Fluttering by card

I just finished up this cute butterfly card. I cut the butterfly from Best of 2008 Cricut cart but this cut is also found on the Home Accents cart. I just cut the base out of purple textured card stock. 

I outlined the wings with orchid twine from the twinery and used Caribbean for the body. I also added two dots of orcid to the wings and 4 dots of caribbean to the wings as well as a caribbean swirl to show that the butterfly was flying. 

The butterfly is on pop dots and the twine is all adhered with Zig glue (I used a fine tip pen).

The pink dot paper is from DCWV Nursery Baby Girl stack. The blue cloud paper is from Recollections and I cut the banner shape by hand and inked the edges in blue. I added the sentiment  stamped in black, love the stamps but never use them. The card base is white card stock from recollections.

Hope you found this as cute as I did :).

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

The Twinery - Let's Polka... dot!

Simon Says - Anything goes

My Craft Spot - #88

Simon Says Stamp & Show - Stamp you love but don't use

Fantabulous Cricut - #150

DL.ART - Anything goes

Exploring Cricut - Animal

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Boy layout for sketch challenge

 Today I have a sketch layout to share with you all... I made this for an album I'm making for my best friend/cousin Mai.. its for her baby boy :D. I used all K & Co papers except the tan behind the pic mats which is recollections. I inked the edges of the journal box and added a light green glitter button. I added a banner of pennants at the bottom and used some red bakers twine. Hope you like :).

Heres a close up of the banner.. please don't mind the shine of the glue.. it doesn't really look like that but the way the lighting was it made it look pretty obvious.. just bad lighting today i guess.

this is a close up of the green button.. touch blurry sorry about that.. i don't normally take pics like this but i donno what the deal is today.. oh well.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp - anything goes

DL.ART - anything goes

Paper Secrets - Sketch + twist (use pennants)

On another note.. turns out Harmony still has yet to have her first sickness.. she was just having a bad reaction to teething.. shes doing a lot better now.. it was a canine on the right.

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Apron Gift Bag

Hey everyone.. though it's been awhile since I've posted I've actually been more busy than usual.. I've gotten tons of layouts done and even a bunch of cards. Hopefully I'll have a chance to share them soon. 

For now, here's a gift bag I did. I used a kraft gift bag (I got a pack of them from Michaels using a 50% off coupon so it made them less than $0.50 each.. great deal!) and I cut the apron using From My Kitchen and my cricut. The base apron is striped cardstock from Making Memories and the pockets are pink recollections card stock. I adhered it to the bag with pop dots. 

Simple, fast, cute, and perfect for the gift that it contained.. an apron with a pic of my girls for my mom.. she loved it!! She refuses to wear it because she doesn't want to get it dirty lol!

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Fantabulous Cricut - #149

DL.ART - Anything Goes

I hope to have a few more projects up this week.. we'll see how that goes. Harmony is going through her very first sickness today.. she woke up with a fever of 100 and threw up all over the living room and Adam. Poor little thing is miserable! And.. of course Adam is going out of town for Alaska again.. go figure, had to be during Harmony's first illness. He leaves tonight at 3AM and won't be back until Friday. So if I can find the time I'll have more stuff to post.

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1st Smile Layout

Pretty simple layout I followed a sketch, used some peachy keen stamps for different smiles on the circle background paper, pleated a strip of blue card stock, added some buttons and put some yellow bakers twine on one in a bow. The title is cut from Create A Critter & Martha Stewart Seasonal Cake Art. I outlined "Smile" with black zig marker. The journaling box is a stamp... easy :)

I'm entering this layout into the following challenges:
My Creative Time - 1, 2, 3 
One Day at a Time - Birthday hop sketch
Fantabulous Cricut - #147
Simon Says - Have A Heart

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Adorable Girl Layout

I just finished up this super cute (in my opinion anyway lol) layout. I used imaginisce baby powder papers.

I trimmed different papers up to fit what I thought was close to the sketch. I also fussy cut 2 of the circles from one paper for the strip on the bottom of the pics.. and added pink iRock gems (which you can get at ShopPumpkinSpice.com) around each pic and one on the bottom circles (inside the flower). I inked the edges of some paper and inked the background too with pink ink. Sprayed the background with whine glimmer mist. And one of the pink paper strips I pleated. I cut the heart with my gypsy and Cricut Expression 2 using Craft Room Basics and inked the edges. The title is stamped in black ink and I outlined the black in hot pink glaze pen to help it stand out and fit in all at the same time. Hope you like :)

I followed the sketch at Imaginisce this month.

I'm entering this layout into the following challenges:
Imaginisce - February Month Challenge
Fantabulous Cricut - #147
DL ART - #102
Pumpkin Spice - #5

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Sketches in Thyme #98

I made this layout for Adams grandparents album.

The bottom has some lace on it... pretty simple layout.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Sketches in Thyme - #98

DL ART - Anything goes

Sketches in Thyme #99

made this layout for Adams grandparents album.

papers are all recollections.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Sketches in Thyme - #99

DL ART - Anything goes

Hannah's Page

This is another page I made for Adam's grandparents album I followed a sketch to make this...

I used a couple different pattern papers.. brown stripes and pink strips, a solid hot pink card stock, and white card stock. I trimmed the white down to about 9x9 and then I used a braid boarder punch down on side. I cut the pink pattern paper just a tiny bit smaller to fit inside the white and still have a boarder. I hand cut the banner out of brown and then adhered the brown to white card stock. once they were adhered I re-cut the banner again so it was on a white boarder. I glued down brown bakers twine and tied bows on each end and then put the banner under the twine. I put the pics above.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:
DL ART - Anything goes
Let's Get Sketchy - challenge 2 week 2

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Cousins layout

I made this layout for Adam's Grandparents album I've been working on for awhile now.. It was fairly simple to make.. a little heart bling in each corner and different pattern papers behind the pic. The hardest part was the twine title and that wasn't even very hard!

I made this for the My Creative Sketches January Sketch

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Bee Mine card

I have this super adorable Valentine's card I made for my husband (lets hope he doesn't read this.. who am I kidding? He never reads my blog lol).

I used Create a Critter and my Gypsy & my Expression 2 to make this cute card. I welded 2 of the bee hives together on the side (hid the cuts for the lines and door on my gypsy) and then put 2 bee shadows next to that on the mat and cut in black card stock. Then I cut the bee stripe & head (hid the eyes and mouth on my gypsy) and bee hive out on yellow card stock. I then cut 2 sets of wings in white. Now with the gypsy I was able to put them all on the same mat and cut my paper to the right size to only have to load the machine once.

After all cuts were made I stamped faces on the bee heads with my PK-450 Wide Eyed Kids Face Assortment 1/2" stamps. filled the eyes in with white gel pen and colored the cheeks pink with a pink color crayon (it was closer than the chalk that I'm not sure the location of) lol. I then assembled the bees and folded the black bee hive card base then ATG'd the yellow bee hive to the front. I added yellow stickles to different places on the bee hive, filling in the heart, and outlining all of the lines for the hive as well as most of the outter edges. I then put some yellow stickles on the bee's yellow stripe and tops of antennas.

Next I put glue on the wings and added some clear iridescent chunky glitter over the tops of the wings. I placed the bees on pop dots and put them on the hive. I used a small heart punch to cut some hearts out of red card stock and wrote "B E M I N E" on each heart in white gel pen. I strung 2 different rows of black bakers twine from one be to the other and placed the hearts on the string with atg to make a banner.

It turned out so cute.. possibly my favorite card in a LONG time!!

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

DL ART - Anything goes

Really Reasonable Ribbon - #64

Cardz TV - #123

Peachy Keen Stamps - 13-4

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