Friday, June 20, 2014

CardzTV Card Challenge #3 Create a Wedding Card Using Hearts, Love Birds, Doves or Wedding Bells

Hello everyone! Time for another card challenge at CardzTV. This card challenge is to create a wedding card using hearts, love birds, doves or wedding bells on your project. For my card I used two CardzTV stamp sets Toad-ally Awesome and Happy Days. The cute frogs are from the Silhouette Online Store Design ID #55074 and 55077 from Stinkin Cute Paper Piecings. I used lace for the bride's veil and added some crystal heart bling. I am looking forward to seeing all your cards for this Wedding Card challenge!


 
 
Materials:
 
Silhouette: Frogs - Online Store Design ID #55074 and 55077 (Stinkin Cute Paper Piecings) Card Base - SVG Cutting Files Card Essentials Pack I
 
Stamps: CardzTV Stamps Toad-ally Awesome and Happy Days
 
Other: Crystle Heart Bling, Heart Buttons, Lace, Googly Eyes (love them!), Sequins.
 
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Friday, June 6, 2014

CardzTV Challenge #2 - Create a Father's Day Card

Hello everyone! This week's challenge at CardzTV is to create a Father's Day card. For my design team project, I chose to use Silhouette Design ID #42990 (A7 Griller's Apron Card 5x7) and for my sentiments I used the CardzTV You're the Man Stamp Set. I love this stamp set and it goes perfectly with the griller's apron card! Here is my project. What grill master wouldn't love to receive a card like this?! I hope you all like it. I am looking forward to seeing all of your cards in this weeks Designer Challenge #2 - Create a Father's Day card!

Front (You're the Man Stamp Set)

Inside (You're the Man Stamp Set)
 
Back (isn't that spatula so cute?!)

Materials:
 
Silhouette: Design ID #42990 (A7 Griller's Apron Card 5x7)
 
Sentiments: CardzTV "You're the Man" (Front and Inside)
 
Card stock: DCWV The Guy Stack (patterned) and Recollections card stock. 
 
 

Friday, May 23, 2014

CardzTV New Design Team Member and Create a Graduation Card Challenge

Hello everyone! I am so excited to announce that I am one of the new designers for Cardz TV! This week's challenge is to create a Graduation card. For my design team project, I used sentiments from the CardzTV "Ticket Talk 2" and "Happy Days" stamp sets. I used the Create a Friend Cricut cartridge for the little graduate boy and the award ribbon. The base is from the Silhouette Online store. It is design # 58161. Be sure to join in the fun and enter your graduation card for this challenge at CardzTV Challenge #1 - Graduation.  I hope to see your project there. Here is my project:

 Front
 
Inside
(Sentiments from Cardz TV "Ticket Talk 2" and "Happy Days")
 
Back (a place to write my greeting)

Ticket Talk 2:
 
Happy Days: 
 
To purchase the stamp sets I used and many other fantastic sets visit http://www.cardztvstamps.blogspot.com/
 
 
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Football Bear Birthday Card

Hello everyone! Here is a birthday card I made for one of my nephews. I used the Teddy Bear Parade cartridge, one of my all time favorite. I like how he turned out. Put him on an action wobble to make him extra cute.

Challenges:


 
 
 
Materials:
 
Cartridge: Teddy Bear Parade
 
Stamps: Scrappy Moms (Hurray for Birthdays)
 
Punch: EK Success (Photo Labels)
 
Miscellaneous: Action Wobble and Scrapbooking Queens Jewels
 
 
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Thursday, February 20, 2014

The Big 40 Birthday Card

Hello everyone! Sharing today a 40th birthday card I made for a girlfriend. It's an S-fold style card with bright colors and lots of glitter paper. I used Life's a Party and Elegant Edges Cricut cartridges. I added some balloons and twine and put "The Big 40" on an action wobble. Behind the inside sentiment there is a slot to hold a gift card. Turned out pretty cute on the wobble ☺. Hope you like it.


Challenges:







Materials:

Cartridges: Life's A Party and Elegant Edges

Card stock: The Paper Studio "Celebrations"

Stamps: My Craft Spot "Birthday Wishes" (inside), My Sentiments Exactly (back)

Other: Action Wobble, Martha Stewart balloon punch, Twine.

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Friday, February 14, 2014

Happy Valentines Day - Bee My Honey

Happy Valentine's Day everybody. Here is the card I made for my husband this year. I like how it turned out. I put the bee on an action wobble. Love how he wobbles.

Challenges:  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Materials:
 
Cartridge: Create a Critter
 
Stamps: Studio G (inside and back), Jaded Blossom (Funny Mail), My Craft Spot (Postage Stamps), Front sentiment computer generated
 
Embossing Folder: Darice (Honeycomb Background)
 
Cardstock: All from Target
 
Miscellaneous: Action Wobble, Googly eyes, Scrapbooking Queen Jewels, Hampton Art Ki Bakery Twine, Recollections heart punch
 
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Friday, February 7, 2014

Valentine Treat Box

Hello everyone! Here's a Valentine box I made today. I'm going to fill it with candy and give it to my husband for Valentine's day. I used the Tags Bags Boxes and More 2 cartridge to make this box. I think it is called a cracker box in the handbook. It was kind of a pain scoring all the fold lines but I finally got it figured out. I had extra bears cut out from the treat bags I made for my grandsons Valentine treat bags, so I used one of those for decorating.

Challenges: 


Materials:

Cartridges: Tags Bags Boxes and More 2 (Cracker Box), Create a Critter 2 (Bear)

Stamps: CardzTV "Beary Sweet", My Creative Time "You Had Me At Chocolate

Card Stock: K&Company

Miscellaneous: Stickles, Ribbon

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Monday, February 3, 2014

Valentine Treat Bags 2014

Hello everyone! Here are the treat bags I made for my grandson's 1st grade class. I made 24 bags. When he saw them he said "Sweet!" LOL. Hope you like them.

Challenges:

Craftin Desert Divas Linky Party - Red, White, or Pink
My Craft Spot Challenge #125 - Valentine's For Kids
Bitten by the Bug 2 - Valentine Heart Challenge
Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #196 - Seeing Red
Little Scrap Pieces - Fun Friday Linky Party
Decorate to Celebrate Challenge #67: Valentine Treat Bags or Birthday
Pause Dream Enjoy Linky Party #3: Hearts






Materials:

Cartridge: Create a Critter 2

Stamps: My Creative Time "You Had Me At Chocolate"

Paper: Recollections

Punch: Martha Stewart "Heart Border"


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Friday, January 10, 2014

File Folder Birthday Cards

Hello everyone. I'm just sharing a couple birthday cards I made using the We R Memory Keepers Envelope Punch Board. These are called File Folder Cards. I followed the tutorial for these cards on Babytweetums YouTube channel. You can watch her video here Babytweetums Stampin Up - Birthday Cards. I am in love with these cards. They are fun and easy to make.

Challenges:

3 Girl Jam "Anything Goes with Ribbon"

Front

Front with Tag Out


Back
 
Materials:
 
Paper: The Paper Studio "Celebrations", Recollections Kraft Cardstock.

Stamps: My Craft Spot "Birthday Wishes", Sweet Stamp Spot "Made By", Recollections "Wish Big".

Ribbon: 3 Girl Jam Crinkle Ribbon "Aqua Splash" and "Coral Crush" .

Markers: Stampin' Up! Stampin' Write Markers.

Punches: EK Success Circle Punch, Marvy Uchida Scallop Punch.

Miscellaneous: We R Memory Keeper Envelope Punch Board, Eyelets, Memento Black Ink.
 
 
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Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Fabulous Fifty

Hello everyone! Sharing a card I made for a friend of mine for her 50th birthday. I used the Forever Young cricut cartridge. I love the brown and pink combination.

Challenges:

Die Cuttin Divas Challenge # 136 - Use Brown
Craftin' Desert Divas Craft It Up Link It Up - Use a Sentiment
 Cut It Up Challenge #29 - Think Pink






Materials:

Cartridge: Forever Young

Sentiments: Front - computer generated, Inside - will post when I find it, Back - Oriental Trading

Punch: EK Success flower punches

Miscellaneous: Sewing machine, Corner chomper, Pearls, $ ribbon from Michaels

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

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Saturday, May 18, 2013

Teddy Bear Parade Winner!!

Hello everone! Thanks to all of you that follow me and left me such nice comments. I used random.org this morning to pick the winner the Teddy Bear Parade cartridge. 
  Lisa May 5, 2013 at 5:43 PM
Oh my gosh, this is so sweet!! That bear is adorable!! I've wanted this cart forever!! Thanks so much for the chance to win...I'm a long-time, happy follower!! I'll add it to my sidebar as well :)
Lisa
A Mermaid's Crafts

Congratulations, Lisa. Please email your mailing address and I will get the cartridge out to you this week.

For those who didn't win, Joy from Obssessed with Scrapbooking is also giving away the Teddy Bear Parade cartridge. Here is the link: http://www.obsessedwithscrapbooking.com/2013/05/fun-rocket-man-card-plus-giveaway.html


Thanks again to all my followers ☺

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Teddy Bear Parade Giveaway

Hello Everyone! For those of you who may not have seen my post from the other day, in honor of my guest designing at Die Cuttin' Divas, my upcoming birthday, and just because I love this cartridge, I'm giving away a Cricut Lite Teddy Bear Parade Cartridge. 

All you have to do to win is be a follower of my blog and leave a comment on my Guest Designer at Die Cuttin' Divas and Blog Candy! post from Tuesday, April 30. For an extra chance to win you can post a pic of my giveaway on your sidebar and just leave a second comment telling me you did.

Make sure you leave the comment on my Guest Designer at Die Cuttin' Divas and Blog Candy! post to win. Here's the prize and good luck!

 
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Guest Designer at Die Cuttin' Divas and Blog Candy!

Giveaway on this post: Teddy Bear Parade Cartridge!
 
 
Hello everyone!! Today, I am happy to say that I am a Guest Designer over at Die Cuttin' Divas. Thank you, Georgiana, for letting me guest design! This week the challenge at Die Cuttin' Divas is "Challenge #113 ~ Anything Goes". My niece’s birthday was last week so I chose to use her birthday card for my guest designer day. I used one of my favorite cartridges—Teddy Bear Parade (blog candy alert!). The teddy bear was cut using that cartridge. The card base, window and window frame were cut from Lacy Labels using my Gypsy. I added invisible thread to the teddy bear inside the window so she would spin around like she is dancing. Here is my project, I hope you like it.

I am also entering this into the following challenges:



 
 
So, in honor of my first Guest Designer post and because I love this cartridge, I will be giving away a Teddy Bear Parade Cricut Lite cartridge. I will use random.org to pick one lucky follower! I will announce the winner on Friday, May 17. That just happens to be my birthday ☺. 

In order to win, you must be a follower of my blog and be sure to leave me a comment letting me know you follow. You must live in the United States (can't ship international, sorry). For a second chance to win, put my giveaway picture on your sidebar and leave a second comment letting me know you did that. Pretty simple, right? Good luck!

 
Materials: 
 
Cartridges: Teddy Bear Lite, Lacy Labels
 
Card Stock: All from Target
 
Stamps: CardzTV (Beary Sweet), A Jillian Vance Design (On Broadway), Stampin' Up (Seal of Pawthenticity),  Peachy Keen Stamps (PK-754 Critter Faces SET A Medium)
 
Miscellaneous: Gypsy, Googly Eyes, Invisible Thread, Pearl Gems, Royal Jewels (Royal Castle Shop)
 
Be sure to head over to Die Cuttin' Divas and check out the great
design team projects and enter your "anything goes" project this week.
 
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Friday, April 19, 2013

Lay Off Of My Blue Suede Shoes

Hello everyone! Here is a birthday card I made for my sister. We both like Elvis (who doesn't?). My favorite memory of Elvis, is the younger version where he is on stage in that black leather outfit (♥), where my sister's is of the slightly older Elvis in white polyester. I found this cute Elvis bear (The King) at Paper Piecings by Nikki.com and thought it would be a perfect birthday card for her. Love it! I am going to enter it in the following challenges:



 
 

Materials:

Silhouette Cut: "The King" from Paper Piecings by Nikki.com

Cardstock: DCWV The Edumacation Stack (Glitter Star), all other from Target

Sentiments: Computer generated

Other: Star button (Walmart), Twine, Action Wobble, Glitter Pen

 
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