Happy Birthday Princess

Hey everyone!  How's your Monday going?  It's hectic here!  My son finished up day camp last week so he's home with me till school starts on the 14th.  I LOVE having him home with me, but forgot how difficult it is to get work done.

I have another sketch card to share this afternoon.

Here is the sketch:

and here is my interpretation of the sketch:

I was going through my stack of cards and realized I needed more kids birthday cards.  The pattern papers come from the DCWV stack, Nana's Nursery, baby girl.  The felt flowers were mixed in with my ribbons and I added pink glitter gems to the centers.  The sentiment is a papertrey ink stamp.  The wand is cut from Princess Party and I added stardust glitz.  I had come across these stickers at the Dollar Tree and thought they were so cute!

They had a wide variety, girls, boys and baby themes.  I'm sure I'll be using them on more projects!

I used Elegant Edges and Princess Party for the inside.

Hope you like!  Sorry so quick, but I need to get busy!!!  :-)  Hope you're having a fabulous day!!!

Linking to Jo's Scrap Shack

Believe in your Dreams....

Good Morning!!!!  Don't think I'll be that chipper tomorrow when I'm back to work and the weekend is over...then again, I just might  LOL  I am just loving the weather lately!  I'm seeing a lot of people complaining on FB about how too cold it is for summer...blah blah blah.  I don't have a/c and I work from home so when it's too hot - its way too hot!!  and fall is my favorite time of the year, so I'll take this weather any time!!

Today I have a card of encouragement to share with you

I used slate cardstock for the base, 4 1/4 x 5 1/2, a dark purple layer, 4 x 5 1/4, the pattern paper 1/8th of an inch smaller.  The pattern paper is My Mind's Eye, Miss Caroline, Fiddlesticks "You & Me" Bloom paper.  I used scraps for the rest of the project.  The decorative mat is cut from Elegant Edges at 4".  I used button 3, Scallop1.  The bottom green layer is cut using the oblong shift and the white frame is cut using the oblong frame feature (no shift).  The ballet slippers are cut using Creative Memories This & That cartridge at 2 1/2".  I used flower shaped rhinestones around the frame and for the bow on the slippers.  I don't have the packaging for this anymore, but I'm pretty sure I picked them up on clearance at Joann's.  I also used stardust glitz on the slippers for a little extra sparkle.

I used a dark purple mat again on the inside with a cream color mat.  The stamp is a studio g wooden stamp from the dollar section at Michaels.  I used markers to ink the stamp so I could use the different colors.  I used the same MME pattern paper as a border using an EK Success border punch.  Again with this, I don't have the packaging and the name isn't on the punch itself.

I think it came out so pretty, sparkly and feminine!  Have a great day!!!

Challenges:

Die Cuttin Divas - twice as nice - two ballet slippers

Jo's Scrap Shack - bling it up

When Life Hands You Lemons..... a card

No, your eyes are not deceiving you.  Two posts again today!  I'm on a roll this week!

I started with a sketch from Mojo Monday

Then I incorporated some requirements for a couple of other challenges.  The first one is Fantabulous Cricut where the challenge is to use a cricut cut of a piece of fruit.  And the other one is from Paper Playtime where the challenge is to use pattern paper.

Here's my card:

Card is 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 yellow cardstock.  White mat is 4 x 5 1/4 and the green pattern mat is 3 3/4 x 5.  The black strip is 1 1/2 x 3 3/4.  The decorative mats were cut from Elegant Edges using button 2 with the oblong, shift features.  The yellow mat is 3" and the white one is 2 3/4".  The lemon and lemon slice are cut from the Savory lite cartridge at 1 1/2", the flower is from Accent Essentials, two cuts 1 1/4" layered.  The brad and ribbon are from my stash.  I added some stardust glitz to the lemon for sparkle. The pattern papers are from DCWV the Lemon Flower Stack.

Inside mat is 4 x 5 1/4 and the lemonade pitcher is from the Savory Lite cartridge cut at 1 1/2".  Sentiment stamp on front and inside are from Purple Onion Designs.

I hope you enjoyed today's projects!

Linking to:

Fantabulous Cricut

Paper Playtime

Mojo Monday

Christmas in July - Project 1

Hello Friends!  Today begins my week of Christmas in July!

It was difficult for me to think of Christmas when the temp was topping out at around 100 the last few days.  So I started to think about what I would need for my family and get a head start on those things.  The first thing I needed to work on was some gift card holders.  I think gift cards are the greatest things for those 'hard-to-shop-for' people on your list.

Here is project # 1 - a pop up gift card holder

Excuse the insurance card  :)  It was the only thing I had available!

The base of the gift card holder is cut from green cardstock using the cricut Artiste cartridge.  Have I told you how much I LOVE this cartridge!!!  This gc holder is found on page 55, the card feature on the G key.  I sized it at 5 x 10.861 in CCR.  Then I went over to my other favorite, Elegant Edges and found an image that matched for a mat.  The plaid mat was cut using button 19, Oblong - Shift feature called Swirl2.  This was sized 4.764 x 3.486.  The teddy bear elf is cut from Teddy Bear Parade.  I cut the bear at 2.75 inches and the elf costume is under button 49, also sized at 2.75.  I cut another strip of green cardstock 1 1/4" and trimmed it to fit the front of the card and wrapped it with red and white bakers twine.  The stamp I used is from a Scrappy Moms set called Christmas Cheer.

I hope you enjoyed todays project!!  Join me tomorrow for Christmas in July, Day 2!

I'm linking this project to the Rose Blossom Garden Challenge.

Happy Father's Day card and gift idea

Hello friends and Happy Father's Day to all the wonderful Dad's out there!  My son and I worked on Father's Day gifts for his Dad today.  I have so much fun crafting with him and I know it won't last forever so I like to get some craft time in with him whenever I can.

Max is on a baseball kick right now since T-Ball just started a couple of weeks ago and him and his Dad get outside to practice whenever they can.  So it was really no surprise when he said he wanted to make a baseball Father's Day card.  Here is what we came up with:

Max picked the colors and the embossing folder.  I think this one is called Tiny Bubbles.  The white mat is cut from Elegant Edges, the bear is the athlete from Teddy Bear Parade.  The bat and ball are from the Creative Memories cartridge This & That and the glove is from Everyday Paper Dolls.  He wanted it to look like the bear was hitting the ball.  I think he did a really great job!

Here is the inside with his cute little message and the keychain we made for his gift taped to it.

So my husband is a truck driver and he always keeps the key for the semi separate from all of his other keys, but he didn't have a keyring for it or anything.  We thought this would be the perfect gift for him.  We used shrinky dink that I picked up at Michaels a while back.  I loved making things with Shrinky Dink when I was a kid and was so excited to see it back in the stores.  And really, it's just as fun now as it was then!  

I traced my son's hand and foot, he used a couple of dad stamps I had on each and then colored them with a Sharpie marker.  I made sure to remember to hole punch the bottoms of each - although I forgot how much they really shrink and the holes were too small for the jump rings I had.  I ended up threading some jewelry rope through it and knotting them onto the jump ring.  

And then of course we had to make a sweet treat for him!

These are seriously the best brownies in the world if you are a chocolate peanut butter fanatic like we are!

We started with a box of Ghirardelli Double Chocolate Brownies and baked according to package.  Then we made the peanut butter layer with 1 stick of butter, 1 cup of creamy peanut butter and 2 cups of powdered sugar.  Mix together and spread over the cooled  brownies.  Then we took a can of chocolate frosting, put about a half a cup into a bowl and melted it in the microwave to pour over the peanut butter layer.  Add some chopped up Reeses peanut butter cups and you are done.  So incredibly rich, so incredibly good!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and a Happy Father's Day!

Smitten Kitten & searching for Cricut images

Hello friends!  I'm back today with another project continuing my challenge to use the cartridges I don't use often.  Today's project comes from the Cindy Loo cartridge.

This was one of the first cartridges I purchased and I absolutely love the images!

I used the cat image from this one for today's card.

The base of this card is made from White Daisy CTMH cardstock.  I used Recollections black cardstock for the first mat that I ran through my Cuddlebug with the Argyle embossing folder.

I used Elegant Edges, Eyelet1 with the oblong feature for the pink and white mats.  Cindy Loo for the cat and Best Images of 2006 for the heart.  I don't think this cartridge is available any more, but there are tons of hearts on many different cartridges.  The sentiment comes from a Pink by Design stamp set called Just Sayin.

I carried over the black and pink to the inside and added another heart.

And just a quick tip, you can search for an individual image in Cricut Craft Room.  I don't always like to use this search feature because sometimes it's difficult to imagine what it would look like.  There's another webpage that is amazing to use to search for images called mycutsearch.  If you're looking for something in particular I highly recommend checking out this site.

Come check out the CTMH June specials and my Giveaway too!

I hope you all are having a fabulous weekend!

Gift for Mom

We finally celebrated Mother's Day with my Mom and family this past weekend.  It was such a great day, I love when the family ~ or at least most of the family can get together.

Now that my Mom has her card and gift I can finally share  :)

Center Step Card using CTMH Chantilly papers

 I was watching You Tube videos/tutorials one night and came across one for a center step card.  I thought it would be so pretty to show off the beautiful Chantilly paper from Close to my Heart.  The center scallop oval is from Elegant Edges, all layers cut at 4.75".  I used flower 2 image, using the oblong feature on shift for the Lagoon color background, then I cut the flower 2 image twice using the oblong feature without the shift, one for the layer in Buttercup yellow and one for the layer in White Daisy.  I cut the open scallops off the white layer and ran just the oval through the cuddlebug to emboss it and lightly inked the raised embossing with Buttercup yellow ink.

The butterfly came from the cricut cartridge Best Images of 2010 cut at 2".  I added some glitter glue for the antennae and body, papers used are from Close to my Heart Buttercup and Cotton Candy.

The Happy Mother's Day stamp is from Studio G and the rhinestones are from Close to my Heart, they are the pink glitter gems that come with the Chantilly Scrapbooking Kit.  

For the gift, I found a recipe on Pinterest for a Gardener's Sugar Scrub.

This was super easy to mix up.  If you're interested, please go visit One Good Thing by Jillee - she has some amazing stuff!  I just picked up a cheap glass jar at Walmart to mix it in.

Using the same Chantilly paper pack, I cut a tag from Doodlecharms.  I used Cricut Craft Room and to make it double sided I hid the flower on one of the tags to make it solid and adhered the two together.  I switched out the cutting blade for the markers and added a text box to the solid tag to print "Gardener's Hand Scrub" and sized it to fit the tag.  I used some pink/white bakers twine to hang it from the jar.

I used a 3" circle punch to cut a piece of Chantilly paper and used some liquid quick dry glue to attach to the top of the jar lid.

I found a coordinating ribbon and adhered it around the jar with glue dots, using Mini Monograms I cut a scallop circle at 1 1/2" and a circle at 1 1/4" with the Cricut.  The stamps are from My Favorite Things.

Mother's Day 2013

I think this made a great Mother's Day gift, and would be great to add into a spa gift basket, or using a smaller jar, favors for a bridal shower.

I hope you enjoyed today's project.  If you have any comments or suggestions on things you'd like to see, please leave a comment and I would love if you would subscribe!  Have a great day!!