Baby Shower Centerpiece

Hello all! I hope you had a great weekend! I wanted to show you what I have been working on, and finally finished! I used my New Arrival cartridge for the first time, and LOVE what I came up with! I hope you like it as much as I do!

I cut the umbrella at 6 inches, feet at 5 1/2 inches, diaper pins at 4 inches, and butterflies at 2 1/2 inches. I then cut them all using the flip function too, so I could adhere them back to back.

I used stickles, SU ribbon, lace, liquid pearls, and SU flat backed pearls to dress up this beauty. I used hot glue to adhere most of the cuts to bamboo skewers and the basket. I used clear stretchy string from Wal-Mart that I bought in the jewelry section, and used that to string the butterflies from the umbrella to make it look like they are flying!

I had a large container of pink prima flowers that I thought matched this centerpiece perfectly. So, I used them to look like they were growing under the umbrella.

Please let me know what you think!

Thanks for looking!

With heartfelt thanks

I made this card using the doily cut on the Wild Card Cartridge. Its a great thank you card! I added some primas, a button, some hemp twine, and a bit of viva decor to dress it up. I like its simplicity. The sentiment was used from some vellum stickers I had from a card pack. Please let me know what you think! Thanks for looking!

Bird Sympathy Card with envelope

Today's post is a cute little sympathy card made for a fellow GIBBS sister. I am unsure what cut I used- but the cartridge was Wild Card. I added some Viva Decor to spruce it up- but kept it simple. Sympathy cards are so hard to make. The vellum  message says: "Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal"

Let me know what you think!

M address book page

I was in an address book page swap a few years back and some of the pages got mangled in transit or were falling apart, so I had to redo them. Here is the first page I redid- the letter M. I participated in the collectors cut challenge and pulled Songbird font Cartridge and Cindy Loo cartridge. I had fun with this page. I used Viva Decor Pearl pen to add the black pearly accents. I had some Basic Grey sticker cardstock pages in my stash, so I peeled a few that I thought would match. I cut the M at shift shadow in 4 inches, and the green M shift at 4 inches. I used a filligree cut from Cindy Loo and did Shadow and 2 layers cut at 3 inches. Cardstock used was Stampin Up, DCWV, Basic Grey and Bazzil. I used a SU punch to make the tab. I had some extra stickers in my stash to put the M label on the tab. I hope you like how it turned out, like I do!

Strawberry Birthday Card

Today's post is a card I made for my mother for her birthday. I have been wanting to use that cute strawberry from Indie Art, and found the perfect way to use it! I like to use the Mojo Monday Blog for ideas and some mojo. They never fail on giving me the mojo I need! :) Below is the picture of the sketch, and the photos of the card I made. HERE is the link to the post.

I used an SU punch and a computer generated sentiment on the front. The copper dots are Viva Decor Pearl Pen. Stampin Up! Hemp Twine was used in place of ribbon. I also used the Stampin Up top note die to make the beautiful light brown shape on the base. Used stickles to decorate the strawberry- but before that I ran it through my Sizzix Big Kick and the swiss dots embossing folder to emboss the strawberry. I also chalked the edges with Dark Brown Cat's Eye Chalk Ink! Please let me know what you think! Thanks! :)

Little Miss ATTITUDE

HAPPY MONDAY EVERYONE! I hope you had a fantastic weekend! I spent mine with my family. I also enjoyed watching the Packer game! I am happy they are one step closer to the Super Bowl. Today I am showing you a layout I made for my youngest daughter Brittany's scrapbook. I used the Alphalicious cartridge for the title. The letters were cut at 2 3/4 inches in shadow and regular font. The flourish was cut from an accucut at my old LSS. I used Blue Viva Decor pearl pen for the accents on the prismacolored digi girl. She is a Mo Manning digi. Isn't she so cute??? I had to use her for this layout. It fit perfectly. The journaling section is also a free digi, but I forgot where I got it from. (sorry!)

I hope you all enjoyed my layout! I will be posting more this week- I have made quite a few this weekend, and am DETERMINED to get caught up with my childrens scrapbooks this year! I am several years behind. Please let me know what you think!

Thank You Card

HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE!!!

I hope you all had a wonderful week! I made this Thank You card last night, and really love this little girl! I got this image from a crafting  buddy of mine, Teri. Thanks so much Teri! I hope I did her justice! :) I used smaller notecard base to make this card. I used spellbinders nestabilities to cut the scalloped circle. I then embossed that scalloped circle using the Divine Swirl embossing folder. I colored this little girl using prismacolor pencils using the gamsol technique. I added some sheer ribbon, punched from my SU punch, and stamped sentiment with my SU stamp set, Smooch Spritz for shimmer, some bling, and inked the edges with Timber Brown Staz-On ink. I used Viva Decor Blue pearl pen to add a little oomph to the sentiment. Thanks for looking! Let me know what you think!

Have a great day!

Friendship Mini Album

Here are some pictures of the friendship mini album I made. I really like how it turned out. I tried getting the best pictures I could. Sorry the pages are not in order. Each page has a matching background (if that makes sense!). Please tell me what you think!

COMMENTS ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED! THANK YOU!

You're such a block head Charlie Brown

Happy Wednesday Everyone!!!
Today's post is about another GIBBS 3 project! The phrase used was: "You're such a block head Charlie Brown." I used ALOT of word association with this one! I thought- blocks are made of wood... this shelf is made of wood- hmmm... Why don't I alter this?! I had it for a while- just hadn't had a right spot for it.

I repainted it, sprayed it with Stampin' Up! Smooch Spritz, added some swirls with copper Viva Decor Pearl Pen, added some Prima Flowers, stickles, and lace. I really like how it turned out. The pictures don't do it justice. It was a very hard object to photograph.

I'd love to hear what you think! I love comments!

Gibber's Do It OLD TOOL STYLE

Here is another GIBBS 3 project I made.
The phrase is : Gibber's Do It Old Tool Style

I used Smooch Spritz for the shimmer, viva decor pearl pen in copper, and brown stazOn ink for the stamped lettering. I didnt use ANY cricut in this whatsoever. I used stamps, MS punch, stickers, and OLD tools to make these for her and her family. I thought it'd be nice for her to use them on scrapbook pages or something of that sort.

DONE WITH GIBBS ROUND 3!!!

I can now show you the creations I made for my partner Teri on the Cricut Messageboard. I am happy with how things turned out, and hope you agree. I'd like to show you first my absolute favorite item.

The phrase was- One Man's Trash is Another Man's Treasure

FRONT

BACK

OPENED FLAP

SIDE ONE

SIDE TWO

I call it A POCKET FULL OF ENVELOPES.
Here you can find the instrucions:
http://www.paper-source.com/cgi-bin/paper/howto/ideas/envaccordion.html
I used 6 envelopes instead of the 5 that were required.