13th Birthday Card

Evening, the card I have to show is my daughter's birthday card. I really didn't know where to start with this. I had a pair of old jeans that have been left on the side of my craft room for ages just waiting to be used for "something creative" so I decided that time had come! I cut a small piece of the denim and attached it to some floral paper with some double sided tape. I then made the lace holes with a crop o dile and set the eyelets before adding the cord. The elements of the card have been cut on the Cricut and attached to the card using Pinflair Gel.
I have a couple more crafty bits that I made for Katie's birthday so will be back very soon.....

Happy Easter

This is the card I made for my Mum. As she is in hospital I didn't put Happy Easter as it wont be that fantastic for Mum. We are going to visit this afternoon with some of my hubby's home made pineapple meringue pie, so hopefully that will cheer her up.

The card was made using a selection of Cricut Carts including Stretch Your Imagination and George and Basic Shapes. I hand wrote At Easter Time as time was of the essence and didn't have an appropriate stamp! The flowers have been finished off with a blob of crystal stickles and I found a shiny butterfly in my stash to add to the handle of the basket.

Birthday Girl

This card was made with minutes to spare. My daughter came home yesterday and said she needed a card by Tuesday (today) for her friend.....aaahhh! Didn't have time to do anything yesterday so earlier today I headed straight for my Stamp Addict's Girls stamps and trusty Cricut machine and came up with this. The green frame, sentiment, circle, flower and numbers have all been cut using George and Stretch Your Imagination cartridges. The stamped image has been coloured using Promarkers, the background has been made by dragging dusty concorde and peeled paint distress ink pads across the base card in opposite directions to each other to create a kind of wild tartan pattern. As you can see distress ink has been applied to most bits of the card. I can't seem to make a card without applying even just the smallest bit of distress ink in some way:)

Chocolate Swirls

Good morning. Today I have a card in chocolate brown with orange and yellow tones, sounds delicious doesn't it especially with chocolate swirls, but this folks is completely calorie free, yay!
I have used a Inkadinkadoo clear stamp set for the inch wide mountboard tiles, the swirl background is a Tim Holtz stamp and the sentiment and large flourishes have been cut on the Cricut using a Home Accent Solutions cartridge.
The tiles were spritzed with yellow and orange Glimmer mists and then the images were stamped on after they were allowed to dry using brown Versafine Ink. I then clear embossed them so they look like mini ceramic tiles. The flourishes and dream sentiment have been spritzed with gold glimmer mist and the base card has had a bit of distress ink added to it for good measure and there you have it.

New Job (I wish......)

I am currently looking for a job as you can tell from the title, but not having much luck at the moment, but my husband's friend has obviously been lucky as it is her I made this card for. Nothing fancy, just used two sets of Dovecraft paper packs and the words and tag have been cut with the Cricut using the George cartridge. The tag has been decorated with flat backed gems.
Short and sweet today as not finding it very easy to blog and craft while the school holidays are here, hopefully get back in the swing of things in a week or two.

For Mum

hi folks, finally back from my holiday from lovely sunny/cloudy/rainy Weymouth. Have any of you had similar weather on your hols this year or have you all been blessed with sunshine all the way? We had just about all of the seasons weather apart from snow! Anyway I shall get back to this card which hasn't photographed that well but I'm sure you get the idea! The main image which is a Laura Ashley stamp has been stamped onto an acrylic square using black staz-on. On the reverse of the square, green alcohol ink has been sponged onto it. A hole has been punched into the bottom corner so that beads can be threaded through. The acrylic square has been mounted onto a frame cut on the cricut using a Home Accents Solution cartridge. Some of the background flowers have been cut on the Cricut but using the George cart. This was also used for the tag and the MUM sentiment. The same Laura Ashley flower has also been stamped for part of the background but the ink used was a brown chalk ink.

Disco Diva

Hi everyone, thanks to everyone who has been dropping by and especially those that have left a comment, it is very much appreciated. I have been having a play with some ideas for our cousin's 12th birthday and thanks to Inkadinkadoo have come up with this creation. Inkadinkadoo have some fabulous stamps sets out at the moment and I love them all. The two sets I have used here are Roulette for the dotty circle background which was stamped using a wine coloured Versa fine inkpad and In The Groove for the singer and the musical notes. The star and numbers have been cut using the George Cartridge on the cricut and inked with distress inks. The singer has been stamped with black Brilliance ink and then clear embossed. The black background has been aged with weathered paint DI and white chalk ink and then faux stitched either side using a Tim Holtz ruler as a guide. The 12 has been mounted onto the same black paper as the star background and was punched using a Woodware scalloped punch. The musical notes were stamped using black pigment ink and then clear embossed. The Happy Birthday was cut using a Quickutz alaphabet (sorry can't remember the name of it) Before sticking the backing paper to the base card I have added the usual distress inks to it. I think the colours I used were milled lavender, worn lipstick, marmalade and mahogany to the edges.

Birthday Last Year!

It is my daughter's birthday next month and so I have to start thinking of ideas for her card. It becomes a challenge every year! I thought I would show you what I made for her last birthday. It's a box card made using the Deco Template from Creative Craft Cabin which I love making but they can be a bit time consuming. The decorative panels inside have been stamped with a background stamp and the letters, hearts, flowers and balloons have all been cut using the Cricut and the George cartridge.

Cricut Creation

It's my husband's cousin's 50th birthday on Saturday so thought I would have ago at making her a card. I decided to use my cricut design studio as it hasn't had an airing lately and came up with this orangey design. Not sure I like it and even less sure the recipient will but hey ho the thought was there! Before putting the shapes together on the card I sprayed them with glimmer mists to add a bit of interest and threaded some beads onto some wire to finish off the design.