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

Last of Halloween projects

Hi everyone!  Hope you all have had a great weekend and fun Halloween.  I'm home tonight handing out candy... unfortunately I don't get many kids here :(  I love seeing them all dressed up.  I went last night to a 80's themed Halloween party... it was sooo much fun!  :)

So I wanted to do a quick post of the Halloween projects I haven't posted up yet.  First is the goody bags I made up.  I made about a dozen of these but only had 2 left when I remembered to take pics.  I used to just plain ol' brown paper lunch bags....

I kept them very simple.  Just my cuts and ribbon to tie them.  I used October 31st for the spider and Mini Monsters for my toothy pumpkin.  :)  Both were cut @ 5 inches.   The bags held a lot of loose candy and then a few crafty things.....

First up pencil holders from Made by Momo: 

I used paper scraps and popped up the cuts -- they are from Pumpkin Carvings.

I did a couple of candy wrappers.  The candy bar wrappers are from various sites but I used the measurements and such from here:  http://www.kerryspapercrafts.com/?p=920

More Mini Monsters and of course Scrappy Moms stamps.  

The next one is a candy box wrapper that I borrowed from Jean @ http://jeanscraftycorner.blogspot.com/2010/10/day-2-of-halloween-projects.html  She has had a Halloween project every day this month and man... she is crazy talented!!!  When I saw this idea I immediately saved it because I knew I wanted to make them! 

here you can see how the box just slides right out

Aren't those so cool.  Such an original idea she had.  Loved it.  I used Storybook for the top note, Pumpkin Carving for the mouth and stitches and Mini Monsters for the eyes.

The last thing that I haven't posted before is a little "BOO" sign I made using the 4x4 chipboard coasters from Michael's.  I liked the way this turned out....

I put this together in my Gypsy.  Almost all the cuts are from Happy Hauntings.  The font is from that cartridge... isn't it such a cool font.  Love it!  The moon, web, and flying witch are all from October 31st.  I inked it all up to give it a dirty/grungy look.  I also frayed the edges of the ribbon holding each coaster together (Can't see it very well in this pic) to keep it looking grungy kind of.  I was happy with how it turned out.   Expect a few more of these... I found the coasters in a clearance bin.. 33cents/package.  I stocked up big time, like bought way more than I need.  LOL  :)

I love Halloween!  :)  Now onto Thanksgiving and of course Christmas!!

I hope you have a great night... I'm going to try and finish up my Throwback Challenge.  Thanks for stopping by!

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

Queen for the day

I didn't have time to post yesterday but I have been working on all the challenges Christina posted for World Card Making Day on Saturday on her blog.  I don't have time this week to sit down and do them all at once so I'm just doing them when I can fit them in.  I enjoy sitting down for a bit of quiet time after a hectic day to do something I enjoy.

Challenge 1 was to make a card based on a sketch and here's what I did...

This is for a girlfriend that just got a promotion at work (even though it looks like a little girls card, lol).  A group of friends are getting together to celebrate with her (we're calling it her "Queen for the day drinks and dinner party"!! lol ) so I made her this cute little card.  She loves all things crowns/tiaras so I hope she'll like it.

The patterned paper is KI Memories and was scraps laying out on my table from a project I was working on (altered pocket calendars, I'll post them soon).  The crown is from Rock Princess and cut at 3 inches.  The Fab stamp is from Scrappy Moms.  This was a pretty fast card to put together.  

Thanks for taking a look.

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

More Monsters!

Seriously you guys..... I'm in love with this cartridge!!!  I've got a couple more Halloween cards I need to make, I should put down Mini Monsters and use October 31st.  Maybe one of each... I don't know if I can leave my cute little monsters, LOL.

Here's some cards I've made....

I made this card from the Phrase feature key.  It's cut at 2.5 inches.  The patterned paper is from the DCWV Midnight Spell stack.  I added some buttons and some quick white stitches around the edge with my white gel pen.

Next up... the cutest spider EVER!!!

 

I just loooove her!!!!  She's cut at 2 inches and I used Design Studio to do the hide contour feature on her eyes because I knew I wanted to use googly eyes.  I also did the hide contour feature on the shape on her belly.  The paper is again from the DCWV Midnight Spell stack.  The stamp is Scrappy Moms.

Last I have what I'm pretty sure is my favorite monster...

I just love this little guy and all 3 of his eyes  :)  He's cut at 3 inches.  The patterned paper is from my stash.  Used googly eyes and the ribbon is just plain satin ribbon from Walmart.  The stamp is again from Scrappy Moms.

Hope everyone is having a blessed Sunday and enjoying the weekend.  I'll be posting some more cards from the Stamping  Solutions cartridge this coming week before I move on to another cartridge.  Not sure which one I'll be "spotlighting" next.  I need to go through and look at my cartridges.

Thanks for stopping by and looking.  :)

Cheers

-Amanda  

They Make Me Smile!

This Mini Monsters cartridge... man I love it!!!  I've been making some things the last couple days... putting together the monsters... just make me smile!  :)  They are so cute!!!!

I made this little guy for the cricutcardzchallenge #42.  The challenge was to make Halloween card using the card feature on any cartridge.

Isn't he too funny!  Those teeth kill me!  LOL  I used the Base Shadow feature to mount the card on to b/c I wanted him to be more sturdy.   It's all cut out at 5 inches. 

Here's a quick pic of the inside... I used the Scrappy Moms "A Haunting We Will Go" stamps.  Seriously love those stamps!!  I just saw on Scrappy Mel's blog a sneak peek of the new "Winter Wishes" stamps.  Must have those as well!  :)

I think my flash faded out the black ink... it's definitely not that light IRL.

I spent some time today blog hopping (again! Man I can really lose track of time checking out everyone's blogs).  There were a couple of blog hops today and I loved the projects.  I wanted to share 2 with you guys that I'm absolutely going to be "borrowing"  ;)    

First up is inkingitupcrazy.blogspot.com.  She made some cute little note cards and the Chipboard Boo Decoration... I'm going to be putting that together ASAP!  I love it and have just the perfect shelf for it to sit out for Halloween.

Next up I loooooved these little pumpkins on septemberninth.blogspot.com.  I have most everything I need to make these but I'm need to make a quick Dollar Store stop and pick up a few orange fat quarters at Joann's.  I'm going tomorrow -- that's how excited I am to make these!  :)  I think I'm going to make a set for me and a set to send to my best friend.  I just love it!

Thanks for looking!  I'm going to be posting some other things I made with Mini Monsters probably tomorrow.  

Cheers

-Amanda

Black Cat

I was on youtube earlier today and I forgot all about Mary's Halloween Challenge over at cardztv.blogspot.com

Here's a quick little card I came up with....

Taken w/ no flash

Taken w/ flash on 

This was kind of a mess of a card for me.  I had to add the mat on top of the patterned paper b/c the black cat wasn't showing up very well at all.  So I add a green mat at first but it didn't match very well.  So I added the orange.  

I loooove that web ribbon.   It's from Michael's.  The paper is all scraps from my stash.  The cat was cut at 2.5 inches from the October 31st cartridge.  The stamp is Scrappy Moms.

Thanks for looking!

Cheers

-Amanda