Father's Day Closet

In the spirit of pop up cards I decided to give this one from the book Pop up Cards by Jo Mathison a try. Very simple I know but the first time I tried this one I wanted to follow the directions. Next time though I will "dress" it up a bit more now that I have a feel for how it goes together.

Rush Delivery - Birthday

Mom's birthday is today and I had to create something whimsical as being mushy just isn't always mom's style. If you met her you'd love her - she is such a riot.

So anyhow, this card was made using

Mickey & Friends - plane cut at 3"

Hello Kity - gift cut at 1 1/2"

The font is Beach Type downloaded from dafont.com

The inside of the card says "Addressee is getting old fast"

Oscar Loves Golf - Birthday

Today was my husband's birthday and I spent a week or better trying to design a card for him that would include something pertaining to one of his main hobbies: golf and weight lifting. After several attempts that just wouldn't cooperate I created this card. Of course this ended up being a redo of my original design but dh loved the way it turned out....

For this card Oscar was cut at 4 1/4"

The number 36 was cut from the Sesame Street cart at 1" and then scaled down to the size needed

The golf balls are from Sports Mania cut at 1" and scaled down to the size needed

The I love golf sign was cut at 1 1/2"

And the font - Trash - was downloaded from dafont.com

Cookie Monster - Just Because

It's been a while since I've posted and I really had no idea how long until this evening. Life has just been so crazy lately.....

Last night I created this card and had envisioned it turning out differently. However, when I started to put it all together my original idea wouldn't work so I went for this instead.

For this card I used

Sesame Street Friends - Cookie at 3"

Paper Doll Dress Up - Palm Tree at 5"

Life's a Beach - Crab at 1"

This is only the second time that I have used the new Life's a Beach cartridge and all I can say is that I cannot wait until Design Studio is updated to include this one. I guess I'm just too spoiled with being able to visualize what I'm cutting before I actually do it.

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"

Hello Kitty Graduation Pop Up Card

My oldest daughter is getting ready to gradute in a couple weeks from the community college she's been attending in Brunswick, GA and has been accepted to Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah. Unfortunately I will not be able to attend the ceremony as my other daughter is in exams with her honors classes here at home. So I wanted to create a special card and set about last night on the design and cutting and finished putting it all together this morning.

For this card I used the following cuts:

Hello Kitty & cap - 4" (outfit cut to be in the school colors)

Hello Kitty in car - 3 1/2"

Tree from Camp Out - 4 3/4"

Sun from Pooh & Friends - 1 1/2"

Pennant from Locker Talk - 1 3/4" (cut to be in the school colors)

The road was created simply by cutting a stip of black paper the length of the card and then notching to fit around the pop up pieces so that it would slide in to the center of the card for placement.

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