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Hi Everyone - well you know that Mom got a new machine, the Silhouette Cameo. What you don't know is that if she got one, I had to get one too. Let me say - I LOVE IT!!! I'm sure that it will get LOTS of use!!
So I needed a card for our new neighbors that just moved into the neighborhood. I found this cut file in the Silhouette store. The Silhouette allows you to take parts of the cut file off the mat and place it to the side of the mat while you cut different parts of card. I placed the elements on the mat along with different colors of cardstock and pressed enter.
Here is the finished product. I think the new neighbors will like it along with the cookies I plan to bake.
Thank you for stopping by today - we appreciate your visits and your comments. Please come back tomorrow. Until another day, God Bless You! Donna
Donna & I had a crafting afternoon yesterday afternoon. A while back I bought a couple of grapevine wreaths for us to make a new wreath for our doors. So Saturday afternoon we made a trip to Hobby Lobby to buy "stuff" to go on them. This is a finished picture of mine.
Here is how we constructed them.
This is the grapevine wreath before we started.
Next I added deco mesh. I wanted the wreath to show so I didn't put as much on it as regular deco mesh wreathes.
Then I added the flowers and beads. I wanted red & white because I have red &white geraniums planted in my yard.
Here is my wreathe on my door.
This is Donna's wreath. I love the sunflowers & daisies on it.
Thank you for dropping by today. We love your visits & comments. God Bless You!!!! Peggy
I mentioned in my last post about my sister and brother-in-law's visit. My bil son's birthday is this week and he didn't see a masculine card in my stash. I don't know why but it is hard for me to make a masculine card. Maybe because I love flowers, ribbon, lace, etc. and most men don't. Anyway, while they were out one night, I made this card for him to send his son. Very easy to make.
Card Recipe:
5.X6.5" card base
Background Paper - KandCo. Blue Awning.
Cricut Cartridge for the Happy Birthday - Paper Lace 2
Close up of the birthday greeting.
Thank you for visiting our blog today. Your comments bring joy to our hearts. God Bless You!!!! Peggy
I hope everyone had a great Mother's Day. I did. I had both my children and their spouses with me and of course Jacob. My sister and brother in law came the first part of the week and stayed until Saturday. So I've had a busy week.
When my BIL saw some of my cards, he asked me to make a Mother's day card for my twin aunts. They are the last of my mother's sister. I'm thinking they are 85 but such beautiful women in spirit and personality. This is the card I made them.
I chose one of the free cuts we could use in CCR to cut them out. I made one pink & one lavender, then reversed the colors for the backgrounds.
Here is a close up of the flowers I made. I hope they liked it.
Thank you for stopping by today. We love your visits & comments.
God Bless You!!! Peggy
A while back I decided to order the Silhouette Cameo I was hearing so much about. Last week they had a sale of all the images in the store for 50% off. This is one of the images I bought. It is a birthday card file by Daniela Angelova. Donna came over yesterday and we were playing with the Cameo. This intricate pattern cut flawlessly. We were impressed.
I took the white card base, pasted a pink background to the front and added pink pearls to the white flowers. I punched out some tiny flowers with the Martha Stewart Hydrangea punch, added them to wider circular strip and added tiny pearls to the center. The final thing I did was add Crystal Stickles to the Happy Birthday. It was very simple and easy to make. I know we could probably make a similar one with the Cricut Expression but I'm not sure it would cut as intricately as this. I think I'm going to enjoy having the Cameo as part of my arsenal of papercrafting tools.
This is a close up of the flowers.
Thank you for stopping by today. We appreciate your comments & visits. God Bless You!!!!! Peggy
Please join me in wishing Happy Birthday to Donna!!!!!!
As some of you know Donna just had a birthday on Saturday, April 27th. Her boss and the volunteers of Memorial Hospital decided to give her a surprise brunch on Friday. It was Donna's 50th birthday so they asked everyone to bring her 50 items of something. She got several rolls of 50 pennies, buttons, Hershey's kisses, Gumdrops, several gift cards, diet Mountain Dew (her drink of choice), etc. What made it so good was, she was totally surprised.
Jean, her boss, asked me if I would make a memory book that everyone could write her a note. I so enjoyed making this book.
Fortunately I had the base book I had made a while back. I took it apart and covered the covers with DCWV LeCreme Flock Paper. That was my base to work with. Donna's favorite colors are black & red so that's the colors it had to be. I used Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge to make the flowers. They were cut using varying sizes, curved and pinched to make them 3D. I added pearls for the centers and jeweled flourishes. The butterflies are from Reflections from Michael's. I ran red ribbon through the binding, tied a ribbon on each end and adhered them to the front. I can truly say I loved making this book for my beautiful daughter. She is so special to me.
Close up of the flowers.
Here are some of the interior pages. When I started it I was going to put 50 flowers in it. I think I ended up with more like 100.
Thank you for allowing me to share Donna's birthday with you today. I wish you all could know her personally and see what a caring and loving person she is. I am so blessed to have the two best children a Mother could ask for. God Bless You!!!! Peggy
Hi Everyone:
This post holds some bittersweet thoughts for me. First, this is my last post as the April Guest Designer for Meljen's. I have always been a fan of Melissa's digis and have truly enjoyed being a part of the team for a short time. Secondly, today just happens to be my 50th birthday with which I am having a really hard time becoming a part of the Half Century Club. Of course, there are a lot of things that are worse than turning 50.
When I saw the digi I used for my card, I knew that I had to make something with it. It brought back a lot of wonderful memories about my Daddy and the Volkwagon "BUG" that we used to have when I was a child. Daddy's "bug" was pumpkin orange. During the time that we had the car, everyone had a CB radio (yes, I really am showing my age). Well, Daddy's handle for his car was Pumpkin I. Our family loved that car and my Daddy always kept it clean and shiny. The Pumpkin I came to an early death when my brother rolled the car three times on his way to pick his girlfriend. Luckily, he had his seatbelt on and walked away from the accident.
For this card, using a pre-cut card, I covered it with royal blue cardstock. I colored the digi with Promarkers and of course, I colored the car orange. I cut out the digi and adhered it to orange and yellow paper. I added a strip of patterned paper and twine. Then topped it off with some purple flower buttons. The sentiment was generated in Word - "Don't be "bugged"...... by another birthday! It's only a number. (I think I need to follow my own advice!)
I really enjoyed making this card because it brought back wonderful memories of my Daddy. Sure do miss that man!
Thank you, Melissa and Meljen's Designs, for allowing me to use your digis for projects and to post them on your blog. I truly enjoyed the experience. If you are looking for some great digi stamps, I'm sure that Melissa will have something in her store that will meet your needs.
Until another day, God Bless You! Donna
