Beary Happy Birthday Wishes!

My daughter's teacher just had a birthday and she loves bears. I found this cute teddy bear cupcake file that I had picked up from Lettering Delights a while back. The set is called Nancy's Party and it is adorable. I used the teddy bear cupcake and made a cute little shape card with my Silhouette Cameo machine.

The sentiment comes from the Peachy Keen Stamps January 2013 Stamp Kit of the Month, The eyes came from the Everyday Character Faces 1.75" and the nose and mouth came from the Everyday Character Face Parts (all of which are no longer available for purchase). However, there are some very cute Teddy Bear Assortment Face Stamps that are still available (I have them and love them, they were just too small for my project). HERE is a link to the cute teddy bear faces if you are interested. 

I wanted to make this card double sided so here is what it looks like opened up. I think it is kind of fun.

I also used some Glossy Accents, an enamel dot and some chalk to finish up my card. I hope you enjoyed it and that you have a wonderful day! Hugs- Glora

Happy Birthday Kathy!

Um, lets see if I remember how to even do a blog post anymore - LOL. I have continued crafting as time allows but just haven't made the time to post them on my blog. Maybe I will be better at posting soon, but for now, I wanted to make sure that I shared a card that I made for a VERY special lady. Kathy the owner and artist of Peachy Keen Stamps is having a birthday. She is such an amazing and sweet lady and I just couldn't let the day pass without letting her know how much I love and appreciate her! Happiest of birthdays Kathy!!!!

Kathy's face stamps just make me smile. She has such an awesome variety of expressions and looks. This darling face on this little girl is from the Christmas in July Face Assortment. The Happy Birthday sentiment is also by Peachy Keen Stamps and is from the Darren and Laura Lee stamp set. The cute stitched border comes from My Creative Time's die called Stitched Rectangular Frame Dies and More. The darling little girl and background are both from Lettering Delights.

I hope you all have a wonderful day and a very Merry Christmas too! 

Hugs- Glora

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Happy 50th Birthday Lorie!

My sweet friend Lorie is celebrating her 50th birthday today! I just had to join in the fun and make her a card for her extra special birthday. She is just the sweetest ever and I hope she loves her big birthday card surprise (lots of people joined in the fun).

I thought this turtle svg was so cute! It is from a set called Nancy's Party that is sold by Lettering Delights. I decided to make it into a shape card.

The adorable little turtle face is from the Pile of 1" Smiles by Peachy Keen Stamps. The '50' stamped on the hat is from Just Simply Live by My Creative Time and the HB2U sentiment along the side is from Fun Gift Pocket Sentiments by My Creative Time.

I used the basic color scheme for the current My Creative Time Challenge and so I'm linking it over there.

I had tons of fun making this card for Lorie and I will be sending it in the mail so she can have it soon. Happy birthday Lorie! I hope it is the BEST day!!!! Love ya!

Have a great one! Hugs- Glora

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Happy 1st Day of School!

Well, after more than a month I'm finally back with a crafting post. You probably didn't even miss me but that's okay too. I have been enjoying my summer with my children. They will be back in school in a couple of weeks. I can't believe how fast the summer is flying by. Today I made some cards for my girl's teachers for the first day of school.

This first one follows the color/photo inspiration challenge at My Creative Time.

The frog cut file is from Lettering Delights. The paper is American Crafts. The cute little face comes from the PKSC-06 June 2012 Stamp Kit of the Month. I used the Bunch of Fun Circle Dies, Fun Stitched Edges and Gift Card Sentiments all by My Creative Time.

My 2nd card is very similar but I followed the current Peachy Keen Stamps sketch for this card.

The products used for this are the same as the ones listed above.

I hope you are all having a terrific summer too. Have a great day! Hugs- Glora

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Graduation Cards

I have a couple of more graduations cards that I hadn't posted yet. I went with quick and easy graduation cards this year and printed them straight out of my Silhouette Designer software.

This card uses a file that was a freebie at Lettering Delights. You can still get it but it is no longer a freebie, it is called The Happy Graduate - 2014 and can be found HERE.

For this next card I used the same Lettering Delight image and added a Pretty Paper Pretty Ribbons image with it.

I stamped his face with a PKS face stamp called In the Garden Face Assortment. The boy comes from the PPPR SVG set called Graduates Cutting File.

Have a wonderful day! Hugs- Glora

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Flower - Thank You

I'm joining in on the Peachy Keen Stamps Photo/Color Inspiration at the last minute. I used the colors and the flower theme as the inspiration for my thank you card.

Here is my card:

You may be wondering where the Peachy Keen Stamps are. Well they are the sentiment. The 'Thank' comes from Thank You - Big and the 'YOU' I stamped using letters from  Lucy's ABC's and 123's SOLIDS. The basic card design comes from a Lettering Delights set called Merry Month of May.

I hope you enjoyed. I have a few cards for challenges that will be posted the next couple of days :). Hugs- Glora

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Craftin Desert Diva's May Stamp Release Blog Hop

Welcome to our third Craftin Desert Diva's stamp release blog hop!!!

 I'm super excited to share with you in full the CDD May release stamps. There are five new stamps that are being released today in the Craftin Desert Divas Shop and are available now for purchase.

So without further ado here are the latest stamp sets:

Destination Fun -  you can purchase them HERE

Happy Celebrations - You can purchase HERE

Picture This - You can purchase HERE

This stamp set comes with a FREE studio file

Picture That - You can purchase HERE

This stamp set comes with a FREE studio file

Celebrate Freedom - You can purchase HERE

May Bundle - You can purchase HERE

Sale Price is $65.45 includes shipping. A savings of $10.00 (due to the set up of the cart, $2.50 will be charged for shipping but the amount has  been deducted from the overall price of the stamps.)

Tara is giving away one stamp set each day.

& 

Too Cute by Jessica is giving away $25 gift card to her store.

 (Regular priced items)

This pattern is free with ANY stamp purchase...

"All That Glitters" from TCBJ

Just send an email to craftindesertdivas@gmail.com to claim your free pattern.

I'm the first stop in the hop and I truly hope you enjoy these stamps!
 A complete blog line up is located for you below my post in case you get lost along the way.

And now for my project. I made a couple of fun shape cards to send out when we go on vacation. Both of these cards use the new Destination Fun stamp set.

The California svg came from a set called The United States by Lettering Delights and the heart and Mickey icon came from Miss Kate Cuttables Mouse Memories Boy. That perfect little sentiment is from the new Destination Fun stamp set.

This adorable little Beach Scene Stamp is a cut from Miss Kate Cuttables. I made it into a shape card and I finished it off with a few accent dots and of course the same awesome Destination Fun sentiment is stamped across the bottom.

Next up on the Line Up is the amazing Lori.

Today is the 2nd day of the blog hop. Winners will be picked from a different blog each day, so the more you comment the more chances you have to win.

Craftin Desert Diva's Shop
CDD Gallery - We'd love you to share your projects using the CDD stamps.

Blogs on the hop:

Saturday

Tara - www.craftindesertdivas.com

Kathy - http://3spoileddogs.blogspot.com/

Mayra - http://mayrasdesigns.blogspot.com/

Sukie - http://scrappindhilly.blogspot.com/

Lisa - http://indymermaid.blogspot.com/

Emily - http://molliemugsblog.blogspot.com/

Michelle B. - http://michellescricutfun.blogspot.com/

Michelle P. - http://mumoftwoblog.blogspot.com/

Migdalia - http://craftingwithcreativem.blogspot.com/

Jessica - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Too-Cute-by-Jessica/196421370434846?ref=hl

Sunday-

Tara - www.craftindesertdivas.com

Kathy - http://3spoileddogs.blogspot.com/

Shelly - http://mypaperlove.blogspot.com/

Karen - http://craftedwithlovebykaren.blogspot.com/

Melissa - http://iliketocreate.blogspot.com/

Krystle - http://krystlescraftyniche.blogspot.com/

Glora - http://glorascrafts.blogspot.com/

Lori - http://got2bcrafting.blogspot.com/

Jessi - http://www.mylifeinartsncrafts.co/

Georgiana - http://carsonscricutcreations.blogspot.com/

Jenny - http://crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com/

Jessica - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Too-Cute-by-Jessica/196421370434846?ref=hl

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Thanks for Helping us Jump Into Reading

I just wanted to drop by and share a door I decorated for Teacher Appreciation week at our school. I decorated the reading recovery teacher's door. So I 'toad-ally' went with a reading theme.

Here is a close up of the sentiment.

The books and the frogs are both from files by Lettering Delights. The Frogs are from the Toad-ally School set and the books are from Love to Read and Spell. The words were all cut from true type fonts off my computer and cut out on my Silhouette Cameo.

Have a great weekend! Hugs- Glora

Accordion Birthday Card

My sweet husband just celebrated his birthday and I made this card for him. While I was at it I incorporated a couple of my favorite challenges. I followed the sketch at Peachy Keen Stamps and I did the 'no patterned paper' challenge at My Creative Time.

Here is the Peachy Keen Stamps sketch (I'm flipping it to show you how I interpreted the sketch).

Here is my card:

He he, isn't it cute. My husband plays the accordion and so when I saw this cut in the Musical Instruments set, in my Kawaii-a-Bunga Bundle from Lettering Delights, I was thrilled. I decided to use the print and cut feature on it. I printed on some pretty textured American Crafts cardstock. It really gives it a nice texture and look. My accordion is on an Action Wobble and looks pretty darn cute wobbling around. I stamped it with a Boy Mates Face stamp by Peachy Keen Stamps. The sentiment and music notes come from My Creative Time's, Wow! So Many Candles stamp set. The card base itself was cut using My Creative Time's 4x4 Journal Die + More die set.

The card was a success here. I hope you like it too!

Have a great day! Hugs- Glora

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Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam

I've been meaning to share these little sunbeam postcards for a couple of months now. I am the Primary President at my church (which means I help with the children age 18 months to 11 years) and I like to give the littlest children, called Sunbeams, a happy greeting. The first few weeks in a larger setting can be a little scary for them so I like them to have something fun and just for them to take home. Last year I made some that looked like THIS (click HERE to see last years version).

This year I used my Silhouette Cameo to the max.

 I designed these little 4x4 postcards and then printed them out. The outer edge was just SLIGHTLY bigger than 4x4 so I could cut them out using My Creative Time's 4x4 Journal Die + More. I gave the cards such a professional look. 

The sweet sunshine and background are all files from Lettering Delights. Then I stamped on some cute Peachy Keen Faces. I had mostly boys in the class this year so I used the Boy Mates Face Assortment along with the Erkle and Merkle Face Assortment!

I hope you have a wonderful Sunday! May the Lord watch over and bless you always! Hugs- Glora

P.S. Since it is Sunday and these cards were made for a religious purpose I thought I would share a link to my, I'm a Mormon page. You can find it HERE if you are interested.

Princess Valentines

I know these are a little late but I have a few Valentine projects that I didn't get posted before the big day (actually I was making most of these during the little one's nap on Valentine's Day). That has just been life lately. I think these turned out pretty cute and wanted to share them. I have a couple of treat projects that I will be sharing in the next couple of days too.

I used the sketch from the My Craft Spot challenge this week.

This first one was for my oldest girl:

The SVG and patterned paper are both from Lettering Delights. The princess is from the Ice Princess Cut Set using the print and cut feature on the Cameo. Her darling face is from the In the Garden face assortment by Peachy Keen Stamps. The darling sentiment is from More Gift Card Sentiments by My Creative Time and the Ribbon Banners - Wavy die is from My Craft Spot.

Here is the one for my younger daughter:

I used the same format and supplies for this card except that the princess file is from Lettering Delights Happily Ever After Cut It set. My girls loved them. I hope you had a terrific Valentine's Day too. Hugs- Glora

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