You are aging to perfection!

Good morning! Can't believe I missed ANOTHER day! Hello summer! Anyway, I really have been wanting to catch up on a couple of challenge - so this card I managed to get made last night for the Throwback Thursday Challenge over at Emma's My Creative Time. The challenge was to use either Just Because Cards, or Wild Card cartridges, and to incorporate dry or heat embossing.

For my card, I decided to use Just Because Cards, and BOTH heat and dry embossing! I cut the "sticker" icon out, ran the back part through my Cuttlebug, added some doodling, and stamped and heat embossed the sentiment from one of Emma's stamp sets. Pop-dotted the circle from the rest of the card, rounded a couple of the edges with my Martha Stewart corner rounder, and finished off with some jute cord and a button. I kind of like how it makes a perfect and simple guy card - one of my BIGGEST challenges!!!



Grillin' and Chillin' Blog Hop

Welcome to BugBites first ever Bug Hop - Grillin' and Chillin' Bug Hop!!! To celebrate the beginning of summer, Barb over at BugBites is hosting two consecutive weekends of Bug Hops. This week it's all about the Chillin' - June 4-6.

If you've come from visiting Priscilla, you're in the right place! If you are just a regular visitor to my blog, and would like to play along with our Grillin' and Chillin' Bug Hop, click HERE to start from the beginning!  The entire line-up is posted at the end of my project, in case you get lost along the way!

Each designer along the bug trail is featuring a project based on the Grillin' and Chillin' theme. What's more exciting, is that you can participate too by creating a project and linking it up over at BugBites for a chance to win a BIG prize!!! But there's a twist. Your project must include at least one Cricut cut, and at least one of the critters that have been hidden within some of the bug stop blogs. Be sure and visit all the bug stops to find all your critter choices. While you're looking for critters, be sure to check out the blog candy that each designer has to offer you! You don't want to miss out on any of it!

For my project, nothing makes me think of summer like a tall frosty glass of lemonade! The thought of sitting on a porch swing, feeling the breeze, and sipping fresh homemade lemonade sounds like a little slice of heaven! Still don't have a porch swing, but a girl can dream, right? So, here is the card I made to celebrate that dream:

The glass of lemonade and the sentiment were cut from the cartridge Just Because Cards. I covered the assembled images with Glossy Accents, and coated them with fine glitter to give them a "frosty" effect.

For the Baker's twine, I needed it to look a little more vintage, so I rubbed it around on one of my Tim Holtz distress ink pads and let it dry before tying it around and putting a simple knot in it.

The image and sentiment are both pop-dotted from the background to give it some great texture! And to finish it off and make it really sparkle, I put some Glossy Accents around the outside edges of the card, and covered that with some Martha Stewart coarse and chunky glitter...I LOVE the extra sparkle!

For my blog candy, I will be giving away a GREAT summer cartridge...

...LUAU!!! Just leave a comment and a way for me to reach you if you win!!!

Here is the entire blog line-up, in case you get lost along the way!

Barb

Tanya

Jenn 

Jovan

Britt 

Brynn

Maureen

Cherie

Jen    H 

Diana L

Priscilla

Heather - You are HERE!

Theresa - This is your next stop!

Peggy Sue

Kim

Shelly

Amy

Lezlyes

Happy Happy Days!

Wanted to share a kind of quick and fun card today! Even though it is POURING down rain here right now, we have had some BEAUTIFUL spring days - which is what inspired this card!

The shaped card was welded together on my Gypsy from Lacey Labels. The tree shape is from Just Because Cards - using the label feature. Added some Stickles, a sentiment from Scrappy Mom's Stamps, some stitching with my white gel pen, and a little Baker's Twine bow.

Have a beautiful day!!!



Cherry on Top Valentine card

It's day four of the pre-Valentine's Day cards I'm making for my hubby, and I think he's on to me! Yesterday, he noticed me sneaking it into his lunch, and thanked me - before he even read it! I'm having fun though, and definately think this is something I need to do more often to let him know I love and appreciate him. In case this is your first visit, I am doing a card for my husband every day this week, letting him know each day some of the things I love and appreciate about him. This is day four, so tomorrow will be the final card. :0(   Today's card is just to thank him for how fun he makes my life! Life is sweeter with him as part of it! I love all the times we laugh and joke together, the tickle fights, the fun Daddy he is to our little girls, and how he makes the BEST cookies! Seriously, he is the cookie maker in our house! If I'm gone for the evening, I usually come home to find the house smelling yummy because he made a batch of cookies (usually with chocolate, so can you tell why I love him?) 

Anyway, I used Just Because cartridge for all the cuts, and added a Peachy Keen face to the ice cream. I was going to enter it in a challenge using Just Because, but realized after I finished that I had to have a stamped sentiment...and I used the computer to generate the sentiment, because I couldn't find what I wanted in my stamps! Oh well! Also added a little Baker's Twine in one of the new colors, some inking, and some faux stitching around the edges. Almost forgot - also used the Cuttlebug on the background. Ran it through upside down, but kind of like how it is "de-bossed" instead of embossed. Thanks again for looking!



2 fun cards!

Lucked out last night, ended up with 2 cards I really like! I wonder if it had something to do with actually accomplishing something useful before I sat down to play! (Cleaned my bedroom and bathroom after my two daughters went to bed - they were in desperate need of it!) Anyway, both of these came out really fun!

The first one I used a cut from the Country Life cartridge, and added a face on the watering can from the new Peachy Keen Snow Cuties face assortment (about time I finally used those!). Then I added glossy accents on the watering can and pot, and stickles on the water, flower, and stem. The lacy bottom piece is using a Martha Stewart edge punch, added some buttons and ribbon on tip, a stamped sentiment, and lots of faux stitching with my white gel pen.

On this second one, I used one of the "sticker" cuts from Just Because Cards. Then ran the background through the Cuttlebug. The sentiment came from Create a Critter. Added Glossy Accents (yep, I love the stuff!) over the blue part on the "sticker", and over the word "howdy". Finished off with a little faux stitching with my black Sakura Glaze pen.

Thanks for looking! Hope you have a fabulous day!!!

First Easel Cards!!!

I can't believe that I put off making an Easel Card for SOOO long! For some reason, they just looked difficult, and I was intimidated by them. This afternoon, I saw a tutorial for them, and thought I would give it a try on one of them. I ended up making THREE - they were so easy, and look so neat when they are finished! Here they are:

This first one, I used the cartridge From My Kitchen for the toaster, stuck all the parts together, then coated it with Glossy Accents! Makes it look even more cool and retro! Added a button, some ribbon, and some fake stitching with my Sakura glaze pen...

The next one is a great "guy" card! Those are usually SOOO hard, so I was really excited about this one! Used Just Because Cards for the car, and like the toaster, stuck it all together, and topped it with Glossy Accents. Punched the "button" with the Martha Stewart button punch, and also applied Glossy Accents. A little scribbling, ribbon, and a stamp sentiment finished it off.

The last one, used Create a Critter for the bee, a Peachy Keen stamp for the face, Walk in My Garden for the daisy, Martha Stewart branch punch, some ribbon, and a stamped sentiment. (I couldn't believe that with all my stamps, I didn't have a single "Hap-bee birthday" stamp! So I had to settle for this...)