Diaper Pin Card

Hi you all, and welcome to my blog. Today I'm the designer over at Card A Day Blog for the final day of the baby theme. Ever in a hurry and need a card quickly, you know those times when you totally forgot about a function that your suppose to attend till it pops up on your calendar. Below is a card for that situation:

If you have a Cricut, come along and see how I made this adorable baby gift card

You got to Make The Envelope First

The trick with using the Wild Card cartridge when you want the matching envelope is to make the envelope first.
You load the paper you want to use for the envelope and choose “set paper size”.
I used light yellow paper in 12 X 12 size. Then, I choose the special “fit to page” option. This calculates and cuts the largest possible envelope for this size paper.
When you hit the “cut” button, watch the display closely to see the size. It will only show once, and it’s quick! In this case, it was 5″. This is now the size you must manually program for everything on this card.

The envelope has a cute little peek-a-boo diaper pin on the flap, and I am going to add a yellow liner that will show through when the flap is closed. I added my paper and selected the “liner” option at 5″. Sure enough, it fits right in and looks as cute as I had hoped.

 

Now, onto the card…

Make The Diaper Pin Shaped Baby Gift Card

Again choosing 5″, I cut the card out of yellow cardstock.
Once the card is folded, it’s obvious the top part (the actual pin part) is kind of flimsy and needs a backing. Fortunately, Cricut has thought of this and created the “blackout” feature — which means it will be the exact same size as the original object.
A liner, like I cut for the envelope, will be slightly smaller than the object — since it is designed to fit inside the object. So I used white cardstock to create a blackout copy of my card. I only needed the top section (to cover the diaper pin part), so I cut it in half. It fits perfectly and provides the stability the card needs.
The “liner” feature also has an option for detail on the pin closure, so I used purple patterned paper with with baby theme items on it. It fits right over the head of the pin. I used the Hannah Montana cartridge to cut B-A-B-Y in the base font at 1″.

For the inside of the card, I used the “Baby Blessings” phrase from Wild Card on page 76. Since this phrase is not directly connected to the diaper pin card, I have to choose the size I want. 5″ won’t necessarily work. So I selected “real dial size” and then 2″. And my phrase is exactly 2″!

This is a really cute card for a baby gift, and if it is for after the baby is born you could personalize it with the Baby's name.
Thanks for stopping by and seeing the view from my little corner of the world.....

It's All About the Cake!

Hello all, I'm the designer over at Card A Day Blog today.  Check out the blog and see what the girls have been making, if you need wedding card idea that is the place to go, aren't the cards this theme been so cool!

 This was such a cool card to make and so out of the box for me. I made this card for a swap for a Facebook group I belong to, Cricut Card Exchange, we do a different theme each month and make enough for our group members and send them to them, it's a fun group.So I wanted to do something different this time for the group, and came up with this card.

Card base is from Colorbok Pearlescent cardstock pack in White. Card -cut at 5” From the Wild Card Cartridge. Used Lavender Lace liquid pearls, string of pearls in my stash glued with hot glue

and the bow is made from a roll of craft ribbon in my stash.

This was such a fun card to make, it has to be one of my top 10 favorite so far that I have made. Give it a shot and do something out side of your norm and see what you can do.

Thanks for stopping by my little corner of the world.......

Feeling Sick?

Hi you all and welcome to my blog. I'm the designer today over at Card A Day Blog and the rest of this month the theme is Get Well Soon fitting, for cold & flu season.
A get well card can be a bit tricky to design, especially for the men. But I came across a cool cut and used it for this card:

 

 I always go to my cricut cartridges if I want to make a quick card and out of the 4 I pulled out to get something designed for this card I seen this cut on the Wild Card Cartridge. I knew that I wanted to make it for a man and the saying was perfect, lol doesn't the hubby milk it when they are sick? Mine sure does!

So the specifics on this card is: it's a 5" X 7" card the Wild Card cartridge can be a bit tricky to cut from, why you ask, well the icon is based on the size of the actual card and when I did the first cut of the milk bottle at 4.25" it was small and I had a feeling the letters wouldn't cut well. So I decided to bump it up and at 6" you see what I got a 3.25" milk bottle. I took that and did the shadow and also popped it up. The sentiment came for the stencil part of the cut and that was at full size it took 2 tries to figure that out then it dawned on me that it was actual size so I did that at 3.25" too. I choose a plaid background from the DCWV Stack 8 pack and to draw in some of the red from the plaid decided on the border that was punched with MS embossed zigzag punch, which gave it some cool texture.

I used some of the leftover pieces on the inside to tie it all together:

I thought it turned out well, I think a good friend or my great hubby will be getting this card the next time they are feeling a bit blue.
Thanks for stopping by and seeing what is going on in my little corner of the world.....

A Special Graduation Card

Spring Has Sprung!
The designers at Card a Day Blog are joining together to do a Blog Hop! The theme is dimensional cards!

To join in....visit all the participating designers by visiting their sites, some are having prize giveaways...so make sure you pop in!
Make sure you comment on all the blogs too, because at the end of the blog hop, they are going to send a list of all who commented on their blog,
and we are going to do a grand prize drawing of all comments on each blog!
The grand prize is your choice of a pdf pattern book, valued up to $20, from http://popupcards.com/shop-patterns.html !
Make sure to check back at Card a Day Blog March 23rd, to see who won!

If you just came from Card A Day Blog then you are on the right track for hopping this blog hop. Welcome to my blog and my card is an interactive card:

This is, what is called a waterfall card. I had gotten one in a recent card swap and my husband just thought this was a fun card and wanted me to make this for our grand-daughter's graduation this year.
So I contacted the girl that made the card and she gave me the youtube site for the tutorial (the girl walks you right through it, easy)
The details of my card:

Britney's school colors are Black and Orange so that is the colors chosen for the card. The card base is in Ivory cardstock A2 size. the background piece is DCWV Siler Stag Star paper, The other papers are from my scrap pile in black and 2 oranges. I cut a few images to put on the scrap pieces from A Child's Year, Printing 101 and Wild Card. Silver brads, orange eyelet and silver ribbon. Stickers are from some freebies I got in the mail.

What you'll need for the card is a piece of card stock 2"X 9" and scored at 2"-2 3/4"- 3 1/2"- 4 1/4". Bend the score lines back and forth, even the other way to help it. You need 4 2"X 2" papers (they can be the same or different colors)(mine are the black). You need 4 1 7/8" X 1 7/8" square in maybe a neutral color (mine are the orange (see above picture)), These will have either your image or sayings on them. You will need the attaching border at 3/4" X 4 1/4" (this is what your waterfall attaches to. You attached this to the card towards the bottom with 2 brads. The long piece of cardstock is where you attached all the square pieces (and from here it would be best to watch her video for the placement of the pieces). The card was actually pretty easy to get together while watching the video tutorial.
 Here is the movement of the card

 

 

Here you can see the actual movement of the card:

Isn't that cool! The only thing I would change about this card is putting on the images before putting the pieces to the waterfall strip, it would have been nice to have the 2012 sitting right at the bottom now that I see the card put together,
Thanks for stopping by and I enjoyed showing you the card I made today. Now I do have some blog candy but I don't have a picture of it on here today. So it's a surprise but it is dimensional. All you have to do to win is be a follower and leave a comment with an email to reply back to you. The comment is also needed for the big giveaway, too. Now hop on over to Cindys Creations and see what kind of card she has made.
Challenges:
Always Crafting-Anything Goes

So JOIN IN TODAY....comment on the main blog page, and visit the other hop pages and comment there too!

One for Melissa Pinter

To carry on from yesterday, this card was made for Melissa. Melissa is a very special Mom as we could see in the bio she gave us on Ethan. She sacrifices each day and her family to be with her son. This card is for you Melissa:

 This card was made at the same time as with Ethan's card, so I used the same cartridge for it. The outside of the card was done with Wild Card on pg 47 the phrase and the frame. I'm glad I used this cartridge because after locating the designs I wanted for this card it open up so many possibilities for other things within this cart.. Looking for specialty envelopes it's in there, Looking for frames for you sentiments it's in there, how about a variety of phrases it's in there, even a liner for the envelope and an alphabet. It's a well rounded cartridge that I plan to do more with in upcoming projects. the doily and the bird I received in a cut swap: Renee Benson and you can check out her blog at CraftyPinkNayNay it's from the Cindy Loo cartridge (need to investigate that one more too).

 The inside is out Wild Card cartridge too. Pg 44 phrase and pg 45 Icon: Smiley face which I hand cut the smiley open to give it character. So Melissa I will be getting both cards out in the mail and into your hands soon with alot of prayers in between.

 These 2 pictures are of my dogs Buddy above and Jake below, we finally had a real snow storm yesterday and these were taken while they were having fun in the snow. We got 5.25" of the white stuff and I enjoyed a day home cleaning (not enjoyed but needed done) and perusing the internet for ideas and some genealogy research. Thanks for stopping by and checking on what I've been up to.

Stop back tomorrow and see what new project I started working on, I think it's gonna be a fun week with lots of crafting to do....

Blog Hop for Ethan Pinter

Welcome to Blog Hop for Ethan Pinter. He is a little boy that is very sick. Here is a bio from his mom, Melissa Pinter: My name is Melissa Pinter and I have a 2 year old son name Ethan Pinter who was diagnosed with a rare liver disease called Biliary Atresia att the age of two months old. This is a rare disease because he was not born with Bio Ducts. So Dr. Pintinger and the Akron Children's Team reconstructed them and the procedure was called a Kasi. So at the age of 8 months old Ethan and I were Life flighted to Cincinnati Children's because he had Upper GI bleeds. The only thing that woud help him would be a New liver. Feb 18th 2011 he had recieved a half of another babies liver. This baby saved my son's life and we are so ever so greatful. Ethan and I had waited a total of 9 months for this. We have been seperated from my husband and daughter during that time. Ethan is now 2 years old and is having complications and we are currently living at the Ronald Mcdonald House in Cincinnati till we get him better. He has two crucial virus's that he is currently fighting, they are the EBV Virus and CMV Illuminitis (Fatal Virus- it attacks every organ) .

 Welcome and if you came from Courtney's blog then your at the right place, if not and want to start at the beginning you need to head over to Jenn's blog.

We found out at the beginning of this that Ethan likes Elmo and trucks. Since I had no Elmo cartridge I decided to make him a get well card with a truck on it and on the inside too. The front truck came from Just Because Cards cart. I took the sticker element and cut it for the card. The add the sentiment from a variety of places but all the words came from this cart other than the word flat it came from the Wild Card cart, nice font on that cart.

The inside of the card came from the Just Because cards cartridge too. This truck was the basis of the card. Learned something about the card cartridges that all the elements with the card follow the size of the card. Which at first I didn't know that and when I cut out a wanted 2.5" truck I got a 

The 1st image is at 1" not exactly what I wanted but the next image is right around 2" after I put the size on the cricut at 4.5" (the card size). I guess sometimes you have to think outside of the box when it comes to the cartridges.
Recipe for the card was a variety of scraps, scotch scrapbooker's glue and True Blue sticles
Stop back again tomorrow and check out the card I did for Melissa..


This was a fun card to make and I'm hoping that Ethan enjoys it too. If you would like to send a card to Ethan and his Mom Melissa you can send it to:

Melissa Pinter
Ronald Mcdonald House Room 17
350 Erkenbrecher Ave
Cincinnati Ohio 45229 

Next stop is at Tina K's blog: Crafty and Green

In case you get lost at all here is the list:

Jenn www.memorieswithjen.blogspot.com/
Courtney www.craftingwithcourtney.blogspot.com
Tina C. www.tinasscrapcorner.blogspot.com
Tina K (Crafty and Green) http://craftyandgreen.blogspot.com
Michelle Ferris - http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/
Lynne - http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/
Michelle Peak - http://queenofmycraftroom.blogspot.com
Kimberly Pate  ~ http://scrappingrookie.blogspot.com
Nicolette- http://beyondscrapin.blogspot.com
Becky - http://beckscricards.blogspot.com
Autumn - http://autumnsbuggycreations.blogspot.com