Always Believe frame

Hello and Happy Weekend!  Today I get to play hostess at My Sheri Crafts and choose the challenge theme.  I went for "Show Me Your Decor"!  Any theme, any season, just NO cards this time around!

I made another "floating frame" with a shadow cut from Cricut's "A Child's Year" cartridge and some Paper Studio flowers.

This frame will be donated to the Missouri General Federated Women's Club for a fund raising raffle.  I've used this sentiment before, but I just REALLY like it!  

Be sure to stop by and check out the awesome inspiration projects over at My Sheri Crafts.  The team has made some beautiful things!!!!

Dinosaur Buddies

It's Team A's turn for this week's challenge at Tuesday Throwdown!  We are sponsored this week by 

http://www.mygrafico.com/digital-stamps/cat_95.html

and our theme is "Friendship".

I've used a couple of their cute dinosaurs to make a birthday card:

The paper is from Die Cuts With a View "Nana's Kids" stack.  The label is a Cricut cut that I had laying on my work desk and the sentiment is vinyl using the "A Child's Year" font from Cricut.  The images are colored with Spectrum Noir markers and popped up.  Inside (when I get it finished) will say "Hope Your Day is Dino-mite!  Happy Birthday!"

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you'll check out all the wonderful inspiration over at Tuesday Throwdown and join in the fun!

Life is Like A Piano...

Hello!  It's time for a new challenge at My Sheri Crafts and this time it's my turn to host and I chose "Celebrate the Piano".  September is "Piano Month", so let's see cards or projects with a music theme or musical instrument--preferably a piano!

I recently bought a stack of picture frames at an auction and I chose to alter this beautiful black and gold frame:

This sentiment is on a digi stamp from Digi Darla, but I designed it in Silhouette studio to cut from vinyl and put on the top of the glass to make a 3D effect.  The piano is a "A Child's Year" Cricut cut, the background paper is from Anna Griffin and I finished it off with some Primo flowers.

You can kind of see the 3D effect in this view.

I hope you'll head over to My Sheri Crafts to check out all the wonderful inspiration there and join us!

This project entered here:

Aud Sentiments - any sentiment other than Happy Birthday
Eclectic Ellepu - Purplies team - anything goes
The Crafter's Cafe - use die cuts and punches
Left of Center - alter it
The Outlawz Challenges Twisted Thursday - anything goes, optional lighthouse
**Crafting at the Weekend - anything goes
Hiding In my Craftroom - anything goes

My Sheri Crafts Challenge!

Hello again!  I'm happy you're here! It's time for another challenge at My Sheri Crafts and this time we are celebrating Arbor Day.  Our teammate Peachy has challenged us to feature a tree or nature on our projects.  I kind of used both -

The tree is a cut from Pooh & Friends cartridge, the boy reading is from A Child's Year and the tag is from Storybook.  I added some adhesive paper lace I bought from LTD Commodities a LONG time ago.  The paper is double sided paper from K & Co.

That's all I have today, so head on over to My Sheri Crafts, check out the DT inspiration and get crafting!  I'll see  you there!

Cowboy Baby Shower Decorations

Hello again and welcome to another challenge at My Sheri Crafts!  Today our challenge is titled "Oh I Love America!"  It's time to celebrate our freedom so let's see your Patriotic cards or other projects, or use Red, White & Blue. 

I titled the challenge from a song I heard at my granddaughter's Veteran's Day program a couple of years ago.  I was going to do a layout with pictures from the program for this challenge, but life kind of got in the way these past couple of weeks and scrapbooking just didn't happen!  My sweet father just had his 90th Birthday on the 18th so we had a BIG party on Father's Day.  He's having a really rough time health wise, but that day was a very good day.  Thank you Lord for that one really good day!  Since then he has started dialysis and had two ER visits, is currently fighting a bad infection and just really struggling.  My heart hurts for him and I would appreciate any and all prayers for him.

So anyway, I had an order for baby shower decorations with a cowboy theme.  When I finished it, I realized I had primarily used Red, White and Blue and what's more American than the Great American Cowboy?  So it qualifies for this challenge!

First we have the diaper cake:

The topper is cut from A Child's Year and mounted with pop dots onto Martha Stewart paper.  The paper is 8x8 bandanna print and I trimmed out the center of the print.

 Each layer is banded with wood print paper from The Paper Studio.  The bands are decorated with cuts from A Child's Year and Old West, mounted on punched squares of the Martha Stewart bandanna print papers.

Next we have the banner!

 The onesies are from the New Arrival cartridge and the bandannas, hats and letters are all from the Old West cartridge.  I used the Gyspsy to get the bandannas sized to fit the onesies.

The "It's a Boy" ribbon is from Wal-Mart.  I threaded it through the detail slits cut in the sleeves of the onesies.

So that wasn't too much of a stretch to say it qualifies for this challenge, right?  :)

I hope you like the decorations.  They were so fun to work on!   Now it's your turn to join the fun and head over to My Sheri Crafts!

Spring Piano Recital Card

Happy Sunday!  Thanks for stopping by today.  I want to share a card with you that I made for a girl in my Sunday School class.  She just started piano lessons in January and had her first recital last weekend.  She had 2 songs to play in front of a judge and she received a "Superior" rating!  I was really tickled for her and wanted to send my congrats to her.  Here is the card I made:

 This is an A2 card on pastel green cardstock.  The paper is from The Paper Studio.  I just love that paper and this is just about the last scrap I have left! 

 This stamp is from Hero Arts and inked with Stampin' Up markers.  Can you believe I've had this stamp for probably 2 years and this is the first time I've used it?!? I used scallop scissors to cut the pink base for it.  The green piece is embossed with my new M-Bossabilities music folder.  The ribbon is from Wal-Mart and the bling is from my stash.

 This piano cut is from A Child's Year.  I used Glossy Accents on the "keyboard" strip.

A few pop-dots for dimension and finish out the inside
with more scraps and you have a card that I'm lovin'!!!

Thanks for stopping by today and please let me know if you like my card!

I'm also entering this card here:

My Craft Spot - spring scallops (in paper and sentiment base)
Whoopsi Daisy - use your stash
Celebrate the Occasion- spring card for someone special
Die Cuttin' Divas - music
Whimsical Designs - spring

Thank Heaven for Little Girls and New Blog Design

 Hello and Happy Wednesday!  I hope you are having a beautiful day!  How about a big Yee Haw for this new blog design?  My friend Sheri at My Sheri Crafts created this for me.  I love it!  Didn't she do great? 

I would like to share with you a layout I made of my girls and my hubby.  One rainy afternoon the girls wanted to help their Pa get into the house dry, so they waited for him with umbrellas in hand.  I suspect they really wanted to play with the umbrellas more than they were concerned about their Pa getting wet! :)

 I made the umbrella border from A Child's Year in various pieces of scrap paper.   I think I cut them at 1 1/2" - not sure now.

I wrote the sentiment with a marker, after practicing several times!  These two are pop dotted.  I kind of wish I had use pop dots on one or two in the top border, but I guess it's o.k.!

 

All the white accents are made with a white gel pen. 

This was a really fun layout, love all the color.  I had it pictured in my head pretty much this way and I'm pleased with the result.  Hope  you like it!  Thanks for stopping by!

I also found a challenge this qualifies for:

The Paper Variety -  Family

Red, White & Blue Birthday Card

This card is for a friend who is very patriotic and her birthday is close to the 4th.  I hope she likes it, it was really fun to make!

 The background paper is a mat stack I've had for a long time.  I know I got it from Hobby Lobby, but don't remember the brand.  The boy in the car is from "A Child's Year" cut at 2 1/2".  I inked the edges of the card with royal blue.

Again, I love pop-dots!

The tag is from "Tags, Bags, Boxes and More".  I tried several sizes, and am not sure which size this one is.  The stamp is from Studio G and the "ink" is Studio G's chalk ink.  I'm loving that stuff.  It shows up in color on even the darkest cardstock.  The "ribbon" is actually a strip of red cardstock that stuck on my cutting mat and came off in layers.  I usually hate it when that happens, but this time I could use it! 

 A quick finishing touch on the inside and voila!  And the coolest thing is, except for the star mat, this was all cut from scraps!

I'll be entering this card in the following challenges:
Birthday Sundaes Stars & Stripes Challenge ( I hope it counts that my stripe is on the inside)
Designed 2 Delight Saturday Challenge
My Craft Spot
Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Me Monday


Have a great day!!!

Independence Day card

Hello Again!  Today I have  an Independence Day card that I will use for a couple of challenges and then include it with the "Thank You Soldier" cards that our scrapbooking groups made at Daycamp this month. 

The card base is 4 /14 x 5 1/2 and is from Hobby Lobby.  I cut the flag from"Stand and Salute" cartridge at 4".  That sizing made it too long for the card.  I could have used the Gypsy to resize it, but it was recharging upstairs and I was just too lazy to go up and get it!  So I just cut off the excess.   The fireworks burst is from the same cart. cut at 1 1/4".  The kids are from "A Child's Year" cut at 2 1/4"  I used my white gel pen to draw the stars, inked the edges and it's ready to go!

I'm entering this card in these challenges:
 Creative Cutter Room Design Time Thursday
My Sheri Crafts Challenge

Thanks for stopping by!

Congrats Graduate Card

I actually completed ANOTHER project this week!  Woo Hoo!  I've admired so many of the tri-fold cards made with the new "Just A Note" cartridge.  Since it is exclusive to the E2, I don't have one.  SO, I got to work with my Gypsy and created a template to make them. 

So how did I do?  I used rectangles from George & Basic shapes, welded together.  The "Congrats" is from Gypsy Wanderings  and the "Graduate" from "Alphalicious".  The grad hat is from "A Child's Year.  I didn't have a diploma cut, so I cut the scroll from "Calligraphy" and just used the bottom of it.  The patterned paper  and the gems are from  The Paper Studio and then I used my white gel pen.  Oh, and the stars are also from "George". 

I hope you like it!  I'm entering this one in the challenge over at
My Craft Spot. 

I hope you have a great weekend.  I get to host an all day crop tomorrow!  YIPPEE!!!