Present Birthday Card

My friend who moved to Seattle at the beginning of the summer just celebrated her 25th birthday, so of course I had to send her a card since I couldn't be with her. I love how simple and yet colorful this card turned out. As much as I love fancy cards, sometimes it's nice to go the simple route. I also love the rounded edges...who knew an edge could make such a difference.

Thanks Card

I've never really sent out thank you cards before, unless it was after one of my graduations, but I decided to send one out for a birthday gift I had received.  I kept it pretty simple again and thought it turned out decent...except I should have used lighter paper...I don't know why I decided to go with such dark paper. Then the stamping process didn't turn out how I wanted. First, I used sliver ink for the 'thanks' stamp but you could barely see it so I decided to stamp over it with black. I keep trying to tell myself that it just looks like a shadow now, but I know the truth.

I would have just scrapped the whole card and started over, except that I hate wasting good card stock and ribbon...ha ha.

Bridal Shower Cards

I bought this bride and groom stamp over two years ago and finally got to use it!! The idea for this card came from one of the Stamp It Up books Erica found while cleaning out her house...yay for friends moving!! There was definitely a lot of cutting and sizing with this card, but I love how all the layers turned out. And this was all done without using my Cricut!!

The idea for this card also came from one of the Stamp It Up books given to me. The original card had polka dot paper on top, but since I'm obsessed with my new paisley embossing folder (the card above has the same pattern as well) I decided to use that instead. I absolutely love the simplicity of this card.

Birthday Card for the Future SIL

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My future Sister-In-Law's birthday is the day after mine, so even though we were celebrating mine a week or so ago we were also celebrating hers. So of course I had to make her a card! Once again, I think I got the idea for this card off Pinterest, but didn't actually Pin it. There were suppose to be cut outs at the bottom, but I made a boo-boo and did the punch one too many times so the bottom was chopped off, which is also the reason the card can't stand...ha ha. The "happy" I cut out using my cricut.

I have 3 more card posts coming soon and none of them involve my cricut!! I can't believe it!!

Cute as a Button - Boy Colors

For Christmas my Momma gave me a bunch of cute little buttons and labels and stuff for scrap booking and I finally had a reason to use some of it...ok well maybe just one button.

My oldest cousin is finally having a baby and this was the card I made for the shower. Pretty simple, but cute. I cut the letters using my Cricut and the button is adhered with a glue dot.

I just may have to re-create this in girl colors...now I just need to find someone having a baby girl...ha ha.

Congrats Card

I made this card for my friends going away party. I know it says Congrats instead of Bon Voyage, but the going away party was because she got offered an amazing job in another state half way across the country. So to me that deserved a congrats! Plus she just graduated college and got engaged. Talk about a lot going on. Anyways...I got the idea for the card from this pin...

I had black washi tape that I knew I wanted to use so I switched the colors around and had a pink background. I made the "bubbles" with my cuttlebug and a paper studio embossing folder. The circle and the flower are both from punches that I have and everything else I did by hand. I'm still working on my "tying a bow" skills...ha ha...one day I'll be satisfied with a bow.

In case you are interested, this was one of the going away presents I gave her.

Sadly the only picture I took was on my desk right after it was all put together...ha ha...so please excuse the Hobby Lobby bag and highlighter. It took me a while to find a frame I liked. I knew I wanted a square frame, but couldn't find one with a big enough picture opening that wouldn't cut off the El in El Paso. Finally found this record frame and had the picture people at Hobby Lobby cut me a custom mat. To my surprise the mat was fairly cheap and they cut it right then and there...score! I love how it turned out! And I want to thank Elizabeth for helping me find a frame and Erica for helping me put the backing back on the picture...it was not easy...ha ha.

Oh I almost forget...I found the picture on etsy. Check it out here.

All-Star Baby Shower

Yesterday, we had an All-Star baby shower at work for our friend Heather. Below is everything we made...check it out!!



The invitation...Created this using Publisher! Love that program and picmonkey for invitations!

 

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I wanted to make the card look like the invitation. I had to free hand the designs onto the cut out circles and then cut one circle into a football...not the easiest thing ha ha, but I think it turned out cute. For the textured paper I used my cuttlebug and the 'B' I cut using my cricut.



Sports banner...the sports balls came from Heather, I hand cut the pennants using 12x12 paper and used my cricut for the letters. We then taped everything together using packing tape and taped baker's twine to the back to string it up



Same sports ball from Heather...I used a regular foam wreath form and wrapped it in red ribbon. We again used packing tape to secure them on. We didn't want to hot glue anything in case she wanted to use them for something else again



We saw the idea for small diaper cakes on google and decided we wanted to create some as well. We used sizes Newborn and 1. There is one size 1 in the middle, then a row of newborns and then a row of 1's. The balls are taped to Popsicle sticks and stuck in the middle diaper.



Yummy cupcakes from Sams...half white, half chocolate and half whipped icing, half buttercream. That way everyone can get exactly what they want



Desserts galore! Erica brought strawberries with the best fruit dip ever and sugar cookies with sprinkles. I made Rolo Pretzel Turtles (boy and girl versions ha ha). And Elizabeth made cookies stuffed with oreos and caramel. Yum!



Edith made these adorable thank you gifts!

I want to give a big shout out to my awesome co-hosts/friends Erica, Elizabeth, Edith and Angela!

p.s. check out these cute coasters and candle Heather made all of us for hosting!

Valentines 2013

You won't find any hearts in my Valentines decor, but that doesn't mean it lacks the spirit ha ha.

I wanted to make a XOXO sign/tag for my wreath, but I was too lazy and instead found a pre-made Love one in my scrapbooking bag...score! I don't really like how it turned out, but oh well it is what it is. I do however love the rose petals...ha ha...I definitely had fun playing with them before I settled on what I wanted them to look like.

 I saw this layout for a card on etsy and thought to myself 1. This is so me and 2. I can totally recreate this! So that up there is my version of the card I found for ZERO bucks...ha ha. Why spend 5 bucks plus shipping when you can make it yourself????

Nautical Baby Shower Card

I used my Wall Decor and More Cricut cartridge for this cute little sail boat for a baby shower we had at work last week. I love how it turned out!

I wasn't sure what size boat I would need, but since the first one I cut out was really small... I ended up putting it on the envelope.

Looking back through pictures of my cards I noticed I hardly ever take pictures of them from the right side so I decided to switch it up!

Baby "A" Welcome Card

I love how this card can be considered a baby card, but also for a birthday or anthing really. I used textured white cardstock as the base, pink polka dot paper on the top half, pink dollar bin ribbon from Target to cover the paper line and a row of pearls just beacause they're classy...ha ha. The "A" I had orginally stamped in pink not realizing it was going to be HOT pink so I went back over in it black.  

Polka Dot Tree Happy Birthday Card

Made this card for my Aunt's birthday way back at the beginning of June! I wanted it to look summery so I used bright polka dot paper. Then I wanted to use my new tree embossing folder for my cuttle bug. The stamp I used silver as the first color and the black as the second to give it a shadow effect.

Wedding Cake Card

For the same wedding I made the invitation ornament for, I also made a wedding cake card using the Wild Card Cartridge for my Cricut. The paper is off white to match their invitation and I wanted to jazz it up a bit, but still leave it simple so I added white pearls for decoration. These I just simply measured, cut and glued! Easy as pie...ha ha.

Hello Card

I sent this little beauty (the picture really doesn't do it justice) to a friend who has having a house warming this past weekend that unfortunately I wasn't able to attend. This is probably the most decked out card I've made. I used light blue card stock as the base, light pink card stock for the loopy things, the hello spring paper (again) for the the hello, 2 flower stickers and 4 rhinestones. Dang...that was a lot to type...ha ha. My inspiration came from this card on the Archiver's website.

{Grand}mother's Day Card 2012

This card is made with light yellow card stock, the same hello spring paper (where the happy came from) as yesterday, a yellow bow and my handwriting again. I'm trying out new ways of writing on cards and I have to say that I like this one the best. This was another card where I didn't use my Cricut, buuuutttt I did get a new cartridge that I can't wait to try out!

Mother's Day Card 2012

I made this card using light pink cardstock, a flower sticker and I cut out the word 'beautiful' from the Hello Spring paper at Archivers. The handwriting is all mine...ha ha.

21st Birthday Card

21st birthday card for my baby brother! This giant mug full of beer speaks for itself...ha ha!

This was probably the simplest card I've made. Step one, cut card size. Step two, find clip art picture and cut it out. Step three. tape picture on card and DONE! ha ha.

Baby Girl Safety Pin Card

I made this card for an old roommate of mine who is having a baby girl in March! I busted out my Cricut machine and the Wild Card cartridge. It had been so long since I made a card and envelope using my machine that I forgot how much fun it is to see everything come together. So cute!!

Check back tomorrow to see what I sent along with the card!

Old School NKOTB Valentine

You're never too old to send a valentine to a good friend, right?!?! Especially if it's as awesome as this one! I saw the idea here and immediately knew I was going to make/send one to my friend. Let's just say that a few years ago we did the New Kids dance in our dorm room (obsessed much...maybe). I made the card using publisher (I love that program) and wanted to make it a little more girly so I added the curlz (or kurlz) font and a pink marker.

Boy Baby Shower Card

The color of the card kind of looks purple and white but in regular lighting it's baby blue and pastel green. I've been dying to use these cute baby animal stamps forever!! Aren't the adorable?!?! I used my cuttlebug to emboss the "dot" paper and my cricut to cut out the congrats.

Yellow/Green Bday Card

This card was quick and simple! The green paper was embossed using my new Cuttlebug machine (not that I needed a new machine but I found it on sale...woo hoo)! The "Happy Birthday" I cut out with my Cricut machine, but thought it needed a little something else so I used a sharpie to "trace-in" the letters. The bow I tied through the card after punching two little holes using a regular hole punch.

Bonus pic! I thought it looked cool using my color select setting on my camera...he he he

*sidenote...this card makes me want to sing my elementary school song...ha ha...If you know it, sing along with me..."we are the bang bear colors green and gold..."