Cut & fold post 1

 This is the lattice fold down the left-hand side. Isn't it cool? This card is really very simple, but the lattice fold dresses it up immensely.

And this is iris fold. I cut out the the frame with my cricut, designed it with my gypsy. And then the 4 different papers are the iris fold. This took me a long time to figure out and I scrapped one in the process. Now I'm consumed. :D

A wild and crazy bunch of...

 This is a spinner card that I made for my father-in-law for his birthday. I have a fairly large selection of zoo animal stamps to pick from. I coordinated them with animal heads from my cricut cart Animal Kingdom.

 I cut out the white mat using my gypsy. It doesn't cut a mat from the wild card cart. So I designed my own mat for the spinner card. Cool, eh? I love my gypsy!

 I colored the animals in with my crayola markers. I wasn't happy with them, but it was those or chalks and I wanted them to be bold. Now I've got my Bic Mark-It markers which are not as good as copics, but they'll do for what I need.

I liked the end result, although now it would be cuter with my Mark-It markers.

It's been too long.

It's not that I haven't been doing anything. I've been paper-crafting crazy. But it's not the usual paper-crafting. I've been working on a quiet book for my kids for church. Actually 3 quiet books, one for each kid. What's the point in taking a quiet book for them if they'll fight over it in church. It's been a huge amount of work, but I'm in the final stages of putting it together. When it's done I'll post pictures. So cool.

I wanted to share some cards that I've done in the between though. No scrapbook pages. Scrapbook pages are a completely different mindset and it takes me a while to get in the groove for scrapping.

 Take a look at these though. Tell me what you think.

 This card was for my father-in-law when he had knee replacement surgery.

 A baby girl card.

 A baby boy card.

 I love this wedding card. It took me a long time because I had trouble getting my cricut to cut and not slaughter a wedding cake. All paper for these previous 3 cards was originally white CS.

 I made the tie paper and embossed paper. I stamped the blue spritz on the embossed paper.

So this little ballerina card is special for a number of different reasons. I made it for my oldest on her first day of school. I was putting them to bed the night before and I was saying the prayer and I was a little weepy. And when I finished praying, Mady said to me "Mother (she calls me mother sometimes), will you make me an 'I miss you' card while I'm at school?" I was a little choked up when I said of course, Mady. Well, I did and this is my masterpiece. It's still here in the house and she carries it around. I love this card for all it symbolizes about that first day. :')

Isn't this a cute card? Again the pink flowers I stamped. I don't know if you can see, but I stamped little green dots in amongst the pink flowers on the white CS. This birthday card was for my GF's 4yo birthday. Mady put 4 blings on the crown for her 4th birthday. Don't know my GF figured that out, but Mady understood.