Did Ya Hear? Did Ya? Huh?

Have an annoucement to make to your friends and/or family?  Here's a great way to do it if you're not able to break the news to them personally.

For the outside of this card I used the newspaper cut from Love You a Latte.

On the inside of the card I used Everyday Pop ups for the pregnant mom and the cloud from Graphically Speaking (cut at various sizes) to create the "call-out".

Hope you enoy this card as much as I did making it.

Santa Pants

Happy Sunday fellow bloggers.  Today I wanted to share one of my plastic canvas projects with you.  I've been working on these off and on for a while now and finally finished them this weekend.  I love the way they turned out and think they'll make great little "gift bags".

Don't worry now that July is almost over I'm getting out of my Christmas in July phase and am working on some other projects so stay tuned.....

Blistery Wind

.....well in a hot sorta way, but today's card is designed to help keep ya cool.  I created this one to play along in the BBTB2 challenge from last week where the challenge was to use the penguin with the umbrella cut from Jolly Holidays. 

For my card I cut the umbrella away from the penguin's hand so I could place it a little more like I wanted.  My idea was to make it look like it got caught up in the cold, blistery wind only my card wasn't large enough to quite grab the effect I wanted.  It still turned out pretty good though I think.

My "wind" was made using a flourish from the Home Decor cart.

Have Your Cake & Eat It Too

I created this birthday card using the Sweet Treats cartridge. But I wanted to give a textured, more realistic look and feel so I applied Tulip fabric paint in white metallic to the main body of the cake. I then used my heat embossing gun and gently dried the paint paying mind to allow it to settle back down as it bubbled up. Once I had the white layer complete I moved on to the pink.

For the pink layers I applied Tombo glue and sprinkled on some Distress embossing powder and heat set that as well. The blue swirls were created using Memory Thread.  If you haven't seen this yet look in the aisle where the embroidery thread is kept.  I will say that I have not found it at Michael's - just AC Moore and Hobby Lobby.

Coffee Smells Like......

....freshly ground heaven.....and so today, while I sit at my crafting table enjoying a cup of Donut House coffee, I bring you my entry for this week's Cricut Cardz Challenge.  This week our direction was to make a card using a monogram from any cartridge and in any color we desired.  So I sat down this weekend and thought about what I would do but nothing really came to mind.  After all I didn't want a card that just had a monogram on the front. 

Then I decided to reach for some of my old magazines for inspiration.  And so there in the pages of Paper Crafts special edition, Go to Sketches I found what I needed on page 124...........

Armed with my new found inspiration I began creating my card.  For this one I used:

George for my square tiles cut at 1 1/2"

Winter Woodland for my monogram cut at 1" (C is for coffee after all - lol)

Love You a Latte for my couple having coffee cut at 3"

So now that you've seen my creation, why don't come play along with us and create your own monogrammed card.  We'd love to see what you come up with.

Rocking Holidays

Yep, I just couldn't resist one more Christmas card.  This time though I decided to make it a little more interactive and added an action wobble to the mix.  I really love the way that this one turned out and this little elf just makes it all so easy with his stinkin' cute face.

So for this one I used Jolly Holidays for the elf and Joys of the Season for my snowflake background.  That's it quick and simple but cute as ever.

Now why don't you create a Christmas card and come play along in my Christmas in July challenge.  There's still a couple days left to join in...

God Thinks You're Wonderful

I was inspired to create this card after I received an email from DaySpring that was advertising Max Lucado's book God Thinks You're Wonderful. 

For this card I finally broke down and used my E2 just so I could use this cut from the Just a Note cartridge.  Being spoiled with Design Studio like I am I will be thrilled when Cricut is either able to get CCR up and going or updates Gypsy to be able to use the pre-loaded carts.  But I digress.....

The hand on the inside of the card was cut from A Child's Year.