Happy Birthday to my niece!

I made this little gift box for my niece for her birthday. I bought her some cute earrings, and made the box to be her card, and to hold the earring box.

I made the box with my Cricut. I used the 'Tags, Bags, Boxes, and More' cartridge. I cut it on my Expression set to 'Fit to page'.

The circles were cut with the 'George and Basic Shapes' cartridge. The pink circle was cut at 3.5 inches and the white circle was cut at 3 inches. The heart was cut with 'George' also, at 2.5 inches. I also cut squares to sit on each side of the box with the 'George' cart. They were cut at 4.5". I cut them on both chipboard and paper.
The scalloped square was cut with the 'Accent Essentials' cartridge and was cut at 3.75 inches. It was cut on both paper and thin chipboard to give it dimension. All of the writing was done by making my own rub ons with my computer and transparency sheets.
The paper came from Making Memories. I distressed all the paper with 'Old Paper' distressing ink and sand paper. I also used stickles to make it sparkly, and flowers from Prima. The brads are also all from Making Memories.

Hope you like it! Happy Birthday Elsie!

Happy Birthday Jen!

This is the card I made for my sister in law... back in oh... February. I am really working on that lazy bone.

Anyway, it was a fairly simple card, but I really liked how it turned out.

TFL!

February Bulletin Board

Here is the bulletin board for February. I used George to cut out all the hearts, and then sanded the edges to distress them all. And then hung them from assorted ribbons. The 'Happy Bithday' is from the Printing Press Cartridge. I love my Cricut Expression. I used some ribbon from Costco for the border. Thanks for looking!

Happy Birthday Julie

Sunday night we had a surprise birthday party for my two sweet sister-in-laws. (Both of their birthdays are this month but my In Laws will be in sunny California on their days so we had an early party). Anywho... Here is the card I whipped up for Julie. I used my computer for the Happy Birthday and a Prima Flower + some ribbon I had lying around. The brad is from Making Memories, and I used stickles to give it a little something extra. I used a Sakura Glaze pen to add the dots and did some sanding to distress paper.

I am completely addicted to distressing paper. I may need a 12 step progam.

Thanks for Looking!

This Month's Bulletin Board

This months Birthday Bulletin Board isn't as cute as last months, but I never got a picture of last months. BUT, the 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY' is still up from last month because I couldn't bare to part with those adorable snow man letters. This was the first time I really used my Cricut Colors. (The markers... if you don't have the markers... get the markers!) I used the 'Speaking of Winter' cartridge to make the snow man letters. I LOVE this cartridge so much! It is so much fun! I used stickles to make these cute letters a little more fun. Then I used the 'Joy of the Season' cartridge to make the mittens and snowballs. I used the Cricut Colors first to draw them, then switched out the marker for the blade to cut them out. I thought they turned out really cute and the kids really like them. I used ribbon for the border on this one. Since I made it without a lot of time on my hands.

Thanks for Looking!

Wow...

I was asked to do the birthday bulletin board at my kids school this year. And right now I wish I had taken pictures of all of the boards I have done. But, sadly, I haven't. For some reason I can't always seem to remember to take my camera with me when I do it. But I will try to take a picture of the board that is up right now.

This is the board from October.

I love the Cricut Expression. I made all the pumpkins with the Doodlecharms cartridge, and used Stamped for the font. (Which I modified just a little bit with good old fashioned scissors.) I did some distressing and used stickles on the leaf for the pumpkins.

The border was also cut using my expression on the 'Fit to Length' setting and the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge and all the patterned paper is from Making Memories. The rest of the paper is from Provo Craft.

Sorry for not posting anything new, I am swamped with life right now. But hopefully things will calm down in the next day or so.

As always, thanks for looking.

Happy Birthday to my Father in Law

This is the birthday card I made for my Father in Law. My hubby told me that for him, "Simple is better". So I used some patterned paper from DCVW, cut a circle and used some ribbon. The sentiments were all home made rub ons.

Happy Birthday Kristi

Today is my friend Kristi's birthday. This is the card I made for her. The flowers are from Bazzill and the red velour ribbon came from Making Memories along with the brad and jump rings. The other ribbon was purchased at Michaels. The paper is all from My Mind's Eye and I used the Cricut to cut the tags and the letter 'B'.

Another card from my Cricut

Have I mentioned how much I love the Disney Cartridges and how much I love my Cricut? ;)

Here's another one I made today. Since I am surrounded by boys both at home and in my extended family I am sure this card will come in handy!

The Missing Birthday Card

This is the card that I had made and misplaced. It was cleverly hiding next to my computer disguised to look like a birthday card.

This card is 6x6 and has quite a bit of distressing on it. I stitched on the yellow polka dotted paper to the brown paisley cardstock, and then stitched on the blue ribbon. The flower is made from cutting out petal shaped tags with my Cricut. Then I made loops on top of the petals with ribbon to give it some more texture and dimension. Topped that off with some circles cut again with the Cricut, a swirl eyelet on top of that with a little ribbon. The sentiment is a home made rub on.

Losing a card sucks....

Last month I made a Birthday Card... and when I needed it... it was gone. I looked high, I looked low... and I couldn't find it. So, I had 15 minutes to whip up a replacement card and this is what I did. I printed out the sentiment and cut it with a paper punch, then inked the edges. I stitched a little paper together, added a ribbon and a brad from Queen and Co and I had a birthday card.

Phew.

Happy Birthday to my Nieces!

I am surrounded by boys. I have two boys, and between my sibling I have 9 nephews and only 4 nieces (on my side of the family), so when I get to make cards for my nieces I get a little excited. For Alisa's card, I found an old Target Advertisement that I used to create the shape and color palette for her card. the brads are from Queen and Company, and the letters I cut out with my Sizzix, and layered the patterened paper on top of 5 cuts with black cardstock to make my own chipboard. I then put a glaze over the letters to make them look like they are shiny plastic. Added a little ribbon and some stitching, and printed out the Happy Birthday from the computer.




For Dani's Card I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder to texture the background, then used my Cricut to cut out the flowers and the tag. I sanded the edges of the flowers and inked the edges of the brown cardstock. I also sanded over the background paper after I embossed it to make the embossing pop a little bit more. I added some ribbon and some stitching, and finished it all off with some Stickles to give it a little 'bling'. I hope they liked them.

Birthday Card

Another monogram card. I really like these, they are easy to make and look really pretty when they are all done. Once again I used my Cricut to cut out the B, it's shadow, the photo holder, and the circle. The H is an eyelet from Making Memories as is the round eyelet in the circle. Everything is distressed and I am LOVING stitching on cards, as you can tell. Instead of making a tag this time, I just 'floated' the tag rim around the circle and placed the circle on a pop dot to give it some layers. I really liked how this one turned out.

Happy Birthday Leslie

So, tomorrow is my sweet neighbor Leslie's birthday, and she is SO TALENTED that I am very intimidated to make anything for her, but I also know that I have to MAKE the card I give her. So, here goes.

The Flower is Prima, and I made the tags. The first tag is a transparency sheet and cut with my sizzix. The second tag is chipboard, also cut with my sizzix. The paper is from Die Cuts with a View Spring Stack, and it was all stitched together and distressed. The color scanned in all funky on the tag, but that paper is the same color as the top stripe of the card base. Hope she likes it.

Birthday Card

So Cricut right now has a contest where you enter something you made using your Cricut, and if your project is selected you win a free cartridge.

So this was the first card I entered to try to win, and while I didn't win, this card did get mentioned in the weekly newsletter, so that made me happy. The only parts of this that aren't Cricut related are the corrugated paper in the back, the wire that I tied from the balloon to the hippo's tail, the ribbon, and the background polka dotted paper that I ripped and stitched. All the shapes were cut with the Cricut, and I inked them. The sentiment is once again, a home made rub on.