Birthday Card

Here's a simple birthday card I made for a co-worker who likes wine.  This is from Celebrate with Flourish lite cartridge cut at 3" with layers and shadow.  The card is 4-1/4" x 5-1/2".  The sentiment is from Fiskars Make a Wish Quote stamp set, which is stamped on a Lacy Label cut (Bird), also a lite cartridge.  Inside I stamped Happy Birthday from the same stamp set on matching red paper.

I want to enter this in Emma's Throwback Thursday Challenge, use a Lite cartridge.  Well I used two of them.  The other requirement is adding bling of some kind.  It's hard to tell, but the grey cardstock is shimmer cardstock, and the white has a shimmery finish too.  TFL!

A Very Manly Card

I just bought the new Father's Day cartridge (seasonal cartridge) to get some "real man" cuts from it.  I made this card for my husband for his birthday.  Think it's manly enough?!

I cut the truck at 3-3/4" but it looks huge!  And it is (must be those tires).  I had to make this a 5x7 card.  I've never used a seasonal cartridge before and don't know if they're all like this, but this cart has just the cut (which was more like a silhouette) and one layer.  That's it.  The layer was the white body of the truck.  I filled in other empty spaces myself using grey cardstock for the tires and embossed those with Cuttlebug Herringbone.  Looks almost like tire treads, doesn't it!?  Used aluminum foil for the wheels and front grill.  For the headlights I used some vellum colored with a yellow highlighter and the windshield is also vellum colored with a light gray marker (tinted).  The words are cut from Birthday Cakes, using my Design Studio.  This is only the second time I've used it.  I was happy to see that I got the welding to work on the letters, but I'm not too pleased that they're not all the same size.  Funny what you can see after you take the picture!  Not sure how to size things by typing in the numerals--it didn't seem to be working.  Sure it was user error! 

If you've used the Father's Day cartridge, I'd like to know what your experience has been with it.  Do you like it?  What about other seasonal cartridges?  Are they basically the same with a cut and one layer?

I'm entering this card into these challenges:
     The Paper Variety - make a paper project for the special man in your life
     Birthday Sundaes - anything goes (seems I missed the manly challenge last week)

Appreciate your comments; I read them all.  Thanks for stopping by!

Entry for Chillin' and Grillin' Bug Hop

Barb at Bug Bites had another great hop this past weekend.  I was a stop in the first hop (for the Grillin' part), but not this time, so I get to enter her challenge.  So here's my card for part 2, Chillin'.  It's an A2 card.  The green mat is embossed with Cuttlebug Scrollwork and sanded.  The glass of lemonade is cut from Just Because cards at 3.5".  I glittered the lemon slice.  The ladybug and "chillin" is cut from Create a Critter. 

New Arrival Card

This is the first time I used this cartridge, and I love it!  I think this card turned out so cute.  Just love this cut of the pregnant mom.  My daughter needed a card for a baby shower for her step sister, so I was happy to oblige. 

Sorry the pictures aren't better.  I really have issues taking pictures at night.  This card is white, 5x6.5.  The pink mat on the front is cut at 4.75x6.25 and embossed with Cuttlebug Polka Dots embossing folder.  The mommy was cut at 5.75 plus shadow (almost too big), but she fit.  Adorned the corners with the darker pink cardstock.  The patterned paper is from DCWV Nana's Nursery for Baby Girl.  I have the 4x6 matstack.  The wording comes from the New Arrival cartridge too.  Cut Baby Shower at 2" with shadow and the For You with shadow at 1-3/4".  Actually cut this twice so I could use the "r" from the word For and add it to the word "You."

I'm entering this card into the Cricut Cartridge Chaos Challenge .  Thanks for visiting and looking!

Coordinating Purse and Card Set

I'm trying to link this project to Craft Junkie Too's Linky Party and when doing so, I lost my original post, so I apologize if some of you are seeing this again for a second time!  Click on the link above to check it out!

Here's a project I've been waiting to share, but I had to make sure the recipient had received it before I posted it.  Let me provide a little background first.  My girlfriend really loves Vera Bradley purses; she has MANY of them along with coordinating accessories.  Since I had the Forever Young cartridge, I was determined to make her a "mini" purse for her birthday.  So I cut the largest purse possible with my Expression, which turned out to be 6-1/4" tall with the handle.  The body of the purse is about 3" tall by 1" deep.  So I knew I could fit some 3x3 note cards inside the purse, and that's what I did.

 I also made a silly birthday card for my friend, still going with the pocketbook theme.  Here's the card.

And I wrapped the pack of cards with ribbon that I found in the $1.00 ribbon bin at Michael's.  I couldn't believe when I saw it.  I knew it was perfect for this project.

How I made it:

Pocketbook from Forever Young cut at "Fit to Page" (page 70, it has no cutouts on the purse).  The lipstick, sunglasses, hat, and nail polish bottles also cut from Forever Young.

Layered different colored petals for a flower with some bling in the center

Flowered paper is K&Co Sparkly Sweet Specialty Paper, two-sided (I just love this paper)

Solid colors from my cardstock stash.

Mats for front of cards cut from Elegant Edges (flower pattern at 2-3/4"; solid cardstock at 2-1/4"); used the shift feature of 4 different base cuts:  Butterfly1 (p.30); Stamp (p.37); Bird2 (p.40); and Scallops (p.48).  Lined the inside of the card with matching solid cardstock too.

Stamped with clear rubber stamp sayings.

I was real pleased with how this set turned out.  Love to know what you think; appreciate all your comments.  TFL!