Popsicle

It's a beautiful fall day here today, still warm enough to enjoy a popsicle or two!  The leaves are starting to turn and pretty soon I will have to be out raking them up!  I haven't been in my craft room for ages and decided to go down and spend some time.  I made this popsicle card using the Gypsy & Smiley Cards cart.  I have absolutely no little girls cards in my stash & this was very quick & easy to make.  The striped paper & pink paper were from my scrap drawer.  I embossed the white background with the Cuttlebug and took a chunk out of the popsicle with my round scalloped punch. The sentiment stamps are from Copper Leaf Creations.  Well I'm off to run some errands.

Have a great day everyone.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

Another crappy day here today.  Hopefully tomorrow will be sunny.  I was going to head down to my craft room but I am tired so I probably wouldn't be very productive.

I didn't have any anniversary cards on hand so I made a few of these up. They were pretty quick and simple to do.  The owl stamp is from Stampendous called Owl Friends.  I used the Cuttlebug Distressed Stripes folder after I stamped the image on the front. This folder has become one of my favorites and I have been using it quite a bit lately. I used some Tim Holtz distressed ink around the edges of the kraft paper.  The inside verse was computer generated and cut out with my nesties.

BEER MUG

I wanted to try my Puffy paint (which I cannot find in Canada grrrrrr) that my mother bought for me at JoAnn's.  I decided to use the Cricut Smiley Cards cart and make the beer card.  I gotta tell you that I love this paint.  It is so easy to apply and then you just use your embossing gun and it puffs right up.  It was so perfect for this card.  I used the Cuttlebug Distressed Stripes folder on the mug.  I don't think it shows up very well in the pic but it adds a nice texture to the card.  The verse inside is computer generated.

CONGRATULATIONS

I have seen different variations of this card done with a heart punch but I didn't have one in the correct size so  I used the Cricut to cut mine.  I used a Cuttlebug frame folder on the front as well as the Swiss Dots folder on the bride heart and a Cuttlebug border folder on the inside. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD

I made this card for my Dad's birthday coming up next week.  The stamps are from Clear Dollar Stamps.  You can't see the stamp along the bottom very good in the pic but it say You da man!  I used the Cuttlebug Diamond Plate embossing folder and swiped some silver ink over it.  Here is the inside;

The verse is computer generated.

RECIPE SCRAPBOOK PG. 2

I was on a roll yesterday and got the second page done for my daughter's cookbook.  I cut everything out with Cricut Life's A Beach cart except the fish which is from Stampin' Up's Fishy Friends stamp set.  I used my Nestabilities to cut around the recipe and colored the fish with my Copics.  Here are the numbers I used;

BG01, BG02, YG03, Y06 & V04

 I embossed the boat & sails with my Cuttlebug embossing folders for some extra texture and used my Peachy Keen Everyday Faces stamp set for the sun.

 I hadn't used my crop-a-dile for awhile so I screwed up the one eyelet and couldn't fix it without ruining my page so it had to stay that way.......sigh

CHEERS

Here is another card I found while I was blog searching for masculine card ideas  http://andreawalford.com/?p=2494 You can find all the instructions there.

I used Stampin' Up's chocolate chip for the base, the strip down the middle and the letters.  The yellow and embossed brown paper are from Bo Bunny.   I used my copic (Y32, Y35, N1 & O) to color the beer mug.  The stamps are from Stampin' Up Cheers To You set.  I embossed the brown paper with Cuttlebugs Tiny Mosaic embossing folder.  The smiley faces are from Cricut Wildcard cart and the letters are from Cricut Don Juan cart cut at 3/4"  I made 4 of these, two for Father's Day cards and two for birthday cards.

Here is the inside;

QUILT CARD

Simply Elegant Paper Crafts had a cute quilt card on her blog and I decided to make one and use up some of my scraps.  Here is the link to her card complete with instructions. 

http://simplyelegantpapercrafts.blogspot.com/2010/05/basicgrey-lemonade-embossed-quilt-card.html 

HERD IT WAS YOUR BIRTHDAY

Well I got my brother-in-laws card done.  The cow is from the FROM MY KITCHEN cart and the grass is from PLANTIN SCHOOLBOOK cart.  I embossed the grass with my Cuttlebug distressed stripes folder and I used the Cuttlebug Traffic Jam folder.  The sentiment is from Copper Leaf Creations.  The layout for this card is similar to one in my new Paper Crafts magazine by AJ Otto.  Well I think I will finish my dishes and go down to my craft room and try to tidy it up and maybe start on an Easter card!

SEASON'S GREETINGS

I made about six of this design as well just using old paper I had on hand and it ended up being one of my favorite cards.  I used the Cricut Christmas Cheer cart for the present and embossed it with the Cuttlebug swirls embossing folder.

BEARLY SWOOSHIN

I made about 6 of this design to send out.  My sewing leaves a lot to be desired but I guess you can tell it's homemade!!  The stamp is from High Hopes called Bearly Swooshin.  I colored the bear in with my Prismacolor pencils and blended with mineral spirits.  I added some glitter with my gelly roll silver star pen on his scarf, mitts, hat & skiis.

NOEL

 

Got up to frost this morning..............brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.  I have been so busy making Christmas cards that I haven't had time to take any pictures or post any.  I used my High Hopes Country Snowman stamp, my Cuttlebug Sledding embossing folder and my Nestabilities.  The plaid paper is from a pad I bought at Wal-mart a few years back.  I colored the snowman with my prismacolor pencils and gamsol.  It took me quite awhile to color the snowman so I don't think I will be doing any duplicates of this card.  It will be a one and only!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

The snowflakes were cut out using the Cuttlebug and snowflake die.  The snowman stamp is from Inkadinkadoo Tis the Season clear set.  He's kind of an ugly snowman but easy to color if you were using him to make a few cards.  It would have been nice if he had a top hat.  I used my nesties large deckled rectangle set to cut out the rectangle I stamped the snowman on and the paper is from  pads I got at Wal-Mart about 3 years ago.  I added the snow at the bottom from a bag of stuff that I had laying around to sprinkle around my ceramic Christmas village.  I didn't know if it would work or not but I just used my glue pen and sprinkled some on and pressed it down and it works great.

Snowman Riley Moose & Tree Carrying Riley Moose

I just love these Riley Moose stamps by Hanna Stamps!  Two Christmas cards done and many more to go!! 

HAPPY FALL

I used the Cricut Stretch Your Imagination cart for the tree which I cut at 5" and my Nestabilities for the Sun and the ribbon slider.  The paper is from Recollections Autumn cardstock pad from Michael's and the ribbon I bought at Michael's as well.  The card base is a 6"x6".  The stamp is from a set called tiny words.  I used my nail to roughen around the edges of the leaf cardstock.

THANKFUL

I used the Recollections Autumn cardstock pad from Michaels to make this card. The papers are adorable. I can't seem to get the settings just right on my camera because the colors on the actual card are way richer than the colors in the picture. The card is a 6x6 and I cut the tree out at 5" using the Cricut Stretch Your Imagination cart and embossed it with the Cuttlebug distressed stripes folder. The sign I cut out and embossed with my square Nestabilities and added some brown eyelets. I added a little glitter to the leaves which you can't see very well in the picture.

Happy Autumn everyone!!

IN THE DOG HOUSE

Rain rain go away!!!! Is it ever going to stop? Guess I shouldn't complain since I've had time to do things other than gardening! I made this gatefold card using my Scor-Pal. The dog house was cut out using the Cricut Doodlecharm cart cut at 4". I used Cuttlebug's distressed stripe folder on the bottom of the house and mosaic tile on the roof. The stamps are from Inkadinkadoo called Dogs.

CHEERS!

I whipped this one up fast and amazed myself (I am usually a one-card-takes-me-all-day kind of a gal). My son needed a card to give to his dad for father's day and of course I left it till 9 o'clock last night! I always find it hard to make cards for men. The Beer-a-Fella stamp & sentiments are from http://www.stampingbella.com/ I used 2 different Cuttlebug folders.....distressed stripes & tiny bubbles. I used my Nestabilities to cut out and emboss the rectangle for the front and my punches for the inside.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM

This is for my mom's birthday which is tomorrow. She received it in the mail already so I'm ok to post now! I used Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder, Martha Stewart scalloped lace punch and Inkadinkadoo Butterflies & Bugs stamp set from Michael's. I used Cricut Beyond Birthdays to cut out the word Mom. I used a clear star gelly roll pen on the butterflies and to make the little dots in the corners. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!

WE MAY NOT BE TADPOLES ANYMORE.....

I made this card for my sister's birthday. I used Marvy markers and chalk. The frog stamp is from Inkadinkadoo. The inside verse which is from Stampin' Up says "We may not be tadpoles anymore but at least we haven't croaked.