Another neighbours Birthday

On Thursday it was another neighbour's birthday so on Wednesday evening, a quick trip to the craft room to make a card, but inspiration didn't strike and men are so hard to make cards for, so I started rummaging through the internet to try and find some inspiration and I found a card on Pinterest that was quite similar so off I went.

This is a 6" x 6" card that I mounted a chocolate coloured mat and using the Happy Birthday cuttlebug folder embossed a piece of cream coloured card.  And yes using the Cricut Celebration Cartridge cut the word "celebrate".  Wrapped up with a piece of brown ribbon - job done in about 20 minutes - perfect!

Neighbour's Birthday

Firstly I must apologise for not posting on here for so long, I have no reasonable excuse but I've been nagged to get something posted, so here goes.  The other day I realised at the last minute that it was my neighbour's birthday and I didn't have a suitable card.  If the truth be known, I probably had one of a dozen suitable cards but I just felt I wanted to make something fresh, so nipping into my room I grabbed some co-ordinating bits and this is what I threw together.....

The card is a 6" square to which I mounted some orange patterned card stock, yes, it does actually have a pattern on it, but it doesn't really show up in the picture.  The frame is from Craftwork Cards which I chalked over and the two messages are pre-printed, again from Craftwork cards and mounted upon a scalloped oval and a scalloped circle, both made with a SU punch that seem to fit perfectly.  The flower was from a pack I had, but can't remember who they're by, with a diamante stuck in the middle

Believe it or not I didn't even use my cricut to make this card!

New Baby

A friend of mine asked me to make her a new baby card and I managed to sneak a couple of hours in my craft room, and this is what I came up with...

I used my Cricut New Arrivals cartridge for the baby-gro's using up scraps of paper, the hearts border is from the Elegant Edges cartridge and the baby details at the bottom were just printed on my computer.  The background paper is from a New Baby paper pack.

Thanks for looking x

New Addition To Family

I know this is my "Craft Corner" but  I had to share my good news with you, my family has grown by one member and this new member has been taking up pretty much all of my time which means I haven't been able to get in my craft room for the last 4 weeks.

Let me introduce you to my latest addition, he's called Buckley and he's a Netherlands Dwarf and is 17 weeks old, he is a big girls' blouse and scared of his own shadow but is oh so cute, he's utterly gorgeous and has taken over my life.  I spend most evenings laying on the kitchen floor playing with him, trying to convince him that i'm not the big bad monster he obviously thinks I am!

Here's my boy.......

The problem is, that I think Buckley has more toys than my son!

Anniversary Card

On Tuesday it will be our wedding anniversary so I thought I'd better knuckle down and make my card.  I can't say that this was wholly my idea, it is based on a card we made at the Valentine Christmas Workshop last weekend and I just adapted it a bit for an anniversary card rather than a Christmas card.  Whilst rummaging for some polka dot paper, I discovered I didn't have any anywhere, so booted up the lappy and got inventive.  So using Word I found a "dot" in symbols and created my own polka dot paper!  The bow was an absolute pig as it's satin and wouldn't tie tightly and kept slipping, I almost gave up, but at the last moment, it succumbed!  The letters were a pack from Doodlebug that I've had for ages and came in very useful.

I then got onto the internet and googled for anniversary poems and found one that I was happy with and then printed it and decorated the inside of the card too.

I hope he likes it.  Thanks for looking x

Get Well Card

There are some advantages of having a box of "half baked" cards, so when the need arises for an urgent card one of the half-baked ones comes in handy.  Unfortunately hubby's aunt has had a stroke and is currently in hospital and I therefore needed a card urgently, fortunately this one was pretty much completed but without any sentiment either on the front or inside.  This is an easel card, the picture on the front is a cheat as it comes in a pack of 12 already coloured called "Bella printed panels" and the patterned paper is also from the same range.  It's almost impossible to go wrong when putting all these products together!

With a few coloured pearls and a "best wishes" from Craftwork cards matter with a SU scalloped punch, the card was pretty much completed.  Inside there is a white scalloped oval with a "Get Well Soon" stamped inside together with my own message.

Thanks for looking x

1st Birthday

Firstly, apologies for not updating my blog in a while, been very busy but I'm not sure exactly what I've been up to, I guess life just gets in the way!

Anyway, a friend of mine asked me to make her son a first birthday card, he is, apparently, a big fan of Mr Men and is having a Mr Men birthday party this week.  She was very specific as to what she wanted and then told me she was going to frame it afterwards, so no pressure for making a good one!

Unfortunately my beloved Cricut does not make a Mr Men cartridge, so I had to resort to dragging out my trusty Robo and dusting it down to then try and work out how to use the new software that had been released for it.  After numerous problems, including mat falling me (although i did discover that if you butcher a Cricut mat, it fits very nicely into the Robo and is a fraction of the price).  I eventually found some pictures on the internet and managed to trace them and turn them into cutting files.

Here is the result, and I think it turned out rather well.

Thanks for looking x