Another Easter Card/Card for Wacky Wed Challenge

Happy Saturday Crafers! I have today and tomorrow off work. Did you know I work part-time at Bath and Body Works?? It is sooooo much fun!!! The atmosphere is positive, co-workers are awesome, great product, freebies, I get out of the house a little and feel like I'm paying some of the bills.

Here is an Easter card I made for my 4 yr old.



Details:
Card base is white 4.5 x 6

Carts Used:
Chick is Create a Critter at 2.75, topiary & pot is from Freshly picked, cut at 3. Eggs from Doodlecharms and cut at .90. Egg cut from simply charmed. Grass cut from EDPD
Sun cut from Life is a Beach (face at blackout so I could stamp) Clouds cut from Paper cuts but not layered. Rabbit Ears from PDDU

Entering this in the More than Favors: Wacky Wednesdays #68 Easter/Spring Challenge

Pool Layout for Whimsical Wednesday #9 & MPS Color Challengea

Happy Weekend Y'all!
What???? Donya acutally did a 2 pg/12x12 layout and not a card??? LOL Can ya believe it?
I won't be ready to use it for a bit but now what pics are going on it. I've gotta start focusing on catching up those scrapbooks and less on cards. LOL

So, I'm entering this in the Whimsical Wednesday #9 Fun-in-the-Sun Challenge. (Where you create a summer LO and include stamping on it.)

Also entering this in the MPS Color Challenge (which was a project with turquoise, orange and green)

Left Page

Right Page

Details:
12 x 12 LO. Patterned paper is Imaginations, solid paper is DCWV.
Stamped images: The sun (Peachy Keen Stamps Snow Cuties) and Pool Fun (EK Success Alphabet), Black Dye ink is Staz-on. Stickers for food: CM and Jolee. Scissors used to cut the edges of the turquoise mats are fiskars. Grey paper was cut to look like a sidewalk and ran through the cuttlebug with the mosaic folder and then pop dotted onto a grey strip of paper before attaching to the printed paper.

Carts Used: Life is a Beach (Chair, flip flops, beach ball, life preserver, lifeguard chair and sun)
EDPD (towel) Formal Occasions (table with the vase outline cut off the top)

Birthday Card

Hello everyone. Good Gravy! I cannot believe in less than a week I went from 42 followers to 74--WOWSERS!! Thank you so much everyone and I hope I can live up to everyones creative expectations :)

I mentioned in previous posts I had a lot of birthdays in March. Last week you saw the picture frame card I did from my 3 yr old son for my MIL's birthday. I was bad and didn't do one from my hubbie and I.

But my 9 yr old wanted to do one. She knows my MIL likes birds and the color purple. So, she picked out the papers and went through a few of the cricut books and tol me what she wanted for a picture.

Then, she tells me she wants a "long fold up card!" I have never ventured out of my box to do anything like that. So I got my gypsy and my favorite card card--Gypsy Wanderings and started trying to figure it out. LOL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Go take a look at Sheila at She's a Sassy Lady's video and this is what started our inspiration for a window card with a phrase inside. I'm sure there were easier and quicker ways to do it but it took me a bit to get the words "Happy Birthday" positioned just right inside the frame. And, even though the words WERE already welded together in Gypsy Wandering, I STILL had to "weld the welded phrase" to the frame so it would cut the way I wanted. That meant resizing and resizing and nudging and stretching. Hopefully all this makes since by seeing a little visual.

So, first I did the postage stamp frame from the GW cart at 5x7. Then I took another rectangle frame cut from GW at 5x7 and used hide/contour for the inside frame part so it wouldn't cut as a frame. Then I duplicated that. Then, I nudged all of those shapes together, grouped and welded. After that, I worked on my Happy Birthday phrase to weld as much of the wording edges as possible to the inside frame. Then, I grouped/welded the phrase to the postage stamp frame. All was cut in one shot in lavender paper.

After that, I copied the phrase and pasted to a blank layer so I could cut that in darker purple (and to give some thickness to the wording. I did that 2x) and there are 3 layers to the phrase "Happy Birthday." The blue for the sky was cut as 2 welded 5x7 cuts (the postage stamp card cut was unwelded)








Carts Used & Size:

*Gypsy Wandering (Card Base with frame, the words Happy Birthday (5.62 x 9.39), all extra card mats in the various colors) All card bases at 5x7.

*50 States--for the Robin--cut at 1.25
*Paper Pups--Clouds at .75 and .90, they are double layered clouds so I did hide/contour for the inside part, then hide/contour for the outside part so I could cut on white, then blue paper.
*Give A Hoot--Tree I think was 5" tall
*Walk in My Garden--All flowers and cut at 1" and the sign, cut at 2"
*Life's A Beach--White Chair and cut at 1.50, the welded word "Relax" was also LAB but the blackout/shadow feature and then I cut the word off the bottom of the chair.

Other Details:
Purple cardstock was DCWV and the Blue for sky was Bazzil, Green for grass was sticker paper I've had fooooorrreever from CM. I used Distress ink pad and ink applicators to shade the robin. The lilac pearls are from Michael's $1 bin and the flower on front was Prima, with another pearl glued down in the middle. I used my ATG and scotch quick dry glue. For the grass, I used a CM tearing tool and tore the green sticker paper's edges.

Can I say that cutting those flowers at 1inch was a bear to put together LOL. My MIL LOVED it and my daughter was so proud of her design work. LOL