Dance to Your Own Music

A friend is letting me borrow her Shall We Dance Cricut Cartridge and I decided to cut this little ballerina girl out. She is cut at 4". I used my Imagine and the Floral Emporium cartridge for to color my girl's tutu. Her skin and hair are RGB colors. My card base is white card stock cut and folded to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card base. I added an olive green mat cut at 4" X 5 1/4" and a patterned paper mat cut at 3 3/4" X 5. The music notes are from the Winter Frolic cartridge and cut at 1 1/4". My ballerina is attached to the card with an action wobble. I hope you all have a great holiday weekend. Thanks for visiting.

Find Joy in the Simple Things

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.

My Old Man

Here is a Father's Day card I made for my FIL. When they are together my husband always teases his dad and calls him Old Man so I thought the sentiment was perfect for a card for him. My In-Laws have a small farm in Idaho so I decided to make the farmer from Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge.

The card base is 4 1/4" X 5 1/2", the dark brown mat and the patterned paper were cut 1/8" smaller than the layer it sits on. The patterned paper is from a DCWV Summer Dreams paper stack that I picked up Joann's today. The farmer and all his accessories were cut at 3 1/2". The hoe is actually one of the accessories for the gardener but I liked it better for this card. The sentiment is a Studio G dollar stamp that I picked up at Craft Warehouse. I used a Peachy Keen stamp for his face and used some pale pink to give his cheeks a little rosy tint. I used my white gel pen to color in his eyes and highlight the stitching on his pants and shirt and the crease areas of his hat. I again took some chalk to tone down the white gel pen on his hat and shirt. I used a silver gel pen for his buttons on his overalls. I also did some faux stitching along the edges of the card and put some small buttons in the lower corners. Thanks for looking.

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.

Birthday Bouquet

My Mom's birthday is in April and while she doesn't like us buying her gifts I wanted to do something for her. I decided to make her a little easy care birthday bouquet. I used the Forever Young Cricut cartridge to cut the both layers for the flowers. I used a bright pink card stock for the back layer and a yellow and pink stripped paper from the DCWV Flower Stack for the top layer. I cut the flowers at 2 1/2" and clued the two layers together using Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive. I then used buttons for the flower centers and used the quick dry adhesive to adhere those as well. The stems are some plastic stripped straws that I picked up at the dollar store. The container is one that I got on clearance at Michaels after Valentines Day for .59 cents. The ribbon is some I had on hand. I used some glass pebbles inside the container so the flowers would stand up. It went together really quick and I think she will like it.

I apologize that it isn't a better picture. I am hoping that by next weekend I am past this cold bug I have had for the last week. It has really wore me out and left me feeling less then creative but I hated to let a whole weekend go by without doing something. Thanks for looking.