Happy Mother's Day 2011

This is the card I made for my mother for Mother's Day. It uses SEI and shiny gold paper in the back ground and several Stamp'in up stamps. I colored the flowers with my Stamp'in up crayons and used a water brush to soften the look. The ribbon is from Micheal's.

Here is the inside. I used more SEI paper and gold paper. The white paper is punched with an EK punch on the edge just using one of the designs. The sentiment is a Stamp'in Up stamp.

Fun Thinking of you Cards

Here are two thinking of you cards I sent to my daughters.

This one has no Cricut... I know shock! I used my new PTI dies and the Amy Butler paper stack. I love the felt flower...

This one I used the My Minds Eye Antique Dots Stack along with my stash of antique bottons. No Cricut on this one either...

Assorted Fun Cards

I feels so badly I have been so busy with the holidays that I have not posted in such a long time. I have been busy card making however! Below are some of the cards - enjoy!

A small card, simple using the holiday embossing folder with a gold bell from Christmas Noel cart. I used some fun glitter paper and cut it 6 times and it still didn't want to detatch! Glad I got a deep cutter for Christmas! It will come in really handy when I go to cut glitter paper...

I just love those Cuddlekids animals. So I made a bunch the other day and created this simple baby card. The "for baby" stamp is from SU.

A friend of mine lost his mother so I mailed this card. In the obituary it talked about how "sweet" she was so I thought I would add that to the card as a reminder.

This is one of my first tries at these folded accordion pleat circles. They are easy to make, but getting them to stick was the biggest trick. It seemed everything I used the silly thing would pop back open! So finally I used some heavy duty glue, put a whole bunch on and set a heavy object on top for the night - that finally did the trick! The circle cut is from Wild Card Cart.

Here is the inside - I embossed and used the SU stamp and the Swiss Dots folder.

I just got this fun MS punch and wanted to show case it. The flowers in the inside are SU stamp I cut around and popped. The windows were a little tricky - had to get out my exact o knife, but it was worth the work. With the punches you have to cut a certain size for the corners to match, so this card is a 5x7 finished.

Here is the cute SU stamp in the inside.

Thinking of you...

So I went to Scrapbook USA last week and found a company called Cri-Kits. They were selling both pens and embossing pens and pad for the Cricut. I succumbed! Here is a sample of the embossing on Vellum. The design is from Cindy Loo cartridge. Go check out www.Cri-Kits.com website and you can see tutorials on how to create fun designs by embossing instead of cutting.

The flower paper is from SEI "Bissette" collection. I picked up some great SEI paper at the scrapbook fair that I am very excited about. You can't see in the picture, but the flower paper has great sparkles and shine that is a nice contrast with the flat vellum. The ribbon is from SU.

Get Well Soon

A friend in the neighborhood had surgery and this was a simple card I made for her. I used the Serenade cartridge for the flowers and leaves. A MS punch was used along the bottom of the card.

This is the inside. I used a SU stamp for the square and saying.

Mother's Day Cards - Priceless

Here are the two Mother's Day cards I made. The first one was for my mother. She loves orange, green and brown. I learned how to make these flowers from a tutorial at http://craftspotbykimberly.blogspot.com/search/label/Episode%208

Be sure to take a look. They were easy and fun to make. There weren't any sizes given on the tutorial. Any size will work. I cut out 5 flowers. The bottom two flowers are cut at 3 inches and the top three are at 1.75, 1.75 and 1 inch. I used flowers from Sweet Treats, A Childs Year, Walk In My Garden and Forever Young. Any flower cuts will work, but use both solid flower and frilly ones. I didn't have Glimmer Mist so I used water. Another tutorial said they used Glimmer Mist and then spray starch. I kept it simple with using water, glaze and MS glitter. Since the flower is thick, I cut the puff envelope from Marriage cart. It has a little cut out and the flower showed through for a really fun presentation.

This one is for my Mother-In-Law. She just had open heart surgery so we celebrated Mother's Day in the hospital. She was so cute... every hospital employee who came into the room she insisted they see her new bathrobe, nightgown and the handmade card. She was so cute!

Thank you to my Bee Keeper

My MIL received a bottle of bee balm from my daughter's FIL, Mark, who happens to be our bee keeper. She was so happy to receive this gift and it was very generous of Mark to ship it to California for her. I told my MIL I would make a thank you card for her to send to Mark. It also happened to be the cut of the week at the BBTB2, so I will sneak my submission in before the week is over.

The cute bee and hive are from Sentimentals cart. The Thanks is cut at 4.75 inches to fit in a square 5 inch envelope. The Thanks is from Don Juan Cart. I used some green shading on the edges with some black dots. The flowers are a MS punch with cute buttons in the center. The inside hive is cut at 2.5 inches and the grass is from Paper Dolls cut at fit to length at 4.75. If you haven't used Fit to Length, it is a great feature on the Expressions. Enjoy!

Here is the inside of the card.