Best Wishes

This is a birthday card I made for wonderful mother-in-law. I used an SEI cardstock diecut.  The sentiment is from Crafty Secrets. The color used for the sentiment is Desert Sands from Close to My Heart.  

I thought I was done but it looked so plain!  So I thought about what I could add to keep it simple but elegant. I looked at ribbons and washi tape but none did the trick for me. Finally, I stumbled upon my Cuttlebug folders and pulled out one of my favorites from the Teresa Collins Timeless set. I only embossed the sides and it gave the umph! it needed. :)

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those wishes reality.  ~ Jonas Salk

Happy Purr-day!

I have to admit: This was a challenging card to make.  But it was fun, too.  Does that make sense?  :)  I saw a challenge at Bitten by the Bug 2 to use balloons in a birthday card and I couldn't get the image of cats playing with the balloons out of my mind.  So I pulled out my Meow Cricut Lite Cartridge and went to town with it!

I didn't think a regular A6 card would do the trick to show the playfulness of the cats so I made a step ladder card.  I used the instructions from this video:  Andrea Walford.  I'm a visual kinda gal.

I also entered this card in:

Paper Playtime - Say It with Sentiments, Challenge 72

One Stitch At a Time - Bright

I Used:

- Meow Cricut Lite Cartridge, Provocraft - cats and "Purr"

- From My Kitchen Cricut Cartridge, Provocraft - cake and stand

- Martha Stewart Birthday Cakes, Provocraft 

•  balloons
• "day" welded in the Gypsy - What a fun font!
• all the letters in HAPPY

- Ice White Pearl Pen, Viva Decor

- Floral wire stems, Floral Soft

- Pink Pattern Paper, SEI

- Light Blue Paper used as the base of the step ladder card - Stampin' Up

- All other paper from my scrap stash

This naughty kitty got his paws on the cake. 
I swapped out the original fish bowl.

This little kitty is all tied up!

Welcome Little One

I made this card for a baby shower.  I wanted a vintage kind of look so I made a little baby bootie that reminded me of the little crochet ones my mother had made for my son before he was born.  It took a long time to make this but I really enjoyed making it. 

I Used:

- Sugar and Spice Cricut Lite, Provocraft - little baby bootie

- Art Philosophy CTMH Cricut Cartridge, Provocraft - Scalloped circle

- Liquid Applique, Marvey-  for the top of the booties 

- Swiss Dots embossing folder, Cuttlebug

- Vanilla Cream Ink Pad, Close to My Heart (CTMH) - to ink the edges

- Bissette, SEI cardstock

- Ribbon from my stash

The Liquid Applique give it a nice 3-D effect.

Creative Chemistry 101, Day 3

It is actually several days past day 3 of the class, but I did not have Archival Ink.  Now I do! :)  This is my tag for the Alcohol Ink Agate Technique.

I did not like it at first.  It looked like a big ole mess to me.  But then I added more layers and the stamp images - Wow!  I think it took on a different look.  It's kind of fun not knowing that what somethin is going to look like exactly.

I Used: 
Glossy Paper
- Salmon Alcohol Ink, Ranger
- Cloudy Blue Alcohol Ink, Ranger
- Latte Alcohol Ink, Ranger
- Lettuce Alcohol Ink, Ranger
- Silver Mixative Alcohol Ink, Ranger
- Shabby French Stamp Set, Stampers Anonymous - sentiment, flourish, and writing on the heart
- Archival Ink in Jet Black, Ranger
- Vellum Heart, SEI

Tag
- Antique Linen Distress Ink Pad
- Brushed Distress Ink Pad
- Floral Texture Fade Embossing Folder, Floral & Fancy Frames Set by Sizzix




I used a pop dot on the vellum heart after the Archival Ink dried.



I debossed only a small section of the tag.

Here's another friendship quote:

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

~ Leo Buscaglia



Monogram Birthday Card

I was thinking that Damask Decor and Letter Envy Cricut Cartridges were surely made for each other. Ummm... No, they are not. I found that out after I cut out all the pieces and put it together.  What a mess! Maybe my colors were all wrong... I had white cream, seafoam green, white, orange, pink. Maybe it was all the inticate cuts slapped together.  Maybe it was all of it together.  

I had to go back to the drawing board.  I knew two things: I wanted to make a monogram card and I wanted to use orange and pink.  The orange and pink inspiration was from Paper Craft Weekend Challenge. The colors were perfect because I wanted to make a birthday card for my sister-in-law in Naples, FL.  Orange and pink reminds me of cheery South Florida and the outfit my sister-in-law wore the last day we were in Naples.  I'm entering it in the monogram challenge from Bitten by the Bug 2.

Needless to say, I simplified the card and I think it is much better :)

I Used:
Letter Envy Circut Cartridge - L-s and layer feature + L
Imagine Blossom Cricut Cartridge- Pink cardstock for the letter L - it is the perfect pale, soft pink
SEI Mimosa glitter cardstock
Cuttlebug Folder - Musical Flourish
Imaginisce orange rhinestone
Pink stamp pad to ink the edges of the all the squares and the embossed rectangle
Pop dots
Tattered Angels Marshmallow mist for sparkles - ya gotta have sparkles for a birthday!

I found a way to shoot the sparkles from the glitter mist!  I had to angle it on my hand and then take the picture.

 

 

Words for me to remember:

 “Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.”

~Plato