Spring Welcome Banner

Today begins a new challenge at My Sheri Crafts and we are looking for spring!  DT sister Raquel is hosting our challenge "Celebrate Spring!  Make any project with spring flowers."

I needed a Welcome banner for a district meeting, so thought this was the perfect opportunity.  

Here are some closer shots

Cricut cartridges:  Team Spirit-pennants, Kate's ABC's - Welcome, George & Basic Shapes-yellow flower
Paper flowers - Creative Memories
Gems. ribbon, brads and doilies from my stash

When I put the banner up, I decided to add these tiny plastic clothespins that I found in my yard sale treasures:

I thought they added just a little something it needed!  I'll share the rest of the decorations I made in another post.  But there's my spring flowers for this challenge!

I hope you'll come on over and join in the fun!

I've entered this project here:

Left of Center - anything goes
Aud Sentiments - anything goes
Craftitude - anything goes or add a little green
Cut It Up - Green for St. Patrick's day or Spring
Kaboodle Doodles - anything but square
Love to Create - anything goes
Crafter's Cafe - flowers

Throwdown with Tuesday Throwdown! Lacy circle card

Good morning!!!  How are you doing this fine Tuesday morning? 

What crazy weather we've been having!  Seriously, SNOW in May in the Ozarks?  Wow!   Anyway, it's supposed to be nice today and tomorrow, then back to more rain.  At least the drought is over!  :-)

Ah well, on to the challenge at Tuesday Throwdown.  This week our theme

is "My Mother, My Friend"  and we are sponsored by

Here's my card with one of Robyn's cute images:

When I saw this digi I was reminded so much of my Mom.  In my last post of the scrapbook page about Mom, I mentioned that she did a lot of gardening work.  We had a large strawberry bed and she made the BEST strawberry jam and jelly!  I just loved getting a sample while the jelly was still warm! 

That's it!  Sweet and simple!  So now join us with your Mother's Day project, after you go over and check out the great inspiration from the rest of the team of course!  Anxious to meet you over at Tuesday Throwdown!

Supplies:

George & Basic Shapes - circle card base, welded on my Gypsy

Spellbinders Dies- Lacy Circles

Papers - My Minds Eye & Karen Foster

Ribbon - Craftsmart

Digi colored with Spectrum Noir markers

Glitter Glue added to flower

 

This cared entered here:

Kaboodle Doodles - For the Ladies

Anything Goes - Shaped, Not Square

 Love to Create - For Mom or special lady

 

 

Tuesday Throwdown #134 - Bee You!

Hi! Welcome to my blog and another challenge at Tuesday Throwdown! This week we are sponsored by    

                      And it's an Anything Goes challenge!

The Cutting Cafe shared some cute digis for the team to play with. Here's what I came up with:

Isn't that fun? I colored the images with Spectrum Noir markers. The dotted paper is from my stash and has no name on the back. I think it was in a bunch of paper I bought at a yard sale last summer.

The sentiment is computer generated. I saw this on a church sign recently and thought it would make a great card! The mat for it was cut from George & Basic Shapes.

Each bee is pop-dotted and the wings are bent slightly upward. I bent each body around my finger so they are curved a little bit and it really does make them look rounded like a fat bumble bee. It's hard to see that in the picture, but I really like how it turned out.

You can see the "fat" body a little better in this pic. Also each bee has a little bling on their back.

Simple finishing out on the inside and there you have it!

Your turn! Head on over to Tuesday Throwdown, check out the team's inspiration and link up your project! Don't forget to leave a little love!

See you there!

Fun Accordion Fold Gate Card

Hello and thanks for stopping by!  I have a fun card to share with you today.  I saw this card in the Cardmaker magazine and just fell in love with it.  So I had to give it a try with my own theme.

I know that sometimes I'm a bit thickheaded, but I didn't quite get the directions straight and after cutting my second sheet and still coming out wrong, I just decided to make it work.  So mine has an extra fold, but it works! 

This sentiment is from a Disney stamps set.  I've had this set for a couple of years and this is the first time I've used it! 

                                          Isn't this fun?

This little cutie is from Whoopsi Daisy, the label is pre-installed on the Imagine and the sentiment is an old stamp I bought from LTD several years ago.  All edges are inked with a Plum inkpad from Stampabilites and I added a few I-Rock gems here and there. 

Die cuts are from Disney Dreams Come True, Disney Happily Ever After and George & Basic Shapes.

This one was definately a learning experience, next time I'll have some better measurements for all those little sections!!!  Thanks for stopping by!

This card entered here:

Die Cuttin' Divas - use Yellow, Orange, Gray & Purple

Whoopsi Daisy - Use a Sentiment

Glass Etching Samples

Hello!  Today I have some glass etching samples.  My neice is getting married in June and asked me to etch her champagne flutes.  She is using daisies in her wedding.  Here are some samples for her to pick from. 

This first one has an H from Storybook and a flower from George & Basic Shapes.

This H is from Calligraphy Collection with the same flower.  It's kind of hard to get good pictures of glass etching!

This H is from Billionaire, same flower

This H is from Storybook and the rose is from Disney Princess Happily Ever After. 

I need to move the design up about 1/2", but otherwise they came out pretty good.  I hope you like one of them Emily.  If not, I can keep etching all the way round 'em 'til we find something better! :)

Santa Shaped Card

Hello!  Well....are you ready?  Christmas is almost here!  I think I might have all my gifts bought and just a few more to make.  I really worked on Christmas Cards Friday night and I think this one is my favorite:

 I cut a 4" scalloped circle from Lacy Labels then looped the shiney green ribbon around and through the scallops.  The ribbon came from Wal-Mart.  I then print and cut a 3" Santa from Christmas Village and used pop-dots to mount him to a  3 1/4" circle cut from The Paper Studio Christmas stack.

 The card base is two 4" circles from George & Basic shapes that I welded together on my Gypsy.

The sentiment stamp is from Stampabilities.  I inked the stamp with Markers so I could make the holly leaves green.

I hope you like the card, it was fun and I love how it turned out.  I'll post a few more cards in a bit.  Merry Christmas!

  Jesus is the Reason For the Season

I'm entering this card here:

Fantabulous Cricut - Rolling in Ribbon

Paper Variety - Anything Goes

More Than Favors, Wacky Wednesday - Christmas

Guest Design Spot for Love To Crop!

Hello!  I am so honored to be the Guest Designer at Love To Crop this week!  Thank you, Amy!  The challenge this week is to use CIRCLES on your project.  Please come over and join the fun!  Here is my card, which will go to a little girl in my Sunday School class, whose birthday I missed.  

 

The card base is made of two circles cut at 3"(shadow cut) from George & Basic Shapes, welded together on my Gypsy.  The background and layer are 3" basic circles.   I used Disney Classics for the rabbit (March Hare, isn't he?), cut at 2 3/4".  That pink shadow layer is really not that neon shade that it appears to be!

 "I'm Late!", the large watch hands and the pocket watch are all cut from gold foil paper from Wal-Mart.  This picture kind of shows the shine.  I used Disney Pooh Font for the sentiment.

 I love the great cuts on the Disney cartridges, but GEE WHIZZERS some of the pieces are so tiny!  Those little glasses and the pink in his right eye were almost too small for my tweezers!

All the edges were inked with brown and a little cupcake ribbon from Hobby Lobby and there you go!

Thank you so much for stopping by.  I hope you have a great crafting weekend and I can't wait to see your projects linked up on Love To Crop!

Also shared on The Crafting Misfit show and tell

Popsicle Birthday

Wow, its' HOT in SW Missouri!!!!  We are taking the RV (and the grandkids) to the local state park this weekend and boy am I ready!  I'm headed to the water, quickly! 

I had a little time to spend in the craft room today and here is the card I made. 

The more I looked at it, the more I thought the popsicle was kind of blah, so I decided to try out the Glossy Accents that I recently bought and never tried.  So then it became this:

I like that better!  But I do need to practice on getting it smooth.

This patterened paper is from Anna Griffin, Isabelle stack.  I love her double sided paper.  I cut a 4 1/4" x 12" piece, so it makes a 4 1/4 x 6" card.   

I used pop-dots of course!

The popsicle is cut from Doodlecharms at 2 1/2" and I used a scrap of K & Co. paper.  The circle is from George & Basic Shapes at 2 3/4" and I used a scrap of glitter paper.  I wrote "Have A SWEET Birthday" around the circle with a American Craft Slick Writer.  Those are cool markers!  You can write on anything slick with them.

  

I finished out the inside with more scraps and of course all the edges of everything has been inked. 

  I'm entering this card in these challenges:

Birthday Sundaes, CASual Fridays & Fantabulous Cricut

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!!!

Cupcake card

So here is project number two!  This is a super easy card.  I made it to enter in the Cooking With Cricut  challenge.  In the pictures, the card looks kind of red, but it's actually a deep pink and the cupcake bottom is light pink. The challenge requires 2 shades of pink and a cake. 

The card was made from the Doodlecharms cartridge card feature.  The lace on the front is sticky back paper lace I bought from LTD Commodities a few years ago.  The "icing" is cut from glitter paper and I ran the bottom of the cupcake through my paper crimper.  The #1 is cut from George and a cute Peachy Keen face finishes it off.  Super simple, but kind of cute! Thanks for checking in!

Easter Chicks

I was invited to make something to join in a blog hop at The Crafting Misfit this week.  Thank you for the honor!  The requirement is to use a techinique that is new to us.  I decided to make a flower that I've not tried before.  This type of flower is made by just folding circles. 

Here is the flower.  It was really simple to make and came out cute!

and here is the same card in orange and the flower is made by folding the same green paper but using the opposite side.

The printed paper is Martha Stewart and is 8x8.  I simply folded the page in half to make the card 4x8.  The "Happy Easter" and the chicks are from Easter 2010; the 5 circles for the flower are cut from George & Basic Shapes at 1"; "Chickie" is cut from Plantin School Book and welded on my Gypsy.  Thanks for stopping by!

I'll be entering this card in the following challenges:
The Crafting Misfit
Fantabulous Cricut
Cooking With Cricut
More Than Favors Wacky Wednesday

"Bloomin' Birthday" Card

This card is for the card challenge on Birthday Sundaes blog.  I think I'm getting it posted just barely before the deadline!

The paper is from Bo Bunny -  I won a cute paper packet from Oh My Crafts.The flowers are from George & Basic Shapes, cut at 3/4", the brads are also Bo Bunny.  The sentiment I designed on my Gypsy with Gypsy Font for "It's your" @ 1/2" and Paper Lace font for "Bloomin' Birthday" at 3/4".  I printed this with Cricut markers.