World Card Making Day - Part 2!

Two posts in two days - a new record! 

These are two of my projects from yesterday. 

This little owl just screams Lily Pulitzer to me.  Don't you think?  The paper is from MME Ooh La La and I lo-lo-love it!  

This is more MME  - So Sophie - Graceful.  I like the fall colors - used some MM Halloween trim on the card and a few gold blings on the side.   I had to add something to the side for balance because I didn't center my stamp - as my friend Carmen says, "usted esta distraido."  I think being told you're absentminded sounds much better in Spanish!

I had great plans to get more of my October birthday cards ready but the day slipped away as Sundays do.  I did get my blog layout and look updated and put a plug for Tastefully Simple on it too!

Hope you have a great week - and who knows - maybe there is another post tomorrow!

Cindy

World Card Making Day

Today is World Card Making Day and I'm spending the afternoon in my office/craft room creating! 

It's been a while since the last post so here are some of the cards I've been working on.

A challenge entry for Crop Chocolate...

Happy Birthday to my Mom...

A fun card for my son, Jordan...

Another challenge entry for Crop Chocolate...

Happy Birthday to my Sister...

And a get well card for a dear friend who is battling cancer...

 

Hope you enjoy looking!

 

Cindy

Spooktacular Project!

I've been seeing so many cool subway art projects on Pinterest, and I thought, "How hard can this be?"  So I pulled out Cricut Design Studio and Happy Hauntings and came up with this spooktacular project!

I used a 12X12 canvas and painted it a pumpkiny orange color.  At first I wanted it to look very brush strokey (is that a word?) on the edges but then the paint started going on too heavy on one side so I decided to cover to the edges and just let some white shine through in the middle to give a little more depth.

Then I used Design Studio to place the predesigned phrases in place.  It's kind of like putting a puzzle together when you try to figure out what fits where.  Filled in some blank spots with the spider and raven.

I used black indoor vinyl from Expressions Vinyl for the cut.  Weeding (getting all the unwanted pieces off the mat) takes quite a while so be sure to allow time (and patience!) to get it done.  I also used transfer tape since I designed it in Design Studio exactly how I wanted it to lay out on the page.  (Yes, I may have wasted some vinyl by not smooshing it all together but I have a hard time keeping things in a straight line so it was worth it...) 

Wouldn't it be cool to do a canvas like this painted black with a silver spider web?  Hmmm....

Have a great week!

Cindy

Weekend Projects

We planned to visit Monticello today but threats of rain changed our minds.  Instead we stayed at home and I had a chance to work on a few more cards (I very effectively ignored all the other weekend chores that were calling to me...). 

Plus I started some rock candy (does that count as cooking?) Saw it on a blog and had to give it a try for Miss E.  Made cinnamon, orange, wintergreen, cotton candy and plain.  I think I went a little overboard on the cinnamon - might need a fire extinguisher for that one!  I discovered that we truly only have ONE (yes ONE!) clothes pin in our whole house.  How does that happen?  So we had to get creative on how to suspend the sticks in the sugar solution (the sticks can't touch the bottom, sides or each other - bad things happen if they touch).  Hubby found stryofoamy stuff that I could push the sticks into (he's so resourceful!).

Back to the cards...

The stamps are from PTI.  I picked this up on E-bay and got it for about half of what it costs new (whoo hoo - love a bargain)!  The flower petals are stamped individually to make the flower and then colored with Copics.  The frames are cut on the Elegant Edges cart (it's a major go-to cart for me).  Bada bing bada bang and it's a card!

 I did go back and put black stitching on the pink frame to add a little more definition to it. 


My second card was made from paper from Bo-Bunny that just happened to show up in the mail today!

 Sentiment is from Verve Stamps. Bird and branch are PTI. The card needed a little more color so I put 'berries' on the branches. 

Isn't this quote so true?

So now I'm trying to figure out what I want to do next.  I need to make a get well soon card and I would like to try out my Toy Story cart.  (Those aliens are speaking to me...)

Stay tuned!
Cindy

Mojo Monday #202

Had fun playing with this one! 

Have a great weekend,

Cindy

Mojo Monday #191

Happy Tuesday!

Sunny Spring seems to have taken a slight detour to allow rainy Spring to visit this week.  I'm hopeful that the weather will clear up enough before the weekend so that we can pick strawberries this weekend.  It's time for fresh strawberries and to fill the freezer with fresh strawberry jam - yum!

This week's Mojo Monday came together quickly for me.  I used Togetherness paper from Cosmo Cricket along with my new favorite cartridge, Elegant Edges, and Create A Critter.  Elegant Edges is awesome - so many cuts perfect for albums, borders, combining into unique cards... It's been fun playing with this cart (and I found it on sale at Joann - how could I say no?) 

Stamp is Verve and ribbon is MME Lush.

Thanks for looking!

Have a great week,

Cindy

Mojo Monday Entry #190

Happy Tuesday!

This week feels like it should have been Friday about eight days ago...  Ever had one of those weeks?

I decided to do another Mojo Monday design this week.  It really adds discipline to your projects when you follow the design guidelines.  I find myself wanting to wander but it's good practice to see and use good design elements...

Isn't she the cutest little thing?   Downloaded her as a digi stamp from Bugaboo Stamps.  The folks at Bugaboo have a half price deal going on this month and TONS of great images!  www.bugaboostamps.com   Of course I used my Copics to color her.  Used 7 different papers (I think that's a personal best!).  The flower is a mix of Forever Young Cricut Cart and Storybook.  Mini Monograms was used for the frames around the pretty purple girl.

I have some new paper pads on the way and can't wait to get into some summery colors (i have some more summertime bugaboo digis I can't wait to use!)

Hope you're having a great week,
Cindy