Love Letters

Today I'd like to share with you the project that I made for my husband's Valentine's Day gift.  I found these wonderful little 3 in x 4 in paper bags at Michael's and just knew I had to have them.  Especially since they were on sale 50% off.  I loved the idea that they had the space for journaling on the bag and thought they were the perfect size for making tags and hoped they wouldn't be too big to fit in one of the mailbox tins I had.  After discovering that they weren't too big off to work I went.

I used a variety of cartridges on this project including:

Going Places for the globe

Create a Critter 2 for the owl, phrases and bee

Handyman for the hammer and nails

Paper Dolls for the moon and stars, and the weights

Graphically Speaking for the smiley face

Suburbia for the fan

Indie Art for the dice

Wild Cards 2 for the boat

Mini Monsters for the monster

TBBM2 for the tags

This is a picture of the front of the tags

And this is the back of the tags.  As you can see I printed different sentiments to coincide with the graphic on the front of the tag.

Once they were all put together I matched them up with the paper bag that also had the sentiment written on it.

Then in to the mailbox all but 4 went.  Throughout this week I've left one tag in different hiding spots (truck, lunch bag, bowling shoes, shaker cup) for my husband to find at some point during his day.

For my mailbox - I cut a strip of 4 x 12 paper, wrapped it around the box (cutting out a spot for the flag).  I then traced and cut out the pieces for the front and back.  The stamped sentiment is from Cardz TV Stamps snail mail.

Tomorrow I will place the mailbox - along with a Mine Craft Creeper plush (he's a huge Mine Craft fan) I picked up - in the front seat of his truck.......

He's Got the Whole World II

I had a friend ask me to make a rendition of this card I made three years ago.  Only this time she wanted one hand peach and the other in a shade of brown. 

 

So using the same cuts I did then (thank goodness for saved Cricut files and Design Studio) I recreated the card to her specifications......

 

Child's Year for the hands.  Cut twice at 3", inked and pop-dotted.

Going Places for the globe.  I cut one base at 3" in a solid blue.  Then I cut three globes at 3".  One in a water print and two in green, inked and pop-dotted the land formations.

Where the Path May Lead - Stairstep Challenge

Happy Thursday everyone.  I have another challenge that I would like to share with you today.  This one is for Just a Scrappin, and our directive this week was to make a stair step card. 

I went to work early on this one because I missed the last one by a day and with the potential of Isaac coming our way (I live in the NW Florida) I didn't want to chance missing it again this week.  So off I went soul searching for ideas when I came across a couple of leftover cuts I still had from some Boy Scout invitations I made for my sister back in 2009. 

That's right ladies and gentlemen - never throw away a perfectly good die cut because you never know when you might be able to use it.  As a matter of fact I have a whole bucket just for leftover cuts and they're organized by "theme" too.  But I digress.....

With left over cuts in hand my stairstep card was born - I mean created.  For this one I used:

Camping out for the mountains cut as different sizes; and

Going Place for the hikers cut at 1 1/2"

The sky background with the sentiment is simply a rectangle that was cut and adhered to the very back "step" to help add even more depth/dimension to the card.  I gotta tell ya, I'm very pleased with the way this card turned out.

And now that you've seen my creation for this week's challenge, hop on over to Just A Scrappin to see the rest of the teams awesome work this week.  Then get your creative juices flowing and create a stairstep card, link up and play along with us.  I can't wait to see what you come up with.

Fall Into Reading

This week's Cricut Cardz Challenge #64 is not your usual card challenge.  This week we were asked to create a bookmark in honor of National Read Across America Week. 

I have to tell you that I had a lot of fun designing this bookmark and will definitely have to design and create more.  For this one though I used the following carts and cuts:

Tags, Bags, Boxes & More for the bookmark base - I skewed the size to 2 1/4" x 6 1/2"

Stretch Your Imagination for the tree cut at 2"

Graphically Speaking for the couple reading a book cut at 1"

Going Places for the Clouds - I cut the large one at 1" and then skewed the others to 1/4"

And now that you've seen my design for this week's challenge I hope that you'll take a trip to the blogs of the other ladies on the design team and check out their fabulous designs.  After you do that, create your own bookmark, link it to the challenge and let us see yours.

The Love Show

Okay so it's a silly attempt at a play on words or whatever you want to call it, but I couldn't think of a better title for this post.

Moxie Fab World is holding yet another great challenge and today's challenge is to create a 'love' card.  NOT Valentine's Day but love.  So this is my entry for the Card Creations: Favorite Occasions Week Love Challenge.

I used Mickey and Friends for the tv, Going Places for the guard and Indie Art for the sign. 

And of course that's my husband on the 'tv screen'.  :o)

Are We There Yet?

It's been a crazy week yet again so I'm a little late getting my card for this week's Cricut Cardz Challenge posted.  Our mission this week was to create a card with a vacation theme using any cartridges we wanted.

At first I started thinking about destinations.  You know theme park, beach, any number of tourist traps.  But then it hit me.  Whenever a family goes on vacation what question inevitably gets asked time and time again?  You got it........."Are we there yet?"  And so my card was born.

For this one I used:

Everyday Paper Dolls for the road and the van
Going Places for the sun, camper and inside sentiment

The inking on my vehicles leaves a little to be desired otherwise it didn't turn out too bad.

Father's Day Fishing T-Shirt

I was so excited that cutting fabric with my Cricut actually worked!  I had tried it a while back with no success but then I found a post on the Cricut MB that gave wonderful directions.  So I gave it another try last night.

My dad, who is now retired, is an avid fisher of both fresh and salt water.  Needless to say with all the fishing he does I never need to go to a seafood restaurant.  Besides I know that my seafood is really fresh when he's bringing it in.  Kinda like the red snapper that is in my fridge for dinner tonight.  Yum!

For this project I used Ultra Heat 'n Bond (my mom tells me there's a better product on the market that she uses now - guess I'll have to give it a try) along with my fabrics and Cricut.  The sun and fish were cut using Create a Critter and the water and fisherman were cut using Going Places.

He's Got the Whole World In His Hands

This song started running around in my head this morning so of course I had to create a card based on the chorus. 

For this one I used:

Child's Year for the the hands.  Cut twice at 3", inked and pop-dotted.

Going Places for the globe.  I cut one base at 3" in a solid blue.  Then I cut three globes at 3".  One in a water print and two in green, inked and pop-dotted the land formations.

Very easy card but I love the end result.

God So Loved

This card was inspired by a plaque I saw in one of our local indoor flea markets recently. And given that the new "theme" for the Bitten By the Bug contest is: thanksgiving, gratitude, blessings, being thankful/grateful I thought what better to be thankful for than a Lord and Savior who willing gave His life for me?

For this card I used:

Going Places for the globe

Designer's Calendar for the cross

The background paper is Tim Coffey Fall Script.

You Make My World Go Round

I found these arrow brads in Michael's this weekend and the idea for this card was born. Originally I was only going to glitter up the water portion of the globe but thought that it would look nicer if I glittered the land portion as well. Little did I know that it would all kind of blend in together - until after the fact. I still like the way it turned out and don't know if I'll glitter all of it again or just use a different shade of glitter for the land.

The globe is from Going Places.

Boy Scout Banquet Invitations

My nephew just passed his test/s to achieve the highest rank possible and his parents are putting together a banquet to celebrate. My sister asked if I would create the invitations because she didn't like any of the cards she saw so I asked her what she was looking for and this is what we came up with.

For this card I used:

the mountains cut as different sizes from Camping Out, .

the hiker cut at 1 1/2" from Going Places

the "patch" was cut from Accent Essentials at 1" and then sized smaller to fit my needs

The oath was created in MS Word

Butterflies & Irish Blessings

This card began as a need for creating a project using ribbon for the current contest over at Bitten by the Bug. So I pulled out my stash and saw this one with the butterflies and knew that I had to use it.

Next was trying to figure out what to do with it. Then I remembered this cool idea I saw over on the Splitcoast Stamper boards where another lady used ribbon as a frame. Great! Now I'm getting somewhere....all I have to do now is figure out what I want to use as my card front. Oh and let's not forget the important inside sentiment.

So I opened up the document that I have all my sentiments saved into and found one that I thought was perfect. It says: May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun and find your shoulder to light on to bring you luck, happiness and riches today, tomorrow and beyond.

Boyscout Layout

My grandad used to be a Scout Leader before he passed away a few years ago. Every summer he taught the boys marksmanship during the summer camps and this pic is the last one that was taken right before his health took a rapid decline.

This was very easy to create and I based this layout on a card prototype that I am working on for my sister. Once that project is complete I will share it with you.

When Life Hands You Lemons

I got the idea for this card during one of my awake times the other night; however, while putting it together I realized that I still have a lot to learn when trying to modify certain cuts.

There's not really anything special to this one just a lot of cutting, inking and strategic placement.

A Bad Day of Fishing...

I finally had enough reward points to cash in for a new cartridge and I decided on the Cricut Sampler and today it arrived in the mail. And how perfect that it includes a couple of fishing themed cuts. So I sat down tonight and created this card.

For this card I used:

Going Places: Man fishing cut at 3" and two sets of waves in different colors and inked cut at 2 1/4"

Pooh and Friends: Sun cut at 1 1/2"

Graphically Speaking: Fish were scaled down to less than 1"

For the background I gently brushed a white ink pad across the page with a 'sweeping' motion so as to create a cloud type affect.

The inside sentiments says: A bad day of fishing is better than a good day at work.