Animals!

My friend asked me to make an 'animal' themed birthday card for her son's 2nd birthday this Saturday. I love it when people ask me to make a card & give me a theme! It really makes the whole card making experience so much better. It's a lot easier & a lot more fun when I am making cards for someone else to give away! I cheated with this card...I don't have a cart with animals, so I bought stickers! I used my Cuttlebug to emboss the sheet behind the monkey & I used my Doodlecharms cart to get the palm tree. I finally got to use my new ribbon punch that I have been dying to use. It evenly spaces little holes perfectly sized for my ribbon. I love it!


I'm pretty proud of my swinging monkey. All it took was layered paper, an eyelet and 'rope' for my little monkey to swing freely! Kids are easily amused by moving objects & I wanted to make sure my card interested him...at least for a couple of seconds. ;)



I couldn't decide if I wanted to use the sunshine & the cloud above the animals. I'm pretty sure I will because the card feels so empty without it. I left the brown spot open for the sentiment. I haven't come up with a cute saying yet...

Hello Kitty Halloween.

I don't know who will be the recipient of this card. It's a back up card!! If I don't have enough time to make a better card, this will go out to one of my fellow HK lovers. The Hello Kitty Greetings cart is the MOST difficult cart I own. Partly because I don't have the Cricut Expression. My Cricut is great with most of the carts, but sometimes I just can't use a cart to it's full potential because I have the smaller Cricut. It's a bit frustrating! I'm definitely considering an upgrade!!

Anyways, here's another tri-fold shutter card.

Hello Kitty Birthday!

I made a HK card for my friend's upcoming birthday. Fun fact: My friend actually gave me the HK ribbon I used on this card. I thought she would appreciate me putting the ribbon to good use!

I used my Hello Kitty Greetings Cricut cart for this project. It's honestly the most difficult cart I own!! I don't recommend it, but I love it anyways.

A head start on Halloween!!

My first Halloween card of the year.

Baby Shower #2

As I mentioned before, my mom needed me to make 2 baby shower cards for her. This is card 2 of 2. I really like these tri-fold cards & they're fairly easy to make.

The baby rattle cut out is from my Wild Card cart.



Do you see that little blue dot on the flower? Well, I was stamping the back of the card with my initials and accidentally put the card in the ink pad. Thankfully, this was the only damage! I considered replacing the flower, but I thought I might do more damage taking the flower off the card since I used the super glue dots to hold it in place. Ah, the fun of card making!!

Happy Anni, honey!

I made an anniversary card for my husband. We'll be celebrating a full year of marriage on Sunday! It's amazing how fast a year goes by. I love you, Dustan!

The '143' design is from my Simply Sweet cart.

I didn't plan on adding anything else to the card, but it looked like it needed something...



So, I added '143' on the side. It means 'I love you' in number form. [I=1, love=4, you=3]


I still need to add the sentiment, but I am out of printer paper! I'm headed to my mom's to print up something sweet & then I'm headed to my hubby's office to leave this card & a cookie bouquet on his desk!

Baby Shower #1

My mom asked me to make 2 baby shower cards for the baby showers she will be attending this month. This is 1 of 2. After my mom adds a personal sentiment, this card will be ready!

I used my Wild Card Cricut cart for this card.