Just playin around....

I had some free time Sunday evening and worked on a few cards...

 This is a "matchbook" type of card that I'm going to give my BIL.  I accidentally printed off too many "Birthday Blessings" from my George and Basic Shapes Cricut cartridge...so I got creative and made another card.  The card is a metallic midnight blue folded as a matchbook.  The star is cut from the same paper with a white shadow.  I used my Xyron repositionable adhesive, so the star can easily pop up to reveal the inside...where I plan to put a Best Buy gift card.

 Here's a card that I want to give my neighbor, who is battling cancer.  I want her to know that she can bug us any time, if she needs anything.  I fell in love with this mushroom stamp that I found at an outlet center, and I try to find a reason to use it any time I can.  I am fairly new to stamping, so I just improvised with water color colored pencils, Stickles to add nice bling to the mushrooms, and ribbon across the bottom to match the pink at the bottom of the mushroom tops.  The ladybug is cute, isn't she?! :)

The Owl from the Cricut Wild Card cartridge is by far one my favorite cuts!!  I love it and how you can customize it.  I plan to send this card to a friend who needs some cheering up...I want her to know that I give a "hoot" for her. :) 

Thanks for stopping by...Hope you are enjoying spring!  

Birthday Blessings card....

I made my Mom a card using one of my new cartridges...the photo does not show the teal card color.  It looks great with the brown tree and yellow gold bird.  Have fun with this one! ...

I just love the birds and trees...



Birthday and Graduation cards

My son's 13th bday was today, so we went to "The Real Chow Baby" for dinner.  It's an all you can eat, mongolian bbq place.  You pick the food and then they cook it on this large griddle/grill thing.  After that, we had to come home and watch one of my Kung Fu flicks...He and I love Asian food and films, so I made him a Panda bear card (using the Create a Critter Cricut cartridge and some glittery paper).  He loved it.

 On the inside, I added the accessory to the panda bear, which is a bowl of noodles with chopsticks...

 I added pop dots to the back of the bowl to make it stand away from the card.  In the bowl, I put in folded up cash...which is a teen's favorite gift.  It all turned out really cute!

This is a Graduation card I made for a card exchange that I am a part of.  Let me just say, the tassel was a big hassle!  I used embroidery floss, but I could never be happy with the end of tassel.  I finally just gave up...I doubled up the floss and wrapped a knot with a little rolled strip of paper that I ran with adhesive.  The cap itself is basically a diamond from George and Basic Shapes.  The "Congrats" was cut from the Wild Card in gold yellow paper to match the tassel.  Despite the work, I am happy with the card.  Hope you are having fun making cards or crafting!!