Birthday Card for my daughter....

My daughter's birthday was this past Monday. I can.not.believe she's 10!!! She brings so much joy to my life. Here's the birthday card I made for her...

Ya think she liked it? Best reaction I've *ever* gotten from her with a card!





This reaction is another story.....





The gift that brought on this reaction has been the source of MUCH conversation.... begging... whichever you wanna call it. What was it? How 'bout this...

Nah...cute little Webkinz, though. Think it was this?

God, no!!! One more....







Yes, we got her a cell phone. Still can't believe I caved. :)



Card Recipe:
Paper---SU Pink Pirhouette; SU Kiwi Kiss; Basic Gray Eva
Assessories---Cricut Expression; Cricut Indie Art Cartridge; Cuttlebug & Mesh Texture Embossing Folder; Ribbon from Target Dollar Spot; Tiara Stickles
This card meets the requirements for the World Card-Making Day Challenge over at creativejourney

Gift Set for a Happy Birthday

One of my best friends had a birthday waaaaaaaaay back in May. There's a reason I'm just now posting her gift....it's called "brain farts". ;)~ Everyone who knows me knows that I have memory issues....it's relatively new, so I hope everyone, including the birthday girl!, understands and loves me anyway!

When Shannon saw some cards I made before, she "kinda" hinted that she would like some. I decided then that I would come up with a set for her birthday. I knew she liked pink and brown, so I went with those dee-lish colors....I mean, what girl doesn't love pink and brown?!?!?!?

**Please click on the pictures to enlarge.**

I made the box using my Scor-Pal. It was relatively easy.




Here are a couple of pictures of the cards. I made 6 cards/envies, using a different Cuttlebug embossing folder on the large brown mat to help give each on a different texture. To stamp the monogram, I used the StampRite Monogram stamper, Curly font.

Even though I don't have pictures, I also made a couple of other things for her. One of them was a giant clothespin from Michael's. I painted it with some chocolate distress paint and attached a large fancy Prima flower and some ribbon onto one side...I hope that she'll use it as a photo or memo holder. I also "fancied" up a Pentel RSVP to use with her note cards. I unscrewed the end and pulled out the ink reservoir, wrapped it with some matching paper that was cut it the length of the area between the black rubber gripper and the black on the end of the pen. I also used some of the ribbon that was used on the bag, plus some Basic Gray fibers, to tie onto the cap of the pen. I sooooo wish I had taken a picture!

***Please note that if you are interested in a set of cards similar to this, just email me at jowen214ATyahooDOTcom. I can play around with various papers, but a set like this would be $25 plus shipping. I take PAYPAL only.***

Stamps: JustRite Monogram Stamper w/Curly font
Paper: Creative Memories Romance papers; Creative Memories white card stock
Assessories: Prima flower; We R Memory Keepers rhinestone brad; Swiss Dots & Textiles Cuttlebug Embossing Folders; Cricut Expression & Design Studio; Creative Memories mini flower punch; Creative Memories photo tape.

Been Gone Too Long!

Lots to post since last time! I'm still busy receiving cards from members of the Cricut message board for the St. Jude Cards for Kids project. Several ladies and I will be delivering nearly 7,000 (as of right now...I'm still getting cards in the mail!) to the hospital. Some for the families of children being treated there....and some that will be sold in the gift shop---the money made from these will go toward research at St. Jude. I am so excited to be a part of this! The day we deliver the cards, we are going to discuss this being an ongoing project.

I've got a few more cards that I made for this project:

Here are some other cards I've done since my last post:

Mother's Day for my mom. For the main panel, I used a piece of printed paper from DCWV All Dressed Up Mat Stack. The scalloped and plain circles were cut using Mini Monograms and my Expression machine. The "D" and "Donna" was cut from Jasmine. Flowers are Prima...the black one started out white! I needed a black one but didn't have the correct size, so I used my BIC marker and colored it black! White dots on each scallop were done using a white Singo uniball pen.

Birthday card for my dad. Printed paper is Basic Gray Archaic, as well as the smaller green panel. Both of these are mounted on a deep brown Bazzil cardstock. The dinosaur was made by cutting a small dino out of another piece of the B.G. Archaic, enlarging it on the copier, and then tracing that onto the orange B.G. Archaic. I added rain dots to the lower left corner of the smaller panel, after coloring them with an orange BIC marker. I know that dinosaurs seem like a card for little boys, but as soon as I saw the paper, I immediately thought of a great sentiment for the inside.... "glad you're not extinct". :)

Father's Day card for my husband...I saw some cards like this on the gallery at Splitcoast Stampers that used stamps. I love the idea of a card like this for a Father's Day card, but I did not have any stamps like that. So, I took to the "drawing board"...or rather, my Design Studio. Using D.S. and the George cartridge, I created these ties. This paper from the Basic Gray Boxer 6x6 pad were PERFECT for ties! It's simple, but I love it. Here is the cut file: FATHER'S DAY TIES

Father's Day cards for my dad, my husband's dad, and my husbands step-father....all are the same. I figured I'd make it easy on myself since I had 3 to make. I also got this idea from Splitcoast Stampers. There, someone used a folding template. I used my Design Studio and George cartridge! Printed paper is from Basic Gray. Here is the cut file for the shirts: FATHER'S DAY SHIRTS

Here's a birthday card for one of my daughter's friends....

And a tag I made to add to the gift of my next-door neighbor's little boy....they were having a Happy Feet themed party, so I thought I'd carry the theme on with the tag. Printed paper is by Arctic Frog.

As soon as I figure out how to add cut file for Design Studio to my blog, I'll come back and add them. Thanks for looking!

Birthday Card for my Husband

My husband's birthday was yesterday. He loves golf, so I made the card below for him. I used THIS CARD for my inspiration. I got the printed paper at Archiver's Friday (along with a TON of other stuff!) during a shopping spree with my friend Sharon. I used my Cricut Expression, Design Studio, and George and Plantin Schoolbook cartridges for the words.

I wrapped my husband's present in brown craft paper, using twine instead of ribbon. I made the tag by cutting a circle of chipboard out with my Cricut Expression, as well as the white paper that I used for the golf ball and the "grass". The golf ball was run through my Cuttlebug to get embossed and then I inked it. I stole one of my husband's golf tees (hey, he left it lying on the kitchen counter, so it was there for the taking! Heehee!), cut off part of it to the correct length using some wire cutters, and adhered it to the tag using Ranger's Glossy Accents. I CASED THIS CARD for my tag.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you enjoy the long Memorial Day weekend!

St. Jude Cards for Kids

I haven't gotten to do much work lately on my cards for St. Jude. I plan to do more on that next week. Here is the one I did get to finish last weekend...

I used a new paper from Creative Memories. The blue square postage stamp mat was cut out using my Cricut Expression and Cricut Design Studio, with the help of AMKSCRAP, a fellow Cricut message board member.
The cupcake (stamp by Hero Arts) was stamped on white cardstock and then colored by my daughter. I added Glossy Accents by Ranger Ink and mounted on pop dots to give it more dimension.

Inside, I used my Cuttlebug to cut a small postage stamp out of purple CM paper and then cut another one out of some plastic I saved from one of my Cricut cartridges. After cutting the plastic postage stamp, I embossed it with my Cuttlebug and mounted it over the purple postage stamp. The sentiment is from the same Cupcake stamp set by Hero Arts. After stamping it, I heat embossed it using a clear embossing powder.

Basic Gray Birthday

I know Mother's Day is just a few days away, and I sooooo need to be working on the three cards we'll be giving on that day, but I saw THIS card and wanted to create a birthday card along the same lines.

I didn't have the same paper by K&Co. (love it!) as the original card, but I thought I could make it work using my Basic Gray Two Scoops paper. For my cardstock base, I used a chocolate Bazzil. The rectangle background piece is vellum layered on top of a piece of vanilla cardstock by Creative Memories. I dry embossed the vellum using my Cuttlebug and the Textile Texture embossing folder. Then I ran a Delta pigment ink dauber across the vellum to help the embossing stand out more. I love the way this looks!

I cut the bird out using my Cricut Expressions machine and the Joys of the Season cartridge. After cutting it out, I embossed the swirls using my VersaMark pad. The sentiment was stamped using my new Studio G stamp. Both the bird and the sentiment were then heat embossed using clear embossing powder. I added some Prima flowers and some silk flowers (from Oriental Trading) with gold brads in the center, plus a creamy organdy ribbon for embellishments.

I hope the recipient loves this card as much as I do! Happy Wednesday.

St. Jude Cards for Kids

I am a member of a message board for people who have purchased a Cricut machine by Provo Craft. I love visiting there and seeing all the creations that everyone comes up with. A few weeks ago, a nice lady from Washington decided that she wanted to do something for some families at St. Jude Hospital in Memphis, TN. Marcia thought it would be a great idea to create cards to donate to the familes there....these could be thank you cards, birthday cards, any kind of cards that a family might need but not be able to get out and purchase. She's coming here in July to visit her daughter, and she and I plan to tour St. Jude to visit some children there and to distribute the cards. I don't have a number, but I know that there are A LOT of ladies who've signed up to make cards and send to us to give these familes.

Here are the first few that I made:


paper ~ Bazzil; Creative Memories white cardstock; Provo Craft Rob & Bob red paper & patterned paper
tools ~ Cricut Expression; CM mini-square punch; eyelets; Cuttlebug w/birthday embossing folder




paper ~ Creative Memories white cardstock; Provo Craft Rob & Bob patterned paper
embellishments ~ Provo Craft stickers; Studio G birthday stamps
tools ~ Cricut Expression





paper ~ Creative Memories white cardstock; Bazzil green; DCDW glitter stack
embellishments ~ Prima flower; rhinestone flower from Archiver's; Studio G stamp




paper ~ Creative Memories white cardstock; DCDW glitter stack; Bazzil blue & green
embellishments ~ Studio G stamp
tools ~ Cricut Expression


I hope to get many more cards done next week! I hope you'll check back soon. :)

Long time no see....

Well, it has been months since I've posted. I haven't been completely idle, though, just lazy about posting on my blog. I'll upload several pictures to show what I've been up to since Christmas. I'll admit I was reminded that I needed to get back to posting by a fellow blogger, Enfys (Check out the wonderful work of Enfys .) Thank you, Enfys.

First, I'm going to go back to February and post some Valentines cards I made for my husband and daughter.

paper ~ all Creative Memories card stock

tools ~ Cricut Expression; Cuttlebug w/Heart embossing folder, ribbon from Wal-Mart

Here is the card I made for my daughter:

paper ~ pink and white Creative Memories card stock

tools ~ Cricut Expression to cut house shape; eyelet; pink ribbon; mini-ABC's by Creative Memories; candy cane Stickles

Next, I'm going to show off something my daughter made for school. Everyone in her class had the project of decorating a shoebox to take to school as thier Valentine mailbox. Here's her creation:

paper ~ Creative Memories Shades of Pink

stamps ~ Autumn Leaves

ribbon ~ garland I got at the dollar store before Chistmas

Next is a birthday card made for me by a dear friend, Sharon. I love the colors!!

Next up are some cards that my mom ordered......

First, she wanted a Tinkerbell card for my niece. KB loves Tink, and I had so much fun creating this card for her.

Paper ~ Creative Memories Blush Blooms

Embellishments ~ Tinkerbell sticker from Michael's; Ribbon---rak from a friend; Rain Dots; Ric-Rak; Stickles

Tools Used ~ Cricut Expression; Design Studio; Scor-pal

Here is the envelope for the Tink card:

Paper ~ green & pink---Creative Memories Blush Blooms; white ---Creative Memories card stock

Stamps ~ Studio G Happy Birthday; swirl stamp by Rhonda Farrar

Ink ~ black pigment ink from Michael's; pink ink on "KB" from Stampin' Up

Tools ~ Cricut Expression; Design Studio; Martha Stewart lace border punch; Scor-Pal to create envelope

For my uncle, a big racing fan:

paper ~ Creative Memories white, red, black, yellow, orange, purple, and blue card stock

embellishments ~ Creative Memories racing stickers

tools ~ Cricut Expression; Design Studio; Scor-Pal

Here is the birthday card I made for my husband & I to give to my niece:

paper ~ Creative Memories black, white, and green cardstock; Basic Gray Two Scoops

stamps ~ Studio G "Happy Birthday"

tools ~ Cricut Expression; Design Studio; watercolor pencils

And, of course, I am going to share the cards my daughter made! She made one for my niece and one for my nephew....

paper ~ DCDW Glitter stack; CM cardstock in pink, yellow and red

tools ~ Cricut Expression; Cuttlebug w/Birthday folder; stamp-Stampin' Up Little Birdie Told Me; baseball stickers from Michael's; Sigmo white pen

Thanks for looking! More to come....