesses of foam tape and the rest is on one thickness. Finally, I doubled some of the pink and white striped twine and tied all the strings together in a bow. I added a couple of pink heart stick pens that are from My Minds Eye and some white stitching with my gel pen. I had a lot of fun making this one and with the eBosser doing all the work it went together really quick.

Party Hat

I just received two new cartridges in the mail this week and with work didn't even get them out of the clam shell packaging until yesterday. I also received a sample of some American Craft glitter paper that I was anxious to try out on my Cricut. So, last night I made this quick card using my new Sweet Treats cartridge and the glitter paper. The card base is a standard A2 card. The patterned paper mat is 5 1/4" X 4". The party hat is from page 43 of the handbook. I cut the base layer of the hat from some mirror finish paper from a DCWV Paper in blue. I also use the same paper to cut the layers for the hat using the layer key, the heart and the pompom on top of the hat. The main layer of the hat I cut from the glitter paper. This is some really nice thick glitter paper. To cut the hat I had my blade set at 6 my pressure to max and did multi-cut 2. I tried cutting the sentiment out from the glitter paper but just couldn't get it, so I ended up using the shiny blue paper. I am not sure of the color name but I think it is Raspberry. I cut everything at 3 1/2" for the hat. I attached the pompom with some foam tape and used Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive to put the rest of the hat together. The hat is attached to the card base with one layer of foam tape. I then cut the sentiment, "how old?" from the Lyrical Letters cartridge found on page 70 of the handbook using the Loop Dee Loo creative feature. I cut the sentiment at 1 1/2".

This was a hard project to photograph because of the shiny paper. I was finally able to get a fairly good picture taken from a little bit of an angle. The photo still does not do just to the glitter paper, but you can see how sparkly and shiny it is. Thanks for looking.

No Post and Glitter Paper!

Just wanted to take a minute to let everyone know I haven't forgotten you. Last weekend was crazy and I just didn't get a chanced to get anything made and posted. After another hectic week at work I am home until Monday so hope I get more done this weekend. I am very excited, I just got two new cartridges, Forever Young and Sweet Treats. So I hope to play with them this weekend. There are some great flowers on these two cartridges and I want to make my mom a bouquet for her birthday so I think I will be experimenting with that this weekend. I also volunteered to serve as a guinea pig for Kim at Cutters Creek. She is carrying the American Craft glitter paper and because she was having delays with her order on some of the colors she wanted to get samples out for some of us to provide honest feed back to the rest in the group. If  you haven't seen this paper you must. It is some of the most fantastic glitter paper I have ever seen. It is a nice thick paper and the glitter doesn't rub off. I am also hoping to make a project with that this weekend. If you would like to see the paper or order some yourself give Kim a visit at Cutters Creek.