Christmas Card for CRAFT JUNKIE TOO:All Things Christmas Linky Party

Here is a Christmas card I did in 2010 and I realized it was in my picture folder and I never posted it. oooOOOps!! I'm linking it for Craft Junkie Too All Things Christmas Link Party

Details:

I saw the idea in one of my card magazines. The circles were done with Gypsy Wanderings at 3 different sizes, I think 5, 3.75 and 2.5 The biggest circle was adhered to the cardstock and there are pop dots between the other 2 layers.

The paper for the card base is Basic Grey. I used some black embellishments for the eyes, mouth and buttons. I cut an orange nose out of cardstock. The scarf is tartan plaid ribbon.

Birthday card for Birthday Sundaes Challenge #15

This is a card I'm entering last minut for the Birthday Sundaes Challenge #15, Stars and Stripes

You needed to include stars and stripes and the birthday sentiment on the front of the card.



Details: Designed card on gypsy. Size is 5x7, Window Frame for card base is Gypsy Wandering, (x2 frame cuts and hid the inside "frame" part that was the back of the card for one of the cuts, then welded the 2 frames together)
Font is Gypsy Wandering,(phrase button and 4th cut over on top row) wording welded at a few places to the frame. Cut stripe paper with just the front "window frame" cut and glued that on top of the card base. Then, cut just the welded word "Happy Birthday" again in the star paper and glued on top of the card base wording.

Papers: black star and the stripe are from J's. Silver metallic paper from H/L. I used a quickutz star embossing folder for the silver paper and glued to the frame from behind so the wording "Happy Birthday" would float on top of the silver paper. Star metallic embellishments are popdot stickers from M's.

Father's Day Card #2/ CWC Color Challenge #32,

Happy Friday Everyone! I finally had a chance to do a little crafty stuff. The kids are officially out of school as of last Friday and they are keeping me busy.

I got a Father's Day card done from my kiddos to my FIL. He LOVES golf. And, this is close to how his living room looks. His most favorite thing to do is have a cup of coffee in his fav. chair and watch golf on a Sunday afternoon with his chocolate lab "Captain" at his feet.
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I entered this card in the Cooking With Cricut Color Challenge #32 and
Creative Cutter Room Father's Day Challenge

**In honor of National Gingersnap Day, project needs to have at least 2 of the following colors. **
Tangerine – Orange
Yellow
Cream - Vanilla
Ginger - Brown
Green
Kraft, White or Black as accents if necessary
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I didn't want to buy the Father's Day cart just because I wanted the recliner, game remote and the TV remote control. (I may regret next year not getting it). So, I creatively improvised!!



DETAILS:

This is a beige 5x7 card.

I found some clip art for a TV, chair and remote that I downloaded, printed off on white cardstock and then traced onto tracing paper for the details. Then traced onto cardstock a couple more times and cut out. I wanted to add some depth by layering it 2 or 3x. And, I wanted the detail shadowing on the chair.

The chair I used brown and black watercolor pencils and brown chalk ink. I probably didn't do the best job, but it will work. This is the reason I don't have copics and stamp cards, I don't have the patience for it LOL (or the extra $).
The picture was some CM sticker print paper I have had FOOOORRREVVVER and I just cut a design out and stuck on a square of brown paper. The wallpaper is also CM sticker paper. The tan paper for the carpet is from Bazzil.

Carts: Table & lamp (both 1.6)--Serenade, Dog (.80)--Paper Pups, Books (1" and cut apart)--Locker Talk, Coffee mug( .50) and Square for Pillow (.45)--Gypsy Wanderings. The word "Golf" is from Nates ABC's (.50). Golfer (1.30)--Car Decals. I just inked the details like the shirt, hat, wheels and golf club.

The face for the golfer is a 3/8" from Peachy Keen--snow cuties. Cardstock colors are: Terra Cotta (for pot), 2 shades of green (plant), 4 shades of brown (lamp and table) Cream (lampshade) Brown (dog & picture) Kraft (for Golfer), Yellow (the word "Golf"), Black for TV

CHALLENGES ENTERED:
CWC #32
Creative Cutter Room--Father's Day

Flower Gatefold Card

Hello Everyone! I decided to do a gatefold card with some flowers. My DD misses my 12 yr old niece who's in NY. They are like sisters. So, she found this cool paper at the LSS and picked out the stamped sentiments.

I saw this card in one of my magazines and thought I'd try with my Gypsy. Here is the picture from the magazine:

Here is the picture from my Gypsy:

Here is the card:





Details:

Card Base is 5x5 (just one piece) cut in cream Bazzil with Gypsy Wanderings. Blue Zebra cut at 5x5 and adhered to the cream base for thickness. Then same shape for card base but sized at 4.25x4.25 and flower from Formal Occasion sized at 3.25 and welded to each side. That was also cut in the same cream. Then, I took each individual flower and cut it 2x in the blue stripe, then 2x in the blue dot to adhere to the flowers. Center of flowers inked in yellow chalk ink and outside edges of flowers inked in turquoise chalk ink, all from MS.

Black Staz-on ink and sentiments from MPS (Pinkalicious and Family & Friends) Inside stamped sentiment is from Emma/Creative Time For Me (Turn that frown upside down). 2" cream circle stamped with Peachy Keen Wide Eyed Kid stamp for inside.

Teacher Appreciation Card #3

Hey Everyone!

Well, I surprised myself with making this window frame card for my DD's Art Teacher. He is a really creative guy and my daughter loves his class.
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Where do I begin trying to explain this card...
Details: It is a 4 x 6 card using a Gypsy Wandering frame. I then duplicated the frame, hid the details, flipped, grouped and welded. I liked this frame because it kinda looked like a piece of notebook paper.

Layer 1 on the Gypsy:

I then used several images from Locker talk: The artist brush, paints and the art picture (flower) I started with the palette and angled it at the top and enlarged the size so it touched at least 3 sides when welded. Then, did the same with the brush, paint and finally the flower. The last thing I did was weld the letter "A" and letter "T" to the "R" (The R was part of the flower and stem)

Then for the other layers on the Gypsy, I copied and pasted all the other details above (so they would be the exact size I needed) and cut in the colors I wanted to glue down on top of the card.

Inside the card:

My dd found a poem that we printed off on the computer. Then, we took some art terms and used Word to repeat them on the page and print off. I took a sponge and different colors of Tim Holtz Distress ink pads to swirl color over the art words. Then just attached everything together.

Challenge: Fantabulous Cricut-- Looks Like Spring #53

The challenge this week at Fantabulous Cricut is "Looks Like Spring" (Any springtime project).

Here is a 5x7 card that I did. I thought it appropriate because the brown background paper says "Spring has Sprung" with flowers and bicycles on it.

Details: Double sided paper from My little yellow bicycle "Spring." That was used for everything on card but the robin's egg blue card base and that was Core'dinations. White organza ribbon from H/L. Pearls from M's. Popdotted the brown print paper and the flower.

Carts: Gypsy Wandering for welded postage stamp card base and all card layers. Kate's ABC's for the flower, cut at 2.85.

Toy Story Birthday Card--Buzz

Ok, so here is birthday card #2 using Toy Story. My 9 yr old daughter helped me pick out the papers and figure out how to layer them. I was kinda stumped what to do for the Buzz card. LOL Thank you to my girly- girl!

Sizes:
~ Card Base is 7x14 (folded 7x7), green frame is 6.75 x 6.75, blue cloud paper is 6x6
Blue Star paper is 5.5x5.5
~Inside left scallop oval was done with real dial off and like 6 wide and 3 high,
~ Inside right scallop was done bigger, with real dial off and like 8 wide and 4 high
*****Can't remember for sure what sizes I did the oval scallops. But when I sized my "Happy Birthday, I made sure it would fit inside the oval.
~ "Happy Birthday" was done at 2 and the "3rd" was done at 2.5


Carts Used and Details:
~ Disney Toy Story, Buzz at 3"
~ Gypsy Wandering for card base and all Layers and scallop circles inside
~ EK Success scalloped punch for tag on front
~Computer, white cardstock and Minya Nouvelle font
for sayings
~ Gypsy Wanderings for "Happy Birthday" phrase
~Nates ABC's for the "Number 3"
~Outside Message "Hello Space Ranger"
~Inside Message "Time to Blast Off for Adventure"

Toy Story Birthday Card--Woody

Hello Everyone and again..thanks to all who have recently joined my blog! :) I truly appreciate it!

So, Saturday is the big Toy Story family Bday party for my 3 yr old. (his bday was Thurs.)

I asked him what kind of Toy Story card he wanted and he said "Woody and Buzz, BiiiiiiGGG card!!" LOL

So, Mama made him some big cards LOL I made a card from Mommy & Daddy that was Woody and one from his sister (she helped me on it) that was Buzz. The buzz card will be posted tomorrow.

Sizes: Card Base 8x8--I told ya it was big!!
~Layers were 7.5x7.5 for cow print, 6.85 x 6.85 for blue cloud print.
~The fence post/frame I took off the real dial size and it was like 7 high.
~Woody was at 3.5.
~Inside alphabet was at 1.5, horseshoes were at 1.25 (the one outside)and 2.5(the one inside) ~The number 3 was at 2.75"

Carts and Other Details:
~Card Base was from Gypsy Wandering, as was the scalloped frame cuts. The inside cow print scallop and the cloud scallop were the "negatives" from the front of the card cuts I did.
~Toy Story for Woody
~Outside Message says "Reach for the Sky"
~Inside wording was welded using Nates ABC's
~Fence was from PDDU and then after making the fence BIG for the frame on the front, I cut the posts apart. I ran the fence posts through the cuttlebug using a Sizzix woodgrain embossing folder
~Horseshoe was from PDDU, used ink to detail the holes
~Computer generated messages using Minya Nouvelle font
~EK Success scalloped shape punch for the messages

Window Frame Card

Ok, so I said yesterday I had a bunch of cards to do. Well, I put my 3 yr old to work today--Happy birthday to my little man today. I got some 12 x 12 archival scrapbooking canvas at H/L and cut a 5x7 piece and gave him some oil pastels and told him to color a picture.

First of all, this would've been the pefect opportunity to do my first video huh? LOL
Sorry no detailed gypsy pics. I always enjoy those because I'm sure I'm not the only visual learner!!

I got my gypsy and went to GW and used the frames. I sized at 4 1/4 x 5.5 and duplicated, grouped and welded together. On the side that was the back of the card, I used hide/contour to hide the "inside frame" cutout. All that was cut.

Then, I cut just the one frame side 2 additional times for some thickness when I glued everything together.

Then, I used just the same frame side that I just did the hide/contour on (the back side of card cut) and put a piece of the clear plastic cricut clamshell packaging on the mat. I was lazy and didn't put my deep cut blade/housing in. So, turned blade to 6, pressure max and speed max. I had to multi cut it 2 additional times but it worked.

Now, for the inside patterned paper. I used the same frame cut again but used hide/contour for the inside part for both before grouping/welding together. I cut the birdhouse paper out. Then, just used one side of the frame with the inside hide/contoured and cut 1x with the floral/vine paper.

Then, went to Winter Frolic and cut the tree branch 2x in brown, size at 3". I had to trim the shadow of the bird & nest off since hide/contour wouldn't work for this cut. Then, used the "Happy Birthday" phrase on GW sized at 2 in red.

The bird is from Animal Kingdom and cut at 1". The base was yellow, the top layer (without beek or legs) was in a tan. I used Tim Holtz distress ink pads & MS chalk inks and applicators to highlight the belly and wings--colors used were MS cream, walnut stain, weathered wood, and honey.

Ok, now for card base. Ran through cuttlebug and use the sizzix/Tim Holtz tree folder. Then inked entire card in walnut stain distress ink pad.

Remember the 2 extra frame layers I cut for thickness? I glued those inside the card base to give the frame part extra thickness. Then, I used my ATG to glue the cut piece of plastic inside the frame (like glass on a picture frame). To make sure things would stay in place, I used an embroidery needle and the natural bakers twine and 2 small red buttons to go completely through the plastic & 3 pieces of cardstock. I left ends long on top of the button so I could tie a bow. It was hard using the needle through all those thicknesses so I had to also use some needle nose pliers to pull through.

Ok, for the "art masterpiece" LOL I wanted it stiffer so I painted a thin layer of Modge Podge on both sides of the canvas. It took 30 min to dry. Then, I ran a layer of the ATG tape from the inside of the card on the plastic. Then, I thought "THAT WON'T HOLD" so I also used some of the zip dry on top. I placed the canvas down so it would show through the "plastic window."
I used some of those black butterfly clips around the edges of the card to hold the zipdry/layers together while it dried good.

An hour later I came back and glued the inside pieces of cardstock to the card, then glued down all the inside details.

I just got done with this card and it took me aaAAALLLllllllll morning!! First time I ever tackled anything like this. Who knows, there was probably an easier way to do this. It was a learning and creative thinking project. LOL

But my 3yr old is so happy his little artwork is made into a card. My Mother-in-law loves birds and nature so I think it all works.

Happy Monday

Hello everyone! Hope you had a good weekend. Wanted to share the birthday card my daughter and I did for my niece who is turning 12. We just mailed it off today. This is the card from her. :)

My daughter had the idea in her head and told me what she wanted so I helped her on my gypsy follow through with what was in her head. She picked out the papers and said these colors would be a "girls dream colors for an I-pod." LOL

Carts Used: Paisley (MP3 player), gypsy wandering, card layers, Nates ABC's for font
Sizes: Card Base 5.5x5.5, Card Layers--MPS 4", Font inside card 1.05 and shadow 1.15
Details: All paper is Creative Memories. Found a square card base (The black paper, I think we used LAB) and used hide/contour for the design on that and sized to 5.5x5.5.
The Plum cardstock was a square we cut at 5.25x5.25. The purple swirly paper was cut at 5x5 using a design in GW. I used a blade depth of 2, pressure high and speed high to cut since a thinner paper.

For the MPS player, we couldn't hide/contour on the gypsy all the parts we wanted to to recut it. So, we just cut everything in several different colors--grey, pink, black and purple and decided after that how she wanted her "Dream Ipod" to look. The music notes were also from Paisley and we cut at 2, 2.5 and then used MS Hematite glitter. We ran the notes through the Xyron "X" and then applied glitter and then the glossy accents. Also, used a white sakura pen and a ruler to add faux stitching.

The white scalloped trim was this cool pearlized thick cardstock I had. I used Lacy Labels to cut a scalloped 5x5 shape and then didn't want to use it. My daughter suggested to trim off the edges and glue to the back side of the plum paper. Pretty creative girl huh? LOL

Inside the card, the plum cardstock square was 5.25x5.25 and the purple swirly square was cut at 5x5. We welded the Nates letters together for both the lavender and the shadow in the purple. Again, used a white sakura pen and ruler to add faux white stitching. W.e used some lavender jewels and silver sticker stars from the $1 bin at M's

Easter card 3

Hello!

My daughter loves lots of stickles, so thought I would do this card for her.

Carts: Paper Pups for Easter Dog, Give A Hoot for bird and tree, Gypsy Wandering for grass, PDDU for clouds, Simply Charmed for the sun, Smiley cards for egg shaped card base.

Sizes: Dog at 2, saying inside card at 2, sun at 1.10, tree at 2, bird at .95, grass was at 3 and cut down.

Tools and Supplies: Gypsy, Expression, argyle paper from M's at 10 cents, stickles in yellow, glam pink, cinnamon brown, purple, black embellishment for eyes

Card Base cut from Smiley Cards at 5.5 (x2 eggs) and I used hide/contour for the face inside the egg. Then, grouped and welded the 2 together. The argyle paper was cut at 5 and a blade depth of 2. Just assembled everything, used stickles and adhered the "Yappy Easter" inside the card.

Easter Card 2

Good Morning!

Here is another Easter Card I did. This will probably go to my 11 yr old niece. I got the idea from a website that sells stamps (can't remember the name) and the stamps had a similar saying except it said "My butt hurts!" I didn't want that on a kids card so I just used my computer to print off the saying I wanted. :)

Carts: Gypsy Wandering,(Bunny, grass, postage stamp cut for card) Indie Art (the word bubble), Printing Press for the solid square polka dot paper

Sizes: Bunnies at 2, postage stamp welded card base at 5.5x11 and single postage stamp cut at 5, polka dot paper square at 4.45, word bubbles at .82 and .94

Tools and Supplies: Computer & Printer, Expression, Gypsy, zig pens, black embellishments for eyes, felt flowers and lilac pearl embellishments from the $1 bin at Michaels, Paper from H/L, MS scallop punch for the bite marks

Details: I used Gypsy Wandering tag feature for the postage stamp cut (the one with the butterfly inside) and used hide/contour for the butterfly. I copied it, grouped and weleded together for pink part of card. The next layer (stripe paper) was done at 5 with the above cart/cut. The polka dot paper was done with Printing Press and I just hid one of the inner squares, this was cut at 4.45.

The "word bubbles" from Indie Art I used hide/contour for the word inside. Printed off the sayings on white cardstock on the coputer. Then cut out and glued on the pink bubbles.

Next I cut grass, and the bunnies, using 2 shades of brown. The darker brown was using the shadow feature to fill in the swirly decoration on the bunnies. I used the MS punch to punch some off the tail and off the ear for bite marks. Then, glued the black embellishment for the eyes.

Everything was assembled and I finished off with the lilac pearls and flowers

So I heard all this talk about MS glow in the dark glitter. Of course we had to get some, bad thing was it was 20% off at M's this week and couldn't use my 50% coupon. I wasn't going to get it because of that but...my 9 yr old is a total enabler and was begging that we neeeeeeded it! LOL. I love the glitter. Only bad thing is, can't figure out how to get it to photograph well glowing in the dark.







RECIPE:

** This is an A7 slider card

** Gypsy Wandering used and the Gypsy

** Pumpkin sized 5.27 x 9.50. Flipped, grouped and welded 1 pumpkin and then used hide/contour for the face. Cut this 2x and in 2 colors--orange and yellow textured paper.

** Used one of my CM circle cutting templates to draw a part circle at top of pumpkin and cut the top/stem part off on the orange paper.

** Cut yellow strip of paper to fit inside of pumpkin for slider and then glued pumpkin top onto the yellow slider card. Inked stem with MS green chalk ink. Inked yellow paper with Tim Holtz distress ink in mustard seed. Then, inked outside edge of yellow card with distress ink in walnut stain. Dried lightly with heat gun. Stamped "trick or treat with $1 rubber stamp from M's in staz-on in black. Colored in the candy with CM distress ink and fantastix.

** With scotch quick dry, glued yellow welded pumpkin together from the inside and then glued yellow pumpkin back to orange pumpkin back.

** Now all you have is an open orange and yellow pumpkin "flap." Time to make the pocket for the card to slide into. Just run a fine bead of scotch quick dry on outside edges of the back of the orange and press onto the yellow paper. DON'T glue the top of the pumpkins together.LOL, Then I used a Tsuniko sponge applicator and applied Tim Holtz distress ink in Spiced Pumpkin to the outside of the orange paper and the top of the pumpkin.

** Now, is where I applied the glowing glitter to the face features. I didn't do a very clean job of it but oh well! LoL I used scotch quick dry glue and just glued inside each face feature (one at a time) and quicky sprinkled the glitter on and pressed in. I applied heat gun briefly. didn't like the thickness of the glitter, so I repeated steps above one more time. It does glow really nicely in the dark !

** Applied some CM candy stickers and some other stickers I had for a while to the top of the pumpkin. Outlined the outside of face features in black ink.

Regrets on this project: I should have outlined the pumpkin features in black ink before applying glitter. Maybe should've only done one layer of the glitter. Should've used more candy stickers.