Birthday Bash LO and a card too!

My son turns 7 today so I had to make him a birthday card and decided it was time to scrap his party from last year too!  I will start with the layout.  I usually try to add the cards or at least the invitation to my layouts for parties and such. For some reason I couldn't find the cards, but I did add the invitation and I used the thank-you note to journal on, then tucked them both behind the pictures.

Here is the double page layout

Here is a close up of the left side, and the cards behind the pictures

The birthday cake cut is from Birthday Bash and the puppy with the balloon is from Paper Pups

 Sorry for the glare, I  didn't notice it until it was loaded. Here is the right side

I finally got to use Four Legged Friends, both of these puppies are from that cartridge, the balloons are from the Celebrations cartridge and the 6 is from Hello Kitty Font.

The orange paper is from a large stack I got at Sam's forever ago, the green and other printed paper are from DCWV Celebrate Stack (super cute!!)

Here is a close up of one of the puppies, just because  l like him. The bag is cut from Birthday Bash also.

I used the scraps of the paper to make his birthday card for this year.

 I used Robotz for the frog guy and Blast off Imagine Cartridge for the 7 and for the inside of the card. 



Ok, off to wrap presents and make a cake! Have a great day everyone!

Motorcycle Thank you card

NSD Challenge # 8 on My Pink Stamper was to use a summer theme.  We recently went to Thunder Beach with some friends and thought I could make a great thank you card. 

I used real seashells on the bottom. All the papers were from my scrap stash.

Cartridges used:
Paper Doll Dress up

Groovy times

Mother's Day Card

This is the mother's Day card I made for my mom.  It is pretty simple, but I made it out of colors that she loves and that match her sewing room. I was running out of time, so I had to do something simple!

The solid colors are all core'dinations and the print paper is from DCWV the Linen Stack.  I inked the edges of the printed paper and sanded the core'dinations paper.

Cartridges used:

Paper Lace

Wall Decor and More

Holiday Cakes

There you have it  a simple, but petty card!

A Teacher for all Seasons Mini

FINALLY...I finished the teacher appreciation gifts for the 4 teachers that work with my boys.  I found this poem online and used it as the basis for my mini book

A Teacher for All Seasons

A teacher is like Spring,
Who nurtures new green sprouts,
Encourages and leads them,
Whenever they have doubts.

A teacher is like Summer,
Whose sunny temperament
Makes studying a pleasure,
Preventing discontent.

A teacher is like Fall,
With methods crisp and clear,
Lessons of bright colors
And a happy atmosphere.

A teacher is like Winter,
While it’s snowing hard outside,
Keeping students comfortable,
As a warm and helpful guide.

Teacher, you do all these things,
With a pleasant attitude;
You’re a teacher for all seasons,
And you have my gratitude!

By Joanna Fuchs

I decided to do a mini and put each season on one page.  Here is all of them together.

The only patterned paper I used is on the cover and it is from The paper Studio.   The teachers are from the Imagine cartridge Best Friends.

Here is a close up of the front.

I used my Imagine with Lacy labels printed with Enjoy the Seasons for all of the poem through out the book.  I then printed the poem on my printer.

Here is the first page.

I used pages from Locker Talk that had tabs and then I covered the tabs with items from each season.  I really wanted to use Enjoy the seasons so I made a the tree for every season.

Here is the next page

Aren't the trees cute?

Here is the third page

And the fourth page (with my favorite tree)

And now the last page

 

 

These are the only pictures I had to include, but I felt the rest of it told the story well!  It is hard to see but I had my son sign the book above the sissors.

And finally here is the back

I hope they like them, I have put in some hours into them today!

The best part of the whole thing - it is ALL done with my Cricut E2 or Imagine and besides the one piece of printed paper, it is all made from my scrap box.

Here is a list of cartridges I used:

Alphalicious

April Showers

Best Friends Imagine

Celebrate with a Flourish

Creative Memories Cheerful Season

Designer's Calendar

Doodlecharm

Enjoy the Seasons Imagine

Paper Doll for Everyday

H2O

Just a Note

Lacy Labels

Locker Talk

Nate's ABC

Playtime

Snow Friends

Stretch your Imagination

Winter Lace

Thanks for looking, and thank you to all the teachers out there!



Back to reality soon!

So it has been a long week, and the weather here has been great so we have been in and out of the pool too.  Hubby and I have a lot planned this weekend, but Monday I should be back to reality and hopefully back to creating, I already have some card ideas, and purposes for those cards, so I have to get busy!  Have a great weekend everyone!

Cricut E2 Challenge Layouts

I have been super busy and haven't had a chance to post my other two layouts that I made for the Cricut Expression 2 challenge.  I am not holding hope to win one, (but hubby said I could order one, so Idid!) but it was fun to create them. 

The machine is on HSN today and today only, and I have to say, I have seen some amazing projects that were sent in for the contest.  In fact, I am proud to say that I know one of the winners, Goddess Nadia at With Glittering Eyes created one of her masterpieces and deserves the E2 she won!  Congrats Nadia!

Ok Ok, on with it, my second Layout for the challenge was a Birthday Princess layout.  It is pretty simple, but it is pretty!

Cartridges Used:

1.     Best Friends – Princess 5.8”

2.     Songbird – font 1” (welded with the Gypsy)

3.     Twinkle Toes – large shapes  11.15” and 12.32”

4.     Yummy – gift 1”

5.     Hannah Montana – large crown  width 8.42 height 3.8” (stretched on my gypsy)

Cuttlebug Cupcake embossing folder

Papers:

1.     Blue Patterned Paper – We R Memory Keepers Tiffany stack

2.     Brown – making memories

3.     White – colorblok

4.     Pink and teal- Coredinations

5.     White glitter – DCWV

6.     Copper – my scrap pile

Dew drops- Recollections

Gems- my stash

The next layout I threw together at the last minute, I was just going to do 2, but got inspired while flipping through a magazine and this is what it turned into. 

Cartridges Used:

·         Celebrations

v  Party hats – 1.5 inches

v  Cupcake – 2.18 inches

v  Star and swirl balloons – 2.75 inches

·         Birthday Cakes

v  Happy Birthday with Balloons – 3 inches

·         Birthday Bash-

v  Candles – 1.43 inches

v  Gifts – 2.37 inches

Papers used:

v  Printed paper – I think it is DCWV but it was just in my stash so I could be wrong!

v  Green textured paper is Bazzill

v  All other cardstock is Core’dinations

I am proud of the way they all turned out, and I don't know which is my favorite, which is yours?

Oh and HAPPY BIRTHDAY CRICUT!

Cricut E2 Challenge Layout

Provo craft is launching its newest machine tomorrow at 12:00 a.m.  It is the Cricut Expression 2 anniversary edition.  They held a contest to do and 12x12 layout with a birthday theme.  They are going to choose 5 winners to recieve a machine.  (My fingers are crossed, but I have seen sooooo many AMAZING layouts that I know I don't have a chance!)

  This was the first layout I did for the E2 Birthday challenge. It is called Party Animal

Here's the recipe

Cartridges used:

1.       Don Juan – font .75”

2.      Birthday Bash –

v  Dog -3.08”

v  Banner – 1.75”

v  Lion – 3.5”

3.       CM Cheerful Seasons – bird 1”

Papers:

1.       Printed Papers – My Mind’s Eye Penny Lane stack

2.      Blue, Green and Orange – Bazzill

3.       Red and Yellow – Core’dinations

Good luck to all that entered, we are less then 24 hours away!