Momo's Tuesday Challenge

Yay I love these challenges!  This week's challenge is to use some kind of embossing.  Since I'm a novice stamper I don't have a heating gun to heat emboss so I used my Cuttlebug Spots & Dots folder to make another birthday card.

This is for a 13 year old boy so no bling, ribbon, etc....

I think this will work well for a boy.  Black card base and the patterned paper is KI Memories from the Party Pack.  The Happy birthday is from Celebrations and cut at 2 inches I believe (I laid it all out in my Gypsy, so not sure).  I like the way the stars and circles look together.  The flash kinda washed out the colors, it's brighter in real life.  All in all I like the way this came out.

Thanks for looking today!  The week is half over... yay!!!  Hope your week is going great! :)

Cheers

-Amanda

November Birthdays

Wow, I didn't realize I had so many birthdays coming up this month.  I need to get busy!!!  I'll be posting up lots of birthday cards in the coming days.

Fantabulous Cricut's Challenge Me Monday this week is to use a bird so I made this very pink card for a sweet little girl's birthday...

Not one of my favorite cards but I do loooove that little birdie.  She's from Cherry Limeade.  I cut her at 3 inches and you can't tell but she's on pop dots.  The patterned pattern is very old KI Memories and the sentiment is from Scrappy Moms.  I inked up the pink cardstock a bit and added a pink ribbon (I'm thinking I should have went w/ a brown ribbon now, ugh!).

Thanks for looking and stopping by! :)  I'll be back soon with more birthday cards.

Cheers

-Amanda

Momo's Tuesday Challenge #15

So the newest Tuesday Challenge is to make anything other than  card.  I made some more gift bags.  :)

First up a birthday one...

Since I had Celebrate With Flourish out I decided to get a jump start on some Christmas gift bags....

I really like how the Christmas bags came out.. Love the cuts on Celebrate With Flourish.  This was all made with random papers in my stash.

Thanks for looking!  Hope you're having a great week!  :) 

Cheers

-Amanda

The last two

So here are the final 2 challenges for World Card Making Day hosted by Christina @ creationswithchristina.com/.  I have to say I really liked all of these challenges and some really did challenge me (hello Christmas tag, LOL).  


Challenge # 7 was to make a Birthday card... 

Birthday cards are always good to have on hand but I can't ever seem to get a good stash of them... something to definitely work on.  For this card the presents were cut @ 4 inches (too small?) from Celebrations cartridge.  Both of the patterned papers are from KI Memories (my fav!).  Added a few buttons and a simple ribbon.  I don't know... this might work for a guys card??  Or are the buttons/ribbon too much?

The last challenge, #8, was to make a card with a pumpkin on it... 

I love that little pumpkin.  He was cut @ 2.75 inches from Stretch You Imagination.  I'm not sure on the paper.  The sentiment is from Scrappy Moms A Haunting We Will Go set.  I added some black bling on each corner and that was it for this card.  I like it a lot though.


So there you have it.  All 8 challenges completed.  I loved working on each and everyone of these.  Thanks for stopping by to check them out.  I really do appreciate you taking the time to come to my simple little blog and comment, etc.  Thanks!  :)


Cheers
-Amanda

October Birthdays

I already started on my October birthday cards.  I wish I could get to a point when I have a nice stash stockpiled.  Seems like I make them and out they go.  Oh well.

Here's what I started with...

Isn't she so sweet.  The flash faded out the colors because it's a lot brighter in real life.  The little owl is cut at 3.25 inches from the Hoot N Holler Lite cartridge.  I really need to use that more, I really like it.  The stamp is from Scrappy Moms. 

Thanks for taking a look.  I need to finish up my October birthday cards and few other projects.  Should be a fun, full weekend.  Happy Friday!!!  :)

Cheers

-Amanda

A couple of quick gift bags

Hey everyone!

I seem to be on a little burn out the last couple days so I haven't done much in my scrap space.  I think I need to go do some challenges to get myself going.  They are always such good motivators for me.            

I did make a couple of quick gift bags.  These are just the plain ones like the baby gift bag I posted a week or two back.  At work we celebrate all the birthdays for the month in my department at once and have lunch and gifts.  So I made these up for the 2 birthdays in September.....

Super simple.  On the yellow one the patterned paper is from American Crafts Celebration line.  I took a scalloped square from Accents Essentials and manipulated it in Design Studio to make a rectangle 8.25x5.5 inches.  The other one... not sure, just a random piece of paper in my stash.  That rectangle is 8.25x6 inches.  I cut both of the presents at 3 inches from Celebrate With Flourish Lite Cartridge.

Who was on Momo's UStream last night?  I have so much fun chatting with everyone!   (I'm Amanda711 on there, btw.)  Last night was great because it was all about embossing and I'm such a stamping novice I really learned a lot.  The chatting is just an added bonus. :)

Thanks for stopping by today.  :)  

Cheers

-Amanda

Hoot N Holler and new goodies

So I made a quick little card with my favorite Lite Cartridge... Hoot N Holler.  What can I say... I just love the owl trend right now!  My co-worker Angela loves them too, so I made her this card for her birthday...

I rarely do much to the inside of my cards but I really wanted to try this cut so this is what I put on the top part of the inside of this card...

All made w/ Bazzil scraps from my stash and the patterned paper is from American Crafts.  I *think* the cuts are 2.5 inches, maybe 3.  I can't really remember.  The stamp is from a Fiskars set.

Today was a fabulous mail day and I got in a few things I recently ordered.  I'm sooo looking forward to this 3 day weekend.  I don't have any plans, except for a family BBQ Sunday.  I see lots of time playing with newness :D  I really need to work on my scrapbook pages... I have soooo much to do.  So I might work on that this weekend.  So here's hoping for a fast-moving, easy Friday at work.  

Thanks for taking a look.

Cheers

-Amanda

Companion Challenge Birthday Bash

I love that now I'll be able to share my creations for various challenges now here online.  I usually do challenges but haven't had a place to post them up or link them.... now I can!  Woot!  (Hey - It's  the small things in life, lol.)

So first up I have Crafting With Cristina's Companion Challenge.  It's birthday bash this time.  

Here's my simple card....

More cupcakes!  I just love the cupcakes on Sweet Treats... actually I love that entire cartridge.  So this is a card base from DCWV, the kind you buy in the boxes.  I've had it for ages.  The pink patterned paper is from the Sweet Stack by DCWV and the green patterned paper for the cupcake wrapper is from DCWV Summer Dream Stack.  It's cut at 3 inches.  The stamped sentiment is from some random set I picked up at Joann's awhile back.

Thanks for taking a look.  I know not many are reading, but I know a few friends are... so leave a comment!  I need my first one :)  Hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend!  I've spent all Saturday in my craft room... yay!

Cheers

-Amanda

Grams

In a long line of crafty chicks in my family it all starts with my Grams.  She was an amazing crafter.  Not with paper and glue, which is my chosen love, but she is a fabulous seamstress, quilter, painter, crocheter, knitter, doll maker, she was so good at so many different things.

The past couple years her body has started failing her.  The mind is sharp as a tack, just her body is losing and time is winning.  :(  Her hands have really been affected so crafting is something in the past for her.  I know she misses it and that makes me sad for her.

Since she has a hard time getting out and about but still remembers EVERYONE's birthday (seriously, she remembers everything!) every couple months I crank out some super easy cards for her to send to family and friends.  This is what I came up for her this time around....

Very simple, even for me and I'm a super simple card maker/scrapper.  Standard card base.  Circle was punched w/ my big jumbo circle punch (which is hiding from me somewhere since I made these cards... hmmm time to organize and straighten up!).  The stripped patterned paper was from my scraps, but I believe it's old KI Memories.  The green plaid and polka dot paper for my cupcake frosting is from the DCWV Stack 7.  The cupcake I cut out with the Solutions Home Decor cartridge.  I used my Design Studio and did the Hide Contour feature for the cherry on top of the cupcake because I didn't want it on these.  I also used the Hide Contour feature to cut all my tops out at once, than my cupcake wrappers.  Saved paper that way.  

I think that's it.  Pretty easy.  Thanks for taking a look.

Cheers

-Amanda