Stair Step Birthday Card

This is a stair step birthday card and matching envelope I made for my mom-in-law.

Paper is from K & Co. Cricut cut birthday greeting is from Martha Stewart All Occasions Cake cart and MOM letters are from Cindy Loo. I made the flowers using a fiskars punch, floss, buttons and Tattered Angels glimmer mist.

Enjoy and thanks for stopping by!!

Cricut Cardz Challenge #47 ~ Breast Cancer Awareness Card

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month so the challenge this week at CCC is to make a card with that in mind. Mary sure had my brain wracking on this one!! If you, like me, love to be challenged to think outside the box, then be sure to join in on this fun and important challenge by clicking here.

For my DT card, I decided to make cards for my sisters and push the awareness theme. I hope you are inspired to share this important message too. Here is the front of my card.

And this is the inside message I wanted to send to my sisters. :)

Details:
The dress is made from 4 oval scallops, folded and arranged together. I actually used a scallop circle from Cindy Loo and then resized it to an oval shape. I inked my swiss dots cuttlebug folder with pale pink chalk ink from memento and then ran it through, I hope you can see the tiny pink dots. The tag on the front was cut from Fabulous Finds. Papers are from PaperTrey Ink and DCWV. Ribbons from my stash. Memento Inks. Sentiments made on my computer.

Cricut Cardz Challenge #41 - my first DT card

Hi everyone! Head on over Cricut Cardz Challenge for challenge #41, and the 2nd half of the new design team's projects! This week's challenge is to make a fall themed card without using the colors  - brown, orange or yellow. Well, I don't know about the rest of the country, but in Michigan, a favorite fall activity is visiting the apple orchard, so I based my card on just that, with the colors red and apple green in mind. Hope this puts you in the mood for hayrides and warm apple cider. I can't wait to see what you all come up with for this challenge!

I found these red & peachy coordinating papers in an old DCWV fall stack and thought they would be perfect.

Cartridges I used were:

Cindy Loo for the font

Doodlecharms for the apples and the basket

Ribbon Rosette Thank You Card

Good morning everyone! Happy wednesday... just 2 more days until a nice holiday weekend, AND the Cricut Card Fairy blog hop. Be sure to stop back by for some great back to school projects, some awesome digi stamps, and lots of yummy blog candy! Starts friday so don't miss out!

I have done this card before as a birthday card, but I was commissioned to do a thank you version. The reason I am posting it again is because of the ribbon rosette I added to this version. I didn't have the right color flower but the perfect color of ribbon so I did this little rosette that I think goes perfectly! If you would like to learn how to do this, check out this you tube video from Butternut Sage Designs for a tutorial. I love this, it makes the perfect little embellishment! And it is fairly flat making it ideal for a mailable card.

Materials:

For those of you who did not see this when it was previously posted on my blog, I used one of the doily cuts from Cindy Loo, but hid the outside contour with the hide contour feature of Gypsy making it a window in my card. Once again, if anybody is interested in the cut file, you can request it using the contact form on this blog.
Paper is from Core'dinations.
Ribbon is a sheer one from Martha Stewart
Ink is Tim Holtz distressed.
I'm not sure about the stamp, just an old one I had hanging around.
I added little Teardrop Rain Dots in the top corners, these are from Cloud 9 designs and I have never used them before but I just love the effect.

A new baby!

A new grand baby is on the way!!! This will be our 7th grand baby and #7 is just as exciting as the first one!  The only sad part is that my daughter and son-in-law live 2000 miles away. (They are not the parents of all the grandbabies, just one - soon to be 2.) Anyway, I am sending them this card to let them (again)  know how excited and happy I am.

This card has also been posted for the Paper Cutz Challenge #55 where the theme was anything goes.

I also posted this one for Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #82. As you can see by the sketch below, I took some 'artistic license' with this sketch but I think that is allowed...right?

Materials Used:

The carriage is an old favorite of mine - cut a 3" circle and then remove a wedge shaped section. Easy Peasey!!

Scallop border cuts were all from MS All Occasion Cakes cartridge.

The font is from Cindy Loo (I love this Cindy Loo font but tonight I noticed that the MS cartridge I used has a very similar font so if you have that one, check it out.)

The sentiment 'small wonder' is from Stampin' Up!

Papers: (in green & peach because we don't yet know if it should be pink or if it should be blue) Core'dinations, The Paper Factory, Jeneva & company

Ribbon and pearls from my stash, and last but never least... Tim Holtz distressed inks.

Blog Hop Featured Project - Cutting Intricate Card Windows

I have been having such fun with my Cindy Loo cricut cartridge, especially the doilies, they are so cute! So when I saw the new hide contour feature on the Gypsy, I wondered if I could use that feature to hide the outside cut of the doily and cut an intricate window in a card. The anwer is yes!!

This first card is for a Cricut Card Fairy mission and the assignment was to make a pink get well type card. I don't usually do much pink, unless it is mixed with brown or some other color, but I decided to embrace the pink, as you can tell with this card.

I used one of the doily cuts on the Cindy Loo cartridge and my Gypsy to hide the outside cut and position the cut on my card. I actually love the way it turned out!

This next card was done using the same technique, a different Cindy Loo doily, and no pink! I'm not sure if it shows in the pictures but it has a peachy/ivory/teal color theme. I love this card too, I think I will be doing more of these cuts!

Check out my next project before you go,

the link to continue hopping is there.

Christmas in July Challenge #1 from Cardz TV

Mary at Cardz TV has issued a Christmas in July challenge. This one requires the use of the colors pink, green, red, white and black only. This is my attempt at meeting her challenge. I cut and layered  the birdhouse and backgrounds in pink and green and the bird is layered in red and black, all on a 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 white card. I used Cricut cartridges Cindy Loo for the birdhouse and scalloped backgrounds, Straight from the Nest for the bird, and Create a Critter for the Christmas lights on the birdhouse. I added a little stickles for sparkle and the sentiment reads - There's no place like home for the Holidays. Thanks Mary for a great challenge!! This is my first and it was fun!