Card & Zip Pouch

Hold on tight!  I made a card the other day.  Gasp! I know it's hard to believe.  My Cricut and my paper cutter had two inches of dust on them!

Over the holidays I did some organizing in my paper craft room.  I've decided that if I am not going to do paper crafts I need to get rid of some of this stuff.  So now, I am making an effort to make more cards and use up some supplies.  I have years of SU stuff that I am cleaning out.  I have given tons (maybe not tons but certainly many pounds) of older swap card fronts and scraps from my demonstrator days to one of my former customers who makes cards for Hospice and I have donated some of my surplus tools and things to some teacher friends that need stuff for their classrooms. 

So back to making a card... I made one. Nothing fancy. Here it is. Sorry it's not a "staged" picture, I literally took a quick snapshot with my phone right before putting it in the mail.    I used the Alphalicious cartridge and a variety of SU cardstocks (once upon a time I knew all the colors, right now they escape me). 

 

I made the card to match this zipper pouch I made for my friend Debra for her birthday. She likes turquoise moderny artsy stuff so I thought this fabric with the spirographic design was a nice choice for her.

The seamless lining and zipper was lime green to match the initials embroidered on the front. 

It took more than a week to arrive in Arkansas but she finally got it and loved it!  Your probably wondering if I make anything besides zipper pouches lately, I do!  I've been monogramming up a storm.  I'll be sharing some towels I just did in the next few days.  Thanks for stopping by!

Gasp-- A Card!

Yes, a card! I have not given up paper crafting entirely, just gotten a little side tracked with sewing and embroidery. Here's the card Micaela and I made for her friend Isabella. Super simple and quick, just a very glittery FIVE and some retired SU designer paper that just happened to coordinate with the beach towel (above). We made the 5 with the Cricut, used the Alphalicious cartridge.

Princess Stuff

So busy these days, finally I had a little time to craft...
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Here are some goody bags I made for a friend who was hosting a Princess party for her daughter. The 'take out' boxes were purchased, I just made the tags and added the monogram letter for each of the girl's first names. Daughter helped by pressing the buttons on the electronic die cutting machine for the monogram letters & tag layers. She had the most fun cranking the handle on the Sissix for crown. As it turned out, these matched the place where the party was held perfectly! (honestly, that was unplanned).

This is the card we made for the birthday girl. The card base is Pink Passion by SU. The glittered and embossed card stock is from a stack. The FIVE was done with an electronic die cutting machine using the short stack and shadow feature.

This is the inside of the card opened flat-- lots of layers. Used Basic Black and White Glossy for the layers and then more Pink Passion & Basic Black for the design. I meant to take a picture before daughter wrote inside but we got in a hurry and I forgot. Side note, we are working with her on her penmanship, I think she writes pretty good for a four year old.


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Happy Birthday Delaney!

This card was long over due! Delaney turned 1 back in April but we had not gotten together. Made this with the Cricut Alphalicious cartridge, it is 5.25 inches square. And, very similar to the cards I've been making for Micaela's friends that are turning 4. The butterfly embellishment is actually made of wood. Looking back at this, I probably should have made the top layer of the 1, cameo coral instead.

Here's the card open.
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Alphalicious Birthday

Here's a simple card and decorated gift bag I made for one of Micaela's little friends Haley. Micaela and Haley have known each other since they were just a few months old and they attend preschool at the church school together.

First of all I have to say that I did not have my head on straight when I started to make this stuff. I meant for the card & bag to match but did not make sure the gift which was two Fancy Nancy Books fit in the Purple and Pink gift bag first! I discovered this 15 minutes before we were leaving for the party. In a state of panic I decorated another "larger" pink & green gift bag instead. I hope Little Haley can forgive us for our mismatched gift.

This card is 5 1/2 inches square. I made it using the Alphalicious Cricut Cartridge using the crest card feature . The cricut actually cuts out the frame and the letter to size for you. I used some Lovely Lilac cardstock on the inside so the cut out would show through.

I did double layers on the inside. The "4" was also done with the Alphalicious cartridge using the Short Stack & Short Stack Shadow features. The Celebrate & Happy Birthday sentiments were stamped in Lovely Lilac and fairy is a painted wood embellishment I picked up at JoAnn. The clear rhinestones on the front were adhered with glue dots.

The Non-Matching gift bag was decorated with a simple H monogram in Pink Passion & Gable Green-- the H was done with the Short Stack & Short Stack Shadow feature on the Alphalicous cartridge.

Thanks for stopping by, Happy Birthday Haley!

Tons of cards for Tricia

I just sent about 60 cards to my sister in law. She likes to buy my cards to have them on hand for the people she works with. I just sent her a package with this assortment. I sent 6 to 12 of each of these cards. I have to keep them simple in order to produce so many.
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Girly Birthday using retired SU DSP, Groovy Guava & Purely Pomegranate card stock. I used a Sissix die for the flower and regular circle punches for the center.

This is from the same retired SU DSP.

Colorful "Way to Go". Paper is from DCWV Summer Stack


Thanks from Tricia in Pink Passion & Green circles. This paper is also from DCWV Summer Stack. Loved how the cirlces worked on this one. Sheer ribbon from JoAnn.




This one is straight in real life. Thanks from Tricia in chocolate chip. This is the cute & curly punch. Beige grosgrain ribbon from Michael's.

Manly Birthday. This is retired SU DSP. The Trips & Travel collection from 2007.
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Cutie Pie Birthday Card

Here is another card using the Cutie Pie designer paper which is also retiring.

The sentiment is from the retired Friend to Friend stamp set and the candles and Happy Birthday image is from the So Many Scallops stamp set. I used the Itty Bitty Backgrounds to make the dots on the So Saffron layer.

My First Color Challenge

For a while now my downline Tina has been bugging me about participating in a color challenge. She has no idea what trying to stamp with a 3 yr old around is like. Nonetheless, tonight after everyone went to bed, I thought I would give a challenge a try. I decided I would try Kristina Werner's color challenge #16.

This was alot harder than I thought, I struggled with the color combination but in the end this is what I came up with, (it's certainly not a favorite). I missed the deadline by a couple of hours but at least I tried. Maybe next week I will do better.

Recipe:
Certainly Celery, Pumpkin Pie, Very Vanilla and Soft Sky

Fun Birthday Card for Kids

Here's my designated card for Micaela's friends the next few birthdays. I'll change the color scheme but I made up some neutral ones to have on hand. The sentiment is from "Inkadinkado" and the blue background is embossed with the Numbers Cuttlebug Folder. The ribbon is from the Dashes, Dots & Checks line at Michael's.
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Recipe:
Real Red, Ballet Blue, Yo Yo Yellow and Whisper White card stocks

Card & Gift for a Little Princess

Micaela was invited to a Princess Birthday Party a few weeks ago. She was excited because she got to wear her fluffy pink dress and sparkly-glittery pink shoes. It was so fun to see a bunch of 3 year old princesses all dressed up, they were all so cute!

The Birthday Princess' Mommy specifically requested no gifts but we could not go empty handed. I found this great book at the book store, "Count my Blessings 1 to 10" by Jeane Cabral and illustrated by Dubravka Kolanovic. The pages of the book are glossy chipboard and it includes magnetic characters that the children place on each page as you read easy rhymes that remind them of the wonderful blessings they have and enjoy every day. Micaela absolutely loves it, it's one of her favorites. I highly recommend it, you can find it at Amazon here.

Here's the card I made for the Birthday Princess.

Recipe: Pretty in Pink and Whisper White Card Stocks. Embossed tiara using Versamark and Detail Silver Embossing Powder. Used Pretty in Pink and Barely Banana markers to color. Dry embossed scroll & happy birthday sentiment using Cuttlebug embossing folders.

Little Girl Birthday Card

Micaela had a birthday party to attend for her little friend Lauren. Lauren is turning 3! As I started to make a card, I realized that I don't have any current stamp sets geared toward little girls. All I have for birthdays seems to be cakes & candles. Although this stamp set was perfect, I think it's been retired for a long long time. (I bought it from a demonstrator that had been retired for a while, shortly after Micaela was born).


Nonetheless, here's the card. I thought it turned out cute. The birthday party was at Build A Bear and ironically Micaela built a dog & Lauren the birthday girl a cat but Micaela is the brunette and Lauren is the blonde so I got the hair color wrong.




All materials SU. Used Green Galore for the card base. Stamped the dots in Basic Black using the new PolkaDot background stamp. The 3 is from the retired Whimsical Numbers. The "happy birthday wishes" sentiment is from Fun & Fast Notes, I mounted all the words on the side of the wood block. The images are colored in using our Many Marvelous Markers, stamped on Whisper White and matted in Pixie Pink, Green Galore and Basic Black. Sorry for the shading in the picture, we were on our way out the door to the party when I realized that I needed to take a picture.... so I quickly propped the card on our dining room table and took the picture. The sunlight from the blinds created those shadows.