Spring has Sprung

So it was another busy day at work, only to come home and the house thing. Spring has sprung at my house it seems, I have rose bushes in the front yard already starting to grow new stems and my grass got the wake-up call as well since it is up to my kids' armpits. Now they may not be the tallest dogs in the world, but that's still pretty tall to me.

With Spring arriving I feel as if I should start on my seasonal Spring cards. I have plenty of ideas, but where to start? Maybe I can get a photo of one of the kids in the long grass for a front of a card?

Design Team Extended!

I'm so happy that Scrapper's Boutique has extended the deadline for submitting for the Design Team. I was having a hard time with being able to produce three pieces of work and get it over to them by today. I work in pretty much downtown Dallas and it would take well over an hour to get there, something that I wasn't looking forward to with that traffic nightmare that is over that way. They have extended it to the 15th of this month, something that I know I can meet especially if my best friend and I are going to go and crop there this weekend.

I've posted what I have, but I'm sure I can come up with some more to submit. I think I need to look towards the next big holiday or season...Spring and Easter! I think I have some ideas....

Slide Show of photos

Here is a slide show of all the cards that I have made. It was much easier to have a slide show then to post each and every card I have made.

Fashion Goddess Birthday Card

This card was made at the request of mother for a friend/co-worker that their birthday is today. She is a fashion guru and I thought the decorated dress was a nice touch to the front of the card. I used my Cricut Expressions the cartridge "Paisley". The paper is from the stacks "Taj Mahal" and a stack made by "Me and my big ideas".

The Most Famous Reindeer of All Card

Using the "Christmas Cheer" cartridge for the Cricut, I cut out multiple reindeer in different sizes and linked them together. The card created a stir at the work place since there was disagreement as to how many reindeer there actually were. I got my information from Wikipedia, not the more reliable source but it was the quickest place to get my question answered.

Holiday Squirrel Card

This is yet another holiday card that I made for my mother. I embossed the red paper on the front with a Sizzix Tim Holtz embossing folder, and the squirrel was made using Cricut's Jolly Holidays cartridge. The inside I embossed the "Merry, merry, merry" and the Christmas was made using the cartridge "Christmas Cheer".

Ornament Holiday Card

I made this card for my mother for the holiday season to give out to her co-workers. I had planned to mass produce this card but as usual I decided that each card should be one of a kind, and so I only made a couple like this.

Farm Fresh Produce Card

I made this card when I received the photo that I got from my sister on my newest niece, Paige Olivia. There was just something about the look on her face that made me think of her being "farm fresh".

Happy Birthday Gram!

As you can tell by the inside and outside of the card, this is a birthday card for my grandmother "Gram". She has always made her own clothes, or at least a majority of them and so when I saw the vintage pattern paper I had to get it and I had to use it on a ard for my Gram. I used my cricut to cut the letters out for Happy Birthday and then printed the sentiment on the inside on my printer. The pattern paper is from October Sky if I remember correctly and the paper on the inside is from the Windsor collection put out by SEI one of my most favorite paper vender.

Get Well Soon Card

I made this card for a co-worker that had shoulder surgery and I thought it would be nice to make her a card to let her know that we were thinking of her. I used my cricut machine for the words and my Sizzix SideKick for the corner pieces on the inside. For the Hedgehog, I used the Give A Hoot cartridge since it seemed to have the most animals cart that I had at the time. I wonder if she still has it?

Happy Birthday Cupcake Card

I made this card for my co-worker for his birthday. He's a quiet one and so most in the office didn't even realize it was his birthday until I told them it was. So I made him a card, using my cricut and the Rock Princess cartridge for the cupcake. His favorite color was blue so I taylored the cupcake's colors to reflect that. The webs in the corner were from a spider web stamp and I just put half of the stamp on the corners and then embossed it using blue glitter. The sentiment was something that went with the front so well.

Baby card

This is yet another card in my top five cards, that I just love. I think it might have something to do with the pram and the paper on the outside of the card. It was a fairly simple card to make, only requiring my "machine" for the making of the pram and "It's a Boy" tag line. The paper on the outside is made by Bo Bunny and when I attempted to find more of it, I was out of luck so I have been hoarding the little bit of that paper I have left for another card.

Birthday Card for Sister

I think that out of the few cards that I have made this one is a top five for me. I used elements that I wasn't very good at yet, and yet looking at it now; I must say it was an awesome looking card. Not sure how I plan to top this one for my sister, but I'm sure I will figure something out. Now to the nitty-gritty, how and what I used for the card. Well I used a black card for the base and then used my cricut to cut out the Happy Birthday on the front. I used a cling bird stamp on the front and used flocking as glitter to make it stand out. On the inside I used more flocking, a rubber stamp for the edges, a nice saying that I found and you can't tell from the photo but a teal shimmery cardstock on the inside.

Mother's Day Card

I absolutely love, love, love this card. I made it when I had limited tools to work with when making cards. I just used a blank black card and picked out a color that coordinated with the colors in the flower, which was supplied to my by my best friend, who has an eye for the photo shots. From there is was just a matter of picking out what to say on the outside and the inside, a bit of glitter in the center of the flowers on the inside, and ta-da! Card.

Did I say how much I love this card? LOL

Birthday Card for my Niece

I made this card for my niece, when she turned the big 6 years old. I used my Sizzix Sidekick for the butterflies and a swirl punch for the swirls. It was a back card, but I thought it turned out very nice.

Just an aside

I thought I would take a moment out of my day and comment on how lucky most people are in the world. A good friend/co-worker of my mom's, son has just recently died. He passed away on Monday, after a long and hard battle with Leukemia. He made it to his seventh birthday, Christmas and Thanksgiving, amazing since they didn't think he would last that long. But it seems his body finally gave up and he passed away.

There will be a ceremony tomorrow (Friday-2/25/2011) and it has been requested that you wear red in rememberance of Ryan.

Mother's Day Card for my sister

So I made this card for my sister for Mother's Day. I have this thing for birds so I used some cling stamps on the front and inside and put a quote that I found in there as well. I did so like that card.

Happy Birthday Card for Gram

This is a birthday card that I made for my Grandmother, for my mother. I used the Mickey font for the letters on the inside and the Celebrate with Florish cartridge for the outside. The paper on the inside is from SEI and I used Martha Stewart glitter on the letters inside.

Peacock Thinking of You Card

So this is my peacock "Thinking of you " card I made using some HP photo paper an image of a peacock, which I do so love. I used a pair of decorative scissors on the edges of the photo and mounted it on a blue background to go with the blue in the feathers of the peacok.

Mermaid Notecard

I just fell in love with this image when I first saw it. So instead of making a card, in which the photo wouldnt fit, I made a large notecard. I mounted the image onto a yellow background and then mounted all of that to a sheet of watercolor paper on the back. I do love this image and this was actually one of my first drives into the card making world.