Shopper

I thought I would make a cute, girly card about one of my favorite past-times...shopping!  Since this is from 9 months, I suspect that technically this woman is supposed to be pregnant and shopping for baby things.  However, I imagine she's just got kind of big hips and is shopping for whatever!  I cut her out at 4 inches and she's on popdots. 

The card is regular A2 size, and the patterned paper is from my stash.  It's sparkly and has a lot of things that women might shop for like makeup and shoes and jewelry.  Then I put the yellow paper on with some matching American Crafts ribbon as an accent.  I rounded all of the corners before adhering them using my medium sized corner rounder.  Now to send it to one of my favorite shopping buddies...who will be the lucky recipient?

I'm entering this in the following challenges:
Exploring Cricut- Cricut Choice (using a person)
Cut it up- Anything Goes
DL.Art- 1000 posts linky party

J is for Journey

I love how when I had a stressful day or I'm home alone, making even a quick card clears my head.  I pulled out my 9 months cartridge and wanted to make something non-baby related.  It's a lot harder with this cartridge than some of the others- but I don't mind a challenge!  I thought this suitcase would make a nice shaped card, and can be used for any sort of travel related situation.  I cut the suitcase at 4 1/2 inches.  It turns out that it's not a perfect shape for a shaped card, because the handle gets in the way of opening it a little, but it's still really cute!

I plan to enter this in the following challenge:

Alphabet Challenge Blog- J for Journey

Dry erase board

Pinterest is an addictive thing.  I often find things that I think would be really cute, and then tweak them for my own.  So, when I saw this board from Craftaholics Anonymous, I pinned it and filed it away.

A few weekends ago, my husband and I were cleaning out the guest room closet (aka where everything gets shoved to get forgotten) and I found a big, black frame with an old joke diploma in it that I didn't need any more.  A little goo gone later (to get rid of the label that had been affixed to the front), I had a clean black frame.

To make the white background, I found our thickest wrapping paper and just taped it on backwards.  The words were cut with Lyrical Letters.  If I could do it again, I would probably make them smaller, but I didn't feel like wasting more black cardstock, because it's like gold in my craft room, so I left it.  Everything doesn't have to be perfect, right?

Then I made some roses out of coffee filters that I had dyed with food coloring.  I like things to be free as much as possible.  I hot-glued them onto the corner.  Granted, I don't think mine looks as good as the one at Craftaholics Anonymous, but that's why she's a professional crafter and I'm just tinkering in my craft room.  :)

I plan to use it to remind myself of various craft ideas that I've had and occasions that are coming up that I need to make cards for.  :)

7/12/12 update:

I am kind of a clutz and ripped a hole through the paper of my board by pushing too hard when I was writing on it.  So, off to the Dollar Tree I went and got some white posterboard.  In the time between when I first made the frame and when I ripped it, I got Baby Steps, and I absolutely love the font, so I used it on my replacement board.  Here it is:

PS- I keep the cute little worm from 9 months on it for decoration.  :)