Primary Colors! Card Patterns #20 and a Birthday Card!

I just bought this cool paper pack (6 X 6) of Basic Grey called Lime Rickey and I just love the bright colors.

I used that paper for the background of my card for Card Patterns #20 this week. I didn't have anything that would make a whole square of scallops so I used my revolution border scallop and bordered the "totally fab." My daughter needed some thank yous for her 5th grade graduation presents so I pulled out one of the cutting cafe's (see link to the right ~ they are so cool) printable stamps that I had gotten awhile back and used it. I added some flowers and buttons that I've had around for awhile. I love anything with black because it makes it pop so that is why I chose the black for the scallps and ribbon.



My son will be going to a friend's birthday party in July and I had some more of those cute penguins cut out (revolution die) so I framed him in another cool cutting cafe printable stamp ~ you've got to love these cool big circles stamps ~ I use them alot. HB2U is cut from the cricut Alpahlicious cartridge.


Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week!

Bitten By the Bug Contest Entry!

I decided to make a card for my dear friend Bonnie who is retiring from the State of Oregon after 30 years! She will be retiring June 30th.

The Bitten by the Bug contest is to make a card using a sketch by Shortcuts and using at least one flower of any cricut cartridge.

I hope my flowers count ~ they are actually dandelions from the Storybook cartridge ~ can a weed be a flower?

All the patterned paper and glass baubles are from K and Company "greenhouse." The glass baubles really look good with the dandelions ~ they don't look like "weeds" after I put those on them! I found these at Michael's yesterday and really wanted to use them! Retirement is cut with the cricut Don Juan cartridge and Congrats is from the cricut Beyond Birthdays cartridge.

Thanks for looking and good luck to everyone who entered the contest!

2 Challenges in One Card (Card Patterns #19 and Use It #14)

I have had this cute Revolution Penguin (Archiver's Exclusive) for quite some time. There are no Archiver's here so my sister Teresa who lives in Texas got it for me and mailed it to me! He/She is so cute.

The Use It #14 challenge this week was to:

**Use Pink

**Use Scallops

**Use a tag

The Card Patterns #19 sketch had a scallop on the top so this was just so natural to put them together! And I got to use my cute penguin. I even doodled on this card!

2 Sketches 4 You (Laura 28)/Father's Day

I made my dad a father's day card weeks ago but at work we are still selling cards for the food drive and there were not many left from last year! So I worked on a few this week to replenish the ones we had. This first one is using up more of my scraps from making my daughter a 8.5 X 8.5 scrapbook for outdoor school (the scrap pile is really diminishing, yeah!). I used the cricut graphically speaking cartridge to cut out authentic and genuine, and the beyond birthdays cartridge for dad. The you're #1 is a dollar stamp (the circle was cut with the cricut george cartridge).

For the other one I used Laura's sketch #28 from 2 Sketches 4 You. I have the patterned paper (American Crafts) for quite some time and it just seemed to go with this sketch. I don't know what brand the black and white checkered paper is as I have had it for a long, long time! You're the Best is from the cricut Alphalicious cartridge and dad is from the beyond birthdays cartridge (I've cut a lot of these out lately but they are just such a nice font!). I used another $1 stamp for the happy father's day and put it on pop dots on a flower (using those up too as I got tons of red flowers for my Christmas cards last year!).

Thanks Laura for another great sketch!

Card Patterns #19/Graduation Altered CD's and Last 2 pages of Silverwood Book

Here is a card for the card patterns sketch #19. My uncle's 80th birthday party is next weekend and my kids are going with my parents (I'm not!). I wanted the kids to have a cool card to give him! I used scraps from Bo Bunny paper (I used it for my daughter's outdoor school book which I will have to post pics of!). It's your day is from the George Cricut Cartridge and so is the circle. The branch is from the Storybook Cricut Cartridge. The scallop is a quickutz revolution 12" die. The 80 and owl are both quickutz 2 X 2 dies. The blingy leaves I got at walmart in the button section.




These next 2 pictures are of the altered CD's I made for each kid in my daughter's 5th grade class. I used a star theme for the boys and hearts for the girls (my daughter had 2 Morgan's in her class ~ one a boy and one a girl!)

I used the Cutting Cafe happy graduation big printable stamps on one side and Cutting Cafe calendar printable stamps on the other side. 5th grade is from the Locker Talk Cricut Cartridge, the names are from Don Juan Cricut Cartridge,




Congrats on the star one is from the Teardrop cricut cartridge and the stacked congrats is from Beyond Birthdays Cricut Cartridge.

These were such great fun to make. I also cut 12 of the stacked congrats out really big and hung them from the ceiling with fishing water with blue and white streamers and glittery grad caps.

Both my kids and my daughter's friend Stephenee helped us decorate for her room's breakfast. The kids said their room was the best decorated! Very fun!

And here are my last 2 pages from the Silverwood Book!

100% and Extreme are from the Graphically Speaking Cricut Cartridge ~ I love this cartridge!

This last page was kind of a fill in - I ran out of pictures. The black circles I used a doodling template my sister sent me ~ how cool is that! I got the bingo card from the frugal crafter blog fro free. Idaho is cut from the Cricut 50 states cartridge.

The green frame and "day" are from the Storybook Cricut cartridge. And last but not least, the July 2008 are from the revolution cookie cutter calendar dies!

I hope everyone is having a terrific Monday!

1st Annual 2 Sketches 4 You Ultimate Card

There are so many talented card makers entering the 1st Annual 2 Sketches 4 You Ultimate Card Contest! The prizes are awesome and the talent is so inspiring!

Here is my entry and also a father's day card for my dad!

I recently made my daughter an outdoor school book and used all this cool bo bunny outdoor patterned paper ~ the book was 8.5 X 8.5 so I've got lots of scraps and they just remind me of a masculine card! I cut the scallop edge with a 12" revolution die. The marquee and "hoo" U? is from the cricut storybook cartridge. The heart is a sizzix die (on chipboard). Dad is from pink paisley chipboard letters (my sister Tsscrappinblog sent them to me). The owl ribbon is from Michael's. The button is also from the same bo bunny line. The hat pins are fancy pants and the flower is a prima. The twine is from the jewelry section at Michael's.

I wish everyone good luck on the contest and remember to have fun!

Card Patterns #17/More Silverwood Book!

Here is my card for Card Patterns Sketch #17! My niece is graduating from 8th grade on friday 6/12. I found out the colors of her school are black and gold!

I used a sizzix frame for my shaker and put a cutting cafe printable big circle on top (see right side for a link to the cutting cafe). The congratulations paper is just white cardstock with different congratulations printed on it with a word processing software. I used it for the back ground of the shaker + the little strip underneath. The black patterned paper has been in my stash for a long time! I used 2 kinds of ribbon and then some gold and black rhinestones to give it some bling! The name plate is also a sizzix (with chipboard behind it) and the 8th grade is cricut Don Juan. I got the gold and black and confetti at Dollar Tree! I think the bling is great for a 14 year old girl!

So here are 3 more pages from my Silverwood Altered Book.

This first page is pictures after they got done riding Thunder Canyon (see my previous post). They had rode thunder canyon 8 times and were already soaked and then went on to the bumper boats where you could also put money into these water guns and shoot at the bumper boats. They were so wet! My daughter couldn't stand it so I had to go out and get her some dry clothes out of the car!





They have some really cool roller coasters at Silverwood and they are all in an area they call coaster alley. We took this picture as we were leaving so that is why it is a little dark!










My altered books had quite a number of pages so I copied the tremors thing from the outside of the packet where they put the pictures they take of you on the ride. I had accidently cut out way to many "scream"s when I was doing the ice cream pages (quite a few posts back) so I used them here! The roller coaster is a Jolee's sticker and the use only as directed is from cricut graphically speaking!

I only have 2 more pages to post from this altered book. Sorry it took so long to get them all in!