fishing

good morning,  I showed my daughter the "you rock" card I had made for her boyfriend and she looked at it and told me he is not into music...he is into fishing, so back to the drawing board and I came up with this one.
If she thinks it is too girly, she will be getting it for her bd...  it is a coral color, looks more pink in picture.

                                                     the inside

Mojo Monday # 251 another fish

Hi,  with this colorful paper it reminded me of a coral reef, the same paper I used earlier,   this time I am using MJM   sketch...

4 1/4  x 5 1/2 card size
black 4 1/8 x 5 3/8
color  4 x 5 1/4
left  black 2 1/8 x 3 1/2
      blue   2 x 3 3/8
both on right    black  1 5/8 x 2 3/8
                     color    1 1/2 x  2 1/4

note cards

good morning    I gave these note cards to my girlfriend for her birthday
have to give credit to    
chris416ward  ( the purple)  and      ruthean  ( the birds on a fence) I welded the 2 together on my DS
I found them both on you tube   under   cricut songbird cartridge
made from all scraps

 I had one box left from Christmas and added front with her initial   on it...

WOW...18 note cards yesterday!!!

Jeannie Phillips fishy and Ally Egass' chicken and another chicken from my kitchen....

you will find Jeannie's fish over at...
http://aplaceformycards.blogspot.com/search/label/Animal%20Kingdom?updated-max=2009-05-04T11:45:00-05:00&max-results=20&start=12&by-date=false

I made 10 of these little guys to add to my pile for Christmas and other gift giving occasions that always seem to come up,  I have always liked this cute fish of Jeannie's and thought I would give it a try, I had it on my DS for a long time and was in a low mojo moment yesterday,   and then made 10 of these....
lots of inking, layers,doodling,

 I made 4 of Ally's   you will find hers at...
http://www.rockpapercricut.com/2012/03/my-craft-spot-challenge-47-for-birds.html
I don't remember seeing this cute little chicken in from my kitchen, but I do think I will be making her more..
I am not sure what sentiment I will add under the chicken, will add later...these are 4 1/4 square with the chicken extending over the card to make a 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inch card....I used all scraps for these, 
inking,

I also found this chicken in FMK and made 4 of these also....made these with all scraps, it is like pot luck!!!
I think the stripes are so cute....inking cuttlebug

I no longer finish the inside of note cards, when I made them last year, when I put the gifts together I noticed that there was not much space for writing, so I am leaving them blank, it also frees me up a lot!!!

THANKS SO MUCH FOR LOOKING,  I hope you get a chance to look at Jeannie and Ally's, they are worth the look

Challenge #44 - Stair Step/Center Step/Side Step Birthday Cards!

Hi all, over at birthday sundaes they want side step cards this week,,,this is for my day, since he does not go fishing any more, I thought I would make it easy for him...He also likes cards, he will look at every detail and comment on it
pop dotted, some doodling and inking....

 I added plastic over the fish bowl to look like glass, see the shine!!!

for Aubrey's Birthday

Hi all, I have worked on these for the last few days,,, Aubrey loves making her own cards, so I made a bunch of figures for her,,,for a 5 year old she knows what she likes.
I used up a lot scraps, but it looks like I did not even put a dent into the pile...

Birthday Sundaes # 28

Challenge #28 - Who's got the button? Birthday Card

That's right - this week's challenge is all about buttons! We'd like to see you create a birthday themed card using buttons.  Don't forget the birthday wording somewhere on your card front!

 Sunday at my daughters bd party my nephew was talking about snakes and how he caught one this summer, his bd is Thurs.,so he is getting a snake!!! the paper is from complete  boy from my minds eye

John's 60th BD

Hi all, this is for a friend of ours whooos  big 60 coming up soon, I had to make the 60 in a bright orange....

 

lots of different carts with this card

I welded the s (from Don Juan)   onto whooo from (Animal kingdom)

with my DS

Eli's 1st Thanksgiving

Hi all, this card got to be a large 1/2 card size card, after seeing Kelly's  turkey shaped cards I thought I would give it a try, well my turkey was a little bigger than what I wanted and I decided to make it pop up for a 3D look and the card took on a look of its own from there.
I used the turkey from animal kingdom @ 5 1/2inches with lots of added layers
happy thanksgiving from Holiday cakes @ 1 7/8
could not make it without my design studio
sentiment... comp. made from one of my programs
shimmer spritz to one layer, doodled, EX punch
colorful paper from s.i.e. nutmeg

                                         the inside

                        I add a tag  to the back of all of my cards

Joy's crow

I have not been in the mood to make any cards so I decided it might help to at least  copy a card... you will find Joy's crow here....
http://joy-purttypaperz.blogspot.com/2010/08/crows-in-cornfield.html
you might also want to check out her blog for really cute ideas..
my pumpkins where found in everyday paper dolls, crows legs from pg.91 animal kingdom, corn in my world pg. 34

                                                             the inside

Welcome Eli

Hi,
This is for our newest addition to our family Eli,  I am so excited we got to see him for the first time last night through skype,   He looks beautiful, Mom and baby are doing fine and new daddy is so proud, Elijah is their first.  the distance is not the best thing but skype sure is a second best....I can even get grandpa in the house a bit quicker by calling him up and telling him we will be see Eli in an hour...he was in in 20 min.
this card is for him...I used my cricut and design studio

                                                                        the inside

Tyler's BD card

I have been testing out my design studio, even though Tyler is (oh my goodness) going to be 25, I think he will get a kick out of this card..  he is  a fun loving party guy
Animal kingdom & celebrations

                               looks better in real life, washed out look from lighting

Kris & Francis 13th Anniversary card

 3rd card with random pick of cricut cartridges....

this time I grabbed Animal Kingdom, thinking I should find something for my husband in here, after all his BD is the next big day coming up.....nope instead I found the fishy  kisses and thought anniversary. so this is what I came up with
Animal Kingdom bowl @3 1/2"
fish @ 1 1/4" , I have a flip feature on my create which really comes in handy
sea weed @ 2"    and fishy kisses @ 3/4"
Now here is the funny part of this card, it might look like something you might have seen....well I was looking through the hand book that comes with the cartridge and this is what they used for a sample. I wish I would have seen it first, it would have saved me a lot of paper and time...I started with the fish bowl and worked from there, good thing too, I wanted to make a 1/4 card and it ended up square.
no picture of the inside, it is just the gold background on this one....

1-4-10 Animal Kingdom

Here I used the Owl from Animal Kingdom
Owl @ 3"
Branch from Winter Woodland @ 1 1/4 & 1 1/2"
I am happy with this one!

INSIDE  OOPS! I forgot the writing area!

 

all fixed, but I think it would have worked without the writing  blank space!

crafty creations challenge #41 and Just buggin Challenge #11 animal die cut

From Crafty Creations Challenge      SNOW

cold weather in Minnesota comes. . . SNOW. I would like to see your snowy creations. From Snow creatures to lots of white, lets see what you can come up with and throw a snowcreation back at us.

and from Just Buggin..... animal die cut
this is what I came up with    penguin at 3 inches shadow, blackout and reg. layered and pop dotted 
my first time using flower soft....might use a  little more next time.

a pedestal card

 

Jeff's thank you, story behind this one!

since this is for a man I did not want to alter it with glitter, so I did with ink....snow on the trees, a little on the deer and on antler is missing, to make it look like he might have just a nub!


Oh My, I normally don't have a story to tell about a card, but this one I do!
My Daughter Britt, locked my keys inside the trunk of the car Thurs. after school, I was at her volleyball game and her BD was on Sat.  (today). I told her there was a treat in the trunk for her team and she could go get it. when she returned I asked for my keys and she had a surprised look on her face when they where not in her hand. "Oh, they must be in the trunk!"  Thinking the spare key was at home, I called my dad who lives a few blocks from school if he could take me home for the spare key. Get Home and the key is not there....remember  Carol!   I put it in my purse! and my purse is in the trunk! and no more keys.(it was in my purse, because we went to CO to visit our daughter and son-in-law and brought it just in case it was needed)
So I called non-emergency police and asked if they could unlock it?  Since  it is an electric unlock system, they could not. They told me my best bet was to call a lock smith or a tow truck.  Herb told me no lock smith they would cost too much and that he would think about it and get to it after chores. So my dad took me back to school  to pick Britt up, (by the way they won all 3 games) and took us back home. Good thing we are only 3 miles from school. So I started thinking, Why would the officer tell me about a tow truck?  who do I know that owns a service station, a tow truck!!! My daughters father in law, a good friend of our also!
Jeff to the rescue..... he has this tool that can gently pry the door so he can get this fishing pole looking thing to get to the door opener.  THEN the alarm goes off and since we have the button  trunk opener  in the door. push that and get the keys out of the trunk and shut the alarm off....What a night!
We were talking about his hunting (the front of the card) and how the week before he was hit by a woman who ran a red stop light ( the inside of the card)  I also put a $25 gift card to Fleet Farm in it for a thank you!
Okie challenge,  deer AK, trees DC, truck EDPD, oval inside GBS, band-aid  IA

THANKS FOR LOOKING!

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chicken