Mother's Day Card for Donna

I wanted to make Donna a Mother's Day Card to let her know what a good mother I think she is.  Her love for Jacob shows in everything she does.  I looked at the Mother's Day projects in Cricut Design Space.  I found the "Drawn Floral Mother's Day Card" by Anna Rose and modified it to meet my needs.

The original file has Mom on the strip across the front.  The pattern on the card base is a file from the Paper Lace cartridge drawn with a silver metallic pen.  The rose is from Sweetheart cartridge. The Happy Mother's Day sentiment is from the Wild Card cartridge written with the Cristal Rose Cricut Pen.  I actually used the score tool, writing pen & blade for this card.  I love the ability to write my messages on an insert and adhere it to the inside of the card which is what I did with Donna's card.

Here is the card she made for me.  I'm hoping she will fill in the details.  I'm sure it is a Silhouette cut file.  She knows how much I love butterflies and how they symbolize new life, so how appropriate is it that my card would have a butterfly cutout.  I love it.

Hi Everyone  - I made this card for my mom using the Silhouette Cameo and a cut file from the Silhouette store.  The butterfly has become kind of a symbol for our family and our blog since my dad passed away four years ago.  Right after his death, we started to see yellow butterflies everywhere we were and before my dad's death, we hadn't seen the butterflies.  We all felt like it was Daddy saying HI and letting us know that he was okay.  You know how a caterpillar enters the cocoon and rejuvenates itself into a butterfly - we took seeing all the butterflies as my Daddy's earthly body being reborn into his Heavenly body.  Ever since then, we've loved butterflies so I thought I would make Mom's card with a butterfly.  Her favorite color is pink so after cutting out the card with the Silhouette, I cut a piece of pink paper to show through the wings of the butterfly, for the body of the butterfly, and the words. Mom loved her card.  

I have the best Mom in the world - she's not only my Mom, but we are BFFs!  Yesterday, I went to Mom's house for breakfast and then we went to get a pedicure.  Here is a picture of our finished toes.  

Mine are blue and Mom's are red.  We like to get some flowers put on our toes!!  We always have a blast together - love you Mom!! 

Thank you for visiting with us today and please come back again.  We love you.  God Bless You!!!!  Peggy and Donna

Challenges for this card: 
Challenges 4 Everybody - M, 3E - May – Anything Goes
Dream Valley - 2W, 3E - #81 Anything Goes (week 2 
Penny Black and More – M, no digis, 3E – May – Anything Goes 
Stamping Sensations - M, C6, 1E – May – Anything Goes
 The Squirrel & The Fox - 2W, 2E - #69 Mothers' Day (week 2 
A Sprinkle of Colour - M, P15  Anything Goes
 Cards Galore Encore - M, P1, E3 #5 Anything Goes
 Connie Can Crop - M, P2/3, E2  #22 Mom's the word
Just B Creative Crazy - M, P1, E1/day   Linky Party Anything goes
   



 

VALENTINE GIFT BAGS - LOVE STRUCK, SWEETHEARTS

Hi Everyone!  One of my friends asked me if I would decorate some gift bags for her  to give to her Secret Pals at church.  Of course, I said yes.

 For the first bag - I used the Love Struck cartridge cutting the shadow and heart out at 5".  For the tag, I cut out two shadow hearts and popped them together, then cut out the word Love from the cartridge at 1". 

For the second bag - I cut out a piece of white embossed paper at 4 3/4 x 5 3/4.  I then cut the same size out of die cut heart paper.  I then used Cricut Craftroom to make a frame using George's round rectangle which I popped on top of the red heart paper.  I cut the cherub out at 3" from the Sweethearts cartridge.  I embossed it using the heart dot embossing folder.  I popped it in the center of the heart die cut paper.  For the tag, I used the negative white center of the frame and cut out another 3" cherub.

All in all, I think they turned out cute!!  Thank you for stopping by!  Until another day, God Bless You!!  Donna

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO MY SWEETIE!!

You know something?  I don't feel old enough to have been married for 24 years but it's true!!  On this day, 24 years ago at 4:00 p.m. I married my husband, Craig.  We were married 14 years before we were blessed with our son, Jacob!!  Craig likes funny cards so I made him this card using the Sweethearts Cricut Cartridge. 

Here is the card recipe:

Covered cardbase with green checked paper
Layered with green striped patterned paper
Male Frog - cut at 4" - popped
Female Frog - cut at 3 1/4" - popped

Sentiments which says - "In life, you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find the right one...I'm glad I found you!" was generated with Word using Jokerman font

Hope you enjoy your day - I'm off today to celebrate with my hubby!!  Thanks for stopping by and we hope you come back again!!  Until another day, God Bless You!  Donna

TESC #131 - Peggy's Entry

This is my entry for the Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge #131.  Donna and I have decided we were going to start entering some of the challenges.  We showed you her entry on Monday so I decided to post mine.

I chose to make mine as a wedding card (although it's not your typical wedding card).  My grandson, Christopher is marrying his love, Stephanie on October 23rd.  I decided to use their colors.  Their main colors are green and brown.  I layered the various  papers; brown as the base, a copper shimmer paper, the green faux skin and a strip of vellum.  I cut the brown heart at 3 in. and the green one at 2.75 using the George cartridge.  The bride and groom were cut at 1.5 in. using the Sweetheart cartridge.  Then I added 3 jewels to the vellum strip.  Oh yes, I used a Martha Stewart punch on the faux skin.  This is not my favorite card I've ever made but it meets the criteria for the challenge.   

Thanks for stopping by our blog.  Happy Wednesday.  God Bless You!!!!!  Peggy

Sweethearts & Cindy Loo - Happy Day

Hi Everyone!! I don't know if you'll remember the invitations that Mom and I made for my friend's niece but I went to a shower for Taylor tonight. The card below was made for her.

I covered the cardbase with pink glitter paper and then used the Cindy Loo Cartridge to cut the background paper out of the SEI White Elegance cardstack. Then I used the Sweethearts Cartridge to cut out the dress and the tuxedo at 4" for the front. I used a $1 Studio G stamp for the sentiment.

I'm happy to say Taylor liked the card. Well, Jacob asked that I tell you all HI! He said that he's always wanted his name to be on the internet so this should make him happy. Thanks for coming to visit and I hope you have a good weekend. Until another day, God Bless!! Donna

Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge #124

Peggy Speaking:
Last Friday on Taylored Expressions a challenge was posted. You can see the sketch we were to use if you click on this link. Donna and I have not entered too many of these but we decided to try this one since we had so many cards we needed to do. This is my entry.


This card is for my grandson's fiance. There is a bridal shower for her this Saturday, August 21. He bowed the knee and popped the big question to her in our kitchen on Thanksgiving last year. It was so special. He said he wanted his Papaw to know he was getting married. I am so thankful Ben got to see him propose. It meant the world to us.

I used several cartridges to make this card. The background strips are from Tie The Knot - the card feature. I cut them thin so they look like labels. The scallop circles are from Mini-Monograms. Bridal Shower and the Umbrella are from Sweethearts. I put pop dots between the two circles and then pop dotted on the card too. It gives them more dimension. I then added lace, ribbon and pearl to the card and stickles to the cutouts in the background strips. I can't wait to give this to Stephanie. I hope she likes it as much as I had fun making it.  I have a cut file for the card details if anyone would like it. 

Donna Speaking:

Now it's time for my card using this challenge as inspiration. It's funny how different mine and Mom's styles are sometimes. I told her the other day that she was froo-froo and I was frolic!!

For this challenge, I used paper that I printed from the Papercraft Inspirations website. I covered the base of the card and then cut three 2" wide strips of a coordinating paper. I used the Cindy Loo cartridge to cut the scalloped circles 1 3/4" and the round circles 1 1/2". I then used the (yes, you guessed it) Create a Critter cartridge to cut the penquins at 1 1/4". I made sure that her scarf matched the purple in the paper because we would not want her to be out of fashion - HA!! I pop-dotted the round circle to add dimension. I then cut a purple piece and used the snowflake Martha Stewart punch, cut a blue strip of paper, added ribbon, and bling. The sentiment is from a stamp set that I bought at Walmart. I don't know about you but it's been so hot around here that I'm ready for some snow!!

Peggy & Donna:

We hope you find inspiration from these cards. It's amazing how many different interpretations you can get from a sketch. It stretches you and causes you to grow to try new things. Be sure to visit Taylored Expressions through the link above to see the Design Team's ideas.


Thank you for visiting our blog. We can't say enough how much we enjoy your comments and how honored we are that you would choose to follow us. God Bless YOU! Peggy Until Another Day, God Bless, Donna

Thank You Volunteers

I work with the marvelous volunteers at Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga, TN. My volunteers are the sweetest and most giving people that you would ever want the pleasure of knowing. We recently held our annual Auxiliary Awards Banquet and wanted to thank some staff people that helped with the planning and set up for the event. Our theme for the event was a "Star Spangled Salute" at which we honored all of our military veterans. We have some volunteers that served as far back as World War II. They're simply amazing people.

For the card, I cut the base with the A Child's Year Cricut cartridge at 5 1/4" so that it would fit in an A2 envelope. The cardstock is Stampin' Up (love their cardstock) and the printed paper is a scrap that I had from years gone by. I cut the "Thank You" with the Sweethearts Cricut cartridge at 2". I used the stars that were left over from cutting the card base to decorate the inside. I punched the red paper using the Double Loop Martha Stewart punch.

Thanks for visiting and we hope you'll tell your friends to come for a visit too!! Until another day, God Bless! Donna