Thanks a Bunch

 

Image by Polycraft - Tiddlywings

Stampology sentiment, Flower punches, Fence from My Community, Brads from Brad Outlet

Copics and Gelly Roll gel pens

Entered in Aud Sentiments Challenge

Mother's Day/Spring

I've been working on this card for my mother -in -law for Mother's day.... which is this Sunday, March 14, in Europe.  Ever have one of those cards you work on and work on and you just never like it?  This is one of those for me. It just didn't turn out the way I envisioned and it frustrated me.

I used the cricut card feature on Stretch My Imagination to cut the base.  I added 2 layers of square cut outs for depth.  I cut out the mom and mother words by layering on the words in DS and cutting them out.  The flowers are cut from an EK Success punch, the swirls are from Lyrical Letters and a CTMH stamp.  Friend is cut on the cricut with shrinky dink material and shrunk. Flower brads for center of flowers and ribbon I had on hand.

 

Cricut Cardz Challenge - #6 Spring
Cute Card Thursday - Celebrations - Celebrating Mom
Sophisticat challenges - Flourish and Bling
I LOVE CUPCAKES Blog ~Challenge 81 Flower Power
Charisma Cards ~ Add a Butterfly
Paper Cutz Challenge - Anything Goes

Fun with Puns

A friend of mine sent me an email full of fun puns.  I found a couple of them would make good cards, so I'm doing a few.  This is the first one.

 

Made with Pooh Font

Animal Kingdom

 Stretch Your Imagination

Walk in My Garden

EK Success punch

Mostly Green - Cricut Cardz Challenge

Scraps & Stamps

The power was out in my building today so I couldn't use my cricut.  I've had to go down the street to use my internet and have kept the computer off so I could come down and load up my cards for the day.  Frustrating to not have power and from what I can read on the Italian sign on the door, it will be out again on the 15th. :0(

So here are the cards I created today without the cricut.  I got out my punches, stamps and scraps.

This card is just a scrappy fall card.

I had a digistamp/clipart thing that I had printed but not colored and cut, so I spent some time doing that.  It is suprising how just cutting paper can be so calming. This is the inside:

Scarecrows, corn rows

Pumpkins on the vine

Leaves curl, wind swirls

Fall is right on time

In this picture I was frustrated because I just couldn't get my camera to take a straight picture! Grrrr

So, that's it for my stampin' scrappin' cards.  Ever feel like you get worse in your talent as time goes on?

Lately, I feel like the more cards I make the worse I get instead of better.  Some things improve and other things start to fall apart. Ugh.

Gettin' Busy

I was a designing fool today.  I sat down with my DS this morning and designed 5 cards and layed them out according to the colors that I was going to need cut.  I did really well with 4 of them, but the last one I ended up needing to cut more pieces.... more because the cricut messed up than my designing enough cuts.

Tom had some favorites among these cards.... and his choices surprised me.  He liked the Snowman and the Frost on the Pumpkin cards the best.  These are the days work.

Snowball Snowman

Snowball Snowman Inside

Frost on the Pumpkin

Fall Tree & Pumpkins

Pumpkins with Wheat Stalks

Funny Reindeer

This last one was my favorite because besides the fall colors, I really love Spring

I didn't put any of these on the Cricut Boards yet because I don't really think they are "worthy" of the boards.

I might add one or two to the gallery.   It was a good days work.

SCRAPBOOKING?

These are the first scrapbook layouts I ever did for a swap. I like doing my scrapbooks, but I don't do layouts like the professionals do. The cricut boards are filled with people who love the layered and layered and more layer pages. I like putting in pictures and the little things we saved like ticket stubs and little keepsakes. It's more a fun organization than a place to decorate and entire page for one picture.