Monogram Note cards

So my sister needed a quick gift for a friend of hers and asked if I could "whip up" a quick batch of some monograms. Who me?! But of course what an excuse to have to craft. Honey, I'm going to my craft space because I NEED to get a gift done he he he. Works perfectly.



You can find all of the information here Capadia Designs


Supplies used:
Cardstock:
Reccolections - Ivory
Bazzill Bling
Cricut Design Studio
Cartridges used:
* Plantin Schoolbook

Papercraft Star Challenge 1

Well the time has finally come for the design team to post their very first challenge projects for Papercraft Star. In case you don't remember this challenge is a photo inspiration challenge. The photo we used was this one ...



Hopefully you will join us and post your project using the above picture over at http://www.papercraftstar.blogspot.com/. Now on to my project ;o)

I decided to create an easel sympathy card using the silver, red, and white in the picture. Also, my eyes were imediately drawn to the dragonly in the picture.









To make the easel card I have a cut file available for the cricut design studio (just drop me an e-mail and I'll send you the cut file). Or you can find directions for making one here on splitcoast stampers http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/easelcard/.

Supplies used:
Cardstock: Recollections (Michael's brand paper)
* Precious Metals Stack for the silver
* Shimmer Stack - for the red shimmer
* White Stack - for the white paper
Flowers: Brides wedding collection Red flower confetti
Brads: Mini metallic brads from Oriental Trading
Rhinestones: Recollections Rhinestones Stickers
Cuttlebug:
* Swirls - on the white paper
* Swiss dots - on the red paper
Cricut Design Studio
Cartridges used:
* George and Basic Shapes - for the card base
* Plantin SchoolBook - for the score fold lines
* Pagoda - dragonfly
* Lyrical Letters - with sympathy

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Birthday Easel

So I wanted to make an easel card. But of course I had to make it with the cricut. Soooooo I created a cut file using the Cricut Design Studio. This is the first easel card I made (please excuse the paper clip it didn't want to sit on the easel LOL)





Heart - Lovestruck
Flowers - PSB
Squares - GBS
Card base - GBS made in DS
Butterfly - MS punch punched twice (top layer vellum colored in alcohol ink)
Butterfly border - MS PATP
Birthday wishes - Studio G stamp
Swirls and Asian Bundle for the embossing.

Some of the flowers are on pop dots

Get Well

Here's a get well card I made. I loved this card design when I saw it on the MB and figured there has to be an easy way to make it in Design Studio. I love the way this turned out.

Baby Monochromatic

Here is a baby card I made for the MPS Monochromatic Color Challenge.



Everything is Pink :o)
Card Base - from New Arrival (NA) cut from DS using "hide selected contour"
Baby - NA
Embossing - Fiskars plate in the CB

Another Thank you Card

I loved the card shape I made the other day (the celebrate card) and had some "extra" cuts left so I whipped this up

Thank you Card

So I posted this card over on the cricut MB in anticipation of course of posting it on my blog and someone had asked me if I saw the challenge on BBTB2. Which I hadn't been over there since the most recent challenge was posted on Monday {gasps} I know I'm really far behind. So I had to see what she was talking about and well it looks like I was ready for this challenge and didn't even know it. HA HA HA

So here was a quick thank you card I came up with



card base made in DS using From my Kitchen
Thank you from Lyrical Letters
marquee using nesties "label One"
Inked around the edge of the card and then dusted with shimmer chalks (although you can't really see it in the picture).
buttons from WM in a package

Celebrate

Stephanie over on the cricut MB had asked if I could help her with a card base similiar to a card she saw. So of course I had to test cut it and tinker with it so I figured why not turn it into a quick card so I decided on a birthday card

Monograms, Monograms, Monograms

So my sister needs some monogram cards for gifts so I decided I would give here a few options to choose from.

The first option is a simple aperture monogram card

If you are interested in the cut file please visit Diane's website at (http://capadiadesigns.blogspot.com/)

The cut file post can be found at (http://capadiadesigns.blogspot.com/2008/04/larger-5-x-7-oval-aperture-card.html)

The next option is a dual color embossed card with the individual letter



The scallops are cut from nestabilities and the B is cut from the calligraphy cart *i think*.

The third option is another embossed card with an individual dual colored letter. The letter was a total scraplift from Capadia.

Spring Flowers

Wow this is my 100th post since I started blogging. That is AWESOME!!!! Hope you have enjoyed my posts.

This card was totally out of my comfort zone color wise. Not that I don't like orange ... I just tend to gravitate towards the Pinks/purples/blues/greens

Paper is Bazzil and Recollections (from M's)

Card base and color squares cut in DS from GBS
Flowers from WIMG using the "border" option
Ribbon is the celebrate it brand from M's (happend to be in the $1.00 bin



Here's a close up of the butterfly

Flamingo Birthday

So I finally got up enough guts to apply for a design team. I applied for Robyn's Design team (from mypinkstamper), if you haven't checked her out yet you can find her at http://www.mypinkstamper.com and we had to submit a project to be considered. Unfortanetly I wasn't chosen as one of her designers .... maybe next time. But here is the project I submitted



another view


Inside


Flamingo was cut from LAB cart, Card base I designed in DS.

Bridal Shower Invite

So a lovely lady who works with me (but in our Texas office .... Hi Bailey!!!) asked me to help her make Bridal Shower invites for her BFF. The theme is the kentucky derby. This is what I came up with

Wedding Invitations

There have been a lot of talk over on the Cricut MB with people asking about wedding invitations and making them with your cricut. My sister got married in September of 2009 and asked me to make her inviations. What I did was come up with some designs that I knew would be "do able" for me and drew them out. She picked a couple that she liked and I made the samples. From there I cut samples so she could see thme and help her better choose. Here are the two samples that I made for her.

This is the one she chose:


This is the other sample:


With the invitation portion out of the jacket


Just the invitation portion


Both invitations were made with my Cricut and Design studio.

Thank You "trees" Sets

Wow that was a lot of days to catch up on. Now for some crafty stuff!!!

I'm making "gift sets" of the thank you trees that I make. And a matching box to go with them. The box is a Design Studio cut file that JenC. made at my request. You can get the cutfile directly from JenC. at http://jensbrainthings.blogspot.com/2010/02/pocketful-of-greetings.html. She did an amazing job designing it and I had soooo much fun cutting and embelishing it. Can't wait to make some more.

Box ....


Inside


Cards


I do have some more projects to post but I'll be uploading those another night. Thanks for stopping by!!!

Monogram Cards

So I know I've been posting a lot of my photography and very little of my cricut/craft projects. Sorry to all my blog readers. I haven't had much time to create lately so I thought I might post some of my "older" stuff.

Last year Diane (aka Capadia) posted an oval appeture card and immediatley thought that they would make really nice monogram cards. So when a family friend was getting married last year and I thought oh these would make a great gift for her bridal shower


I made a matching box as well


The cards were such a hit with the bride that she asked if I could make a set for her to present to her friend who was getting married.



I also made little gift boxes for them


Then my aunt was getting married .... hmmm can we see a pattern here ;-) and made a set for her as well


I then made a set using a name rather than the monogram


I've made a few other sets for people but of course forgot to take pictures. Hmmm guess I have to start remembering to do that.

If you are interested in the cut file please visit Diane's website at (http://capadiadesigns.blogspot.com/)

The cut file post can be found at (http://capadiadesigns.blogspot.com/2008/04/larger-5-x-7-oval-aperture-card.html)

Thanks for stopping by today :o)

Card a Day Challenge

So my Secret Sister Megan, over on the Cricut Message Board and I decided to challenge each other to a card a day. However, of course life got in the way for both of us so this challenge has extended into more than the month that we intended for it to take, however, we are making great progess and having a blast doing them. Here are a few I've done for the challenge:

Happy Birthday

I used the MCPT to color the candle. The candle stamp is one of the $1.00 Studio G stamps found at M's. The border punch is a MS punch.

The turkey feathers and happy thanksgiving were cut on the cricut using a .cut file from Diane (aka Capadia) has on her blog. I had already made the card base using ribbon and didn't want to make a new card with the cut file so I kept the base that I had and just added this to the top.

Christmas/Holiday Cards

Poinsetta was made from a cut file from TaraMason over on the cricut MB. This card was a total scraplift from the one she posted over on cricut. Instead of the gold center I used red stickles and inked the edges in gold.


This poinsetta was also on the cut file from TaraMason (her cut file had both the small and large poinsetta). I ran the green paper through the cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder and then added some "bling".

Non-Traditional Holiday colors

(yes Megan I cheated and used the one I had already made .... sorry non-traditional holiday colors are difficult for me).

Sorry the card is hard to see but the flash was reflecting on the silver paper. Used the cricut to cut the black pink and silver squares. Then stamped snowflakes on the silver squares (sorry don't know who made that stamp).

The picture below shows the true colors of the card.

Fourth of July

Another MCPT on the bear stamp. The bear is a Great Impressions Stamp. The "happy fourth" came from a Stampendous stamp set. The stars were all cut on the Cricut at different sizes. Some were then pop dotted on the card to add dimmension.

Last card for today is a

Halloween Card

This card I welded a spider web to a square and added the spider. Then I used MS glitter and google eyes on the spider.

Well, I guess that's all for now. Hope everyone had a great weekend. If I get some more time tonight I'll try to post a few other projects I worked on within the last week or so. If not check back later this week. Take care!