Hello Dolly

I made this page last night, I was so looking forward to scrapbooking my birthday photos. I picked the best out of all of them and called the page "Hello Dolly" as it was perfect for the doll cake that my fabulous husband made me (I'm a lucky girl!). I used white card and then yellow dot paper, then a piece of stripy paper which looked "birthday like" to me, I cut down one edge with pinking shears. I used my Cricut Art Philosophy to cut out the tag and flowers, then Celebrations for the candles which look like the candles Greg cut out of fondant on my beautiful cake. I put them through my Cuttlebug to emboss them. I scattered some mini heart buttons and a big yellow spot button on my flower. For the banner up the top I used Art Philosophy again (loe this cartridge!)  and the same cartridge for the letters. I put some pink and white bakers twine through it and tied some bows. I used Publisher to do some journalling. I love it how turned out, perfect just like my birthday!

Wow is this for me

I made this page today throughout the day, I went to the gym on my scooter and at lunchtime Greg and I went for a walk downtown to get a Red Mango frozen yogurt for lunch as it was 28 degrees and sunny today so we thought why not go out and get some sun! My poor foot is giving me grief today so it's good to rest it and do some scrapbooking. I have managed to make the salad for dinner and fold up some washing so I can help my darling hubby Greg. I had a kit I bought ages ago from Big Lots, it was something like $5 for an SEI kit. I thought it was perfect as it went with the colours of both my dress in the photo and the cake for Valentines Day. I started with white cardstock then used some of the red dot paper in the kit and cut it on my Cricut Winter Woodland cartridge to fit to a 12 x 12 page for a scalloped square. I then layered on some floral paper from the same kit. The tag, foldover tab and letters are from the kit but I used the font for WOW from my Pooh and friends Cricut cartridge with a shadow. I cut the flower stems from Walk in my Garden and then made my own layered flowers using circles, scallops and buttons. I put the yellow circle layers through Cuttlebug folders. I cut the sweet square from a sheet I have been using for years to cut out bits, same with the heart. I printed my journalling on some lemon and yellow paper and stuck it onto a journalling block from my kit. I think it turned out pretty well!

Greg's birthday card

I am just so happy with this card I made for Greg's birthday. I made this tonight whilst Greg was working. Greg is such a good hubby, he's helping me so much during the day with everything and the dog walking that he has to make up a little work time at night but that's ok because I can go in my craft room/Greg's office and be there with him. I was asking him not to look though as this will be a surprise for him in May. I cut the card from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More 2, I like the scalloped edge. I matted on red and ran it through the Cuttlebug dots folder. I cut out mats in navy blue and then some baseball paper as well as more red with the Cuttlebug Happy Birthday folder. I knew I wanted to make Greg a baseball themed card but couldn't find what I wanted, so I went searching and found a great website Sweet n Sassy Stamps which has both clear stamps and digital stamps. I'm new to the world of digital stamps but I found this very cute Cocoa mouse digital stamp for $3 so I got that, downloaded it and printed it out and coloured him in.I used my markers, some grey chalk for his face and some glitter pen along the baseball stitching. I also was looking for the perfect sentiment, I didn't have one in either my rubber stamps or Cricut so I found this husband set which had about 6 digital stamps in it for $1.99 from My Cutting Cafe. So I printed that out, cut it out and then added a scalloped navy blue circle underneath, a red star cut from George and Basic Shapes and the tiniest white heart button I've ever seen lol. I wound around some red and white twine and used 3D squares for both Cocoa mouse and the sentiment. I really wish it was Greg's b'day now so I could give it to him but for now : ). I've also decided to enter this card in a challenge over at Paper Playtime for challenge #70 - For the Guys include a sentiment, have a look here:

http://paperplaytime.blogspot.com/2012/03/ch-70-for-guys-include-sentiment.html

Birthday Challenge card - Birthday Sundaes #48

I came across a challenge website today and decided to make this card for it, I'm also going to send it to my mum when it's her birthday. The challenge is at Birthday Sundae's (Challenge #48) and asked you to make a birthday card using an animal, you can check it out here:

http://birthdaysundaes.blogspot.com/ 

I started with a red card that I made on my Cricut which rounded 2 corners. I cut a mat out of black card and put it through my Cuttlebug using my Herringbone folder. I used a scrap of patterned paper done the left hand side and cut 2 flowers using Cricut Sweet Treats. I stamped the cute kitty cat on the white one and colored him in with my markers. I cut out a call out on my Cricut Cuttin Up and stamped Happy Birthday on that and added a stamped sentiment. I added a cute little party hat and green chiffon ribbon to finish.

Birthday cupcake

This one I made this afternoon, a birthday card for March. Its a light blue card, chocolate brown mat and then an orange scalloped circle embossed with the Happy Birthday Cuttlebug embossing folder. The Brown is also embossed with a border folder from Cuttlebug and inside the oval on it I stamped a sentiment. I added some brown and white sticky ribbon and a white bow. I cut the cupcake out from Sweet Treats and used Glitter Glue for the sprinkles on the cupcake.

Cute Chickie!!

I made this cutie card on the weekend. I got some new Cuttlebug folders and my Peachy Keen face stamps and wanted to try them out. I made small square shimmery yellow card and then put some shimmery purple through my floral embossing folder. I cut a circle from my Cricut and embossed it with my dot folder. For the cute chick, it's made using shapes. I saw a similar idea on a blog and thought it was so cute so I thought I would try it. The chick is made using circles for the head and body, an oval for the egg which I just cut with scissors to make it look like a cracked egg. The chicks wings are hearts. I used the Peachy Keen Critter faces set for the cute little face. I colored in the beak with an orange marker. I stamped a greeting inside this time. I'm going to send this to my friend Melanie for Easter : )

Christmas mittens

I wanted a cute little extra gift idea for my special people and I saw this cute little mitten die from Nestabilities that would go through my Cuttlebug machine. I got it and cut some mittens out of felt. I then blanket stitched them. My lovely husband watched the YouTube video with me and helped me master it, now I have it down pat!! I really enjoyed doing the blanket stitching around them, so relaxing. I then decorated them with some felt adhesive embellishments, trim and I stitched on a little jingle bell and put in the little gifts. I'm going to try and come up with a variety of little gifts that can go in. I saw some when we were out during the day, many possiblities. For this one there is a little natural lip balm and an emery board. I'm really happy with these, so cute, I'm looking forward to doing some more!

Birthday card using 3D flowers

I made this card today using the 3D flowers I made last week with my Cricut Flower Shoppe cartridge, I really love how it turned out. I've made this for Greg's mum for her birthday so hopefully she won't see this! I used a cream card and some nice purple paper with a light pattern on it. I cut out the leaves and flowers using the cartridge, it was so much fun to see the flowers to come life when you roll them up. I used a border I had in my stash and cut a butterfly from my Spellbinders dies through my Cuttlebug. I then added a lace overlay to the top of the butterfly as Greg's mum likes lace and flowers so this will be ideal for her birthday. I used some stamps to stamp the greeting along the bottom.

Easel Christmas card

I have been busy today, it's really hot outside and we've taken this week off the gym to give ourselves a rest so my free time has been spent doing some really nice cards. Next week I'll be back into the Scotland scrapbooking. This is my favourite and it's a new style of card I learned..an easel card. I found it on Jennifer's blog..thanks Jennifer for the idea! Her blog is:
http://creativecricutdesigns.blogspot.com/2010/10/christmas-easel-card.html

I was a bit scared at first but I'm really proud that I got it right yay! It starts off with a piece of card that you score in 2 separate places and fold. Then you get a scrap piece of card, it has to be thick card so I glued 2 pieces together to make it thick. Then here is the really good part, you go into your kitchen and get the aluminium foil, tear a sheet off to fit and glue that to the card. Once that is done I put it in my Cuttlebug embossing folder to emboss the snowflake design, who would have though foil could look so cute and Christmassy! : ). I then decorated that using my Cricut "Joys of the Season" cartridge to cut out the little tree. I put the snow at the bottom of my tree through my Xyron and put glitter on it (a technique I saw on the HSN shopping channel this morning, they had a scrapbook and cards event, I didn't buy anything, I'm good I just learned some new things!). I then decorated the tree with gemstones and put it on 3d blocks onto the card. I tied some red and white dotty ribbon around the card and glued it onto one part of the card so when it stands up it's an easel! I then stamped "Merry Christmas" onto some green and red which were scraps cut into a rectangle and glued on so when it stands up you can see the sentiment under the tree. I decorated that with a little prima flower and brad. I am so happy with this, I've so enjoyed making it.

Lace heart anniversary card

This was the other item I made today, an anniversary card for my friend Conny whose 10 anniversary is coming up. It's a beige card with a top fold then chocolate brown card on top. I cut out the scalloped oval on a scrap of nice leaves gold paper with my "Straight from the nest" catridge. I used my "Accent essentials" cartridge to cut out the heart out of a scrap of red/green dotty paper. Then I got my cuttlebug and heart die and cut out the brown card and then a lace heart which I layered on top. I recently learned you can cut lace in the Cuttlebug so I gave it a try and love the look of it. I cut out a font phrase from "Wild cards" and finished off with some black and white gingham ribbon.

Wish birthday card

I started this card over a week ago and finished it today. I have seen all the lovely beaded hat pins in projects lately and I did buy some special ones and then I realised that I can make them myself. I tried to use normal earring pins but they bent too easily so I got some corsage pins and they are perfect. I have lots and lots of beads that I use for my jewellery making so I have made this pin and quite a few with some pretty beads. The card is in lilac and matted with navy blue. I got some hot pink and put it through my dotty embossing folder on the Cuttlebug. I then used my "Sweet treats" catridge to cut out the lovely little cake and my "Stamping" cartridge to cut out wish in a shadow. I had some co-ordinating ribbon to match to tie around the card and then put my pin through that. I decorated the card with gemstones and some flower stickers. This is going to be for my friend Claudy for her birthday in September, I know she'll love this as she does all of my cards. I'm really pleased with how this turned out! : )

Share the moments that bring you joy

I'm almost finished my St Lucia pics now both holiday and the renewal of vows ceremony. I decided to do this page as a one photo page as it was when we had our nice reception lunch after our ceremony at Armando's restaurant at the resort. They did our table up really special and we had a lovely meal. Whilst at Michaels the other night with Greg ♥ I found this lovely stamp "Share the moments that bring you joy" in the $1 bin so I got it as I thought it would be lovely for this page mainly but also for cards.  A few weeks ago Greg found the sheet of stitched "love" paper there too so I'm glad I had this perfect opportunity to use it on this page. I cut some pieces of pink and heart paper for the background and stamped the sentiment on the pink. I used my Cricut Essentials to cut out the hearts and the label. I then embossed the hearts on my Cuttlebug. I then cut out a butterfly which I got at Christmas in Australia which I have been looking forward to using, that also went through my Cuttlebug. I finished off with an iron on felt scalloped border. A really nice page with nice memories!

Cute little penguin in the snow

I started this one yesterday and was busy this morning but got to finish it now. I tried some different colours and I think the pink and blue works well with the bright green. I used my Cuttlebug embossing folder in snowflakes to make the embossed white background, then I coloured in some of the snowflakes using my chalks. I also used a scallop border punch to do a border on the pink cardstock. I then used my Cricut to cut out my penguin and finished off with a sticker "ho ho ho" greeting and some sequin snowflakes.

Silvery Snowflakes

Today I made a wintery themed Christmas card. I layered up some bluey grey papers and embossed one of the layers using my Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder. Then I cut out a large and some small snowflakes using my "Joys of the Season" Cricut. I then decorated them using a snowflake eyelet, brad and some rhinestones along with a large white button for the largest snowflake and some ribbon. I finished the card with a joy sentiment from my Cricut.

Embossed Christmas Tree

I decided to make this one today after Lesley reminded me about the Cuttlebug Embossed Christmas tree. I forgot how nice it was so I embossed it and decorated it with rhinestones to make the tree sparkle, then I used my Cricut to cut out a tag for the bottom and stamped it with a greeting. A nice and simple one for today!

Dotty Daisy

Ok today I realised I have a few birthday cards to make for upcoming birthdays. I decided that bright colours are always cheerful and happy and so are flowers. So I got the Cricut out and used my "Walk in my Garden" cartridge to cut out some blooms. I made this one using the cartridge and found a scrap of dotty paper that made a very cute daisy! I also used my new nestabilities shapes to cut the squares and a scrap of embossed paper that mum sent me ages ago that she embossed with the Cuttlebug, I found this by rummagig around in my scraps box. I used a scrap of lime green ribbon for the leaves.Hope you like it : )