Thanks at Getting Cricky

Hi everyone! Today is my day to post for the Getting Cricky Design team.

I'm always in need of nice Thank You cards. I decided that would be a good thing to make this week. I used a K Andrew Designs stamp for the "Thanks". It's from a little set Kristal included in orders at one point. It's such a nice size, large enough to see yet small enough to not take over the card.

Here's a close-up of the stamp on the card.

I used the Art Nouveau Cricut cartridge for the cut. It is the Iris cut at 3" which is the smallest recommended size for this cut. The purple background was cut with a Spellbinders die. The solid paper is from The Paper Studio and the printed is Authentique (I think). I hope everyone has a great day and a great Mother's Day weekend!

Mother's Day Card

Today's post at the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge blog the theme is Mother's Day. I had a little trouble doing this as this will be the first one without my mom who passed away in August. While my sister and I are glad she is no longer suffering from the many ailments she had, some times are still difficult to handle.

I used the free cut this week on the Cricut Craft Room for my card. The background paper is very shiny so it's hard to get a good picture. I set the height of the card at 5.25" to get the correct size. It is a tri-fold card so it's quite long. I sized the flowers in CCR by putting them into the opening and seeing what size I liked. You can make it look any way you'd like, which is nice. The leaves were cut from green Recollections paper and the flower petals are purple whitewashed Core'dinations paper.

I embossed the petals with an embossing folder and then sanded them lightly to bring out the purple. I used an EK Success edge punch on the inside flap with the flowers on it. It gave it a little more interest on the inside. I then tied some vintage seam binding from Wild Orchid Crafts around the side of the card and tied a bow. The "pearls" are Viva Decor pearl pen. I didn't put any words on it relating to "Mom" but I don't know who is getting it and will adjust the words accordingly.

I hope everyone has a great week!

Cinco de Mayo ATC

Another post this week, shocked??

Today is Tag/ATC day at My Paper Crafting and the theme this week is Cinco de Mayo. I made an ATC card, as usual.

I used the cute Chili pepper couple digi from Melin at Paper Crafting World. You can find the digi here. I printed the precolored digi on my printer and cut it out with a Spellbinders die. The paper is all old stash paper. I embossed the yellow and punched the green strips with a MS punch. The music notes are a small Sizzix die. There are Stickles on the borders. What you can't see is the couple is on an Action Wobble so the couple can actually dance! It turned out very festive I think. I hope everyone has a great day.

Flourished...

Hi everybody. Today is another cartridge challenge at My Paper Crafting. This week we were to use a flourish off of any cartridge. I chose the Sentimentals cartridge for the cuts on my card today.

The flourish and the phone are both from that cartridge. The phone was cut at 3" and the flourish at 2 1/2". The paper is from a Prima 6 x 6 pad. The phone is on foam tape to raise it off the card a bit. I layered several things on the left side to balance out the phone a bit. There is a piece of paper, seam binding and the flourish along with a flower, burlap circle and some tiny butterflies. I outlined some of the phone parts with a fine tipped black marker.

Recipe - additional items:

Wild Orchid Crafts flower

Martha Stewart butterfly punch

Burlap circle cut from Sizzix die

EK Success edge punch - dotted wave

Scotch quick dry glue

ATG adhesive

Getting Cricky day

Hi everyone. It's Thursday and my day to post at Getting Cricky. I made this fairly simple card around the sentiment I chose. I happened to have a Spellbinders strawberry die which worked really well with the sentiment. (excuse the photo, my camera is still MIA)

I used the K Andrew Designs Food for Thought stamp set and my favorite new paper pad, Loolah from Creative Imaginations. (I may need to get another one.) The circles were cut with a Sizzix circle die. There is also some seam binding along the top of the red piece. Some of the pieces are raised with foam tape so there is some dimension on the card. 

Here is a picture of the whole stamp set. It's such a great mix and match set that give you so many possibilities. There are still some of these available, so click the link above if you're interested.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great Friday eve!

Office...

That word holds such different meanings for people. Some people enjoy going to the office. Some people enjoy watching "The Office". We always dreaded getting "sent to the office" in school. Regardless of how you feel about the word, most people conjure up pictures of the supplies you find there when the word is mentioned. Today's challenge at My Paper Crafting is geared toward those items.

I used the Sentimentals cartridge to cut the pen and scissors for this card. (the picture isn't the best, sorry, my camera has disappeared:/ ). The paper is from one of the MME Lost and Found 6 x 6 stacks. I cut both items at 3" and they both fit on the card pretty well. There is some washi tape behind the notebook paper layer that's hard to see in the photo. The pen is a little higher that the scissors to add dimension. It's in need of a sentiment but I couldn't find one that worked for me tonight. (It's been a really weird evening.) I'll find one before it finds a home.

Thanks for coming by and looking today. Have a great Wednesday!

3D day

Hi everyone!

This week at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge we were supposed to make a 3D project. The timing was great as I had a baby shower to attend and needed a gift. The new mommy is expecting twins (one of each)! I made this frame for her to fill with pictures or other mementos from their early lives.

There are two Cricut cuts on this frame and a bunch of other things. I didn't overdo it because I know the mom is keeping things pretty minimal in the nursery. There is no theme so I just picked a pack of paper from Walmart that had some cute things that worked for both boys and girls.

The theme of the shower was "two peas in a pod" so I cut the peas from the Savory cartridge at 3". I cut the 2 peas out of light beige paper and drew little sleeping faces on them. There's still room in that frame for a small photo. The cut is attached to the paper under the glass. The other cut, the carriage, is from the Best Images of 2010 cartridge. It was cut at 1 3/4". I adhered it to the glass so they can put a photo under it and not worry about covering it up. There is a little bling on the wheels as well and I didn't want that to scratch the glass.

This is a picture of the whole thing. They have cherry wood cribs so this should work. There are several other elements in/on different frames including embossing, a Wild Orchid Crafts flower and seam binding, buttons from Walmart, and butterflies from a Martha Stewart punch. It's hard to see but there is some dimension on the piece with the clouds. I cut out one of the cloud/rainbow combos and elevated it with glue squares. There are also some hearts punched out with an old tiny heart punch and attached with some dimensional glue squares. 

Even though it's not fancy it turned out pretty cute, and she really liked it which is the most important thing!