Happy Birthday, Ryan!

My 100th post and my son's 9th birthday!  Wow, time flies!  I made a card for my DS' birthday today which I'm also linking to the Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge blog with the pocket theme.  This is an A2 sized card.  The dino cut is from the Cricut Create a Critter cart and is stamped with one of the Peachy Keen Everyday Character Face Assortment set.  The grass cuts were from one of the free images I got from the Silhouette Studio store and of course cut with the Cameo.  The sentiment font is from Lettering Delights called LD Red Hatter's Hand.

Here is a picture of the inside of the card.

All the cuts inside are cut with the Cricut.  The "pocket" tag to hold his special gift is from the Tags, Bags, Boxes and More (TBBM) cart, flood filled with art from the JT Imagine cart.  The "Happy Birthday" is from the Elegant Cakes cart.  The "Dino Mite" is from the Create a Critter cart.

Thanks for visiting me today!  

Santa Cruz Beach and Boardwalk LO

Hi there!  Today's project is linked to the CC Blog for their weekly challenge using borders.  I'm way too behind on scrapbooking so I thought I'd scrap some pics for our album.  The pics were taken in 2008 during our day trip to Santa Cruz Beach and Boardwalk.  This project turned out to be a 4-page LO since  it was hard for me to choose pics ;) to include (I was able to use 11 pictures in all). 

On to the details:

pages 1 & 2

pages 3 & 4

beads....simply because I was in a dangly mood ;)

*letters used were from the Life Is A Beach cart, embossed with the D'vine Swirls CB folder

*8 different "charms" on the first 2 pages were from Life Is A Beach cart, with the bottom layers embossed with Tiny Bubbles CB folder, then embellished with jute twines  and some beads on the bottom

*seashells cut used for journaling from Create A Critter cart

*borders used on all 4 pages were 2 seashell borders welded from Life Is A Beach cart

*coaster on pages 3 & 4 was from Carousel cart

*corn dog from Carousel cart

*ice cream cone, ice cream sundae (embossed with D'vine Swirls and Plum Blossom CB folders) and pretzel cuts from Sweet Shop cart

*ticket cut used for journaling was from Mickey Font cart

All supplies used from my stash!  Project # 22 for Using My Stash pledge at the CC MB.  (One of these days I will post my projects using my stash in the CC MB thread but it's just a pain to have to go through photobucket to load the pics before I'm actually able to share in the MB - can't do it from my blog). 

Thanks for stopping by!  For those celebrating Thanksgiving on Thursday, hope you all have a wonderful one!   

CC Blogiversary Challenge #3 - Bee U

Happy Friday, bloggers!  Today I finished another card for the CC Blogiversary Challenge #3 - highliting the Cuttlebug.  This card is size A2 and is titled Bee U. 

The base of the card is again another clear craft plastic, cut to size of an A2 card.  I embossed the front with the Flourished Frame CB folder.  You can see the embossed image better below:

Then I adhered a double-sided cardstock inside of my base by attaching both with a piece of purple crinkled ribbon.  If you missed how I did this technique previously you can click here.    I then added a quilled flower I created using my Cuttlebug.  Before I assembled the flower though I ran the purple pieces through the Cuttlebug using the Swiss Dots folder.  I also added a half pearl in the middle of the quilled flower.  You can see  the details below:

The last thing I did was to add the Cricut cuts in the front.  The bee cut is an image from Create a Critter cart and the "U" is from the Gypsy Font cart.  I used a Peachy Keen stamp for the face of the bee.  The corner pieces were from the Picturesque cart. 

Below is a shot of the inside of the card.  Before I adhered the cream colored cardstock to hide the ribbon from the front of the card, I embossed it with one of the Iron Works CB border folders. 

And yes, all the supplies I used to create this card were again from my stash!  Project #7 for Using My Stash pledge over at the CC MB.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend y'all! 

Gift tag card

Happy Friday!  Today's project is a card I made for one of my nieces who turns 6 this weekend.  Actually it has become a card-turned-into-a-gifttag.   Well I didn't mean for it to be a gift tag but with the 3D flower added to it, it would have been tough to fit it in ANY envelope, even if I had to make one.  Either way I'm happy at how it turned out.  And best of all, I was again able to use supplies from my stash so this is project #3 for me for the Using My Stash pledge over at the CC MB!  I've been really proud of myself - went grocery shopping at a Smart and Final yesterday next to a Michaels and I didn't even go in!  I heard (LOL) the clearance bins outside Michaels calling for me and I held my own! 

Another look at the gift tag card.

Details:

*base card is made out of 2 of the same present images from Create a Critter cart, welded together

*with the same image as the base, cut one in printed paper (from a very old K&C 6x6 stack), then the top layer embossed with Plum Blossoms CB folder

*"Happy Birthday" cut from MS Elegant Cake Art. top layer embossed with Swiss Dots CB folder

*3D flower from CTMH Art Philosophy cart with craft pearl

*irock gems

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful weekend ahead of you!