JANUARY 16, 2012-***** MONDAY, Another Birthday card*****

Good Evening Everyone,

The last two nights I tried to leave comments on some of your blogs and blogger is not letting me. I'm going to try again tonight, and I'll just keep trying.
I have a niece that is turning 14 next month. I have made her cards ever since she was a baby. Last time I visited she said she wanted to make cards like I do. Then, she asked me do you have a Cricut?
Her mom does inventory at Michael's, so she gets to see all the latest when she gets to shop there. I always put hers and her brothers initial on their cards ( hers on hers, his on his). When they were younger it took them awhile to find them. Now that they are older it is pretty easy.
I think I will put together a starter kit on making cards for her. I think she will really like that and a M's gift card. I know she is not reading my blog so I can write this.
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For the numbers I used Story book and for everything else I used winter Frolic I printed everything from the imagine machine from the blossom cartridge .

This is  a 5x7 card.
I used Tim Holtz ink,
Inkadinkadoo stamps

Fantabulous cricut challenge:
BBTB2: Numbers
Birthday Sundays: Photo inspiration

MONDAY- MORNING AGAIN- and a layout- a 2-Pager at that

Good morning Everyone,

 

I don't normally do layouts, but because of the up coming Season I thought it would be fun. I found a great sketch over at Creative Cutter Room (Click Here). Seriously it took me a few days to think about what I was going to do and then a couple to put it together. I love how it came out. It is so whimsical thanks to the enjoy the Seasons cartridge.

 This is the full layout a 2 -page layout at that-- I used the Holly Border at the bottom and glossy accents to make the berries shiny and festive. I am entering this in the Pink stamper Challenge (Click Here)

 I used the Fiskars apron punch for the red border. For my stamp sentiment I used My Pink Stamper "Winter treats and Sayings"

 All the images and paper were printed and cut from the enjoy the seasons cartridge. Except for the 2011, I used story book and color filled it onto AC white card stock from the "Enjoy the season" cartridge

 This is the right page of the 2 -page layout

Here is a close up of the Holly border. I chose this border to qualify for the CC weekly challenge.  I really like how this came out.  I hope you do to. Who knows maybe I will do another layout.

Wednesday afternoon again. BBTB2 Challenge

I do not have the Heritage cartridge, which was the challenge for BBTB2.  I used storybook instead for that awesome flourish in the corner which has a Teresa Collins brad in it from Christmas home set. I  printed on AC card stock, with Heirloom (IC) cartridge. The trees are stamped from S&P company and inked with Jenni Bowlin stick candy  on Bazzill basic white card stock, and then I fussy cut them out. I used 3M foam tape to give them dimension. The button is from the little red cottage and the twine is from my stash. I used spots and dots embossing folder on the Kraft paper and a Marvy Uchida punch for the tag.

TUESDAY- MORNING- MAG CHALLENGE

I Made this card for the MAG challenge.  I also made it from scraps. I had the R left over from the word PARIS from my Paris Layout (CLICK HERE for that post)
cut out of Coredinations.
 Everything else was just pieces I had I do believe the green plaid is from Echo Park and the paper behind it is Basic Grey, Everything else is PTI. I used Sakura neon green pen which glows in the dark under Black light -- I don't have a black light so I can not confirm that it works.

Saturday--------GUEST DESIGNER SPOT- -----My Sheri Crafts------this is a sneak peak of the top right hand corner of the layout

Happy Saturday Everyone,

I am so excited to share with you that I was chosen last week to be guest designer at my Sheri crafts and the challenge this week is VACATION. To me vacation (equals) = you need  a layout to preserve the memory of the fun time.   I had really wanted to do a layout anyway, so I decided to do one for a trip we took to Paris for my birthday, one year.  I just love the summer in Paris cartridge, it has such elegant shapes and they remind me of that birthday.  This is a 12x12 scrapbook page.

 In the top right hand corner of this layout I chose to place an envelope, which I made with the MS scoreboard from Tim Holtz ideology paper vintage shabby stash , I added a Prima (recollection copy) flower as an accent. I then,  laid a strip of stamps from various places in Parisover  the envelope, this is from Graphics 45 Curtain call

 When you open  the envelope you will see lined paper for journal ling- that to is from the graphics 45 collection

 On the bottom right I used Tags, bags, boxes and more to make a mirrored tag.  The latches are from fabulous finds and cut from Coredinations paper, the frame (ready for a photograph)  is from Cindy Loo and cut out of DCWV paper stack . There is also a journal-ling tag that can slide out in either direction.

 The arch is cut from coredinations and the paper company card stock

The Eiffel tower and the lettering for Paris are both cut from coredinations card stock the lettering is from Storybook  and the Eiffel tower and the arch are from "Summer in Paris Cartridge"

Here is the layout in its entirety-- I can't believe I used 5 cartridges on this, but it is a fact.

I hope you enjoyed this project, I had so much fun making it and it really brought back the memories of the fun birthday.



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