Roman Ruins Layout

When it came time for me to make this layout I struggled BIG TIME! Absolutely zero ideas were coming to mind for an ancient Roman themed layout. I searched through the Cricut library of images for some inspiration but was shocked to find that there where hardly any Roman images. It is not as...detailed...as what I would typically make but I am still pretty happy with how it turned out.

I finally found this rather basic image of the Colosseum and made that my focal point on the left side of the page. Because I struggled so much with ideas for this layout, I ended up throwing it together the night before the 2016 Murder Mystery Party.

What do you guys think? What would you have liked to see for an Ancient Rome layout? Maybe I will try to replicate some of your ideas for another post. 

I covered all of the photos in  my Halloween Murder Mystery Scrapbook so that the focus would be on the layout and not on the people and food. Plus, I didn't ask for permission from the guests to share their photos on my blog. 

Murder on the Grill Layout 2

Hey guys and welcome back. Today we will be focusing on the second layout from my Halloween Murder Mystery Scrapbook mini-series. If you haven't read Monday's or Wednesday's post you should probably go check them out for more info on what the heck I am talking about.

Wednesday I told you that I had made two separate layout for the 2014 party, Murder on the Grill. The reason that I did this was because after I added all of the images to the first layout there simply wasn't any room for the photos of each character that I wanted to include.

On the day of the party, as my guests arrived, I snapped a quick photo because I knew that doing a scrapbook of each character would be fun. In order to save room for more images (which were all once again cut from the Cricut Nifty Fifties Cartridge) I printed each photo in wallet size. Plus, doing this gave me a duplicate photo (since you have to print two of the same photo together when you print wallets at Walmart) in case I messed up when I was cutting the photos apart. In the end I just gave the duplicates to each guest the next year when they came for the next party.

I once again busted out my trusty label maker so that I could add each guest's character's name below their photo. Also, if you look closely (in the photo of the hamburger, milkshake and soda) the patterned paper that I used for the background of the photos (and to put the label on) is this really cool vintage radio paper that fit really well with the theme. 

I covered all of the photos in  my Halloween Murder Mystery Scrapbook so that the focus would be on the layout and not on the people and food. Plus, I didn't ask for permission from the guests to share their photos on my blog. 

Murder on the Grill Layout 1

When I was in high school I was lucky enough to fall in with a group of friends that liked to get together often and play games, watch movies or go out to eat. Man those were the days. One year, around New Years, one of my friends hosted a murder mystery game and I was invited to participate. I LOVED it!! We all had such a blast that night that I wanted to replicate it by hosting my own party. I went out and bought two different boxed murder mystery sets at two local stores (that was back when they could still be purchased locally) but alas my friends and I never got around to doing another mystery game night because soon after that night they graduated (they were two years older than me) and several of them went off to college in different states.

Flash forward about twelve years to 2014. My best friend had just got married in August and moved back into town. For the first time I could gather together the right number of players to host my own murder mystery party. I went into my game closet and dusted off the boxed mystery kit from so long ago and started making plans.

To say that I went overboard that first year would be an understatement! It was the first party that I had ever hosted and I was extremely excited. There were so many ideas flooding into my head, between the multitude of Halloween themed decorations and food and the 1950's theme of the party that it was extremely hard to narrow it down. But, there will be an entire post about the food and decor for each party coming soon so I wont elaborate too much right now.

I actually made two layouts for the first year (all the rest only have one) because I had so many photos and images that I wanted to include. Today we will talk about the first page and then Friday's post will be about the second.

The first layout from 2014 came about as a way to use some of the diecut decorations that I had used during the actual party. The drive in sign was placed on the door leading from the living room to the basement, it served no purpose but was a way to add some themed decor to a blank space. Both the car (before it was cut in two) and the body shop words were adhered to the glass of the door leading out into my garage, as a fun play on the fact that cars typically live in the garage and as a way to cover the window so that my guests couldn't see the MESS that is in my garage. Lastly, the large jukebox diecut was adhered to the speaker I was using to play music (I created a custom playlist on Spotify) and the CD that came with the game. All of the images were cut from the Cricut Nifty Fifties Cartridge and I used my label maker to add the party info to the movie marquee and the year to the license plate of the car. 

I added two photo mats to the page to show the different foods that I served. 

I covered all of the photos in  my Halloween Murder Mystery Scrapbook so that the focus would be on the layout and not on the people and food. Plus, I didn't ask for permission from the guests to share their photos on my blog. 

Halloween Murder Mystery

Wow, I can't believe that October is here already!! In someways it seems like January was just yesterday. With all of the family stuff that has gone on this year, I feel like I have missed out on 2018.  Oh well, I will just have to make it my mission to enjoy the remainder of the year!

Each year, for the past five years, I have hosted a Halloween Murder Mystery Party at my house (I have briefly mentioned it before) and each year I make a scrapbook layout for the previous years photos as a way to remember foods served, costumes worn and the overall theme. So, since I have not yet blogged about each layout, I thought that this month would be a perfect time to share all of the layouts that I have made so far. 

I have been trying to make the plans for this years party for about a month now but between a couple of people who have to work, family who wont give you an answer and friends who won't call back, it has been pretty exhausting and as of right now I am not even sure that there will BE a party this year, which makes me incredibly sad and frustrated!! (But, I am trying not to rant two weeks in a row so lets move on).

Ok Ashley, enough of the melancholy, let's talk about the first page of my Halloween Murder Mystery scrapbook. I choose to go with more 'traditional' Halloween colors (at least the colors that I think of when it comes to Halloween- Black, Purple, Orange, and Green). Since a murder mystery party is kind of like a mini play I decided to go with a theater/cinema look for the title page. 

As I was designing this layout, I wanted a way that I could incorporate each players name on the page, similar to a playbill or credit screen but initially I was stumped about how to do it. After I found the movie marquee on the Cricut Art Deco Cartridge the idea for putting the names on popcorn buckets suddenly 'popped' (see what I did there ☺) into my head. I found the popcorn buckets that I wanted on the Cricut When I Was a Kid Cartridge and cut one out for each of the adults that played the game and used some small alphabet stickers that I found in my craftroom to add the names. 

Lastly, I wanted to add my 'nieces' names to the page, because they also come every year even though they are to young to play. I will admit that I was stumped on what to use and where to put whatever element I choose. Finally (after what seems like DAYS) I decided that the PERFECT nameplate was a ticket and let me tell ya, I felt like an idiot for not thinking of a ticket sooner. I cut the flourished ticket from the Cricut Wall Decor and More Cartridge and the smaller tickets came from a ticket die strip that I have. 

I am EXTREMELY proud of how this layout turned out. And, It would be easy to replicate now that the design part is done. Which is my not so suttle way of saying that if you would like to purchase a page similar to this one (there will be some minor differences in sticker and background papers) I would be happy to make more! If you are interested please email me at thesweetscrapper@gmail.com. 

Bakery Window (plus a Rant)

I have a really bad habit of letting other peoples thoughts, opinions and actions adversely effect my personal feelings.  I shut down and internalize it all to the extent that it changes my mental and physical feelings. Do any of you suffer from this same affliction? I frequently ask myself 'how do I stop caring what other people say and do'? I have yet to find the solution.

I have been in a funk since Friday. Everything either makes me mad or makes me want to cry. I HATE it when I get like this. It also makes me start doubting everything I do, such as projects, blog posts, etc. It makes me shut down and become completely unmotivated.

*Rant* I am so sick of people not having my back but expecting me to always have theirs. It is not friendship to always put other people (aka men) ahead of the person who has stood by you through the difficult situations. And, when you finally pluck up the courage to ask your family (who have told you countless times that you need to start asking for help) for help with something, your family shouldn't make you feel like you are just a waste of their time and that everything you have already done is wrong, just because it is different from the way that THEY would do it.  *End of rant....hopefully*

I am trying to overcome my own self because that is all I can control. So,  last night I laid in bed with my eyes closed and prayed. I prayed until I cried that I could shut out the negativity and start caring about myself, for the first time in a long time. When I woke up this morning, a little voice inside my head (God, was that you?) was telling me that sometimes it's okay to be selfish and to put your self first, heck everyone else seems to have no problem with that. Now I just have to figure out how to do that. ☺

I know that my little rant has nothing to do with today's project but it was something that I needed to say and I am too...shy? Weak? Chicken? To say it to the people actually involved. Heck, maybe one of them will surprise me (and themselves) and read my blog because it's "never going to amount to anything or make me any money, so I should just give up". My goal is to prove them WRONG!!

Anyway, today I thought that I would share this cute bakery window scrapbook page that I made. It is another layout that was completely inspired by the pattern already printed on the background paper. I added a couple of 4 x 6 inch photo mats and then turned to my Cricut to find the awning to make it look like a window in a bakery. FYI, the awning was cut using the Cricut Family Album Cartridge. I added some foam dimension to the awning so that a photo can still be slipped under it and into the clear photo corner on the photo mats. 

Cake Card

Many of you are probably wondering why September has turned into the month that I share so many of my OLD cards that I made years ago. Well, there is a simple reason for that. At the end of August my grandpa had to come up to my house to stay for several days because everyone in the family who is acting as caregivers, either had a doctors appointment or was out of town for that week. The only solution was to bring him to our house. The only downside...I had eight MONTHS of craftroom mess to clean up and organize in just a couple of days (because my craftroom doubles as the spare bedroom).

Because I haven't had much time at home to work in my scraproom lately, what I have been able to work on was typically quick and I didn't have time to put the stuff I used away when I was finished. Hence the room was a complete DISASTER!!

I worked extremely hard for three days straight to get the room into a presentable state. While moving, shuffling, organizing and straightening the entire room  I came across a box full of old cards that I made back when my craft supplies were so small that they fit into a little corner of a desk in my bedroom. In the box, along with the photos was an old computer flash drive that contained all of the photos of the cards that I have been sharing with you (that is why the quality is so poor). It was really fun to come across this little piece of the past that I had forgotten about.

I first started making cards and other paper crafts back in 2009, after I received a Cricut for my birthday. Back then the only way to really get a feel (at least for me) of what an image was going to look like when cut at a certain size, was to actually cut it out. Today's card is one of those early cutouts. It comes from the Cricut Sweet Treats cartridge and I still like it a lot (and not just because it is the same purple, pink and teal of my craft room today, although that is a BONUS). 

Looking at the card now makes me want to play around with the cartridge again, maybe cut this cake card in a size that will fit a gift card? Maybe just use the cake (that isn't a card) and add it to the front of a gift bag? Hmmm, the ideas keep coming.

I hope that you are all enjoying this flash back to some of my early stuff and I think that I have a few more but I will try to space them out a bit more over the next couple of months so that you don't get bored. 

Thinking of a Floral Gate

Since the last couple of blog posts I have written have been about cards I made years ago, I figured that I would continue that trend for at least one more day.

I made this card at least 6 years ago. Back in my paper flowers phase, when I literally put paper flowers on EVERYTHING. To say that I was obsessed with them would be an understatement! I can still remember the day that I ran out of the flat, felt-like flowers that were used on this card. I actually cried and dragged my mom all over town to every big box craft store looking for more, only to discover that they had been DISCONTINUED and the stores wouldn't be getting anymore like it. They had changed to a different looking flower that was more paper-like and I HATED it! I wanted what I had not something new. Wow those were the days. Thank goodness I am past that now. 

The gate and fence were cut out using the Cricut with a cartridge that I actually forgot that I own. With the creation of the online Cricut design software, it is easy to forget each cartridge as a whole because I usually just search for the image that I want and then from there weed out the cartridges that I don't own to find the right fit. I will have to go and look up more images from this cartridge to see what else I might be missing from what I already own. One more item for my to do list that I will hopefully get to someday soon.

I could go in and try to modernize this card but I think that I will probably just stick it into a keepsake box to be "rediscovered" many years from now so that I can reminisce over it again. 

Beary Witchy Cauldron

Hey ghouls and goblins, I know, super cheesy greeting right but it was my mom's suggestion so I thought what the heck, there are only 11 more days until Halloween, why not be a little cheesy.

I have been living in my head a lot lately and it puts me in a rather depressed and anxious state. I don't know why I allow other peoples thoughts and opinions effect me so much but they do and I am trying my hardest to work through it. I just can't make myself understand why no one wants to be around or understand when I am going through hard times but they sure expect me to be there for them when they need a shoulder. Isn't it supposed to go both ways?

Anyway, enough angst so let's move on. I want to share with you another scrapbook layout that I made and I am totally in love with!  The giant bear was cut out using my all time favorite Cricut cartridge, Teddy Bear Parade. She is super adorable and for a little added pizzazz I added some shimmer to her outfit, her broom and the acidic vapor rising up out of her bubbling cauldron. To me this layout just screams HALLOWEEN!

A Beary Sweet Birthday

Hello again! Yesterday's solar eclipse was AWESOME!! I hope that those of you who were able to see it checked it out. Based on where I live we were able to view about 94% coverage. I purchased a pair of the solar glasses from Walmart and they came with a really cool booklet that talks about past eclipses, what to expect from it and some other interesting facts. It was just a pretty awesome thing to experience and it makes me in awe of God's beautiful work.

For today's project I want to share a card with you that I made awhile ago for my cousin's, daughter's birthday. This adorable bear with ice cream cone image came from a free cut file that I found a couple of years ago from Treasure Box Designs. It cuts out and layers beautifully. I also made sure to add plenty of rhinestones because what little girl doesn't like a bit of sparkle on her birthday.

For the inside of the card I decided to experiment with the feature on the Cricut software which draws text with markers. For a first attempt I would say it turned out 'beary' good.

Have a BLAST

Hey guys, it's Friday!! I hope you have all had a good week. People are still shooting off fireworks in my neighborhood but at least by now they are are stopping around 11 pm so it is easier to get some sleep. They are beautiful to look at but annoying when you are trying to sleep.

Since Monday was July 4, aka Independence Day, I thought that I would share a patriotic themed layout with you this week. And, I have to tell you I am completely in love with how this layout turned out!!

For this layout I was loosely inspired by a single page layout I saw on youtube/pintrest by one of my favorite scrapbookers, Faith Abigail Designs. She used SVG files that she bought online to create her layout, but I decided to test myself to see if I could recreate a similar layout only using supplies I already own. It took a little time but in the end the result is WAY better than I anticipated!! 

I was able to use a coupon that gave me a free trial of the Cricut subscription service,so I had even more cartridge options available to me. It is definitely something I am considering subscribing to but that will have to wait for awhile (aka when I have money). In the end I used three cartridges that I own (Teddy Bear Parade, Stand and Salute and George an Basic) and only two that I don't (Old West for the barrel and Independence Day for the wagon and flag banner.)

I hope that you all enjoy this layout as much as I do and that you had a happy and safe 4th of July!!

Superhero Layout

Hey peeps! To start off today's post I want to make two apologies. 

The first, is that I am sorry my previous posts this week have been so short. For some reason this week I have been feeling majorly uninspired and living too much in my head, which makes for bad blog posts. I recently received my first bit of constructive criticism about my blog posts, I was told that at times it reads as dry and boring – I need to add more of my own personality into each post. Of course this has led me to overthink every word that I write and question whether or not I'm being funny. I've come to the realization that I must be "accidentally funny" because when I try it comes off as forced an unbelieveing. So I now have something (else) to work on. 

The second apology that I need to make is that this post is a day late, I had it done in plenty of time to upload but last night I suffered from a major headache and actually went to bed really early. I don't know if it was due to my "lack of sleep" the night before (I went to bed, woke up two hours later and couldn't get back to sleep, I have sleeping issues – don't judge lol) or if it was the fact that my back has been hurting and I'm too chicken to get a massage or to see chiropractor. I hope you all can forgive me. 

Now enough of this rambling, let's get to the layout. As the title says this week is a superhero themed double page layout. Last June, my niece celebrated her fourth birthday with a superhero themed party. She absolutely loves Wonder Woman and looked adorable in her costume. I went through the photos that I had from the party and I knew that I wanted to put a lot of them on this layout. That is why this layout features six 4 x 6 photo mats and one 4 x 4.

Since I wanted the focus of this layout to be about the pictures I tried to keep the design pretty minimal. I used to Cricut Plantin Schoolbook to cut the cityscape (this is one of my favorite cuts from the entire cartridge, I've used it many times) and I cut it using the "fit to page" feature on my expression. Even at the maximum size the city will not cut the entire length that you will need it, it is about a quarter of an inch short. I'll tell you how I fix this problem soon. 

I used the Cricut Create a Friend cartridge to cut my super hero girl. The actual cut is a Super boy but because so many elements of this cartridge are interchangeable I was able to simply find another hairstyle and turned the boy hero into a girl hero. I cut her out at 6 inches so that she could be the major focal point of the page. Just a little sidenote, if you're familiar with the cartridge you'll know that I added a little red piece around the neck to simulate the tie from the Cape, not only does it add a little bit of uniqueness to the character but it was also to hide one of my own mistakes. As I was adding glue to the body during assembly I almost tore our hero's neck off and didn't want to recut the entire thing. So by cutting a tiny piece of red card stock and adding it to that area I was able to mask the fact that I almost decapitated my focal point.

Now, since the birthday girl dressed as Wonder Woman, I wanted to stick with those colors throughout the layout (Plus, most superheroes share the same color combos anyway – red, white, blue and gold). The pattern papers actually came from a patriotic themed paper pad from Pebbles called Americana. Although you can't see it very well, there is a piece of gold(ish) cardstock that separates the red and blue pattern papers and it is punched using the Fiskar's Upper Crest border punch. I did this to mimic wonder woman costume which is a red top, a blue skirt and a golden belt. 

I mentioned above that the cityscape cuts just shy of the length that you need it, to solve this problem I grabbed a punch from American Crafts called Scalloped Star (it is one of the knockout punches and a part of a Christmas set of six different punches – I got it on sale at Tuesday Morning a while ago ) and I added it to the edges to cover the gap. 

To finish up the page I went through my bin of Thickers and other alphas (man is that bin scary, I just may have too many alphabet stickers LOL, but you just have to have one in every color right?) and i found that I had the same font (freedom-which is kind of fitting if you think about it) in both a red and a blue. 

Lastly, because I hate blank space, I went into my sticker/die-cut/other randomness bin and found a package of superhero themed diecuts from Recollection. I cut apart one of the frames in the pack to get the sentiment "Super Hero" and added it to a red "burst" that was also included. 

I hope you all like it and found this post to be both informative and "less dry and boring". If you have any feedback I would love for you to tell me by posting in the comments. I hope you have a fantastic weekend and I will see you back Monday with the conclusion to our Christmas 2015 card flashback. 

Sweet Memories Layout

Hey peeps, it's finally Friday! That means it's time for another scrapbook layout. Before we dive in to the project for this week let me first tell you about the epiphany I had about an hour ago. Are you ready for it? Just because I upload a project for a specific day does NOT mean that the entire project must be completed solely on that day. I know most of you probably realize this along time ago, I guess I'm a little slow. But, as I was ripping my hair out trying to finish this layout in time to upload it for the Friday layout day I realized that maybe I should've actually started working on it before 3 PM today LOL. Hey will learn something new every day (even if it's something we should've learned a long time ago). 

For this weeks layout I once again was inspired by something I found on Pinterest (Man I love that website and app). Instead of putting the direct link here on my blog, I have it saved on my scrapbooks board on Pinterest, you can find me under Ashley Jestes. 

I am truly in love with this weeks layout! It has a boatload of candy what more could a girl ask for! For this layout I used primarily the Cricut Lite Sweet Shop cartridge, one of my personal favorites because it is loaded with sweet treats. The clouds once again came from my favorite Fiskar's punch, I have it in three different sizes (I believe they are medium, large and extra-large). For the title I used a phrase from the Winter Frolic cartridge, because I felt like it best describes the layout, and it is something anyone can use for just about any picture.

I hope you all like the layout just as much as I do! And I will see you back on Monday to continue with part three in the Christmas cards of 2015 series. And I give myself some homework for next week, Start my darn layouts earlier than Friday afternoon!

If you have any questions or comments please feel free to post them. I love hearing people's thoughts. 

Grandpa gets HONORED

Today my grandpa got the opportunity to go on an Honor Flight. The Honor Flight is for World War II Veterans as well as Korean War Veterans and Vietnam War Veterans, they get the chance to fly up to Washington D.C. to visit all of the memorials (WWII, Korean, Vietnam, Iwo Jima, Lincoln.) They also get to see the changing of the guard at Arlington National Cemetery.

 

Family members, friends and acquaintances of the honored veteran are asked to write letters to them ahead of time and then they are given to the veteran just before the return flight home; this is done to mimic "mail call" that the veterans got while serving for our country. 

 

Below is the card that I made for my grandpa who is a World War II Veteran.

 

 

My Hero was cut with the Cricut Stand and Salute Cartridge and layered on top of a frame cut from a spellbinders die (labels ?)

The papers came from a 8.5 X 11 paper pad I got at Walmart a year or so ago. 

The inside is not pictured, I only used a white mat so that I had plenty of room to write a letter inside.

 

 

As the Veterans arrived back in town, family and friends are encouraged to come to the airport to welcome them home in style. There will be a band, ROTC students, news media and more there to welcome them home as well.

 

My mom and I worked together to make a couple of banners to hold up in honor of our hero, my grandpa.

 



Happy Birthday Aunt Carla

I wanted to make a fun and colorful card to celebrate my Aunt Carla's Birthday so I reached for one of my newer cartridges that I got for Christmas, Cricut Pack Your Bags. This cartridge is full of great images for summer, vacations and beachy related things.

 

The card base is a standard 4.25" x 5.5" card with the blue polka dotted paper measuring 4" x 5.25"

The postage stamps were cut from page 55. 3 were cut out of Kraft cardstock at 2" and 3 out of a patterned cardstock at 1.75"

Drink 1 is also found on page 55 and all layers were cut at 1.5"

Drink 2 is found on page 69 and all layers were cut at 1.5"

Drink 3 is found on page 70 and all layers were cut at 1.5"

Each of the drinks were adhered flat to the postage stamp and then the stamps are popped up on foam tape.

For the bottom I freehand cut a curved shape out of some kraft cardstock using scissors and punched a wave out of blue cardstock using the Fiskars Wave punch.

To finish off the card I stamped my sentiment in the bottom right and attached some seashell stickers that I had in my stash.

 

For the inside I simply stamped a sentiment and then added 2 strips of paper that match what was used on the front of the card. The blue polka dot strip is 1" and the multicolored strip is .75" The flip flops are stickers that came from the same set as the seashells used on the front.



Welcome baby Noah

Yesterday my cousin gave birth to a beautiful baby boy named Noah. Both mother and baby are happy and healthy and we are all so glad that Noah is finally here.

 

 

Below is the card that I made for my cousins baby shower back in June.

 

To make this card I cut 2 dark blue onesies from the Cricut Life is a Party Cartridge (pg. 29) on the BASE layer, and then using the BASE SHIFT I cut one layer in white and 2 in light blue .

 

I adhered the white layer to one of the dark blue pieces and then glued only the top edges (the shoulder pieces) together with the other blue piece to make a flip up card.

 

I ran the light blue piece through my swiss dots cuttlebug folder and adhered it to the front of the card.

 

I chose to use another image on the front of the onesie instead of the duck that cuts out with it. I found the boat on the Baby Steps Cartridge (pg. 55) and I only cut the Layer 1 pieces.

 

I then added 3 small buttons (from favorite findings) to the bottom for a more finished look.

 

On the inside I cut the remaining light blue onesie so that only a 'diaper' shape was left and added 2 pieces of washie tape to either side in a coordinating color. I placed so foam take along the sides and bottom of the 'diaper' piece so that a gift card would slide into the pocket.

Happy Birthday ME

Today is my BIRTHDAY!!

An entire day centered around eating cake and getting presents, what could be better!

 

This year I got some AMAZING gifts. I am so very blessed to have people who love me so much and are generous enough to spend their money on me. I truly can't thank them enough.

 

I revived a TON of scrapbooking and jewelry making supplies for my birthday so I thought I would share some of the pictures with you.

 

 

So lets break it down:

3 packs of beads

1 monogramed "A" charm

1 box of mixed jewelry findings

2 full TV series

6 movies

7 Cricut cartridges

3 gypsy stylus

1 plate of goodies

and 2 BIRTHDAY CAKES!!

 

I am so truly BLESSED!!

 

I also wanted to include with this post the thank you card that I sent out for these WONDERFUL presents.

 

 

 

 

 



Birthday Card Using Songbird Cartridge

I found this card on pintrest and fell in love with it. The images are all cut from the Songbird Cricut cartridge, and since I got that cartridge for Christmas (2013) I knew I had to recreate this adorable birthday card.
 



The flowerpot with the bird is found on page 73 of the handbook (under the perch creative feature) and was cut out at 2.5"
The flower was found on page 57 (using the shifted 'flower' feature key) and actually cut out with an asterisk in the center, I just added a decorative brad that I found in my stash and it easily covered the cutout and added a pretty center to the flower.
Using a oval punch by Marvy that I have in my supplies I stamped my birthday sentiment and added 3 homemade enamel dots to finish out the tag.
I used the EK Success Scalloped Scallop punch to add a decorative edge to on of the mats.

 

For the inside I just used to same paper that I used on the outside and again I punched one of them with the EK Success Scalloped Scallop punch.

I then stamped another birthday sentiment one the inside.

 

To see the original idea for this card go to: http://mrsbscraftroom.blogspot.com/2010/03/birthday-card-cricut-songbird-cart.html

 

I just LOVE how this card turned out!!

First spinner card

I spend a LOT of my free time on youtube watching card making and scrapbooking videos for both ideas and inspiration. That is where I first ran across the idea of the spinner card and I thought that they looked like a lot of fun so I just had to try it.

I decided for my first attempt I would recreate one that I had seen from someone else. So I went to youtube and found a cute card that I wanted to make. Since I made this card a while ago, I have forgotten where I found the initial video, so if any of you know who came up with this card originally please let me know so that I can give them full credit for it.

 

I left the inside of the card blank for now because I don't know who this card is going to go to. The background was made using stamps from Studio G and the fun zebra in the car was cut from the Cricut Paisley cartridges.



Mother's Day 2013 Cards

I was going through my card box to take stock of my inventory and I discovered quite a few that I had yet to post pictures of. I know I promised pictures of my Christmas albums but I still need to pull the photos off of my phone, so in the mean time I will upload the cards that I have come across.

 

These first 3 where Mother's Day cards. The first two I gave away (one to my mom and the other to my aunt) and the third is still in my "inventory"