Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Minnie Mouse from Mickey Font cut at 3.5 inches
Spots and Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder
Crinkle ribbon
Sentiment from TPC Studio Greetings set
i-rock gems
Glossy Accents
Friday, March 30, 2012
Minnie Mouse Birthday
Happy Friday! Today is my niece's 11th birthday. For the past few years, she has been lucky enough to spend her birthday snowboarding on the mountains in Colorado. Well this year, she's even more lucky as she's getting to spend her birthday at Disneyland! In honor of that, I decided to create a Minnie Mouse birthday card for her. (Big thanks to my great friend Melissa for letting me borrow her Mickey Font cartridge to create this card!!)
Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Minnie Mouse from Mickey Font cut at 3.5 inches
Spots and Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder
Crinkle ribbon
Sentiment from TPC Studio Greetings set
i-rock gems
Glossy Accents
Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Minnie Mouse from Mickey Font cut at 3.5 inches
Spots and Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder
Crinkle ribbon
Sentiment from TPC Studio Greetings set
i-rock gems
Glossy Accents
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Shaped Birthday Card
Happy Friday eve! I hope everyone is having a fantastic week!
The card I have to share today is a quick one I put together for my step-niece's boyfriend. I'm meeting him for the first time today and it's his birthday. I really don't know much about him, so I stayed pretty generic with this card. And of course since he's a guy I couldn't bling it up too much - guy birthday cards are so hard for me!! Anyway, this is what I came up with. Hope he likes it!
Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned cardstock from DCWV
Shaped card and layers from Sweet Treats cut at 5.25 inches
White Sakura gel pen for stitching
Stickles
The card I have to share today is a quick one I put together for my step-niece's boyfriend. I'm meeting him for the first time today and it's his birthday. I really don't know much about him, so I stayed pretty generic with this card. And of course since he's a guy I couldn't bling it up too much - guy birthday cards are so hard for me!! Anyway, this is what I came up with. Hope he likes it!
Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned cardstock from DCWV
Shaped card and layers from Sweet Treats cut at 5.25 inches
White Sakura gel pen for stitching
Stickles
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Anniversary Card
Happy Tuesday! Today is my grandparents' anniversary - 65 years of marriage! I'm so happy for them, and even more excited because we get to spend some time with them this coming weekend.
One of the cards that my sweetie and I received for our wedding gave me the inspiration for this card. The card we received was made by the wife of one of my sweetie's good friends. She placed the initial for our last name down near the bottom on the front of the card and a 'newlyweds' embellishment on the top flap. I loved the fold and the idea of the initial on the card and incorporated those ideas on my grandparents' card.
I started with a 4.25 x 12 piece of paper and scored it at 2 and 7.5 inches. I cut my patterned paper at 4 x 1.75 inches and 4 x 4.25 inches for the mats, then added the dove, scallop circle and monogram cuts. I finished it off with Glossy Accents and some crinkle ribbon. Pretty easy! Thanks for coming by!
Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill
Patterned cardstock from my stash
Dove from Tie the Knot cut at 2.5 inches
Monogram from Tie the Knot cut at 1.25 inches
Scallop circle from Tie the Knot cut at 2 inches
Sentiment from Hero Arts Everyday Sayings set
White Sakura gel pen
Glossy Accents
Crinkle ribbon
One of the cards that my sweetie and I received for our wedding gave me the inspiration for this card. The card we received was made by the wife of one of my sweetie's good friends. She placed the initial for our last name down near the bottom on the front of the card and a 'newlyweds' embellishment on the top flap. I loved the fold and the idea of the initial on the card and incorporated those ideas on my grandparents' card.
I started with a 4.25 x 12 piece of paper and scored it at 2 and 7.5 inches. I cut my patterned paper at 4 x 1.75 inches and 4 x 4.25 inches for the mats, then added the dove, scallop circle and monogram cuts. I finished it off with Glossy Accents and some crinkle ribbon. Pretty easy! Thanks for coming by!
Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill
Patterned cardstock from my stash
Dove from Tie the Knot cut at 2.5 inches
Monogram from Tie the Knot cut at 1.25 inches
Scallop circle from Tie the Knot cut at 2 inches
Sentiment from Hero Arts Everyday Sayings set
White Sakura gel pen
Glossy Accents
Crinkle ribbon
Monday, March 26, 2012
Gift Card Holder
Hello! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and that your week is off to a good start! The weather was beautiful here and my sweetie and I were able to play golf yesterday. We both played well, which makes it even more fun. :)
The card I have to share today is a birthday card I made for a friend of mine. Her husband likes skulls, crossbones, etc and I think some of that has rubbed off on her. She has a pirate flag up in her cube at work with a skull and crossbones on it and from time to time I see her with accessories along that line. So I decided to go along with that theme for her birthday card. I made a standard A2 size card going horizontally, but I put the crease along the left side so it would open like a book. I wanted to put a gift card inside and I thought it would look better this way. To hold the gift card in place, I cut a strip of paper that matched my card base at 1.5 x 4.25 inches. Then I used a Fiskars border punch for the strip of flowers. I adhered the flower strip to the 1.5 x 4.25 piece of paper, put adhesive along the sides and bottom of that strip and adhered it to the inside of my card to make a pocket for the gift card to sit in.
Thanks for stopping by to take a look. Hope you have a wonderful week!
Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned cardstock from The Paper Studio
Skull and crossbones from Rock Princess cut at 3 inches
EK Success Daisy Chain punch
Twine from My Craft Spot
Button from my stash
White and brown chalk around skull and crossbones
i-rock gems
Glossy Accents and Stickles
Pop dots
Sentiment from Hero Arts Cupcakes set
The card I have to share today is a birthday card I made for a friend of mine. Her husband likes skulls, crossbones, etc and I think some of that has rubbed off on her. She has a pirate flag up in her cube at work with a skull and crossbones on it and from time to time I see her with accessories along that line. So I decided to go along with that theme for her birthday card. I made a standard A2 size card going horizontally, but I put the crease along the left side so it would open like a book. I wanted to put a gift card inside and I thought it would look better this way. To hold the gift card in place, I cut a strip of paper that matched my card base at 1.5 x 4.25 inches. Then I used a Fiskars border punch for the strip of flowers. I adhered the flower strip to the 1.5 x 4.25 piece of paper, put adhesive along the sides and bottom of that strip and adhered it to the inside of my card to make a pocket for the gift card to sit in.
Thanks for stopping by to take a look. Hope you have a wonderful week!
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned cardstock from The Paper Studio
Skull and crossbones from Rock Princess cut at 3 inches
EK Success Daisy Chain punch
Twine from My Craft Spot
Button from my stash
White and brown chalk around skull and crossbones
i-rock gems
Glossy Accents and Stickles
Pop dots
Sentiment from Hero Arts Cupcakes set
Friday, March 23, 2012
Die Cuttin Divas Challenge #57
Happy Friday! Boy did this week fly by - I can't believe the weekend is already here! I didn't have much time for crafting this week, but I did manage to get downstairs last night and get a card made for this week's challenge over at Die Cuttin Divas. The challenge this week is Music, in honor of Music in Our Schools Month.
I knew I wanted to use my Rock Princess cartridge along with the Rock On stamp set I have from Pink by Design. I have also been eying the musical note paper in one of my DCWV stacks and have been wanting to incorporate it into a project for a while now. So I put on some good music for inspiration, sat down with the stamp set in front of me and started flipping through the RP handbook. This is what I came up with. Thanks for coming by to take a look!
Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned cardstock from DCWV
Girl with guitar from Rock Princess cut at 3.75 inches
Musical notes from Paisley cut at 0.8 inches
Sentiment from Pink by Design's Rock On set
Ribbon from The Paper Studio
Glossy Accents
i-rock gems
Black Sakura gel pen
I knew I wanted to use my Rock Princess cartridge along with the Rock On stamp set I have from Pink by Design. I have also been eying the musical note paper in one of my DCWV stacks and have been wanting to incorporate it into a project for a while now. So I put on some good music for inspiration, sat down with the stamp set in front of me and started flipping through the RP handbook. This is what I came up with. Thanks for coming by to take a look!
Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned cardstock from DCWV
Girl with guitar from Rock Princess cut at 3.75 inches
Musical notes from Paisley cut at 0.8 inches
Sentiment from Pink by Design's Rock On set
Ribbon from The Paper Studio
Glossy Accents
i-rock gems
Black Sakura gel pen
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Challenge Me Monday #102
Happy St Patrick's Day!! Hope you're all enjoying the weekend! We're getting ready to head to the parade, but I wanted to get my post up first. :)
The project I have to share today is something I created for the challenge this week over at Fantabulous Cricut. The challenge is In Like a Lion - make a project with a cat, lion, tiger, etc. I've been wanting to make this for a while now and this was just the motivation I needed to get it done.
I started with a plain white chipboard frame and found some cat-themed paper that I covered the entire frame with using Mod Podge. I added thin brown ribbon over the seams where that papers met. Then I added a cute cat image and my cat's name. I covered the entire thing in Mod Podge to give it a protective coat, then added a double bow to finish it off. Then all that was left was adding a pic of my baby girl! My sweetie liked the way the frame turned out and I have promised to make one for our beagle as well - you'll probably be seeing that before too long! Thanks for coming by and I hope you enjoy the weekend!
Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned cardstock from Deja Views and We R Memory Keepers
Cat from Create a Critter cut at 3 inches
Letters for name cut from Rock Princess at 2.5 inches
Black and white Sakura gel pens
American Crafts ribbon in Chestnut
i-rock gems
Mod Podge
The project I have to share today is something I created for the challenge this week over at Fantabulous Cricut. The challenge is In Like a Lion - make a project with a cat, lion, tiger, etc. I've been wanting to make this for a while now and this was just the motivation I needed to get it done.
I started with a plain white chipboard frame and found some cat-themed paper that I covered the entire frame with using Mod Podge. I added thin brown ribbon over the seams where that papers met. Then I added a cute cat image and my cat's name. I covered the entire thing in Mod Podge to give it a protective coat, then added a double bow to finish it off. Then all that was left was adding a pic of my baby girl! My sweetie liked the way the frame turned out and I have promised to make one for our beagle as well - you'll probably be seeing that before too long! Thanks for coming by and I hope you enjoy the weekend!
Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned cardstock from Deja Views and We R Memory Keepers
Cat from Create a Critter cut at 3 inches
Letters for name cut from Rock Princess at 2.5 inches
Black and white Sakura gel pens
American Crafts ribbon in Chestnut
i-rock gems
Mod Podge
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Iris Fold
Happy Friday eve! I hope you're all having a great week!! Do you have some fun plans for St Paddy's Day?? We're hoping to hit the local parade, something I've never done before, so I'm pretty excited!
The card I have to share today is something I created to fit a couple of different challenges. This week over at Die Cuttin Divas, the challenge is to use the colors Green, Yellow, Black and White. They have a bonus challenge of trying the Iris Fold technique. I had no idea what the Iris Fold was, but one of the Die Cuttin Divas designers, Yvette, has a great tutorial on her blog. Be sure to check it out HERE. I love learning new techniques, so I figured I'd give this one a try! :)
Over at My Craft Spot, the challenge this week is Manly Man Cards. I always have a hard time with cards for guys because I want to add bling and sparkle to many of my creations, so this is definitely a challenge for me!
Here's my take on a manly man card, using the Iris Fold and the colors green, yellow, black and white. I decided to make an easel card and I used my Gypsy and cut a rectangle from Plantin Schoolbook with the cupcake from Doodlecharms on top to create my image layer. Thanks for coming by to take a look!
Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Recollections
Patterned cardstock from The Paper Studio, DCWV and We R Memory Keepers
Rectangle from Plantin Schoolbook cut at 4 x 5.25 inches
Cupcake from Doodlecharms cut at 4 inches
Sentiment from TPC Studio Greetings stamp set
Black embossing powder
American Crafts twine
Button from my stash
White Sakura gel pen
The card I have to share today is something I created to fit a couple of different challenges. This week over at Die Cuttin Divas, the challenge is to use the colors Green, Yellow, Black and White. They have a bonus challenge of trying the Iris Fold technique. I had no idea what the Iris Fold was, but one of the Die Cuttin Divas designers, Yvette, has a great tutorial on her blog. Be sure to check it out HERE. I love learning new techniques, so I figured I'd give this one a try! :)
Over at My Craft Spot, the challenge this week is Manly Man Cards. I always have a hard time with cards for guys because I want to add bling and sparkle to many of my creations, so this is definitely a challenge for me!
Here's my take on a manly man card, using the Iris Fold and the colors green, yellow, black and white. I decided to make an easel card and I used my Gypsy and cut a rectangle from Plantin Schoolbook with the cupcake from Doodlecharms on top to create my image layer. Thanks for coming by to take a look!
Solid cardstock from Recollections
Patterned cardstock from The Paper Studio, DCWV and We R Memory Keepers
Rectangle from Plantin Schoolbook cut at 4 x 5.25 inches
Cupcake from Doodlecharms cut at 4 inches
Sentiment from TPC Studio Greetings stamp set
Black embossing powder
American Crafts twine
Button from my stash
White Sakura gel pen
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Roots n Blues LO
Hello everyone! I'm still trying to get caught up on layouts from trips that my sweetie and I took last year. My goal was to get them done before we left for our wedding back in January. Kinda missed that deadline. Oh well, better late than never I guess!
This layout is from a quick weekend trip we took to Columbia, MO for the Roots n Blues n BBQ festival last September. The festival is full of good music and food. They have 3 stages set up, all close to the MU campus and within walking distance of each other. Once you're in the festival, you can walk around as you please to any of the stages. One of our favorite bands, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, was playing there, which is one of the big reasons we went. A couple of our friends joined us for the festival on Saturday. We had a blast listening to some good music and enjoying some great food! We also managed to find a sports bar nearby so that I could watch my Iowa State Cyclones defeat their in-state rivals, the Iowa Hawkeyes, in triple overtime - one of my favorite moments of that weekend! :)
I found some cute images on the Rock Princess and Paisley cartridges for my layout. The 'border' along the bottom of the left page is the wrist bands that we were given each day at the festival. The empty green square is for my journaling. Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek!
Recipe:
Cardstock from Bazzill and DCWV
Title font from Lyrical Letters (Jumbo font) cut at 1.5 inches
Date font from Lyrical Letters (Jumbo font) cut at 1.25 inches
Guitar from Rock Princess cut at 3 inches
Musical notes from Paisley cut at 1.5 inches
Black Sakura gel pen for doodling
Glossy Accents on the guitar
This layout is from a quick weekend trip we took to Columbia, MO for the Roots n Blues n BBQ festival last September. The festival is full of good music and food. They have 3 stages set up, all close to the MU campus and within walking distance of each other. Once you're in the festival, you can walk around as you please to any of the stages. One of our favorite bands, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, was playing there, which is one of the big reasons we went. A couple of our friends joined us for the festival on Saturday. We had a blast listening to some good music and enjoying some great food! We also managed to find a sports bar nearby so that I could watch my Iowa State Cyclones defeat their in-state rivals, the Iowa Hawkeyes, in triple overtime - one of my favorite moments of that weekend! :)
I found some cute images on the Rock Princess and Paisley cartridges for my layout. The 'border' along the bottom of the left page is the wrist bands that we were given each day at the festival. The empty green square is for my journaling. Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek!
Recipe:
Cardstock from Bazzill and DCWV
Title font from Lyrical Letters (Jumbo font) cut at 1.5 inches
Date font from Lyrical Letters (Jumbo font) cut at 1.25 inches
Guitar from Rock Princess cut at 3 inches
Musical notes from Paisley cut at 1.5 inches
Black Sakura gel pen for doodling
Glossy Accents on the guitar
Sunday, March 11, 2012
St Patrick's Day Card
Happy Sunday! I hope you're all having a fabulous weekend! I had a great night of crafting with one of my bf's last night. Actually, it's a grey and rainy day around here today, and since most of my household chores are already done I may spend a bit more time creating today. Yay! :)
The card I have to share today is a St. Patrick's Day card. I have absolutely no Irish in me, and I've never been big into the whole St. Patrick's Day festivities, but it's hard not to want to create cards and get excited about it when there are so many fabulous images on Cricut cartridges! My card is pretty simple, and I actually made the shamrock a little too big because I didn't leave enough room for my sentiment. Oops. Oh well, on the inside it went!
I'm entering this card in to the challenges over at Fantabulous Cricut and Krafty Girls. The Fantabulous Cricut challenge this week is Luck of the Irish - create a project using a shamrock or the color green. The challenge over at Krafty Girls is Feelin' Lucky - create a Project with a St. Patrick's Day theme. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!
Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill
Patterned cardstock from my stash
Martha Stewart Double Loops Punch Around the Page
Shamrock from Everyday Paper Dolls cut at 3.5 inches
Twine from My Craft Spot
Sentiment from My Pink Stamper's Happiest Moments set
The card I have to share today is a St. Patrick's Day card. I have absolutely no Irish in me, and I've never been big into the whole St. Patrick's Day festivities, but it's hard not to want to create cards and get excited about it when there are so many fabulous images on Cricut cartridges! My card is pretty simple, and I actually made the shamrock a little too big because I didn't leave enough room for my sentiment. Oops. Oh well, on the inside it went!
I'm entering this card in to the challenges over at Fantabulous Cricut and Krafty Girls. The Fantabulous Cricut challenge this week is Luck of the Irish - create a project using a shamrock or the color green. The challenge over at Krafty Girls is Feelin' Lucky - create a Project with a St. Patrick's Day theme. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!
Solid cardstock from Bazzill
Patterned cardstock from my stash
Martha Stewart Double Loops Punch Around the Page
Shamrock from Everyday Paper Dolls cut at 3.5 inches
Twine from My Craft Spot
Sentiment from My Pink Stamper's Happiest Moments set
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Pina Colada Cake
Happy Saturday! I'm getting ready for a scrap night with one of my best friends. Her birthday was on Wednesday, so I made a cake that I'm going to surprise her with when she gets here.
She and her husband went to Turks and Caicos back in January for my wedding. While we were there, we enjoyed our fair share of pina coladas. Just a couple weeks ago, I was over at her place scrapping and she whipped up a pitcher of pina coladas - I had to laugh as we've never drank and scrapped before! But, there's a first time for everything I guess, and they sure tasted good! When I was looking for a cake recipe for her birthday cake, I stumbled upon a Pina Colada cake. Seems perfect to me! This recipe used a boxed cake mix as it's base, so it's not entirely from scratch. But it is slightly modified so it's not just a 'plain' box cake. And the frosting is from scratch, so that has to count for something, right?!?
I also used this opportunity to try out my Cricut Cake machine. My hubby bought it for me for Christmas and I had yet to take it out of the box. My good friend Missy has been making good use of her Cricut Cake lately and she was gracious enough to give me a lot of tips. A huge thank you to her for all the advice! I decided to start with sugar sheets, because I've heard they're very easy to work with. I've never worked with fondant before, so I'm very nervous about that. Hopefully you'll see a post before too long where I try fondant, but this time I stuck with the sugar sheets. The sugar sheets were so easy to work with and the Cake cut the images very well - I was impressed since I chose fairly small images, but everything came out great.
Thanks for coming by to take a look. I hope you have a wonderful weekend!!
Pina Colada Cake
1 box Betty Crocker super moist yellow cake mix
1 can (8 oz) crushed pineapple in juice, undrained
1/2 c water
1/3 c vegetable oil
3 eggs
1 tsp rum extract
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour sides and bottom of pans.
In large bowl, beat cake mix, pineapple, water, oil, eggs and rum extract with electric mixer on low speed 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally (do not overbeat). Pour into pans.
Bake as directed on box. For round cakes, cool 10 minutes before removing from pans to cool completely.
Coconut Buttercream Frosting
1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine, room temperature
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 tsp coconut extract
4 cups powder sugar
2 tsp to 2 tbsp milk
Beat the butter until pale and fluffy. Add the vanilla and coconut extract and mix well. Add the powdered sugar 1 cup at a time, making sure the icing is smooth before adding the next cup. After all of the powdered sugar is incorporated, bet in the milk, one teaspoon at a time until the desired consistency is reached (I used about 3 tsp).
Decorations
Wilton sugar sheets
Happy Birthday from Cake Basics cut at 2 inches
Hibiscus flowers from Life's a Beach cut at 1.5 inches
Place images on cake as desired, using small drops of icing to adhere them to the cake if needed.
She and her husband went to Turks and Caicos back in January for my wedding. While we were there, we enjoyed our fair share of pina coladas. Just a couple weeks ago, I was over at her place scrapping and she whipped up a pitcher of pina coladas - I had to laugh as we've never drank and scrapped before! But, there's a first time for everything I guess, and they sure tasted good! When I was looking for a cake recipe for her birthday cake, I stumbled upon a Pina Colada cake. Seems perfect to me! This recipe used a boxed cake mix as it's base, so it's not entirely from scratch. But it is slightly modified so it's not just a 'plain' box cake. And the frosting is from scratch, so that has to count for something, right?!?
I also used this opportunity to try out my Cricut Cake machine. My hubby bought it for me for Christmas and I had yet to take it out of the box. My good friend Missy has been making good use of her Cricut Cake lately and she was gracious enough to give me a lot of tips. A huge thank you to her for all the advice! I decided to start with sugar sheets, because I've heard they're very easy to work with. I've never worked with fondant before, so I'm very nervous about that. Hopefully you'll see a post before too long where I try fondant, but this time I stuck with the sugar sheets. The sugar sheets were so easy to work with and the Cake cut the images very well - I was impressed since I chose fairly small images, but everything came out great.
Thanks for coming by to take a look. I hope you have a wonderful weekend!!
Pina Colada Cake
1 box Betty Crocker super moist yellow cake mix
1 can (8 oz) crushed pineapple in juice, undrained
1/2 c water
1/3 c vegetable oil
3 eggs
1 tsp rum extract
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour sides and bottom of pans.
In large bowl, beat cake mix, pineapple, water, oil, eggs and rum extract with electric mixer on low speed 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally (do not overbeat). Pour into pans.
Bake as directed on box. For round cakes, cool 10 minutes before removing from pans to cool completely.
Coconut Buttercream Frosting
1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine, room temperature
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 tsp coconut extract
4 cups powder sugar
2 tsp to 2 tbsp milk
Beat the butter until pale and fluffy. Add the vanilla and coconut extract and mix well. Add the powdered sugar 1 cup at a time, making sure the icing is smooth before adding the next cup. After all of the powdered sugar is incorporated, bet in the milk, one teaspoon at a time until the desired consistency is reached (I used about 3 tsp).
Decorations
Wilton sugar sheets
Happy Birthday from Cake Basics cut at 2 inches
Hibiscus flowers from Life's a Beach cut at 1.5 inches
Place images on cake as desired, using small drops of icing to adhere them to the cake if needed.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Yappy Birthday
Good evening! I hope this week is going well for you all. It's going by fairly quickly for me, which is great because I'm really looking forward to this weekend. I have a scrap night planned with one of my bf's and we're hoping to get a lot of creating done!!
Today is actually her birthday! We were able to meet for lunch with her husband and another friend of ours so we could wish her a happy birthday. And something tells me we may have to celebrate a little more when we get together this weekend! :)
I'm submitting the birthday card I made for her in this week's challenge over at Celebrate the Occasion. The challenge this week is Birthday - shape card. I found another fun shape in the Birthday Bash handbook to use for the card base. And I've been eyeing this dog image for a while now - I think he's just so cute! I know my friend is a dog-lover, as she has a sweet little Yorkie of her own, so I decided it was finally time to use this image. Thanks for coming by and I hope you're all having a wonderful week!
Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned cardstock from DCWV
Card base from Birthday Bash cut at 8.5x5.5 inches
Dog from Birthday Bash cut at 3.5 inches
Sentiment from My Pink Stamper's Even More Punny-licious set
Crinkle ribbon
i-rock gems
Google eyes
Black and white Sakura gel pens for stitching
Glossy Accents
Today is actually her birthday! We were able to meet for lunch with her husband and another friend of ours so we could wish her a happy birthday. And something tells me we may have to celebrate a little more when we get together this weekend! :)
I'm submitting the birthday card I made for her in this week's challenge over at Celebrate the Occasion. The challenge this week is Birthday - shape card. I found another fun shape in the Birthday Bash handbook to use for the card base. And I've been eyeing this dog image for a while now - I think he's just so cute! I know my friend is a dog-lover, as she has a sweet little Yorkie of her own, so I decided it was finally time to use this image. Thanks for coming by and I hope you're all having a wonderful week!
Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned cardstock from DCWV
Card base from Birthday Bash cut at 8.5x5.5 inches
Dog from Birthday Bash cut at 3.5 inches
Sentiment from My Pink Stamper's Even More Punny-licious set
Crinkle ribbon
i-rock gems
Google eyes
Black and white Sakura gel pens for stitching
Glossy Accents
Sunday, March 4, 2012
CTO #52
Hello! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! We were busy, but we got to see family and some old friends, which was great. I also found a little time to put a card together. :)
The challenge this week over at Celebrate the Occasion is Birthday - must use bling. I'm in desperate need of building up my card stash, so this challenge is right up my alley right now! I went to one of my favorite cartridges, Birthday Bash, and found a cute image I haven't used yet. I wanted to give the card a little something extra, so I flipped through the Birthday Bash handbook and found the shaped card. Then I added some i-rock gems and glitter for my bling. Thanks for coming by and enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned cardstock from DCWV
Shaped card from Birthday Bash cut at 8.5 x 5.5 inches
Beaver from Birthday Bash cut at 3.5 inches
Twine from My Craft Spot
Rub-on sentiment
i-rock gems
glitter
Glossy Accents
Pop dots
The challenge this week over at Celebrate the Occasion is Birthday - must use bling. I'm in desperate need of building up my card stash, so this challenge is right up my alley right now! I went to one of my favorite cartridges, Birthday Bash, and found a cute image I haven't used yet. I wanted to give the card a little something extra, so I flipped through the Birthday Bash handbook and found the shaped card. Then I added some i-rock gems and glitter for my bling. Thanks for coming by and enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned cardstock from DCWV
Shaped card from Birthday Bash cut at 8.5 x 5.5 inches
Beaver from Birthday Bash cut at 3.5 inches
Twine from My Craft Spot
Rub-on sentiment
i-rock gems
glitter
Glossy Accents
Pop dots
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Thinking of You
Happy Saturday!! My weekend is off to a good start, and I hope yours is too!
The card I have to share today is something I created for a couple of reasons. First, the challenge this week over at Die Cuttin Divas is a recipe challenge - use fabric, feathers and/or flowers on your project. Second, Madison over at Funky Cards is collecting cards for a young girl named Trinitie, who was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor. Madison is asking for cheerful/thinking of you cards that will be passed on to Trinitie.
Here is my creation! I have seen a number of people use tulle on their cards along with ribbon and think it looks so neat, so I decided to add some for a little extra something and also to fulfill the fabric request of the Die Cuttin Divas challenge. I love the Peachy Keen face stamps, so I decided to add those to the tulips I cut out to make them a little more cheerful. Thanks for coming by to take a look and be sure to stop by Die Cuttin Divas and Funky Cards!
Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned cardstock from my scrap stash
Tulips from Simply Charmed cut at 3 inches
Faces from Peachy Keen Stamps Everyday Characters set
Floral Flourishes embossing folder
Rub-on sentiment
Ribbon and tulle from my stash
I-rock gems
Pop dots
Glossy Accents
The card I have to share today is something I created for a couple of reasons. First, the challenge this week over at Die Cuttin Divas is a recipe challenge - use fabric, feathers and/or flowers on your project. Second, Madison over at Funky Cards is collecting cards for a young girl named Trinitie, who was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor. Madison is asking for cheerful/thinking of you cards that will be passed on to Trinitie.
Here is my creation! I have seen a number of people use tulle on their cards along with ribbon and think it looks so neat, so I decided to add some for a little extra something and also to fulfill the fabric request of the Die Cuttin Divas challenge. I love the Peachy Keen face stamps, so I decided to add those to the tulips I cut out to make them a little more cheerful. Thanks for coming by to take a look and be sure to stop by Die Cuttin Divas and Funky Cards!
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned cardstock from my scrap stash
Tulips from Simply Charmed cut at 3 inches
Faces from Peachy Keen Stamps Everyday Characters set
Floral Flourishes embossing folder
Rub-on sentiment
Ribbon and tulle from my stash
I-rock gems
Pop dots
Glossy Accents
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Float Trip LO
Good evening! I hope everyone is having a wonderful week!
I'm still trying to get caught up on my scrapbook pages from last year. I've made some progress recently and am pretty excited about these pages. The biggest reason is because of the journaling. I've seen people journal inside Cricut images or fun shapes and thought it looked really neat. I decided I wanted to have my journaling on an image of a tent for this layout.
I laid the cuts out for the tent on my Gypsy. This allowed me to figure out the height and width that I had available for my journaling. Then I was able to adjust the alignment of my journaling on my computer so that it would fit inside the cut (or so I hoped!). I know it would have been a lot easier if I had just hand-written the journaling, but I had a lot I wanted to write in a fairly small space! I started by cutting out all the layers for the tent image (including the white layer that would have the journaling on it. Then, before I removed the white layer from my mat, I put small pieces of tape along the top edge of the paper on the mat to hold it in place. I removed the image, leaving the negative space behind. I printed out my journaling and slid it underneath the negative image so that I could make sure that it would fit inside the image. Once I had my journaling inside the image the way I wanted it, I set that paper in place and removed the negative image and tape I had holding it in place. Then I cut the white layer of the image again, and it cut perfectly around my journaling. I hope this made sense!! I realize now I should have taken pictures of my steps so I could better explain this process to you!!
I'm submitting this LO to this week's Wacky Wednesday challenge over at More Than Favors. The challenge this week is Vacation - create any project as long as it has a vacation theme. Thanks for coming by to check out my project!
Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned cardstock from EKSuccess
Title letters from Life's a Party cut at 1.75 inches
Date letters from Life's a Party cut at 1.5 inches
Tent from Campin Critters cut at 8.29 inches
Duck in canoe from Campin Critters cut at 3 inches
Black Sakura gel pen
Gems
I'm still trying to get caught up on my scrapbook pages from last year. I've made some progress recently and am pretty excited about these pages. The biggest reason is because of the journaling. I've seen people journal inside Cricut images or fun shapes and thought it looked really neat. I decided I wanted to have my journaling on an image of a tent for this layout.
I laid the cuts out for the tent on my Gypsy. This allowed me to figure out the height and width that I had available for my journaling. Then I was able to adjust the alignment of my journaling on my computer so that it would fit inside the cut (or so I hoped!). I know it would have been a lot easier if I had just hand-written the journaling, but I had a lot I wanted to write in a fairly small space! I started by cutting out all the layers for the tent image (including the white layer that would have the journaling on it. Then, before I removed the white layer from my mat, I put small pieces of tape along the top edge of the paper on the mat to hold it in place. I removed the image, leaving the negative space behind. I printed out my journaling and slid it underneath the negative image so that I could make sure that it would fit inside the image. Once I had my journaling inside the image the way I wanted it, I set that paper in place and removed the negative image and tape I had holding it in place. Then I cut the white layer of the image again, and it cut perfectly around my journaling. I hope this made sense!! I realize now I should have taken pictures of my steps so I could better explain this process to you!!
I'm submitting this LO to this week's Wacky Wednesday challenge over at More Than Favors. The challenge this week is Vacation - create any project as long as it has a vacation theme. Thanks for coming by to check out my project!
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned cardstock from EKSuccess
Title letters from Life's a Party cut at 1.75 inches
Date letters from Life's a Party cut at 1.5 inches
Tent from Campin Critters cut at 8.29 inches
Duck in canoe from Campin Critters cut at 3 inches
Black Sakura gel pen
Gems
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