Butterflies

It has been so long since I posted anything I see that Blogger has changed the way you upload pics.  It takes forever compared to the old way.

I saw this card on Lucy's Cards website and thought it was so cute I just had to make one.  Only problem was I didn't have the Spellbinders die she used so I decided to see if I could use my Gypsy and a butterfly cut out and achieve the same thing.  It worked.  I'm really starting to love my Gypsy!

I thought it turned out so well I would try and do a baby girl and baby boy card using the same technique and they turned out just as cute.  The cards were cut at 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 and the butterfly was from the Cricut Everday Paper Dolls cut at 2 3/4 and the baby feet were from Cricut New Arrival cut at 2 1/2.  The paper for the baby cards is K&Company Itsy Bitsy Boy & Girl stacks.  I used Tim Holtz Distress Ink for around the edges.  I hated to waste the little baby feet from the card fronts so I used them inside and used my Peachy Keen Everday Faces on them.

Here is the link to Lucy's Cards http://hedgehogsandladybirds.blogspot.com/2011/01/butterflies.html 
Check out her site, she makes beautiful cards!

RECIPE SCRAPBOOK PG. 1

My daughter has been bugging me to make her a recipe scrapbook full of family favourites.  I have never scrapbooked before and for some reason whenever I sat down to start I would get overwhelmed.  I am just so use to making a card.  Well I have finally finished my first page!  I saw a cute apron that a lot of people have been using on the blogs I follow and decided I would use it and see what happened.  I used Cricut's From My Kitchen cart for the oven mitts (I love that cart) and Don Juan for the lettering. I also used my Gypsy and must say I am getting a lot better at creating with it and can see why you scrapbookers love it.

Here it is;

 

The recipe is from my sister's grade 8 home economics class (my kids don't have those classes unfortunately) and my family just loves it.  Great for potlucks & family reunions.  You can tell the recipe is old because in Canada you can't get a 16 or 18 oz. can of pork & beans anymore.  I believe they are 14 oz. now or 398ml.  Not as many beans for the money now!  

Here is a closeup of the recipe;

 
Well I aready have an idea for the Tuna Casserole recipe and the Ham Casserole recipe on her list so does this mean I've been bitten by the scrapbooking bug??

SMILING SUNFLOWERS

This is the first time that I used my Gypsy to do a whole card and I was so proud of myself!  Thanks to Mrs. B for the great video tutorial.  The only thing that I don't like about cutting the card base out on the Cricut is the little fold marks that it leaves on the card.  They always show when I fold and score the card.  This video is great though because she shows you how you can remove things that you don't want to cut out and I didn't know you could do this.  Even if you don't want to make the card, check out her video.  I learned how to use quite a few of the keys on my gypsy from this video.  I made two of these cards, so the second one I just cut the card base with my cutter.  Here is the link to Mrs. B's video;

http://mrsbscraftroom.blogspot.com/2010/06/video-series-episode-2-sunflower-card.html

The inside sentiment is from Fiskar's Make a Wish Quotes clear stamp set.
Can't wait for her next video!

SPLIT NEGATIVE

Gosh I can't believe that summer is almost half over.  I too like many of the blogs I follow have lost my mojo when it comes time to designing something.  It takes me so long to pick out the papers and put everything together that I have just made some copies of cards from various blogs that I follow.  There sure are some talented ladies out there!  This is a copy from Stampin' Up with Dawn called Split Negative.  I just love it.  I also used one of the old trucks from an older Stampin Up set that I think is called Your a Classic but not sure.  It turned out really nice as well but it is a bigger card than this one.  Here is the link to the video that Dawn did with all the instructions; 

http://dawnsstampingthoughts.typepad.com/dawns_stampin_studio/2010/06/split-negative-.html


I used two different sentiments.  One I welded together using the Gypsy & my Cricut and the other one was from the $1.50 bin at Michael's.  This card is so great for a masculine card and very simple to do.  The inside sentiment is computer generated.