Happy Spring

Thanks for joining me from the Card A Day Blog, today we are celebrating Spring.  I'm ready for spring but it is still winter here and still snowing.  I have a quick card to share with you today; it's quick because I used the Cricut to do most of the work.

I cut the girl watering flowers from the A Child's Year Cartridge out of black card stock, the scallop circle is from the Lacy Labels cartridge and the light peach circle is from George and the Basic Shapes cartridge.

Out of the light peach cardstock I stamped the butterfly and punched it out and punched the border strip. I added the ribbon to cover up my edges then topped it off with a bow, a black button with a double bow and my punched butterfly.

Using the same butterfly stamp I stamped them onto the white mat on the inside of the card.

Thanks for stopping by. Tomorrow Vicki Schram is the Designer for the Card A Day Blog.  Don't forget to enter you card in the challenge this month.

Cutting Instructions:
Card Base: 5 1/2" x 8 1/4", scored at 4 1/4"
Gray Mat: 3 3/4" x 5"
Pattern Paper: 3 1/2" x 4"
Light Peach: 1 1/5" x 4", then punched

Inside:
Gray: 4" x 5 1/4"
White: 3 3/4" x 5"

Recipe:
Paper: Cardstock - Recollections; Pattern Paper - Unknown from my scrap pile
Stamp: Close to my Heart - Sentiments
Ink: Stazon - Jet Black
Ribbon: Celebrat It 5/8"; White embroidery floss
Punch: 1" Circle Punch; Martha Stewart - Floral Lace Edge border punch
Cricut Cartridges: A Child's Year, George and the Basic shapes, Lacy Labels,
Misc: Glue dots, adhesive

Happy St. Patrick's Day



Happy St. Patrick's Day!  Today I'm posting for the Card A Day Blog and have made a hinge card for St. Patrick's Day.  Cutting instructions is at the bottom of the post.

 



 

I started out by cutting the card base and the white mat.  I originally had a green for my base but it was just too much green so I swapped it out the a gold to match the coins in the pot.  I then cut the paper for the flap and the belly band.  All of my edges are inked. When I had my placement I used the crop-a-dile to punch a hole through the flap then the card base and attached with a brad.  Then I attached the band being sure to keep the pop up dots below the the hing flap.

I used Cricut Designers Studio to weld and cut the hat from A Childs Year.  I inked the edges added a scrap of black card stock and attached the hat to the top of the flap.  I cut the sentiment using Martha Stewart Seasonal cartridge.

 

Since there is not much room for writing a personal note I have a another mat to the back of the card base.  My card does not fit into a regular envelope I did not take into account the hat at the top of the card.  If you want your card to fit you will need to make adjustment for that. 

Thanks for stopping by.  Don't forget to stop back tomorrow to see what Debi Barber has to inspire you.  She is starting off with a new challenge.

I'm entering this card in the Operation Write Home - Show Us Your Green Challenge.

Cutting Instructions:
Card Base - Gold: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"
White: - 4" x 5 1/4"
Shamrock paper: 3 7/8" x 3"

Flap- Gold: 3 3/4" x 3 1/4"
Pattern Paper: 3 5/8" x 3 1/8"

Band - Gold: 4 1/4" x 1 1/2"
Stripes: 4 1/4" x 1 1/4"

Recipe: Paper: ATD Yearbook Seasons; DCWV - gold; Recollections - white and black; Crate Paper - green pattern for the hat.
Ink: Inkadinkadoo - burgundy
Cricut Cartridge: A Childs Year, Martha Stewart Seasonal
Ribbon: Stampin' Up - 1/2" Pear Pizzaz Seam Binding
Brad: Stampin' Up - Earth Elements
Misc.: Adhesive, pop up dots, Crop-a-d-dile

Witche's Shoes

I made the ladies at work a couple of Witches Shoes in non-Halloween colors. 

 

 

 

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Disclosure: I am not affiliated with any of the products mentioned.

Entered in the Bitten by The Bug 2 Challenge

Recipe:
Paper: Recollections - White;
Outside Shoe - October Afternoon - Cherry Hill "Recipe Box"
Inside Shoe - My Mind's Eye - Deena's Penny Lane

Outside Shoe Green Argyle -Basic Grey - Lemonade "Tee Time"
Inside Shoe - Fancy Pants - Wishful Thinking "Corsage"

Ribbon: Stampin' Up - 1/2" Rose Red seam binging; Unknown - mini pearls on a string
Glitter: Martha Stewart - tourmaline and rubelite
Cricut: A Child's Year cut at 2 7/8"
Punch: Martha Stewart - Spider Web Border Punch
Misc.: adhesive and hot glue

Witch's Shoe - Challenge #34

Gina's weekly challenge at My Scrap Room is to make a witch's shoe using a paper shoe pattern from Skip To My Lou.org along with a few other requirements. 

 We were only required to make one, but these are going to be for the girls at the office so I made a few. 

 

The witches are cut with my Cricut at 2 7/8" from A Child's Year cartridge.  I used two per shoe, glittered the outside and hot glued them to the top of the spider web.

I can only get one outside shoe template on a piece of 12 x 12 paper, but I can get two inside shoe templates on a piece of 12x12 paper

 

 

Thanks for looking and stopping by.

 

Recipe:

Template from Skip To My Lou.org

http://www.skiptomylou.org/2008/10/28/paper-witch-shoes/

http://www.skiptomylou.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/witchshoeinsi...

 

Paper: Recollections - Black; Doodlebug Designs, Inc. - Beetle black dot-grid;  Kaiser Scrapbook  To Have & To Hold - Everlasting.

Cricut:  A Child's Year

Punch:  Martha Stewart - Spider Web

Misc.: adhesive, glue gun, pearls on a string, lace, seam binding, buttons, glitter, scissors



Delployment Ceremony layouts

Well I missed the last challenge for the ScrapBookClasses layout challenge - but I made this one.   Here is the sketch we are suppose to use.

 

When I first saw it I thought there was only two pictures and not three.  I had printed off some pictures of a wedding we were at last year and then saw the third picture so I changed and printed out pictures from the Deployment ceremony from May.   I picked up this Teen Angst paper pack specifically for my guys as it is really reminds me of them. 

I cut the flag out sever times then did a little bit of fussy cutting to the pieces back together.  The change on the dog tags is the pearls on a string you find in the floral department in a container.  I just used silver ink and Utee on it.  Be careful that you don't melt you pearls.

I did ink all the pieces in brown ink except for the background paper from Teen Angst.  I used two pieces of that and cut it so that it flows from one page to the next.  I inked these pieces in black.

Click here for the cut file.

Recipe:
Paper: We R Memory Keepers - Teen Angst; Recollections - Brown, black cardstock; Scraps of  silver, vellum, red, white and blue
Ink: Color Box - Silver, Inkadinkadoo - Coffee Bean; Versa Magic - Midnight Black
Cricut Cartridges: A Child's Year, George, MS All Occasions, Stand and Salute
Misc: adhesive, pop up dots, foam tape, string pearls, Utee

You - 12x12 Layout

I was finally able to finish up this 12x12 layout.  I used Stampin' Up Notably Ornate stamp set an the Lacy Label shape that was cut with my Cricut.  The top part of the shape is not stamped but that is alright, as I have it tucked behind the photo mat. 

The scallop border behind the smaller photo mat is from A Child's Year cartridge along with "(you)"
I have this layout in the 8 1/2 x 11 and the 8x8 pages, click here and here  if you missed those posts.

Thanks for stopping by.

Disclosure: I am not affiliated with any of the products mentioned.

Click here for the cut file.

Recipe:
Paper: Sunburn Collections - green and orange; Stampin' Up - Black and white; The Stack DCWV - pattern paper, The Ultimate Premium Stack - Black and white pattern paper
Stamp: Stampin' Up - Notably Ornate
Ink: Stampin' Up - Pear Pizzaz
Misc: Adhesive and pop up dots.

Cricut 360 Challenge #8 - Back To School

The new challenge at Cricut 360 is Back to School. I decided to make a mini 6x6 album. I used a couple pieces of recycled chipboard boxes for this project. I inked all the edges of the album with Distress Ink. The page elements were either inked in brown or white.


I used a couple of different cartridges for this challenge. The photo frame is from Accent Essentials, the bus charm Doodlecharms and the boy is from A Child's Year. I used The forest Branches embossing folder to distress the frame.

I used the border feather on the Doodlecharms cartridge to create the bus border.

The alphabet mat is from Graphically Speaking and the apple charm is from Doodlecharms

Thanks for stopping by.

Recipe
Paper: DSP - Seasons Paper pack, Cardstock - unknown as it came from my scrap pile

Cricut Cartridges: A Child's Year, Accent Essentials, George, and Graphically Speaking

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder: Forest Branches

Ink: Inkadinkadoo - Coffee Bean; Distress Ink - Vintage Photo; VersaMagic: Cloud White

Punch: Ticket corner punch

Misc: adhesive, pop up dots, ribbon - unknown

You 8x8

On the 8x8 layout I separated the photo mats so that I could have larger pictures on each page.

I have "You" and the scallop photo mat as the first page.

The 4x6 pages are all the same with the band on the side.

I used the journaling spot and the larger photo mat on the last page.

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Click here for the cut file.

Recipe:

Paper: Sunburn - Green and orange; Stampin' Up - Black and white; The Stack DCWV - pattern paper; The Ultimate Premium Stack - Black and white pattern paper

Stamp: Stampin' Up - Notable Ornate - journal stamp

Ink: Pear Pizzaz

Cricut Cartridges: A Child's Year; George, Lacy Label

Misc: Adhesive

You

Here's another layout using the Notably Ornate stamp set. I cut the shape using the Lacy Label Cricut Cartridge, then stamped onto it to create the journaling spot. The top edge of the label is not stamped but is tucked under the photo mat.

The scallop border is from the A Child's Year cartridge along with "{you}"



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Click here for the cut file.



Recipe:

Paper: Sunburn - Green and orange; Stampin' Up - Black and white; The Stack DCWV - pattern paper; The Ultimate Premium Stack - Black and white pattern paper

Stamp: Stampin' Up - Notably Ornate

Ink: Pear Pizzaz
Misc: adhesive

Rainy Day

Back in April Sketch Support was using an umbrella on their layouts and projects. I had some of the Piggy Tales Kit left over and thought it would make a great Rainy Day layout with the umbrella as a border.


I searched my cartridges to find one that had an umbrella on it and realized that I also need to use the boy with the umbrella from A Child's Year since this layout is going to my sister for her grandson.

The tag in the corner is only glued on the side and bottom so that the photo can slide behind it. When I got ready to cut my title I changed the font from All Mixed Up to Jasmine but both are in the cut file.

Thanks for stopping by. Click here for the file.

Disclosure: I'm not affiliated with any of the products mentioned.

Recipe:

Paper: Pattern Paper - Piggy Tales Kit - 5 Little Ducks; Cardstock - DCWV

Ink: Inkadinkadoo - Navy Blue

Cricut Cartridges: A Childs Year, All Mixed Up, Disney Pooh and Friends, Jasmine, and Tags Bags Boxes and More

Love Birds

My guys had given me a 12x24 mat for my Cricut last year and I have not used it. While I was out picking up a new heat gun I also picked up the red and black vinyl to do this project.





The hardest part was getting my Cricut to cut. I had not changed the setting to 12x24 on the Cricut itself and kept getting an error. The inside of my frame measures 13 1/2" x 10 1/2". I used George to make this size of a rectangle and placed my shapes inside it to get the right size. I cut the birds separately and did not weld them to the branch. I just a piece of batting for the background as I don't have paper this size and couldn't find a piece of material I wanted to use.

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Click here for the cut file.

Recipe:
Cricut Vinyl: Red and Black
Cricut Cartridges: A Child's Year and Winter Woodland
Misc: Frame and batting

Bird and Branch - Day 30

Today is the last day for the 30 Days of Christmas Cards and here is my last card. If you are looking for Day 29 please scroll down as I have a couple of posts today. The cardinal and branch are cut in white cardstock then I used stickles to give some pop.


I used a seam binding for may ribbon on this card. The frame is from A Child's Year and the sentiment has pop dots behind it.

Thanks for stopping by.

I'll post the cut file as soon as I can get 4shared to work. The file will have both the berry branch and the pine cone branch.

Recipe:

Paper: DCWV cardstock - white Pattern Paper - unknown

Cricut Cartridges: A Child's Year, George, Winter Woodland

Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug - Snowflakes

Ink: VersaMagic - Red Magic

Stamp: Impression Obsession - Sentiments II

Misc: Stickles, pearl, glue, pop dots, ribbon

Reindeer Shaped Card - Day 16

If you are looking for Day 15 please scroll down, there is several posts for today. I made another shaped card - I had to use the other half of my mat from Day 15. You could always use the mats as photo mats on a layout to go with your card.

The embossing doesn't show up to well in the photo but it is there.

I stamped twice with the snowflake to get the different shades.

Thanks for stopping by.

If you are looking for the cut file scroll down to Day 15.

Recipe:

Paper: Cardstock - red, white; Pattern Paper - Unknown
Stamp: Clear Stamps - Merry Christmas
Ink: Versa Magic -Red Magic; Autumn Leaves - Brown
Cricut Cartridges: A Child's Year, Winter Woodland
Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug - Snowflakes
Misc: glue

Dove Shaped Card - Day 15

If you are looking for Day 14 please scroll down, there will be a couple of posts today. The challenge for Christmas Card Challenge Week # 50 is to make a shaped card. I selected the card from A Child's Year cartridge. There is a bunch of card shapes on this cartridge and I hardly ever use them.

I stamped the image on white cardstock and mounted it on a piece of pattern paper.

I made a smaller mat from the card, cut in half and inked the edges. The snowflakes are stamped twice before reinking the stamp.

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Click here for the cut file.

Recipe: Cardstock - blue, white; Pattern Paper - unknown

Stamp: Clear Stamps - Merry Christmas, Stampin' Up - Snow Swirled (snowflake)

Ink: Inkadinkadoo - Navy Blue

Cricut Cartridges: A Child's Year, Winter Woodland

Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug - Snowflakes

Joy Shaped Card - Day 10

This weeks Cricut Cardz Challenge is to use the card feature from any cartridge. I normally don't use the card features on the cartridges so it's a double challenge for me as I tend to make my own card shapes.

I cut the white card base in half and used one on the inside of the card and one on the outside of the card. The leaf is weaved over and under the flouish. I have "joy" on a button to bring it away from the page.

I used a smaller version of the leaf on the inside of the card.

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Click here for the cut file.

Recipe:

Paper: Cardstock- White and black; Pattern Paper - DCWV The Cristmas Stack

Ink: Stampin' Up - Real Red

Stamp: My Sentiments Exactly - Holiday Tags

Cricut Cartridges: A Childs Year, Accent Essentials, George, Graphically Speaking

Embossing Folder: Stampin' Up - Elegant Lines

Punch: - Martha Stewart - Scallop Circle

Misc: glue, button

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge - Falling Leaves

This weeks challenge at Fantabulous Cricut Challenges is Falling Leaves - to use at least one leaf on your project.

I just love the detail of the leaf on A Child's Year Cartridge so I am using that one make my Thanksgiving card. The frame is made from the George Cartridge.

Here is the inside of the card.

Thanks for stopping by.

Click here for the cut file.

Recipe:

Paper: Seasons Stack - Patterned Paper, Cardstock, white, dark blue, yellow, maroon, green, kraft

Stamp: Stampin Up - Bright Blessings

Ink: Inkaadinkado - Burgundy and Navy Blue

Cricut Cartridges: A Child's Year, George, Paper Dolls for Everyday,Wild Card

Misc: Pop up dots, glue.

5 Tags in 5 Days - Day 4

One of the scrapbooking supplies I have and don't use very often is pre-made stickers and rub ons. I normally just make the saying in Adobe Photoshop, print it out and glue it to my project. So I have been challenging myself to them on these tags. "Love" on the banner is one of the stickers.
I just love this heart from the A Child's Year cartridge. After cutting out with the Cricut I flipped it over and traced around it on the back of the pink paper to make the outline at the top of the heart.

I used a punched flower from the Itty Bitty Punches as a reinforced hole on the mini tags. You could easily cut this out on the Cricut. After gluing the mini flower on I punched the hole for the ribbon.

Recipe:
Paper: Garden Party Stack - blue and brown pattern; Me & My Big Ideas - pink pattern, white and blue grid paper, white, pink, green, kraft and orange cardstock, green pattern paper
Ink: Distress Ink - tea dye
Punch: Martha Stewart - Floral Lace Edge; Stampin' Up - Itty Bitty Shapes; Hole punch
Cricut Cartridges: A Child's Year, George, Tags, Bags Boxes and More.
Misc: glue, white and pink ribbon, pom pom ribbon, pop up dots

Teddy Bear Layout

I finally got to play with my Heritage and A Child's Year cartridges and had to make a layout using the teddy bears for Sophia's album. The teddy bear on A Child's Year does not have a blackout or shadow layer. I created my own for those cuts.


I used the 4x6 sleeves between the two 8x8 pages for more photos and the journaling.

Each pages has the same mini tag cut from Tags Bags Boxes and More and the flowers cut in pink and green from George.

I inked around the pages and used chalk on the teddy bear and girl holding the bear for a softer look .

All the elements are pop up so that they can slide the photos behind them.

Thanks for stopping by.

Recipe:

Paper: Nana's Nursery, White, Tan, Cream, Pink and Green Cardstock

Ink: Stampin' Up Melon Mambo

Cricut Cartridges: A Child's Year, George, Heritage, Tags Bags Boxes and More

Punch: Martha Stewart - Floral Lace Edge

Misc: Glue, Pop up dots, flower rhinestones, chalk