Core Cards Creative Frenzy

Whew! This post is going to be picture heavy! Hold onto your hats! This is for the Core'dinations card-makers DT call. Check it out HERE. You have until August 10th to get your projects posted. :)

**Edit: So I knew I had gotten inspiration from someone out there in  scrappy land, but couldn't remember who and it popped up on the Core blog today! I had seen the rainbow tag idea from Rebecca Keppel on her layout! I just forgot to pin it! I also cased my own thank you cards that you can see HERE. So it came from two places! :) **

Rainbow Tag Thank You

1. Here's what I love about the new 4.25x5.5" stacks.... I know there are other paper hoarders like me. I HATE using my pretty Core as a card base, but I want it on the front of my card. So use an ordinary white card base (and that way it is white inside to write on as well) and then add a black piece of Core that is already PERFECTLY cut for you to the front! 

2. In this case, I am scoring and sanding it before I put it on the front of my card. Love it. 

3. Next I pulled out my Twinery Twine. We glean inspiration from everywhere. You can find a piece of Core to match ANY color in your stash. So I started with the twine and then matched my Core to the Twinery twine. **I know, my twine is a mess!**

4. Between the Core Essentials Super "Elements" Assortment (one of my favorites!) and the Core Essentials "Darks", I had all 5 colors. :) I went for a darker color blue so I could use my scraps. Next I cut stars to match the colors in various sizes.

5. Place the stars where you think you want them and then adhere them down. I used foam tape on a few of them and just put others flat. Then take the tags and layer them adhering the top portion of the tag to the bottom of the tag above it. Do not place adhesive where the twine is going to go. I chose to do this part after the above steps. You can always do it first if you would like. 

6. Stamp your sentiment and doodle around the edges. Add twine. Then put foam dimensional tape on the back side of the whole tag ensemble. 

7. Adhere it to your pre-cut 4.25x5.5" scored "mat". Adhere the whole thing to your card base. Voila! Enjoy! 

Recipe:

• Core'dinations:
• Core Essentials: Elements Super Stack™(green, yellow, blue)
• Core Essentials: Darks™(red, orange)
• Core Tags in White™
• Tim Holtz Kraft Core Nostalgic Collection in A2 size™ (black)
• Twinery Twine:
• Marachino™
• Mandarin™
• Lemondrop™
• Peapod™
• Denim™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Sweet Baby™
• Ink: My Pink Stamper: Serendipity Skies™
• Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro™
• Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares in Perma-tac™
• Cricut Cartridge: Cake Basics™
• Black Pen
• Scoring Board
• Core'dinations Sanding Block™

Thank EWE (tee hee)

Recipe:

• Core'dinations:
• White Wash in A2 size™ (front and back)
• Core Essentials Neutrals™ (black)
• Cricut Cartridge: Country Life™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Punny-licious™
• i-rock by Imaginisce™
• Hot Rocks in Pink, Black and Clear by Imaginisce™
• Patterned Paper: My Little Shoebox: Enchanted Garden "Dazzling"™
• Foam Tape

CRAB-ULOUS

Here is a close up so that you can see the sand. 

Recipe:

• Core'dinations:
• Tim Holtz Kraft-Core Nostalgic Collection in A2 size™
• Whitewash in A2 size™
• Glitter Silk in A2 size™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Punny-licious™
• Cuttlebug Folders:
• D'vine Swirl Emboss Folder™
• Tiny Bubble Emboss Folder™
• Cricut Cartridge: Create a Critter™
• Sand from the beach :) 
• Glossy Accents (to apply sand)
• Burlap trim: MME Lost and Found 2: Sunshine™
• White Gel Pen
• Core'dinations Sanding Block™ (LOVE this thing!!!)
• Foam tape

Thanks for sticking with me through this whole long post! I hope you enjoyed it! :)

Love Moo!

Hello! 

This is one of those cards that looks better in your head then it comes out on paper. 

I really liked the idea of having a red fence that the cow was looking over... but the red might be too... red... My husband was making fun of me! haha. But none the less, here is my card. Had I to do it over again, I would have toned it down. But that's why we craft! To make our own creations and to laugh at ourselves! haha.

Recipe:

• My Pink Stamper: Moo-ey Doodles Kit™
• My Pink Stamper: Yankee Doodles Kit™
• Cricut Cartridges:
• Create-a-Critter™
• Picturesque™
• Patterned Paper: American Crafts: Dear Lizzy Neapolitan™
• Brads: MME: Lost and Found: Union Square "Favorite" Brads™
• "Love" Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Love-alicious™

There are a bunch of samples of the Moo-ey Doodle Kit that the SPS team made over on the Shop Pumpkin Spice blog! Be sure to check them out HERE! :)

Fashionably late. Hope it was great!

***Note: I am SOOO sorry, but I am getting super spammed with super bad stuff. So I have turned on word verification TEMPORARILY and will be taking it down in a week or two - hopefully weeding out the anonymous spammers. I hope you understand! I personally hate word verification, so it won't be up long!***

Hello! This is my Shop Pumpkin Spice post which means I got almost EVERYTHING on this card from Shop Pumpkin Spice! It looks like she is sold out of one of the On the Bright Side Paper Pads, but the other one is the one I have used more anyway! I love them both. 

I had a GREAT time making this card and actually spent two days working on it (of crafty time... I didn't stare at it the WHOLE day. lol.) So I am really pleased with the result! I hope you like it too! 

I chose to use the two different embossing powders on this card and line them up - a tricky thing, but it was really fun from concept to execution. 

***SORRY! Taken down for publication in Cricut Magazine - the December issue!***

Recipe:

• Patterned Paper:
• My Mind's Eye: On the Bright Side - One 6x6 Paper Pad™
• My Mind's Eye: On the Bright Side - Two 6x6 Paper Pad™
• i-rock by Imaginisce™
• Hot rocks in Pink, Black, and Clear™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Birthday Crazy™
• White Gel Pen
• Brads:
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found 2: Breeze "Everywhere" Decorative Brads™
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found 2: Sunshine "Sunshine" Decorative Brads™
• Card base: Canvas Corp Square Cards with Envelopes™
• Cartridges:
• Sweethearts™
• Everyday Paper Dolls™
• Create-a-Critter™
• Cuttlebug Folder: A2 D'vine Swirl Emboss Folder™
• Ribbon: From Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Light Teal

Blue Bird Santa

Hello and welcome to the product swap with Glue Arts and Imaginisce!!! We were super blessed to receive some product from them and I used everything they sent me in this project! THANK YOU GLUE ARTS!

I was surprised how much I liked the "Raisen's". Since they were clear they really disappeared and gave just a slight amount of dimension. I really liked it! 

 Hmm... This one didn't show up as ell as I wanted it to. It's the Glue Glider Pro on the white, but I guess that's a good thing! It's invisible! :) 

Well, you all know how much I love Extreme Adhesive Squares so I was jumping up and down when these were attached to the back of a Glue Glider refill! I loved them!!!

 I just wrapped the extra back onto the clothespins and they were AWESOME at sticking to my paper! Very impressive for something so small! 

Finished product. I just love this little fat blue bird! He's SOOOO cute!

The U-Cut-It foam is really tall. Which is awesome because I LOVE the dimension it brings. It made his fake beard really look like he had just added it to his face! FUN! 

Recipe:

• Cartridges:
• 3 Birds On Parade™
• Create a Critter™
• Patterned Paper:
• Imaginisce: Animal Crackers "Hot Buttered Popcorn"™ (blue on the bird)
• Imaginisce: Santa's Little Helper "Cinnamon Snowflake"™ (red with white snowflakes)
• Imaginisce: D-stress™
• Solid Colors: Core'dinations Roy-G-Biv™
• Glue Arts 3D Combo Pac™
• Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro with Perma-tac™
• Glue Arts Mini Adhesive Squares in Perma Tac™
• Stickles in Christmas Red™
• Cuttlebug Embossing Folder: Tiny Bubble™
• clothespins: Canvas Corp Home Basics mini clothespins in white™
• Corrugated cardboard: Canvas Corp 12x12 Flute in white™

Be sure to hop on over to Imaginisce and then to Glue Arts to see what we have all made for your inspiration! I hope you enjoy! There are prizes up at BOTH locations! :)