Anniversary card

What a BLAST!!!!! I sort of lost my crafting MOJO but I'm finally getting back into the creative mode.
I made this A2 card for my nieces anniversary. I used the cricut Car Decals for the couple (man @ 1.87"h and lady @ 1.82"h) and 4mm goggley eyes. I used the emboss folder Heart Blocks with a circular diffuser (That was FUN, first time I used them). The word - Happy Couple - is from A Childs Year at 1"h. The inside was done on the silhouette.

I know I know what about my craft room??? its coming.........soon..........LOL!!! just bare with me....PLEASE!!!
When you rearrange a craft room you like how it LOOKS!!!  but........will it work??? I'm having to tweak a few things now that I'm crafting.

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.....

Crocus in bloom.....

Spring has sprung and I'm in the mood to make flowers......Aren't my crocus BEAUTIFUL!!!!
This is how I made them...clic on the link below:
http://scrapngrow.com/recent-posts/paperie-in-bloom-march-2013-build-a-bulb-garden-week-one/

Michelle from scrapngrow is SUPER FANTASTIC!!! I had a lot of questions...considering I live in the desert and have a black thumb LOL.....but as you can see she guided me along the way.....Check out her blog - her flowers are GORGEOUS! and her tutorials are nice too!!! You too can be on your way to a "Bloomn Garden"!!!
The only thing I changed was, I made my own leaves and flower pot. The leaves are 5/8" w x 8"L strips that I rounded the corners and scored down the middle then used a white gel pen then slightly curved the leaves and added two leaves per crocus. Oh and I cut the crocus stems to 6".
 The flower pot was cut from the silhouette and I found the pattern in the silhouette store.

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from this........

to this....BEAUTIFUL BLOOMN CROCUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GORGEOUS AREN"T THEY??? What are you waiting for??? clic on over to Michelle's blog and start your own GORGEOUS BLOOMN GARDEN!!!

more Thank You's

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I recieved some late Christmas gifts from some co-workers and heres the Thank You cards I made them.
I used A Childs Year cut at 3" and embossed the card with cuttlebug THANK YOU and the inside I used the Sweethearts cart and cut the thank you at 3.75" and the white part (lol)..is a personal note I covered up.

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.

Birthday card

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LOVE this card!!! This card is for my niece. I really put on my thinking cap and got creative, I used several different carts and ALL my machines..LOL  I won't tell you how old she is...its kind of obvious..LOL
Supplies:
 Banner is from the silhouette cameo @ 3.75"w
Girl is from the Imagine "Best Friends" @ 3.25"(my niece actually looks like that!!)
name is from "Lyrical letters" @ .75"
hand is from "A Childs Year" @ 2.75"
#5 is from "cursive 101" @ 1.30"
Cuttlebug "swiss Dots" embossing folder
4 pink rhinestones
and embroidery thread pink

The BEST part is the HB banner made with the silhouette cameo!!!! None of my PC machines would have been able to do this.... it was so easy and QUICK on the silhouette!!! Yes, the tiny little triangles were cut out and I glued them to the thread and then draped the thread across the card. COOL HUH??
 See, ALL my machines work very well together. Yeah, I know it was a lot of money to spend on a machine just to print/cut text but its worth it to me...Now my cards will be extra special cause I can add text/sentiments...The silhouette is for small text/sentiments only and I will ALWAYS use my PC carts for my die cutting. I am a CRIC AHOLIC!!!!! ROTFLOL!!!!

PS...I helpful tip..on the imagine I LOVE the border(shadow) feature but on this girl tho I didn't like the color it gave.  I changed the border color to match the card base...it blends in with the rest of the card and you hardly notice it.. NEAT HUH?? I gotta start remembering to do that for now on.

Christmas cards

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ROTFLOL!!! I finally got them done and they are in the mail as of today....
The silhouette is from A Childs Year cut at 4.60h and used SU dimentionals the card is embossed with the cuttlebug Snowflakes.
inside- Martha Stewart Seasonal Cake cart cut at 1.58h and ran thru the xyron. the "&" is from Lyrical Letters cut at .84h

Halloween cards

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These are the halloween cards I sent out...I used a Childs Year cart, D'vine swirls to emboss. Oh and the envelope I made too..found the paper at HL. SUPER QUICK/EASY!!!

 I used MS Seasonal Cake cart for the inside....I won it off of  Scubascrapper's blog.....She's VERY CREATIVE!!!! heres the link     http://scubascrapperbrandi.blogspot.com/

My Hero - Thank You

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I'll spare you the long dramatic story.....Heres a card I made for a co-worker
Carts; Everyday Paperdolls(x-ray tech), Paperdoll Dress Up(hero),Stand and Salute(my hero).
SU cardstock;Baja Breeze,Blush Blossom, Not Quite Navy,More Mustard, Cajun Craze, Whisper white and Basic Black and LSS brown and SU designer paper Not Quite Navy
other supplies; black vellum, Chomas Creations silver glitten gel pen,  black gel pen, Diamond Stickles and SU embossing folder Square Lattice(cape) 
The hero as you can see is on a suspended card....he spins when you open it and the xray tech is on the reverse....Isn't that CUTE!!! He was my Super(man) hero xray technician...all in one!!
Notice the tiny "R" on the hero....its .37"h. I love how the glitter pen glissens!!! (thats his first initial)
Don't cha just LOVE the xray!!! I traced the skeleton suit(paperdoll dressup) with the black gel pen on white cardstock and then cut out a rectangle about 1" from the black vellum ran it thru the xyron and attatched it to the ribs of the skeleton and cut around it. TA DA!! an xray....ROTFLOL!!!

4th July card

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Heres my card. The Imagine makes it so EASY!! With just one piece of white cardstock. The red stripe is from Buccaneer(imagine) and the boy/wagon is from A Childs Year and the July 4 is from Designers calendar color filled from the dark blue from Buccaneer. Of course dazzleing diamonds and Crystal stickles was added for a little bling....The sentiment was done on the computer and the card base is SU Brillant Blue.
I made the envelope from Plantin Schoolbook and decorated it with some stamps I had.

Sympathy

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I got this idea when I noticed the cart Once upon a Princess had "angel/wings". I don't have that cart so I created it with my gypsy. I welded a n g e l  then welded it to the wings then welded the halo onto the "g". I then copied it and deleted the wings, halo so I could make it a different color. I did another halo so I could use metalic cs.
carts used: dove(beyond birthdays), angel (childs year), halo (George and Basic Shapes) and the wings (gypsy wanderings).
cardstock: SU perfect plum, whisper white and glossy white
                 LSS gold metalic
The sentiment was done on the computer.

you can't tell but the angel/wings have SU deminsionals and I slighly curled the wings up.
the wings have stickles-diamonds and angel as glossy accents. Its so pretty!!!

I'm going to make about 12 cards so I'll be prepared. In the past I've gone to the store because I'm just TOO SAD to create.

Mothers Day Projects

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It's been a BUSY week getting all these projects DONE!!
This card is for my SIL
carts used: A Childs Year and Wrap it up (words)
SU cardstock: Tempting Turquiose, Cameo Coral and black

This one is for my Niece, she has a son and 2 daughters...can you tell..LOL!
carts used; Animal Kingdom (duck) all the ducks are the same I justed sized them, Gypsy Wandering(grass) and Designers Calendar (words)
SU cardstock: Pumpkin Pie, Summer Sun, Taken With Teal, Pink Passion, Pixie Pink, Green Galore, Lavendar Lace and Tempting Turquiose



SAVED the BEST for last, I made this for my MOM! She's a quilter... 

carts used: George and Basic Shapes (2" squares) and Lyrical letters

SU cardstock: More Mustard and Garden Green

Embossing folder; Swiss Dots

Vinyl; brown

and a 12x12 frame from HL 



Christmas - Thank You's

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Heres my Christmas Thank You cards. The girl and font are from A Childs Year cart. SU cardstock Elegant Eggplant, Lavendar Lace and Pretty in Pink. Plus a little pink rhinestone on the dress.

Grandparents Day card

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I made this card for my Mom from her grandkids and great grandkids.
On the gypsy I arranged the stars on the front and the sentiment was done on the computer. I used crystal stickles to outline the cut out of the stars. On the inside I recut the stars with white cs and using Justrite 6pt stamps I named each star and so they would shine I put Crystal accents over the stars (the names blurred a little) and sprinkled them with MS fine glitter. The sentiment on the inside was done on the computer.

 

Mothers Day Card

Thinking of you