Beer's to You!

I came across this saying recently and knew it would be perfect for my dad!  It was the inspiration for this Father's Day card.

The  mug of beer is from Smiley Cards.  I ran the foam through the D'Vine Swirls Cuttlebug folder.  The sentiment was printed from my computer.

This card will be entered in the following challenges:

Jo's Scrap Shack #54--I love you Dad

Fantabulous Cricut #214--Celebrate Dad

Cute Card Thursday #325--So Macho

More Than Favors #91--Father's Day

A FINtastic Birthday Card

I have a birthday party for a 2-year-old to go to this afternoon.  Part of his gift is a shirt with a shark on it, so I thought I'd make a card to match.  I like punny cards, but couldn't think of any shark ones.  A quick Google image search resulted in a FINtastic pun :)  Since the birthday boy is only 2, I thought a simple card would be fine.  I cut out the shark from Life's a Beach.  The dark gray layer on the cartridge is actually a thin border that gets glued on top of the lighter layer.  That sounded like a bit of a hassle to glue, and probably a frustration to cut out, so I modified it on my Gypsy so it was like a shadow layer.  I wish I had a water waves embossing folder, but I thought Chevron was close.  Unfortunately, I didn't plan that out ahead, and the "waves" go the wrong direction!

This card will be entered in the following challenges:

NSD 2014 Event Facebook Group, challenge #1--Birthday Card

Simon Says Stamp Blog--Anything Goes

Thanks a Latte

I was able to obtain a large number of free postcards with a turquoise and brown border.  They were the right size for cardmaking and I thought the colors would work well to go with some coffee themed stamps that I have.  I decided to crank out a large number of thank you cards to beef up my stash a little.  Since I was going to be making a large number of cards, I wanted a simple design.  I used the cup from Smiley Cards (hiding the face with my Gypsy) and added the steam from Graphically Speaking.  As soon as I had everything cut out, I immediately wished I had done the colors the other way around, making the cup turquoise and the saucer brown.  That way I could have stamped "Thanks a latte" on the cup.  I decided to just put both sentiments on the inside instead.

This card will be entered in the following challenges:

Jo's Scrap Shack--#44 Anything Goes

My Craft Spot--#131 Thank you card

Mixes Page

This year my friend and I got together to try making some mixes--herb rice mix, ranch dressing mix, and onion soup mix.  So, I decided to make a "mixes" divider page for her recipe binder.

I used a sketch I found here.  The jars are from the From My Kitchen cartridge.  I used my Gypsy to get rid of the labels they came with and then used my Gypsy and Cricut markers to write labels on them.  The dark blue strips on the side were run through my Cuttlebug in the Argyle folder.

This page will be entered in the following challenges:
Desert Island Crafts Challenge--#70 No flowers, Not a card, Do not color your image
Simon Says--Emboss it

Side dishes page

This is the latest divider page I made for my friend's recipe album.  It was based on sketch 261 from Card Positioning Systems.  My friend was visiting today and I was able to borrow her Country Life Cricut cartridge for the veggies.  The words were from the Holiday Cakes cartridge (welded with my Gypsy).

This page will be entered in the following challenges:

Desert Island Crafters Challenge #68--die cuts, 2 or more papers, make a gift

Cute Card Thursday--#301 Anything goes

Little Claire's--#40 Make a gift

Soups page

This is the latest installment in the set of divider pages I'm making for my friend's recipe album.  The layout is based on a sketch from Pamela's World of Scrap.  The bowl and spoon image is from the From My Kitchen cartridge.  Although hard to see in the picture, the background behind the bowl and spoon was run through the Scalloped Dots embossing folder by The Paper Studio.  The word "soups" is from A Child's Year  (I welded the letters with my Gypsy) and the tag behind the word is from Gypsy Wanderings.

This page will be entered in the following challenge:

Little Claire's--#40 Make a gift

Crock Pot page

This is the latest page I created as a divider for my friend's recipe book.  I used a sketch from Card Positioning Systems for inspiration.  To create a Crock Pot, I used the pot from the From My Kitchen cartridge.  I stretched it on the Gypsy to make it wider and hand trimmed the handles down.  I also used part of the timer image from the same cartridge to make the dial.  I had thought about cutting out one of the other appliances from that cart that has a cord, but after adding the dial I thought it looked close enough to a crock pot that I didn't need it.  The words "Crock Pot" were cut from Gypsy Font.

This card will be entered in the following challenge:

Paper Playtime--#24 Anything Goes

Desserts

My friend and I have both started printing out the good recipes we have found online.  We've discovered that if you don't, it can be hard to remember later where the recipe was, and sometimes the recipe is no longer there when you go back to it!  I saw my friends giant binder of recipes the last time I was at her house.  They are all in sheet protectors.  I asked her if she had them organized by categories, and she said, "Not yet."  I decided that for my Christmas gift to her, I would help her organizer her binder.  I went to Office Max and purchased a set of tabbed sheet protectors.  There are 8 in the pack.  I'm going to make sheets for different sections of a recipe album.  (I just hope I make categories she will use!)  Here is my first one:

The sketch for this page came from Sketch Saturday.  The word desserts is from the Cricut cartridge Cursive 101 (I welded the letters together on my Gypsy.)  The oval and piece of cake are from the From My Kitchen cartridge.  I ran the oval through the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder.

This page will be entered in the following challenges:

CAS-ual Fridays--CFC121  8 of something (There are 8 letters in desserts.)

Sketch Saturday--week 286  I really need to start watching the ending times for challenges.  I just missed this one!

Paper Playtime--#24 Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday--#297 Anything Goes

Simon Says--Anything Goes

Cards for my little Valentines

I was browsing the clearance racks at Office Max not long ago and came across some cute rubber heart bracelets and thought of my nieces.  So, I wanted to make them some Valentine cards to go with them.  I decided to keep it simple and use a design from Holiday Cakes.  I just used my Gypsy to stretch the image a bit to fit a tall (in this case, long) card.  Here are the finished cards and the bracelets that will go with them:

These cards will be entered into the following challenges:

Fantabulous Cricut #148--Be my Valentine

Simon Says--Have a Heart

Scrappy Moms Stamps--Valentine's Day

More Than Favors--Wacky Wednesday #80; Valentine's Day

Craft Spot by Kimberly #86--For your Sweetheart
Cute Card Thursday #255--Love Struck

Have a COOL birthday!

I needed birthday cards for my brother-in-law and my dad.  Man cards are always tricky, and I was flipping through all my Cricut handbooks with no inspiration when my husband walked in.  He was actually the one who chose the image I used, the snowman from Smiley Cards.  The sketch came from Die Cuttin' Divas.  I do have to confess a goof, though.  I cut out my images and shut my Gypsy off without saving.  Usually I make sure everything is good before doing that, but of course not this time.  As I went to put my snowmen together, I realized that I must have chosen the shadow image for the base.  His hat and other accessories are too small!  I didn't want to start over at this point though, so I just went with it, hoping it looks like I did that on purpose!  The oval is from A Child's Year (It was a tag, but I removed the little hole with my Gypsy).  I ran it through my Cuttlebug Snowflakes folder.  The little glittery snowflakes in the upper corners were leftover from my Christmas cards, so they are actually the center of the O from the word JOY from Create a Critter.

I always like punny sentiments, so I used my computer to print "Have a COOL birthday!" on the cardstock before I cut it for the card.

This card will be entered in the Die Cuttin' Divas sketch challenge mentioned above.

Twin giraffes

My sister's doctor told her it should be about 4-6 more weeks until the twins are born.  The nursery is decorated in a jungle theme and she does not know the genders, so I decided to make a card using giraffes in gender neutral colors.

The giraffes are from Create a Critter.  I flipped one of them using my Gypsy.  The orange rectangle was run through my Spots n Dots Cuttlebug folder.  The orange accents at the bottom were added with my iRock.  The sentiment was printed from my computer.

This card will be entered in the following challenges:

Die Cuttin' Divas--sketch challenge

Scrappy Moms--Tic Tac Toe challenge.  I did the right hand vertical column--glitter (It's a little hard to tell in the picture, but the green paper is glitter paper.), sentiment, die cuts.  The Secret Phrase is "Baby New Year."

Cute Card Thursday #249--Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Challenge--Anything Goes

The Pink Elephant--Anything Goes

Baby Shower

My little sister is expecting twins in February and her best friend and I are throwing her shower.  Since my sister is a scrapbooker, we knew she would love home made invitations.  Since we needed around 50 of them though, we didn't want them to be too complicated.  We decided a baby bottle design would be simple enough and give us the space we needed for our information.  We used the bottle from Doodlecharms.  I changed the proportions on my Gypsy so the invites will fit in a business envelope.  I used Opposites Attract to print "Twins!" on the ring of the bottle with my Cricut markers.  The colors are a bit non-traditional, but my sister doesn't know the genders of the babies and we had access to a large quantity of free cardstock in bright colors, so we thought this would be fun and eye catching!

(Identifying information has been hidden for privacy.)

This card will be entered in the following challenges:

Cricut Cardz Challenge #118--Anything goes

Peachy Keen Challenge #40--Word up!

Little Clair #26--New Arrivals

Rockin' around the Christmas tree...

I created these cards for my coworkers--kindergarten teachers.  This year, we had a 50's party on the 50th day of school.  I brought my camera that day and am going to give each of them a copy of the picture of us in our 50's costumes.  I thought it would be cute to make a card that somehow incorporated that theme.  I thought that the circle in the Skipping Stones Design sketch would be perfect for a record.  I searched on My Cut Search for a record, but there weren't any on any of my carts.  I figured it would be easy enough to make my own though.  Using the image of the record from the Nifty Fifties cart as a guide, I made one on my Gypsy using a circle from Graphically Speaking.  I used my Allegro Cuttlebug folder on the white base.  The piano keys stamp is from The Paper Studio.  The sentiment was printed from my computer.

This card will be entered in the following challenges:

Skipping Stones Design--sketch challenge #106

Celebrate the Occasion--#43 Christmas, no red

Gracias

I wanted to have some Spanish thank you cards made up to give to parents of my students when the need arises.  I used the sketch from the Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge as inspiration.  The large shape in the middle is from Ashlyn's Alphabet.  The black layer was run through my Cuttlebug in a new (to me) folder by The Paper Studio called Tiny Stars.  The font is from Gypsy Font.  I used my Gypsy to weld the word (after the G) together.  The little stars on the bottom right are from an old-fashioned, and highly neglected, paper punch.

This card will be entered in the following challenges:
Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge #64--layout challenge
My Time to Craft Challenge #165--Sun, moon and stars
Paper Playtime #60--Thank you projects

High School Football

Back to school means high school football time.  I made this card for a young relative who is on the football team.  I modeled the jersey after a picture of him in his football jersey.  I used Everyday Paper Dolls for the jersey, but I didn't use the football jersey.  I used the scientist's shirt from page 64 in the manual.  I used the hide contour feature on the gypsy to hide all of the interior cut lines.  I welded 2 of the shirts together to make a shape card.  I welded a square at the top of the back side of the jersey so it would only have a v-neck on the front.  The font for the numbers and the name on the back of the jersey is Plantin Schoolbook.  It's not a super match to the font on the real jersey, but it was the closest match I had.  The school name on the front was cut with Cursive 101.

Since the card was a darker color, I put this white rectangle inside the card to write the message.

The young man who received this card really seemed to appreciate it and was amazed how it looked just like his jersey.

This card will be entered in the following challenges:
Celebrate the Occasion #25--Back to School
Scrapbookaholic by Abby #11--Back to School
Cards by Jovan--Back to School blog hop

Thanks a melon!

I recently won a blog challenge at Cardztv and got an awesome prize package.  I wanted to make a cute card to thank Mary.
The watermelon on this card is from Doodlecharms.  I used the hide contour feature on the Gypsy to get the little lines on the rinds drawn on with the Cricut markers.  I cut out some of the seeds bigger to have some extra ones for accents on the side.  The turquoise paper was run through the Spots and Dots Cuttlebug folder and the brown paper was run through Swiss Dots.

This card will be entered into the following challenges:

Peachy Keen Stamps--sketch #52

More Than Favors--Wacky Wednesday #39: pink, brown, teal, cream (I hope it is OK I have a bit of green.  I noticed one of their sample cards did.)

Ashley's Scrappin Palace--summer project

The perfect pear

I wanted to enter the fruit challenge at Cardztv.  I liked the pear pun at My Pink Stamper and wanted to make something with a similar saying.  I didn't think I had any pear cuts, but I used My Cut Search and discovered that there was a pear on Gypsy Font.  The heart and the cut the sentiment is on are also from Gypsy Font.  I used my Cricut markers to write the sentiment, which is from Calligraphy Collection.

This card will be entered in the following challenges:
Paper Playtime #45--tall card
Cardztv--fruit
Totally Papercrafts #66--anniversaries

Moooochas gracias!

I am a kindergarten teacher and last week we had a Mother's Day tea party.  Several school staff members really went above and beyond to help my co-teacher and I get things ready and pull off the big event.  In addition, one student's mother got us each a nice box of chocolates.  (I work at a low income school, so gifts are pretty rare, and all the more meaningful.)  We wanted to make sure to thank each of these people, so I offered to make some thank you cards.  I love punny cards, so I made one that works in English and Spanish.  Here is a close-up of one of the Spanish ones.

As I said, I needed several, and I used some scraps of coordinating paper that I had, so I ended up with lots of variations:

I also made a few with English moos:

The cow is from Create a Critter.  The sombrero is from Graphically Speaking.  The image on the cart had no layering, so I used my Gypsy to create the layering.  The sentiments were printed from my computer.

These cards will be entered in the following challenges:
Skipping Stones Design--No rules
Die Cuttin Divas--sketch challenge
Creative Cutter Room--Fiesta!

Happy Birthday to one Cool Chick!

My little sister's birthday is this week.  She is a fellow Cricut owner and scrapper, so I wanted to be sure to get a card made for her.  I didn't have a specific design in mind, but I was inspired by several challenge blogs.  Please forgive my worse-than-usual photography.  My husband is out of town with the camera and I had to use the camera on my laptop!

Front of the card:

Inside:

The chick is from Create a Critter.  His sunglasses are from Everyday Paper Dolls.  I used my Gypsy to remove the cutting lines for the lenses and to make them the right size for the chick.  The turquoise square behind the chick was run through my Happy Birthday Cuttlebug folder.  The words "to one" inside the card were printed on my printer.  "Cool chick" was cut from the Opposites Attract cartridge.  I like the way this card turned out, particularly the chick!  I may use a similar idea in the future with a sentiment like "Have a Cool Easter!"

This card will be entered in the following challenges:

Peachy Keen sketch challenge #48

You Had me at Craft--Gotta Have Friends Blog Hop and Linking Party

Flaunt it Fridays challenge #17--3 Birds on Parade.  They say if you don't have that cart, you can use a similar one.  I was inspired by their Design Team member C.C., who used Create a Critter.

More Than Favors, Wacky Wednesday #32--Something funny

Cooking With Cricut #23--Funny quote, saying, or pun

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog #53--Looks like spring

Superbowl birthdays--Go Pack Go!

My mom invited my husband and I over for lunch on Sunday to celebrate my dad's and my brother-in-law's birthdays.  Sunday evening, the Packers are in the Super Bowl, so I just had to design some Packer birthday cards!

I designed the Packer G on my Gypsy, welding together a G, C, and l from Opposites Attract.  I also designed the laces on the ball with the C and l from Opposites Attract.  The football is from Everyday Paper Dolls.  I used the tip from Fantabulous Cricut for cutting an additional football to go on top of the shape card.  That way, you don't see the flat edge where the fold is.  (I actually had my football card in mind before seeing the one on their blog!)  I used Cursive 101 to cut out the yellow letters.  I wanted to buy the Tiny Bubbles Cuttlebug folder for this project, but my local stores didn't have it and it seemed too expensive to order Cuttlebug folders online, so I settled for Swiss Dots.

This card will be entered in challenge #36 at Paper Playtime--anything goes.