Tinker Bell Just Because

A just because card I made for my youngest granddaughter to put in a package I’m sending her.

 

This is a large card 6 X 12 inches. The card base is Wausau cardstock. All of the remaining paper and cardstock are from my stash. Rubons from my stash were used for the sentiments.

 

Using the Gypsy and the Tinker Bell & Friends cartridge, I cut the Iridessa  character (page 60) and mushroom (page 69)  and all their components at 5.98 inches width by 5.47 inches height with the Cricut Expression. All the parts were adhered with Zig 2 Way and Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive.

 

Close up of the mushroom and grass. The grass is made using the Alterations Tim Holtz Tapered Fringe die. The paper flowers are from my stash with gems by LYB.

 

Close up of Iridessa, she is popped up with  Scotch Foam Mounting Tape. The fringed layer of her wings is EK Success Laura Ashley vellum. The butterflies are from K & Company. Various markers were used for accents such as Sakura Gelly Roll and Zig Millennium. A little Glossy Accents was used on the pupils.

 

50th Birthday Card

My nephew celebrated his 50th birthday at the beginning of September. As usual I made a card for him. The card is 6 X 6 with four layers on the front.


 The papers are from DCWV. The gold glitter paper is from my stash, so I'm not sure who is the manufacturer. I embossed the black denim with a Cuttlebug birthday folder, then I sanded it with a Tim Holtz sander.
The fonts used are from Cricut cartridges Birthday Cakes and Elegant Cakes for the 50th and Birthday Cakes for the sentiment on the inside of the card.

inside

 

Machines used Cricut Expression, Gypsy and Sizzix Big Shot. ATG and Zig 2 Way adhesives were used.

28th Anniversary Card for my Oldest Daughter and Her Husband

My oldest daughter and her husband will be celebrating their 28th anniversary this weekend. Purple is her favorite color, so the colors for the bridal party were lilac for the women and grey for the men. So it is time to make them a card.

I made this shaped card with the Cricut Expression using the Cricut Sweetheart cartridge. I am also using the card for this week’s Fantabulous Cricut ChallengeWebsite challenge to make a shaped card.

Using the Gypsy the hearts(5.46 inches X 4.62 inches each) were welded together.

Folded heart card made from DCWV Mademoiselle Stack paper.

The sentiment( 2.89 inches X 1.27 inches) was welded to overlay heart( 5.46 inches X 4.62 inches) at the “A” and “y” of Anniversary.

 

The contrasting color of the sentiment was cut at the same size as the welded sentiment.

I was able to see how it would look all put together with the use of my newly acquired Scrap n’ Easel.

Because I didn’t want the white edging to show all edges were inked using the Gelly Roll purple pen.

It needed some bling, so I embellished the overlay heart with Viva Pearl Pen Ice White pearls.

That looks better, but it needed a bow, so I used some of Martha Stewart’s lace ribbon.

The inside of the card needed some decoration, so I fussy cut some flowers from the beautiful DCWV Mademoiselle Stack that was also used for the base of the card.


Because the bottom of the heart card is pointed, the card can not stand open. So I made a base for the card by fussy cutting some of that same beautiful embossed paper, folded it and cut a slit in the fold so the card could be inserted. And I added a couple of paper braces to the inside of the stand for stability.

The envelope was made from K & Company paper using the Martha Stewart Scoreboard. The inside of the stand is stamped with my signature stamp.

I used several adhesives: Zig 2 Way, ATG and GlueDot PopUp(to adhere the overlay heart to the card base).

SOC Christmas in July Blog Hop

 
Welcome to SOC's Christmas in July Blog Hop! I, along with some very talented crafters, are coming together to deck the halls by sharing Christmas themed projects! Of course Christmas is the season for giving, and this hop is no exception! There will be giveaways on various blogs throughout the hop! Plus, there will be an SOC blog hop gift awaiting one visitor!! To be eligible for that prize, you must comment on all the blogs by Sunday, July 28th at 11:00pm EST. From all who are eligible, one lucky reader will be randomly drawn. The winner will be posted on all the participating blogs on Wed, July 31st.

Dorothy here

Cyndi

Cheryl

Donna

Francine

Debra

Alice

Michelle

Classygirl

MJ

 





Double layout

 



1st layout

 

 2nd layout

 Close up of the title enhanced with Glossy Accents

 



Close up of the sentiment enhanced with Glossy Accents 

Close up of mats for 3 X 5 photos and the tree for journaling

 

 

 Close up of the embossed flocked tree and the stickled  star

Close up of the snow

 The papers used are DCWV Christmas Combo 2010 for the snowflake mat,  photo mats for 3 X 5 pictures, tree journaling space, and the large  trees. Other papers used are Sizzix Textures Handmade Paper for the tree trunks and Wausau for the snow. The red cardstock is AC Cardstock.

 

Using the Gypsy and Cricut Expression the following Cricut cartridges were used Paper Doll Dress Up(large trees), Joys of the Season(star and sentiment), George(photo mats), Create A Critter(journaling tree), Lacy Labels(mat behind Joy) and Teresa Collins December 25th(title).

 

The large trees were embossed with the Vagabond using the Sizzix Evergreen embossing folder.

 

Other items and tools used were the Perfect Tears(snow), WRMK(little white snowflakes), Stickles(star and flower), Colorbox Chalk Warm Red(mats), EK Success Chalk(snow), Stampendous Cotton Ball White Flock(large trees),  and Spellbinders Large Labels(behind title). And the adhesives used were Glossy Accents, ATG, GlueDots and Zig 2 Way.

 

 

Patriotic Mini Book

There are several challenges this week/month to make something in red, white and blue in celebration of America’s Independence. On the Fantabulous Blog there is a Red White and Blue Cricut Crawl. Over on Mema's Crafts there is an all month challenge. And at SOC Sista//Brotha Blogger Week 28 challenge is display red white and blue.


I chose to make this 3 X 3 mini book using papers from the Authentique PRIDE collection 6 X 6 pad. The pages for the book are made from one 12 X 12 piece of DCWV(Stack 7) paper (Tutorial  by Tracy’s Treasures24 part 1 & part 2)

Front Cover

The postage stamp frames are from Cricut cartridge Elegant Edges ( page 37) cut at 2.75 inches by 2.75 inches. I used the Gypsy to get the exact size and the Cricut Expression.

The placards and postcards were scissor cut from the Authentique PRIDE paper. The placards on the front and back covers are elevated using Recollections Foam Squares.

Red/White and Blue/White Twine by American Crafts were used for the closure.

Edges are inked using Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

Blue Gems by Want2Scrap are adhered to both sides of the tags. The toppers for the tags were the leftover pieces cut from the inside of the postage stamp frames folded in half. (nothing goes to waste) LOL

I used many adhesives. Terrifically Tacky Red tape to adhere the pages together to form the pockets and to paper outside of the covers. Glue Glider Pro to adhere the covers to the book. Zig 2 Way to adhere the postage stamp frames to the pages and Scotch 2-Way to adhere toppers on the tags.





 pages 1 & 2 with and without tags                                        

pages 3 & 4 with and without tags                                        



pages 5 & 6 with and without tags                                        



pages 7 & 8 with and without tags                                        

 

Back Cover

 

Tags front & back

Postage Stamp Birthday Card

This 6 X 6 inches postage stamp birthday card was made for my son-in-law who will be celebrating a significant birthday next week.

The card was designed using the Gypsy and cut with the Expression. Cricut cartridge Elegant Edges( page 37) was used for the stamp. The stamp and the frame were cut at 5.50 X 5.50 inches.

Happy Birthday(Simply Charmed cartridge) was cut at 3.51 X 1.90 inches and the facial features were highlighted with ink.
The "50"(Birthday Cakes cartridge) was cut at 0.48 X 0.76 inches and “th”(Birthday Cakes cartridge) was cut at  0.45 X 0.65 inches.


The edges of the sentiment were inked with tea dye TH Distress Ink. Then they were enhanced with Glossy accents.


The stamp frame is adhered to the stamp base with 3D foam squares.
 

Inside of Card

 

SUPPLIES:Cardstock-Recollections Kraft, stash(blue and beige chevron); Electronic machines-Provocraft Expression, Gypsy; Cartridge-Provocraft Elegant Edges and Birthday Cakes; Ink-Rangers Tim Holtz distress, Sakura Gelly Roll; Adhesive-Rangers Glossy accents, ATG, Zig 3 Way, Thermo.o.Web; Other-Hemp, DCWV Quote Stack Stickers

Blue Tow Truck Birthday Card

My youngest grandson celebrated his 8th birthday this week, so I made this tow truck birthday card for him.

This shaped card was made from the Cricut Nate’s ABCs cartridge(page 35) with the “birthday” from the Cricut Create a Critter cartridge(page 27) weld onto the hook using the Provocraft Gypsy and cut using the Provocraft Expression. It is a large card. The tow truck is 9.78 X 5.99 and the “birthday is 3.63 X 1.82. The hubcaps and “8” are adhered to both sides of the card.

To make the shaped tow truck I weld the truck roofs of two trucks together using the weld feature of the Gypsy. And I weld the “birthday” to another single tow truck. All the edges were inked with Distress Ink(tea dye or stormy sky).

After cutting the pieces the welded truck was folded. A windowpane was cut with scissors by hand from the acetate wrapping used for cartridge packing. Then the windowpane was glued between the welded truck and the truck with the birthday” welded truck. The chipboard “8” was adhered with ATG adhesive.

The “birthday” was blinged with Dark Blue stickles.

The door handle and the hood vents are drawn with Black Diamond stickles.
The tires were painted black with a black Sharpie. The hubcaps were yellow plastic washer like disks. I used Sail Boat Blue alcohol ink to change them to blue. They were attached to the card with ATG adhesive.

SUPPLIES:Cardstock-AC Cardstock; Electronics- Provocraft Expression, Provocraft Gypsy; Cartridges-Provocraft Cricut Nate's ABCs and Create A Critter; Ink-Ranger Tim Holtz Distress, Tim Holtz Adirondack Alcohol, Sharpie; Embellishment-Ranger Stickles, Washers(?), Chipboard number(?), Acetate packaging; Adhesive-ATG, Zig 2 Way, Ranger Glossy Accents; Tools Tim Holtz Tonic scissors

Alphabet Book for Malia

I decided to make an alphabet book for my one year old great granddaughter, Malia Rose using the letters of her name. The base of each page was cut from cereal boxes using the Cricut Expression with the deep blade and housing. (blade 4, pressure 6, multicut 2).  The rectangle with rounded corners were taken from the Cricut George &  Basic Shapes cartridge. The letters, phrases and images are found on the Kate's ABCs cartridge.
The pages are nine(9) inches long by five(5) to seven point twenty five(7.25) inches in quarter(1/4) inch increments wide. The alphabet letters used were welded to the base using the Provocraft Gypsy.

DCWV pastel cardstock and DCWV dots, stripes and plaids cardstock were cut using the same designs as the base using the Expression with the regular blade and housing( blade 6, pressure 6, multicut 2). NOTE: for the dots, stripes and plaids used for the reverse side of the page all the pages must be flipped in the Gypsy. The paper was run through the nine inches Xyron to be applied to the page base.

To obtain the full alphabet letter on each page: one set in pastel dots were cut for the page and one set in pale yellow were cut in reverse(flipped) for the other side of the page. They were glued to their respective pages using the Zig 2 Way glue applicator.

The phrases and shapes were sized on the Gypsy and cut with the Expression for each page. I was able to use scrapes of paper in my stash. All the layers were adhered using Zig 2 Way glue applicators.

The covers of the book were cut from cardboard at nine and a half (9 1/2) by seven and a half (7 1/2) using a Fiskars paper trimmer and the corners were rounded using the We R Memory Keepers Corner Chromper. DCWV pastel paper was cut the same way and run through the Xyron to adhere to the cardboard cover.

The We R Memory Keepers Cinch was used to bind the book. The decorative chipboard letters on the cover of the book I bought at least five years ago and I don't know who to credit.