Life's a Beach Hibiscus Flower

I really wanted to use this Hibisus cut from the Life's a Beach cartridge. I really like how they turned out. The only thing I'm not happy with is the bee and butterfly stamps. I just couldn't find the right stamp to use as the center piece of this card and I didn't want to have to go buy anything new.

For this card I used the following:

Cricut Cartridge: Life's a Beach for the flowers
Stampin' Up: Bee and Butterfly stamps

Thanks for looking,
Valerie

Rainbow Village Directory Cover

Sue, a friend of my family, runs a RV park in Florida. She asked me to design and make a new directory cover. I sure hope she likes it!

Thanks for looking,
Valerie

Time to catch up!!!

Well I can hardly believe that I have not posted in over 2 months. So to catch up here are some cards I've made.

This first one was just made while I was experimenting with a new digi stamp!


This card is for Tammi's birthday!! Her birthday's not until June though, so I just have to hang onto it for a while.

This card for Kristin. She loves Dolphins so I just had to use Life's a Beach cartridge.

This card is for Brinn's Birthday. I guess people usually use this for "I heard you caught a bug" type of card...but I wanted to use it for a Birthday.

This is another birtday card but as of right now, its an extra!!!! Wow, I've done a lot of Birthday Cards!!! This one I gave to Stephanie. Another digi stamp that I colored with my new Copic markers.

Thanks for looking. Will try to post more often now that audit season is over.

Totally Scraplifted card

I really do not understand why they call it scraplifting. I guess it probably came from people who copy scrapbook pages. But shouldn't they call it cardlifting if you are copying someones card idea? Oh well. Friday, I think it was Friday, I saw a card on the Cricut Message board made by Creajuffie. She/he (I supose it may have been a man) made a card using the Life is a Beach Cartrige. Not only did this inspire me to go buy this cartrige, I also duplicated her/his card. This is my first attempt as cardlifting her card. Mine was not as nice as I screwed up the proportions. But hey I sometimes learn from my mistakes and will try again some other day. Hope you enjoy, but remember that this is not my design. Thanks to Creajeffie. I couldn't have done it without you.

The orignial design has a red square above the peliquin with a "50" to symbolize a 50th birthday. I will probably use this a birthday card as well, but left this blank for now until I make a final decision.

Okies 6-17 Challange

Here are three cards I made over the weekend as part of the Okie's 6-17 challange at the Cricut Messageboard.

My first entry was based on sketch number 2. I used Hello Kitty for the kitty of coarse, Jasmine for the photo corners and Celebrations for the tag. I used lots of stickles on the Hello Kitty, Glitter glue (from who know were) for the photo corners, and flowers and brads from Hobby Lobby.


My second entry was based on the first sketch. I used Life is a Beach cart for the two helms, anchor and "Anchors Away" inside the card. I used George and Basic shapes for the squares on the front. I used red, white and blue gel pens to accent the whole card and blue ink on the red and blue rectangles layering the inside of the card.

My third entry was based on the third sketch. For this I used Storybook for the Butterfly and sentiment. The card base is Stampin Up cardstock and the designer papers are from K&Co. The brads are all Spare Parts from Hobby Lobby.

I am really enjoying these challanges. It helps me an incentive to craft instead of re-reading Twilight or watching the movie again. Oh yeah, I'm hooked... But I will leave that for another day.