Birthday Card

 

Here is a birthday card I made for one of my co-worker.  This image reminded me of her.

   

My card is a tall card. my card base is cream card stock cut and folded to make a 4" X 9" card base.  I added a blue mat cut at 3 3/4" X 8 3/4". My patterned paper mat is cut at 3 5/8" X 8 5/8".

My image is cut at 6" from the Forever young cartridge. I only cut the base layer and the dress layer. I didn't want the necklace o the colored band that went across the bottom of the dress,

I had some cream colored rick  rack that I dyed using the Tim Holtz Picked Raspberry Distress Stain. Once it dried I adhered it to my dress using some Glossy Accents.  I added a clear rhinestone flourish. I attached my image to the card front using some foam tape.  My sentiment is stamped using the Good Times stamp set from CardzTV and Teal Zeal Memento ink.

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Happy Father's Day!!!!

Since today is Father's Day I thought I would share what I made for my husband. As some of you may know, on April 30th we became first time grandparents to our wonderful grandson Aiden Lee. This gift is in honor of the new grandpa.

I got this magnetic chalkboard at a local craft store. I used some Stormy Sky Distress Stain to stain the wooden frame. I applied two coats. I used the edge of a makeup sponge to do the inside edge of the frame.

I cute the phrase using some 651 white vinyl and adhered it to the chalkboard. I then cut 3 hearts out of red vinyl and adhered those.

The magnet was made using a clear glass decorative gem. I used a 1 1/4" punch and punched an image out of some baby paper and adhered it to the flat side of the gem with some glossy accents. I allowed that to dry for about an hour. Then I used glossy accents to attach a strong disc magnet to the paper.

The picture is one I took the first time Grandpa feed Aiden. I just cropped it so it would fit in the space, rounded the corners and used the magnet to adhere the picture to the board. This will allow him to change the pictures and Aiden grows. I bought a little black easel to display the finished board. My husband is going to take this to work and put it on his desk.

I am really happy how it turned out and my husband loves it. I think the phrase could be changed and used to make something similar for Mom, Dad, Grandma, a new graduation, and the possibilities go on and on.

Celebrate the Season

I've had the new Anna Griffin Winter Wonderland Cricut cartridge for awhile now but haven't had a chance to use it. Then I got a 6 X 6 Anna Griffin paper pad and figured it was time to breakout the cartridge. This is what I came up with.

My card base is ivory card stock and scored to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card base. I added a dark gold mat cut at 4" X 5 1/4" and then the textured gold mat cut at 3 3/4" X 5". The snowflake paper is from the Anna Griffin paper pad and was cut at 3 1/2" X 4 3/4".

The snowflake is from the Winter Wonderland cartridge and was cut at 3".  I cut the base layer out of white card stock and then painted it with the Tarnished Brass Distress Stain.

I embossed my sentiment with some Silver WOW embossing powder. To finish the card, I added some Platinum Pearl Liquid Pearls to the sentiment and the center of the flower.