2 Shades of Pink Cupcake

I made this cute cucake card for a challenge on the Cooking with the Cricut blog, you can see her challenge and her oh so cute blog here http://cookingwithcricut.blogspot.com/2011/05/29-and-everyday-in-may-11.html. Her challenge was to make a cupcake or cake with 2 shades of pink. Thanks for the challenge.

I used my Gypsy only really for mat placement. I used the Sweet Treats Cricut cartridge.I also used the design instructions from Capadia Design blog to make this cute layered flower. Thanks you and wish me luck on the challenge.

Tag Your It!!

Thought I would do a little playing around with my Gypsy and E2. It is nice to be able to save your designs delete off your mat without messing up the original designs since it is already saved. I used a few different cartridges Gypsy Wanderings for the hearts, Forever Young for the layers of flowers, Stamping for the Hello and the XOXO. I have to thanks Capadia Designs for the flower idea and all her great directions it sure turned out cute, I love this flower and how the layers and folding give dimension without alot of work put forth. Please enjoy, I know I did making it.

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Cricut Cardz Challenge #73 Beach theme

This card is for the Cricut Cardz Challenge #73 this weeks theme is anything to do with Beach. If you want to enter here is their link http://cricutcardzchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/05/cricut-cardz-challenge-73.html .
I did an Aloha card using the Life is a Beach Cricut cartridge. Haven't had a chance to use this cartridge yet so glad I was able to open up the box and see what it had. The flowers and fun sayings are so cute, another feature on the cart is making cards for those not sure about what to design this feature is really nice. Enjoy!! and wish me luck...

I used the Imaginisce paper pack A Shore Thing, so cute....I had some other scraps laying around that I used for layers on the card.

I used pop ups on the flower to add some dimension and pop it off the card.

This has also been entered in the Paper Cutz Challenge, they have a new challenge every Friday so check it out!

Congrats Grads 2011

Good luck to all you graduates in 2011. Whether you graduating high school, college or even preschool, pat yourself on your back you deserve a bow. Good luck with your future endeavors.  This card is for all of you 2011 graduates BIG or SMALL!!!

Card is 41/2 x 61/4 the Congrats is 3"cut off the Beyond Birthdays Cricut cartridge, the 2011 is 1" cut off the Micky Font and the hat is a fabric sticker I had in my stash. I inked the edges of the blue paper to add a little dimension. I am also entering this in the Creative Critters Imagination challenge so wish me luck! Also entering in the http://www.scrapbookaholicbyabby.com/2011/05/scrapbookaholic-by-abby-challenge-6.html graduation challenge crossing my fingers on this one too!

So Sweet!

So I'm killing 2 birds with one stone on this one. This is for a challenge on the Bitten By the Bug2 blog. Had to do something with a strawberry. So I needed to make some thank you cards so decided to combine the two. I made all using my Gypsy (finally figured it out) loving using the Gypsy, using the welding feature I cut the strawberry off the Preserves cartridge and the Thanks So Much off the Stamping cartridge(one of my fav's) The card out great. Thanks for looking, wish me luck!!!

                                              Inside of card

Had to use my magnet board to hold it open. Sorry about the magnet. Also entering this into another challenge where you had make a card that was shaped like anything. Her challenge is here, http://www.whimsicalwednesdays.blogspot.com/, this is my first challenge on this blog so wish me luck.

A Little Bit of Everything....

 Made this card for my hubby. I used the Gypsy to cut the LOVE cut at 3" from the Home Accents cartridge. The Flags (2.5") and flower were cut (5") off the E2 using Just a Note cartridge off the machine. The scallop card is a pre cut 5 1/4" card. I just love the black and white contrast. The Flags are my new favorite.

Here is the second part of the Teacher Appreciation week. I made a journal for Mrs. R. which I am sure she will love it. I cut strips of paper from a Imaginessence paper pack, with cardboard stickers to match. I cut the 2 Teach is 2 Love from the Locker Talk cartridge using my Gypsy and the E2.                                      

The card is just the Imaginessesce school pack with the Teacher Appreciation cut off the Locker Talk cartridge. The pair sure turned out cute.









This was going to be a birthday card but when I found out it was teacher appreciation I made it more generic and gave it to the teacher with 5 things we like about her. The Bling is from the IROC, and the whole design is off the E2.

 Here is a birthday card I made for my niece. the cupcake swivels open with the brad that was made to look like a cherry on top. I used stickles to bling it up a little.

                                              The card swiveled open.

 Another Birthday card but this time I used my Gypsy and the Gypsy Wanderings cartridge. I put 2 cupcakes together and welded them together to make the card. I used stickles to Bling it up. Cut the Happy Birthday using Gypsy Wanderings and WALA, you have a birthday card. Lovin my Gypsy more and more......

                                Better view of the welding and opening of the card.

 More Mothers Day cards and gifts. I bought this magnet board at Roberts Craft(sad mine by me is closing) Made magnets using the ITOP and attached photos. The cute swirls were already on it so bonus.

 The whole package together the present, with a fun card my mother in law is sure to love.

 

close up of the card. I just love these shoes.

 The next cards are ones I made for my grandma and a couple friends so they know how special they are to me. The shoes are cut off the E2 using layering, the ribbon across the middle is paper fan folded a little tricky to place on the card but a fun embellishment. I added a layered flower with a bling brad at the top. FYI , this is one of my favorite papers and I love PINK!!!

 The green in this sure makes the colors pop, for that reason this color combo is one of my favorite cards.

 Another one with a little bit off variations, I hate to make them all the same to me they are all unique.

Wow lots done in the last couple days I sure hope you all enjoy, and hopefully inspire you to create something for your mother, grandmother, or girlfriend.

Teacher Appreciation Gifts

Here is the Teacher Appreciation gifts I made for my sons 5th grade teacher.

This little note book is so cute cut the Teachers last name initial R with my Gypsy using Gypsy Fonts. The embellishment flower is layered with a cute sparkle brad. I tied ribbon on the spirals and around the box of paperclips.

I cut the gift card holder using the Cindy Loo and cut at 6" card holder and made the circles using the layered feature on Cindy Loo also. The For You is cut on the Gypsy Wanderings. The card holder feature on the Cindy Loo cartridge is pretty cool it cuts the slits for your card to sit in it just right.

The tag is cut from the Gypsy using Gypsy Wanderings and the welding feature. Thank You is also off the Gypsy Wanderings added the flowers, ribbon and brads for embellishments.

Here is everything in a cute lunch paperbag. She is going to love it. We love our teacher this year.