A card for Brandon!

This week Cooking with Cricut's design team has been busy creating cards for Brandon, an adorable young boy who was badly injured in a car accident.   Brandon will be the recipient of cards that come in for Madison's I Feel the Love Project for May 2012.  For more details about Brandon or the I Feel the Love Project visit Madison's blog here.

Inching by to Say Hi!

I think the Stickles added some needed character to the caterpillar. 

I am borrowing this cartridge and since I can't find it in stores anymore I have been stalking eBay listings.

Recipe
Cricut Cartridge - Stretch Your Imagination (Card, Card Frame Features @ 5")
Stickles - Xmas Red, Yellow, Orange Peel, Green, Star Dust and Firefly
Cardstock and Stickers - No information available
Black Glaze Pen


Head on over to Cooking with Cricut and link up your card!  I'd love to see what you create for Brandon! 


Thanks for stopping by!

LOADS of Easter fun!

I don't know about anyone else....... but this year seems to be FLYING by!!!  Seems like I was just making Christmas cards and now an Easter card???  Well, at least the weather outside is perfect Spring weather to celebrate.  Hopefully you'll have LOADS of Easter fun, I know I will.  

Speaking of LOADS of fun, I had a great time making this card for the 

Cooking with Cricut Easter theme challenge.  

Wishing you LOADS of Easter fun! 

Cartridges: Boys will be Boys, Doodlecharms

Imagine Cartridges: 

Enjoy the Seasons, Hopscotch

I used Cricut Craftroom to layout the design and fill-in the patterns for the eggs (that's my kind of no mess Easter egg decorating!)

Embossing folder: Cuttlebug Swissdots 

Stickles: Yellow, Fruit Punch, Turquoise, Diamond, Orange

Cardstock: various from my scrap piles - 

 I'm trying to use up my enormous stash of scraps

Misc: corner rounder, foam tape

What are you making for Easter?  Come join in on the Easter fun and link up your project with the Cooking with Cricut Easter theme challenge.  I'd love to see what you are creating! 

Thanks for stopping by!

Sock Cupcake & Matching Card

I brought in the new year spending time with my family, scrapping, organizing and blog hopping.  I came across Diana's 1 Year Blogaversary (I didn't even know there was such a thing!)  at DL.Art.   She had several designers lined up and as you went to each designers blog you needed to find the 4 designers that had a clue so that you could create a project for a challenge to win a Sweet Tooth Boxes Cricut Cartridge (and from my previous posts...you know I LOVE Cricut Cartridges).  I also wanted to use my new stamp set!  

I made a birthday gift (sock cupcake) and a matching card for my entry. 

Inside card reads: You are number 1 in my book! Happy Birthday to someone so sweet!  Just relax and snuggle up and take a load off your feet!  

Recipe: 

Cricut Cartridges: Imagine - Yummy, Cupcake Wrappers, Hannah Montana

My Pink Stamper: Sweet Goodness

Ink: Timber Brown

Cardstock: Brown - Bazzill Sugar Daddy; Pink - Coredinations Gemstones Pink Diamond; Green Glitter - Unknown

Stickles: Cotton Candy, Crystal, Magenta, Firefly, Copper

Misc: Felt ribbon, pink spa socks, pom pom

Thanks for stopping by and please stop by Diana's blog and wish her a happy blogaversary! 

Happy World Card Making Day 2011!!!

Welcome to my blog and thanks for stopping by to celebrate World Card Making Day 2011.  As I am new to card making, I was surprised that there was a full day to celebrate the art of making cards!! 

If you are just stopping by while on the World Card Making Day Blog Tour, WELCOME! Please take a moment to look around -- don't worry it's not very long, just 16 posts since I started a couple of months ago! 

On with my card.......I made this card for my Grandma Sophie's 89th birthday!  She is very dear to our hearts. 

"So Dear" Card

Cricut Cartridges

Card base and Deer - Cindy Loo

So Dear Phrase - Create-A-Critter

Cuttlebug embossing folder

Stickles, Black Glaze pen, Red Glaze pen,

White Signo uni*ball pen, Martha Steward ink pad

Recollections Signature Lumiere Cardstock Paper

DCWV The Glitter Stack 

Cricut Cartridge

                                                               Envelope - Cindy Loo

I used the black and red Glaze and white Signo uni*ball pens

to embellish the deer.  

 With matching gift tag.

Here are some photos from her birthday celebration!

Sophie and Lou with the "68" cake.

 Daulton, Sophie and Dale

 Sophie's Heavenly Birthday Cake

Sophie and I

I'm so happy that she loved her card!

To celebrate World Card Making Day, I’ve decided to do my first give away from my stash of goodies!  Winner will receive your choice of one of the following sets of cards to send as they are or embellish!  

Here’s what you need to do to enter to win:

1) Leave a comment on this post, with a way to reach you. 

2) Subscribe or follow the blog and leave a comment saying that you are now a follower.

A winner will be selected by Random.org on Friday, October 7.

Thanks for stopping by - I hope you will visit again!

I wanted to share another name book with you.  This Spiderman inspired name book was fun to make. Although it was a little challenging to add the little boy's favorite color, GREEN.  

 Cartridges: George and Basic Shapes

Mickey Font (I LOVE this chunky, slanted font!)

The letter "J" was outlined using Crystal Stickles. Crystal is one of
my most used colors.
The metal tags on the side are re-purposed key tags from the 

office supply store.   The color matched perfectly. 

 To add dimension to the square journaling block (or picture mat)

it was raised using pop-dots.  The letter "O" was outlined using Yellow Stickles.

 The red frame was created by using the Spots and Dots 

Cuttlebug embossing folder. The letter "H" was outlined using 
 Green Stickles.

 I don't mind working with these spiders! 
The letter "N" was outlined using Xmas Red Stickles.

Have an amazing Spider*riffic Day!

Thanks for stopping by.....

Personalized Name Baby Book -

There is nothing sweeter than a baby's smile and laughter!  

To celebrate Zephyr's birth, I created a name book for his grandmother using my Cricut and Design Studio. Have I mentioned how much I love my Cricut?!?!?  I love making these books as gifts.   I can guarantee this is one-of-a-kind!! 

Zephyr's Full Book

Eucalyptus Stickles was used to accent the patterned paper. 

The embossed "Baby" was cut from a Hallmark Card.

 Crystal Stickles was used to accent the letter E.

 The "P" was embossed using the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder 

and Crystal Stickles were used to accent the dots.

 The duck was created using the New Arrival cartridge 

and accented with Yellow and Orange Peel Stickles.

  The "H" and frame were accented with Turquoise Stickles.

 Paw and his two boys!

The "Y" was embossed using the Cuttlebug Traffic Jam embossing folder 

and Crystal Stickles were used to accent the outline.  

The giraffe is SEI Sparklers.

The journal tag is from the Making Memories Animal Crackers spiral journaling book.

The "R" was embossed using the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder 

and Eucalyptus Stickles were used to accent the dots and frames.  

The rocking horse ribbon is from Michael's.

  The stick pin is SEI.  

  The boat was created using the New Arrival cartridge, embossed with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder and accented with Crystal Stickles.

 The waves were also accented with Waterfall Stickles.
The photo mat was created by the Martha Stewart Edger - Scallop Dot. 

All about the little details. These are the charms that hang from the book rings. Pastel color eyelets were also used to reinforce the holes for the book rings. 

Name books are a labor of love, but well worth it!  

Thanks for stopping by!