Toadily Awesome

Happy Thursday everyone!  I am happy to announce that I (along with several other ladies) have been chosen to be a part of the Just A Scrappin Design Team.  There are two teams, each of which will bring you a new challenge to play along with every week beginning today.

For our first challenge - Anything Goes.  That's right - Anything.  But, you have to use green and then any other color/s you choose. 

Keeping in theme with my create a card around a quote this week I give you my "toadily" awesome card.  Now I will say that I took numerous pictures of this card because it honestly looks so much better in real life that it has turned out in any of pics.  And out of all of them this one was the best; however, my poor frog looks like he's gone way over the cuckoo's nest.  LOL  But I digress.....

For this card I used:

Pooh Font for the "U"
Sesame Street Friends for the frog
Create a Critter for the lily pads

The lily pad flower is a brad that I had in my stash.

Now that you have seen my creation why don't you hop (no pun intended) on over to Just a Scrappin to check out the other designs created by our wonderful.  Then create an Anything Goes design of your own, link up and play along with us.  (You have one week before the next team shares their design.)

Dressed up Dad

Happy Wednesday everyone.  Today I have another Father's Day card to share with you, and once again this card was inspired by one in the pages of the May/June issue of Paper Crafts magazine.  Only this time the inspiration was in the form of a digital card.  I wish I could show you the original card, but you'll have to check out the magazine instead.....

For my card though I used:

Pooh Font Set for the font
Billionaire for the moustaches and tie
Everyday Paper Dolls for the hat (cut twice so I could have a different colored hat band)

Quick, easy and I do believe one of my favorite cards yet.

Get Well Flowers

Who remembers when making these flower pot cards were all the rage about two years ago?  I loved these cards then and I still love them now.  I have so much fun making these little guys and whenever I give one away the recipient always smiles upon seeing their card.

With that said, who wouldn't want to put a smile on the face of someone who's under the weather and not feeling well?  Of course we all do and so today I'd like to share one of my "get well" flower arrangements.  For this card I used my trusty little DS cut file I created back in the day using:

George for the 'card' and flower pot
Mickey and Friends for the flowers
Accent Essentials for the leaves
Sesame Street Friends for the worm
TBBM for the flower tag
Pooh Font for the Get Well

To put this together I used pop dots on the flowers and this helps to situate them just right so they slide in and out of the pot properly without hiding the sentiment.  Add some buttons for the center of the flowers and a ribbon around the pot to hold it all together and viola! You have a unique floral arrangement to show that special someone you care.

If you have the cartridges mentioned above and still use DS like I do, you can download my cut file by going here and selecting the flowerpot - friend and get well file.

Happy Creating!

Versatile Piglet Card

I needed a thank you card and after looking through my cartridges this morning this cut was the one that ultimately caught my eye.  I love the baby pooh and friend characters on the Pooh font cartridge but admit that I haven't used them much.

Well today I thought that Piglet hugging his little teddy bear was a perfect cut for a thank you card.  Then again this cut would work other occasions including:  new baby, friendship, and love.

Every Day Should Be Mother's Day

I created these cards to go along with some fuzzy spa sock cupcakes that I'm putting together for a craft show coming up in April.  I thought they'd be great for Mother's Day gifts - after all who doesn't like a nice, soft pair of fuzzy socks?  Heck, I'm wearing a pair right now.  lol

For these cards I used:

A Child's Year for the silhouette

Pooh Font for the M

Plantin Schoolbook for the scalloped edges on a couple of the cards.

Owl Miss You - wiper card

I needed to create a card for a friend that is leaving me tomorrow to begin work elsewhere, and while I wish her the best I will certainly miss her.  Tonight I decided to try my hand at making one the wiper cards I've seen and was surprised at how easy it was to put together.  Had I known it was that easy I would have started making these sooner.

This card was made using a combination of my Sizzix and my Cricut.  I used Sizzix for my owl, tree branch, moon and stars.  My words were created using Pooh Font and my 'backdrop' was created from Accent Essentials.

Mother's Day Card - Version Two

On the Cricut message boards was an "Ad inspired" challenge taken from the Target ads this week. The challenge included the ever popular circles but in shades of pink (a dark and a light) along with a sea green.

After seeing this challenge I decided to do a bit of a remake on the Mother's Day card that I posted a couple days ago. Not sure which one I like better...

What do you think?

Mother's Day Card

This card was inspired by one that I saw in the August 2008 edition of Stamp It! Cards magazine.

To create this card the calendar was made in Excel with the columns at a 4.71 width. I then cut and pasted it into Word so that I could create the circle around the 10. The 'M' was cut from Pooh Font at 2.5".

The inside sentiment says, "In this world, you only get one Mother...and if you're really, really lucky, you get one like mine."