Mother's Day

I mentioned a week or so ago that I had gotten a Silhouette Cameo.  Here I am with my first official Silhouette card!  I still love my Cricuts and plan to use both, but this is a fun new toy for sure.  :)

This card is a Mother's Day themed card.  I used the freebie cute kangaroo from SVG Cuts for the mom and joey.   The mom's ears and feet are glittered with Icicle Stickles.  I put them on some Recollections patterned paper that I had cut and put onto the pink card base.

I didn't want to go with the traditional "Happy Mother's Day" sentiment on the outside because that way I can stamp on the inside and it won't be redundant.  The sentiment that I picked is from Pink by Design's "Bracketful" set.  I finished it off with a few purple gems.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:
Cameo Creations- Mother’s Day              

Pink by Design- Mother’s Day

All That Stickles- Icicle       

Die Cuttin Divas- Anything Goes

Silhouette Challenges- Anything Goes
Cut it up Challenges- Mother's day
Cardz TV- There's no other like my mother

I'm Back!

I'm settled into my new {temporary} craft room while we stay at our "summer home" (aka the apartment we rented while we look for a house in our new city).  I share my craft space with the office furniture, and yesterday my husband needed something out of the closet and told me "I think we need to get you a bigger craft space in the new house.  It's crowded in here!"  I didn't object to that.  :)

Anyway, things are back to the new normal for now.  Please excuse my pictures while we're here, there is not one drop of natural daylight even on the nicest days, so I have to try to use a combination of the kitchen and dining room lights on the kitchen counter in order to get a semi-good picture.

For my first challenge after my little break, I made this cute thank you card.  I started with a black card base, and then cut strips of bright colors and glued them on to the base.  I printed a freebie from The Alley Way Stamps and colored the fish colors that matched my strips of paper, then cut them out.  I stamped my "punny" sentiment with white ink using The Alley Way Stamps "Alphabet Soup."

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Pumpkin Spice Blog- Nature

Craftin Desert Divas- Use a Pun

Red Carpet Studio Challenges- Thank you card

The Alley Way Stamps- Be Inspired #27

Outdoor critters

Hello again!  Are you ready for another challenge at Pause, Dream, Enjoy Challenges?  This one is a fun one!  Our theme this time is Outdoor Critters!

 For those of you that are Cricut-ers, did you know that Cricut is now selling individual images for use in the Cricut Craft Room?  I was super excited to see these two little critters from Cindy Loo as two of the images that you could purchase, because I'd always liked them, but didn't want to buy a whole cartridge for two images.  Now I can own just the images I want!

My card is a dark blue card base with green paper from Bo Bunny.  I also put a strip of paper from Echo Park's "Country Drive" 6x6 pad along the bottom.  I liked the colorful trees, and thought they went well with an outdoor theme.  :)

I cut the squirrel and deer using CCR and adhered them onto my card with foam squares.  I wanted to add one extra little touch, so I added a button from my stash with some twine tied into a bow up in the corner.

We'd love for you to play along with us at Pause, Dream, Enjoy Challenges!  You can head over to the blog to see the inspiration from the whole Design Team and then link up to play along!

No Lion

Ok, we had a bit of a snafu with a less-than-speedy bank employee and it delayed closing of the sale of our house for...awhile. But we're in our new place now and I'm getting everything organized.   I REALLY missed my craft room!  You guys, I seriously think I was going through withdrawals! Since it took us longer than expected to move, it has taken me longer than expected to get my craft room up and running.  I'm hoping this will be the last of my pre-made posts and I'll be back to creating new projects and joining in challenges soon. 

This was one of my early experiments with shaped cards.  I kind of cheated though- I had made the lion for a door decoration for my office at an old job, and when I left there I brought it home.  I basically measured it, cut two shadows of the same size (in safari green, I thought it was fitting) and just threw it together.  I felt so guilty about how quickly it came together that I used Cotton Candy Stickles on his cheeks and tongue to add another touch.  

Also, after saving up gift cards since Christmas, I finally had enough money to buy my Silhouette Cameo!  I had it shipped to my parents' house so I knew it would be safe until the move was over, and just picked it up a couple of days ago! Time to start learning how to use it!

Geeky bear

I saw a cute picture on Pinterest, originally from Geek Is Awesome, with an equation that ended up being I < 3 u and was inspired to make a card for my engineery husband.

I used a black cardstock base to mimic a chalkboard feel and a white colored pencil to write the equation.  I was definitely having some algebra class flashbacks when I was copying down the equation and trying to make sure I got it right.

Isn't this geeky little bear so cute?  He's called "Teacher," but I used him as an engineer.  Because the bear, which I cut at 3 inches, is holding a black laptop, I stuck a piece of argyle purple paper behind him.  The paper is from Paper Studio's Basics pad (I can't remember if it's the 12x12 or the 8x8, because it was just a leftover scrap I pulled out). I kept a little bit of the black paper still visible around the edges.

Two Sophie Layouts

(This accidentally got posted back in February, but I deleted it and scheduled it to post today, when it was supposed to.  Sorry if you're reading it twice!) When I make layouts for Sophie's scrapbook, I tend to do many at a time.  I print out 8 or so pictures, get out one of our folding tables to spread out my gigantic stash of dog craft supplies, and just do a page or two a day until they're done.  I'll try to share them a couple at a time here, so that there aren't 8 posts in a row, but also so that they don't get lost in one post.  All of Sophie's layouts are 8x8.

The first layout on this post is on a dark blue piece of cardstock.  I layered on some patterned paper from the Good Dog line by Imaginisce and put Sophie's picture on top of it.  It was printed 4x6, but I cut off some of the edges that were just extra space and it came out pretty much a square picture.

The title letters are from an old pack of letter stickers I picked up in the Target dollar bin and the journal tag is from my stash, as is the bone behind it and the slip of red paper in the top corner.  Each of the three areas of embellishment has some washi tape by Queen & Co and a stamp from the Furry Friends stamp set by Pink by Design.  The "Unleashed" sticker in the top corner is from Reminisce.

The second layout for this post is on green cardstock.  I cut the picture down by just a quarter of an inch and then matted it on a piece of 6x6 paper from the Snap collection.  The black washi tape with paw prints is from Queen and Co.  In the top corner, I layered a phrase sticker from Paper Studio, a pawprint from Echo Park's "Woof" and a bone from the Deja Views Dog Days stack.  In the bottom corner I used a vellum title from DCWV and some brackets and a blue embellishment from the Deja Views Dog Days stack. I finished it off with some journaling on a journal block from We R Memory Keepers.

So there you have it: Two of Sophie's layouts!  I like the blue one better than the green.  It seems like something is missing, but I can't really figure out what.  The great thing about scrapbooking is that if I figure it out some day, I can just slip it out of the page protector and add it on!  

Panda card

I made this card really quickly one night, but I like the way it came together.  I guess my lesson for this card is that you don't have to spend hours and hours on every single card.  I already had cut the panda out for a previous challenge, and then didn't end up using him.  I happened to have just bought the WRMK painted brads, and the dark red matched my chevron strips exactly, so I added one up in the top corner.  It's something that I could use for any occasion, depending on what I decide to stamp on it!