Owl my love birthday

Thanks for stopping by. I'm so glad you are here.

 My project today is a card that I made for an upcoming birthday. 

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I used a premade white card base.

The patterned paper is a 4x6 matt from the DCWV "Green Stack."

It already has the funny little owl up in the corner.

I added some Craft Smart brown and gold ribbon.

The gray and yellow "moon" layers were scraps already in those shapes.

The owl was cut at 2inches from the Cricut Create a Critter Cartridge.

I added some googly eyes to him. 

The stamped sentiment is from The Craft's Meow "Happy Owlentine's Day" stamp set.

I added some dots around the edge of the card and the owl (hard to see.)

I inked all the edges with Color Box ink in Chestnut.

That about covers it.

Thanks for taking a look. 

Have a wonderful day.

Happy Birthday The Crafts Meow

The Craft's Meow is celebrating it's 1st birthday.  They have lots of challenges and I've been so swamped that I haven't been able to complete them all.  The card for today is for their last birthday bash challenge and today is the deadline!  So here's my birthday card:

I used the Owl stamp from the "Happy Owlentine's Day" set & I also used the free digi sentiment from The Craft's Meow.  

I cut my card using the Create a Critter Cartridge and welding it together in the Cricut Craft Room.

The striped paper is from Echo Park.

I added some organza ribbon and some faux stitching. 

The balloon and the circle of the owl are popped up with foam dots. 

Thanks for taking a look. 

Have a wonderful weekend. 

Happy Birthday From the Heart

For this post I have a birthday card to share with you. 

I made this using a free digi stamp from The Craft's Meow.

They are having a Birthday Bash from 3/17 - 3/21 in honor of their 1st birthday!

They issued a sketch challenge.

Here's the sketch

Here's my take on it

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The sentiment is the free digi from The Craft's Meow.

It reads "Happy Birthday from the Heart Because that is where all great wishes start."

So I used a pink cardstock for the base.

Cut a rectangle out of some green with pink tiny flower DCWV paper and then used my new Fiskars Combo Border Corner Punch. I like the look it gives.

I cut the pink heart out from my computer at the same time I did the digi sentiment.

I cut a silver tag from DCWV paper.

added some pearl flourishes

inked the edges of everything

and also drew over some parts of the sentiment with a pink marker.

That's all folks!

Hope you enjoyed your time here. Come back soon. : )

Don't forget to check out The Craft's Meow blog and enter the challenge. There's plenty of time and they have all kinds of awesome stuff happening for their first birthday too.

DCWV February's Stack-a-holic Template Challenge

So HERE'S the challenge for February from DCWV.  Make a layout using DCWV papers using this sketch from Sketch Savvy.




And here's my version of the sketch.

The majority of layout is using the Tattered Time Stack (which I won --- Thank you Erin!)

The gears are from one of the papers from the Tattered Time Stack. - I just cut them out and used them for my circles.  I added some colored pearls to the centers to brighten them up a bit. 

The "May 1962" letters are also one of the papers from Tattered Time which I cut out and used as my banners. 

The light aqua paper is from the Textured Cardstock Stack-Brights. 

The brown shimmer paper is from the Holiday Shimmer stack. 

The Flowers are from The Craft's Meow grab box I recently bought. 

The "Jim & Andrea" were cut out using my Nifty Fifties Cricut cartridge. 

My parents will be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary this May. That's a whole lot of love!  I'm making them a scrapbook in celebration of this awesome event!

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you'll take some time to leave me a comment and let me know what you think. 

Cardz TV Cricut Cardz Challenge 101

I've recently started following the Cardz TV blog and they have challenges using Cricut Cartridges. Challenge 101 is "Be My Valentine!" Make a card for Valentine's Day, using any cartridge(s) and using any colors you'd like.

My son is loving penguins lately and I know he wants a penguin on his Valentine card. So here is what I made him.

I used the Create-a-Critter cartridge for the train and the penguin.  The hearts and the sentiment are stamps from my Happy Owlentine's Day stamp set by The Craft's Meow.  I just double stamped the "Whoo" part to give it a train sound. : )   He's 5 and I thought he would really get a kick out of seeing his picture on the card. I should have picked a better one of his face but I was being lazy and already had this picture printed that I could cut out and use. The papers were all from my scraps pile. Yay me for using up some of those.  Using up those scraps is one of the great things about the Cricut. 

Thanks for looking.  I enjoy your comments, so don't forget to leave one! ; )

Be Mine card

I am posting this card to participate in the January-February Card Sketch challenge over at The Craft's Meow. I had recently won the Happy Owlentine's stamp set from them and I just purchased one of her Grab Boxes that was loaded with goodies.  She still has Grab Boxes left for sale. You can check it out HERE.

This is the sketch for the challenge:

Here is my version of it:

Everything I used on this card was from The Craft's Meow Grab Box or was the Happy Owlentine's Stamp set.   The only thing that wasn't is the Stickles Glitter glue and the Liquid Pearls.  Oh, the ribbon was from my stash.   I cut the brown circle from my Elegant Edges cartridge at 3.75 on the "shift" level and the white circle was cut at 3.50 without the shift.

Here's a close-up:

I stamped the owl/arrow image all in red but I didn't like the way it looked when I was done. So I stamped the image again in brown ink on the same background paper and then cut it and paper-pieced it over the red. I really am pleased with the way it turned out. I colored in the heart eyes in red and put a little Stickles glitter glue over them and also over the arrow.   The felt flowers needed a center and I chose the White Opal liquid pearls.  I inked the edges of the card base and the papers in brown Studio G ink. 

Thanks for looking. I'd love to hear your comments.

You can also participate in this challenge up until February 14th. 

Happy Owlentine's Day

I won a stamp set called Happy Owlentine's Day from The Craft's Meow. (Thanks Lisa!)  It's such a really cute set.  I've made my first Valentine cards using this set.  I realize that I need to get a set of good markers. And on top of that, I need to learn how to color better but all in all the cards still turned out pretty good.   Here's what I've done so far.

The yellow on this looks much better in person.  I stamped this one without the balloon. This set has so many possibilities.  I also like the non-traditional look of this one.

This one I used my new Sizzix Texture Boutique. LOVE it! The embossing folder I used is the Sizzix Curlique.  The owls eyes are done in Petal Pink Liquid Pearls to give them texture and pop.

Sorry the picture is so bad on this one. I fussy cut out this stamp and pop-dotted just the owls and the swing to make them look like they are swinging. 

This one is definitely my favorite. I love the simplicity of it.  I stamped "I love you to the moon and back" on the inside.  

Thanks for taking the time to look. I hope you'll check out The Craft's Meow.  They have a lot of great stuff.

God Bless.