2 Sketches 4 You and Pink Elephant #51

I loved Laura's sketch #44 at 2 Sketches 4 You this week! I actually used it twice today! Both cards are here!

The first one is a birthday card for someone in my office that has birds. I love this little birdcage from the cricut songbird cartridge!

The next card is a valentine card that also uses the elements from the Pink Elephant challenge #51 (pink, polka dots, and bow).

I'm scrapping with my friends today so I'll be back working on Disneyland layouts in just a few minutes!

PIrate Birthday Card ~ Card Patterns #48

I found these cute pirate buttons at Michaels on sale and then used the card patterns sketch #48 to make a pirate birthday card for someone at work (their birthday isn't until Sept but it all worked out so good that I just did it now).

The pirate map and happy birthday are quickutz revolution dies.

I had the mesh and the little swords and skull from my disney book projects.

Hope everyone has a great week!

2 Sketches 4 You - Kazan's Sketch #44

I made a couple cards using Kazan's sketch!

The first one is a thank you card for a gal who made our executive team a great lunch! I used my new "From My Kitchen" cricut cartridge to do it!

The 2nd one is a thank you card (I'm actually making 22 of them) for a project team. I used the cricut gypsy font and shapes to do it. I really liked the way Kazan did the button on her card and I tried to do it similar to that.

Thanks for looking!

Pink Elephant Challenge #50 - 2 cards!!!

This was really a fun challenge for me and I needed to make some cards so it was perfect! I made 2 using the sketch!

A friend of mine is having surgery tomorrow so I made this get well card. The patterned paper is from Making Memories Chloe's closet (I've been hoarding that paper and decided I better start using it!). The bird cage and get well are from my new cricut cartridge "songbird." Very cute and perfect for a get well card!

The 2nd one is the one I made 4 of for my birthday gift thank yous. My birthday was last week! The paper is Basic Grey Sultry. I used my new cricut cartridge "sentimentals" for this one. Very fun, very "blingy."

I'm working on a bunch of thank you's using the word "merci" and the 2 sketches 4 you sketch so I hope to post more later this week!

Card Patterns #47 - Yee Haw!

I worked on a bunch of Woody and Jessie from Toy Story layouts this weekend and had a bunch of "western" products left as scraps! There is a guy in my office who is a cowboy off the job so I made him a birthday card (his birthday isn't until March or April but at least that is one I don't have to worry about!).

I used the Card Patterns sketch #47, creative imaginations paper, the cricut old west cartridge, and some quickutz dies that I've had for awhile!

My sister in Texas sent me this cool ribbon that I used similarly to one of the Card Patterns design team members! I don't know how long I've had those gold star brads but it is nice to use them!

Papertake Weekly #32 and some Disney Layouts

I've been having a great start to my 3-day weekend.

I have never done the papertake weekly challenge so I tried it this week. I did not make a card but instead a door hanger. It measures 8.5 X 8.5 inches. I used a combination of Design Orignals Love and Romance paper I've had in my stash with Basic Gray Sultry paper. I cut out the love birds and Love from the cricut gypsy font cartridge.

One of my layouts below was also based on this sketch!




I also worked some more on our Disney 8 X 8 books ~ I gave one book to each of my kids for Christmas that had the princesses and some other coordinating characters/rides and now I'm trying to finish up the other book. We were there for 5 days in the summer and there were just too many pictures for one book! And I love to do the 8 X 8 books because they get done faster (although this is taking awhile). I used creative imaginations paper on all of these layouts that I got at Michaels.




The Jessie and Woody stickers I bought at Scrapbook.com. All the die cuts on this layouts are from the cricut Old West cartridge.












The layout of Jessie with Carl is also based on the Papertake Weekly Sketch #32.











The two layouts with the round circles and ric rac were inspired by a "Woody" layout on scrapbook.com!












On the last 2 I used some gold "stickles" to bling them up!

It was kind of cool to get out all my star brads and stickles I've been hoarding and actually use them!








Thanks for stopping by! I'm off to do more creating!

Card Patterns, 2 Sketches 4 You, and a little Home Decor

I have been having a lot of fun with brown and pink! My last post had brown and pink projects and this one has 2!

The first one is a valentine card using card patterns sketch #46. I have had this paper in my stash for quite awhile and it just seemed to go with the sketch so good (the sealed with a kiss is a block cut from paper that coordinates with the background paper).






The next card I made for a woman in my office who had a retirement party today. I used Laura's sketch 43 from 2 Sketches 4 You to create it. The congrats is from the gypsy font on the cricut gypsy! It is simple but it conveys the message!










This last project is one I'd been meaning to do for awhile. Our scrapbook store (which recently went out of business) was going to have a class to make a "welcome" wall hanging. They decided not to have it (now we know why, because they were closing) so they had a couple pieces of paper (the background - graphic 45) which I bought and I took a picture of it on my cell phone. I had to make a few changes but it was very close to this ~ I think they had printed their letters on white cardstock and I actually cut letters with the cricut (I put them all in one file on the gypsy and saved it so I can do it again!). I was so excited to get this done and when my dad was visiting last weekend we got it hung up in the entry way!

Have a great weekend!

Pink Elephant Challenge #47

I've never done this challenge (and I may too late because I don't know when their weeks run) but they had a very sweet sketch! I loved it and I used the quickutz cake again! Thanks for looking and happy monday!

Happy New Year and My New Toy!

Happy 2010!

I had to make some door hangers to celebrate! I actually made 5 (one for each of my sisters, one for my mom, and one for my house and one for my office). Each one was a little different. The red one I kept for my house and the blue one I took to work!

These were really fun and it was different to just work with black and white paper!

I have quite a stash of "shiny" paper so it was fun to actually use some of it.

I used the cricut Gypsy Font for the words and the stars all came from the cricut Hannah Montana cartridge.














I am also so excited. I finally got an Epic thanks to scrapbook.com. I had ordered something from their 12 days of Christmas sale and got a "golden ticket." It was worth $100 and it was so cool! Thank You Scrapbook.com!

Birthday Cards and Cake Balls!

I've been in the mood to make birthday cards! Partly because there are alot of people having birthdays and partly because I'm trying to get organized for the year!

This first card uses the Laura's Sketch 42 from 2S4Y. My sister, Teresa, gave me this quickutz cake die that I've been wanting for a long time for Christmas and I just had to use it! The paper is DCWV and the lace is Fancy Pants. The tag is also a quickutz and I used one of the dollar stamps on it!

I'm going to save this for my mom's birthday in June!


A guy at work had a birthday on the first and I tried my new cricut "Sweet Treats" cartridge to make this birthday cake card. The paper on this is Basic Gray "Cupcake."

I used some stickles to make it "sparklier!"










I had so much fun with this cricut cartridge that I made several different versions using the Basic Gray paper....












And then I used some other paper I had that said Happy Birthday so I didn't cut out the sentiment for the front!












My friend Bonnie's birthday was this last week (although she was in Arizona and won't be back till Sunday) so I found this cool tutorial on Split Coast Stampers for a "flower pot" card. I used birthday paper for the "pot" and then cut out flowers and leaves with my sizzix. These were so fun......










That I made 24! I used the non-birthday ones for thank you's for x-mas presents and little things people gave me at work! Here they all are (picture isn't that great but you can see I was busy!).














I also made these yummy cake balls to take to work this week. They are super easy and look cool! Here is the recipe:

1. Make a cake (any flavor) from a cake mix in any sort of pan (I used 9 X 13 because it was the easiest).
2. When the cake is done, crumble it into a large bowl while it is still warm. Stir in a can of frosting mix (any flavor) until well blended.
3. I then let it set an hour or so to cool down.
4. Form small balls with the cake mixture (the recipe I found on the internet said to use a melon baller but I found it just as easy to roll in my hands). I then put them on a plate in the freezer for a 1/2 hour or so.
5. Dip the balls into melted chocolate and place on wax paper to set.

Everyone at work loved them!