The Cutting Cafe Contest

I hope you were able to take advantage of the very generous offer from Regina at The Cutting Cafe earlier this week.  She offered a free set of images (sorry the offer expired on July 24th) of the adorable Elisha Jean and Friends.  They are the sweetest little girl images.  So I decided to enter her contest.  I used little Mikala and I decided to use one of my favorite color combos red/black and white.  I think she turned out cute.  I hope the judges agree!  Thanks for stopping by!!

Details:

Card Size - 5X7

Image and Sentiment- Elisha Jean and Friends from The Cutting Cafe

Copics - E00, E21, E33, E57, R20, R29

Paper - Recollections and Coredinations

Balloon embossed with Cuttlebug's Swiss Dots Folder

Nesties - Long Classic Retangles Large and Small and Scalloped

Crocheted Heart by Me

You're A Real Classic - Masculine Card

With the help of  The Cutting Cafe, I was able to make this more "masculine" card.  I think we can all agree that it is one of the more difficult types of cards to come up with.  I can always come up with flowers, ribbons and cute things to put on a feminine card, those are so much easier.  But there are occasions when those items just don't work for a guy.  Imagine that!!  I love the sayings with this set.  It's from the Crusin By To Say Hi set which has lots of great choices and so easy to put together a finished product that looks like it took a lot more time than it did (don't tell anyone, it will be our secret!!)  :)

Thanks to Kelly from Kreative Korner By Kelly for always inspiring me with her wonderful ideas.  This was a take on a card that she had done.  Thanks Kelly!!

Happy 4th of July!!

I hope everyone is having a great 4th of July!!  I finished this card earlier and forgot to post it.  Enjoy the day everyone!!

Details:

Card Size - 5X7

Image - Patriotic Boy by Azadi Earles

Background - 4th of July from The Cutting Cafe

Stamp - Happy from Papertrey Ink Scattered Showers

Ink - Momento - Paris Dusk

Copics - B95, B99, E00, E01, E55, E57, R20, R29, Y21

Nesties - Stars Five

Happy St Patrick's Day!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!  Hope you all have a great day!!  Watch that green beer!!

Details:

Card Size - 5X5

Image - St Patrick's Day Image set 1 from The Cutting Cafe

Nesties - Classic Circle and Scalloped Circle

Crocheted Shamrock - Sugar'n Cream Lime Stripes by Me

Paper - Coredinations

Embossing - Cuttlebug Polka Dot Folder

Easter Bunny Hugs

Hi everyone!  Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend! It's snowing here in Michigan so it made for a great crafting day.  I've been getting back into stamping lately and realized that it has been several months since I've used my Cricut!!  But I picked up the new Kate's ABCs cartridge from Joanns yesterday and had to try it out.  Wow!!  It has the cutest images!!  I didn't know which one to do first.  And I can't wait to try some others.  It is just adorable!!  Since I love bunnies I had to try this one.

I have one quick flashback story for you.  My niece and nephews that I don't get to see as often as I'd like (they don't live in Michigan), know how much I love bunnies.  They are grown up now, but when they were little and Easter time came around they told their Mom..."Aunt Barb must love this time of year, there are bunnies everywhere!"  So so sweet!!

Details:

Card Size - 5X7

Image - Girl4 from Kate's ABCs Cartridge

Sentiment - Easter Circles from The Cutting Cafe

Die Cut - PTI's Limitless Layers 1 3/4 Circle

Heart - PTI's Heart Die cut from Raspberry Fizz Felt

Papers - Misc from my stash

Flowers - Prima

Special Valentine Wishes

This card is for my nephew. He's a young Republican, so I thought this little elephant would be perfect for him for Valentine's Day. It's difficult to make cards for men, isn't it? I just fell in love with this little guy. His name is Lil' Pea-Nut.  He's from Our Craft Lounge and he comes in several varieties. So don't be surprised if you see him again here at Easter!  Too stinking cute!!  Thanks for stopping by!!

Details:

Card Size - A2

Image - Lil' Pea-Nut stamp from Our Craft Lounge

Sentiment - The Cutting Cafe's Valentine Family & Friends

Nesties - Classic Circles

Ink - Momento Tuxedo Black

Copics - W0, W1, W3, R20

Punch - MS Heart Beat Deep Punch

Just Me Thinking of You

I thought I would enter the Sketch Challenge #51 over at OWH (Operation Write Home) Stars and Stamps blog.  What a great website dedicated to our Soldiers.  Check it out at  www.owhstarsandstamps.org/

Details:
Card Size - A2
Image - Digital Delights by Louby Loo
Copics - C0, C2, C9, R83, R85, BG000, E000, E00, E01
Nesties - Classic Square Large
Sentiment - The Cutting Cafe - All Occasion Circle Words
Paper - Polka Dot from The Cutting Cafe - Colored Dots Set (Pink). Coredinations
Cuttlebug - Divine Swirls
Crocheted heart by me

A Gift From Santa

I'm trying to get all of my Christmas cards done.  I think this is just about the last one.  I love these High Hope stamps.  I think the images are just adorable.  And Santa giving a puppy a present is just too precious!!  I think the sentiment says it all.  Wishing you a Merry Christmas filled with special memories!!

Details:
Card Size - 5X7
Image - Christmas Treat from High Hopes Stamps
Sentiment - The Cutting Cafe - Christmas Inside Greetings
Ink - Colored with Copics
Nesties - Labels Sixteen, Standard Circles Large and Fancy Tags

Gobble Gobble!!

You can always count on the images from The Cutting Cafe to make a great card.  This is from the Thanksgiving Day set.  I love the "word" backgrounds she provides. They are so much fun and look so cute.  I made several of these to get in the mail and hopefully they made it to their destinations before the big turkey day!!   I hope everyone has a very Happy Thanksgiving Day!  We have so much to be thankful for.  Thank you Lord for the many blessing you provide to us every day!

This is another card made with one of the other printable stamps from the Thanksgiving Day set.

Details:

Card Size - A2

Images - Thanksgiving Day set from The Cutting Cafe

Colored with Copics - C9, E31, E37, Y19, YG95, YR01, YR18

Embossing - Cuttlebug Polka Dot folder

Nestibilities - Classic Lg Circle

Paper - From my stash

Have a BOO-tiful Halloween!!

I made this card a few weeks ago and wasn't really sure about it.  But looking at it again, I think it's pretty cute (if I do say so myself!! LOL!)  I thought maybe it was too much black and white.  What do you think??  Please leave me a comment if you have time!  Thanks for looking and I hope everyone has a safe and fun Halloween!!

Details:

Card Size - 4 1/4 X 5 1/2

Image - Ghost from Happy Hauntings Cartridge

Background - The Boo and Dot background is from The Cutting Cafe

Punch - Dripping Goo from MS

Sentiment - My Pink Stamper - Spooky Puns

Die Cuts - Nestibilities Circles

Halloween Treat Buckets

I made several Halloween treat buckets to give out this week.  I found these cute little orange buckets at Joanns for $1.00.  I used images from several cricut cartridges and cut them from vinyl.  I thought I would make tags to hang on the side of the buckets too.  The Cutting Cafe has the cutest printable stamps.  Most of  the tags were made using the Halloween All Around and Halloween Word Circles sets and then I used my nestibilities for the backgrounds. They were so fun to make!  If you haven't tried The Cutting Cafe yet, you are missing out!!  I tried to get a few photos of the completed buckets and probably should have taken the pictures before I filled them.  But I think you can get the idea of how they looked. 

Here are some of the tags that I made to hang on the side of the buckets!  I ended up punching a hole at the top and tying them to the side of the bucket with some black and orange plaid ribbon.

  

Here are a few of the buckets.




 

I may have gone over the top on these. I decided to make a tag to fit on top of a pencil so that it would stick out in the middle. The image is from The Cutting Cafe also and I secured them with little brads.

Thanks for looking!  Hope everyone is having a great day!!