Yes Another Peachy Keen

Yes, yet another card using Create A Critter and my new Peachy Keen Stamps. I'm not real happy with how this card turned out. It is kinda plain, I just need to get back into the crafting groove. But I do love how the eyes on the owl turned out.

Owl be seeing you {hehe},

Valerie

Peachy Keen Stamps

I finally took the plunge and bought some Peachy Keen Stamps. I know this isn't much...only the eyes...but that really is all I needed the stamps for. I bought the "Critter Faces Set A Medium" and the "Everyday Character Face Parts and More". So you might be seeing more people and animals in my cards for a while...well as long as I am getting used to them. So I haven't decided on a sentiment for this card yet. More than likely it will be something punny. Next I will have to take the plunge and buy some of the My Pink Stamper Punny Stamps. Until they I just have to hand write them in.

See ya later!

Valerie

Happy Birthday Mom

So today is my mothers birthday! Happy Birthday to you Mom {Big Grin}. So for this card, I went on the simple side. I used some new designer papers I bought at JoAnn's along with a wonderful Core'dinations yellow paper. I inked the edges with Distressed Ink and used a brown pen to add dots to the sentiment and faux stiching. "Happy Birthday" is from Create A Critter and the flower is from Kate's ABC's. For a final touch I added some pink pearls at two corners {Which don't show up on the picture very well}

Thanks for looking,

Valerie

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge 108

Here is my take on this weeks Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge. I turned the skech 90 degrees counter clockwise to better suit what I had envisioned in my mind. This card went together extremely well. I was so excited about it. The scalloped and regular circles came from Mini Monograms, the tree from Heritage {the same one I used yesterday} and the cloud came from Create a Critter.

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Valerie

Mojo Monday 177 - It's a Contest Week

I had a ton of fun making this card. I went all out with the bling as well! This giraffe from the Create a Critter cartridge is soo adorable and going with the Valentines theme, I made him/her Pink {woo hoo}. Plus I just had to add the google eyes...what Create a Critter critter doesn't need these??? The stitched felt ribbon is a find from last years Valentines clearance at Michaels then I added those cute button brd. The flowers are by the Paper Studio which I bought at Hobby Lobby. The heart and "love" brads I purchased years ago on clearance...not sure from where.

Wish me luck!!

Valerie

PS: I've never won a challenge before...maybe this will be my first {fingers crossed}

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge 91

My first card with my new Nate's ABCs Cricut cartridge. I wanted to make a male theme card. I found this plaid paper in my ton's of scrapbook paper I bought eons ago. I also used Create A Critter for the oval behind the dog. I'm thinking that maybe I shouldn't have used ribbon for a male card...but it's already done so it will stay.

Front of card

Front of card {angle view}

Sketch

Thanks for looking,

Valerie

John Deere Birthday

Today's post is not only really late but also a total scraplift. I needed a John Deere Card for a little boy birthday. I had recently seen a John Deere card at the Cricut Message board. You can see GlendaBoyd1's card HERE. I didn't use any pop dots this time since the card is going to a little boy.

Thanks for stopping by,

Valerie

Sweet - CAC Skunk

Overall I like this card I made last night. But I think I might re-do the skunk. I'm not totally happy with how it turned out. Because I only used black and white for the body, the mouth was completely black. Well needless to say I tried to use my white gel pen to make it white. It didn't turn out very well. I'm not really obsessed that everything needs to be perfect but this does bother me enough to do something about it.

This card is not for any challange except to myself to make a card every day. My co-workers always tell me that I need to go to a craft show and sell my cards. That is actually something I am interested in...but you can't go to a craft show with nothing to sell. So I figure if I make at least one card a day I should have enough to sell next year.

Thanks for looking,
Valerie

Mojo Monday 156 - Create A Critter Christmas

Here is my take on this weeks Mojo Monday Sketch . I had fun going through my Christmas papers to choose my strips on this card. I knew I wanted to use the reindeer from Create A Critter for this card. This was a really easy card for me. I made 4 of them at the same time. I'm exited to know that I have almost a dozen of my Christmas cards done. Yippee!!!

Here is the sketch

Thanks for visiting,

Valerie

Howdy - Can you guess what????

Yes I used Create A Critter again. I do believe I said that I probably will use every critter before I'm done. So I have made 7 so far (including the horsey below).

I am so excited that it's Friday and I have a three day weekend coming up!!! I really want to get some more sewing done on the quilt for my son and make some more Critter cards...LOL.

Have a great Holiday weekend,
Valerie

Escape... Create A Critter Raccoon

Back to the Create A Critter Cartridge. I think I will probably continue using this cartridge until I get through all those adorable critters. The hardest thing I had to do with this card was decide on the sentiment. The "Escape" jumped out at me while I was searching through my stamps. It seemed appropriate.

Sorry the pictures are not the best today. I usually try to take my pictures in natural light but didn't have that option if I wanted to post this on time...

Thanks for coming over!
Valerie

Get Well Soon - Mojo Monday 149

So I'm at it again. I made another card using Create A Critter. But this time I didn't use the actual critter. I just love these flowers. I just had to use them somehow and I've been trying to figure out how. Well, also as you can see I've been using the Mojo Monday Sketches a lot lately as well.

This sketch I started before I had a Cricut cut in mind for the focal point. Once I made my paper choices I thought a flower would be great for the focal point. I knew the squares were going to small but thought these flowers would look great extending out past them. I'm really glad I went with this decision. I am really happy with the results.

Thanks for stopping by,

Valerie

Mojo Monday 151 - Another Create A Critter

I'm late posting today...ha ha. Actually, I've been trying to post ahead of time and scheduling the post. So yesterday I didn't get a chance to sit down and post. So I am posting todays post today.

So here is another Mojo Monday card and Create A Critter all in one. I've wanted to use that cute penquin since I bought the cartridge. I had a hard time with this one. I just wasn't sure about the colors and papers. But over all I am happy with it.

Thanks for looking,

Valerie

Mojo 152 - What's Up

Day three using the Create a Critter. I was browsing the Mojo Monday blog and when I saw sketch 152 I really liked it. So after choosing to use this sketch I had to think of where I wanted to go with it. Becasue the focal point of the sketch is a long oval I thought the Giraffe would be perfect, plus I knew I had a stamp that said "What's Up". I just couldn't resist...

I used all scraps again. I am so excited that I've been able to use up so many of my scraps. I'm also loving these wiggle eyes I bought for my last card. I used them on this one as well.

Thanks for looking,

Valerie

Nuts About You

So here is another take on the Mojo Monday 89. I decided to move the square and circle around. For this I almost used only scraps. I picked out my ribbon first and when I went to get paper to mat the square and circle...guess what???? I didn't have any scraps that matched. And let me tell you I had a hard time matching the paper to the ribbon. After trying 4 different papers I finally found one I thought matched good enough. My craft room gets really good light during the day, but at night its not the best and it was 9:30 pm when I was doing this. Today I decided to add wiggle eys to the squirrel and was to lazy to take new pictures (maybe I'll do it later and post later...). While I was piecing this together, I just wanted to add something else and finally decided to go with the clouds. I inked the clouds with Distressed Faded Jeans blue ink. I hand wrote the sentiment with a Zig pen, the brown stitching on the square and circle I used a Staedtler triplus fineliner and the white stitching is done with a American Crafts white gel pen.

I'm having tons of fun lately. I go through periods where I just am not in the mood to craft. But lately I've been on a roll. I am going to enjoy it while it lasts.

Thanks for stopping by,

Valerie

Mojo Monday 89

Well I have an update of the card I posted yesterday...The lady I made the card for called me today. She loved the card. It made me feel really good that she called just to tell me that. I will miss working with her.

So today I was inspired by a Mojo Monday Sketch. This is from a while ago (not sure the date at the moment). I used only scrap papers for this card today. I've been trying to do that with all my cards but this is the first one I was successful with. I added some ribbon and buttons that I rarely use. I really need to start using these more. Lastly I have to say that I'm really loving the Create A Critter cartridge. I just wish I had those wonderful stamps from My Pink Stamper...but tend to spend my crafting allowance on cartridges and paper (lol). Doesn't leave anything for more stamps.

The only think I was disapointed with is that when I went to erase my pencil line where I wrote "You're a Hoot" I didn't wait long enough and I smeared the ink a little. Plus I had already attached everything to the from of the card so I couldn't change it. Well ya live and learn.

Thanks for Visiting,

Valerie