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
Today's Paper A La Mode Challenge is "All About Pink". I love pink so it was not hard to come up with something. Our Sponsor is Sassy Studio Designs. Here is my DT card using Victorian Beauty.
Card Supplies:
Card Base - cut file is from Wild Card Cricut Cartridge
Adhesive Fabric paper behind die cut card front.
Image - Victorian Beauty by Sassy Studio Designs
Gems
Ribbon
Promarkers used to colore image:
Hair - Gold, Tulip Yellow, Primrose
Skin - Blossom & Satin
Eyes - Grey Green
Lips - Tropical Orchid
Dress - Tropical Orchid, Pink Carnation.
Thank you for dropping by today. Have wonderful weekend. God Bless You!!!! Peggy
Challenges for this card:
Catch The Bug - M, 3E, SIO – Anything Goes
Sunflower Fields Designs - M, SIO ,3E Easter or springTime 4 Scrap - 2W, 3E, C5 (W2 of 2) #38 Spring
We Do Doobadoo Challenge- W, E2- #4 Embellish It (until May 3)
Craftitude -2W, 3E - No. 63 - (W2 of 2) - Anything Goes or Spring/Easter
Crafty Catz - W, 1E – No.228 - Anything Goes
Scrapping4funChallenges - 2W, 1E
- No.15 - (W2 of 2) - Use a Stamp/Digi Image
Sister Act Card Challenge - W, Cards. - No. 54 - Anything Goes
For today's card I used Sandi Huggett's Lily Swag. She is also one of the Design Team on the Outlaw's Creative Freebie Challenge. Click here to get the details on how to enter. You get 2 totally free digis per contest. A sympathy card is one I feel we should always have on hand. So I took Sandi's lovely image and made one.
Card Recipe:
5"X6.5" Card Base - This is a Silhouette Studio cut file which can be found here.
Background Paper - Anna Griffin's Carolina Collection
Digital Stamp - Sandi Huggett's Lily Swag. This image has a ribbon on the design but I colored it a color that did not go with the rest of the card so I cut it off.
Bible - cut from Inspired Heart Cricut Cartridge
Sentiment - cut from Wild Card Cricut Cartridge
Promarkers used to color digi:
Lilies - Cool Gray1 for shading
Leaves - Leaf Green, Forest Green
Stamens - Buttercup
Stickles to highlight the lilies and leaves.
Thank you for visiting with us today. I hope to see you back soon.
God Bless You!!!! Peggy
I have to make a return trip to SC tomorrow. A friend of mine had a housewarming last week so I got busy and made her a card. Donna and I have been tossing around the idea of using all the cartridges we've never used (yes we have several). So today I used the Wild Cartridge. It's an older cartridge but I don't think I've ever used it.
Card
Envelope
This card is on Page 75. I used Cricut Craft Room to set it up. I cut all the elements @ relative 7.5". I inked all the edges with CTMH Cocoa Ink Pad. The hardest part was finding the paper I wanted to use. I'm not familiar with where things are in Donna's Scrap Area. If you have the Wild Card cartridge and haven't used it much, dust it off. It's really a fun cartridge.
Thanks for stopping by today. We appreciate your visits and comments. God Bless You!!! Peggy
Before we get to today's post, I would like to announce my winner of the Fantabulous Harvest Blessings Cricut Crawl. It is Suzanne. She posted this:
Congratulations, Suzanne. If you will email me with your address, I will get your Michael's gift card to you. Now on to our regular post
Mondays mean there's a new challenge at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog. Today's challenge is to create a card with the words Thank You on it.
I chose the Wild Card Cricut cartridge to create this scalloped card cut at 5". I inked around the edges with brown. To create the opening, I chose the Thank You from Paper Lace II and welded it in the center of the card. I cut the Thank You out and popped it with adhesive foam dots. I threaded ribbon through the opening on the scallops, then applied some bling from my stash. This card was very easy to make. Wild card has some fun cards on it. I don't know why I don't use it more.
This is the inside of the card. I hope you will swing by FCCB and enter our challenge this week. The Design Team will have a lot of inspiration for you.
Challenges for this card:
Corrosive Challenges - Give Thanks (ends 26th Nov)
Creative Inspirations Paint - Thanks
Outlawz challenge - "Thank you" Card using Fall Colours
Catch The Bug - Give thanks/Thanksgiving
My Sheri Crafts - Be Thankful
Thank you for visiting with us this week. I know we're all gearing up for Thanksgiving and quite busy so your visits are especially meaningful to us. God Bless You!!!! Peggy
If you're looking for the Fantabulous Harvest Blessings Cricut Crawl, please click here.
Hi Everyone - I thought I would make a card using a cartridge that I haven't used in a lonngggg time. Laurie at Doodle Pantry has a lot of new digi stamps and I really love the Christmas Wreath. I found this card in the shape of a house on the Wild Card Cartridge.
I cut the cardbase out of red shimmer paper at 7 1/4". Then cut the layers out for the roof and the outline for the windown on the house. I printed out the colored Crhistmas Wreath from Doodle Pantry and popped them together around the window. I printed out two smaller wreaths and popped them on the door.
I then cut out the envelope for the house card. It's hard to tell in this picture but the card forms a door. I printed out one more wreath and adhered it to the door on the envelope. This card was so easy to make - it makes me wonder why I haven't used this cartridge more.
Thanks for stopping by - we appreciate your visits!! Please drop by Doodle Pantry to see all the digis available. Until another day, God Bless You!! Donna
Hi Everyone! Can you believe that Christmas is less than two months away?? I know how you feel - it makes me feel sick to my stomach too. I can't believe how fast this year has gone!!
To celebrate the Christmas Holidays, Wendy at Digital Delights created the 12 Days of Christmas digis. Believe it or not, but they are all the CUTEST!!!! She is debuting one digi every day for 12 days. Today is Day #4 - for Four Calling Birds. To make this card, I used the Wild Card Cricut Cartridge to cut the Owl cardbase. I then cut another cardbase out of brown shimmer paper. I colored the digi with Promarkers and used Stickles on Ho-Ho's hat. I popped the image on the front of the card.
For the inside of the card, I cut out a cell phone using the My World Cricut Cartridge at 3" and popped it.
I haven't put a sentiment on the card yet. I have two sentiment combos that I'm trying to decide which I like better. They are listed below, please comment and let me know which you think is best.
1. Front - Helloooo!! Inside - Whoo Whoo's calling?
OR
2. Front - Whoo's been naughty? Inside - Whoo's been nice??
Please cast your vote and whichever gets the most votes is the one that I'll use and thanks ahead of time for your time and comments.
Thanks so much for stopping by. Please hop over to Digital Delights today and the next eight days to view all the 12 Day of Christmas digis. You'll be "delighted" that you did (did you catch the pun?)
Until another day, God Bless You!! Donna
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At Fantabulous Cricut Blog this week, the challenge is to create a project with the color purple and a monster and a bug using the
"Purple People Eater" song as inspiration. I found this cute digistamp at Beccy's Place. Beccy has lots of free images on her site. Be sure to check out her blog.
Card Recipe:
5X 6.5" base card
Cardstock for background paper
Cuttlebug folder - Forest Branches for purple paper
Digital Image from Beccy's Place
Cricut Cartridges - Wild Card for the Spider Web and Bats, Designer Calendar for Spider. I added Glossy Accents to the Spider and the Bats.
Sentiment is computer generated. I'm not much into Halloween so I haven't purchased any Halloween stamps. Looks like I might need to get some.
I'm planning to enter this card in the following challenges:
Bitten By The Bug 2 - Use the color purple
C.R.A.F.T. - 5E - Autumn/Fall
CCEE Stampers - 1E - Fall/Autumn
Crop Stop - 3E - Halloween
Delightful Challenges - 1E - Halloween
Fantabulous Cricut - Use Purple plus bug or monster
Paper Play - 2E – Use Black
Shelly's Images - Anything Goes
Color Throwdown - color*
Crafting for all Seasons - Halloween
Divas by Design - 2E - something Spooky
Freshly Brewed - 5E,- black, orange, purple
I Brake For Challenges - Halloween
Inky Impressions - Halloween
Whimsical Wednesdays - Halloween
Thank you for stopping by today. It brings smiles to our faces when you visit and comment. Have a wonderful day. God Bless You!!! Peggy
You know there's nothing like a newborn baby to make you smile! Jacob's teacher, Ms. Pennington, is expecting her first grandchild this week so I decided I would make her a brag book for some of her photos. I don't know about you but I've never met a grandmother yet that didn't have plenty of pictures of their grandchildren to show you.
For this project, I used LOTS of Cricut Cartridges. I found a Rusty Pickle Chipboard Album that I bought at one of the CKC conventions that Mom and I attended. I used the Basic Grey Oh Boy Collection to cover the chipboard with 6 x 6 1/2 pieces.
Book Recipe
COVER:Frame - I used Design Studio to make the frame using the George Cartridge. I welded two squares together then welded stars inside the frame.
Used Create A Critter to cut:
Sheep - 2 1/2"
Sweet Dreams - 1 1/2"
Clouds - 1 1/2", 3/4"
Stars - 1 1/4"
Moon - 1 1/4"
Popped the sheep and one of the clouds to add dimension.
PAGES 2 AND 3
Baby Blessings - cut at 1.5 x 3.8" with Wild Card and Design Studio
Heart Border - Martha Stewart Heart Lace Punch
Train - 1 3/4" - Create a Critter
PAGES 4 AND 5
Rocket - 6" (page), 4" (tag) - Just Because Cards Cartridge
Wagon - 4 1/2" - Just Because Cards Cartridge
PAGES 6 AND 7
Bear - 2 1/2" - Doodlecharms
Bottle Borders - 1" and 2" - Doodlecharms
PAGES 8 and 9
Giraffe - 4" - Create A Critter
Lion - 2" - Create A Critter
PAGES 10 AND 11
Heaven Sent - 1 1/4" - Stamping
Rattle - 1 1/4" Stamping
I made pockets out of the mats where the pictures will be placed on several of the pages and inserted tags so that Ms. Pennington will have a place to make journal entries.
GIFT BAG
Sheep - 6" - Create A Critter
I really enjoyed making this book and I hope Jacob's teacher will like it.
Thanks for stopping by today and we hope that you've found some inspiration. If you see something you like, please let us know. Until another day, God Bless You!! Donna
