All about Dad's!

Good Morning!

This is Jen from 3 Cats and a Bug.  This week at Sweetsassydiva's; the theme is All about Dad's!  I can't wait to see what the rest of the design team comes up with, they are so creative!

I decided to make cards for my project.  I have 3 cards that I need to make for my family, including one I made for my Grandson to give to my Son.  I also made some extra's for a friend who asks for cards to sell.  I made two cards that just used stickers for my Husband and Dad, I will add "Happy Father's Day" to the bottom of the cards and give the cards to them while we are out fishing.

I made two different versions of the same cut in different sizes and added a banner to one of them.  I cut one at 4 and the other at 3 from Celebrate With Flourish.  The banner was cut from Carousel at 3.7.  I used pop dots to attach the banner and added some stitching with my white gel pen.  I also used my white gel pen on the lettering.  On some of the cards I added Glossy Accents to the number 1 to make it pop more.  I don't think it added much to it, which is why I didn't add it to all of them.

I made another card using Everyday Pop-Up Cards.  The beer mug was cut at 4 and Cheers! was cut at 1.  I ran the outside of the mug and the "foam" through my big kick with embossing folders.

I'm always happy when I can use up some of my scraps!  (I have 6 drawers full of scrap paper!)  I went through and picked out all my blue scraps of patterned paper and added them to the insides of all the cards and then my computer generated verse on top.

To make it easier on the eyes, the inside verse says:

A Place Just For Dad
We many not shower him with praise
Nor mention his name in song,
And sometimes it seems that we forget
The joy he spreads as he goes along,
But it doesn't mean that we don't know
The wonderful role that he has had.
And away down deep in every heart
There's a place that is just for Dad...

Thanks for looking!

Chick Tri-Fold!

Happy Easter everyone!  This week the challenge at Sweet Sassy Diva is to use hens or chicks.  I decided to make an Easter card.  I hadn't made one of my favorite kind of cards for awhile so I decided to create a tri shutter card.  These are the directions for sizing and cutting I use from Splitcoast Stampers.

The Easter Spring paper was from last year and the rest of the paper was from my scrap container.  

The cute chicken with the cracked egg and the basket were cut at 2.89 from the Cricut cart Celebrate with Flourish.  

Here is the completed card closed.

Here is the completed card open.  The little eggs and the Happy Easter sticker were from a set I got at Michaels.  The flowers were from my stash by Recollections (Michaels.)

Here are the chicken cuts laid out on my Gypsy.

Paper laid out 

Here are background cuts laid out to glue.

Tri shutter cards are really a lot of fun and great for using scraps.  If you haven't tried one I highly recommend them.   I can't wait to see what the rest of the designers create this week with their hens and chicks.  

Hope you will come back each day and see what they create. Happy Craftin!

Suzanne

Happy Easter

This is Jen from 3 Cats and a Bug! This week we have a fun theme at Sweetsassydiva's this week, Hens or Chicks! I love Easter, besides Christmas it's my favorite holiday. I love all the cheerful pastel colors. I used Celebrate with flourish for both cards. The basket was cut out @ 5. I used some pearls for the handle and a white gel pen to decorate the eggs. I had some stickers for the happy Easter along with the 2 small eggs that I added some stickles to.

The chick was cut out @ 3. I used a spellbinders die for the tag and the same Happy Easter stickers.

Please stop by my blog, 3 Cats and a Bug and see what else I've been up to! Thanks for looking.

Skate, Spin, Soar!

Hey, it's Angie. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season. Ours was wonderful....filled with my kiddo's and some amazing friends. Now it's time for cabin fever to kick in....and that being chased with spring fever. So our challenge is something pertaining to winter blues. I have a friend who's daughter has fallen in love with ice skating. So I thought that I would make her a wall hanging for her room. I got excited because I used my "celebrate with flourish" for the first time. (Even more exciting Jen didn't have to help me with the little details!)

This is the first of 2 skates cut. I cut them at 3 in...in misc. blues and white. I didn't like how plain they looked so I "glammed" them up.

I used my heat embosser and powders to make them sparkle...add a sparkly gem and there you have it. For the saying I talked to her Mama and we came up with "Skate, Spin, Soar" I used the storybook font on my gypsy and welded them together.

I started to put the sign together and it needed something more. I used plain white doilies and some alcohol inks as a mat for my skates.

Now for the assembly. I used a dark piece of blue cardstock. I inked the edges white to give it a frosted look. I also went against the normal and set it at a diamond instead of a square. When I started putting the pieces together I realized the words needed a bit more so I embossed them with a light blue powder and used a silver alcohol ink to give it a bit of a pop. I placed them all and then put them into a white frame.

I didn't like the plain white frame so I again pulled out alcohol inks in blue and silver and spruced it up a bit....so here is the finished project.

So there it is....my wall plaque. Get out and do something keep to fight those blues. recipe cricut cartridges...celebrate with flourish, story book Tim Holtz alcohol inks....blues and silver misc. papers in blue and white. heat embossing powders....blues and white 12 x 12 scrapbook frame

Dress more than the Turkey!

Hello everyone, Mindy from Grammies Craft Room with a quick project for your Thanksgiving table.

The base for this place card is a tag from Once Upon a Princess. In my Gypsy, I placed two tags, sized at 3.5" , lined the up so one was directly on top of the other one - the lines will turn yellow - then using the arrows, moved one tag up so the 2 just overlap. Hit the weld button and you have a shaped tag .

I cut a strip 3/4" x 3 ", folded the ends and attached to the inside. This will help keep the tag open.... I hope :)

For the cornucopia, I again layed it out on the Gypsy - it's from Celebrate With a Flourish - and cut all the layers at 2".  I cut a small piece of patterned paper to put in where the leaves were going to be.I did some embossing and used a few glitter gel pens to add some zip.

Supplies :
Cricut Once Upon A Princess
Cricut Celebrate With Flourish
Scraps of card stock
Glitter Gel Pens




Remember to check out SweetSassyDiva all week for lots of great Thanksgiving projects !

Happy Fall!

Wait did I mention how much I love my Imagine. Here is another project from Misty over at The Daily Scrapper.

I made this card using the cuts from a cricut Lite cartridge Celebrate with Flourish and the patterns from Imagine More.

Mini Album!

Hi Jen from 3catsandabug.  I have the world's GREATEST In Laws, so I wanted to make something special for my MIL's birthday and this is what I came up with.  {Click on the picture to view it larger}  I used several cartridges for this: Mother's Day 2010, Celebrate with Flourish, Picturesque, Elegant Cakes, Straight From The Nest, Gypsy Wanderings, Story Book,  Tinker Bell and Friends and George and Basic Shapes.



The Fence was cut at 4 X 4 3/4 and the grass at 1 3/4 X4 1/4 welded

Happy was cut at 1 1/2 from Elegant Cake and decorated with stickers.

The butterfly corners were cut at 1in and the butterfly at 3.  The letters and numbers were cut at 1 1/4 and 1 1/2.

BDay was cut 1 1/2 and 1 1/4.  All the paper is K and Company, Tim Coffey's Cottage Garden and on this page matching 3D stickers. 

The banner was cut at 1 1/4 and the floral was cut at 4 1/8, embellished with brads and stickles.  I also used a Martha Steward punch and some ribbon.  Mama was cut at 2 X 5 1/2 and also embellished with stickles.

The flowers were cut at 1 and the butterfly at 2.  The vase and other butterflies were stuff I had in my drawer.





The scrolls were cut from StoryBook at 1 1/2 and the Happy Birthday was from Gypsy Wanderings at 4 1/2

It was all put together using the Cinch and 1in wires.

Thankful!

Recipe:




Cricut Lite "Celebrate with Flourish" cartridge

DCWV Amber Autumn Stack

Recollections Spice Market Pack

KI Memories "Fall Icons" Stamp Set

Peeled Paint Distress Ink

Vintage Photo Distress Ink

Brown Braiding Cord

This is a 5 1/2 by 5 1/2 inch card. I cut the green and patterned mats in 1/4 inch increments and inked around the edges. I cut the Pilgrim hat (with shadow) at 4" and inked all the cuts with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. Before I applied the hat, I used braiding cord around the card, secured in the back with a glue dot. I heat embossed the "Thankful" sentiment using black ink and clear embossing powder.

- Kristin