Celebrate more shakers

So I told you I'm on the shaker kick. LOL Here is a birthday card I made and turned the circles into little shakers. OMG what was I thinking??? To keep each of those circles as seperate circle what a PITA but I'm pleased with the way it turned out.



I wasn't happy with the plain "celebrate" letters but I didn't want to shadow them so why not heat emboss them?



I have a zebra stamp from the $1.00 bin at Michaels and stamped that on the letters and sprinkled with clear embossing powder and then heated the powders. I'm really pleased with the way that they turned out.

Thanks for stopping by. :o)

Supplies:
Recollections Cardstock (card base)
DCWV Spring Stack (hat)
Star confetti
$1.00 Stamp
Clear embossing powder
Tinsel pom pom

Happy "Bird"day

A lady at work asked me to make a birthday card for her friend. The request was something with birds. The woman at work says she doesn't have a crafty bone in her body so her friend will find it humerous that it's a homemade card. The only requirement was that the card have something "bird" related to it.



Supplies used:
Cardstock:
DCWV
* Spring Stack (background paper)
Recollections (M's paper stacks)
* Shimmer stack (flower centers)
* Kraft Stack (birdhouse)
Bazzil
* Pink (on birdhouse)
* Green (on flowers)
Bazzil Bling
* Green (on branches)
Coordinations
* Blue whitewash (on bird)
Cricut Gypsy
Cartridges used:
* George and Basic Shapes (to make the birdhouse and the feet on the bird)
* Walk in my garden (Flowers)
* Plantin Schoolbook (Scallop on birdhouse)
* Lyrical Letters (Bird)
Cuttlebug
* Asian Bundle (on the birdhouse)
Pop Dots
Studio G Flocking (on the birdhouse)
Martha Stewart Branch punch
Walmart Heat Set Crystals

Papercraft Star Challenge 5 - Circles

This week at Papercraft Star the design team was asked to use "circles" in their project. Well I wasn't sure what I was going to do with Circles. Then I was playing with my Gypsy and this is what I came up with .....



I just saw the gumball machine and it all came to me after that. This card would be perfect for a little kid's birthday.

I do all of my projects either in DS or on the Gypsy first so that I can cut everything out at one time. Well one of the best things on these programs is the "hide selected contour". I was able to put the gumball machine on the mat and hide all of the cuts except for the gumballs. I then copied the image (with the contours hidden) and put 7 of them on the mat and put my color squares on there and didn't have to waste paper cutting the gumball machine 7 times.

Now hop on over to the Papercraft Star Blog and show us what you did with Circles.


Supplies used:
Cardstock:
Recollections (Michael's brand paper)
Bazzil
and scraps
Cricut Gypsy
Cartridges used:
* George and Basic Shapes - for the card base
* Sweethearts - Gumballs and Gumball Machine
Cuttlebug:
* Swiss Dots
Pop Dots

Critters, Critters, More Critters

So for my dad's birthday I sent him a critter card. He wants a book of my critter pictures that I've taken. Well here in Florida Critters are not hard to find. Of course I didn't want the card to be to "girly".





This was a total scraplift my friend Theresa (Treefrog on the Cricut MB). Her's was awesome. Thanks Theresa!!!!

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

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

Dragonfly Birthday

I was asked by a woman at work to make her a birthday card for a friend of hers but it had to have a dragonfly and had to be earth tone colors. So here is what I came up with.



Inside

Butterfly Birthday

I have been making sooooo many birthday cards lately. It will be nice to start something new next week for my scrappy/crafty vacation weekend. But in the mean time here is a birthday card I made for one of my dear friends (Hi Rach!!!!!).



Close up of tag


Another view


Card base was made in DS using GBS and Graphically Speaking (GS)
Butterflies were made with the MS monarch butterfly punch. The top layer is vellum colored with alcohol ink (something I really love to do lately). LOL
Ribbon is from M's
and the Birthday tag is cut from my nesties Labels 9 and the stamp is from Stampendous.

Enjoy!

Dragonfly Birthday

Here is a birthday card I made for a friend at work. It's also for Robyn(mypinkstamper)'s color challenge



The card base was cut using design studio. The base is from GBS and Graphically Speaking.
Dragonflies were cut at roughly 1 3/4" and 3 3/4". The top layer is vellum colored with alcohol inks. The shadows were cut using bazzil cardstock
The marquee's were cut using nesties labels 9
Happy birthday is from the stampendous perfectly clear stamps "Two you" set. Stamped using black versamark ink

thanks for stopping by!!!! :o)

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.

It's 5:00 .....

So I got another card order at work on Friday. But the woman needs the card Monday. She wanted a birthday card for her sister. She didn't have much input but did say she liked Jimmy Buffett ... so this is what I came up with ....



Inside

Lots of Birthday Cards

I've been on a birthday card kick latley. Here they are ...



Another view

Happy Birthday Grace!!!

Today is my sister's birthday. Happy birthday!!!! Here is the card I made for her

Birthday Greetings

So last week a woman I work with saw me working on some cards at lunch time and asked me to bring in my cards so she could see them. After she saw my "work" she asked if she could order a birthday card for her sister. Sure no problem. So she said her sister likes red, black, white, shoes, coach products and poodles. So this is what I came up with ....



and with the card out

Happy Birthday

Another Birthday Card - this was actually an order from a friend at work. She needed a birthday card for her granddaughter and she loved one I had made for someone else. So I made one similiar

Happy Birthday

Nope not me ... my birthday was a few weeks ago, but my sister asked me to make a birthday card for her hubby so I used some pictures from their honeymoon for the letters then I cut them on the cricut and embossed the card with the new asian bundle for the Cuttlebug

Celebrate

So over on the cricut MB (Cricut Chat to be exact) some people (hi Kathy!!!) started a daily challenge to get creative for 1 hour a day. So we craft from 7-8pm EST if you would like to join in as well. So today I made another card. It's a birthday card using the celebrations cart. Enjoy!!

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!