Father's Day Cards

While going through my pictures I discovered that I never shared this Father's Day Card from last year (2013) that I made for my amazing Grandpa. It was super quick and easy and he loved it.

 

This card could easily be changed into a birthday card or other sentiment. For this card I used the Cricut Wild Card Cartridge for the argyle background (found on page 33 under the Icon feature). And, the golfer which was cut from the All Sports Cartridge (image found on page 27.) The banner was cut from the Ribbon Banners set of dies by Spellbinders.

 

 

 

I also wanted to share with you the cards that I made for Father's day 2014. I ended up just making several of the same card to give to both my dad and my grandpa because I was rushed for time. This card was extremely simple and just uses some layer of different papers and cardstocks. I was able to use some of my scraps to make this and it could easily be replicated to fit any occasion or be made with different colors to be more feminine.

 

 

 

 

Frozen Birthday Under the Sea

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STELLA AND KYRIA!!!

 

 

 

This first card was made for Miss Stella's 3rd birthday party. Her parents decided on a Frozen themed party because Stella LOVES the movie, so they had a Frozen cake, Frozen plates, Frozen napkins and even some Frozen balloons and temporary tattoos. I found the idea for this card on Pintrest and set about trying to replicate it.

 

The card base measures 5" x 7"

Patterned paper mat- 4.75" x 6.75"

The castle was cut from the Once upon a Princess Cartridge page 60 at 8" and I stamped it with a Hero Arts snowflake stamp in Versamark ink and heat embossed it with a silvery embossing powder.

Elsa and Anna dolls were cut from the Create a Friend Cartridge

Anna: cut at 2.75"

Body- Pg. 59

Hair- Pg. 75

Dress- Pg. 59

Elsa: cut at 2.75"

Body-Pg. 99

Hair- Pg. 63

Dress- Pg. 99

The silver snow was made by gluing silver glitter onto white cardstock and the snowflakes were left over from punching the mat for the inside of the card.

 

Olaf was printed on a piece of white cardstock and then it was cut to measure 5" x 6.75" and then punched using Martha Stewart snowflake punch around the page.

 

 

 

 



 

 

This second card was for Miss Kyria's 2nd birthday party and the theme was Under the Sea.

 

Card Base- 4.25" x 5.5"

Patterned Paper- 4" x 5.25"

Bottom Border- approx. 1" punched with Martha Stewart Embossed Petals Punch

Fish cut from Create a Critter pg. 43 at 2"

Bubbles cut from Disney Princess Dreams come True at 5"

 

The wave was in my scraps so I'm not sure where it came from exactly. Any wave would work.

Stamped with a fish Stamp for added dimension.

Grandpa's Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDPA!!


If you haven't guessed it already, today is my grandpa's birthday. He turned 89 years old today and he wears it well. Looking at him you would never know that he is 89, he is always so active, whether it is from bowling on a league or mowing grass all summer he keeps himself busy which in turn keeps him looking young and healthy.

In honor of my grandpas birthday I wanted to share the birthday card that I made for him this year as well as the one that I made for him last year that for some strange reason I never posted.

This first card is actually the card I made for him last year, and it was made to celebrate one of his favorite things: COOKIES!!


And now the card for this year. I wanted to include a vintage mustang on his card this year because he has spent the better part of the last year trying to restore an old mustang into working condition.

UPDATE

I am sorry that it has been so long since I last posted, I was having some computer problems and was unable to get online.

Now that those problems have been resolved I plan to be a lot more diligent in my blog postings.

I have a LOT of photos that I have taken of cards, layouts and other project that I created since my last posting and I will be spending the next couple of days or weeks trying to update all of those photos on here for all of you.

I hope you are all having a fun and creative day and I will upload again soon.

Happy Birthday to my Bestie

Today is my BEST FRIEND Heather's Birthday and I am so excited because she is coming back to town and I will get to see her for the first time in over 6 months. We have been friends now for over 20 years and I love her so much and miss her now that she has move to another state, it is hard when you go from seeing someone everyday to not seeing them for over 6 months.

Let the party begin!!

 

 

Both the monkey with the bat and the piñata were cut from the Cricut Birthday Bash Cartridge and the candy on the inside was cut from the Cricut Something to Celebrate Cartridge and embellished with stickles and rhinestones. The quote on the front is from the Make a Wish stamp set by Fiskars.

 



What I have been up to

It has been a while since a posted here on my blog, but I have by no means been idle.

I have spent the last couple of months working on making Christmas presents for my family.

I decided that this year I would make a scrapbook for each of my family members to add their own photos to.
 

I have managed to complete about half of the pages that are needed for my albums but I am still trying to determine the best way to take photographs of the different layouts.

 As I get the pictures taken I will share them with you as well as the details of how I made them as well as where I got the idea for each page.
 

I plan to be more active in my posts from hear on out as I discover my way around blogging.

 

 

Halloween Door Wreath



I found the idea for this wreath at: http://www.faithabigaildesigns.com/2011/07/momenta-design-team-tutorial-paper.html and knew that I had to try to make one.

 

I made my rosettes similar to the directions on the above sight but ended up changing a few things to make it easier and faster to prepare.

 

I started with 5 full 12x12 sheets of patterned paper, I used the DCWV Halloween and Fall Stack from last year for all of my papers.

I then scored each of the 12x12 sheet (while still whole) at every 1/4 inch. After each page was scored I cut the paper into strips:

3- 1.5" x 12"

3- 1.25" x 10"

3- 1" x 8"

By scoring the paper before I cut it into strips it make the process a LOT faster to complete.

Finally I used a 1.5" circle punch on white cardstock to make a backing for each rosette of ALL sizes. Using hot glue I created my rosettes and added a glass bead to the center of each.

 

TIP: using a low temp glue gun works just fine, if not a little better than a high temperature glue gun for assembling your rosettes. Plus you are less likely to burn your fingers.

The glass bead needs to be added using the High temp though or else it will not adhere.

 

 

Using straight pins I started to arrange my rosettes around a Styrofoam ring that I purchased at JoAnn's. I ended up removing them and adding a ribbon over the Styrofoam to mask the green color and it turned out MUCH better.

 

 

I LOVE the way that this wreath turned out and I will definitely make more of them for different seasons throughout the year.

 

 

During the process of making this wreath I found out just how HOT hot glue is when the piece of paper that I was gluing flipped over and landed on my finger.