Thinking of you.....again ;)

Well here's another take on the basically the same challenges as those mentioned on my previous post below.  All cuts were designed using my Gypsy and cut using my Cricut.  This card is going to be linked to the following challenges:

**Bitten By The Bug 2 - Tree challenge
**Love to Create - Challenge #32 Thinking of you
**Old Back Porch - 52 Card Pickup challenge week 39

I've almost forgotten how much fun designing on the Gypsy is - once I got over the re-learning curve, that is ;).  Those of you who follow me know that I adore my Silhouette Cameo and designing on the Silhouette Studio, but for on the go, the Gypsy is still way cool! 

The card measures 5 x 5.  The bird in the tree branches is from the Cindy Loo cart.  I welded 2 of the scalloped circle shadows to create the base for the card.  I then used the hide contour feature to cut a brown layer then dry embossed that layer with the Plum Blossoms CB folder.  The sentiment "thinking of you" is once again from the Gypsy Wanderings. 

Here are some closeups:

And here's the inside of the card.  I know it's looking a little too plain :(.  I think I'll go stamp a swirly image on it before I give it to someone. 

Thank you once again for stopping by! 

Thinking of you

Hi there!  Hope you all are having a great day.  It's another hot one where I live and it's becoming very unbearable late in the year :(.  I did something I haven't done in MONTHS - I played with my Gypsy!  I must admit I had to fumble a lot to get the hang of it again.  Today's card is going to be linked to the following challenges and all cuts were made using my Cricut:

**Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog - Challenge Me Monday #131 pink
**Bitten By The Bug 2 - tree
**Love to Create - Challenge #35 thinking of you
**The Old Back Porch - 52 Card Pickup week 39

The card is sized to fit an A2 envelope (seen above where the card is standing on).  The base of the card is actually a frame from the Cindy Loo cart with the tree.  I just welded two of the frames to make the base and used hide contour for the pieces I didn't want cut.  The hearts are from Baby Steps and the butterflies are from the CTMH Art Philosophy cart.  The phrase thinking of you is from Gypsy Wanderings.  I used the CB folder Branches and D'vine Swirls.

Some close ups:

 

 

I am hoping to get another card posted with the same theme - what can I say it was a loooong wait during my kids' after school activity yesterday so I got reacquainted with my Gypsy ;).  Once again, I do appreciate you stopping by!

Happy Birthday, All Star!

Hi there!  Wow, it HAS been a while since I posted!  I have been so busy playing with the Creative Memory Storybook Creator as I try to catch up with scrapbooking my family's pics.  But more on that on another post.  Today, I am sharing with you all a birthday card I created for my nephew's 10th birthday this Wednesday - and yes, he plays baseball!    I am linking this up to a couple of challenges, which are ending soon (better late, than never!) (1) Going Buggy [kid's birthday theme], and (2) The Cuttlebug Spot [easel card].   This is actually my first time making an easel card and it was fun! 

This card is roughly 6 x 6.  This is the side view of the card.

The mitt and the ball were from the Boys Will Be Boys cart.  I started by welding the shadows of the images on my Gypsy to create the card base.  Then I cut the welded images in black, and an extra shadow layer for the ball, also in black, as you can see below.

I then folded the the welded circle in, to create the easel effect, as you can see below.

I then assembled the top layers.  I embosssed the mitt with the Tiny Bubbles CB folder and did faux stitching around the images with a white Sakura gel pen.  The "10"  on the baseball and the "All Star" on the inside of the card (as well as their shadow layers) were cut on the Cameo, using the Broadway font.  The "10" was embossed with the Swiss Dots CB folder.  The "Happy Birthday" sentiment was also cut on the Cameo, using a pre-welded image from the Silhouette Store. 

Here's a close-up of the inside of the card.

And here's the card folded up.

Hope you liked my project for today.  Thanks for looking! 

Turn your umbrella upside down

My SIL's birthday is this Friday so I thought I'd get started on her card early.  I am also entering this card in a couple of challenges this week, (1) Polka Doodles [Pretty in Pink Challenge] and (2) Fantabulous Cricut [April Shower - umbrella, clouds, or rain challenge].  This card is an A2 sized card. 

Here's a side view of the card:

For the front of the card, I cut the umbrella from the American Alphabet cart that came in pre-loaded on my AE2.  I cut the blackout and the top layers two times and put them together using foam mounts for depth.  I attached a strip of ribbon in the middle of the top layers.

The three rolled flowers were from the Art Philosophy cart.  The presents were cut free-hand from my stash of scraps.  I used one of the border folders from the  With Love CB border folders for the flowers on the side of the front and Swiss Dots CB folder for one of the presents.  I used twine for the presents.  I also used a doily MS puncher and Recollections rhinestones. 

Here is a look at the finished inside of the card - I used the same MS doily puncher for the matching cardstock. 

The sentiment on the outside and the inside of the card were printed and cut using the print and cut feature of the Silhouette Cameo.

I sized a box cut line for the inside sentiment by 4.125 x 5.375 inches, then wrote my sentiment inside this box cut line.  The sentiment in the front of the card is seen on the bottom of the screen and it says "Yep, better keep that umbrella turned upside down..." using the Abbeyline font.  The sentiment in the box that will go inside the card reads "...'cause you're bound to be showered with gifts today" , and "Have a wonderful Birthday" using the Harrington and Before the Rain fonts, respectively.   I did not put a box cut line around the sentiment for the front of the card because I thought I had a die to cut it with but ended up cutting it with a pair of scissors. 

Thanks for looking! 

Marissa's 18th Birthday Card

So I was commissioned to make an 18th birthday card for my SIL's niece who just turned 18 over the weekend and this is what I came up with.  I know of this young lady and wanted to make a special card befitting her sweet personality.  This is a roughly 4.25 x 9 inches card.  The base of the card was cut with the Cricut using the Art Philosophy cart.  The image is another digi stamp from Scapper's Delights which I colored with Prismacolor colored pencils, then cut with a Nestability scalloped oval die.  The doily mat under this image was an image from the Silhouette Studio Store, and was cut with the Cameo. The envelope is from the Wild Card cart. 

Here's a few closeups of the card.  Doesn't this image look so sweet?! 

I added some glittered glue to her dress.  I embellished with some Prima flowers, half pearls and swirly pearl stickers by Recollections, a home-dyed crinkled ribbon and a home-made stick pin.

I so adore this glass bead!  If you click on the photo you can see

that there's images of pink roses inside. 

The inside of the card was left blank so that my SIL can write her own birthday wishes for this young lady.  I did use a swirly flower stamp in one corner using an Inkadinkado stamp.  All patterned cardstocks used were by K & Company. 

Hope the birthday celebrant liked the card.  Thanks once again for stopping by.

Mojo Monday #234 - Happy Birthday Raj!

Tomorrow is my wonderful hubby's birthday.  Just a quick post on the birthday card I created for my DS and my DD to sign for their dad.  This is a roughly 5 x 5 card, following a sketch from Mojo Monday blog sketch #234, as shown below.
      


The base of the card is a square card from the Art Philosophy cart,  The silhouette cut of the family and the doily mat it's on, are images from the Silhouette Store, cut with the Cameo. The sentiment tickets were also cut with the Cameo using the print and cut feature, both tickets from the Silhouette Store.  I did some stitching to the three strips of cardstocks.  The middle brown cardstock was embossed with the Script CB folder. 

Below are some closeups:

 I added a cream-colored button and twine to the ticket sentiments.

I kind of screwed up on a couple of corners while stitching with the sewing machine, so to hide those mishaps, I punched a couple of "photo corners," punched with an MS puncher. 

The inside of the card, using the same kind of "photo corners" as the ones in the front. 

Thank you so much for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend!   

 

Home Tweet Home

Well I'm a day late, but Happy Spring y'all!  I made a home decor to welcome spring, but mother nature must not have gotten the memo yet because where I live, it's still stinkin' cold! 

For this project, I let my Cricut and my Cameo have a play date LOL!  The birdcage is cut with the Cameo and is all paper; it is an image from the Silhouette Studio store for 99 cents (this particular one is an old one, but I did see a couple of new birdcage designs I can't wait to download and play with).  It is over 11 inches tall.  Another Cameo cut was the hanging sign "Home Tweet Home", cut using the print and cut feature, with the Andalus and Abbeyline fonts.    The Cricut cuts were the tons of flowers from the Art Philosophy cart, and the vines from the Home Decor and More cart.  I added some red tulle and thin cream ribbons I had lying around.  The bird's nest and the birds inside were bought from Michaels. 

After I cut and rolled the flowers, I assembled them along the perimeter of this flower pot dish (turned upside down), and then started glueing them in place with a glue gun.

Here are some closeups of the birdcage.

 Left view

 Right view

Top view

Inside peek

That's it for me today.  Have a wonderful day!  Thanks so much for stopping by!  



Mya's 7th Birthday Banner

Hi!  I'm back to share with you guys a banner I created for my little girl's 7th birthday party.  It will be hung outside as sort of a marker for her guests, but for right now you are seeing it hung in my hallway, so please excuse the bad lighting.  I took a set of 3 lei necklaces I bought for a dollar at the Dollar Tree and just strung them all into one long string of lei, then attached each banner pennant to it using some thin ribbons.

The base of the banners were cut using an image purchased from the Silhouette Store, cut with my Cameo.  It came in a set of four different banners for 99 cents.   I used the offset feature on the Silhouette Studio to create the shadow.  I used the Ravie font to cut out the letters in the banner, embossed each letter with the Plum Blossom CB folder then used foam mounts to attach each letter to the pennants.  I then added 3 Card Candis to each letter.  I also added more Card Candis to highlight the scallop design on the bottom of each banner.  Below are some close up pictures of the banners.

For one of the pennats, I used my Cricut to cut a doll and its layers from the Everyday Paper Dolls cart and used PK stamps for her face.  The balloon was cut using Celebrate With Flourish cart.  The "7" was from the Disney Pooh Font cart.  Below is a close up of it.

And there you have it!  I so appreciate you stopping by!  Have a wonderful weekend!

Bees a-fluttering 2-page LO

Hello my blogging friends!  Thanks for stopping by again.  I was working on some pictures from 2008 and did a 2-page 12x12 LO.  I have a small box of pictures I had printed through Snapfish last year when they were having a 1 cent per photo deal. 

I was able to use 9 photos - whoo-hoo!  On my way to making a big dent on the 2008 photo stack LOL!  The title was cut with the Cameo using the Fancy Pants font.  I used the offset feature to make the shadow.  The swirly borders were also cut with the Cameo and is a border image purchased from the Silhouette store.  I again used the offset feature to create the shadow for the swirly borders.  The 5 bees were cut using the Cricut cart Sentimentals - 5 to represent the 5 busy bees posing as unassuming kids ;). 

It was a happy mail day for me yesterday - got my new American Eagle jeans (my new favorite brand of jeans!) and a small box of Card Candis from Craftwork Cards I purchased through Blitsy last week (fast shipping!).  I have always been in awe of  the Card Candis used by Enfys over at Going Buggy blog and couldn't wait to finally try them.   They were a tad bigger than what I expected them to be but no biggie.  They come in a packet (I'll post pics some other time) with over 400 pieces I believe - I wasn't about to count them as I did purchase more than one packet - I'm just going to take their word for it ;). 

Here are some closeups:

I used one of the Card Candis in the middle of this K& Co flower. 

Thanks again for stopping by! 

Happy Valentine's Day!

Hope everyone's having a nice Valentine's Day so far.   Two weeks ago I shared a goody bag I was making for my 6 y.o DD's classmates (if you missed that post, click here) that my 9 y.o. DS thought was too girlish, so I made one very simple for him to give out to his classmates on Valentine's Day. 

This box cut was purchased from the Silhouette store and is cut with the Cameo.  In keeping with my DS's request for a non-girlish Valentine treat, I cut the box in kraft paper.  This box was so easy to assemble as the perforations made it easy to do so.  I actually did not use any adhesives to assemble this box - everything folded and tucked in very neatly together.  I added twine to hold the tag and stamped "XOXO" to the hearts. 

Here are some closeups:

The tag was from the Picturesque cart.  The swirls and the hearts were actually leftover cuts from the goody bags I made for my DD's classmates, as seen on the cutting mat below (I hate throwing away  good cuts). 



Hope you all have a wonderful Valentine's Day!