poinsettia card

I love Christmas time. It is my absolute favorite time of the whole year. I usually end up with several poinsettias around the house because I think they are just so pretty. I wanted to see if I could create my own layered poinsettia with my Gypsy. I was so happy to see that it was coming together the way I wanted it to. I used plantin schoolbook's leaves for the poinsettia and welded them together to a circe from George. Put a ribbon behind of it and added the fuzzy pom poms to the center. I hope you like how it turned out. I am just loving my gypsy. I love the idea that you can create so many new cuts. Thank you so much for looking and thank you for commenting.

Card for my soon to be step son

This card is for my soon to be step son. Todd has 3 boys and I have made birthday cards for two of them recenty. Jake (this card) birthday was before I got my cricut so he didn't get a home made card. The other two boys had a birthday in July and August so they have recently gotten cards and I didn't want Jake to feel left out so I made this card for him. I wanted him to have an inspirational quote on his card, I hope I picked a good one.

Todd is a huge Gamecock fan, His boys live in SC so they are also huge Gamecock fans so I thought this card would be perfect for him. On the outside I have the gamecock and the words "Spur's Up?" For those of you who don't know Steve Spurier is the head football coach for SC so we (T0dd and I) got this idea off of their website. On the inside I posted this years football schedule and then I added another SC logo. On the other side I put his quote and also his name. I think he will really like this card and I hope you do too.

card for my son

As you all know I am getting married on September 5th. My soon to be father in law is walking me down the isle but my two children ages 11 and 20 are giving me away. My daughters card is still being worked on, she will flip when she sees hers. This one if for my son. He is starting to learn to play the guitar so I thought this would suite him. I wanted each of their cards to personlize who they are. I put you rock on the front of his card because in my eyes he truly does "Rock". I was even able to string the guitar, now that was a lot of fun, not.... but anyway I thought the end result was cute.

IA- guitar cut at 2 3/4" on regular cut, blackout and shadow, stars cut at 1"

Plantin Schoolbook- letters cut at 1"

Wedding invitations and announcements Hurray!

Here are my wedding invitations and announcements. I made both because we are only inviting the immediate family to the wedding and then everyone else I will send an announcement to and let them know that we got married. The announcement doesn't have the date printed on it because it was the dry run that I made to make sure that this was how I wanted it. I mailed them today with all the date and information typed it too. The verse on the wedding invitations says "An answered prayer he is to me, my greatest joy she'll always be, and so this day we will pledge our love, in front of friends and God above" then I added a bunch of those little flowers and the leaves from plantin schoolbook. I added two gold bands to the ribbon. It is really hard to see but the outside edge of the cards are embossed. These were all mailed today so for the family and friends that don't know we are getting married yet will know so in about 3 days. I am so excited. I have my appointment next week to get my nails done, they are naturally long so if I don't get acrylic on them I know I will break them. I have my appointment set up to do the practice run of my hair, I have the photographer lined up, the songs picked and the singer to sing them... I have the poem picked that is going to be read. We go get our rings today. It is all coming together. I have the food picked for after the wedding. Lets just all keep our fingers crossed that everything goes smoothly.

Oh yeah, I also put the announcement in here too, I will send that to everyone that we didn't invite to the wedding so they will know that we are now married. YEAH! the announcement says "Love is just not about looking at each other in the eyes but looking together in the same direction" I have a few more things that I am working on I will post them as I make them.

September 5th will be here before I know it and as I am sure all of you can tell, I am getting really excited......

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.

many thanks

Any yet here is another thank you card. My friend asked for a bunch of thank you cards and a bunch is what she is going to get. For this one I used the flower form Home Decor, I used clear and red stickles and lots and lots of pop dots. The flower is cut at 4" and the leaves are from plantin schoolbook and are cut at 2 1/2". Many thanks is from wild card and is cut at 5". Jeannie you will be so proud of me, I inked the entire card. I was so nervous about doing that but I figured the worse would happen is that I would have to throw it away. Kinda liked how it turned out. I hope you like it too. Thanks for looking and thank you so much for commenting. I love reading each and every one.

thanks - Vicki's Take

Jeannie and I just couldn't wait to do another card so here we are. The husband of a lady that I work with was in a really bad accident. He was on a garden tractor going across a small bridge and the bridge broke and the tractor overturned on him. He has went through numerous surgeries and is just really lucky to be alive. Well, we live in a very small town and everyone knows him and has been great in pitching in and doing things for them and helping them financially, they have 3 small children, and it is so hard for the mom to do everything. It is amazing how a small community comes together when there is a need. Well, she came to me yesterday and asked if I could make her some thank you cards for her to send to everyone that has helped. I was honored that she would want my cards to give to everyone. So I am making a bunch of thank you cards for her. I hope she likes them and I hope everyone that receives them likes them too. For the challenge Jeannie picked the flower from George (one of my favorite flowers) and we used the saying thanks for going above and beyond. I hope you like it. I can't wait to see Jeannies. Believe it or not, I did 90% of the card while talking to Jeannie on the phone.
George flower cut at 3", 3 1/4" and 3 1/2".
Plantin Schoolbook- leaves at 2" #4 cut at 1 1/4" and also shadow cut
Mini Monograms- Thanks
I think Jeannie had thought I had lost my mind because I told her I had to wait a few minutes before I could take my picture because my card was in the freezer, yes the freezer. That is the fastest way to dry stickles.... I used the stickles on the ends of the flower petals. I am still laughing because she sent me a pm and it said freezer?????? do tell. I know she thought I had sniffed too much glue .

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!

Hoppy Birthday

This is also a Jeannie/Vicki Challenge card. She needed to do a birthday card for Madison so we both decided to make it a challenge card. I had a lot of fun with this card. I love lady bugs as long as they are on cards and outside, not inside.... but that would be a whole different story.

The lady bug is from walk in my garden and the leaves are from Plantin schoolbook, I think as far as leaves go they are some of my favorite to use. With the lady bug on the inside of the card I actually cut his head off and placed it in a different place to make it appear like he was looking behind him. I drew the faces on by hand and added ribbon to the corners and then added brads on top of the ribbon. Jeannie and I actually have done two lady bug card challenges, this one and then we also did the lady bug from home decor. That was a lot of fun too. I hope you enjoy this one. I know it was a lot of fun to make. I think the funnest thing about these challenges that Jeannie and I do is the fact that we both post at the same time. It is like we are two little kids waiting for Santa... I can't wait to see her card and she can't wait to see mine. It truly is a blast....

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.