HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY CARD FOR MY MOTHER IN LAW - Paper Trimmings

Hi Everyone - I hope you all had a Happy Mother's Day!  I made this card for my husband's mother for Mother's Day. 

CARD RECIPE:

• 5 x 7 Cardbase
• Covered with patterned paper from DCWV Lemon Chase
• Border cut using Martha Stewart Punch
• Frame cut using Paper Trimmings at 5.5 x 4.5
• MOM was cut using Lyrical Letters and popped on top of frame

Thanks for stopping by today and we hope you'll come back tomorrow.  Until another day, God Bless You!  Donna

Happy Valentine's Day, Tweetie!

Hello Everyone! I made this card using papers and a digi stamp that I downloaded free from Doodle Pantry. I just love Laurie Wilson's creations. I cut the scalloped hearts using the Lyrical Letters cartridge at 4 3/4" and 4". I ran the white heart through my Cuttlebug using the Heart Embossing Folder. I colored the happy birdy using Promarkers and printed the sentiment on my printer using Word. I think I'll give this one to my son, Jacob. He makes me as happy as the little bird on the card!!

I hope you have a good day and that you'll come back and visit us again tomorrow! We so enjoy your visits and your comments. Until another day, God Bless You!! Donna

Wild Thing, You Make My Heart Sing

Isn't that what you think about when you look at this digistamp?  Meet Gary, the Giftbearer.  He is a product of Bonibleaux Designs Digis.  This website deals mainly in male inspired digital images.  Gary was offered on Crafters Digital Art Center's Color Challenge.  To enter, we had to create a card with Gary using turquoise, green, rust and grey.  This is my rendition.

I created my card background using the above colors.  The brads on the side strip coincidentally already had those colors on them. 

These are the Promarker colors I used on Gary, the Giftbeater.
Shirt - Honeycomb and Spice
Skin - Satin and Dusky Pink
Hat - Midnight Blue and Cool Grey 2
Pants - Duck Egg and Turquoise
Shoes - Cool Grey 5
Gift - Olive and Pine
Flowers - Leaf Green, Baby Pink, Red, Canary and Purple
After mounting him on a label cut from Lacy Labels (it is the All Boy base cut) the white background seemed too stark, so I applied green chalk to tone it down and help it to blend in. 

The inside of the card is decorated using the following cartridges.
Frames - Lyrical Letters - 5X6.5 and 4.75X6.25
Hearts - Love Struck
Wording - Mickey Font, Locker Talk and Paper Lace

I hope you enjoyed meeting Gary today.  Thanks for stopping by and I hope you'll come again tomorrow.  God Belss You!!  Peggy

Happy Fall Y'all

It seems Summer is hanging around longer than usual.  It has been in the 90's for a while now.  So I decided to make a card to welcome Fall hoping it will get here.  I don't like Winter but do love the cool nights of Fall and the warm days.

This card was made using a Digi-stamp from Doodle Pantry and the Freshly Picked Cricut cartridge.   I colored the digistamp with Promarkers, applied it to a glittery background of Fall colors with the greeting.  The pumpkins(cut at various sizes) were cut from Freshly Picked as well as the sign.  The pumpkin with the frog is a K&Company Tim Coffey sticker.   You can't have pumpkins without a carved face.

I cut a frame from the same glitter paper as on the front for the inside of the card using Lyrical Letters.  Then I added a little decoration. 

TaeKwonDo Scrapbook

Hi Everyone! My son has been taking TaeKwonDo since April of 2009. He will test this weekend for his L3 Brown Belt and then he'll only have three levels of red belts to work through before he can test for his black belt. My how time flies!! I started a scrapbook for Jacob so that he could look back on all the progress he has made in his sport and I must say that this is the only scrapbook that I have kept up to date (shame, shame on me)!

I have used many cartridges throughout this scrapbook but one of my favorites is the Sports Mania cartridge. The man kicking on the front page of the scrapbook is just one of the items that I cut with this cartridge. On another layout below, you will notice that some of the TaeKwonDo Tenants are cut out in Chinese and in English. Again, Sports Mania - YEA!! Other cartridges that were used on these layouts were Opposites Attract, Stamping, Indie Art, Lyrical Letters, and Mickey Font just to name a few.

I hope you enjoy the pictures of these layouts. Thanks for stopping by!! Mom and I hope you'll come again tomorrow for another visit. Until another day, God Bless! Donna

Hello Kitty Birthday Card

I have a grand niece who is a "prissy" little thing.  She's all about being a girl.  I think Hello Kitty is a very girly cartridge so I used it to make her birthday card.

I cut Hello Kitty at 2" or  21/2", added bling to the flowers in her hair and hand.  The birthday sentiment is from Lyrical Letters to which  I added green & pink  stickles after I adhered it to the green cardstock.  I popped Hello Kitty over some hello ribbon with adhesive pop dots.  I always try to tie my envelope and card together with a little stamp on the front of the envelope.  I stamped a little present and colored it with glitter gel pens.  The end result I thought was very "girlie".

May your Monday be blessed with much joy.  I hope you find time today to create something beautiful.  Thanks for stopping by our blog.