A Little Thank You

Hello Crafty Friends!  I hope you all are having a wonderful New Year!

Today I wanted to make a thank you card for a sweet little girl who gave my husband a present.  She is such thoughtful young girl.  What little girl doesn't like pink and kitties?!  :)

I LOOOOVE how this card came out!!

To make this card I used:

Cart ~ Create a Critter 

Paper ~ Mariposa

Stamps ~ PKS for eyes

Ink ~ Ranger Distress Tea Dye

Emboss ~ Argyle for pillow

Tools ~ SU paper piercer

Misc ~ Stickles, gelly roll pens, ribbon from stash

I used my gypsy to weld the cat and pillow accessory for base; hide contour for the cats face and some of the tail for the base.  

I am linking this up over at Jill's link party.  

I am also entering this into RRR's Challenge #39 "Sparkle and Ribbon"

Happy Crafting everyone!!

Here Comes Santa Clause....

Hello Crafty friends!

I originally planned to post this earlier, but I got so busy into making and finishing another project that today (yesterday) was gone....
Here is a card I made for Christmas.  It was so easy, that I think I may be able to mass produce them to make a gift box set.  :)  That would be fun to do!!  I just LOVE doing shape cards!! :)

Front of card

(yeah.....tried my hand at doodling..lol!)

Inside of card

To Make this card: 

Cartridge: Simply Charmed (my new favorite ;))

Paper: Mariposa and colorbok (mostly scraps)

Misc: White flock for the beard and ball of the hat, Divine swirls for the embossing of those two as well. SU for the sentiment and snowflake.  Memento ink for face and sentiment.  PKS wide eye assortment for face and black pen for "doodling". 

I used my Gypsy of course.  I used the shadow feature of the santa and chimney for the base and welded those together.  I used the hide feature for all of the layered cuts.  The "snow" on the chimney was cut using Mariposa glitter paper.  

I like how this card came out...little and cute!  It measures approximately 3.15x6.42 (welded)

Happy crafting!!

Happy Birthday to Choo!!

Hello everyone!

I endeavored to get this post earlier today...well yesterday now...but I got side tracked trying to finish another project.  Can I say I am SO behind on birthdays it's not even funny!!  Were talking 4 birthdays starting in July and up to October!!  HAHAHAHA!!  I will say that the first gift was sent on time...just lost in the mail :(  OKay okay, enough rambling.  My nephew Wyatt absolutely LOVES trains!  he always wants to go to "cargit" (Target) to look at their toy trains.  The kid is a RIOT!!  It only made sense to make him a train card!  So without further adieu  here it is. ( think it came out really cute!

This was designed on my gypsy using Everyday Paper Dolls for all the images except the "square",  that was Accent Essentials.  The paper I used, was Mariposa and Colorbok card stock.  I welded the train to a "square" base and then layered it with a gray card stock.  I distressed the train layer with my Tim Holtz hammer.  I doodled a bit (my doodling STINKS LOL).  I created the little engineer as well with the hide feature.  I created 2 images.  I needed to cut the hand off of one to make him wave.  I doodled on his hat, and distressed it with chestnut ink.  I also used black chalking ink to run over the top layer of the train to accent the distressed look.  I used a wide eyed Peachy Keen stamp.  (LOVE those)

Inside right:

I flipped the image and cut a train out to write a note to my cutie nephew.  If I had thought about it more, I would have used a contrasting color to accent the pole of the crossing sign! LOL  I cut out two images of the crossing sign to layer the top cross with grey.

The inside of the card.  I mirrored the image of the front to create a backing to cover up my engineer.  I liked how it came out.  I think next time I will use a layering style for the inside right.  I know he had a wonderful birthday!  Now to send him his card and gift tomorrow in the mail!!

Happy Crafting!

Wonderful!

Hello fellow crafters!  I hope you are all enjoying this week so far.  Only a couple more days until the weekend...woohoo!!

Today over at Cooking with Cricut we had a challenge to make a card or lay out with green and purple.  Because October 23 is Mother-in-law day I made a card for my awesome mother-in-law.

Today my card is simple.  I like fancy decorations too, but sometimes simplicity is what finishes a card for me.

I LOVE how the embossing turned out on this shimmery paper!

The bottom paper is actually a light green.  The lighting in my house does this card NO justice as far as color is concerned! 

To make this card I used:

My gypsy of course!  I used it to create the exact size of the card.  Nope, no welding today!

Carts: Accent Essentials

Paper: Mariposa (LOVE LOVE this stack!), Colorbok

Stamps: SU for butterfly and sentiment

Misc: Flowers, brads, and ribbon are all from my stash.  Stampendous Pearl Lustre embossing powder, Ranger Distress Ink tea dye.

I cut the base at 4 x 5.5, and the top layer at 3.74 x 5.5.  

I cut both top layers the same size, and cut the lighter green designed paper at 1 inch to layer it on the bottom.  I then inked the edges of the lighter green layer with the ranger ink.  Did I already say I LOVE this pearl lustre embossing....oh there will be more crafts with this on it!! :D

Don't forget to stop by and link up your project as well!  It can be a layout or a card sketch.  Can't wait to see what you made!

Happy Crafting!!

I also wanted to mention that over at Paper Crafting World a FALL special is going on. ALL orders of $50 or more will receive FREE shipping and ALL of the page kits are on sale!  There are also NEW digi stamps and cutting files!!  Go check out for yourself ALL the cute cuts, digis, and layouts!