Vintage Birthday Card

Here is a card I made last night for my mother in law's birthday. I went into my craft room with something totally different in mind. While looking through my handbooks I ran across this teddy bear in the Heritage cart. My mother in law collects teddy bears, and I loved the fact that this one had an antique look rather than a kid look. Anyway, on to the card!!

I used a pre-scored card base. The bottom layer of my front is a burgundy core'dinations cardstock cut at 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches. I embossed the top 3/4 of the cardstock with the textile cuttlebug folder and sanded. the contrasting strip is from the DCWV Old World stack cut at 2 x 4 3/4 inches and the edges inked in black. The doily was cut from the Mother's Day 2010 cartridge at 5 inches from ivory carstock and inked with chestnut cat's eye ink. It was the flower shaped doily but I cut two of the scallops off to make it look folded. The teddy bear was from Heritage at 4 inches. The shadow and layer were to shades of brown core'dinations cardstock also from the Nostalgia stack. I used pop dots to give it dimension. The ribbon around the bear's neck and on the card are is from Walmart and the embellishment is from The Paper Studio. At the bottom I stamped Happy Birthday in Cocoa ink from Close to My Heart. The stamp is from a clear set called Party Invite from Stampendous.

On the inside of the card I layered more burgundy cardstock from core'dinations and ivory cardstock both inked. I added another bear cut at 2 1/2 inches. I hope you enjoy!!

Valentine's Card

Ok, three posts in one night is a record for me!! This card was for my secret valentine at school on Friday when we were supposed to reveal.

The Card base was pink cardstock cut at 4 3/4 " x 6 3/4", and the hear paper is from K and Company Smitten stack cut at 4 1/2" x 6 1/2". Both pieces were inked with brown cat's eye ink. The cut on the front is from A Childs Year (one of my favorite carts!) cut at 4 inches in black with the shadow in pink.

The inside of the card is matted with pink cardstock inked in brown. The sentiment is from Stampabilities stamped in black. In the bottom corner the heart is called "Ornate Heart" and is from Stampabilities. It is stamped in Hollycock from Close to my Heart. The boy and girl is from the "Childhood Memories" from Close to My Heart and is stamped in black. I love how this stamp set coordinates with the A Child's Year cart! Thanks for looking and Happy Valentines Day!

Another Valentine Treat

This is another treat I made this week. I made one for my secret valentine at school, and another for my 3 year old's daycare provider. It is the cake slice box from Tie the Knot. I love this cart!! I cut the box out of brown cardstock at fit to page. The top was cut from paper from the Love Nest Stack from A Minds Eye. The flowers on top are glittered paper from A Minds Eye Laundry Line stack. I had a bunch left over from a centerpiece I had made awhile back from a baby shower. Got to love those bags of scraps and extra cuts when you're in a hurry!! I wrapped pink ribbon around the box and filled it with bliss chocolate. I love how easy and quick this box came together. It truly is an easy project that produces a big wow factor.

Once again, the photo was a quick one before heading out the door. Thanks for looking!!

Valentine's Treats

Life has been crazy!!! Work, church and two sick kids have not allowed me a lot of cricut time. I finally got the chance to play this week. The staff at my school drew names for secret valentine's. This is one of the treats I took this week. It turned out so cute I made another for my son's first grade teacher.
Sorry the photos aren't very good. I was taking a quick pic before heading out the door!

This one is the pillow box from the Easter 2010 cart. I think it was cut at 10 inches. I drug it out on Design Studio until it was the size I wanted. It has a cut out of an Easter Bunny on top, so I used the hide contour feature so it would not cut. I cut the box out of white cardstock and again out of the red valentine paper which is from the Paper Studio All Seasons stack. I trimmed the heart paper to just cover the top. (That's when I got the idea to make another one since I had the other half left!) The big heart on top was from Doodlecharms cut at 3 inches. I stamped it with a sentiment from Stampendous Changito clear valentine stamps. It says, "Sending you a big hug!" I cut another heart at 11/2 inches using the charm feature to make the tag with the to and from on it. I made one of these for my secret valentine at school and the one in the photo for my son's first grade teacher. I filled it with valentine M&Ms. Hope you enjoy!

Just Because card for Hubby!!

Well I'm amazed and proud!! I'm actually posting twice in one week!! I made this card last night for my husband. I actually could have saved it for Valentines day, but he surprised me yesterday by bringing home a new Martha Stewart punch!! So, I wanted to do something for him since he contributed to my "crapbooking" as he calls it. ;)

The card base is an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of black cardstock folded in half. I layered the front with a piece of red cut at 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches, then the red and black striped paper cut at 8 x 5 inches. I cut a piece of white carstock at 4 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches and embossed it with my new Queen of Hearts cuttlebug folder then inked it with black and red. Using my Indie Art cricut cartridge I cut out the dice at 1 3/4 inches in red foil paper with a white background and the word Lucky the same size out of red foil shadowed in black. On the inside I matted the card with a piece of white cut at 8 x5 inches inked in black and added another pair of dice cut the same size. I wrote "because I have you" on the inside.

I was really proud of this card because, as you all know, cards for guys are really tough! I hope you enjoy!!

New Years Resolution!!

So one of my New Years resolutions (I like to call them goals) is to post on my blog at least once a week. Thanks to stomach flu and other things, this is the first post of what I hope will become an at least weekly event.

I made this card for last weeks challenge at the House Mouse Monday Challenge blog. The challenge was to do a beach theme card. That was kind of a nice thought with all the cold weather we've been having. I used the House Mouse stamp "Friendly Breeze" and colored the image with prismacolor pencils. My background was purple cardstock from The Paper Studio, and the striped paper was from DCWV Nana's Nursery Baby Boy stack. (My husband would never let me use that paper on one of my boy's layouts anyway!!) I cut a contrasting strip of sand colored paper that I embossed in my cuttlebug using the mesh texture folder and then inked. I pop dotted some sea shells that I cut on my cricut from the Stretch Your Imagination cart. I have become addicted to decorating the inside of my cards as well. The inside I matted with purple then sand colored cardstock. The sentiment was stamped in purple and says "You are a fan-tastic friend!" It is the sentiment stamp from House Mouse called "Fan-tastic Friend" and was released with the image stamp. As an accent inside I cut the beach cut from A Child's Year on my cricut in purple and shadowed in lilac.

Thanks for looking! I hope you enjoyed the card and I plan to post again soon!!

A Note of Thanks

I've decided that my poor blog didn't know what to think. I started it then abandoned it for weeks!! Things have been so crazy with getting my classroom ready and school starting that I haven't touched any of my craft stuff in weeks. Last night I decided I was going to ignore the housework and school work that I brought home and get back in there. This is what I came up with. My card base is a pre-folded blank card. I cut red cardstock at 4 3/4 " x 6 3/4 " for my first layer. The second layer is Core'dinations Cardstock from the Hocus Pocus pad. It is cut at 41/2 " x5", embossed on my cuttlebug with the allegro emossing folder and lightly sanded. The accent is a 2 inch square with each layer 1/8 inch smaller. The piano is from A Childs Year cricut cart (love that cart!!) cut at 1 3/4 inches. The musical notes both on the inside and outside and the sentimate which says "a note of thanks" are all from a clear stamp set from Stampendous called Joyful Note Angel. On the inside of the card I cut the piano at 2 inches. Other than that, just a lot of inking!! I hope you enjoy it. It felt great to create something again. Thanks for looking!!