Because I Care

Just a quick post today. I just received my pre-order from Stampin up and had to make a card with this hostess set. I love the hydrangea. For this card I stamped the image with regal rose then popped it. The leaves are stamped on garden green paper and also cut. My favorite part is the dazzling diamonds. Its so dazzling.ha ha... I just love it.   I also stamped some tiny flowers from the same set and used them to embellish... the back of the card is also stamped with the tiny flowers.

back of card

The Stuff: All Stampin Up products
Paper: Pink Pirouette,Early Espresso,Garden Green
Ink: Regal Rose,Garden Gree, Early Espresso
Dazzling Diamonds, Stampin Up border punch

Its been a while since my last post, but I promise more to come this week. This is a quick card for The Cuttlebug Spot. We took a month off, but are back with challenges today.  This one is a simple Fathers Day card made with Cricut Holiday Cake Cart. I love the simple layering on these cuts. Its supposed to be used for the Cake machine, but they are compatible with my Expression so I can use them for paper crafts also..yeah....  I hope you have a wonderful week and visit The Cuttlebug Spot for more wonderful projects.

The Stuff

Cricut Holiday Cake Cart for the car

Bumpy road EK edge punch 

Quickutz lines and Dots embossing folder 

Stampin Up  Sentiment, arrow punch, and label

"#1DAD" JustRite stampers 

Cottage Cutz Edger card

Loving my edger dies from Cottage Cutz. You can see more of these here.  I cut some strips to make the background, they cut 7 inches across and then used liquid pearls for the centers. Quick and easy. The sentiment is from Stampin Up. 


thanks for visiting today. 

Bling birthday

This week we are participating in a blog hop with other blogs at The Cuttlebug Spot. You really need to go take a peek and participate. Lots of prizes up for grabs from some very wonderful challenge blogs.  This was my contribution for the challenge. I made this card with 2 sizzix embossing folders. Dots and the Spring Hello Kitty A2 folder. I love the look of the second folder although its hard to see on white. I also used it on my previous card posted last week. This time I added some rhinestones where the lines crossed.  I also found this great glittered ribbon at Michael's. It does make a mess if you have to tie and re-tie a bow... I have glitter all over my work area...so off to clean my mess... . Thank you for visiting today and go on over to The Cuttlebug Spot to find out more about the Blog Hop

Provo Craft just released some great new cartridges that can be found here. One is Create a Critter, I just fell in love with the images. I will be getting that one for sure but it does not get shipped until mid April.....so I took out one of my old carts and cut my favorite birds. I think this card just shouts spring. The sun is shinning here in CA and my flowers are blooming everywhere... now if I could only make my Gardenia behave and give me more flowers than it did last year. ... if you have any hints on how keep buds from falling off the gardenia.. let me know.

The Stuff:

Provo Craft Cart : Disney Princess Happily Ever After 

Stampin Up : Tangerine Tango ink, scallop punches. 

Martha Stewart : Rose leaf punch

Paper : Imaginisce

Shamrock for March.

This week at The Cuttlebug Spot our challenge was to make something green. I was in the mood to celebrate the Irish so I made this Shamrock card. I welded the framed shape on my Gypsy to make the card base along with the shadow cut for the shamrock from Designer Calendar cricut cart. I love how it turned out. All the shamrocks are embossed with the cuttlebug folder Celtic Knot.  Have a great week.  Doing some spring cleaning this week.. but I will try to get a few cards posted later this week.

other items used. 
Paper from Mi Casa DCWV stack
Punches : Stampin Up border and small tag, Martha Stewart small shamrock 
Stickles

Thank you cards : school spirit

I wanted to share some quick and simple Thank You cards I made for the teachers at my boys' school. Their mascot is a Jaguar so I used their school colors and paws as my inspiration. I embossed them with the paw fiskars embossing plate.  I am placing these in the teacher's lounge so that they can help themselves to any. It was so hard to figure out what style to use so I kept them very simple. I hope they like the.

Double embossed, double the fun. Easter Blessings

This week at The Cuttlebug Spot we are using a double embossing technique to add embossing shapes to a smooth. Be sure to visit The Cuttlebug Spot for the awesome design team creations and also take a look at the video/tutorials to learn about this technique.

This card was completed using the labels thirteen nestabilities just released this month. I love them.  The cross is from my Easter 2010 mini cartridge. I think this is going to become one of my favorite cuts on this cartridge.  As always, thank you for stopping by. 

Cuttlebug® A2 Moroccan Screen Emboss Folder

EK Success Slim Edger Punch: Parisian

glitter, Stampin Up Scallop punches 

Post-it®Craft Paper card

Hello. Today I have a quick card I made for The Cuttlebug Spot. We are using Post-it®Brand Craft Paper this week. I  discovered it at Jo-Ann's one day and was curious to see how well it would work. I loved how easy it was to punch and use with my Cuttlebug. Post-it is sponsoring the challenge this week at The Cuttlebug Spot, so go enter for a chance to win your own pack of paper so you can try it.

For this card I embossed the lavender paper then punched 2 ovals with my Stampin up punches for the base of my flowers. I then punched some branches from Martha Stewart branch punch in the purple and lavender.  The sentiment is  from Stampin Up.  Silk roses and leaves found at Jo-Ann's. This card is meant to be hand delivered due to the height of the roses. . but they are so pretty, I couldn't pass them up.

Happy Birthday : lots of punches

If you know me from Cricut.com message board, you know how much I love punches.. especially Martha Stewart.  I had to use a couple on this card. The trellis, vine, butterflies, and flowers are all punches from different companies. I used liquid pearls to embellish the butterflies. I love the look o pearls with out the actual pearl on them. As always, I hope you like and thank you for visiting my blog.

Butterflypunch and flowers : Stampin UP 

Trellis: Martha Stewart

Vine: EK 

Embossed Paper Bag

This week we are making Christmas boxes, bags, wrappers, etc... at The Cuttlebug Spot. I have been wondering what an embossed paper bag would look like so this was a great opportunity to try. Well the only problem was that I only have brown ones, so I embossed it with a sizzix folder then inked it with gold ink. I did cut 2 inches from the top then punched with my Martha Stewart trellis punch. The centers on the flowers are glitter stickles. I cant wait to try it with colored paper bags. Let me know what you
think .

Getting ready for winter

Made this one with the new mini carts; Snow Friends, and When its Cold Outside. I welded the snowflakes together then welded them to the snowman.  He is so cute. I love how you can dress them up.

This week we are making embossed confetti at The Cuttlebug Spot. This is my take for the project. I embossed with the spider web folder then cut the strips. I attached some ovals at the end of the strips with some Halloween words. The lollipops are made with Stampin Up sweet treat cups. I took some vellum and also embossed with the spider web folder and attached as the background to the circle. I really like how they turned out.

Color challenge

vintage corners 

This week we have a color challenge at The Cuttlebug Spot. Please visit and play along. We chose three different colors to play with. Brown, blue and orange. I love Brown and blue so here is my take on the challenge.  I used nestabilities for the frame and the scroll frame is a Cuttlebug Die from the Vintage corner set. Thank you for visiting. ... now go create.

bikini card

 

This is for a pool party. I used this weeks sketch from 2sketches4you.  I am also entering this card for this weeks cutecardthursday. The weekly challenge there was to use fabric.  

Crochet bikini from Anna Griffin.  Brown and orange paper is linen from S.E.I collection. The sentiment is stampin up Riveting set  and ribbon from American Crafts. 
  

Birthday card -sketch challenge

This is my contribution for this weeks challenge at 2sketches4you. Its my second time working from a sketch. I am trying to get used to it. Lots of fun. If you have not tried this you should visit their blog and try a sketch.

stampin up: Lots of thoughts, Floral Garden. Nestabilities, jewel accents. Ribbon from Michaels. Paper is from Scrapworks skinny phase blossom.

Your're sweet

This is for the weekly challenge at 2sketches4you.  This is my first time taking their challenge. The sketch is by Laura.  For this one I used my Stampin up set "Sweet Treat". Fiskars rope border and my nestabilities. BG paper is from DCWV nursery stack. 

Surf's up Dude...

I am in love with these penguins from the retired Penguin Paradise Stampin up set. The paper is from DCWV summer glitter stack. Coloring is done with prismas and gamsol. Ovals with nestabilities. I am entering this card in Cute Card Thursday's pattern paper challenge.

Altered tin and card

Found this tin in my son's room so I decided to alter it. Its the perfect size for a gift card. I am entering this in Arty Girlz Challenge for Recycling. The card is on pre embossed Doodlebug paper. Stamp is stampin up Blooming with Happiness. I colored with souffle pens that give it a 3d effect. Thanks for visiting.