Grandma's House

Well, as you all know I went to North Carolina this past weekend and my parents took care of our Yorkie named Spoon. She is almost a year and a half old, but in many ways she is still a puppy so they are troopers to take care of her. Anyway, I made this card to say thank you. It's a little cheesy, but it's from daughter/puppy to parents so they'll understand. If you saw the way my mom dotes on our little dog then you'd understand why I labeled it grandma's house. :) The day we have kids - my goodness - it's going to be a spoil-fest.

The dog house and the dog are cut with Everyday Paper Dolls™. I flipped and welded the images together with Design Studio™. The words are welded on Design Studio™ using Designer's Calendar™ and then squishing/stretching the letters a bit. I added some Swarovski™ Crystals to Spoon's collar and a little "S" for her tag.

Other Mother's Day Card 2010

Well, I couldn't just make one card when I have a wonderful mother-in-law as well (we call her my co-mom because she's wonderful and I didn't want the bad connotations to be there). Anyway, so this one is for my co-mom.

I have to say I was tickled pink today when one of my crafting heros Meda decided to "follow" my blog. As icing on the cake (hmm... I was going to make cupcakes today... crafting or cupcakes, crafting or cupcakes, CRAFTING!) Carole, who seems to be the mother of the crafting community that I watch, commented on one my cards.

For the card I used:
Sentimentals Cartridge™
Storybook Cartridge™
Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder™
Flower punch in two sizes
Swarovski™ Crystals

There were four things that I tried for the first time with this card:
I was really excited to use the Scissors from the Sentimentals Cartridge™ so I wanted the card to open up that way (a front opening card).

This was my first attempt using any kind of shadowing feature. I think it really does make a card "pop".

The third element that was new to me was curling the flower edges - an idea that I scraplifted.

And lastly, another new element was making a band that went around the outside.

I used eyelets with my Crop-a-Dile to make the holes because I wanted a very finished look and ribbon to hold the back of it. I'll post a picture of this as I wish more crafters showed the backs of their cards. I often wonder how they get things to wrap around the cards and how they finish them off, so this was my solution to that. Enjoy!

Easter Egg Tree

Well, Easter has come and gone, but I thought I would share this Easter Egg tree that I made for the centerpiece of our Easter table (although I admit I got very sick and we ended up eating at our parents' house, but it was still great decoration for the month or so before!).

I used the Designer's Calendar Cartridge™ to find the egg shape. I cut out 6 at 3.5 inches out of sage colored and pre-embossed with little dots card stock. I then used the eggs as the guide for the size of the white side of the paper. I traced 6 eggs onto the white shiny paper and then cut them out by hand as I didn't want to have the same design (which wouldn't line up) on both sides of the egg. I then glued them together. I cut out flourishes from the Storybook Cartridge™ from the same sage colored cardstock and glued them to the white side of the egg. I embellished with Swarovski™ crystals and used my new Crop-a-Dile™ to punch holes and snaps to create a finished look. I cut white and deep purple ribbon to make loops and then tied the tops of the bows to the tree. Voila! Now they will be packed up for next year and hopefully I'll get to use it in the middle of my own table next year.
Enjoy!

Valentines

So, my first real project that I did with my Cricut™ was to make Valentines for my bridesmaids. I went to my friend Inna's house and we watched Sex and the City, drank Cosmopolitans and had a wonderful time crafting. It was a great girls' night. This is the paper of our labor.

Items used:
Cricut™
Wild Card Cartridge™
Storybook Cartridge™
Cuttlebug™
A2 Swiss Dots Emboss Folder™
A2 Leafy Branch Emboss Folder ™
Glue
Hole Puncher
Ribbon
Swarovski™ crystals