Party Favors Gypsy DT project

This week at http://the-gypsyspot.blogspot.com/ Nilda asked us to make party favors. I kept trying to think what kind of party favor I would make since New Years was over. Then it hit me, Valentine's Day is right around the corner. So I made these for my kids. In the bags I put Dove chocolate and in the sour cream containers I put M & M's. I love making the sour cream containers, they are so easy to make. I cut the rectangle out with my gypsy and added the heart from George to the center of the containers. For the boxes I used TBBM and used BB for the word love that is cut out in the center of the boxes. I then took the cutout of the word and put on the sour cream containers and the heart cutout from the container I put on the boxes. Wow, that sure is clear as mud isn't it...lol...if you look at the picture you will understand what I was trying to say. I hope you like them. They were a lot of fun to make. Thank you all again for being so patient while I was away. It is so nice to be back.

romantic card in black and creme

I think this could possibly be one of my favorite romantic cards that I have made. I am really proud of how this one turned out. First of all I absolutely love this paper, OMG, it is so pretty....and it is all Donna's M's fault that I bought it too. This is from the DCWV creme stack. this particular piece that I used on this card is flocked. I really do wish you could see it in person, it is the greatest paper. I actually bought the stack to do pages in my wedding scrapbook but I had to do a card with it first. Now I may have to buy another pack for my scrapbook and use all of this pack for cards. I wish also that you could see the center heart. It just sparkles The heart is from the wedding cart cut on 4", both on shift and regular cut. I really like the look of the center of the heart, it was super easy but the final look is really great. I went around the entire piece of white paper with stickles then I took white glitter and sprinkled it all over the heart. The stickles dry raised so the heart looks like it has a raised glitter center. It really is pretty in person. Then I used the jasmine corners and added black stickles to those, the love is from Beyond Birthdays and the butterflies were MS, and they are layered and then I added white stickles. Even Todd said this is one of my prettiest, which is a lot coming from him. Usually I get that is real pretty sweetheart. This one he actually did a good bit of commenting on. Made me feel good. I hope you like it too and please leave me a comment, I love to read them.

wedding thank you card for photographer

I didn't think I was going to get a card made today. I went and got my nails done right after work, I have really long nails and I was so afraid that I was going to get them broke before the wedding so I went and go the acrylic put over them. First time of ever doing that and I have to tell you, I am liking it.....Anyway, I really needed to make a thank you card for the photographer, who is a man. I was thinking all day what kind of card would be a good thank you card for a man. I kept thinking I need a camera. Well Jeannie was telling me that going places has a camera and I was thinking darn, I don't have going places. Well I started looking through all of my cartridges and look what I found. A camera on the potpourri basket cart. Yeah, I was so excited. I picked my "manly" paper out and went to town. this is what I came up with. I he will like it. The photographer is also a friend of mine so I wanted to make sure it wa alright. I hope he likes it and I hope you do too. The camera was cut on regular cut at 2" and shadow cut twice on 2" and then I cut a little piece of black to put behind the lense. Thank you is cut on regular and shadow at 2 1/4". Thank you so much for looking and thank you for commenting. I hope I don't bore all of you to death on wedding stuff the next few weeks

Wedding thank you cards

I have been so busy getting ready for the wedding. My daughter and I picked out what I think is the perfect dress. Todd and I both have been through a marriage before so we wanted to do everything our way so my dress is my no means a traditional wedding dress. I tried on a bunch but my daughter and the sales lady both kept saying the red one, the red one.... The sales lady even gave me a very nice compliment and said that not everyone could pull off red but I most definitely could. I even found killer red shoes to match. I was so excited. Well with the wedding dress shoping out of the way I thought I would start on some other things needed for the big day. So I have been working on my thank you wedding cards. September 5th is just around the corner so I want to get as much done now as possible. In the midst of working on these thank you cards I found the frames from Storybook. OMG, I am in love with these frames. I think they work really well for thank you cards. I was even able to use up some of my scraps on these cards because I wanted to keep them light enough to mail with one stamp so they really don't take much paper to make. All of the butterflies were the MS butterfly punch. I layered all of the butterflies 3 times each because I absolutely cannot make a flat card. lol... Anyway I hope you enjoy seeing them because I am sure there will be a lot more to make. The next thing I am going to work on is my hershey kisses with our names on them and little containers for them to go in. I am thinking about the little popcorn containers from TBBM, hopefully I will get those done today to show you. Thank you for looking and thank you for leaving a comment. They mean so much

Cuttlebug challenge #43

Here is my cuttlebug challenge card for this week. I hope hope you like it. This was a sketch challenge. For this card I only used three carts. Storybook, Plantin Schoolbook and Beyond Birthdays. The flower was cut at 2 1/2" and I used gold stickles on the ends. The butterflies were also from SB and I cut them at 1"and cut each of them twice and layered them. I also used gold stickles in the centers of the butterflies. The frame is from SB and is cut at 3". The my friend is from BB and is cut at 3". The scallop is from Plantin Schoolbook and is cut at 1/2". I used my cuttlebug swiss dots folder for the frame and then I used the smaller flowers from one of the cuttlebug accessory sets. I also used a piece of gold ribbon down the center. thank you for looking and thank you for leaving a comment.

Pooh and friends - Vicki's take

Yea!, Jeannie and I got our challenge in this week. While we were trying to figure out what we were going to do for our challenge this week Jeannie looked on her calendar and noticed that August was National Pooh friends month. So of course we decided to do a pooh card. I have to tell you guys I struggled with this card. I knew right from the start what I wanted to do on the inside of the card. I knew I had to use this Winnie the Pooh quote....It was a must. Now all I had to do was build a card around a quote. That should be easy enough....wrong....I couldn't figure it out at all until last night. I sat down at my craft table and looked at the Pooh quote and the card just came to me. I hope you like the end result. I am pretty pleased with how it turned out.

Pooh and Friends- Pooh cut out at 3" twice in black on shadow and once on regular cut in the pooh color. I used glue dots to pop him off the card. The butterfly is also from Pooh cut at 1" twice. I glued the butterfly together just in the center so it would look like it was flying. The catepillar was cut at 3/4". I had to use a catepillar so it would relate to the butterfly.

Beyond Birthdays- Hello Friend cut at 2"

Plantin Schoolbook- scallop along the edge cut at 1" and I trimmed off one hump.

Zooballoo- grass cut at 2" on regular cut for the back of the grass and then on shift lowercase for the shorter grass.

The flowers are a punch and I added brown stickles to the center of the flowers and inked the whole card.

Hello Friend

This was the second challenge that Jeannie and I did and I believe it is one of my all time favorite cards. For this card we used the flowers from Pooh. I cut them at 3" and layered them 3 times each. I used the Nanna's Baby girl paper too. I used lots and lots of glue dots too. I honestly don't think I can make a flat card anymore. The hello birthday is from beyond birthday cut out at 2" and the butterflies are from indie art. I cut them out in sizes of 1 1/4", 1",3/4" and 1/2" and layered them. I hope you enjoy looking at this card as much as I enjoyed making it.

Teacher Thank you cards

One of the ladies that I work with asked me if I could make her 4 Thank you cards. 3 for teachers and one for the principal. I wanted all of them to be different and this is what I came up with.

The owl is from paper doll dressup and is cut at 3" and the Thanks is from George

The #1 teacher apple is from DoodleCharms and is cut at 3" and the font is from Plantin Schoolbook.

The chalkboard is from Pooh and Friends, the font is Plantin Schoolbook and the apple is doodlecharms. The lady bugs are walk in my garden and the catepillar is from stretch your imagination.

The bushel of apples is from Pooh and friends and the thank you is from beyond birthdays. I used lots and lots of pop glue dots and lots of layers on all of these cards.

1st card every posted

This is the first card I ever posted. I used Beyond Birthdays for the love and Home Accents for the birds. I stickled around the edges of the birds. I used the cuttlebugs divine swirls folder also. I added pink ribbon and flat diamond beads. I think the love was cut out at 1 1/2" and the birds at 2" althought I wouldn't swear to as I made this card 3 months ago so I am just not sure. I am sure of the carts that were used.