365 Cards - Day 139

Here is my card for 365 Card Challenge Day 139 which was paper piercing. For this card, I used Papertry Ink's Plum Pudding, Smokey Shadow, and Lavender Moon cardstock. I cut out the needle and scissors from Disney's Happily Ever After. Note that the needle was part of a spool of thread cut and I just off the spool of thread so that I was left with only the needle. I then used some embroidery floss to stitch on the zig zag and threaded the floss through the eye of the needle.

FCTSC Card Sketch Challenge #6

Here is the card that I made for the Card Sketch challenge at From C to Shining C, you can find this challenge HERE. I used Papertrey Ink paper in Lemon Tart and Ripe Avocado. I also used PTI ribbon in Lemon Tart and Spring Moss. The plaid ribbon is from Michael's $1 bin. The marigold cut is a SVG file from SVGCuts.com. I cut this on my Cricut Expression using SCAL. I really liked how this turned out, and I think I will be using this Sketch as an outline in the future!

Fabric...what can I do with Fabric?

Well my mom is a quilter, and it drives her crazy that I can't seem to do anything with sewing. It's bad, and I mean bad. So anyways, a few years ago, she gave me a bag of her scraps to experiment with using fabric on cards. I hadn't done much with it, but in honor of her birthday I decided to give it a try. Since Cricut supposedly can cut fabric I thought I would give it a try. I had difficulty with plain one piece of fabric, and there was no way that I would be able to cut with the seams that are in this fabric scrap, so I had to come up with another idea. With the double stick fusible webbing on the back of the fabric, I used my Cricut markers and low pressure setting on the Cricut, and drew this butterfly on the back of the fabric, and then cut it out by hand. Not the best method, but at least I knew that it wouldn't ruin my blade. I also used the Versamark Dazzle ink pad and stamped butterflies all over the yellow (Lemon Tart from Papertrey Ink). I also used a Cuttlebug embossing border on the side, and decided that I liked the reverse side the best. I used my ribbon hole punch and tied some delicate pink ribbon into a bow to mirror the butterfly. Needless to say, my mom was impressed that I finally did something with fabric!

Pop Up Treat Holder

This was so cute and fun to do. I saw a video tutorial on You Tube, check it out here, and I decided to recreate it. My son Jared just finished his first year of pre-school, so I decided to make these for his classmates. He loved them, kept calling it his "Dinosaur Candy". I used Fern cardstock from the Paper Company to go with the Green Croc Skin paper also from the Paper Company. I got both at Joann's. The dinosaur was cut from the Paper Doll Dress Up Cricut cartridge. I made 20 of these, and it only took about 2 hours. It was worth it to see the smile on my little boy's face!!!

Tri Fold Shutter Card

Here is my card for the Try a New Technique challenge at Splitcoast Stampers. I had a great time making this card. I decided on a Christmas card because I want to get a head start so I am not in a rush to get them done later. I used DCWV 2008 Christmas Stack for the patterned paper, and the sled, large snowflake, and the Winter phrase were cut on Cricut's Stretch Your Imagination cartridge (a great cartridge for the cardmaker!)

Beee-utiful Polka Doodles Challenge

Here is my card for the first Polka Doodles challenge. As you may have guessed by now, I like the clean and simple approach. When I first started cardmaking, I loaded up my cards with embellishments so much that it got to the point where it was overwhelming. I had to teach myself to keep things to a minimum. This sketch had a lot going on, so I didn't want to add anything extra to it. The bee was cut with the Pooh and Friends Cricut cartridge, the yellow side panel was embossed with the Cuttlebug Forest Branches embossing folder. The stamp set is an old Hero Arts set and I do not have the name of it. I purposely stamped the phrase crooked because I was trying to re-create the flight of a bee. I think this would make a great baby card, especially because it is gender specific. Now I just need one of my friends to get pregnant (hint hint Christina hint hint)!!

Color Challenge & Limited Supply Challenge

I actually combined two challenges from Splitcoast Stampers into one card. The Color Challenge was to use Orange, Red and Blue. The Limited Supply Challenge was Circles, with the restriction of only using 1 stamp set. I did not use any stamps on this card, but I did use two Cricut cartridges. The Oh Happy Day is from the Wild Card cartridge (if you are a cardmaker and don't have this cartridge, it is a MUST have!) and the lollipops are from the Mickey and Friends cartridge, it is the icon border on one of the Goofy buttons. To keep it simple, I just used one of my fine tip Bic markers to make the dots along the edge. Not a fan of the color combo, but sometimes that is what a challenge is all about, trying something you wouldn't ordinarily try!

Teacher Appreciation Gifts

I made the notebook and candy tin that you see in the pictures above for my son's teachers. They really turned out so cute! The candy tin was pirchased from Papertrey Ink. I love their stuff! The candy inside are Hershey Nuggets, wrapped in patterned paper 1"x 3" each. The flowers were some that I had in my stash, not sure where they came from. The notebook is simply a composition notebook covered in patterned paper. I covered both sides of the cover using paper from DCWV Spring Stack. Then I took a 3" strip of coordinating cardstock and attached to the binding. The "F" was cut using the Cricut Doodletype cartridge. Lovin' my Bug!!! I can't take credit for these projects, I have seen them in numerous places online. They are quick and easy projects, and I think I am going to make up some extras to have on hand for when I need a quick gift!