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.

Vinyl

Yes, I'm kind of addicted to cutting vinyl. I made a Christmas picture. It's all words that describe Christmas to our family. The word Christmas was in green, the words describing Christmas were red and then I had put 2 white snowflakes on it. It hung at the top of the stairs going to our family room, and when you walked by it grabbed your attention cause it was so bright and Christmasy.

It was the last thing I took down of Christmas. I didn't want to take it down cause to me it epitomized the happiness of Christmas.

I had made another vinyl picture that hung there before of "The Family Proclamation" that our religion follows. It was done in a dark blue vinyl. And I didn't want to put it back up again. I wanted some that was bright and happy.

So I made this!

And I love it!

Penny spinner cards

This was one of the cards that we sent out for Christmas. I had 6 designs that I made. We send out over 70 Christmas cards (which is expensive postage wise), but I love doing it, so my sweetheart encourages me.

The reindeer is from the Create A Critter cartridge. I stamped his face with Peachy Keen Stamps. No homemade background paper with this one. His eyes & hooves have glossy accents on them. And his nose is a red bling. I loved my reindeer cards this year. I used red bling for their noses, and they turned out so cute.


I cut the slot in the pattern paper with my fabulous finds cartridge. I have a gypsy, and I knew exactly how long/wide I wanted the slot to be, so I just change the dimensions using my gypsy. I cut the slot out of the pattern paper which was kind of flimsy pattern paper, so I had glued it to a piece of white CS. The paper with the slot in it should be pretty stocky, but it needs to not tear with the reindeer spinning on it.

I did a card like this before I had my gypsy, and I had to play around with scrap pieces of paper to figure out how to cut it to the right size.

You adhesive a penny to the back of the reindeer, attach a pop-dot to the penny, then put the pop-dot through the slot. Now you put a penny on the other side of that pop-dot. Now that you've got the reindeer "penny spinner" attached to the pattern paper, you pop-dot the pattern paper to the solid paper.

Here are some other cards that I've done with the penny spinner.

I scrunched up the flower on this one, smoothed it back out and ran a stamp pad over it. Yellow brad topped it off. But I have to say it was tricky attaching the penny because of the arms of the brad. I had to use a glue dot.

This one has fun flock on the flower. I loved that. Here's a close up. I ran it through my xyron sticker maker, so it was evenly sticky, and then dumped the flock on it. Way cool!