21st Birthday Card for a Grandson

Well it is hard to imagine that my second grandson is going to be celebrating has 21st birthday on Tuesday. Seems like just yesterday he was a baby, than a boy and now he is a find you man attending college and working.

His card was designed using the Gypsy and cut on the Expression. Using the Gypsy I was able to weld some small rectangles from the George basic cartridge to the 2 1(Alphalicious cartridge),  enabling me to suspend the 21 in the window of the card. The card is a window card with jagged edge from the Wild Card cartridge. The card  5 5/8 X 5 3/8 was cut from black paper with white dots. The white layer was cut to fit the front of the card, embossed with the Happy Birthday Cuttlebug folder using the Cuttlebug and the jagged edge was inked with Colorbox ink. The shadow for the Happy Birthday(Birthday Cakes cartridge) was cut a little larger and offset slightly.

The 6 X 6 envelope was made using the Martha Stewart Scoreboard.

Cardstock and paper: DCWV; The Paper Company; Me & My Big Ideas
Adhesive: Zig 2 Way; ATG; Terrifically Tacky Tape
Cricut Cartridges: Wild Card; Alphalicious; Birthday Cakes; George Basic Shapes
Cuttlebug Folder: Happy Birthday; Created For You With Love
Tools: Gypsy; Expression; Cuttlebug; MS Scoreboard

Car Birthday Card

One of my grandsons will become 8 years old on Thursday. Ever since he was a wee little boy you could always find him with a hand full of matchbox cars wherever he went. So I decided to make him a car card for his birthday. The card was designed using the Gypsy and cut using the Cricut Expression.
Car--"Just Because" Cards
Birthday Blessings--George & Basic Shapes
Marcus--Cursive 101
8--Alphalicious
Cardstock--AC Cardstock(red and blue) and Wausau Classics(sparkly silver)
Acetate--wrapper from cricut cartridges
Black Diamond Stickles--Rangers
Adhesives--2-Way and Xyron
Hemp #20
Washers--I bought them years ago when LSS had them on clearance.

Card Front

Card Back

 

Inside Card

Closeup of Card Inside

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.