Gypsy Spot design team challenge

This week over at http://the-gypsyspot.blogspot.com/, Nilda asked us to make something using the weld feature. She wanted us to weld a shape and also weld letters together. I decided to make a snowman completely from George, although I did have to use Mickey and Friends for his hands. I am really proud of how he turned out. I used all ovals and circles for George and then the vest and hat I put on him I got from PDDU. I cut a scrap piece of paper for his nose and then drew his face on and added chalk to his cheeks, the paper is some of my new paper that I just got from stampin up. I really do like the whole pack of this paper. Be sure to go over to the gypsy spot and see all the other creations that all the other talented ladies created using the weld feature and be sure to play along. Hope you tune in next week to see what all of us create next time. Thank you so much for looking and for commenting.

Soccer birthday card

My step son will be 10 on his birthday. He loves playing soccer. So I knew exactly what cart I needed to make his birthday card. I say this cart was my steal cart because I won it off of ebay for $11 and I think that is a "steal". I wish I could win LAB or LL for that. lol....
I am absolutely falling in love with vellum. I think the inside is my favorite part of the card because of the vellum. I love how you can see the soccer shoe behind of the wording.
OK, here are the directions:
Soccer cart- goal net cut at 2 1/2 " regular and shadow, the player is cut at 3 1/4"- reg and shadow. One the inside of the card, the shoe is cut out at 1 1/2" reg and shadow. the whistle is cut at 3/4" and the trophy at 1 1/2". I also took my sharpi and wrote Nick on the trophy.
Base Camp for the font cut at 1" on both reg cut and blackout cut
Jasmine for the corners on the inside of the card cut at 4" and 5".
Thank you so much for looking and thank you so much for leaving a comment. They really do mean so much!

Cute as a bug

This is also a Jeannie/Vicki challenge. I think we both were just itching to do another challenge. Neither one of us could come up with a good cut so Jeannie handed the book the Madison and told her to pick a cut. She picked the lady bug and also had one other request. We had to use glitter. I can't believe we even got this card in last week. Jeannie was so busy planning her daughters wedding and getting everything just so. I was so surprised when she said "let's do a challenge today". I hope it was a good break for her because I am sure she was busy busy busy. I cut the lady bugs were cut at 1 3/4" and 2 1/4". The scalloped circles were from mini monograms and the leaves were from plantin school book. The font is base camp. I felt like I had glitter everywhere after putting glitter on the lady bugs and on the tips of the leaves. It was a lot of fun as are all the card challenges with Jeannie. I hope you enjoy seeing them as much as we enjoy making them. Thanks so much!

baseball birthday card

One of my soon to be step sons had a birthday the same day as mine. I wanted to make him a special card because he (and his brothers) are so very special to me. He loves sports of all kinds so I knew I wanted to make him a sports card. I guess I picked baseball because that is a summer sport. For this card I used the baseball cart. I cut out the person at 3" on regular cut and then cut out the filler in tan, (white just doesn't look very good on the baseball cuts, at least I don't think so). Anyway, the field is cut out at 3 " as well and the baseball is cut out at 1". I used base camp for the font and put his name along the edge of the field. I cut the baseball out 2 times and used extra pop glue dots to make to ball appear to be coming out of the card. On the inside I cut the glove out at 2". The sentiment was computer generated. I hope he enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed making it for him. I know there was a lot of love put into this card....