Crafting for a Good Cause

Recently I've slowed down on making cards for different challenges because I didn't have an occasion to use as my inspiration. Well, I've joined a great cause that will give me some regular inspiration. The Cricut Card Fairies are a great group of crafters from around the world who send cards in need of a smile. They send out cards for special events, as a pick me up, sympathy or just because. They send out "missions" three days a week, so I should have plenty of card making inspiration. If you are a card maker and interested in becoming a Cricut Card Fairy, hop onto the Cricut Message board specifically for the group.

This is the first card I have made specifically to send as a Cricut Card Fairy. I hope the flowers and bright colors will bring cheer in someones life.

Supplies Used:

Plain Paper - scraps

Patterned Paper - Paper Trey Ink

Stamps and Embossing Powder - Martha Stewart

Thanks for looking!

Baby Shower Projects

My friends baby shower was this weekend and I was in charge of the games. We played the rice game, remember the items in the basket and we drew a name out of the envelopes that will be used for the Thank You cards.

I had already made the Invites (see previous posts), but I wasn't going to stop there! Here are the other projects I made!

The easiest thing I made was this decoration for the rice game. I cut the safety pin from a standard image in SCAL using plain paper. I then give it a shimmer using Stampin' Up's Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz. The spritz is SO cool! I added a few safety pins to the ribbon which went around the vase that held the rice.

In the rice there were 10 actual safety pins. The premise of the game is to see how many safety pins you can dig out of the rice in one minute; surprisingly challenging!

My thank you cards were inspired by a RAQ challenge on the Cricut Card message board. The cute little onesie is from the New Arivals cartridge. I used the Stampin' Up Soft Suede Marker to edge the onesie and add the three little dots on the bottom of the onesie and next to the lower-right hand corner of the plaid paper. It was also the color used for the little birdie on the front :) which is from the Bouquet Bunch stamp set. The flower brads and paper came from Paper Studio.

This is the card that I made for the mom-to-be. I cut the various levels of the buggy from the New Arrivals cartridge with a few snips from my scissors. I created the baby blocks in SCAL and this card was all made with scraps!

Clothes dividers for the babies closet. I will be posting a video about this project shortly.

This framed scrapbook page has to be my favorite project! I did everything from creating the page to painting the frame. I got to start as soon as I found out what the colors of the babies room would be, purple and green.

I can't recall where I got all of the supplies for this project from. But I'm so happy with how it turned out!

Like I mentioned, I've been working on some of these projects for some time...which answers the question of Where do I find the time? Thank you for stopping by, I had a blast with these projects!

My First Video

All right, here it is. This is the first video that I have created. I used my new camera to shoot the full HD video! I learned a lot about creating a video and then editing it. I have already planned out my next video. I hope to have that up next week.

The card I am creating in the video is the Baby Shower Invite card. (original post)

It's My Birthday

Happy birthday to ME! I have been planning on creating a fun card for my birthday and I think I accomplished that! My original idea was just to have a stamped or die-cut noise maker put on a card. But I just couldn't find the perfect item so I thought of a different way to get a noise maker on my card.

A while back I participated in a challenge where you used non-crafting items on your project. Since then I have seen common items in a different way. So, obviously I decided that putting an actual noise maker on my card would be the only thing to do! I picked up a bag of noise makers from WalMart, about 8 for $1, gotta love cheap! I stamped the swirly dots in black ink. I also used my new heat embosser on the two outside swirls. To add some more color and pop I also used my new Stampin' Up markers to create some dots along the swirls.

The phrase "Go Wild" comes from my new cartridge, Create-a-Critter. I was flipping through the guide looking for the Happy Birthday phrase, but when I came across "Go Wild" I stopped.

Overall, this is a fun card and I got to use new tools and techniques.

Thank you for reading my blog. It's all I could ask for on my special day!

Sketchy Challenge

The Challenge: Create pages based on the double-page layout.
The Challenger: Sketchy Thursdays

I have given myself quite a few personal goals lately. One of them is to complete the scrapbooking of my wedding before I complete the first two years of marriage. I don't have much time left...but at the same time I don't have much more that I want to scrapbook.I used the sketch from this weeks Sketchy Thursdays challenge as inspiration for my layout. I think you can still tell where my inspiration came from, even though my pages are very simple. Thank you for stopping by!

Evolution of an Idea

I'm pretty sure that I've mentioned that one of my bestest friends is expecting her first child. Well, here is another project for the baby and happy mommy! 

I am co-hosting a baby shower for the expectant mother and I eagerly volunteered to create the invitations.  This is the second set of cards that I have made in mass.  Ironically, all for showers and all for the same person!

To the left is a picture of the sketches I drew up.  The ideas came from two different sources to turn into one great card.  The layered squares came from a project that My Pink Stamper did.  The cut out circle came from another source.  I really wish I could remember where I stumbled across it. 

My favorite aspect of these cards are the color combinations.  Besides the purples and green there is also a hint of pink.  You can't see it very well in this picture, but the circle cutout is edged in pink ink.  Such a simple addition really adds some pop to the card.

This invitation project came during the perfect week.  Cardstock was 50% off at Hobby Lobby!  Which means I made 31 invites for under $10.  Obviously that doesn't include the cost for my time! 

In addition to creating the card, I have also created my first video!  The intention of the video was to practice shooting video with my new camera, getting experience shooting a craft video and trying some video editing.  I haven't decided if I'm going to post the video yet.  It depends on how the edited format comes out. 

Thanks for stopping by.  There is a lot more coming your way!

Recipe:

• Dark Purple Cardstock, Hobby Lobby:  8 x 4 inches
• Light Purple Cardstock, Hobby Lobby:  3 7/8 inch square
• Patterned Green Cardstock, My Mind's Eye Penny Lane: 3 5/8 inch square
• White Shape: 2 inch circle with Baby Rattle from SCAL 2

Best Wishes

This card is also being submitted for my chance at being a Pink Designer for My Pink Stamper. The submission requirements are pretty open....leaving it up to me to be creative!

As I only have three Cricut cartridges, I am always looking for new ways to use basic shapes like circles and squares. For this project I wanted to create a birthday card with a row of either cupcakes or ice cream cones.

I cut the circles at 1 3/4 inches using the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge. The circles fit very well into the ice cream cone from the Birthday Jelly embosser pack. After embossing the circles with my trusty Cuttlebug, I used my new Stampin' Write markers from Stampin Up. I pop dotted the circles onto two inch squares, stamped the green textured paper and started piecing this together.

Originally the design in my head was meant to be a birthday card, but now looking at the completed version I can see that it could be used for many occasions! How fun is that! Thanks for checking it out.

Ingredients:

• Circles & Squares: Plantin Schoolbook
• Birthday Jelly Cuttlebug Embosser
• Stampin' Up markers
• Green Paper: ATD Vibrant Textured Cardstock
• Other Paper: Paper Studio
• Best Wishes Stamp: Inkadinkado