Girl Friend Birthday Card

I love, love, LOVE how this card turned out! I love the patterened paper, it's from DCWV's glittered "Sweet" stack. I love the die cuts, made with my cricut using the Forever Young cart. I love the lace and ribbon, lace in some scraps someone had given me and ribbon from "Sweet Petites". I love the Stickles and Pearls, I love the sentiment stamp from a clear set by Cloud9 Designs called "Laughter". Have I mentioned that I love this card? lol  The card measures 6"x6". The cardstock is all from ACMoore. I planned all the cuts with the Gypsy. The only cut tht isn't from Forever Young is the little flourish over the sentiment-that is a leftover cut from the birdcage on the Straight From the Nest cart. I added "Cotton Candy" Stickles to the accessories and dress, and "Gunmetal" Stickles to the flourish and around the white cardstock the sentiment was stamped on. The inside of the card uses the same patterened paper and pink cardstock and the sentiment was computer generated on pink vellum.
I am entering the following challenges with this card:
1. The ABC Challenge- http://abc-challenge.blogspot.com/  P is for Pink
2. Totally Papercrafts Challenge- http://totallypapercrafts.blogspot.com/  Pearls and Lace
3. One Stop Craft Challenge- http://onestopcraftchallenge.blogspot.com/  black, white and one color
4. Allsorts Challenge- http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/  Card for a teen
Danielle

 

Birthday card for my mother

I made this birthday card for my mother. I'm late, but she won't mind. I used my cricut for the die cuts. They all came from the Pagoda cartridge. The Chinese symbols mean "celebrate" and "mother". The fans were cut multiple times in cardstock, then the layer was cut once in patterened paper. The screen is cut once in cardstock and once from patterened paper. The blue cardstock is Bazzill, the pink and brown are from my 8 1/2 x 11" cardstock (tons of it and many different kinds-all thrown together), the patterened paper is from K & Co. The card blank is premade and is 5" x 7". The flowers are a combination of paper and silk flowers-again, I don't know the manufacturers. I inked the screen and added some doodling to define the tree pattern in the screen and added a border around the edge of the card. I added Stickles here and there and put pearls in the center of each flower. I designed this with my gypsy and I really like how it turned out.
Danielle

Birthday card for teen

My daughter, Rachel is going to a firend's tonight for a birthday party and needed a card. I wanted a really girlie, fun card for Nichole and this is what I came up with. Pink Bazzill card stock for the base. Patterened paper is from Doodlebug Design, Inc. The stamp is PSX. Colored it with pencils, added Stickles to the crown and put little rhinestones all over! The "Make a wish!" stamp and the sentiment stamps on the inside are from a clear stamp set by Cloud9 (Fiskars). I used an edge punch by EK Success. Rachel and I were both pleased with the results!
Danielle

Pretty in Pink!

I made this birthday card for a few challenges. Last year one of my resolutions was to join in more challenges and I didn't follow through very well, so although I'm not making a resolution, I'm going to try to do a few challenges this year. The image I used is by Inkadinkadoo. I love this image. It can be used for so many types of cards, birthday, engagement, party invitations, wedding, anniversary, or just a fun girlfriends card. I colored with colored pencils and the "magic colored pencils technique" with oil. I sealed the image with hairspray and cut it out. The papers I used are from my stash-a very old pack and I can't remember the manufacturer. The cardstock is Bazzill. The ribbons are from DGI and Sweet Petites by Morex. The pearls are by Queen and Co. The Happy Birthday stamp is from PSX (and is 20 years old!). I finished it up with a chipboard butterfly from Amanda Blu.
The challenges I'm using this card for are:
1. 2Sketches4You-Kazan's Sketch- http://2sketches4you.blogspot.com/
2. Cute Card Thursday- http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/
3. Daring Cardmakers-
http://daringcardmakers.blogspot.com/
4. Papertake Weekly Challenge- http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/

The Daring Cardmakers challenge is being sponsered by Robyn's Fetish-a digi stamp company-http://ididitcreations.com/blog/?page_id=30
Danielle

Haven't been doing much in the crafting department lately. Rachel wouldn't wear the dress I made for her birthday party. She said the skirt was too "poufy" and she looked like a cupcake! I thought she looked adorable, but then I am her mother. Every once in a while I pick up some crocheting, but I haven't finished anything. I've been having a bit of a block when it comes to creativity I believe, but this too shall pass.

Rachel's party invitations

Rachel and I made 88 invitations for her birthday party. It seemed to take forever. There were 3 layers for the MP3 players and the top layer had 4 little pieces that had to be placed individually. Lucky for me Rachel was able to help or it wouldn't be done yet! We used the Cuttlebug to emboss the background paper. All papers by DCWV. The MP3 player was cut from the Paisley Cricut cartridge. The "you're Invited" was from Alphalicious cartridge.

Rachel's 16th Birthday

Rachel will be 16 this month and we are having the traditional Sweet 16 party. I am making her dress for the party. Rachel went with me to the fabric store and picked out the pattern and fabric. She picked a beautiful pink stretch satin for the bodice and underskirt, and a sheer pink with glittery spiral design for the overskirt. I love having live "Barbie dolls" to dress, it's so much fun! I will post a pic when it's done, I promise.

Rachel's Birthday Card

I made a simple card for Rachel's birthday and decided I didn't like it at all, so I decided to start over. She decided to visit my craft room about that time and I let her decide what papers I would use. After she picked the papers I made her leave while I worked on it though! I cut the 15 about 4 or 5 times in yellow cardstock and layered them together, then added the patterened paper. They were cut with the Cricut from Story Book. The butterflies were made with a Martha Stewart punch and are all double layers. All the patterned papers are from the Berry Sweet stack from K & Co. The ribbon is from my stash. The sentiment stamp and the ballons on the inside of the front cover are by A Muse. I liked how this one came out MUCH better than my first attempt at her card. She liked it too!

Birthday Cards

I saw a challenge to use yellow, bright pink, lime green, bright blue and black together for a card. I just got these stamps recently and thought they would be good with these papers I've had for ages. I made the same card twice with different background cardstock. The cupcakes were stamped twice; once on patterened paper and once on white cardstock. I cut just the frosting from the white cardstock and popped it over the patterened paper for depth. The scalloped circles were cut with the Cricut from Mini Monograms. The sentiment is from the cupcake set (by Inkadinkadoo), and the photo corners were cut with the Cricut from Jasmine. I inked a bit and used stickles for the sprinkles on the frosting.

Lance's Birthday card

This isn't quite what he described to me when he was telling me what he wanted on his birthday card, but I decided to take his idea and make it mine! He likes several of the cuts on the "Indie Art" cartridge for the Cricut and told me he wanted the grenade, the biohazard sign, a scull and something else that I can't remember! When I looked at the cuts I decided I didn't like them together. They wasn't a theme-except that Lance liked all of them. Since he is in the U. S. Army I decided to go with just the grenade and added the stars. I bought a U. S. Army stack by K & Co. a few months ago to make a scrapbook for him, but haven't used any of the papers so I got that out and found some patterned papers I liked, then matched those with the green cardstock from Bazzill and some parchment cardstock I got several years ago. The stamps I used on the inside are from Studio G and Inkadinkadoo, and then I hand wrote "to our favorite soldier". I added a lot of inking with gold and walnut inks, and doodled a bit with gel pen. I think it turned out pretty nice, and I hope he likes it too.
Danielle

Bright Birthday

This is totally different from my usual style of card. I usually stay away from putting too many bright colors together, but there was a challenge on the Cricut message board to use blue, orange and red together, so I gave it a whirl. I just bought the Taj Mahal Stack from DCWV and used the blue from that stack for the card base. The orange flourish is glitter cardstock cut with the Cricut from Storybook, and the flower in red and pink was cut from one of the patterned papers in the Taj Mahal stack. I used a Fiskars border punch for the red strip down the left side of the card. Inside I used the same red paper for the background, cut a scal;loped circle in blue and in white with the Cricut, and stamped and doodled the sentiment. I used another smaller flower cut from the Taj Mahal paper too. I like how it came out.
Danielle

Birthday card

I bought some new paper and had to use some! The black and white paper is from DCWV La Creme Stack. The bright pink is from K & Co. Smitten stack and the light pink is from another K & Co. stack. The butterfly and the shape that the sentiment is on are cut with the Cricut from Indie Arts and Storybook cartridges. Inside I used the same cut to hand write my sentiment on, just in a larger size. I added some stickles to the antenae of the butterfly and also for it's eyes. I used the Fiskars threading water punch and put the ribbon through in just 2 slots beside the bow to keep it in place. The ribbon is from my stash. I like how this one turned out. I like the contast between the black, white and pink.
Danielle

More cards!

My Mom's birthday is coming up and she loves to send cards. So, guess what she's getting for her birthday? I made 3 more today-here they are...
#1 Simple birthday, used scraps of paper. Sentiment cut with Cricut from the BaseCamp cart, gifts cut from the Celebrations cart. Inside sentiment was computer generated.



#2 Another birthday card, again used scraps of paper, Leaf cut from Storybook cart with Cricut, it was actually twice that size and I thought it was too large for the card so I cut it in half, lots of inking, sentiment stamped, sentiment and leaf popped with foam tape.



#3 Sympathy card. Same leaf cut, (the other half), the pale green strip is embossed with the cuttlebug, sentiments (inside and outside) from a set by clearly wordsworth and the leaf inside is the negative from the full cut of the leaf.
Danielle