Chair-ished Card

I wanted to give Jackie a little card just to let her know how much she means to me. It's simple but I know she'll really like it. I need to take a photography class. My pictures are always either washed out or dark! The colors are vibrant, yet elegant in this card. They certainly didn't photograph that way.

A2 card
Chair: French Manor
The base of the chair is embossed on shiny cardstock. The sentiment is computer generated. The seat of the chair is covered in flocking then glitter. All patterned papers from my stash.

Little Squirt Card

This card is to welcome Giselle's new little squirt, Travis! That baby is sooooo cute that I just had to make a cute card to match his little personality.

Squirt gun and sentiment: B is for Boy Lite cartridge
All papers: Kate's Kitchen (Imagine cartridge)
I scored around the edges with  my handy, dandy new We R Memory Keepers perforation wheel and I hand-stitched with some yellow floss. I enhanced the squirt gun with stickles (top piece) and glass accents (trigger and front/back). I also added stickles to dot the "i" in the sentiment. Last, I stamped "welcome" directly on the background paper. Of course, being able to make it all on the Imagine made this card easy-peasy lemon squeezy!

CC August Monthly Challenge: Create a Scene

I've been wanting to create little 6x6 frames for my office. Well, this challenge got me started!!! I decided to make all the scenes using dotted paper, changing only the colors to keep consistency. My first one is a little boy reading under an apple tree. Perfect for my office! The next one will be a little girl reading by the ocean. I want to make at least 6 frames and every single little child in "A Child's Year" is precious.  I haven't framed my entry yet because I want to make a few before getting all the frames. I think I will end up framing them all in white to pick up the dots. Each frame will have a different "educational" word. Of course, I had to start with READING! Details below the pic.

Cartridges: A Child's Year (boy reading); My Community (tree); Birthday Bash (words @ 1"); and Better Together (color for flood-filling words)
The patterned papers are all from Papertrey ink ~ love those little swiss dots. The white paper (READ) is Bazzill.
The apples are buttons from my stash.
I tore some brown paper for the ground, inked the images a bit for depth, and then used my new piercing wheel along the edge. I "stitched" in baby blue using a gel pen and covered READ in glass accents to set it apart.

Weekly Challenge #39 : A-B-C, 1-2-3

This week's challenge is a recipe for: A pop of Bright Color and 1 of something, 2 of something, and 3 of something. Of course, a minimum of 2 Cricut cuts. I decided to make Elaine's birthday card following these guidelines. Here is her card:

ABC: The bright pink yarn bow
1:  one cartridge ~ Imagine Yummy
2:  two sentiments
3: three cupcakes
Other supplies: Recollections Chunky Glitter in Glitz; red buttons from stash; Fiskars Edge Punch

Everything on this, including the patterned paper, is from Yummy. That cartridge really has luscious prints, colors, and images! Love it!!! The two outer cupcakes, as well as the "celebrate" sentiment, are pop-dotted. And, I used the edge punch on the bottom patterned paper so when the papers overlap it's a more feminine feel.

Stephen's 18th Bday Card: Spinner

After learning how to make the spinner cards, I decided to modify a bit and make one for Stephen for his 18th birthday. I really wanted it to be special and fell in love with this little karate boy from MFT. The minute I saw him I knew he'd be perfect as the spinner! Well, this is my first official "video" and even though it's only a few seconds long, it's still a mess since I don't know how to edit yet LOL! No haters!

Hope you like it. I know Stephen will love it. The cloud paper is from the Imagine and the bottom patterned paper is from my stash. The banners are from Birthday Bash and flood-filled with Imagine Hopscotch. "Happy Birthday" form Imagine More Cards. Stickers for the "18" and "Stephen".
Front:

Inside:

Spinner:

Maria's Birthday Card

Maria's birthday was on Friday, August 12th. I was finally able to upload the pic of her card today since I didn't want to spoil the surprise in case she logged on. This is a step card and the stamp is from the Girlfriends line. I took the picture inside and somehow with the flash it is overexposed. The colors are vibrant and beautiful, from both the papers and the copics, although you can't really see that here. The last step has a MS chipboard piece that's a two-tiered cake with a banner saying "Happy Birthday". If you pull the glitter clothespins, a gift card comes out. That is what is hiding behind the circle. I think she liked it and hope she enjoys spending the gift card.

CC Weekly Challenge #38: Vacation Memories

This week's challenge was to preserve a vacation memory from this summer or any previous summer. Well, since vacations haven't really been in our budget lately, I decided to scrapbook a picture of Zachary in the pool with Ralph. I like to think that our staycations can be just as much fun!

Background paper is an old "water-like" paper and I placed a Hambly overlay (with the white swirls) over it. Makes it look like water even more. All the cuts are from Life's a Beach, including the gecko border and sentiment. I cut the big gecko out of glitter paper and the little ones from Bazzill. I did trace around the little geckos with a black pen since they seemed to get lost. A few googly eyes, some ink on the feet, and a few glitter brads finished it off. This was a fast layout that packed some punch. I really liked how it turned out.