Time for more cards

Happy Friday:

I've been on a card making frenzy lately so I have several more cards to post.  The first card was originally made for my son's birthday.  I liked it so well, I made 2 more.  This is the old car card from the Art Deco Cricut cartridge.

Art Deco, cardstock, DCWV glitter cardstock

The next card is made with a stamp set I received with my last month's edition of Cardmaking and Papercrafting.  This set has such cute sewing type stamps.  This is the first time I've actually sewn on paper.  I have a cute little papercrafting sewing machine but had never used it.  This was kind of fun!

Sew Pretty Stamp set, Cricut Basics Scalloped Circle, Copics, Viva Decor Pearl Pen, paper, ribbon, 

Staz-on ink

The next two cards are "Triple Play" or "Triple Stamping" cards,  I had never made this type card  before but I needed one for a card swap.  I really liked making them and will probably make more.  It's not near as hard as it looks.

CTMH stamp, Copics, K &Company butterfly,

Hero Arts Stamp, Copics,

If you've never tried to make them, Splitcoast Stampers has a good tutorial for this.  Give it a try!

I've been in a beach vacation mood lately and here are the results!

Art Impressions stamp, Copics, Cricut Imagine-Word of Mouth, K&Company Designer paper,

 Don't you just love the Art Impressions series of stamps?

Art Impressions Stamps, Copics

Have a safe and happy week-end.

We're 4 Days from Fall . . .

Wow!  We're 4 days from Fall and I'm behind in my card making.  My goal in January was to work my way through all my Cricut cartridges and make at least one card from each cartridge.  Unfortunately, life interfered with my great plan - as it has a way of doing.  I did get a few cards made for a swap this month that I'd like to share with you.

I love this shoe from SVGCuts.com.  This is from Amelie's Accessories - Sabine's Shoe Card.  I almost wish I could wear it!

SVGCuts, Sabine's Shoe Card, Viva Pearl Pen

This card was make for a "Use Your Scraps" swap.  Everything - including the "Way to Go"(from the George cartridge) - were scraps that have been hanging around my craft room for a long time.  The Red Hat lady is  left over from Christmas cards I sent to my Red Hat group several years ago and is an old Stampin' Up stamp.

Stampin' Up, Viva Red Pearl Pen, red gems, George

 This card was made for a "Blue & Orange" swap.  The big surprise was that I didn't make a Denver Bronco card nor did I receive one.  No Cricut or Eclips on this card - stamping only.

Copics, stamp, Stickles, ribbon, twine, button

 The last card was for a Christmas swap.  Again, Santa is a stamp and  you can't tell in the picture but the white card  is dry embossed with a Cuttlebug.  Santa is embossed in silver.

Embossing powder, Copics, Stamp, Cuttlebug

I'd love to see your comments so please leave one.  Thanks for looking.

It's August Already - How Did That Happen?

I can't believe that it's almost the middle of August - where has the year gone?  Since it is August already, I'm wa-a-a-a-y behind my schedule for making at least one card a week with a new Cricut cartridge.  Oh well - maybe I"ll catch up by the end of the year.

I have been making some cards and I have five to show you. The first one is a Cricut cut.  The cut is from the Campin' Critters cartridge.  I just love the cute little animals on this cartridge - but I'm not a camper, so I don't use it much.

Campin' Critters, Cuttlebug, Ranger Distress Ink

I'm a big Charlie Brown fan - and I have a lot of the character stamps.  Since baseball is a summer sport (well - spring, summer and fall) - I used the Charlie Brown and Lucy stamps for this card.  The baseball is an Epithany bubble cap over a small circle cut.  I used a Xyron Design Runner to stamp the sentiment on the ribbon but I think the Chevron design on the ribbon wasn't a good match for the Design Runner.  Oh well - now I know.

Stampabilities stamps, Epithany Craft, Copics, ribbon

I used clip art from my Microsoft Word program for the wheelbarrow full of roses.  I added some glitter with the Sakura Stardust glitter pen, a border, some ribbon and it was done.  I was amazed at how quickly this one went together!

Clip art, ribbon, glitter pen, ek border punch

Do you ever have an accident with a card when it's almost done and you have to scrap it?  That's the story behind this next card.  I stamped this on a white pearl paper because I thought that it would give the finished stamp a bit of a glimmer - and it did.  However, while coloring the poppies with my Copics, I must have gotten a bit of the orange on my hand and then transferred the orange to the white background!  Since I hate to throw anything away  that might be useful later, I cut the flowers and mounted them on the background paper.  The sentiment is stamped directly on the paper and embossed with white embossing powder.  It didn't turn out to badly - what do you think?

Copics, white embossing, Stickles

And  last is a birthday card with a House Mouse stamp.  The candle border is an ek punch and the ribbon border is a Stampin' Up punch.  This one is colored with Copics also.

House Mouse stamp, ek border punch, Stampin' Up border punch, Copics

I hope you enjoyed my new cards.  Thanks for looking.

It's a Beautiful Day in Denver

 It's a beautiful day in Denver and I'm looking forward to going outside and enjoying some of the blue skies and sunshine.  I did get some cards done this week, however, so I'm ready to show you some more cards.  This batch includes some non-Cricut cards, too.  Sometimes the kid just comes out and I want to color!

Copics, Stamp

 The next three cards were made for RAQ's Challenge on the Cricut Community web site.  This is a weekly challenge and you see so many pretty cards there.  Check it out.

 The cake cartridges aren't only for making cakes.  They have some really nice cuts on them.  the "Congratulations" and the garland are both Cricut cake cuts.  The first card was a little to shiny so I remade it was a more subtle silver paper.

 The color challenge at the RAQ's challenge was to use magenta, yellow and black. The sentiment is computer generated.

Copics, Stamp

Birthday Bash, Hopscotch

The paper on the "a little bird told me card" is from the Imagine Hopscotch cartridge.  The nice thing about using the Imagine paper cartridges is that the graphics are sized for the size of the cut.  If this was a scrapbook page, the clouds would be sized for a 12x112 cut.

I hope you enjoyed the cards.  I'm going out to enjoy the beautiful day!