Birthday card

Look what I found!!! Made this card several years ago. LOL here's the link:

http://cricaholic.blogspot.com/2011/06/fill-r-up.html


I just updated it...the banner and inside were done with the silhouette. Of course there will be $$ inside for the "fuel".

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MINI ROSE BUSH - no watering required

DONE!!! I made this for my Mom for Mothers Day.  GEEZ!!! I didn't think it would take so long.....but I'm satisfied with the outcome....note to self.....make the roses a little bit bigger and use brighter red paper...
I don't know how many roses I made...I cut 40 petals..some are one layer(bud) 2 layer(bud) 3-4 layer roses, then I tried to give each rose 1-2 leaves.
I followed this video-link below- I cut the petals from the George and Basic Shapes cart, single leaf from Plantin Schoolbook 1" cut two(front/back) and the double leaf from Gypsy Wanderings 1.25" cut two and the starfish from A Childs Year cut 1" . I inked all the edges on everything then took my McGills embossing tools and embossed the petals till they were soft and I scored down the center of all the leaves.
The flower pot I got from the Silhouette store...I cut it apart so I could emboss it then made tabs to glue it back together..LOL
I used 22 gauge floral wire for the rose stems and 30 gauge for the leaves. To assemble I twisted 3-4 roses together then covered everything with floral tape.

mini roses video-   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-X54ayUi40



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Now, to figure out a card for her.....

Birthday card

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My nephew will be turning 8 and he likes drums. So I made him this card. I used Everyday Paperdolls and cut the drummer @ 3.83"h and I cut the drums @ 3.76"h added a little bit of stickles and his name was done on the Silhouette out of vellum. The Numbers are from A Childs Year cut @ .73"h and the 8 was cut @ 1.25"h. Musical notes are from Gypsy Wanderings @ .65"h. The sentiment on the inside was done on the Silhouette.

OK, I've thought of another organization idea...gotta go put my plan into action..ROTFLOL!!!

Sympathy card

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Oh...so so sad.......My SIL father (who's like a grandpa to me) has gone home with hospice. I decided to start on my sympathy cards for the family.  The sentiment was done on the computer.

The dove is from Beyond Birthdays cart cut @ 2.25"h
On the inside the wings are from Gypsy Wanderings cut @ 2.69"h, angel is from A Childs Year (font): a @ .96"- N @ .70" - G @.76" - e @ .72" - L @ .76"  and the halo is from George and Basic Shapes (ovals) outer ring @ 1.13"h and inner ring @ .83"h.

this is how I welded it together - cut it out of white glossy cardstock

then welded angel together and cut it out of blue cardstock
when you weld your letters together slide them over and make sure they fit on the wings(aligning your "G's")

I cut an extra halo out of gold metallic cardstock and traced the angel with stickles and put pop dots behind the wings and slightly curved up the wings for dimension.
Sorry, I'm not sharing this file.

a potted plant farewell....

A co-worker is leaving so I made her a potted plant farewell.
The flower pot is made with the silhouette (the file is in the store) and the flowers were done with: Gypsy Wanderings, George and Basic Shapes and Plantin Schoolbook. The edges were inked and bling was added.

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Flowerpot

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I finally have a "green thumb"!!! WAHOO!!! in paper that is..LOL but that is fine with me. These will last forever. Everything you see is made of paper:  flowers and pot. WOW! is my creativity going to BLOOM....ROTFLOL
the flowers ; yellow-gypsy wanderings cut @ 1.76, purlple-george and basic shapes cut @ 1.50 and the pink- designers calendar cut @ 1.75   leaves;  plantin schoolbook cut @ 2.25 and don juan cut @ 1.77
The flower pot was done on the Silhouette and I got the file from the store.

Heres my pots, I'm still working on the flowers for the other one.

heres views of the flowers in the pot