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

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

Puff the Magic Dragon

My mom has always been a fan of Peter, Paul, and Mary, so when I saw that Peter Yarrow was coming to town in May, I knew what to get her for Mother's Day.  I e-mailed the woman in charge about getting tickets and mentioned that they were going to be for Mother's Day.  Imagine my surprise when she e-mailed back inviting us to meet Peter at a restaurant afterwards!

Ever since this came up, I've had the song Puff the Magic Dragon in my head and I wanted to make a card with Puff on it.  Unfortunately, there are not many dragons on the Cricut carts.  There is one on a Paper Dolls cart, but it has no layers.  I decided to use a dinosaur from Create a Critter and attempt to make him look dragon-like.  I cut out a bat from the Holiday Cakes cartridge and cut it in half to make wings.  I cut out some ears and a little spike for the tip of his tail by hand.  I think it worked pretty well, except I'm not completely happy with his face (which I used my Cricut markers on.)  I think she'll get the idea though :)  Because of the musical theme, I ran the white background through the Cuttlebug Allegro folder.  The sentiment was printed from my computer.

This card will be entered in the following challenges:
Peachy Keen Stamps--sketch challenge #17
Cricut Cardz Challenge--#107 "There's no other like my mother."
More than Favors--Wacky Wednesday #70: Mother's Day
Really Reasonable Ribbon--#47 Mother's Day
Dilo en español--All about moms
Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog--#110 Mother's Day
Scrapalicious--Mother's Day
Tuesday Throwdown--#97 Mother's Day

Happy Birthday to a real classic!

Mom invited my husband and I over to celebrate my dad's birthday tomorrow, so I couldn't put off making his card any longer!

The car and circles came from Holiday Cakes, a cartridge I'd picked up a while ago because it was a good price and I figured a variety of holiday images can always come in handy.  I hadn't used it until today though.  The black circle was run through the Diamonds in the Rough Cuttlebug folder and the green strip was run through the Spots and Dots folder.  With the patterned paper, I figured I'd better put the sentiment on one of the red circles, but I didn't have a stamp that small and didn't want to mess around with my computer printer, so I went with handwritten sentiments this time.

This card will be entered in the following challenges:

Skipping Stones Design #113--sketch challenge

Whimsical Designs--Bringing out the old (Holiday Cakes cartridge)

Die Cuttin Divas #50--Anything goes

Craft Spot by Kimberly--Anything goes

Birthday Sundaes--Challenge #41, Easel card