Most Loved Mom

Here is my card for my dear MIL.  Once again, my camera just doesn't quite capture the colors of this card, so just know that it does look really great in person.  I used Celebrate with Flourish (a new cart I just got and LOVE!) for the rose, cut at 4".  When my FIL was alive he would always give my MIL a single rose for special occasions, so I thought this cut would be perfect.  I used Birthday Bash for the scallop card base and mat, cut at 5".  BBTB2 , My Craft Spot, and CardzTV have challenges this week of creating a card for Mother's Day, so I am linking this up to those blogs.  Hope you all have a wonderful Mother's Day this Sunday!

FCCB Challenge #159 - Mother's Day

Good Monday and welcome to another Fabulous Challenge over at FCCB!  I can't believe that Mother's Day is this Sunday!  And in honor of our mom's we have dedicated this week to them.  This card I created for my own mom.  She really liked the Tri-Shutter Card that I did a few weeks ago so I wanted to make one for her.  If you need a tutorial on how to make one, please visit Mary at CardzTV, she does an amazing job teaching you step-by-step.  Anyway, I used Create-A-Critter 2 for the bird and flowers and popped them up with some dimensionals.  I also blinged them up with some rhinestones, one on the bird's hat and three for the center of the flowers.  I am excited to give this card to her along with her gift; which I haven't even started, but that's another story.  Hope you will play along with us this week, so swing on over to FCCB and link up your fabulous cards!

Decorate to Celebrate Guest Designer!!! "FOR THE GIRLS"

I am so excited to be a Guest Designer for Decorate to Celebrate's "FOR THE GIRLS" challenge.  This time of year is pretty crazy for my family; we have our Anniversary, my Birthday, and Mother's Day all within 2 weeks of each other, and now we have my baby girl's birthday to throw in the mix.  When I was trying to figure out what to do for this challenge I came across this amazing paper at JoAnn's, and everything just came together.  I knew this paper would be perfect to center around my sweet baby Josie Jane.  This is the banner I created for her and her 1st Birthday party.

 

I used Kate's ABC's Baby Girl Font cut at size 8".  The butterflies are also from Kate's ABC's, I cut them and their shadow at 5".  As far as the paper goes, it is by "me & my BiG ideas", but it doesn't have a name just a bar code (7380793379 CC-01).

 

The flowers are cut from Sweet Treats, I cut two at 4" and two at 3". The leaves are cut from Walk in My Garden.  I cut 4 at 1 1/2" and 4 at 2".  I used foam tape to pop everything up to give it more dimension and I strung it on pink and yellow ribbon.  I made bows from the same ribbon and added them in between each letter using glue dots.

 

I love this paper so much that I had to use it for my party favors and invitations too!  The treat boxes are cut from Sweet Treats. I used the Party Favors funtion key for Flower1 and cut them at 2 3/4". I used the blackout feature (same size) to cut the patterned paper flower for both sides of the box. I filled the cello bags with fun treats and tied them with ribbon.

 

My invitations are a two sided 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" postcard based off of the banner.  The front side is pictured, the back side just has the party info on it so I didn't take a pic of it.  I used the same cuts as the banner, just scaled them down, but I forgot to make note of the sizes - sorry!

 

 

Here is the dimensional view.  I used foam tape to pop everything up, and just folded the butterfly wings for a 3D look.

 

I sure hope you are able to play along with Decorate to Celebrate's challenge.  I look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with.  Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog!!!

My First Tri-Shutter Card

So when Mary at CardzTV posted her video of the Tri-Shutter Card tutorial, I had to try it!  Her instructions are so great, she is such an amazing teacher!  There are also a couple challenges that are going on at Paper Playtime and CardzTV that I really wanted to participate in, so I was inspired to make this card.  I have a bunch of "Thank You" cards to make for family members that have helped us so much this past year, this is one of them.  I really like the idea of the Tri-Shutter, because, of course, paper is my most favorite thing, and this is a great way to show fun coordinating papers; a gallery, if you will.  This is such a simple card, I just used the George cart to cut my flowers, added buttons to the center (which is the CardzTV Challenge - Cute As A Button"), and popped them up on foam tape.  The other challenge at Paper Playtime is "Use More Than One Fold".  I had fun making this, and am in the process of making another one.  Hope you enjoy, and be sure to check out Mary's tutorial, it really is so super simple to follow!

3D Project - FCCB Challenge #157

Another week of fun challenges, starting with FCCB!!!  This week you need to make a 3D project.  My son just started his first year of soccer and his first game was on Saturday.  Each week, the parents rotate and bring treats for the team.  I decided when it's my turn I am going to make these fun glasses from the Life's A Party cartridge, and give them to the kids (along with juice boxes and granola bars).  I basically used the same colors as in the handbook.  I played around a little bit with the sizes, I first put in an 8 1/2" x 11" in the bottom corner of my mat, moved the blade to the top corner of the paper and Set Cut Area.  I then used Fit to Page to see how big they would be.  I am pretty sure it calculated the size to 5", but I did think that was a bit big, so I just cut them out at 4" instead.  I have tried to get my son to sit for pictures while wearing them, but he doesn't like to pose, so there isn't a picture of him, but they do look pretty cute on my 4 year old.  Hope you have fun making your projects this week!  Check out the other Design Team member's creations over at FCCB!

FCCB Color and Shape Challenge

What a fun challenge FCCB has this week!  Come on over and participate by creating a card using the color Yellow and a Triangle.  Yes, it is a color and shape challenge.  My little card was created with the Sweet Treats cartridge.  I used the Argyle, Divine Swirls, and Swiss Dots embossing folders for the ice cream cone, rounded the corners and added yellow brads, then inked up the edges of all my yellow paper with Tim Holtz Tea Dye Distress Ink.  The fun paper is from the DCWV Sweet Mat Stack.  It's simple, but I like to show off the paper sometimes and not cover it up too much with images or embellishments.  Thanks for stopping by!!!

Happy April Fool's! FCCB Cricut Crawl

Hopefully you have found yourself here after crawling along the FCCB April Fool's Cricut Crawl!  If you haven't checked out the DT's fantastically fun April Fool's projects, you should head on over there to start it!  So, my little card isn't a "joke", but it is an unexpected response from the usual addage of "when life gives you lemons".  And this is totally my philosophy as of right now in my life.  I know soda is horrible for you health wise, but to me it is my sanity on this crazy cancer rollercoaster my little family is on.  I LOVE Diet Coke with Lime, or as it is known in my house DCL.  When I was looking through my new cartridge Just Because Cards I was inspired to create this card from the "Lemons into Lemonade" phrase/cut and cut the glass image out of vellum paper.  I used the lemon cut from Simply Charmed for my lemons and limes.  The colorful diamond paper is from Echo Park's This and That Graceful 6x6 pack.  The green and white is from DCWV Nana's Kitchen mat stack.  The yellow and white polka dot paper on the lemons is from a Wal-Mart paper pack.  I inked around the edges of my sentiments, lemons, and base card with Tim Holtz Tea Dye Distress Ink and popped up the lemons and sentiment on the front with some dimensionals.  I hope you are having fun on the crawl, and keep at it, there are still some fabulous projects ahead!