Bee My Valentine

I'm such a bad girl.  Usually I'll create some fun gift to give my husband for Valentine's Day but this year everything got away from me and all I created was a card.  And even that was late in getting made.  In all honesty I have to admit that I just haven't been that inspired as of late.  BUT, when I saw this Bee My Valentine card in the Silhouette store I knew it was the one.

 

I love shaped cards and this one immediately caught my eye.  I decided to cut it from one of the DCWV blanks that I still had in my stash so that meant no need to use one of the panel inserts that came with the file.

 

Even though the card came with the {Bee} my valentine verbiage I wanted to add a little more to it.  I looked through my stamps and settled on using one of the hearts from the Heart Splatters set and the XOXO stamp is from the Valentine Designer Tapes set.  Both are from Jaded Blossom Stamps.

 

Now I have my card signed, sealed, and safely tucked away for hubby to find later this morning.

 

And with that I'm off to enter my card into the following challenge:

 

Jaded Blossom - Valentine Challenge - Ends February 14th

 

Die Cuttin Divas - Valentine Colors - Ends February 19th

Love CAM

Following on the heels of the Santa CAM craze this past Christmas I came across this Love CAM file in the Silhouette store (design #175948).  Sarah Hurley is the artist and I have to say I absolutely love her files this one included.

 

After purchasing this file I decided to figure out a way to incorporate it into this week's February Sketch Challenge over at Die Cuttin Divas.  It's a fun and simple sketch with a lot of great potential.  Needless to say it's one I've put into my sketch arsenal.

 

My stamped sentiment is from the Cardz TV Stamps set titled Love Ya.

 

And since the sketch had three little hearts in the top right corner, I decided to add some blue and pink skittles from DoubleClick Connections.

 

Thanks for stopping by, and now I'm off to enter my card in the following challenge:

 

February Sketch - Die Cuttin' Divas - Ends Sunday, February 12th

My Love

Happy Tuesday everyone.  Today I have an Anniversary card that I'd like to share with you.  My anniversary isn't until March but I thought why not create a card now rather than waiting until the last minute.

 

For this one I used a smurf file that was part of an SVG Cutting Files Sweets blog hop almost two years ago.  The files were only available to those who hopped and only during the specified hop time. 

 

After cutting my smurf I tried to decide what I wanted to use for my card background and in the end opted for a pre-printed card blank. 

 

The stamped sentiments on the outside of my card are from the Jaded Blossom stamp set titled Happy Hello.  Since the stamps are pliable enough I was able to round the "my love" sentiment to fit the curve on my smurf's hat. 

 

 

On the inside of my card I also used the Happy Hello sentiments but also added a single splatter from the Heart Splatters stamp set.

 

To complete my card I decided to embellish with a couple of red colored skittles from DoubleClick Connections.  I always have fun adding these to my cards.

 

Thanks for stopping by and visiting today.  I hope that you enjoyed my card.

Love Bubbles

My sister needed a quick wedding card the other day and once upon a time I had a couple extras on hand.  But not this time.  So I had to think of something quick. 

 

Looking through my Silhouette files I came across this card called Valentine Bubbles of Love.  It's pretty and it's different and therefore I thought, why not?  After cutting it out I realized rather quickly that to add any kind of sentiment - whether stamped or handwritten - would pretty much destroy the card.  There was nowhere to hide it.

 

Quickly I pulled out the different shades of velum in my stash that might work.  Nope.  You could still see through every one of them.  Next I thought about using a glittered cardstock, knowing that would look nice.  Then I remembered that I'm not always successful with getting the adhesive to adhere correctly with some of those papers.  Finally I settled on a regular piece of cardstock, and while my photograph doesn't give my card the full justice it deserves (it's dark and rainy outside) my card turned out pretty good.

Wedding Favors

 

Today I have a quick project to share with you.  My oldest daughter is planning her wedding so when I saw these cute boxes in the Silhouette store I knew I had to make a set to see if she would like to use these as favors for the wedding.  Needless to say both she and her fiancé loved them.

 

There was really nothing special that I used or did to these.  The design itself does all the work.  The only thing I did do was change out paper for vellum to use for the veil cut.

 

The Bride box is Design ID #73084 and the Groom box is Design ID #73083.

Wild About You

Happy Monday everyone.  Thanks for stopping in to see what I've created for  you today.  It means a lot to me when you pop in to see what I've done and leave comments on what you think.

 

Today I have this adorable tiger from the Wild About You file over at Marjorie Ann Designs.  It's another one of those cuts where I was excited to find that I had the perfect papers to coordinate with him an really make his cuteness shine.

 

I also used some of the rust skittles that I purchased from DoubleClick Connections.  I recently started adding these as embellishments to some of my cards and I love the added bling they give to the cards.

 

 

 

On the inside of my card I decided to use the clipart that comes with this file and print the title for use as my sentiment.

 

Now I have a cute card that I can give to any of my loved ones because it's not gender specific nor is it specific to any occasion.

I Love You

We are now in the home stretch.  Two more days and the weekend will be here and if you're like me that means I can get some crafting done......especially since the guys will be wrapped up in their computer games.  Works for me since it gives me time to catch up and play with some challenges that start mid-week.

 

Today though I have a card to share with you.  This one was created using the adorable Air Force Penguin file from Kadoodle Bug Designs.  I cut the penguin out at 6.64 inches tall and that made my penguin about 3 3/4 inches tall.  The badge mat is also from the same cut file.

 

And that too cute stamp?  Well that's from the Say it Big stamp set over at Craftin Desert Divas.

 

I made this card following this week's sketch challenge at Die Cutting Divas.  

 

I'm glad that they chose this sketch because I never would have created this style card before had it not been for this challenge.  Needless to say I love the way it turned out and I'll be trying this again.

 

Heck, you should give it a try too.  There's so many great challenges out there this week that you should do like I am and find several that get your creative juices flowing, create, link up and play along.......

 

Die Cuttin Diva's - Sketch Challenge - Ends August 11th

UPDATE:  My card was chosen as a showcase winner for this challenge at Die Cuttin Divas.

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.......

Falling In Love.....

Since today is one of those homebound days due to weather and a hubby with the flu I decided to sit down and do a little cardmaking before I began housework.  And even though I really need to get some birthday cards made I decided to do one for Valentine's Day.

For this card - which is a loose scraplifting of one I found on Pintrest - I used the cute little owls from Create a Critter 2 - both cut at two inches.  As you can see I positioned both of them on a rope of twine which I picked up during the after Christmas sales.  Because of my inside sentiment (which I'll show you momentarily) I wanted to position them so that it looks like one owl is "falling" in to the other owl.  Oh and the hearts that are scattered across my twine are also cut from CAC2. 

My background paper is called Lots of Love and is one I've had in my stash for years.  And that just goes to show you how much paper I have.  LOL

So about the inside of my card......I found this quote on Pintrest and I just fell in love with it.  (No pun intended.)  Knowing that I'd use it somewhere I pinned it to my Crafty Projects to Try board. 

The stamped sentiment on the outside of my card is from the Cardz TV Stamps set title "Snail Mail". 

And there you have my first official Valentine's Day card of 2014.  Stay tuned as I'm sure there will be more to come.

Love......In a Jar

Happy Friday everyone!  I hope you're ready for an awesome challenge this week because the Cardz TV Stamps design team has put together some fabulous projects for you this week.  The challenge is simple, just make a card, layout or craft project using something you'd put in a jar.  See, told you.  Easy Peasy.

 

For my project I just the Doodlecharms cartridge for my jar.  Cut one cut from cardstock and another from a clear vinyl so that I could have more of an actual jar look. 

 

The hearts inside the jar were cut from the Love Mini Book cartridge during Cricut's cut it free for a week preview.

 

My stamped sentiment is from the Love in a Jar stamp set, which can be purchase at Cardz TV Stamps.  Just click on add to cart button on the right side of the page and off you go.

 

In the meantime though be sure to check out the other projects our team has created this week then create your own, link up and play along with us for your chance to win.

I Love You Like....

.....KaPow!

And so my super-bear Valentine was born out of a sentiment.  I downloaded this great little graphic from Paper Crafts Connection blog section of sentiments.  Then over the last couple of days I've been playing around as I have time trying to decide just how I wanted to design my card around the sentiment.  This is what I came up with..........

From Teddy Bear Parade I cut the superhero bear at 2 1/2" 

From Gypsy Wanderings I cut the hearts at 1/2" and 3/4"

My paper background is from one of the Marvel comic scene pages.  How perfect is that?  And on the inside is my sentiment.

Talk about a fun and easy card to put together.  I just love it when a card comes together this easily.  Don't you?  And for a bit of extra fun I'm going to enter this one in to the Love is in the Air Challenge over at Just a Scrappin.  You should come play along too.

Be My Valentine Fairy Tale

Happy Wednesday and February 1st everyone.  Boy January just flew right by us and before we know it it'll be springtime again.  I for one cannot wait.

Until then I have a Valentine's card to share with you that was created for Cricut Cardz Challenge 101.  Our directive for this challenge was to create a valentine themed card using any colors and cartridges we desired.  Of course I designed my card a little backwards in that I chose my sentiment first and then scoured through my booklets and My Cut Search until I found what I thought was the perfect cut/s for displaying the sentiment.

Using the Sweethearts cartridge, I cut the heart couple seen on page 40.  The heart was cut from regular cardstock and embossed using the script folder.  The couple was cut from black aluminum.  For my sentiment  I used the cartoche cut seen on page 74 - cutting one larger than the other for layering.  The top layer was cut from an off white cardstock that I went back and inked over with antique linen distressed ink.

So now that you've seen my card pop on over to Cardz TV and take a look at all of the other fabulous designs our team created for this challenge.  Then once you've been filled with inspiration create your own Valentine and link up to play along with us.

Forever....

This week's Cricut Cardz Challenge was to create a wedding card using any colors and cartridges of our choosing.  I chose to use Home Decor and Stretch Your Imagination.

My hearts are cut at 1" and the scallop type oval was cut at 4" - both from Home Decor

The couple was cut at 3 3/4" with the top layer cut twice to provide the black and white.

Added a little bling in the form of silver metallic ribbon and a silver charm and viola.  Only 'problem' was that the photo didn't capture the colors and vibrancy of the card very well.

My Favorite Things

After a little bit of an inspirational slump this card popped into my head so I had to hurry up and commit it to Design Studio before I left for work.  And then when I got home I went straight to work before cooking dinner or anything.  Isn't that just horrible?  Thank goodness the kids are out and my husband wanted to chill in front of his computer for a while too.

For this card I used:

Rock Princess for my girl
Mickey Font for the numbers
Mickey and Friends for the diamond ring and shopping bags
Happily Ever After for the shoes

The inside sentiment says "but you are my most favorite"

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)

Glad We Wound Up Together

My poor hubby needed some cheering up the other day so I decided to make a card for him.  His favorite holiday is Halloween and I thought why not use that as a theme for my card?  Especially since I've been wanting to use this sentiment for quite some time now.

For this card I used:

Happy Hauntings for the mummies - many thanks to Kateroo over on the Cricut MB for sharing with my on how to make their frowns into smiles

Sweethearts for the hearts

And the font is the spooky font from Happy Hauntings welded together to create my words.

Tying the Knot

This week's Cricut Cardz Challenge was to create a wedding card using any cartridge and colors we desired.  Needless to say, I was excited when I noticed that the new Wild Cards cartridge I picked up for $25 at Walmart had wedding cuts on it because that meant I got to use my new cart. 

So yet again this week's card is an easy one.  One cart, two cuts, put it together and the card is complete.  The inside sentiment, found on Quote Garden says, "True love stories never have endings"

You Drive Me Wild

This was yet another simple card to put together.  A while back I purchased several new Sizzix dies and one night sat down and started cutting them out not knowing what I was going to do with them.  So as I sat in the living room with dh I'd cut, put together and then place the die cuts in a box for later use.

Well last night it finally dawned on me as to what I could do with the wonderful lion cut.  And it was so easy finding the perfect paper in the Animal Crackers matstack from DCWV. 

The leaves were cut from the Create a Critter cartridge.

Raining Hearts

This is a card that I created for dh for Valentine's Day and I chose this format as a project challenge for one of my card groups. I actually designed part of this card using my Gypsy and part of it using Design Studio. The reason for that was because I wanted to use the Gypsy font cartridge for the main heart and the only way to do that was to use my Gyspsy itself.

My other cuts are as follows:

Child's Year for the umbrella - cut 3x for the dimension and the handle

Every Day Paper Dolls for the monkey

Home Decor for my "raining" hearts

First Valentine of 2010

This morning I thought it would be fun to begin making valentines and what better cartridge to use than the Sweethearts cart? I am confident in saying that we'll be seeing a lot of valentines created using this cartridge.

For mine though I decided to create not only the card but a matching envelope to hold it in. I cut the envelope at 5", the tag at 4.75" and the key and lock at 3".

And because I wasn't able to fit my sentiment on the front of the tag I placed it on the back.

Very simple but fun.