Gawrsh!

All I can say is yesterday was filled with lots of love from my family and friends! I also got a happy surprise that I will share on here when it is available for viewing! Can I just say I'm EXCITED!!! Ahh GAWRSH!!!


This is a pretty simple card that I put together with the Mickey and Friends cartridge, some stamps and a cuttlebug embossing folder. Have a great day!!!

Birthday Greetings ... Dutch Style

This is a birthday card that was made for another one of my nephews. He lived in the Netherlands for a couple of years so I thought it would make a good birthday card for him.


I used the Destinations cricut cartridge. I popped it up with dimensionals and stamped Happy Birthday on it with Navy ink. It is a pretty simple card but I like how it turned out.

Play Ball !!!

Here is the fun baseball mit shape card I made for my nephew's birthday! I hope he likes it. I had a lot of fun making it and trying to make it look like a real baseball mit. Happy Birthday Brett!

I used the baseball mit from Everyday Paper Dolls, the circle is from George, and Brett is the Gypsy font. I welded small circles from George around the edge of the card so that I could lace the card with some thin leather. The card is popped up with dimensionals. It really was a little tricky lacing the card with the leather but the effect in person is really very neat and so worth the effort! Below is a side view of the card.

Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge 27

Can I say, I had SO much fun with this challenge! An idea popped into my head on Tuesday, on Wednesday, I was able to sneek in a little time to design it on my Gypsy. On Thursday, my baby took a good nap and I was able to cut the card and put it together. Today I added the last few touches and voila, my card.

I love that the butterfly wings kind of flap when you pick it up. Here is a backside view.

And this is a front side view. Fun, fun, fun.

I used core'dinations cardstock along with some other paper from my stash. I used Peachy Keen Stamps set PK-502A Funshine Faces Side Views 3/4" for the cute butterfly face. I used the following Cricut cartridges: Wild Card for the card base, George for the circle, 50 States for the flower, and Mickey and Friends for the butterfly. Then I added a sentiment, some blush for the cheek, a little doodling, some inking, a few rhinestones and ribbon.

Below is the color palette and images that helped to inspire my card. Thanks for looking.

To save the GYPSY file, right-click this link.From the menu that appears, select 'Save Target As...', 'Save Link As...',or some similar option found in your web browser.

Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge 26

It is time for another Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge. For this challenge we were supposed to make a card that contained the following items:

1. Stitching (either by sewing needle or hand-drawn)
2. White and Orange (card could have more colors, but must include these two in the card)
3. Contain one upcycled item (something that could be thrown away but instead will make its way onto your work of art!)
4. Any Peachy Keen Stamp
Here is my card:I used Peachy Keen Stamps set PK-M16 You are my sunshine. Isn't it such a cute set? I colored it with my Prismacolor pencils and then I blended them. I designed the card on my Gypsy. The circle and the sentiment rectangles are from George, the scalloped circle is from Mini Monograms, and the card is from Don Juan (it is on the stitched function key). I hand sewed around the card and added some ribbon as well. My upcycled item was actually part of a cardboard box we were going to throw out. I used the cardboard to pop up my sentiment and the sunshine instead of using pop dots.

GR8 2B 33!

My incredible husband just celebrated his 33rd birthday. He is REALLY into collecting and entering My Coke Rewards points. So my little girl had a plan, she wanted to make her daddy's birthday theme using powerade caps. She is SO cute and VERY creative. She gathered some powerade caps and we made a little box for them. (We used tags bags & boxes cricut cartridge for the box and the tag, Sans serif is for the font which we welded using the Gypsy, the circle caps on the sides were cut from a a blackout tag from tags bags and boxes too). According to my dd the sides of the box had to have 'caps' with codes on them, this evolved into the theme for my dh's birthday GR82B33.


Here is the card my daughter made for her daddy (notice the black cap & code):




Here is the birthday card and cake I made him (the card is SUPER simple and the cake would have been better if we would have remembered that we were out of ingredients for the frosting. Oh well, we had fun making it and he enjoyed it too and I guess that is what matters most). We used Don Juan for the font (I don't have the Cricut Create machine that Don Juan comes with but I was able to get it with reward points from Cricut rewards). It is a fun cartridge.

MPS Color Challenge

Blogger was not working for me last night. So I posted my entry on my regular website. For this challenge we were supposed to use the colors green pink & black. So here is my 'so sweet watermelon.'


I used Doodlecharms for the watermelon and welded it into a shape card using my Gypsy. Then I added some black doodling, some stamps for the seeds and sentiment and a little bow. Enjoy!