Boy Fishing Birthday Card

Another grandson celebrated his birthday this Monday. It is his eleventh.  He has many interests especially science. For pleasure he likes swimming and fishing.


The 6 X 6 card is a denim print from the DCWV Blue Jean stack. Using the Martha Stewart scoreboard I made double score lines all around the borders then sanded them so they would have a distressed look.

From the Cricut A Child’s Year cartridge using the Gypsy and the Cricut Expression I cut the boy fishing(4.17 inches) and sentiment(3.04 inches), as well as their shadows at 4.24 inches and 3.12 inches respectively. They were all cut from paper in my scrap stash.




To give the card a little pop of color I used strips of paper also from my scrap stash.


The envelope was made with paper from me & my Big idea airmail stack using the Martha Stewart scoreboard.


The fishing boy was adhered with popups behind the boy and the fishing hole. The fishing pole and fishing line, as well as everything else are adhered with Zig 2 Way. ATG was used for adhesion of the envelope.



Strips of paper were added to the inside of the card to make it not so plain.

Birthday Card for Another Grandson

I have a grandson celebrating his 17th birthday today. His favorite basketball team is the Boston Celtics. He has the desire to play basketball himself, maybe someday he will. But at the moment his talents seem to be more in the academic arena. Last year he was inducted into the National Honor Society.

The 5.25 X 6.25 card was designed using the Gypsy and cut on the Cricut Expression.
The Happy Birthday( A Child's Year cartridge) was welded to the frame and a separate gold one was cut and glued on top later. The card frame (Sports Mania cartridge) was cut then the layers were cut and glued on top. A basketball (SM) was cut, covered with Glossy Accents and Glue Pop Dot over the frame basketball. Prismacolor Colored Pencils were used to outline the player and add white detail to his suit.

The A7 envelope was made using the Martha Stewart Scoreboard.

Cardstock and paper: AC Cardstock; Me & My Big Ideas

Cricut Cartridges: Sports Mania; A Child's Year

Adhesive: ATG; Glossy Acents; Zig 2 Way; Glue Dots Pop Up

Tools: Gypsy; Cricut Expression; MS Scoreboard; Prismacolor Color Pencils

Cards I Have Made in the Past Couple of Months

This is a card I made to thank the instructor I had for eight weeks to learn Italian before I went on a recent three week vacation in Europe.

Paper from scrap stash, Cardstock: A C Cardstock and The Paper Company, Cuttlebug  and Thanks folder, Martha Stewart Scoreboard, Hemp, Adhesive: Glue Glide Pro

One of my son-in-laws loves to read, so I thought this would be the perfect birthday card for him.

Cardstock: DCWV( blue 6 1/4 X 4 1/2; brown 5 3/4 X 4), envelope At Home, Paper: Tim Holtz idea-ology Lost & Found for the book, Ink: Ranger Distress Ink Tea Dye, Provocraft: Gypsy, Cricut and  Cartridges Cursive 101(book) and Elegant Cakes(happy birthday), Adhesive: ATG and Zig 2-way, Ribbon, Martha Stewart Scoreboard

This is a birthday card I made for one of my sisters. Her favorite color is red, so I had to use a lot of red for her card.

Cardstock: K & Company and A C Company, Punch: Martha Stewart Swirling Lace, Stamp: Technique Tuesday, Ink: Color Box, Rangers Stickles(Christmas Red and Yellow), Tools: We R Memory Keepers Chromper, Provocraft Cricut and Teardrop Cartridge. Adhesive: ATG, Zig 2-Way amd Pop Dots, Martha Stewart Scoreboard


Last week one of my granddaughters celebrated her 9th birthday. It was fun making this card for her and seeing her joy when she opened the envelope.

This card was designed using the Provocraft Gypsy. The little girl shape is from the A Child's Year cartridge. I took one of the shapes and flipped it than welded the two shapes togethter to form a shape card using the Gypsy. Than I welded the number nine from the Birthday Cakes cartridge to the cupcake. The Happy Birthday with balloons is also from the Birthday Cakes cartridge.

Cardstock and paper: A C Cardstock, K & Company, Ranger Stickes, Embossing: Fiskars Braids and Cuttlebug Distress Stripes were used with stylus for the hair texture and the cupcake wrapper, Ribbon: American Crafts,  Adhesive: Zig 2-Way, ProvoCraft Terrifically Tacky Tape, Martha Stewart Scoreboard

National Scrapbooking Day

Saturday May 1st was National Scrapbooking Day. It was a day for all scrapbookers to celebrate by taking out their paper supplies and tools to make creations. There were parties and challenges to be a  participant. I was following My Pink Stamper on Facebook and her blog. Over the course of the day there were twelve challenges for us to do. I was able to do three of them.

The first challenge was to make a Mother's Day card. Since I have four daughter and a daughter-in-law who are all mothers, I decided to make a card for each of them. Here are three of the five cards I made.

I made an envelope, but it is too small for the card that measures 6 inches by 6 inches.

Challenge # 8 Love My Color. For this we were to make something in a Monochromatic color with a flower. I made a card with some of the pink paper left over from the Mother's Day cards that I used to test the border punch.

The finally challenge was named Critter-licious. We were to make a card, page or project using animal or critter. I chose to make a double layout of one of my kittens watching  a chipmunk.

April Showers

Today's blog is the fulfillment for the Monday challenge on the blog Fantabulouscricut. It took me some time to get the layout done, but it allowed me to use some of the supplies I have had for years, such as chalk and rubons. As I was doing this layout, I learned a few things along the way. I had designed the layout using Design Studio one evening while watching TV. Yes, I'm usually on the laptop while I watch TV. You know killing two birds with one stone thingy. I learned how to do welding on the Design Studio. Yesterday I learned how to transfer the file from Design Studio to the Gypsy. The other thing I learned on the Gypsy was how to identify the thing on your layout design that doesn't have a downloaded cartridge.  I used the Cricut Expression and cut out  all the shapes from one layout. This layout has also been linked to another blog challenge at Cricutters Anonymous.

Cartridges: A Child's Year(Umbrella)
                  Lyrical Letters(Butterfly)
                  Indie Art(rain)
                  Going Places(cloud)
                  Songbird(Title)

Supplies: Cardstock and paper-Bazzill, AC Cardstock, DCWV(At Home-umbrella, Flower Shower-Title), Wausau, daisyds; Rubons Anna Griffin and Little Yellow Bicycle; Fiskar punch; Ranger Ink(Tea Dye); Chalk and Ribbon.