Hang in There

When I started out making this card I wasn't sure where I was going with it. I really wanted to use the clothes line cut from Country Life. So starting with my base I choose this green print that reminds me of grass, then I wanted to mat that to a bright color to make it stand out. Using red as the backgroud mat I think was a really good choice. The jeans just had to be blue (duh!) and what better color for a bra and panties than pink?? Once I was done and put the clothes line on the base I was stumped at first on what sentiment to use. My first idea was "How's it Hangin?" but decided that just wasn't the right fit for me. So as you can see, it ended up being "Hang in There".


Have a great day!
Valerie

Papercraft Star Challange #12

So Wednesday I had a wonderful comment from Beth over at the Papercraft Star blog. She suggested that I try out the challanges over at the Papercraft Star blog. Well I've been getting into challanges lately so I popped over and checked the blog out. Sounds like a wonderful challange this week and I've never tried this type of challange. It is a Photo Inspiration Challange.

I decided to go with the colors in the picture. I used a brown and cream background since I think of brown when I see coffee (my mom always adds milk and sugar...lol) and the cup looked like an off white to me. I incorporated blue since the christmas ornaments (???) in the picture are blue. Finally the Sentiment I used a paper that was similar to the cake. I wished I didn't have to make a Sympathy card, but unfortunately life gets in the way sometimes.

I used Wild Card for "With Sympathy" and the frame surrounding it and Home Accents for the branch and flowers. The inside sentiment is a stamp I purchased at Hobby Lobby.

Thanks for stopping by!

Valerie

Ella's 4th Birthday

Ella Gracie and big bro David at her 4th birthday party. David doesn't get to see his half-sister very often because she lives 1 1/2 away. She wasn't really happy with her princess hat...

I wasn't really inspired while making a card for Ella. I used the same cuts and design as a previous card. I just changed some of the colors.

I used the following Cricut Cartridges with my Gypsy:

A Childs Year: Scalloped backgrounds (inside and out)

Storybook: Flower

Wild Card: Happy Birthday

Gypsy Font: Leaves

Thanks for looking,

Valerie

Wedding card Scraplift...

I actually made this quite a while ago...I totally scraplifted it. I just wish I could find who I scraplifted it from. Whoever you are THANK YOU. I can't even find a picture of the original. A girl at work is getting married and I found this in my stash. The bottom right frame did not have anything in it so cut the wedding bells. Then I added pearls to the front of the card. I think the original also had pearls...


I used Stampin' Up cardstock and the following Cricut Cartridges:

Sweethearts: Weeding bells
Wild Card: Bride and Groom
Storybook: Frames

I also used my Swiss Dots Cuttlebug Folder and a stamp

Thank you for looking.

Bluejay Graduation Card

I was asked to make a graduation card for a girl at work. She said the school colors were blue and gold. The mascot was a Bluejay. So this is what I came up with. The bird acually isn't a Bluejay, but I couldn't find a Bluejay cut for the Cricut. I googled Bluejay and tried to color my bird as close to a Bluejay as well as I could.

For the inside I made a border cut following the directions from Lori at Scrappin' my Stress Away. To make my border stick out more, I choose to mount it on a blue rectangle. Thank you Lori for the great directions for this border.


For this card I used the following cartridges with my gypsy:

50 States: Bird
Wild Card: Congratulations
Printing 101: Bluejay (the word)
Plantin School Book: Hats Off (part of inside border)
A Childs Year: Grad cap
George and Basic Shapes: Rectangles (part of inside border)

TFL
Valerie

Birthday Card Again? Yeah...

I really enjoy making cards for my co-workers, but unfortunately there is about 30 people...So I end up making a lot of birthday cards. I've been addicted to this flower from Storybook. But I have moved on and hopefully will not use it for the next few cards.

For this card I used Cosmo Cricket paper (I love this paper pack) and the following Cricut Cartridges and my Gypsy:

Storybook: Flower (all layers)

Gypsy Font: Leaves

A Childs Year: Scallop background

Wild Card: Happy Birthday

Thanks for looking,

Valerie

Spent some time in my craftroom

This past weekend I took a day for myself and spent it in my craftroom. I think I was up there for 8 hours. I organized some more (and I'm almost done). I spent most of my time watching tv while I started my Valentine Cards. I bought the Happy Heart Day stamp set by Stampin' Up sometime last summer from Ebay and I just had to use that cute Elephant. I then used my Cricut to cut the card and inside sentiment. I used Wild Card cartridge for those. I have sixteen done so far and have about 8 more to do.

Just Because

Card base is Stampin' Up Chocolate Chip size A2

All Layers: Mats, Top Note and Sentiment are Cloud9 Desing, Double Mat
Stack, Cocoa Mint

Top Note cut @ 3 1/2" from Storybook

Just Because cut @ 1 3/4" from Wild Card

Flowers and brads from Spare Parts

Snap from Making Memories (center of flower)

Brown ink from Stampabilities