Create a Critter Owl Card

"it's your Birthday!"  The owl and branches are cut at 3".  The owl and one set of leaves are pop-dotted.
I cut the "hoot" out at real dial size set at 1".  I cut HOORAY using SCAL and the arial font, welded together.  I used the cuttlebug to emboss the leaves with divine swirls and the phrase was embossed with dots.  I inked all the edges and added the sparkly blue ribbon to match the owl.  I used my phone to take the pic, so the colors aren't as vivid as the actual card.

Cake Box or Carrot Box Easter Treat holder

I know I'm not the only mommy out there making cute little carrot treat boxes for her preschooler's class :)  I just wanted to give my take on it!  I used the cakebox from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More cartridge at 5.5inches.  I wanted to give it some texture and I found the PERFECT fiskars texture plate in my stash!!!- the "carpet" plate.  It was kind of difficult placing the box cut-out on the plate so that most all of it was covered... but there's only a tiny piece that didn't get embossed and it's not very noticeable.  The fiskars plates are bigger than the original cuttlebug folders which is nice.  Again, I used the Spellbinders latex mats in my cuttlebug. If you want the sandwich recipe I used with the fiskars plates- click here for the post where I used them.

Here is a close-up of the "carpet" texure on my carrot box.

Then I used my crop-a-dile to insert an eyelet in the top of the box.

I had curled a bunch of ribbon (click here if you would like to know how I did that) and I had this green left over from my bow making.  In the future I think I will just use regular paper curling ribbon.  I cut a few pieces and pulled them through the top of the box and knotted them underneath so they wouldn't pull out.  Finally, fill the open box with some Easter candy and then I used my ATG gun to close it up.

Tada!  A cute little carrot box filled with Easter candy for the kiddiewinkies!! :)  The finished box measure 3.5 inches from bottom of carrot to top.

Dinosaur waterfall card using fiskars texture plates in the cuttlebug

dang- that's a LONG title!  Anywhoooo....MONTHS ago I bought a set of fiskars texture plates (which are bigger and cheaper than cuttlebug folders AND they are double sided) because I heard you could use them in the cuttlebug. Well, yes, you can... but for whatever reason I had trouble making it work back then.  So, here is the sandwich recipe to make it work correctly but you need to have a pair of Spellbinders Enlarged Embossing Pads (latex rubber sheets) which I found on ebay for $6. RECIPE: A Plate, rubber pad, cardstock, texture plate obviously with the texture you want facing the cardstock, 2nd rubber pad and finally the B plate.  TADAA!  The embossing with the fiskars plates isn't as deep as the cuttlebug, but it still looks great.  SO, this little dinosaur was made using the "leather" fiskars plate.  The entire card file came from SVGcuts.com from the Waterfall Cards kit.  When his tail is pulled, his mouth opens!  It was fun to put together and the kid who receives it will probably have fun with it, too:)

CHRISTmas Thank You Cards

Time to write the Thank Yous for all the wonderful gifts we received.  Since I bombed and didn't make all my Christmas cards by hand this year as I had planned (Walmart Photo to the rescue!), I thought I could at least make the thank you notes.  I wanted a simple cut that would be quick to put together since I was making a small bunch of them at one time.  The card measures 4" x 5 1/2".  I found the tree at SVGcuts.com- it was one of the Christmas card trees.  Both the background paper and the printed tree paper came from DCWV's Christmas Stack.  I used the cuttlebug's lace embossing folder for the light green tree parts- which I was so happy that it matched the lacey damask print on the dark green Christmas paper!!  I love it when things come together like that!  I bought a ton of red glittery ribbon from someone on ebay and have used it for curly hair bows, and now I added it to this card. I ran my atg gun down it, and then cut it off every 5 1/2 inches and placed it about an inch from the side of the card.  I embellished with some pearls from the dollar section at Michael's.  Took me about an hour to do 6 of them, but that's with the 4 year old and the dog in the room!!

Dinosaur birthday card for my Nephew

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!  My nephew turns 6 this week so I finally get to make a card for someone!  I used Create a Critter dinosaurs for this "scene card".  I added red glitter to the volcano using my zig 2 way glue pen.  The grass came from Plantin Schoolbook.  I used the cuttlebug's divine swirls on the yellow mat.

Advent Calendar Project

SVGcuts.com has a Christmas Advent Calendar file that I just HAD to try.  Now, while I enjoyed making it, I can promise you I will NOT be making them as gifts as it is a very time consuming project.  I really could have added much more to it, but I got to the point where I was ready to have it done! :)  I did emboss some of the pale green paper with my snowflake folder/cuttlebug.

Fall Card .... as I wish for 70 degree weather when it's 98 outside now!

The heat here in VA right now is oppressive!  It's the end of September and it's 98 degrees  and we haven't had rain here at the house in weeks!  I'm getting in the mood for the change of seasons by hopping from blog to blog, enjoying the beautiful autumn card creations.  I decided to get to work myself.

I was inspired to make this card for the Jitterbuggin' Challenge.  I followed the sketch, used a cricut fall element ( the leaves I found on A Child's Year cartridge) and the pumpkin came from http://paperthisandthat.blogspot.com/2010/07/free-svg-pumpkin.html .  The "pickin punkins" came from SVGcuts.com .  I used my cuttlebug to emboss the brown mat.  One requirement was to use a plaid in the project- mine was the red ribbon. And, finally, I chalked EVERYTHING with my cat's eye chalks.
I'm also entering this in The Pink Stamper 's "Anything Goes" challenge, http://stampinsistersinchrist.blogspot.com/2010/09/challenge-57-ecclesiastes-31.html,
and http://myshericrafts.blogspot.com/2010/09/my-sheri-crafts-challenge-23-autumn.html and last but not least,
http://techniquesbytrish.blogspot.com/2010/09/welcome-to-creative-scraps-sunday.html.  So many cool challenges that my card fit!! 

Create a Critter Skunk Card for challenge # 53 @ Paper Cutz

This cute little skunk came from Create a Critter!  For the sentiment, I tried cutting something out on SCAL, but it was too small and too skinny to cut correctly... so, I printed it out on cardstock on my printer and then used Storybook and the centerpoint function to cut out the scalloped circle!  I was really happy with the result!  I pop-dotted both the skunk and circle.

Join me in the challenge: http://papercutzchallenge.blogspot.com/2010/08/paper-cutz-challenge-53.html

Butterfly Happy Birthday Card using vellum

I made this birthday card for my mother-in-law today.  For the butterflies, I stamped them using my cat's box fluid chalks and then dusted them with my crystal clear extra fine MStewart glitter.  The ink wasn't drying quickly on the butterflies, so the glitter took care of that and I'm happy with the way they turned out! I gently bent them down the center and used a glue dot to adhere them to the card.  I used the cuttlebug for the mat and used my zig 2 way pen to also add the same glitter to some of the raised parts of it. I ran the Happy Birthday phrase through my xyron and glittered it as well! and finally, a few color rhinstones.  One very sparkly card :) Bring on the Bling!

Breezy Backyard summer lever card: sailboat

I am really emjoying these lever cards from SVGcuts.com.  My "baby brother's" birthday is next week and he loves boating, so this was the perfect card for him.  I used DCWV Summer pack as well as a sheet of Coredinations textured cardsock: "reflecting pool" for the inside. I also used my cuttlebug to emboss the bracket on the left of the card.

A little bird told me....

I spent this morning making this birthday card for a friend.  The phrase came from "Just Because Cards", the bird image is from SVGcuts.com, cut using SCAL. I used the DCWV "songbird" paper stack. I also used my cuttlebug divine swirls folder for the windy sky.

You Take the Cake card

Purrfect Thank You Card using Create a Critter

Love You a Latte birthday card