Hello Spring Card

Hello!  I hope you are all doing well today.  Today I would like to share a card that I made for the Critter Sketch Challenge #153.  I tried to stay as close as possible to the sketch.  I used my Cricut to cut the ovals, oval mattings and the clovers.  I used clovers as my greenery, in honor St. Patrick's Day (the first sign of spring at our house anyway) and a Tim Holtz die for the flower.  The stamp is by My Creative Time. 

I hope you enjoyed the card and thanks for stopping by and taking a look. 

 

Margaret

Hello!  I hope you are all doing well today.  Today I would like to share a card that I made for the Critter Sketch Challenge #153.  I tried to stay as close as possible to the sketch.  I used my Cricut to cut the ovals, oval mattings and the clovers.  I used clovers as my greenery, in honor St. Patrick's Day (the first sign of spring at our house anyway) and a Tim Holtz die for the flower.  The stamp is by My Creative Time. 

I hope you enjoyed the card and thanks for stopping by and taking a look. 

 

Margaret

Cheerful Happy Everything Card

Hello, everyone!  Hope everyone is having a great day.  Today I am posting an entry into the Muse Challenge #6.  The inspiration for my card came from the card provided by Deanna Jean.
I haven't made many cards and I am trying to participate in more card challenges to gain a little more experience.  I used the colors in this card to inspire me to stamp a bright and cheerful background for a card.

I then embossed a small piece of vellum to add a little interest and then inked the embossing with coordinating ink and placed this in center of the card face.  I cut my center pieces with the Elegant Edges Cricut cartridge and then stamped with a Jaded Blossom sentiment, from the Simple Sayings 2 set.  I love how this card turned out.  

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look.  Please take the time to stop by the Muse Card Making Club to see what all the members have created.  Thanks again for stopping by and as always if you like what you see please become a follower.  See you soon.

Margaret

Hello, everyone!  Hope everyone is having a great day.  Today I am posting an entry into the Muse Challenge #6.  The inspiration for my card came from the card provided by Deanna Jean.
I haven't made many cards and I am trying to participate in more card challenges to gain a little more experience.  I used the colors in this card to inspire me to stamp a bright and cheerful background for a card.

I then embossed a small piece of vellum to add a little interest and then inked the embossing with coordinating ink and placed this in center of the card face.  I cut my center pieces with the Elegant Edges Cricut cartridge and then stamped with a Jaded Blossom sentiment, from the Simple Sayings 2 set.  I love how this card turned out.  

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look.  Please take the time to stop by the Muse Card Making Club to see what all the members have created.  Thanks again for stopping by and as always if you like what you see please become a follower.  See you soon.

Margaret

CAS(e) Challenge #16

Hi, everyone!  I just completed a card for the CAS(e) Challenge #16.  Using the provided sketch, I completed my card in about 1 hour.

I made a St. Patrick's themed card. that I will be giving it to my kids.  They will need some luk this year trying to catch Liam, the leprechaun in our yard( you can learn more about this tradition at:

 http://1creativemomof6sillykids.blogspot.com/2013/02/lucky-liam-layout.html ).

I used Jaded Blossom, Luck of the Irish stamp set, to stamp the internal and external sentiment.  A simple "Happy St. Patrick's Day" is stamped inside the card.  I also used my Cricut and A Child's Year cartridge to cut out the three clovers and some burlap to give the card some added dimension.  I am extremely pleased with this card.  Please take some time to stop by and take a look all the cards at CAS(e) Sketch Challenge.

 

I hope you liked the card and thanks for stopping by.

 

Margaret

Hi, everyone!  I just completed a card for the CAS(e) Challenge #16.  Using the provided sketch, I completed my card in about 1 hour.

I made a St. Patrick's themed card. that I will be giving it to my kids.  They will need some luk this year trying to catch Liam, the leprechaun in our yard( you can learn more about this tradition at:

 http://1creativemomof6sillykids.blogspot.com/2013/02/lucky-liam-layout.html ).

I used Jaded Blossom, Luck of the Irish stamp set, to stamp the internal and external sentiment.  A simple "Happy St. Patrick's Day" is stamped inside the card.  I also used my Cricut and A Child's Year cartridge to cut out the three clovers and some burlap to give the card some added dimension.  I am extremely pleased with this card.  Please take some time to stop by and take a look all the cards at CAS(e) Sketch Challenge.

 

I hope you liked the card and thanks for stopping by.

 

Margaret

A is for America Layout

Hello!  How is everyone doing today?  I have had a great week.  Thursday night, Steven (my 8 year old son) had a play at school.  He was so nervous, you see he was Abraham Lincoln.  He did a fine job.  I am so proud of his performance.  The entire cast did a great job.  I have made a layout for this occasion.  I used my Cricut to create the title and the silhoutte of Lincoln.  I made a pocket for a disc of the play that I recorded.  I also made two journaling tags.  One of the tags, I had my son write his lines from the play.  The second tag is where I will do my journaling.

Below you can see the envelope for the DVD tucked beneath the photo matting.  I may even tuck my journaling tag in the envelope.

You can see below the journaling tag my son wrote his lines from the play on.   I also had made a rosette from red and white striped ribbon and my son said "it looks a little girlie" so I made another rosette from burlap and layered it over the ribbon rosette.

I hope you enjoyed this layout.  I really came together pretty fast and most of all my son loves it.  Thanks for stopping by and if you liked this and my other work please become a follower.  Once again, thanks for taking a look.

Margaret

Hello!  How is everyone doing today?  I have had a great week.  Thursday night, Steven (my 8 year old son) had a play at school.  He was so nervous, you see he was Abraham Lincoln.  He did a fine job.  I am so proud of his performance.  The entire cast did a great job.  I have made a layout for this occasion.  I used my Cricut to create the title and the silhoutte of Lincoln.  I made a pocket for a disc of the play that I recorded.  I also made two journaling tags.  One of the tags, I had my son write his lines from the play.  The second tag is where I will do my journaling.

Below you can see the envelope for the DVD tucked beneath the photo matting.  I may even tuck my journaling tag in the envelope.

You can see below the journaling tag my son wrote his lines from the play on.   I also had made a rosette from red and white striped ribbon and my son said "it looks a little girlie" so I made another rosette from burlap and layered it over the ribbon rosette.

I hope you enjoyed this layout.  I really came together pretty fast and most of all my son loves it.  Thanks for stopping by and if you liked this and my other work please become a follower.  Once again, thanks for taking a look.

Margaret

Lucky Liam Layout

Hello!  Today I have made a layout for St. Patrick's Day.  My kids love to set animal traps(no need to worry about animals being injured, these traps just contain the animals) out the night before St. Patrick's Day. They have done this every year for 6 years, except for last year.  Last year they got a very special gift delivered, a little brother that was born March 13th, but he didn't get to come home until the 17th.  I think they were so excited about the new addition they forgot to set their traps out.  They scatter Leprechaun food (just gold/green glitter and oats) in the yard and around their traps.  Sometimes my kids make up snare traps and other contraptions also.  They have been known to place carrots, chocolates or any thing they think may entice the Leprechaun into their MANY traps.  The following morning they find "gold" dollar coins, gold/green buttons, strips of fabric (that ripped from the Leprechauns' clothing) and sometimes red hair.  They get so excited when they find the letter and coins that Liam leaves them for their trouble.  Yes, their leprechaun has a name, Liam, and he is mischievous.  I used several MCT dies for this layout.  I even convinced the kids to give me a few of the buttons that they have found in their traps in past years.  They would not give me any of the gold buttons, those are too precious, but they did give me some of the other buttons.  They did tell me that if they found some pieces of his clothes, I was welcome to a couple of those.  Those are treasures also.  This is what I came up with:

I embossed my title, Lucky Liam.  I even used several sentiments from the Christmas MCT stamps on this layout, the 98% nice and 2% naughty and the Believe.  They were so cute on the layout.  I made a brad with coordinating paper with my i-topper and used that brad to create a flower. 

I made a envelope with a MCT die to hold all their little memories.  I embossed a portion of the envelope and then used ink to color the design.  I must say it turned out gorgeous.  I also created a tag and punched a hole, that I will lace with some of that promised fabric.

I only used my Cricut to cut the clovers and the small grey silhoutte of Liam.  I inked the edges of all the photo mattings, clovers, tags and Liam.  I stamped an image over Liam so that it would appear that he was trying to hide in the brush. 

 

I hope you have enjoyed the layout and thanks for stopping by to take a look.  I am submitting this into the Cuttlebug Spot Cute as a Button Challenge and the MCT Smashy Challenge.

Margaret

Hello!  Today I have made a layout for St. Patrick's Day.  My kids love to set animal traps(no need to worry about animals being injured, these traps just contain the animals) out the night before St. Patrick's Day. They have done this every year for 6 years, except for last year.  Last year they got a very special gift delivered, a little brother that was born March 13th, but he didn't get to come home until the 17th.  I think they were so excited about the new addition they forgot to set their traps out.  They scatter Leprechaun food (just gold/green glitter and oats) in the yard and around their traps.  Sometimes my kids make up snare traps and other contraptions also.  They have been known to place carrots, chocolates or any thing they think may entice the Leprechaun into their MANY traps.  The following morning they find "gold" dollar coins, gold/green buttons, strips of fabric (that ripped from the Leprechauns' clothing) and sometimes red hair.  They get so excited when they find the letter and coins that Liam leaves them for their trouble.  Yes, their leprechaun has a name, Liam, and he is mischievous.  I used several MCT dies for this layout.  I even convinced the kids to give me a few of the buttons that they have found in their traps in past years.  They would not give me any of the gold buttons, those are too precious, but they did give me some of the other buttons.  They did tell me that if they found some pieces of his clothes, I was welcome to a couple of those.  Those are treasures also.  This is what I came up with:

I embossed my title, Lucky Liam.  I even used several sentiments from the Christmas MCT stamps on this layout, the 98% nice and 2% naughty and the Believe.  They were so cute on the layout.  I made a brad with coordinating paper with my i-topper and used that brad to create a flower. 

I made a envelope with a MCT die to hold all their little memories.  I embossed a portion of the envelope and then used ink to color the design.  I must say it turned out gorgeous.  I also created a tag and punched a hole, that I will lace with some of that promised fabric.

I only used my Cricut to cut the clovers and the small grey silhoutte of Liam.  I inked the edges of all the photo mattings, clovers, tags and Liam.  I stamped an image over Liam so that it would appear that he was trying to hide in the brush. 

 

I hope you have enjoyed the layout and thanks for stopping by to take a look.  I am submitting this into the Cuttlebug Spot Cute as a Button Challenge and the MCT Smashy Challenge.

Margaret

Kiss the Cook Layout

Hello!  It's been a few days since I posted anything, I know.  I was sick a few days and I spent a long weekend, Friday thru Monday, with my family.  I thought I would share a layout I created for an experience I shared with my youngest daughter, Katherine.  A few months back, I began making a strawberry cake for her, which is her favorite.  Before I was done, she had pulled a chair up to the counter and was mixing the cake herself.  She had such a big smile on her face and she was just tickled to be making her own cake.  I used the Kate's Kitchen Imagine Cartridge to print papers for the layout.  I also used the From My Kitchen cartridge for the recipe cards and tabs, the lips came from the Indie Art cartridge and the font is from the Type Candy Cartridge.

I hope you enjoyed the layout and thanks for stopping by and taking a look.  Hope to see you again soon.  If you like what you have seen please become a follower.  Thanks again.

Margaret

Hello!  It's been a few days since I posted anything, I know.  I was sick a few days and I spent a long weekend, Friday thru Monday, with my family.  I thought I would share a layout I created for an experience I shared with my youngest daughter, Katherine.  A few months back, I began making a strawberry cake for her, which is her favorite.  Before I was done, she had pulled a chair up to the counter and was mixing the cake herself.  She had such a big smile on her face and she was just tickled to be making her own cake.  I used the Kate's Kitchen Imagine Cartridge to print papers for the layout.  I also used the From My Kitchen cartridge for the recipe cards and tabs, the lips came from the Indie Art cartridge and the font is from the Type Candy Cartridge.

I hope you enjoyed the layout and thanks for stopping by and taking a look.  Hope to see you again soon.  If you like what you have seen please become a follower.  Thanks again.

Margaret

Nature Layout

Hello!  I am posting a layout for a picture that I took this summer on the Cossatot River, near Horatio, AR.  My family and I lease some property with a cabin.  The cabin is minimal, but the fun is overflowing at the river.  Everyday I get some amazing pictures of everyday creatures.  This layout is for a picture I snapped of a frog that was soaking in a side pool of the river.  You could see the top part of his body above the water, hanging on to a small branch, and you could also see his feet, I guess that is the correct biological term, below the clear water.  It was a great picture.  I have not printed the picture yet, so I just left the matting empty.  I cut the matting from a cut I created with my Gypsy and the leaves from the Storybook Cricut cartridge.  The matting was cut from a pearlescent paper. I stamped a journaling area.  I also stamped and embossed some plants on this layout (the bottom picture) and placed some burlap on the page to add some dimension and texture to the page.  I did not  make a title, because I think that I will just title the album I put all my nature layouts in.  

I am submitting this into the My Creative Time Embossing Challenge.  I hope you enjoyed the layout and thanks for stopping by and taking a look at this layout.

Margaret

Hello!  I am posting a layout for a picture that I took this summer on the Cossatot River, near Horatio, AR.  My family and I lease some property with a cabin.  The cabin is minimal, but the fun is overflowing at the river.  Everyday I get some amazing pictures of everyday creatures.  This layout is for a picture I snapped of a frog that was soaking in a side pool of the river.  You could see the top part of his body above the water, hanging on to a small branch, and you could also see his feet, I guess that is the correct biological term, below the clear water.  It was a great picture.  I have not printed the picture yet, so I just left the matting empty.  I cut the matting from a cut I created with my Gypsy and the leaves from the Storybook Cricut cartridge.  The matting was cut from a pearlescent paper. I stamped a journaling area.  I also stamped and embossed some plants on this layout (the bottom picture) and placed some burlap on the page to add some dimension and texture to the page.  I did not  make a title, because I think that I will just title the album I put all my nature layouts in.  

I am submitting this into the My Creative Time Embossing Challenge.  I hope you enjoyed the layout and thanks for stopping by and taking a look at this layout.

Margaret