Mickey Birthday Banner

Our daughter's 2nd birthday is coming up and we chose to do a Mickey Mouse theme since that is her favorite character. I used my Silhouette Cameo with the Silhouette Design Studio to design the black Mickey heads. I used Cricut Craftroom with my Cricut machine to cut out the letters. 

Mickey Birthday

Our daughter's favorite character is Mickey Mouse, so for her second birthday we are throwing her a Mickey party. This is her invitation that I made for the party. I used Mickey Mouse and Friends cartridge with my Cricut and Cricut Craftroom to cut out Mickey.

Will you be my Valentine?

I chose to do a Valentine's card since it is only a little over a month away. I used a heart for the triple time stamping technique. The card is in various pinks and red.

Birthday Fun

My Mom turns 65 this month so I thought I would make her a birthday card. I decided to do some word play while making her card. I used my Cricut with the Cricut Craft Room for the lettering and sentiment inside the card. I used my Stampin Up owl punch and bird punch for the embellishments on the front.

Happy New Year!

It's the start of another year. My goal is to make a card for each day that I am at home. On the days we are gone on vacation I am not going to stress about. I originally wanted to do a card a day, but I know it's not completely possible when we are a busy family. I will do my best to do as many as I can. I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut out the greeting for this card. The greeting comes from Miss Kate Cuttables.

Happy Veteran's Day

Thanks to all the men and women who have served in the military!

Stampin Up Hexagon punch

Christmas window

I did a really simple card today. I punched out 4 squares and used a big stamp to cover each of the squares. Then I positioned them equally apart from each other to get a pretend window look. I used a Christmas stamp for the sentiment.

Turkey Time

Tonight's inspiration comes from this page: http://321stamp.typepad.com/321_stamp_launching_creat/2008/10/punch-art-turkey-tutorial.html
My husband suggested that I do a punch art turkey and so I did.

All punches are Stampin' Up. I used 1 3/4" scallop circle punch minus 5 of scallops so that one side is flat. 1" square for the hat. 1" circle for the head. 1 3/8" circle for the body. Boho blossom punch for the beak (one petal of the flower) and the feet.

For the feathers I used double-sided paper and folded the sides in to the middle.

I placed the body on the feathers and here is the finished product of the turkey. Once I figured out I didn't have any Thanksgiving stamps that I could use I decided to use my Silhouette Cameo for the wording.

Angels among us

I have decided to include a link to where I find my inspiration for each card. Tonight was another Pinterest find. Here is the link to my inspiration: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Free+Punch+Art+Ideas&view=detail&id=3952A3BF7505D584E897F4E272E6912D3AD206C4#a
I have been looking at doing punch art for quite sometime, but never had the right punches. I decided to get all the right punches so I could start and I love punch art so far. It's fun, quick, and easy.

All punches are Stampin up. From left to right the owl punch was used for the hair. I used the 1" circle punch for the face. I used the bitty shape circle and 1/2" circle or the halo. Pennant for the dress. Half a 1 3/4" scallop for the wings. Half a 1" circle for bangs.

Oh Christmas Tree

The Christmas tree for this card was made with the same punch (Stampin' Up mosaic punch)I used a few days ago for a different type of Christmas tree. I cut the diamond with my Creative Memories cutting system. While trying to find a sentiment to fit at the bottom of the card I found out that I don't have any Christmas stamps that will fit that area. Eventually there will be a sentiment on this card. 

Season's Greetings

Tonight as I was headed into my craft room to organize I was itching to create something instead. I decided to make a Christmas card. It felt so good to be in my craft room creating again. It has been far too long, but sometimes life throws us a curve ball and we just need to follow the path.

My base card is cut at 10" x 7" to make a 5" x 7" card when folded in half. The red overlay is 4.5" x 6.5". The ivory overlay is 4" x 6".

I used two punches that I bought through Stampin' Up. The one for the ornaments is the mosaic punch and for the base of the tree I used a pennant punch and cut the tip of the pennant off. I put dimensionals on the tree pieces to raise them up just a little bit. I saw this idea on Pinterest, but decided to change it up a bit and make it my own creation.

I used one of the many stamps that I have for the Season's Greetings sentiment.

First Snow

This scrapbook page isn't quite complete. It wqs super easy to do though. I used my Plantin Schoolbook Cricut cartridge to make the lettering. The pictures I plan on adding will be our daughter's first experience in the snow and her ride in her sled.

Card Set

I started out just making one card, but then decided to turn the design into a set. I ised my Cuttlebug for all of the embossing.

Thanksgiving Feast

Today I made a Thanksgiving card. The turkey was cut from the Create A Critter 2 cartridge.

Back to carding

I am not at home quite yet, but thanks to my wonderful husband I have some of my tools where I am at. I am going to take things slow when it comes to cards and my blog. I may not be on everyday as I have therapy to do, but I will do what I can when I have free time. Today I chose to make a Christmas card. Christmas is one of my favorite holidays.

I used my Cuttlebug to create a snowy background.

I used 3 different cartridges for this card.
The bear is from Create
A Critter 2.
The phrase is from Christmas
Cheer.

The present is from Sweater
Weather.

Secret Door

The card base is 5" x 8". It is scored at 2", 4", and 6". It is then folded in half and cut from the fold line to the score line at 1 1/4", 2 1/2", and 3 3/4".

The 2 pieces of paper that are weaved in the slots are cut a 1 15/16 (1 tick mark less than 2") x 5"

This is how the card looks when you weave the pieces of paper in and it's completely open.

This is the card when it's closed (semi-closed in my picture). You can add an embellishment to help keep it closed.

Here is what the card looks like when you open the secret door.

Here is a link to the video I followed in order to make this card. http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=KeSbbYawZDY

Oh Hoppy Day

Not too much to ramble on about today. I hope that the summer weather comes back. It's too early in the year to be this chilly.

I used my square punch to cut out a total of 8 squares. I cut the white squares down just a tad so they would fit inside the blue ones. Then I used my corner rounder and rounded opposite corners of each square. I lined up the white squares on a piece of paper and stamped the image I wanted to use so that it would be all lined up. I placed the white pieces on the blue pieces. This is a 5 x 5 card.

Give Thanks

I saw a Halloween waterfall card and wanted to make one. With the weather the way it is here in Wisconsin it feels like fall, so I made one using leaves as the theme. For me it was a rather easy card. Since it was my first time making it, it took time to get it figured out. Overall it was a fun card to make and it's fun to look at. 

This is the background layer of the card that goes on top of the card base. The card base is 5 1/2 " x 8 1/2". I used a stamp to create the leaf pattern. The layering piece is 5 1/4" x 4".

I put the layering piece on top of the burnt orange card. I added a piece of dark red with 2 brads so the piece of paper is not adhered directly to the background layer. The brad piece is 1" x 4".

This is the waterfall strip. I cut out 3 burnt orange squares and 3 white squares. I stamped each of the white squares with a leaf. The waterfall strip is 1 3/4" x 8 1/2". The waterfall strip is scored at 1 3/4", 2 3/4", and 3 3/4". The 3 burnt orange squares are 2" x 2 1/4" and the white squares are 2" x 1 3/4".

I slid the waterfall piece under the brad piece and attached a ribbon at the end so you can pull it out.

Same as above, but pulled out slightly.

Same as above, but pulled out all the way.

A video showing how the waterfall card works.

Eek! Spider!

This past weekend while we were waiting to meet up with someone I was looking at discount paper in one of the stores. I came across a lot of Halloween paper and ever since I have wanted to make a Halloween card, so here is my first Halloween card. 

I used my Creative Memories cutting system to cut the circle for the body, my Silhouette Cameo for the whites of the eyes, and a standard hole punch for the blacks of the eyes. For the legs I used my Stampin' Up corner punch.

Thankful for friends.

In the midst of everything going on a lot of my friends have been very supportive and there for me, that includes my husband. In the time of need it is so important to take the support and embrace it. It may seem like you are all alone, but really you aren't. I'm not alone in this fight and that is one thing I need to remember to keep going. Not only do I have my family, the professionals we are working with, but I also have a small, but supportive group of friends. I may not be physically with them due to distance, but they are still close to me. It's important to hang on to all of that and keep pushing forward. I have said it before and I will say it again, thank you so much to all those who have been there for me and continue to be there for me. I have found out who my true friends are and those are the ones I will hang on to. THANK YOU!!!!

I used my square punch to cut out 4 squares. Then I rounded the opposite corners of each square. After that I cut them in half. I placed them so that the points met in the middle making a pinwheel type design. I used 2 buttons for the center where the points meet. The sentiment is stamped.