Welcome Little One ~ with Craftin Desert Divas

Hi There! It's my day to share an inspiration project on the Craftin Desert Divas Blog.

This is what I am sharing:

I made these quick and easy baby cards that you can literally whip up in no time with the wonderful products from Craftin Desert Divas!

 All that is needed to make these cards is a few dies, sentiment stamps, and some patterned paper. 

My card base color was dictated by the patterned paper I used. I layered it with some designer paper cut with the Crazy Stitched Frame Dies.

I used the new Tiny Treasure Dies and cut my pieces with various patterned paper and inked around all the edges with some Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

For my little girl card I added a flower to the onsie from the Crazy Stitched Frame Dies and a few little buttons on the shoes for some detail.

For my boy version I added a star from the Pocket Pieces Hello Dies and a bit of Baker's Twine to the shoes.

To finish the cards off I used the adorable sentiment from Sugar & Spice.

And there you have it! Super easy but, oh, so cute!

Thanks for joining me today!

    

Sptlighting My Craft Spot ~ Post #4

Hi Everyone!

Today is my 4th post featuring a card using hand-dyed Crinkle Ribbon from My Craft Spot. As I had shared with you Sunday, I am the Spotlight Sunday feature writer over at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog where we featured My Craft Spot. If you missed it, you can find the article - HERE.

In keeping with the challenge theme this week over at FCCB, I made a shaped card other than a square or rectangle. I am also submitting this to the Wacky Wednesday Callenge over at More Than Favors.

Here is what I used to create this card:

Cricut Cartridges ~ Birthday Bash for my card base and layer, New Arrival for my elephant

My Craft Spot ~ Petal Pink Crinkle Ribbon

Pink By Design stamps ~ Baby Love

Cardstock ~ Recollection, My Mind's Eye Twinkle Twinkle Little Girl

Sakura Gelly Roll Pen ~ White

Ranger Distress Ink ~ Brushed Corduroy

Baker's Twine

Button

Googly Eyes

Foam Tape, Pop Dots, ATG

Did you notice the gorgeous Crinkle ribbon? If you are interested in purchasing Crinkle Ribbon or Baker's Twine I want to let you know about a special promotion that Kimberly is offering.

With every $25 purchase you will receive FREE one 30 yard spool of Traditional Baker's Twine in the color of your choice. All you need to do is write: FCCB free twine offer with your color choice in the "notes to seller" section at the time of checkout.

This special promotion will end March 15, 2011, so you will want to hurry! And get this...

Every order recieves FREE shipping no matter how much you spend.

Kimberly is also our sponsor for the current challenge over at FCCB. That means if you play along with us you may have a chance of winning a wonderful gift certicate from My Craft Spot. You can find the current challenge- HERE.

Now go visit My Craft Spot -HERE to see all the scrumptous colors of Crinkle Ribbon and Baker's Twine.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Happy Crafting!

Bundle of Joy Layout

Hi Everyone! It's me again! This is my second post for today. :)

If you are looking for the Fantabulous Cricut "Share the Love" Crawl click HERE.
For the Flaunt It Fridays "Paper Doll" Blog Hop click HERE.

Today is design team day at 40:31 Creations. There are 5 fabulous stamps sets created by Lauren and there will be soon, and I mean very soon, to be released sets on the horizon. These stamps are of high quality and stamp so crisp and clean. I love them.

Our project for today was to make a layout. Now, as many of you know from following my blog, I really don't do layouts. In fact, I have only ever done one before so... this is a struggle for me. I love that I am being stretched creatively. My vision I had at first is nothing like what I ended up creating but all I can say is that I LOVE the end result. 

Isn't this adorable! The picture is of my oldest daughter. She is about to turn 16 in a few weeks. Time sure does fly! Ok, on to the details:

Cricut Cartridges ~ New Arrival, airplane and banner with all the layers, Pooh and Friends, butterfly and layers, Smiley Cards, flowers and all the layers. I hid the faces on these using my Gypsy. Plantin Schoolbook to add a tiny rectangle to the stems of the flowers to make them longer. I welded these together in my Gypsy. Zooballoo for the grass. I also used my Gyspy here to weld 2 pieces together to make it long enough to fit across my 12 x 12 mat.

40:31 Creations ~ New Baby stamps.

Peachy Keen Stamps ~ PK-532 Simple Sallies 1 1/8 and PK-754 Critter Faces Set A Medium

White and Black Gelly Roll Pens for doodling.

White pigment ink ~ I used this to sponge on my background to give the look of clouds. It's very subtle.

Foam tape and ATG

Thanks for stopping by and make sure you visit 40:31 Creations to see what my fellow designers have created today. You will not be disappointed. You can check out Lauren's stamps HERE.

Happy Crafting!

I will be submitting this for The Pink Stamper challenge because it makes me smile! :)

Welcome Little One

Here is a card I made for the Cricut Cardz Challenge and for My Pink Stamper's Challenge. On Cricut Cardz Challenge you are to make a baby card using the colors orange, green, yellow, and white only and on My Pink Stamper you are to make something with a bird. I love when I can enter more than one challenge. Just so you know Robyn on My Pink Stamper is celebrating 5 million hits on her blog and is doing several challenges and giveaways. If you haven't check her blog out you are missing a real treat. Here are the details for my card:

This card is 5 1/4 x 5 1/4 and is folded at the top

• Cricut cartridge used ~ New Arrival ~ rubber duck. I used the hide contour on my Gypsy to hide the eye. I also used Plantin School Book~ squares for my matting. I used real dial size and also unlinked the height and width to get the sizes I wanted.
• Martha Stewart ~ Lace punch
• Solid Cardstock ~ Recollections ~ You can purchase this cardstock at Micheals. I have been trying out different solid cardstock and this seems to cut nicely and it's not too expensive :)
• Ribbon ~ Hobby Lobby
• Sentiment ~ Computer generated
• Cuttlebug ~ Swiss Dots embossing folder and Divine Swirls embossing folder ~ these are 2 of my favorites!
• Foam tape ~ I popped the duck up off the base
• Martha Stewart ink ~ Orange ~ I inked the duck
• Gelly Roll Pen

I am so encouraged by your comments. Thanks for being so sweet!

Happy Crafting!

Throwback Thursday Challenge

Good Afternoon, Everyone! I hope you are enjoying your weekend. It is a beautiful day here in NC.

As some of you may know Emma over at My Creative Time has a challenge every Thursday called Throwback Thursday. She challenges you to use older cartridges. For this week's challenge we were to use New Arrival, but I don't own that one currently so I used Stretch Your Imaginations and Doodlecharms.

Here is the recipe:

Paper is from Papertrey Ink.

Stretch Your Imaginations cartridge ~ Baby p.70. I welded the shadow cuts in Design Studio. The I used the blackout feature for the baby and clothing. I also cut another bay for the inside of the card. These were all cut at 5 inches.

Doodlecharms ~ duck p.103. This was cut at 1/2 inch using the blackout feature.

Cuttlebug ~ Swiss Dots folder

Bottons and ribbon from my stash. I believe I purchased both of these from Walmart.

White gellyroll pen for stitching

The face was hand drawn. I'm very pleased with how this card came out.

Thanks for stopping by!

~Saundra :)

Sweet Baby Shower Card

Wow! It's been a while since I posted! We are on summer break so I've had some time to play. I needed to make a baby shower card and this is what I came up with. It is a pretty simple card but came out quite cute.

Materials used:

Cartridges:
Everyday Paper Dolls~ used for the baby
Simply Sweet~ used for the Sweet Baby

Cuttlebug Folder~ Swiss Dots (I used this to emboss the white letters)

Paper:
DCWV Baby Girl Stack

Studio G ink
Corner Rounder

Another Sweet Baby Card

I needed to make a card for a baby shower. So, I liked the other I had made a few weeks ago that I thought I would make another one only with a different Cricut cut. I wanted to use my Nestabilities, too! ( I really like them!!)
For this card I used the DCWV Baby Girl Stack. My card base is 5x7. I layered the papers, cut my scalloped circles and pop-dotted them from the page. I cut the rocking horse 3 times at three inches from Paper Dolls Dress Up cartridge. Then I cut it again at 3 inches from patterned paper. I wanted him to be sturdy like chip board so I glued 2 of the yellow images together and I ran the 3rd one through my Cuttlebug using the Swiss Dots folder and glued him on top of the other two. Then I paper pieced my patterned paper. I took some Color Box brown pigment ink and inked all my edges. I then pop-dotted my rocking horse from the scallops. I added some mint green ribbon that I have had around for a very long time but never seemed to find quite the right project and Viola! the card was finished! Here is a picture of the inside. I have started decorating the inside of my cards lately and I really like how much it seems to add to the quality of my cards.

I hope you enjoyed looking today. Come back anytime :)

~Saundra

A Sweet Baby Card

This is a card I made for a friend that just had a baby. I saw a similar card on the Cricut messageboard and thought it would be perfect. I used DCWV Baby Girl stack. I just love this paper. The scalloped circles are Nestablities. I cut the lamb from the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge. I cut it three times and layered it with pop dots. The top layer is run through the Cuttle Bug using D'Vine Swirls. I cut the ticket tag from Stretch Your Imaginations, once on black out and once on shadow. The sentiment is from Stampin Up! I added a little ribbon, inked the hooves, and used a little Prisma pencils for the nose and cheeks. I think is came out very cute!

Here is a close up of the lamb.