BYSH Cardmakers Falling for the Holidays Linky Party

 It's that time of year! Time for the BYSH Cardmakers Falling for the Holidays Linky Party. We have some great sponsors and fun prizes up for grabs. I hope you will join the party.

My inspiration project features a floral swag from one of our sponsors, Gina K Designs. This image is from a stamp set that is included in her October Card Kit.  I colored it with Distress Oxide inks using the matching stencil then die cut it out using the matching dies. My pattern paper is from Echo Park. I heat embossed my sentiment with some silver embossing powder. My card is a standard A2 card.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you will head over to the BYSH Cardmakers blog to checkout more inspiration projects by the Design Team and then link up your project.

The Creative Crafter Challenge #72

 It's time for a new challenge at The Creative Crafter. It's always Anything Goes.  This is my project for this month's challenge.

My card is heavyweight white card stock cut, scored, and folded to make a 4 1/4 X 5 1/2" card base.  I used some Spellbinders rectangle dies to cut my pattern paper which is from Echo Park.

The Love Stamp is a print and cut image from Cricut Design Space. I sized it to 3.5". I popped it up with some foam tape.

To finish the card, I added a few pink confetti to the card.

I appreciate you stopping by. I hope you will head on over The Creative Crafter's blog and check out the rest of the design team's project. Then take an opportunity to link up a project.

Let's Craft and Create Challenge #188 AG + The Colors of Fall

 

There is a new challenge over at Let's Craft and Create. Challenge #188 is Anything Goes with the option of The Colors of Fall (Use any or all of these colors - red, yellow, orange, brown). This is my project.

For my card I started off with some heavyweight white cardstock, cut, scored and folded to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card base. Next, I cut a piece of pattern paper to 4" X 5 1/4". My pattern paper is from an Echo Park Welcome Autumn 6" X 6" Mega Pad. I used a dark brown solid from the same paper pad and die cut it with Pink Fresh Studio's Geo Tiles coverplate die. I applied an adhesive sheet to the back of the paper before die cutting it so it was easier to adhere to my pattern paper. After I had those layered together, I attached them to my card base with liquid adhesive.

The leaves were cut from colored cardstock using an Autumn Leaves die set from Spellbinders. I heat embossed the word fall with some gold embossing powder and die cut it out using the matching dies from Honeybee Stamps. The word Greetings is from the same Honeybee stamp set and was also embossed in gold. I popped up my fall sentiment with foam tape. To finish the card, I added some gold pearls.

Now I hope you will pop on over to Let's Craft and Create to look at the inspiration provided by the rest of the Design Team and link up your project. We would love to have you join us.

BYSH Cardmakers Challenge Sketch #24

 A new challenge has started over at BYSH Cardmakers using Sketch 24. This is one of my inspiration card. Papers are from Echo Park. I followed the sketch measurements. My sentiment cut apart is also from the Echo Park 6" X 6" paper pad.

Here is this month's sketch.

I hope you will pop over to the BYSH Cardmakers blog and check out the other Design Team inspiration then enter your project in our Facebook group. We would love for you to join us.

Stay tuned, I will have another project for this sketch coming soon. Thanks for stopping by.

Let's Craft and Create Challenge #180 AG With the Option from the Heart

 Hello everyone. It's time for a new challenge over at Let's Craft and Create. Our February Challenge #180 is Anything Goes with the option of From the Heart. Here is my inspiration for you.

I found this cute gnome in Cricut Access. I cut him at 4". I added a small offset that I cut in white so I had a place to assemble the gnome. I also cut his nose in white and colored it with my markers.

The pink and red mats were cut at 4 1/2" from the Elegant Edges Image Set. I added some stardust stickles to the hearts on the corners.

My card base is heavyweight white cardstock cut, scored, and folded to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card base. I added a piece of patterned paper from the Echo Park Hello Valentine 6" X 6" paper pad. It is cut at 4 1/8" X 5 3/8". It is adhered to the card with liquid adhesive. I then popped my panel with my gnome using some foam dots.

Now it is your turn. I hope you will pop over to Let's Craft and Create and play along with us. There is always a small prize offered. Hope to see you there.

Happy Birthday card

 

 

 

This is a birthday card I made for my daughter-in-law whose birthday was last week. The card is 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card stock. Patterned paper is from Echo Park. Colored card stock is from my stash. I added some Nuvo glitter drops in white blizzard to the candle flames. I got the design from the Silhouette store. I purchased the svg file and used my Cricut maker.

Thanks for visiting. I hope you all have a great day.

O' Christmas Tree Card

I hope everyone had a great weekend and their week is off to a good start. I am not sure about you but wow, I can't believe Thanksgiving is just a few short days away. That means that Christmas won't be far behind. I decided I better get started on some cards and quick. Here is what I have for you today.

My card base is 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" white Bazzill card stock. My pattern paper is from the Echo Park Holly Jolly 6" X 6" paper pad. My red pattern mat is cut at 4" X 5 1/4". I cut a piece of green card stock 3" x 5 1/4" and used a border punch on each side. The music paper is the back side to the red paper and I cut it so it would fit on the green punched mat but it too is 5 1/4" tall. My tree, is from the new Sizzix Framelits Dies and Stamps Tim Holtz Christmas Tree set. I love the versatility of these sets. For this card I opted to not use the stamps but just the dies. But I just as easily could have stamped and cut, or just stamped.

I used three different shades of green card stock one for each layer with each layer getting a bit lighter. The star is cut from some gold paper and then sprayed with some Gold Glitter Dust. ( Be sure to stock up on the Glitter Dust spray, it is a holiday must have). To decorate my tree I added some random pearls using a variety of colors of Liquid Pearls.

I stamped my sentiment on some white card stock using some Memento ink. This color is called Love Letters and is a gorgeous red.

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

It's Raining Happy!!!

So I won a stamp set from the Cutters Creek Virtual Valentine's Day Party and it is just so sticking cute I had to give it a try. I finally had a chance this weekend. This is a Unity Little Bitty Stamp. Isn't just so cute????

My card base is white card stock cut and scored to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card base. I added a blue mat cut at 4" X 5 1/4" and then my patterned paper which is from Echo Park Hello Summer 6"X 6" paper pad cut at 3 3/4" X 5". I rounded the outer two corners.

I used the Elegant Edges Cricut Cartridge to cut a mat for my main image. The mat was cut at 3 1/2". I ran the white layer through my eBosser and embossed it with the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder.

The umbrella image was the stamp I won along with the sentiment. I stamped the image on white card stock and colored it with some Spectrum Noir markers and cut it out and adhered it to my embossed mat. I then covered it with Glossy Accents so it had that slick glossy  look  to it.

My sentiment was stamped in Bahama Blue Memento Ink. I adhere the umbrella directly to my mat but the mat and sentiment were adhered to my card base with foam tap. Let me know what you think. I am not much of a color-er, so be gentle. Thanks

The Stockings Were Hung...

I  have a quick and easy card Christmas card today. It is not too early to start on yours as well. I started with a white card stock base scored and folded to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card base. I added a dark green mat cut at 4" X 5 1/4" and then my patterned paper mat cut at 3 3/4" X 5". My patterned paper is from the Echo Park Holly Jolly 6"x 6" paper pad. I then cut a red mat at 4 3/4" X 3 1/2". I ran that through my eBosser (love this great machine!) and embossed all but the last inch or so of the paper using the Tiny Mosaic Cuttlebug embossing folder. I then used a sponge dauber to sponge Black Soot and Fired Brick distress ink randomly over my "bricks". My stocking was cut from the Tis the Season cricut cartridge at 3". Again this paper is from the Echo Park Holly Jolly 6"x 6" paper pad. My sentiment was embossed using the WOW! Tea Garden Green embossing powder.  I attached my stocking to the front of the card with some foam tape and added an adhesive nail head from my stash. 

Happy Hauntings

The new Cricut Cardz Challenge is to make a Halloween S-Fold or Z-Fold card . My card base is black card stock and is cut  to 4 1/4" X 11. I scored it at 2 3/4" and 5 1/2". Folded it in  half then folded the left front back. I added an orange mat cut at 4 1/8" X 2 5/8" on the outside and inside small flap. I then cut a black and white polka dot mat at 4" X 2 1/2" also for the outside and inside small flap. For the base inside I cut my orange mat 4 1/8" X 5 1/8" and the polka dot mat at 4" X 5". I inked the edges of all my pieces with some Tim Holtz Black Soot Distress ink.

My house is cut at 3 1/2" from the Create a Critter 2 cartridge. I cut the base from an orange yellow and the top layer from black card stock. I then painted the black layer of my house with some Onyx Pearl Liquid Pearl. My mat for the house is from Paper Trimmings and is cut at 4". I cut the base layer out of gray and the top layer out of black. I adhered the layers together and then spritzed it with some iridescent glitter dust spray. My patterned paper is from an Echo Park Apothecary Paper pack from last year.

For the inside of my card I cut just the shadow of the spiderweb mat at 2 3/4 out of white and again at 3" out of black so I would have a shadow. I cut the dangling spider off of the pieces and inked the edges of the white piece with the Black Soot distress ink. I then stamped my sentiment with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and added some doodling along the outside edge of the web. Finally I took my little black spider I had cut off the web and added it to my sentiment mat and used a white gel pen to give him two little eyes.

I hope you will play along with us for the challenge.

Window Card

I saw the idea for this card last December in a card making magazine and have been wanting to make one. My card base is white Bazzill Smooth card stock cut and scored to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card base. My patterned papers for the curtains is from the My Minds Eye paper pad Miss Caroline All Dolled Up. Using the Plantin Schoolbook Cricut Cartridge I cut the scallop at 1" and then trimmed it to fit across my card. My "curtains" are cut at 1 7/8" X 4". I ran the paper through my paper crimper to get that pleated look. For my window I cut the image from the Christmas Solutions cartridge at 3" out of the Mod Squad Cut and Emboss Paper by Core'denations. I then cut the view for my window from a scrap from the Echo Park Summer Paper pad from last summer. I adhered the view down straight to my card. I attached the window with some of the ASI 3D Clear Foam. I also attached the curtains and the valance with some foam tape. To finish it off, I added a couple of bows.

Center Step Card Tutorial

I have a fun new card for you today. At least new to me. It is called a Center Step Card or Front Panel Card.  The card will fit in an A2 size envelope and was a lot of fun to make. All of my papers are from Echo Park. I apologize for the dark picture a big gray cloud decided to cover up the sun just as I started taking pictures. I attached all of my paper down with my ATG Gun. My cupcake was cut from the Straight From the Nest cartridge (which Kim can order for you if you want it) at 2 3/4". Because the little holes for the sprinkles were so small I opted to add some liquid pearls in Hydrangea  and Key Lime to them instead. I attached my cupcake to my card with an action wobble. I did a short video for you to help explain how I made this card. I first saw this idea on SplitcoastStampers. I hope the video helps you understand how this card works.

Here is a side picture of the finished card.

I sure hope you will give this a try. If you do let me know what you think. Thanks for visiting.

Just Soaking up Rays

Here is a quick card I made this afternoon. I was not soaking up any rays! We were having thunderstorms, lots of rain and hail. This was as close to sun as I could get today.

My card base is white card stock cut and folded to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card base. I added some orange striped paper cut at 3" X 5 1/4" and a yellow stripped paper cut at 2" X 5 1/4".  Both patterned papers are by Echo Park. I then added white strip of paper cut at 3/4" X 5 1/4" to cover my seam. I stamped the sentiment Just Soaking up Rays in Dandelion Memento Ink, The sentiment is from the "Fun in the Sun" sentiment stamp from Cardz TV.

For my image I used the Pack Your Bags cricut cartridge. I cut all the layers at 3 1/2". I colored all the layers with the colors from the Best Friends Imagine cartridge. For the blue striped pieces on the umbrella and the lounge I colored those from the Bubblegum Stripes Imagine cartridge. I layered everything together and attached it to my card with some foam tape. For my "sun" I used a clear yellow button that I ran some pale yellow and white striped bakers twine through and tied in a bow. I also added some light orange buttons to the lower right hand corner of my card.

I am entering this card in the Vacation Card challenge over at Paper Playtimes.

Father's Day Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Cutters Creek Design Team Fathers Day Blog Hop! If you just came from Lori's Blog, you are in the right place! If you just happened upon my blog today and you want to hop from the beginning, and play for the Grand Prize you can start from the Cutters Creek Design Team Blog and check out Chris' great project! The objective for our Blog Hop this weekend is to inspire you to create something beautiful for all of the "Fathers" in your life! We have a bit of everything, from cards to gift ideas to layouts about our fathers!

I have two projects for you today. My first project is a Father's Day card. I started with a piece of white card stock cut and folded to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card base. I added a black mat cut at 4" X5 1/4" and then my patterned paper mat cut at 3 3/4" X 5". My card is based on this patterned paper which is from the Echo Park Happy Days 6" X 6" paper pack and are pop bottle lids. I then added a black mat cut at 2" X 3 3/4". For my sentiment I cut the word Pop using the font from the Birthday Bash cartridge out of Chipboard at 1 3/4". I then painted the edges with my Sunshine Yellow Paint Dabber. To cover the top of my letters I cut the word pop again this time from a piece of blue card stock from the Mod Squad paper pack. To give  my letters even more dimension and shine and covered them with some Glossy Accents. I also adhered the letters down with some Glossy Accents as well.

My second project is for a Father's Day give my my hubby. I used my Imagine and the Snapshot Texture Patterned cartridge to fill the toolbox cut from the Sweet Tooth boxes project cartridge. I cut the box at 9".

Doesn't the pattern on the box look great? I overfilled it with the little snickers so it wasn't closing correctly, sorry about that. I used scor tape to adhere my box together. On the inside I cut the sentiment from the Celebrate with Flourish lite cartridge at 2 1/4" and attached it to the inside of the lid. My hubby is going to love this.

And what is a blog hop without blog candy???? Of course Cutter's Creek is giving away a super prize but for stopping by and leaving me a comment I have a little something for someone. You don't have to be a follower but I would love it if would like to follow me. I have for you a 6" X 6" Hello Summer Paper pad from Echo Park. For a chance to win this paper pad just leave me a comment at the end of this post. You will have until 6:00m PDT, Monday, June 4th to leave your comment. I will choose a winner using Random.org. and announce the winner by 9:00 PDT on June 4th. Please be sure to leave me a way to get in touch with you so I can contact you if you win. I apologize but can only ship to the United States.

Now for the details about the Grand Prize I mentioned at the beginning of my post. To qualify you must leave a comment at every stop along the way. COmments should be made by Midnight, June 3rd. We will use Random.org to select a winner so be sure to check back with us on Monday to find out if you have won!

Don't forget to leave a comment here before you hop along to Laura's Blog! Thanks for hopping by!

Birthday Card

One of my co-workers is having a birthday next week and I wanted to make him a card. This is what I came up with.

I started with a 5" X 7" white card base. I used some patterned paper from the Echo Park This and That Graceful 6" X 6" paper pack and cut it down to 4 3/4" X3 3/4". I also used a piece of card stock from the new Core' denations Cut and Emboss 4 1/4" X 5 1/2". I love this paper. There are 10 colors and 40 sheets in back and because of the size they are perfect for card making. I chose a color from the Chocolate Box set and embossed it with my Cuttlebug and the Happy Birthday folder. I lightly sanded it so the teal blue color would show through. I though it looked great with the patterned paper I chose. I cut this embossed paper down to 4 3/4" in height so it fit my card. I then added a blue strip of paper where the two different papers met and while it doesn't show up well in the photo I used a birthday party hat stamp and some versamark and stamped the hat down the blue strip of paper. I used the Smiley Card cartridge on my gypsy and the Emoticons creative feature keys to cut my image. Because my card if or a man I didn't want to bling it up too much but it just needed a little something, so I added some of the Diamond Ice Stickles I just got to the pompom. Finally I attached my little guy to my card from with some foam dots. I think he turned out cute. Thanks for visiting.

Hang in There!

The new challenge at Scrappy Frogs is Seeing Spots. Make a project with spots. This is what I came up with.

My card is a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card base. I cut my patterned paper at 4" X 5 1/4". My patterned paper is from Echo Park Dots and Stripes paper pad. I cut my image from the Meow Cricut Lite cartridge at 3 1/2" and I colored all my layers on the image with the colors and patterns from the Bubblegum Stripes Imagine cartridge. I inked around all the edges with some Memento Rich Cocoa. I created my sentiment on my computer and printed it out on some card stock. I hope you will join us in the challenge. Thanks for visiting.

Sending You Sunshine Card

Here is a quick card I made using the Birthday Bash Cricut Cartridge. For whatever reason I am having trouble with some of the layers on this cartridge. But I still think it turned out cute. My card base is white card stock cut and folded for a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card base. The yellow polka dotted paper is cut to 4" X 5 1/4" and is from Echo Park. I used an EK Success border punch on some white card stock and the reverse of the polka dot paper. The white paper was cut at 1 1/2" and the yellow patterned paper was cut at 1 1/4". The bird is cut at 3 3/4". I added some turquoise stickles to the birds wings and  some star dust stickles to the little heart cut out on the envelope. The sentiment stamp is from Hero Arts. This is headed to one of my Crafty Pen Pals. Hope it puts a smile on her face.

Double Dutch Fold Card

My Cutters Creek Design Team Tuesday Tutorial post for you today is a card I saw on Splitcoast Stampers called a Double Dutch Fold Card. Of course I had to give it a try.

This card fits in a standard A2 envelope. I started with a piece of Bazzill White card stock cut at 4 3/16" X 9" and scored at 5 1/2". I also cut a piece of the white card stock 2" x 8 1/2" scored at 2 1/8" and 6 3/8". I used my ATG Gun to adhere the the larger piece to the smaller piece centering it between the folds of the smaller piece. When finished the top folds down and the two smaller sides fold in like a gate fold card. I then cut a dark turquoise mat from Core' denations card stock. For the larger flap I cut the blue mat at 4" X 3 3/4". The smaller flaps I cut the blue ( think I didn't write it down sorry) at 2" X 1 7/8". The polka dotted patterned paper is from  the Echo Park Paper Pad. The patterned paper was cut 1/4" smaller than the blue mat.  I cut my cupcake from the Sweet Tooth Cricut cartridge at 3 1.2". I cut the heart out of red paper from my stash and then used some Magenta Stickles on the heart to give it some sparkle. Finally I add some faux stitching and doodle dots to the chocolate layer.

I sure hope you will give the card a try. It was a lot of fun to make something a little out of the ordinary. I made this card for a co-worker who has a birthday next week. I am also entering this card in the Simply Crafts  challenge.

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.

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

Life is Amazing Card

I have for you today an elegant looking but very quick card I made using the new Victoria Gardens Echo Park paper and stickers from the 12 x 12 kit. These papers are beautiful and also come in a 6 x 6 Pad. To make my card I started with a white card base 4 1/4" X 5 1/2". I then cut a mat from this gorgeous pink and white patterned paper that was in my kit. I added a pink ribbon and bow from my stash. Using the Elegant Edges Cricut cartridge to cut the scalloped rectangle. I cut the base layer and shadow layer at 3 3/4".  (Kim at Cutter's Creek can special order this cartridge for you, just ask).  I just loved this framed sentiment and designed my card around it. The scalloped mats are cut from more patterned paper from the  Victoria Gardens Echo Park kit. I adhered the scalloped rectangle mat together and attached it to my card using foam tape. Last I added the framed sentiment and some pearls in each of the scallops. I am so pleased how this turned out. In case you can't read it, the sentiment says, When you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing. If you haven't had a chance, be sure to stop by Cutters Creek and check out all the Echo Park paper available. Rumor has it that some of the Christmas pads have just arrived and their are a few remaining, so grab yours quick. Be sure to come back and visit again for more great project ideas.