Snappy Birthday!

I made this card for my brother's birthday next month, I struggle with making cards for any man but him especially and I agonized over what to make.  Finally I threw my hands up and decided to go with cute/funny!  I really liked the way it came out, its exactly like I pictured it in my head, so hopefully he likes it!  :)

I used a DCWV card base, as well as the DCWV 'Baby Boy' stack and 'Neutrals' cardstock stack.  I embossed the brown with my Cuttlebug and Swiss Dots, though its hard to see in the picture - I wanted it to look like sand!  ;)  I used my Cuttlebug again and D'vine Swirl for the frosting on the cupcake.  I used Create A Critter for the crab and cupcake and Gypsy Wanderings for the sentiment tag that I stamped with My Pink Stamper 'More Punny-licious'.

I'm entering this in the Birthday Sundaes blog challenge to create a project using this photo as inspiration.

I'm also entering it in the Made It Myself Mondays weekly linking party at You Had Me At Craft!
Have a great day!

NSD Challenge #1

Last night, I started working on the National Scrapbook Day challenges that My Pink Stamper posted on Saturday, the first one was 'Anything Cupcake' so I made this card for my niece's birthday next month!  She wanted them to be completed in an hour and I doubted at first that I could do that, but they are averaging me about 45 minutes to complete!!

cupcake - Smiley Cards Cricut cartridge (with face removed using my Gypsy)
paper - DCWV Dots, Stripes and Plaids Stack and cardstock from my stash
ribbon - American Crafts
Crystal Stickles
i-rock and gems
sentiment stamp - Paper Company 'Happy Birthday' set
Cuttlebug with Sizzix 'Scallops' and Cuttlebug 'D'vine Swirl' embossing folders

Have the Happiest Birthday!

I made this card for my best friend but couldn't post it until this weekend, since her birthday was Friday and I didn't want her to see it on here before she had it in her hands!  :-)  Hopefully she's gotten it by now, so I can post it!

I cut this dragonfly from Cheerful Seasons Cricut cartridge but I don't remember the size. All the paper was from my stash, I used the D'Vine Cuttlebug embossing folder for the dragonfly.  The sentiment stamp is from My Pink Stamper 'Fabulous Phrases' and I used my i-rock, gems and stencil to make the swirl.  I still haven't figured out how to not make the glue squish out on the sides, as you can see on some of them, but hopefully one of these days I'll get that mastered!  ;-)

Happy Birthday Diane!!  I hope you had a wonderful weekend and this card made you smile!  :-)

Flaunt It Fridays Challenge

I found a new blog, Flaunt It Fridays, that posts weekly challenges so I wanted to play along!  I didn't have the required cartridge, Simply Charmed, so I used the fish from Create A Critter instead, she is cut at 2.5 inches and the bowl I cut at 5.5 inches after I welded 2 together using my Gypsy!

I used my Cuttlebug on this card and 4 different embossing folders - Tiny Mosiac (fish), D'Vine Swirl (water), Forest Branches (seaweed), and Swiss Dots (sand).  The sentiment stamp is from My Pink Stamper 'More Punny-licious' and the face stamp (eye part) is Peachy Keen 'Critter Faces Set A Medium.'  The twine is from The Twinery.

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Thinking of You Today!

I made this for a friend to let her know that I'm thinking about her.  I'm entering it in the April Showers challenge at Get Inspired With Chatter Scene.

I used a DCWV card base and some paper from my stash.  I cut the chick and umbrella from Create A Critter Cricut cartridge at 2.5 inches.  The cloud and rain drops are also from Create A Critter, cut at 2 inches.  The face stamp is from Peachy Keen 'Critter Faces Set A Medium' and I colored it in using Stampin Up 'Stampin Write' markers and 'Stampin Pastels'.  The sentiment stamp is from My Pink Stamper 'Fabulous Phrases'.  I used my Sizzix 'Winter' and Cuttlebug 'Divine Swirl' embossing folders with my Cuttlebug for the embossing on umbrella and cloud.  The ribbon is from American Crafts.

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Happy Easter flower card

Here's another one for the Spring Challenge on Chatter Scene!  Its an Easter card for my Grandma - I saw this flower and thought of her!

Supplies used:

card base - DCWV

paper - from my stash

flower - Creative Memories Cheerful Seasons Cricut cartridgge, cut at 3 inches

sentiment stamp - My Pink Stamper 'Happiest Moments'

ribbon - American Crafts

Cuttlebug & Divine Swirl embossing folder

Easter card and tag for spring challenge

I participated in a Spring Challenge on Chatter Scene and it was so fun, I love making spring cards when its dreary outside, it really helps my mood!  With all that has been going on lately, I didn't get these done until late last night and the contest ends today, so they are all done in the nick of time!  :-)

These will be going in/on one of the boys' Easter baskets!  So I went fairly simple but they still turned out cute!

Supplies used:

card base - DCWV

paper - from my stash

duck - Doodlecharms Cricut cartridge, cut at 3 inches

duck tag - Doodlecharms Cricut cartridge, cut at 3.5 inches

setiment stamp - My Pink Stamper 'Happiest Moments'

'to' stamp - Joy's Life 'All Around Sentiments'

twine - The Twinery

Cuttlebug and Divine Swirl embossing folder