OK, this seems like a plain card, but I had my friend, Lan, over shortly after she got her cricut, and we were playing around with the Mini-Monograms cartridge. We did the scallop circle and the stitched circle from it. I calculated the size with my gypsy, and since she didn't have a gypsy, I would tell her the size and she would cut it. We did 4 cards that night.

Of course, we stamped the white CS, making our own pattern paper. I ended up really liking the finished cards.

Lan's since got a gypsy and loves it. Who wouldn't love their gypsy? ;)

Trifold skunk with PKS face

I love apricot and purple together. And I love the idea of a purple skunk. Other than the purple on the skunk and "happy birthday" all the CS (cardstock) started out as white CS. I love making my own pattern paper.

I added some bling on the small 4 corners. All white layers were cut on my cricut using my gypsy. If you want the gypsy file, I can figure out how to do that. I spritzed it with apricot glimmer mist. But look that skunk's face. Isn't it adorable? It's a Peachy Keen Face. Whenever I need a face, it comes from my Peachy Keen Stamps. I can not do free-hand anything, so my PKS faces are a must. Love the eyelashes! So stinkin' CUTE!

My Bic Mark-It Markers

I've fallen in love with this stamp set from CTMH (sorry don't know the name). I colored her in using my Bic Mark-It Markers and then used the Tim Holtz blender pen and blending solution to blend the colors together. Yeah, they aren't copics, but for what I need, they are good enough. I couldn't justify spending $5/pen, when a set of 8 Mark-It Markers is $5.

I cut out the green mat behind from one of my cricut carts, ran it through my cuttlebug to emboss, scuffed it with a green stamp pad, and attached it. I then spritzed it with with glimmer mist (love my glimmer mist) apricot color.

I cut out the daisy from the Walk In My Garden cart. And then I used Tim Holtz crackle paint on it. If you click on the picture below, it should come up bigger. You'll see the crackle paint better. It takes a day to dry, not a quick process by any means, but so cute. I used a pattern paper from a LSS which has since closed down. Little bit a ribbon from the $1 store and it turned out to be a cute card.