Few More Cards

Here are a few cards I made and gave away as gifts this Christmas. I used some SU paper and SU stamps.

This one is all PTI - Friends til the End.

Gone Fish'n

This card is for my son's birthday in February. He loves the outdoors. I cut the fish from Potpourri Basket cartridge. I decided to make it look rustic and cut the fish from some thin metal. I likes how I could bend the fish to look very realistic. My husband was very generous to donate one of his flies to add to the card. I love the black feathers!

Puttin Out the Fire

All our grandson wanted for his 3rd birthday was a fire truck. He got some for Christmas, in fact he got one that is battery powered. His birthday party was fireman themed so I made this cute card for him. The fire truck is from Independence Day Cartridge and the clouds and fence are PTI.

Birthday Lollipop Card

This is a birthday card for a sweet little girl who turned 3. Here is my take on the cute lollipop card. All PTI stamps used.

Also is the cute bag I stamped to match the card which the gift was in.

Son's Birthday Card

My son's birthday is in January. He loves the snow so I made him a snowflake card. He is so funny. He always thinks I don't put much time into his cards so I proceeded to explain how I printed the paper myself, cut the snowflakes from the PTI die and then added glitter to the snowflakes rubbing in the glitter so it would sparkle. I embossed the SU stamp from Perfectly Penned. I added a black button and some twine. Then there was the inside... After I got all done explaining all that I did to make the card, I think he finally recognized the work I put into it! He is a great son, he just wants equality in his birthday card. We just laugh!

Husbands Birthday Card - A Navy Man!

My husband celebrated his birthday in February. This was the card I made for him. The card uses the PTI banner set and stamp set for the background. The anchors are from Going Places Cricut cart. Inside the card says, "to the one who keeps me anchored." He loved it!

Grandaughter's Birthday Card

This is a fun card I made for my dancer granddaughter. I used the SU die as the background for the dancer and the PTI Mat Stack 3 for the inside. The background was stamped with Stitches and Swirls. The dancer is from Everyday Paper dolls.

Grandson's Birthday Card

Here is my take on the birthday card "Wanted for stealing hearts"! This was cut from Paper Dolls cart and the WANTED sign was a free font I got off the Internet.

Here a little lasso!

Giddy Up!

Here is the inside.

Happy Birthday Andi!

It was my daughter-in-law's birthday the end of March and this is the card I made for her... She is such a gem, a true treasure in our lives, not to forget to mention as well a wonderful mother to our grandson and supportive wife to my son. We celebrate her good and joyous life, for all she has accomplished and still yet to do.

This card is on dark gray with white embossing from SU. You can't see it but around the boarder is more flourish stamping, but with a watermark. Inside is another butterfly with watermark stamping. The butterflies were cut from Wall Decor. I learned that if you cut them on low pressure and multicut they turned out beautifully.

Happy Birthday Grandson

Another birthday for a sweet grandson! He turned 4!

I used a zig zag punch out of a bunch of different colors. Made a frame and wove the strips together. I cut the robot out placed it on top. Fun and colorful for a 4 year old. I said in the card that the robot had as many hands as he was old! He had a smile on his face as he counted the hands!

February Birthdays

Both my husband and my oldest son's birthdays are on February 8th! It is fun to celebrate them together.

This first card is for may husband. If is from Nifty Fifties cart. There is a lot of bling with shiny and sparkle paper.

This is the inside.

This is my son's birthday card. He likes sports. I used the Boys Will Be Boys cart for the ball. I think when I took this picture I was still figuring out the corners. I think the final card just had black corners. I love how the cuttlebug worked its magic on the ball!

Here is the inside of the card.

Sooo Many Family Birthday Cards

There have been soooo many birthday in our family. Most seem to come from Sept through March. So here are a few for you to enjoy!

The new Country Life Cart had this cute Sweet Pea that I couldn't resist for one of my daughters birthday cards. One of her nick names is "Sweet Pea". Needless to say she loved the card. I welded it together with my Gypsy.

Here is the inside.

My oldest daughter does everything with such a great flair so I made her birthday card that was all about flourishes. I cut a big "B" for Birthday from Wall Decor and used Flourish paper (SEI), flourish cuts and flourish punches with a silver bow to give it some added detail... remember "it's all in the details"!

So of course the inside says, "You are the flourish in our lives!"

Our youngest son turned 31 this week. He loves the snow and skiing. Last year I made him a cake card and he didn't like it... He will never live that down! Isn't it amazing how ungrateful and blunt kids can be!!! J/K. So this year I knew I would be safe with the ski theme. It was a big hit! This cute bunny and "Snow much fun" is from Winter Frolic Cart.

Here is the inside of the card. I used Birthday Bash for the cut.

My one an only grand daughter turned "5" this year. Grandpa gave her a Unicorn for Christmas last year and she has a hard time putting it down. She is our little princess so I thought she would like this very sparkly whimsical card. The only problem is when we called to wish her a Happy Birthday I realized the card said 4 not 5... dumb grandma. So at Christmas she came and I fixed it... now it says 5!!! I used the Swiss Dots folder on the Unicorn and the MS punch around the blue edge. I also used the sickles glitter glue on each of the swiss dots and pink mane. You really have to see this card in person to enjoy it. The Unicorn is popped and has a sparkly pink Chrystal eye!

Here is the inside. More glitter glue!!!

Little "Roo" turned two and his birthday theme was the ocean. I welded the ocean waves to a rectangle to create the underwater space. I used a lot of Life's A Beach cart.

Here is the inside. It was a whale of a fun time making this card!

My sweet grandson turned two on Jan 13th so this is his birthday card. His birthday theme is trains. The fun Imaginice paper is full of trains and the three car train is popped with button wheels and a monkey falling out the back. I used my gel pens that fit in the Cricut and with the Gypsy I was able to write the words Happy happy Birthday and then change the pen for the blade and cut the flag out using Birthday Bash cart. What did I do before all this technology! Inside it says, "...from me to you, Happy Happy Birthday Carter's turning two!"

Ready Set BLOW!

This cute card was made for Morgan, yes, I will claim her as one of my granddaughters. I seem to be lacking in grand daughters so so happy to have one more. Morgan's parents live in our south side apartment and we are just best friends. As Morgan was growing up she had her mother's stuffed piglet she loved, until she tossed it out the stroller in the park and it was gone :(. So I thought I would add Piglet on her birthday card so in year gone by it would remind her of her friend she enjoyed during her first year of life. This was made with Sweet Treats cart.

It's a Party on the Card

I work with a wonderful tech guy in Atlanta who helps me out all the time. He has become a good friend and his birthday gives me an excuse to really thank him for his extra efforts with me and my merchants. Anyway, below is his birthday card. He is getting married a few days after his birthday so I wrote in the card that with the wedding coming up he was turning into a monster and so just wanted to invite a few of his friends to the party!

Here is a left side view, mostly done using mini monsters cart. The number 29 is from the Robotz cart and the Happy Birthday is from Create A Critter.

Here is a right side shot... Got'a love the glitter! Isn't it all about the bling!

Belated Birthday Card

It was my SIL's birthday in early August. All our family except him came and it was a crazy time. He had to stay home as he is a Pathologist and had a rotation in St. Louis he couldn't miss. So after everyone left I realized he didn't get a birthday card from us. The card was made from Mini Monsters. I am sorry you can't see the head is popped and the eyes are sunken. I used the MS drippy punch on the side and also inside. In our family we also like to put our arms out and say,"I love you this much". Our grandchildren are really good at it! So my dear SIL, I hope you know we love you "THIS MUCH"!

Here is the inside of the card. A little orange gave it a great pop!
The font is that bloody one. Pretty fun stuff!

Birthday Thank You

Here's to all the dear family and friends who gave my son birthday gifts this year. His birthday is on the 4th of July, so you get a little of that theme in the card. "Satisfaction Guaranteed" just seemed to be the perfect phrase for my very active 6 year old!

Graphically Speaking cart and Cuttlebug embossing folder. The "thanks" on the inside is also a Cuttlebug die cut.

Guy's birthday card

I decided one day to challenge myself and make a guy's birthday card for all the men in my life.  My husband is one of eight boys in his family and I have 2 of my own brothers, so with dad's included, I made entirely TOO many of these!

The cart is Graphically Speaking.  Here's the inside.

Fun New Cards to See

Here are a few cards I have been making for all different occasions.

This frog is from Paisley.

This cute dino was cut from Create a Critter

Inside

Just had to try the new Robotz cart. Nothing like a loving family!

A cute little Russion Doll card from the Paisley cart.