Mother's Day Cards

 This year I made Mother's Day cards for my four daughters, one daughter-in-law and one granddaughter-in-law. The cards are the same with a difference in color and sentiments on the inside.

The topnote was cut from Core'dinations Whitewash cardstock using the Cricut Songbird cartridge, edges  inked, embossed using Cuttlebug Kassie's Brocade folder and sanded to highlight the embossing. Happy Mother's Day was cut using the Cricut Wild Card cartridge and embossed with Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder. The topnote is raised from the base of the card with foam popups.

Envelopes were made using the Martha Stewart scoreboard

Cardstock: Core'dinations; Wausau; AC Cardstock; K & Company

Cricut Cartridges: Songbird; Wild Card

Cuttlebug Folder: Kassie's Brocade; Swiss Dots

Ink: Ranger Distress ( Victorian Velvet and Pine Needle)

Adhesive: Xyron; ATG; Popups(?)

Ribbon: Offray

Tools: Provocraft Cricut Expression; Gypsy; Cuttlebug

           Making Memories sander

           Martha Stewart scoreboard

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

Anniversary Card

This is a trifold card I made for my son and his wife for their 4th anniversary. For their wedding the maid of honor wore gold and the bridesmaids wore red. The card was designed using the Gypsy hand-held machine.

Trifold card was cut  using the Cricut Wild Card cartridge. The number 4 and the letters were cut using the Cricut Storybook cartridge. And the pointed square was cut using the Cricut Gypsy Wanderings cartridge. The pointed square was embossed using the Cuttlebug machine with Cuttlebug Kassie's Brocade embossing folder. Number 4 and the letters were embossed with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder. The Autumn Leaves fabric flower was embellished with Rangers Icicles Stickles.

Martha Stewart Floral Vine border punch was used to decorate K & Company cardstock. Rangers Distress Fired Brick ink was used to ink the edges of the pointed squares and for the Fiskars stamped sentiment.

 

Cardstock: K & Company, The Paper Company

Adhesives: Popdots, Gluedots, Glide Pro

Cricut V1machine and 6 X 12 mat

Anniversary Card

My oldest daughter and her husband will be celebrating their 25th wedding anniversay in early August. The wedding colors were lavender, so the card is shades of purple. I used the Gypsy to design the card, the Original Cricut to cut all the pieces and the Cuttlebug for embossing
Cricut Cartridges: Wild Card-Card

                            Sweethearts-Bells

                            Elegant Cakes-Wishes, Happy Anniversary, 25

                            George and Basic Shapes-Frame base

Cuttlebug folder:Victoria

Cardstock:Wausau Classics

Vellum:Emagination

Sentiments:Linda LaTourelle

Font:Monotype Corsiva

Punches:Martha Stewart Optic dot border and corner

Adhesive:Zig 2-Way, Glue Dots

Ribbon

Front of Card

Inside of Card

Closeup of Front

Closeup of Front

Sentiment on Card

                                            

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.