Christmas card

The challenge this week at Christmas Card Challenge is "Sentiment only".  I think I got a little too literal with it, I'm not completely pleased.  It's an A2 size card.  The patterned paper is from the Scandia Jul paper pack by GCD studios (Rob and Bob).  The solid is stash paper that I've had for a long time.  The punch at the top is a Martha Stewart border punch.  I used my corner chomper on 2 of the sentiment corners and inked around the edges of the white with the same ink I stamped the greeting in (also Martha Stewart).  [I think it needs some more].  The sentiment is on some thin foam tape circles that I picked up at Tuesday Morning.  I used my ATG gun for the rest of the card.

The sentiment is from the K Andrew designs Winter Wishes set.  It is a mix and match set so you can make all sort of sentiments by using one set.  The flourish on the corner is in the set as well.  


I think I will add some other embellishments before I actually use the card.  It needs some bling or something.

Wobble Baby

This card is for the Action Wobble challenge at Wobble Wednesday.  This week's challenge is to do a baby item (card, LO, party favor, etc.).  I actually made 2 cards this week, but I didn't get pictures of the other card before my daughter took it to a shower for a friend of hers.  I used the same DCWV paper stack (8x8 Nana's Nursery baby girl stack) for both cards. The other one had a monkey on it (theme of the shower) instead of a onesie.   The solid green and pink are from a Martha Stewart 8x8 pack.  The onesie was cut from the Cricut Sampler cartridge at 3 1/2"


The card base is a piece of plain white card stock cut in half so it is 5 1/2" x 8 1/2".  The corners were rounded using my corner chomper.  The green was cut 1/2" shorter on each side and the striped piece was cut 1/2" shorter in height, but 1/4" shorter in width.  The green piece was embossed with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder.  The squirrel was punched from another piece of paper in the same stack.  I inked around the card and squirrel with MS inks.  The  squirrel is on a piece of foam tape.  The onesie is on an Action Wobble.  The buttons are from Wal-Mart and the stamp is from Hampton Arts (I think).  I had a little trouble with the stamp, but it didn't turn out too awful.  (I'm used to using firmer stamps and pushed down a little hard on one end.) The rosette is a piece of scrap ribbon that has stitching down both sides (we all have it).  I pulled the thread on one side from both ends and tied it together to make the flower and glued a button in the middle.  I used Scotch Quick Dry glue and my pink ATG as adhesives.  I stamped two little diaper pins and punched them out with the same MS scalloped circle punch as the squirrel and attached them to the inside of the card.

Karber Challenge 31

This week's challenge was to include a Karber digi and your favorite embellishments. I chose to use flowers from "Got Flowers" and I-rock heat set gems for my embellishments. I used Prismacolor pencils to color the digi. Still need practice but the card turned out ok. The image and vellum in back of it were cut out with nestabilities. The background paper was from the KI Memories Party pack. The vellum was from Making Memories. The ribbon was from details. The corners were rounded with the We R Memory Keepers corner chomper. I used the 1/4" side. The adhesives used were an ATG gun, mini glue dots and foam squares to pop the girl off the card.

Nifty Fifties

This card is for a challenge on the Flaunt It Fridays blog. The challenge was to use the car on page 24 of the Nifty Fifties cartridge. You had the option of using another car if you didn't own the cartridge, but I have that one so here it is.

The background paper is from the DCWV Naturals mat stack. There is some Offray ribbon on it behind the car. The car is cut at 1 1/2" (I cut the car once at 2 1/4" but it was WAY too big.) All of the layers were cut at the same size. I used some old metallic paper from my stash and it took 3 tries before I could get the Cricut set to cut it without ripping. It's pretty thin and kept catching in spots. I finally got it to work, yay!

The mats for the sentiment were cut with the Labels 1 Nestabilities. I embossed the green one but not the bronze, it just embossed on its own. I was afraid it would tear if I tried to actually emboss it. I used my pink ATG to adhere the larger pieces and used a Zig 2-way pen on the car. The car is popped up with foam pieces but it's a little hard to see in the picture.

Recipe:

5 1/4" x 4" card base from a Value Pack from Michaels

DCWV Natural mat stack. Bottom piece - 1 1/4"x 5", top piece - 2 1/2" x 5"

Offray ribbon

Nifty Fifties Cricut cartridge

Green cardstock - Walmart pack

Beige cardstock - Recollections

Sentiment - TCP Studios - from the graduation set