look what Elegant Edges can make (4 cards)

good morning to all,  while looking through my Elegant Edges hand book, I wondered what the "book"  key would make, so I brought one up on my design studio to give it a try....WOW!  I really love the way these turned out... all are 5 inches in height and will fit nicely into a 5 1/2 inch square envelope.
the snowman was the 2nd card I made, I wanted to catch your eye so you might come and see the other 3...
I wanted to see  what the little swirl would look like in the snow, I added the negative  for a wind blowing effect.
 EE pg 25 in hand book and I put him on a wobble and cuttlebug for the snow

                                     EE pg. 29, SYI for the tree

                                   EE pg. 47  AE snowflake

 EE pg 22 Indie Art for the butterfly, this was the first one I made, going to my  s-i-l for her bd

I could not believe how fast and easy these all went together, all made yesterday and on my Design Studio
each  card has 3 layers of EE 1/8 to 1/4 inch smaller than the first, the snowman white layer I tore for the snow on the ground look.

2 challenges in one

Hi all,
 over at My Craft spot

Monday Challenge #66 - Under the Stars, camping theme

 and over at cardztv....

Cricut Cardz Challenge #114 "Critter Cuties"

 what would camping be without the little critters that live in the great outdoors....it seems like we could never go camping without a skunk showing up, and the trip the the outhouse could always hear hoo, hoo

I used stretch you imagination for the tree,
camp out for the skunk
create a critter for the owl and branch and stars
campin critters for the tent

Ben's BD card

good morning to all, Ben is a Christmas Eve baby and I wanted to make him something non-Christmas for his BD,   he plays his guitar at church, so I hope he understands where I got the idea from.....
lots of inking doodling, the notes are from SYI

Alex's 23rd birthday

for Alex I made this gingerbread man, he has been grandpa's baker helper since he was a little kid... I hope he has great memories from his childhood!!

mojo monday #207

 good morning to all, Britt will be 16 on Monday!!! she hates craft shopping with
me, until one day I had a great coupon and she did go into Michaels with me, anyway she saw this paper and thought it was really cool. I knew for  MJM  I would be using this paper with a guitar, the sketch was the only thing I was waiting for....

 

she was right , it does make a cool teen card!

Cricut Cardz Challenge # 85

Hi all, Mary over at CCC is asking for....
Challenge #85 Holiday - Anything Goes! Make a card for any holiday you choose, using any cartridge and colors you'd like.
  
I have made lots of  Christmas cards this year and thought I would try Halloween ...
lots of inking.  I also kept the tree with the over hang of the branches, I thought it looked more interesting....

 I used only scraps and did not have enough blue for the inside. so I just cut it in half and added the rest of the fence and more leaves that had fallen off of the tree....

 this is a 5 1/4 square and will fit into a half fold card envelope. 

card for Becky

Hi all, this morning I have a card for  my good friends daughter, she likes to claim the cards that I make for her so I thought maybe Ruthann can retrieve it if I send one out special...this idea came from Kim at paper in the works...Kim does so much more with her cards (sewing, lace, buttons) that I sure hope that I do justice to them.

lots of inking, some beads..
 white 4 3/4 square                            inside white 4 3/4 x 4
blue 4 5/8 square                                          pink 4 5/8 x 3 7/8
pink 4 5/8 x 2 3/4                                        black 3 3/4 x 3
orange 4 5/8 x  1 3/4                                    blue 3 5/8 x 2 7/8
white 4 5/8 x 1 7/8                                 white sentiment  3 3/8 x 2 5/8
black 4 5/8 x 2
for the black and white on the pink I just added a 1 inch stripe x 4 5/8 and eye balled it.

Mojo Monday # 189 contest time...Happy 1st Mother's Day Sarah

This card is going to My daughter for her first Mother's day. It will get to her late, but I was just not on top of things this week. I really thought I had one more week. It is also for Mojo Monday ...
I made it into a easel card, lots of inking and trying to figure out how the fold would  look...

Eli's 1st Easter

Good Morning,,, for this card I stayed with Jitterbuggin's sketch ....

mojo monday # 156 Jenny's bd card

the picture does not do this card justice, looks better in real life. I was not really sure about this sketch, but much to my surprise I really like it!!
flower was from SYI @ 3inches....lots of inking and a little gem. MS & fiskars punch

                                                                   the inside

Brian and Kaye's HSH card

this sketch I found over by  Patti @ Stampersize,  It is a sketch and digi challenge but I had this card in mind when I saw the sketch.   sketch by   Jessie Fitz Henry
My Nephew and his wife bought their first home in Dec. and are have  their first house party. this is what I came up with...
SYI trees @ 7"--inside, 5 3/4 & 3 1/4"
JOTS home @ 3 1/4"
Home accents HOME @ 1"
I know it is a fall scene, I just bought this paper at M's with my 40% off coupon
it is call nutmeg. large 1/2 fold size card

                                                inside and the colors look much better here...

not sure why my camera did not pick up the beautiful color in the first picture, but the true colors are in the second....thanks for looking, Carol<><

Shannon & Jeff anniversary card

Wow, do I have a lot of cards in June!! I counted 13 and then another was tossed in yesterday. So i decided to do something a bit different. Pick a cartridge and work with what ever it had. The first one I grabbed was
stretch your imagination, notice I said grabbed and not picked, this would not have been one for me to pick!!
so I looked through it a bit and found these glasses, good for a anniversary, right!!
Glasses from cricut SYI cut @ 2 1/4"
the back ground frame  also from SYI page 78 in black out & shadow @ 4" and
then @ 3" in blackout  lots of inking,  corner punch and pop dotted

                                                                          the inside

I'll have to post the other ones later, have to run to town, I sure did get a lot done yesterday not going online and just making cards. until later, have a wonderful day!!! Carol<><

self challenge... what to do with SYI

Over at     "My little spot of Sanity"   blue6366 is have a little trouble coming up with ideas and asking for for our help to get her out of her slump  this is what I came up with...

good morning! so are you ready??
Stretch your imagination page 35 the bike in the stretched and I am thinking in the special fold of your choice, and you can use anything in the summer section to go with it.
don't stress over it and since I am giving you an assignment I think I better give it a try also...
Have fun with this..
Okay   this was not easy... I made the bike yesterday and put it aside because I just did not know what to  do with it   until today ...I was surfing the blogs and came across a card with this sketch and with the tall framed on the right side I knew this would work, sorry I don't remember where I saw it,  then I forgot it had to be in a different fold ,, I made it into a pedestal card!
cricut SYI Bike @ 3 1/4 " in blackout and layers
frame # 3 3/4" real dial setting
strips @ 1/1/8 x 3 3/8" white and 1 x 3 1/4" for the patterned paper
3 buttons  tied w/hemp cord
cuttlebug diamond plate
Base 4 x 2 1/2 white
patterned paper 3 7/8 x 2 3/8 and sentiment white 2 x 3 1/2
little inking but not on the white

                                                                 pedestal card

My very own design! with a little inspiration

Okay, I finally wrote everything down.... Ya me!
now I can share with anyone how might be interested
SYI -  bird house base and shadow @ 2 3/4 inches
pole cut on my cutter @ 5/8 " wide
WW -  bird @ 1 1/2 "
holly at 1" and at 1 1/2"
red stickles, flower soft - polar white
paper from Holiday collection The Christmas Stack  DCWV
and the finished card is 4 1/2 x 6 1/4 to fit into the newer sized envelope at
Wal-mart which is 4 3/4 x 6 1/2

the inside

    and my sweat shirt.....where the inspiration came from! Hope you like it!

BBTB Challenge SYI and blog hop

The challenge this week is to use the TAG from the STRETCH YOUR IMAGINATION cartridge....This tag can be used for just about any project....check out what the team did....but there was one catch....they had to use the tag in some type of HALLOWEEN or FALL type project...

I picked the fall project because I was a little tired of Halloween.

I decided to make 2 since I am trying to get some made for Britt's fund raiser.

and the back to write on.

both done at 5 1/2 inches, I think the leaves are at 2 inches and 2 1/2 for the larger tag

hope you like.

Labor of Love for Shelly

I call this one a labor of  love because of  all of the leaves on this tree that have to be raked up!  Shelly is the designer over at CCC and asked us all to join her and make our own card with leaves on it

this is what I came up with.

tree, autumn and leaves are from SYI

girl and rake are from everyday paper dolls.

You might be asking yourself, Rake?

I made it from the yield sign!

thanks for looking