Valentine Card

1st Happy Valentine Card for 2014

 I started making a few cards today, and this one has been on my list to do for awhile. I saw similar cards last year and had it on my TO DO List for this year.
I am really pleased how it turned out.
The silhouette is from A Childs Year Cartridge cut at 2.25. The white large doily is from 
Art Philosophy cut at 4.75. The small doily is a 2.25 die  from Taylored Expressions.
I also use an embossing folder by Darice called Hearts :). The Arrow is from the CCR digital images pkg called Arrows. I cut this at 1 inch and then cut into 2 pieces so I could fit it on the card which is 5.5 x 5.5. The mini hearts were cut and punched from various other cartridges using the CCR and my E2 and a Studio G mini punch.
The corners of the black mat were punched with a punch by All Night Media that I had in my collection.
All papers were from my stash and most from AC Moore and Michaels.

Thanks for looking and hope you enjoy :)

Have a great week everyone!
Tina

Happy St. Patrick's Day

this was a freebie at Bugaboo Digital Stamps so adorable an just perfect for card making. I colored him with Copic markers and a dab of gold on his hat.

I used my circle spellbinders to cut and emboss,then I used CCR to cut the scallop circle mat. The digi is up on one thickness of foam tape. The tab/banner comes from the Artiste cartridge. My sentiment stamps on the inside  comes from The Stamps of Life.

All of the paper and cardstock is from my stash.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

finished calendars

here are the two finished calendars.. the whimsy one will have the same decorations on the top when she sets it up.

thanks for looking :)

Christmas Advent Calendar

 

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This is a countdown calendar that I got a few years back. It is by Karen Foster and is available at Jo-Ann’s right now and on SALE!! I just ordered 2 more! :) !! so I can make some for gifts. The two I am working on right now are for my 2 Girls. One of whom has her own apt. now and could use some holiday decorations. I designed the template in CCR using the craftroom basics shapes and I have uploaded the file to 4share if anyone would like it. I will post up a finished picture when I complete it with all the other little details.

http://www.4shared.com/folder/FJUQOAiI/My_4shared_Sync.html

I’d love to see yours if you do one up. If you have any problem with the file please email me.

One of the next ones I do, I am going to do it double sided! Halloween and Christmas :)

thanks for looking :)

Happy Birthday Giraffe

Alison turns 30! Oh my gosh, I’m getting older! lol  She adores giraffes, especially since we went to Disney this past year and stayed at the Animal Kingdom Lodge. The giraffes would water during the day and bedded down right outside our room! She named them all Geoffrey (like Toys R Us). I found it fitting to do this little card for her. I used the Zooballoo Cartridge. The card is cut at 8.5 x 4.25. I then used some chocolate flocking for his spots and his ears. It’s hard to see, but I chalked the clouds with blue. Enjoy :)

Halloween Frame

Hi again! I made a mini album for a co worker who’s daughter just had a baby earlier this summer and she has decided to use the remaining pages I didn’t decorate for the holidays thru the end of the year. I came up with this little frame using the Happy Hauntings 3D freebies and a cute little pumpkin from the Artiste cartridge. The papers were from a DCWV fall paper stack and welded in CCR. I made this to fit the 5 1/2 sized pages. The frame is cut at 4.45 height and is 4.25 with the welded pumpkin. The opening will fit a  2 1/2 oval picture. I’d be happy to share the file, just PM me :) if you’d like. Thanks for looking

Bones

I cut these two fellas from the Artiste Cartridge. I was using the cart for the other little cuts on my cards(previous post) and they caught my eye! These are just very simple put on the mat and cut away. I wanted to have my daughter show her BF’s sister what crazy possibilites we (CRICUT/Imagine Fanatics) have to help her decorate her new classroom. She is a special needs teacher and just got an official teaching position in a local elementary school. They basically gave her an empty room, with no blackboards,desks etc, so its building a class from ground zero! We also found out she cut 150 leaves by hand!  totally not necessary!!!

anyhow, the Boo is at 1.6” for height in CCR and the skeletons,one flipped are at 11.15” height and the head is 1.569” height. 2 fit on the page.

I am finding so many other cool things on this Artiste Cartridge,  it’s becoming a fav :)

A few Halloween cards

I played with a few of the freebie pieces from Happy Hauntings that I had cut earlier this month. I did a banner cut from the Close to My Heart Artiste cartridge for the Ghostly sentiment which is a stamp from CardzTvstamps.com. The Happy Halloween stamp is from The {Stamps}of Life. I used a Martha Stewart punch for the little mouse and grave border.The pirate Ghost has stickle on his hat and a google eye and a piece of ric -rac from my stash. Hope you enjoy  :) and Happy Halloween!

The Haunted House is a 5 x 7 card and the Ghost is a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2

Team Teddy Bears

I had so much fun doing these little fella's up! One is a take on the game outfit of the Patriots and the other is the Dolphins. I used CCR and the E2 for all cuts and stash cardstock. The Teddy Bears are cut at 4.5 as well as all their outfits TIP TIP TIP The one thing I found on this cartridge is that in hiding some cuts you really have to zoom as far in as possible or you will miss a few of the slash guides that the piece has! I got a whole page done and errrrrrrr slices through some of the cuts.

A twisted Mustache

watch those eyes following you.... gargoyle cut at 2.5 from A frightful Affair and the 2 mustaches,the freebie in CCR this week!(mustache, top bowl 3.39 wide) (mustache, bottom stand 2.81) with the E2 inked edges with black and glossy accents in eyes.Oh and the gauze pad for effect :) The sentiment stamp is from Cardztvstamps.blogspot.com thanks for looking and Happy Halloween!

Canning and gift labels to match

I did up some Mustard Pickle and made this cute little tag for it. I used the CCR and welded 2 canning jars together. I used swiss dots cuttlebug to emboss bumps for the pickles,branches to the gray piece I hand cut from a single cut of the jar to give it some ridges like the real twist caps have and circles for the jars to resemble pickles. I used Savory for the canning jar and Just Because Cards for the pickle if you would like the ccr file,feel free to email me :)

quick St. Patricks

card for my Mom. I hope I remember to mail it!! :) I wanted to try a shaped card, so I used the shadow feature on the Designer's Calendar cart and welded them together to form the card base in the Cricut Craft Room. Then I cut another one for the front top layer slightly smaller then the base card. The card stock on the base in Coordinations and I sanded the edges to give the green border(which was the backing color). The sentiments are from a Stamps of Life set.
the ribbon is stash from AC Moore or Joann's
This fits a 5x7 envelope