Susan's birthday card

OK, you guys know that my daughter is the worlds largest Alice in Wonderland fan. I made her the one Alice card a few weeks ago as a thank you for giving me away at the wedding and so I thought I would use the rest of the Alice stuff that I have and make her a birthday card. She will be 20 on the 18th. Wow, it is so hard to believe that she is still not the same little girl that we used to have Alice in Wonderland "unbirthday" tea parties when she was little. Anyway, there is not much cricut on this card, just the greass at the bottom of the card from zooballoo. I hope you enjoy. I am not sure if you can read the verse of the inside of the card or not because of the glare of the paper but it is an Alice quote from the movie and it goes

"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.

Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't.

And, contrary wise, what is, wouldn't be. And what wouldn't be, it would. You see?"

I think she will love it! hope you do too

You mess with the bull...

OK, I admit it....I am a child of the 80's and one of my all time favorite movies is the breakfast club. There are so many great lines from this movie but this one is one of my favorites and it just happened to work perfect with this card. Anna, a lady I work with, has a son that rides bulls for a living. Well, he fell off a bull a few weeks ago and got pretty bruised up. I wanted to make him a funny get well card so this is what I came up with. If you are a fan of The Breakfast Club you will remember this line. Bender who is played by Judd Nelson keeps calling the "self absorbed" principal whose first name is Richard by his nickname ( which is the nickname for Richard) well the principal keeps taking it and taking and finally looks at Bender and says "You mess with the bull youngman and you're gonna get the horns....and lengthens his detention. If you have never seen this movie then I highly recommend watching it for a good laugh. Anyway, I hope he likes the card and I hope it puts a smile on his face.

the wait is over, OMG, my daughter will flip

OK, for those of you that don't know here is the story. My father passed away 5 years ago so I needed someone to walk me down the isle. I thought about my brother but then I said no, I want Todd's dad to walk me down the isle. He will be my dad soon. He only has two boys so he has never gotten to walk anyone down the isle before so I thought it would be great for him to walk me down the isle. My children, son is 11 and daughter will be 20 on the 18th of September, are going to give me away. When trying to figure out who I wanted to give me away they were really my only thoughts. Anyway, hopefully you have seen Brandons card ( the guitar-you rock card)and this one is for Susan. She is probably the biggest Alice in Wonderland fan ever! She loves it. She actually even has an original Alice in Wonderland book that was printed in 1865 written by Lewis Carol. She has everything you can think of Alice. It is her absolute favorite. She will so love this card, I am so excited that it came out the way it did. We used to have unbirthday party's all the time when she was little. When she sees the mad hatter on the outside she will be so excited but when she opens it up and see the chesser cat on the inside she will "flip". I can't wait to give her this card. She is going to be so excited. There is very little cricut on this card, just the mushroom from Tink on the inside. Thank you so much for looking and thank you even more for commenting and putting up with my wedding stories. YOu guys really are the greatest!

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.

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!

Chick Chat over coffee

Jeannie and I are having way too much fun doing these challenges. I get so excited each and every time that we do one. I think I could do one every day. I had several cards to make for a lady that I know that is in what is called the Pink Ladies, this is like the red hat society only the ladies are "too young" to wear read. Anyway, she wanted some "pink chics" because that is what they refer to themselves as. Jeannie thought it would be fun to make it a challenge so we both could see how we both interpreted the choice. We knew what bird we was going to use and we knew we were going to use the "let's chick chat over coffee" but that was it. It was so wild because we thought so much alike on this one and we both decided to put our "chicks" over the coffee. My coffee was actually on the paper that I chose and her coffee was in a cup that she put on the front of her card. We both had a ball doing this one. I hope you enjoy it as much. the bird is from Home Decor and the circles are from mini monograms.

Turtle Friends

This is yet another challenge with Jeannie, I just absolutely love these challenges. This we decided to use the turtle from animal kingdom. I think Jeannie thought I had lost my mind when I suggested the turtle.

I used the Nana's baby paper pack which I think is my all time favorite paper. I also used stickles all over my turtles shell and even painted her toe nails. I added ribbon to the corners and added dear friends on the ribbon. I added 4 flower brads to the corners of the paper. The turtle was cut at 3" and layered. I used lots and lots of glue dots to make it 3-D. I hope you like it.

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.

Rooster card

This is the start of mine and Jeannie's card challenges. I wanted to do the rooster for something and Jeannie came up with the idea to use Goodmorning Sunshine. It just evolved from there. In no time we had decided that we were both going to make a card using the rooster and using the phrase Good morning Sunshine. We had so much fun that we decided to do it again and again. I love doing these challenges with Jeannie because I truly believe she makes me a better card maker.

Make sure you keep an eye on the message board and also on our blogs because we are planning on doing many many more challenges.

The cow did what!

Ok, when I made this card I was so afraid that no one would read it the way I was reading it in my head. I thought is was cute and funny all at the same time. I wanted to do a funny card with a funny spin. I'm not sure where I came up with the cow jumped over the moon but I did and I am so glad that I did. I think this is one of my favorite cards to date. I hope you enjoy it too.

The cow is from PDDU and the moon is from there too. I cut the cow at 3" and the moon I think is cut at 1 3/4". The fence is also from PDDU and it is cut at 2". the sentiment is computer generated. I layered the cow three times and then I also cut it out in dark brown for the feet and face. I had to cut off the pieces that I wanted to layer with. I hope that makes sense. I hope you get a big laugh out of it, I sure did while I was making it. The front of the card says "the cow did what?" and the inside says "Holy Cow, who comes up with these things anyway" "Hope you havce a mootiful day"