Happy 2nd Birthday

A friend of mine asked me to make her niece a 2nd birthday card, it was quite a challenge as she's not a girly girl, favourite colour purple, not into pink and loves animals.  With all that in mind I thought I'd try and make a tag card as I've never made one before.  Using Cricut Craft Room I welded some tags together.  Next challenge was colours and animals, and this is what I came up with....

To be honest I'm not that keen on the Boofles stickers that I used on the front page, they just somehow don't look right, but as I'd already stuck them down, I had to go with the flow.  I also finally found a use for the animal magnets that I had made for the school craft fair but remained unsold, so all the animals (except the giraffe) are attached with magnets and are removable.  In the end I was quite pleased with the results.

On the down side there was no way that this was going to fit in an envelope so I had to make a box for it to fit in, I just hope it's what she wanted, I'll find out tomorrow.

Thanks for looking x

Birthday Card

It's one of my best friends' birthday on Friday so I thought I'd better make her a card.  I recently went to The Glitter Pot and they are/were having a sale selling off their ex-demo stamps and I found this really cute rabbit holding an armful of hearts, it was probably an Easter stamp but I thought it would do for almost any occasion when you need to send love, so I bought it and had to use it.  There was no label on it, but someone had written "embraceable" on the back, so maybe this is the name of it, but couldn't say.

I thought I'd make an S-fold card as I hadn't made on in a while and reached for a Craftwork Cards paper pack called "Very Merry", I think it was a Christmas pack, but the paper still fitted for a birthday card so I carried on.  The round birthday sentiment is by Craftwork cards and the scalloped punch matting it is by SU.

Using my Cricut Elegant Edges cartridge I cut the oval scallop and shadow at 4.5" which covers the 4" oval scallop that's directly below on the inside of the card.  I stamped the inside with a mini clear stamp by kaisercraft.

I must get it in the post in the morning and I hope she likes it.

Thanks for looking x

New Home Card

A friend of mine is moving into her new home this week so I made her a New Home card, yup, you've guessed it, I have used the Cricut Create A Critter cartridge as I found this lovely house on it.

Thanks for looking x

Get Well Card

I've been very fortunate today and have found time to play in my craft room, that's in between waiting for coats of paint to dry in the bathroom!  I have been popping into my craft room and started playing with various bits of paper and then going back to do another coat of paint when the last one was dry, plus there was football on this evening, so that was another 90 minutes I could escape to my craft room!

 I thought I'd better make a get well card for my cousin who has just had a foot operation so I made this easel card...

The green mat and the patterned card stock came from a 6 x 6" SU paper pack that I had, I used a Martha Stewart edge punch for the scalloped edges, I found the frog on my Cricut Every Day Paper Dolls and gave him some goggly eyes!  The flowers came from Papermania that I found in my stash and thought they were lovely.  All edges have been inked with Tim Holtz Tea Dyes distressing ink.

Thanks for looking x

Valentines Colour Combo Challenge #9

This week's Colour Combo Challenge was to use the colours Basic Black, Daffoldil Delight and Old Olive, so I reached for my Cricut Create a Critter (this is an amazing cartridge, I am finding so many lovely creatures on it that i just have to make!)  I found this lovely duck and I guess the weather we're currently having is starting to affect me, as this is what I came up with....

Thanks for looking x

Valentines Colour Combo Challenge #8

This week's Valentine Colour Combo Challenge is using the SU colours Black Basic, Cherry Cobbler and Baja Breeze.  Having looked at these colours, I felt that they looked quite masculine so I set out with a view to making a masculine card.  I rummaged through my old faithful Cricut cartridges and came across this lighthouse in Life's A Beach

I tore a piece of sandy coloured paper and inked the edges with Tim Holtz tea dyed distress ink and inked the edges of the waves too to make them stand our more. I stamped it with "Wishing You A Lovely Day" as I haven't yet decided on what occasion I'm going to use this card for so the inside is still blank, apart from a wave I put along the bottom.

Thanks for looking x

Father's Day Card Part 2

I obviously needed to help Joshua make a father's day card so I cut out some bits and pieces for him, and yes, I did use the Create A Critter Cricut cartridge, but when it was going together I loved it so much I had to cut 2 of everything, one set I gave to Joshua for him to put together and the other set I kept, although the card started out life as a Father's Day card I think it would do just as well as a birthday card for a Dad.  Unfortunately I cannot take any credit for the design of this card as I saw it on You Tube and it was made by a very talented lady called Mary and I copied it because I thought it was soo cute, so here it is.....

Thanks for looking x