My first card with my Magnolia stamps. So last summer I bought a lot of Magnola stamps. I don't have copics, and can't justify them. But I really like how this card turned out. The little girl is one stamp. The bench is another (not a Magnolia stamp either). I masked her to get her sitting on the bench. The trees are 1 Magnolia stamp. Then I colored everything in. Did a little blending and she turned out really cute. And then I wreaked it. I spritzed her with Glimmer Mist. What the heck was I thinking!? Well, obviously I wasn't. A word to the wise, Glimmer Mist can cause your projects to run ink which is exactly what happened. The pink in the sky is from the pink blossoms. I was quite sad, but I wasn't redoing this card again. I GM'ed it after I had put everything away, and I refused to do it again.

This was for a thank you card for a friend who brought me a care pkg when I was so sick during Christmas. I've had this done for a while. I just gave it to her though because I haven't been happy with it, yet I didn't want to re-do it, so she got it.

Throwing the basketball.

So I'm pretty proud of this card. My sister-in-law, who also has a cricut, and is very crafty, had her birthday the end of Mar, and we all know that giving something to someone who does the same thing is quite stressful. And I wanted to make this card special because it was a big birthday for her.

She plays basketball, and her # is 13. So I decided to make her a basketball card. The girl is from everyday paper dolls as is the basketball & hoop. The brick background is Scrapbook Sally paper that I drew the bricks onto and the floor is a SU! background stamp that I then scuffed on with the same stamp pad to fill in the color.

So the cool part of this card is the basketball. DH had the idea to have her throwing the basketball into the hoop. My idea had been to have her running to the court. That would've been easy-peasy. Throwing the basketball was not easy-peasy, and I was excited to try it. First I found the arc in Plantin Schoolbook. It's a parenthesis. :)

Using my gypsy, I calculated where the arc should be. I had it on a different tab from the girl and the hoop. I knew the dimensions of the card, so I put the girl and hoop on the mat where I would want them to go on the card, then on the other tab with the eye open on the girl/hoop tab, I put the arc where I wanted it (I could see the girl/hoop because the eye was open). I cut this twice, once on the Scrapbook Sally paper and once on white CS. I glued the pattern paper to the white CS to give it strength for the pennies cause this is a penny spinner card. I only cut this twice, because the calculations were correct. Yay for my gypsy!

The tricky part was the basketball stand. I did not think that the basketball would have to go through the white back of the stand to get to the net, so I glued it all together and ack! I had to pull it apart and manually cut the arc into the hoop stand, and then after some fiddling I had to add another pop-dot to the pennies otherwise the basketball would get stuck on the white stand instead of rolling into the hoop. I also took the arc part and glued it onto the blue background and the arc part that was white from the stand. This also caused issues with the penny getting caught spinning to the hoop. I needed to pop-dot that up 3 times. Yikes! I used a lot of pop-dots on this card.

But I love this card! I feel like it's a little masterpiece, and I gave it away.

Japanese card.

I have a 23 yo stepson who served a mission for our church in Japan. For his last birthday on his mission, I made him this card. The sun and the "altar" thing were cut from the destinations cart. I inked the rays of the sun, apricot and orange to give them dimension. The big and live words are from a SU! stamp set.

Then with my gypsy I designed the little gift envelope. Isn't it cute? Scuffed it with a blue SU! stamp pad. Then I cut a red heart out on my cricut, and then I cut the exact same heart out of magnet material. I adhesived the red heart to the magnet, and then I cut "Japan" out from the Lyrical Letters cart (love this cart), and glued the letters on to the heart.

I was so proud of this project. Glad I took a picture of it. His birthday was in Feb, gave it to him when he got home in Mar, and he promptly lost it.

vinyl bees

OK, aren't they adorable? From the create a critter cart. A friend from church asked me to cut some for her for her girls that she has activity nights with once a week. They did the 6 B's, Be Smart, Be Grateful... So I cut out the bees for the "Be" word, and then cut out the 6 descriptive words in pink. They painted wood plaques and then put the vinyl on them. Cute, eh? I feel in love with these bees, so I ended up putting a vinyl flower on the wall in our 1/2 bath with 3 bees flying around it. I'll post a pic of that sometime soon.

Dino mite

I made this card from the create a critter cart. The red stripes are from a SU! background stamp. And a $1 store bling. I really like the create a critter cart. So versatile!

A Whale Of A Tale

I love this whale from Create A Critter cartridge. S/he is so stinkin' cute. I got a pack of paper from Winners, and I'm not into butterflies at all. I avoid butterflies. So this paper was in there, and I was like "pukey", but then I was making this card and trying to decide what to do for the background/pattern paper. And I wanted it to be somewhat feminine as it was for a girl. Hah! The paper was perfect. The actual card is cut from the Just Because Cards cartridge as is the white inset. The whale that I stamped on the white CS is from a Stampin' Up stamp set.
The CS in the above card is stamped with a plaid background stamp from Stampin' Up. I like background stamps from Stampin' Up.

I made this background paper. And the flower came from the Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge, which I must admit is a must if you want a variety of flowers. I love it.

This card is for my Aunt's birthday. I haven't sent the card yet and her birthday is way part. But I'm hoping that she'll know that it's the thought that counts.