Baseball Gift Card Holder

I made this gift card holder for the players on my son's baseball team. The coach bought McDonalds gift cards for each player and we put them in the GC holder. I tried not to make it too jazzed up and girly.

I will enter this project into the Simon Says Stamp Challenge- Anything goes.

Christmas In July Card

Hello happy crafters,
Can you believe I made a Christmas card in July? Hahaha. I cut the flower out with a scrap of felt using the My Creative Times flower dies. The card base is 5". I used some glittery red embossing powder for the sentiment.

I will enter this card in the challenge at:
1. My Craft Spot- Christmas in July

Papertrey Ink June 2012 Blog Hop Challenge

Hello Crafty friends,
I have some beautiful sweet cards I made for the challenge at Papertrey Ink based on this photo inspiration:

I used the Papertrey Ink Movers and Shakers Sentiments on my cards. And some green and yellow paper and inks I had in my stash. I also inked my ribbon yellow, since I only had this style ribbon in white. I used some CTMH stamps to make my background paper. I made two cards for this challenge.

Guess Hoo Loves You Layout

Hello there,

I am very please with the way this layout turned out. My theme color is purple and I was inspired by owls for this layout. The phrase and owls are cut from Hoot N Holler. I added some Glossy Accents to the eyes, but they have not dried in the picture (I couldn't wait to post it after they dried--hehehe. I will add a new pic once they dry). I also added some Stickles on the little owl and to some of the leaves.

The Glossy accent eyes have dried!

I will enter this layout in these challenges:
1. Little Scrap Pieces - purple
2. Simon Says Stamp Challenge - anything goes
3. Cardz TV - Anything goes
4. Jaihart - Anything goes

Father's Day Card for Unlce

Hello Paper Lovers, 


I have a Father's Day card I made for my Uncle. I just love the way this card turned out. Everything was cut on my Cricut. I made the mustache and tie on my Gypsy. The hat comes from B is for Boy and the glasses were on the Paisley cartridge (I just trimmed off the corners of the glasses so they could look more masculine). I added some acetate in the lenses of the glasses.

I will be entering this card into the following challenges:

1. Fantabulous Cricut - #115 Father's Day

2. My Craft Spot - King of the Grill

3. Die Cuttin Divas - Challenge 69 Happy Father's Day

4. Celebrate the Occasion - #66 Father's Day

5. Crafty Sentiments Design - Father's Day

6. LEJ Design Challenge - Challenge #7 Daddy Dearest
7. Cards For Men - Father's Day
8. Make My Monday - Father's Day/Masculine
9. Dream Valley Challenges-  Challenge #34 For the Special Guy
10. Sentimental Sundays - For A Special Guy
11. The Crafty Pad Designs - Let's Hear it For The Boys
12. Platypus Creek Digitals - For the Boys
13. Card Makin' Mamas - Father's Day
14. Phindy's Friday Challenge - Father's Day or Masculine
15. Simply Create Too - Father's Day or Male
16. Cardz Tv - Father's Day - #110

Have a great weekend everyone. As always new follower are welcomed and appreciate as you follow me on my Crafty journey.

Eat Cupcakes First Birthday Card

Time for a cupcake. To bad its made of paper--lol. I prefer the real sugary kind. I guess this one will have to do.

This is one of my favorite Cricut cupcake cuts. I stamped it with a coordinating stamps from CTMH.

I will enter this card into 3 challenge:
1. My Creative Time - Birthday theme.
2. Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Sweet Tooth.
3. Capture the Moment - use scraps for the background & PTI product ( I used PTI white embossing powder-LOVE it)

Scrappy Monday Layout Challenge- Life Is Beautiful

Happy Mother's Day!!! I hope everyone has a special day.

The layout I'm sharing today was made for a challenge at My Creative Time. Emma had a sketch for us to follow in the challenge.

Here is the sketch

Here is my layout

A 5x7 picture will go where the white rectangle is.

I cut these cute shaped tags with Cricut Birthday Bash at 3.5". I used Distress ink to color them.

The sentiments are from My Creative Time.

I am loving these wide eyelets.

This button was the perfect touch. It looks vintage and has writing on it to match my paper.

The used a Sew Ribbon punch to weave the ribbon.

This is what the layout looks like without the faux picture. 

I JUST LOVE THIS LAYOUT AND COLOR COMBO!!!

Sassy & Classy Mother's Day Card

Thank goodness its Friday!!! I'm so ready for the weekend. I'm sharing a card I made for Mother's Day for one of my dear friends. I love the way this card turned out. It is so cute!!! I should have massed produced it, but no, my cards are usually one of a kind made for each unique individual. But I'm thinking it would save me a lot of time at holidays to mass produce one awesome design.

This card is sassy and class just like my friend. I am loving the colors I picked for this card and the grey background was stamped by me to make my own print/pattern paper. The outfit the lady is wearing was printed on my Cricut Imagine machine using the Black and White cartridge, I also inked the edges with some white chalk ink and I love the effect it created. I added a cute tiny flower and a rhinestone with my iRock for some sparkle. Towards the bottom I added some matching sheer ribbon. The card shape is cut from Birthday Bash (love that cartridge) and the lady is cut from Forever Young. The sentiment if from MCT.

 Here is a coordinating tag I cut to go on the gift box. I love this tag with its scalloped edge on the bottom!

 I also added some black ribbon on the waist to look like a belt, but in the picture its a wee hard to see. 

I also stamped and inked the tag and added matching ribbon. 

I will be entering the card into the these challenge:
1. Exploring Cricut - use a Cricut cut
2. Really Reasonable Ribbon's Ramblings - Mother's day theme with ribbon
3. The Ribbon Carousel - use a Mother's Day sentiment
4. Made Especially For You -  MD card with ribbon
5. Cardz Tv - There's no other like my mother
6. My Sheri Crafts - MD card use a flower

Love Is In The Air Card

I made this cute air balloon card to day and I think it turned out so cute. Just what I wanted but it looks even cuter. I cut the air balloon and the heart clouds out from some printed cardstock that I had in my stash. I stamped the sentiment (Docerela Creations) with some Close To My Heart ink in one of my favorite colors called Lagoon. I used a scrap of white paper for the background to emboss the windy swirls (D'Vine Swirls) with my Cuttlebug for the background. I added a little color to the swirls those with some chalk ink.

I am entering this card into some challenges at:
1. Docerela Creations -bridal shower
2. Ginger Snap Scraps -inspiration
3. Quick Chick Designs - lets get moving
4. Sprinkled With Glitter - embossing

Color Challenge- Hello Birdie Layout

Hello paper lovers, 

Here is a layout I made to enter into a color challenge- Make it Monday #64 at Inspired Papertrey Ink & Nicole Heady. Here is the color pallet I chose for my inspirations...though some of those other color choice were temping too.

 Here is my layout.

The bird and the tag were cut on the CTMH Art Philosophy Cartridge. The branch was cut from Create A Critter. In the white space I will be putting an 8x8 photo. Probably of myself, I had this page in mind for my own scrapbook. 

I used a sentiment from Papertrey Ink on the tag from the Movers and Shakers Sentiments. I only stamped part of the sentiment from this stamp.

Below I added a sentiment on top of the layout to see if I liked the way it look. 

What do you think, with or without the "Life is beautiful!" sentiment?

I might replace the green strip of paper with a ribbon and bow once I lay the picture down and see how the placement will work together.

Have a Crafty day! Bye for now. 

Distress Stamped Happy Birthday Card

Hello, hello,

Hope your weekend was fabulous. Mine flew by! I feel like I didn't get to spend anytime with my family. Anyway, moving on to the card I made for the Simon Says Stamps Challenge. The theme there this week is birthdays in honor of Simon Says Stamps 3rd birthday!!! I was watching a Tim Holtz video the other day where he distress a card and stamped it using only one ink color and I thought it looked amazing and yet was so super simple. I had to try it too. I used Seedless Preserves Distress Ink and stamped the card with some butterfly stamps I had in my stash.

I decided to go back and add some Viva Decor Pearl pen in the middle of the butterflies.  

Sorry for the dark pictures. They always turn out faulty when I take them at night time. But I wanted to take the pics right away when I was done with the card and get them loaded to my blogs so...tada. hehehe :0)

Sock Monkey Cards

I decided to make this monkey for a couple of animal challenges and an anything goes challenge. He is the cute little sock monkey on the B is for Boy cartridge. He is cut at 4". I made three of these cards and stamped different sentiments of each one. I like how they all turned out. These will be great for friendship, birthdays, baby boy and much more. I inked the edges of the blue gingham card and the cream strip of paper.

1. Tammy's Scrapin Corner
2. Creative Belli Blog
3. Creative Craft Challenges 2
4. OOAZAK

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