PTI Swap over on SCS

Hey, all, my fave group of swapping stampers is up to their usual tricks! You can read all about it HERE. This first card is for the Autumn Splendor category. I used my Elegant Edges Cricut Cartridge to cut out the card base and patterned layer. Nesties were used for the focal image. Stamp set is PTI's Fall Elegance from last year. I decided to use masking on this card--an old technique, but a goodie. I built up my little fall flourish and cut it out (arrghh! see how much I love these gals?!) and popped it up over the top of the focal point. Card base is PTI cream. Scalloped oval layer is SU Really Rust. I embellished with a couple of Dew Drops. This patterned paper by PTI is pretty much my fave paper ever--love the rich glowing colors and the lovely patterns.

This card is for the regular cards category. Card base is SU Crumb Cake, stamp set is Love Lives Here. I die cut the little house from PTI cream, then stamped it with Crumb Cake and PTI Pure Poppy ink. I die cut the Mat Stack 1 die and embossed it with PTI's wood grain impression plate. Scalloped layer is done with Nesties out of Pure Poppy CS. Patterned paper is PTI; border punch, eyelets (ret.), and gingham ribbon (ret.) are all SU. I'm so please with how this turned out! I hope whoever gets them is pleased as well.

There were some other categories that I didn't join. I did join the die cut swap and did Tiny Tags and Love Lives Here dies for my spots. So excited to see what I get back--it's just like Christmas when I get this swap back! Thanks for stopping by--have a great day.

Baby Card

This card is a total CASE of the one on p. 79 of the new Cricut Cards magazine. I didn't have the cart they used, but I do have Baby Steps, which has some adorable cuts on it! I also made mine girlier, since it is for a little girl, and left off the machine stitching, as I hate to drag out my sewing machine! All the cuts are done at 2", card measures 5.25" square. CS is Pink Pirouette, Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Apricot Appeal, Pumpkin Pie, and Certainly Celery. DP's are various SU. I did add some "stitching" with my white gel pen around the bottom of the little dress.

I just LOVE how this turned out! I should def. CASE cards more often! Thanks for stopping by today!

Birthday Card for a Friend

This is a card I made for one of my college roomies. She is a wine aficionado so I thought this cut from the Celebrate with Flourish cart would be pretty cool. The DP is Once Upon A Time. CS is Rich Razzleberry and Pear Pizzazz and vellum CS, all SU. Used some SU stamps on the inside.

This is a note my DD wrote to go inside. I think it's hilarious, and so representative of Ems' personality! Click on the pic for a larger view.

I had fun making this card. Hope you've enjoyed it too--thanks for stopping by today!

He's Got the Whole World in His Hands

This is the card I made for our church members to sign for our Christian Ed coordinator who is leaving. A while back, I discovered how you can use SCAL and Lettering Delights images together to do a kind of "print and cut" a la the Cricut Imagine. It is a trifle labor intensive, but I did make a few images this way and this image of the kids around the world holding hands really appealed to me. I have saved it all this time with the intention of making this very card, which I finally did. I printed the words to the song in various colors for my BG. I edged around the main image with a marker, which didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped, but it looks okay I guess. I stamped a couple of sentiments from ODBD on the inside.

Thanks for looking! Have a fabulous day!

Front cover of Star Book

This is the front cover of a star book I made for our Christian Education Coordinator, who is leaving us. I've been wanting to try one of these and thought this was a good occasion. All CS, ink, and DP is SU. Main colors are Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Not Quite Navy, and Whisper White. Almost all the stamps are from ODBD--I love their stamps so much! Some are SU and I have noted those.

I used my Cricut and the Elegant Edges cart and my gypsy to weld the shapes together to get the bracket shape. The title is cut using the Inspired Heart Cricut Lite cart. The bird is from ODBD's Sing to the Lord set, embossed in gold and colored with inks and blender pens.

The pix of the other pages are in the previous post--just scroll down to see them. I couldn't fit all the pix in one blog post LOL! Thanks for looking!

Interior pages of star book

For the first page I made a tag with a stamp from Scripture Collection 2 and SU's Lovely as a Tree. The bird is from Flourished Christian Symbols and is stamped in Not Quite Navy Craft ink, embossed with clear EP. "Faith" is cut from the Home Accents Cricut cartridge.

Here are some more scripture stamps from ODBD scripture collections 2 and 5. The dragonfly tag looks gold in the pic but is actually copper. It's made out of a metal rimmed vellum tag that SU used to sell, dragonfly is MM. Flowers are from Mike's, and of course I can't seem to make anything without using my butterfly sizzlit! It is also stamped with Ecclesiastes from ODBD Randi's song. The little flourishes above and below the scripture are from retired SU set Noteworthy.

This page I die cut with my nesties and stamped the cross from Flourished Christian Symbols in versamark and embossed with clear EP. Butterfly and flowers are from Don't Worry! and scriptures are from the collections (I think 5).

Shells here are from retired SU set Stipple Shells. This set is very fun to use masking on. Swirly clip and ribbon are SU

This page uses Our Daily Bread and The Living Bread stamp sets. The little pocket contains a nestie shape with Ecc. 3:1 stamped on it. Flourishes are from Home Accents Cricut cart.

Thanks for looking! Hope you've enjoyed this project!

Some Cards...

Good morning! I hope everyone had a fabulous Fourth! I took the kids down to TX to visit my parents. We had a wonderful time.

These are some cards I made for the lady who won my cards in the scholarship auction. The first is a CASE of a Michelle Zindorf card. The neat thing about Michelle is she does a whole tutorial for every card she does. I have done a similar card before, but I'm better at it now and I'm really pleased with how this turned out. Colors are Tempting Turquoise and Pacific Point. Flourishes are made using Cricut. Bottom edge is pierced.

In this card I was going for a paint chip effect; as usual I am a couple of years behind the trend, but it seemed like a good technique for a masculine card. CS colors are Bordering Blue, Brocade Blue, and Ballet Blue (all retired), and Night of Navy. Ink is N of N. Stamp is SU.

This last card uses PTI Plum Pudding CS, ink and ribbon. Flowers are ret. SU set, sent. is PTI. Vellum is PTI (I think it's called basket weave or something like that--it has a texture to it--very pretty, but almost opaque).

Well, thanks for stopping by today. As always, comments are greatly appreciated!