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!

Vintage Mother's Day Card

I started making this card for a color challenge but I saw another one with vintage.  Blues and vintage... LOVE it! :)

The color imspiration came from: I Came, I Saw, I Created
The vintage inspiration came from: Crafts and Me, Challenge #80: Vintage

I also entered:
2 Sisters Challenge Blog - Flowers
Great Impressions Stamps - Lots of Flowers
Sweet Stampin Challenge Blog - Girly, but no pink
Simon Says Stamp and Show - Anything goes



I Used:
- Elegant Edges Cricut Cartridge, Provocraft - hearts2 + book feature at 3.6 in
   and hearts2 + book feature + shift at 3.6 in
- Vintage Papers Imagine Colors & Patterns Cartridge - second image on page 2.  I flooded the light blue cardstock with this iamge.
- Hydrangea stamp, Three Birds Estate Collection
- Perfect Pearls powder, Ranger
- Cream Pearl Pen, Viva Decor
- "Celebrate Today" sentiment - Papertrey Ink
- Fabric flowers from my stash
- All cardstock from Stampin' Up





I added Perfect Pearls powder to the hydrangea.
You can also see how the Imagine Printed on the light blue paper... Cool, huh?







The Viva Pearls were added by hand... after lots of practice!



Gingerbread Man Holiday Box

I got my mom a beautiful, sparkling (she likes sparkles) locket for Christmas. Inside the locket will be the picture of her grandson, Anders. I am going to package the locket in this box I made for her. :)

I Used:
- Art Philosophy Circut Cartidge: Chinese Take Out Container - font layer+shift page 24
- Jolly Holidays Cricut Cartridge: Gingerbread Man - gngrbrd and gngrbrd+shift - I used the Gypsy to hide the cuts for the face so I could use the Peachy Keen stamp
- Joy of the Seasons Cartridge: Candycane -candy, page 47 - I used the Gypsy to hide the peppermint candy
- Red Buttons from my stash
- Viva Decor Glitter Liner: Holo Iridescent
- Basic Grey Paper: Nordic Holiday
- Peachy Keen Stamps for the face
- Raffia from my stash

Here's How:I filled the 12 x 12 page with the box image and just followed the perforated cuts. That was pretty to follow. I cut the gingerbread man at 2.5" and the candy cane at 2". I stamped the gingerbread man with the Peachy Keen stamp in white. I used Colorbox Frost white. I added glitter to his buttons and frosting. I did not use the buttons on the cut in Jolly Holidays. I punched white cardstock with the Crop-a-Dile instead. I arranged my gingerbread man and the candy cane. I thought the candy cane needed more so I added a ribbon and a button with raffia. I liked the red buttons with raffia idea so much I added them on the bottom to balance out the design which looked a little top heavy. I also added the red buttons on the top.

Have a wonderful day :)