Happy Birthday Cupcake

Hello, I get to start this week's new theme Happy Birthday over at Card A Day Blog. Love doing birthday cards there is just so many ways you can go with a birthday card.

This is the card I made for my Grand-daughter. I love how it turned out,
Recipe:

Card base is Blue cardstock

Background layer is from the Occasions & Celebrations Super paper pack

Used a variety cuts for this card with my gypsy:

Art Philosophy-circle3 and layer @3.5”

The cupcake is from Celebrations-Cupcake 2 cut @ 2.10”

w/ layers dry embossed with Divine Swirl and Candy Cane Stripe

Happy Birthday-Gypsy Wanderings-Phrase and shadow @ 2.5”

The pattern paper came from the DCWV Tie-dyed stack and the cardstock for the cupcake is recollections. The Happy is popped up and the inside was decorated with the same background paper and cardstock from the natural pack. 

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Happy Graduation Day Jessica

Today is a special day for us, our grand-daughter Jessica graduates today. Sadly we can't be there to see here walk up and get her diploma, over a 1,000 miles are in the way. This is the card I made for her:

Jessica's school colors are Green, Blue, Silver and Black so I made sure to capture all those colors in the card. This card is jam packed with goodies. I put sequins on it in various colors that I found in my stash. The card base is from my new cricut cartridge Artiste, love this cartridge! I wanted this cartridge just for the flip cards, but it has way more fun than just that. I used Accent 2-square cut at 6".

 Paper used for the card: Cardbase is blue cardstock from the Magnifique (CTMH), Green cardstock from the Mayberry (CTMH), layers are Colorbok-Gray perlesence and DCWV-Rock Star pack- Black with silver stars.
Green 4" X 4", Black w/Stars 2 5/8" X 2 5/8", Natural 2" X 2" for the sentiment. Sentiments: SU- Happy Graduation from Teeny Tiny Wishes and You Rock (not sure of the collection) Momento Black Ink.
On the inside:Gray is 5 /8" X 4.5", Black w/ stars: 5.5" X 4 3/8", Natural 4" X 4" stamped with Taylored Expressions: Graphic Greetings Graduate (love this stamp!)

Also on the flip part of the card I added the girl graduate free file from svgcuts.com out of various scraps. Isn't she a sweetie!
Happy Graduation Day Jessica!


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Project Life 2013: Week 4

Hello all, back to scrapping with project life week 4, that is what I consider project life just a different way to do it than the traditional way. Each spot is like a little scrapbook page, lol! So if your following along with a page a day in May challenge then I just finished page 6 and 7.

The week was a fun week to do, it included a cool new TV show that I started watching The Following, I even included the Get Glue sticker for the premiere on it: Left Side:

The Right Side:

The left side included the President's Inauguration, includes a quote from his speech that I found available at Laura Katie is Crafty, includes my thoughts, Tues has a pic of our bird feeder and lots of birds that morning and a card that I made for Card A Day Blog. One thing I love about PL is I can include pics of my creations too. This week is heavily around me, just haven't got Dave on board yet for this whole PL idea. He said last night I live life and you document life (even though crafting is a huge part of my life and I show how we live)

The right side includes the Week in Review cards, current pictures of the dogs, hair appointment, a 365 photo prompt, cleaning and a very cold morning. I included part of the appointment card, a calendar page that worked perfect for the picture that day (Christmas gift a Day by Day calendar, I have been saving the pages to see if they will work any place in the weekly spreads).

How are you doing with your project life or if you have tagged along for the a Page a Day in May challenge. Now to figure out how to get a bit faster at project life and still be able to include all the little embellishments (I spent all day Sunday on this other than going to church, in-between laundry and making supper, I know I got over 4 hours in it). If you have any suggestions I would love to hear them in the comments.

I'm going to give this a try this week and linking up at The Mom Creative's Project Life Tuesday, looks like an every other Tuesday link.

Thanks for stopping by and seeing the view from my little corner of the world. Now off to get a little more caught up in PL and my scrapbook pages.....

A Father's Day Card for a CCChallenge #16

Hi Everyone in blog land, I hope all the Mothers out there had a wonderful Mother's Day! Now on to Father's Day cards that need to be made for the fathers in your life. This week is Father's Day Cards at Creative Cutting Challenge and if you need an idea go check them out and then add you own card to the challenge. My card:

I created a card with a classic car from the Car Set collection. 

 

This set has 5 cool cars in it, that are great for anything masculine.

 This was a really fun card to make. The car was cut from black cardstock and vellum in my stash. This was the first time I used vellum with the cricut and it cut the design out perfect at the same setting as the black cardstock. The card base is from the seaside pack I purchase from Joanns, the background layer is from the Colorbok Textures pack, the paper gave a nice background for the car and the sentiment. I found some twill ribbon in my stash for the border (note: need to get some masculine ribbon). I made to blocks from the blue piece I used and the light tan from my stash that the edges were ink with distressed ink Walnut Stain. The sentiment was cut from one of the fonts from SCAL and was cut from a blue in a Metals pack of cardstock from recollections. Added 2 green buttons from my stash to balance out the green from the ribbon. 

Now to decide who is going to get this cool card....

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Zach's First Tooth

Hi! Glad you could stop by. I have another scrapbook page for Zachary's 1st year album. I was looking through the photos and not to many left to scrap about another week and this album should be complete. Today the layout is Zach's first tooth:

and I used this sketch:

The details:
The paper the layout is on is from the Creative Memories Seasons paper pack that I got free at a recent crop. Used the Creative Memories Cutting System-Circles for the first time for the picture and the background cut out for the border. I can see this will be a new favorite tool real quick! It was so easy to use. The border around the picture came from KaiserCraft-Conceal sheet, the journaling block came from Cosmo Cricket Social Club Elements-Now Spin Me Round. The blue first baby's tooth stickers came from a Jolee's pack. The flags in the corner, the 1 on the one flag, the arrow Look at Me came from Simple Stories-Awesome stickers page. The stars came from Simple Stories-Documented stickers page. The First Tooth title came from an unmarked embellish pack it's a fabric element. The date came from my Dymo maker.
This was a fun sketch to do and really out of my comfort zone, I keep looking at that empty spot in the right corner thinking I need to add something, but I didn't. It took only a couple hours to do.

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My New Ride

Good Morning you all and I'm back with another scrapbook page, my camera died on me yesterday so the picture of the layout was done with my phone camera so I hope it's not to bad of a picture.

I used this sketch from Scrapbooks and Cards: a Spring 2013 sketch for the inspiration of the layout:

This was a bit interesting to do, tried to work out the dimensions of all the cut paper on paper first and as I was putting it together realized that it wasn't working as I planned but worked through it piece by piece. 4 papers are 12 X 12, 10.5 X 10,5, 6 3/8"w X 8 3/4"h, 6 1/8' w X 8.5". I used white and navy cardstock and the lt. blue paper from Clorbok All Boy pattern pack and the brown is from DCWV The basics stack paper pad, I used Mini Monograms cricut cartridge for the title scallop, the edge embellishment and journaling scallop (circle navy at 2.5" and the scallop shadow tan at 2.5") with an added tan cardstock that was inked with distressed ink walnut stained. Used a MS punch for the brown pieces of embellishments, a couple of vellum blocks for some sheets in my stash and a date sticker from jillibean soup: journaling sentiments with a couple of green crystal stickers elements.

This was a fun one to do, it took me approximately 3 hours from start to finish.
 I just may get this album done this month!
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Your in My Thoughts and Prayers

Hi everyone I am the designer today over at Card A Day Blog. Sympathy cards can be the most trying card to do when the event is taking place, so my thoughts are that it would better to have some done and available for such an event.

 

This card was made for a swap that I was in and the sketch challenge on the Northeaster Scrapbook Friends yahoo group I belonged to.








I cut the blocks of sunflowers out and the mat for it was cut with Spellbinders: Classic Scallop Squares small die 3" X 3". The background pattern paper was cut at 4" X 5.25". The borders (3) layers: the front layer at 2" and the back 2 layers at 1"
 The recipe for the card:
Border paper is from Stampin Up, background mat and the mat paper behind the flower is from My Minds Eye Bella Bella pack. Sunflowers came from Best of Brenda Walton Stack.
Stamp: I got from Micheals
Cardbase: White cardstock from The Paper Company
Ink: SU Basic Black
Punch for the layers: Martha Stewart Doily Lace.

This was easily made with the sketch and it would be appropriate for a male or female recipient. I'm glad that I was able to share it with you all.
Wow last month was a bit busy and I plan to be on the blog more often this month. I wish you all a good day....