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.......

Forever, You and Me

This is a card that I made some time ago.  My inspiration for the card came from a picture I saw of a bathroom scene complete with his and hers towels hanging on the wall. Isn't it great the things that kick our creative juices in to high gear?

For the front of my card I used:

Sweethearts - for the you & me cut

Every Day Paper Dolls - for the bathtub, bubbles and towels

Paper Pups - for the dog

George - for the "towel bar"

My "tiles" are 1" squares that I cut on my paper trimmer

For the inside of my card I used:

Home Decor - for the word Forever

Indie Art - for the lips

Unfortunately the lips don't show up very well in the picture, but they were cut from a shimmering card stock so as to give that appearance of lip gloss.

No Other Like My Mother

Happy Wednesday everyone.  It's time again for another  Cricut Cardz Challenge .  This week our directive was to create a Mother's Day card using any cartridge/cut we desired.  And since Mother's and flowers go hand-in-hand I decided to create a card with a flower as my focal point.

The flower on my card was cut from Mickey and Friends.  My first cut was of the flower on the stem - cut at 6 1/2".  I then cut the flower 'icon' in four varying sizes ranging from 1 1/2" to 3".

After removing the flowers from the mat I crumpled each one, inked them for color definition and then ran them through my Xyron before assembling them into one flower.  Once assembled I sprinkled flocking powder all over the flower ensuring that I worked the flocking powder into all the little knooks and crannies on the flower petals.

My butterfly was cut using Indie Art and then pop dotted onto the flower.

And now that you have seen my creation for this week's challenge be sure to hop on over to see all the other wonderful cards that our design team has created this week.  I promise you'll be glad you did.

Purse Album

Happy Tuesday everyone!  Today I want to share a new album with you that I made using the booklet purse and pages die from Sizzix along with a couple of Cricut cartridges - Girl's Makeup Party, Graphically Speaking, Indie Art, Rock Princess and Accent Essentials.

This is a smaller album with the pages measuring only 2 x 3 inches at their largest so my cuts were small but they all cut rather well.

Starting with Rock Princess I cut the word 'diva' for the purse cover.

The shoes and word attitude were cut from Graphically Speaking.

The blow dryer, compact, lip gloss, and sleeping mask were cut from Girl's Makeup Party.

The lips - coated with a pink glitter - are from Indie Art.

Finally all of the mats are from Accent Essentials.

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)

Combination Confusion

Okay, I couldn't stand it.....I had to start working on the challenges even though the "contest" isn't over until Monday night.

"The homework assignment given by Anonymous said...
Locker Talk-cut of the lockersFun card that says something about remembering the combination. We're starting high school and the school is huge with lockers at the end of every section. Of course, not hard for a mom to get lost!"

So for the last three nights I have worked on designing this card and trying to figure out what I was going to use for the inside sentiment. Tonight I completed the card - and not a moment too soon because as soon as I cut out the project my file corrupted and I lost everything.

For this project I used the following cuts:

Locker Talk - Lockers cut at 4" and pop dotted for layering

PDDU - Girl cut at 3" also pop dotted

Indie Art - Angel cut at 1" and shrunk to fit across the shirt

Plantin Schoolbook - numbers and question marks cut at 1"

The inside sentiment for this one says:

Confused by all these numbers -

Do I turn right or left?

With lock in hand

I turn the dial

Leaving my brain to do the rest

Well Anonymous, what do you think? Did I pass your test?

Now to decide which one I'll do next.......

Grunge Halloween Card

I have never made a Halloween card before because I am not much of a Halloween person. My husband on the other hand loves Halloween and would decorate as much for it as we do Christmas if I was into it too.

Last year I won a RAK for the Cuttlebug Skulls embossing folder and this is the second time I have ever used it. Since the embossing folder was skulls of course I had to use a skull from Indie Art. Unable to decide which one to use I asked my daughter to make the decision and this was the end result.

Let Go...Let God - Encouragement Card

All week this phrase has found it's way to me whether through me saying it to a friend or a friend saying it back to me in our times of need. And I know that the Lord has something in store for me and my family

In the meantime, I sat down and designed this card so as to encourage and remind myself to Let Go...Let God.

The hand is from Making the Grade and cut at 2 1/2",

the bird is from Indie Art and cut at 2",

the flourish is from Tinkerbell and Friends and cut at 1" and size to what I needed.

Watering Flowers - Mother's Day Card

This card was inspired by one that I saw in the March issue of CardMaker magazine. Only that one used stamps to create their look and since I don't really do stamps I used my Cricut to create mine. What really drew me to this card is the fact that the watering can moves so as to give the illusion of the flowers being watered - thus the title for my card.

For this one I used the following cuts:

Cricut Sampler (or Walk in my Garden) - Watering can at 1 1/2"

Indie Art - Butterfly and tears scaled down from 1" to the size I needed

Mickey & Friends - Flower border at 3" and then cut apart (I just found it easier to do that way)

Paper Doll Dress Up - Fence at 1 3/4"

Love Delivered Here - Altered Mailbox

I finished this mailbox last night for my mother's valentine's day gift. Granted the picture of the front did not turn out as well as the side because of the shimmer from the papers used and the gloss on the heart, but you can still get the idea of what I did.

For this mailbox I used the bird from the Indie Art cartridge cut at 1 3/4" and the heart from Graphically Speaking cut at 1.5".

The heart has the words "Love Delivered Here" printed on it and was then covered with a thin layer of Glossy Accents to give it a slight shimmer and dimensional look.

Valentine's Day Card

For this card I cut two pieces of foam core board 9" x 9" and covered them with a sheet of the light green paper that can be found in the pastel pack of 12x24 Cricut papers. I then cut a piece of the "Love Collage" paper by Michelle Shefveland Designs to 8.5" x 8.5", rounded the corners, and used it as an accent paper on the inside of the card pages.

To join the two pieces together I took one of the left over cuts and cut it down to 3" x 8.5", rounded the corners, scored down the middle and adhered to the center of the pages.

For the cover I used Graphically Speaking cutting the Love U pieces at 5" and the lips from Indie Art cut at 2" and coated in glitter.

Since I am not that great at putting my feelings on paper I found several verses from cards that I liked and I just changed them all up to say what I wanted and in the order I wanted.

I decided to begin making my Christmas cards this evening and first two were inspired by Cardmaker Magazine.

The "Joy" tree was done with a 5/8" circle punch. Each circle was inked with red and the star was cut at 1.5" from Indie Art. The inside says "its' the most wonderful time of year".

For the other card I inked the background paper with a gold ink (didn't show up in the pic). The tags were cut from TBBM at 2.5" by 3" for the white tag and the blue I copied and then stretched it to enlarge to the size I wanted in DS. The polar bear is a sticker that I picked up at Michael's today for $1 for the set. The inside says "Be Merry".