Baby Card

My friend, Luke, is having a baby in a week or so.  I thought I'd try to make a scallop card by using my Gypsy and welding together two scallop circles.  I had the hardest time doing this.  I made so many cuts because when I folded it was not even.  Then it dawned on me, I needed to flip one of the scallops to make it work.  After I did that it turned out great! 

 So I used the min monogram cartridge for my scallop circle and the circles.  The scalloped circles are cut at 5.5 inches and welded together using the Gypsy.  The yellow circle is cut at 6 inches and the white one is cut at 5.5 inches. The scallop circle card is using Papertrey Ink's Sweet Blush.  The yellow and white are just some scraps I had laying around.  The white paper has some embossed dots on it.

The onesie is cut from New Arrival.  I cut it at 2.5 inches and it was cut from Papertrey Inks Raspberry Fizz paper.  The flower I used from the scraps I had from making the circles.  The little hanger I had to cut a littler larger than the 2.5 inches. I think I finally did it at 3.25 inches.  I used some Stickles for the flower, it needed some bling. 

The stamp I used from the inside was from the stamp set called Inside and Out: Baby.  I love it! What a cute saying.

Have a good week!
XoXo
Amber

Stampin Up Club

Every month there is a Stampin Up club together were we make a couple of cards that our gracious host puts together for us.  Here are some pictures from February's meeting.  I loved these cards. They are colors I wouldn't normally use myself, glad Christina stretched my comfort zone and made me to think about using different colors than pink :0)

Have a good week!

Amber

Love is in the air!

I decided I would use my two snow days to create some Valentine's Day cards.  A dear friend asked me to make a couple cards and mail them to him.  The first two cards are for him.  The last card is of course for Phil :0)

The card base is made out of Papertrey Ink white paper 81/2 by 11 inch paper cut in half and folded in half.  The black layer is made from Papertrey Ink paper and is cut at 5 1/4 by 4. The heart is cut from the Love Struck Seasonal Cartridge and is cut at 4 inches.  I used scrap pink paper for it, the top layer is a pink shimmer paper.   The ribbon is from Papertrey Ink and is called Hibiscus Burst.  The stamp is from My Pink Stamper set called Punny-Licious.  It was stamped with white ink.

This card base used up some of my scrap pink paper.  It's three different pinks.  The last layer was ran through my cuttlebug and I can't remember which folder :0(  The hearts are cut out of the Love Struck Seasonal cartridge and they were cut at 2 inches.  The ribbon is from Papertrey Ink, Fresh Snow's Velvet.

I used some 8 1/2 by 11 inch red paper I had at home.  I then folded it in half and added only one layer to it.  That layer was a cream base cut at 5 1/4 by 3 1/2.  The Stamp set is by Stampin Up and it's called Things I love.  I cut out 3 squares from the Plantin cartridge.  The blue layer was cut at 1 1/2 and the cream layer 1 1/4.  On the cream layer at the end, I stamped in chocolate chip, but most of all.... I then cut out a heart from the Plantin cartridge a heart at 1 inch.  It was then stamped with You... in Chocolate chip.

I hope you enjoy!

XoXo
LuLu

Free time used wisely

I had a very busy weekend with Laura and Gabe visiting from Colorado.  Besides having guests this weekend, I also had to work.  Boo! Who wants to work on the weekend? But I did have a few minutes to put a few cards together. I started making this first card for a friend but then remembered I had a stamp set I wanted to use from Stampin Up.  So I finished up this card and started the other one.  I also needed to create a thank you note for someone special as well.

I used my Cricut Lite cartridge, Cherry Limeade to cut out the bird. I cut it at 3 inches.  I used Papertrey Ink paper for the base of my card and the first layer.  The colors are Raspberry Fizz and Sweet Blush. I do not know what kind of paper I used for the next layer but  I embossed the blue paper with the Cuttlebug folder Birds and Swirls.  I then cut a 1.5 inch by 3 3/4 inch piece of green paper and cut the top to make it look like grass.  The stamp I used is from My Pink Stamper, Punny-licious and I used Basic Black ink from Stampin Up.  I used Cotton Candy Stickles to the wing and cheek of the bird.

This is the card I made using the stamp set from Stampin Up.  It's called Cheers to you.  I stamped each of the different cocktails on the white piece of paper that was cut at 5 1/2 inches by 1 1/2 inches. I then colored them in using markers from Stampin Up.   I added a piece of blue shimmer paper across the bottom that I punched.   The card was made by cutting a piece of Papertrey Ink's Basic Krafts 8 1/2 by 11 paper in half and folding it. Then I took a piece of patterned paper and placed it on the card then added the white piece of paper with the cocktails on it.  I then punched out a circle and stamped the saying from the Cheers to you stamp set. I then added a bow made out of Papertrey Ink ribbon, Spring rain.  To jazz up the beer I added some Stickles to the top.

I received a lot of books from someone to use in my classroom. I wanted to create a thank you note but wanted it to be simple. So I cut a book from the Cursive 101 cartridge at 3 inches on white paper then cut out it out again on blackout feature on Papertrey Ink's Sweet Blush paper.  I then used a stamp set from Papertrey Ink called Inside and Out: Thank you and used Stampin Up's ink called Basic Grey. I made the card using Papertrey Ink's Basic Kraft paper and then the first layer is Sweet Blush.  The white polka dot paper is from DCWV. The silver ribbon is from Papertrey ink.   

I liked the inside of the thank you card so thought I would take a picture of it too. I used Papertrey Ink's Vintage Cream paper and used Stampin Up's Basic Grey to stamp the sentiment that came from the Inside and Out: Thank you stamp set. I then took a sponge and inked it up with the Basic Grey ink and sponged around the outside of the paper.  I think it looks good!

Thanks for stopping by. I hope everyone had a great weekend. I sure did.

XoXo
Amber

Birthday Cards Galore

I needed to make a couple birthday cards this weekend. I have been slacking in trying to create cards so I wasn't so rushed when putting them together.  Just never enough time in the day to get up in my room and start crafting. 

I used my new Cricut Lite cartridge, Hoot -n- Holler. I cut the owl at 2.5 and the branch is cut at 2.  I used Papertrey Ink paper (Brown and Cream) and DCWV shimmer paper (Green and Red).  The stamp is from Papertrey Ink stamped called Paper Tray Sentiments.  I stamped it with my Chocolate Chip ink pad from Stampin Up.

For this card I used the Create a Critter and cut my turtle out at 2.  I was trying to use up some of my scrap paper that I had and the ribbon is from PaperTrey Ink, Ripe Avocado.  The stamp is the same one that I used in the card above and I used Stampin Up's Pacific Point ink pad.  On the turtle instead of regular 3D dots, I used an Action Wobble Spring from AWI.  It makes the turtle wobble around, it's way cute!

Thanks for stopping by!

I love getting presents in the mail

My brother gave me a gift card for Christmas to Paper Trey Ink.  So I picked up some new paper, ribbon and a stamp set called Inside and Out: Baby.  I love their paper and the matching ribbon that you can get.  It makes my job a lot easier when trying to piece everything together.

I've also decided I need to start using my camera instead of my Iphone to take my picture or just until I get a new version of the Iphone.

Thanks Trevor! I can't I can't wait to get in my craft room and use the new materials I got :0)

Old projects from 2010

Here are some of the projects I created in 2010.  Hopefully in 2011 they will become more and more creative.

Halloween bag I made for my students.

Halloween card for my friend.

My Christmas card this year.

Every season I put up a new wall of die cuts for my children's pictures and names to go on to

Happy Birthday card for my cousin.