Spring Chick

Happy Thursday everyone, Cathy here to share another card featuring a SVG file from KaDoodle Bug Designs..  For this card I used the "Spring Chick " file,

the card below was created using Close to My Heart card stock as well as DCWV burlap paper. and a stamp from a Punny stamp set I had.

Well I hope you like my card today and will head  over to KaDoodle Bug Designs and check out her amazing files.

Til next time Happy Crafting

Cathy

Jessica's (KinderStampO) Secret B-Day Blog Hop

Good morning and welcome to the Jessica's (KinderStampO)  Secret B-Day Blog Hop. This was a surprise, I hope it is a good one.  Happy Birthday Jessica!!!  I hope your day is as special as you are.  I love being a Guest designer on your team, you are awesome.

Below is the sketch for our projects.   

Soooo, I made a Birthday card using this sketch and also used products from The KinderStampO shop.  First of all you shaold have arrived here from Limors' blog, if not, please start at the beginning, here there are tons of fabulous projects and you don't want to miss a single one! I will post the blog list below so you do not get lost.

For my card I used Paper from the DCWV Fresh Floral Stack.  I love that stack, it has such soft colors and beautiful flower prints/  The card stock is Michaels recollections paper. I cut the daisy flower from the Art Philosophy cartridge at 3" and then ran it through my Sizzix Texture Boutique Embossing machine, sorry I do not know the name of the folder, it has writing, that is all I know. I then inked the edges with CTMH Cottan Candy.  I also Stamped the sentiment from the CTMH  Celebrations stamp set with their New England Ivy ink pad.  I then added a button to the center of the flower and a organza pink butterfly.  The rest of the embellishing came from KinderStampO's store

Products used from KinderStampO store:

I also used some yellow lace ribbon from KinderStampO, no picture available/

Make sure you take a browse through the KniderStampO store and get some goodies for yourself Here

 Below is the first card I made, I had a blonde / senior moment and made the card without using any  KinderStampO products...can you believe it?? Lol.

KinderStampO http://www.kinderstampo.com/
Susannah McManus Kelly http://wwwsuzies.blogspot.com/
Elisa Kammerdiener http://www.perpetualstew.blogspot.com/
Raffaela Perego http://www.miomondodiscrap.blogspot.nl/
Cat Beaty http://www.catscreationsscrapbooks.blogspot.com/
Cathy Derouche http://www.cathyplus5.blogspot.com/
Mandie Wade http://www.mandiesscrappin.blogspot.com/
Aissa Rodriguez Segarra http://www.aissa19.blogspot.com/
Haidee Shableau http://www.created2bunique.blogspot.com/
CJ Shumaker http://www.minniemaines.blogspot.ca/
Nicole Laha http://www.Shezigzags.blogspot.com/
Amanda Tibbitts http://www.athomeink.blogspot.com/
DD Crafts http://craftydeb-ddscrafts.blogspot.no/
Linda Myquillingnest http://www.myquillingnest.com/
Lilli Solstråle Nikolaisen http://www.crazycardmaker.blogspot.no/
Jennifer Peekhaus http://www.jenniferpeekhaus.blog.com/
Shana Tedrick http://www.scrapinshana.blogspot.com/

There will be a $25.00 gift card for one lucky winner to the KinderStampO store, and in order to be eligible, you must stop at all the blogs on the hop, including KinderStampO and leave some bloggy Love!  thats it:0)  Happy Hopping:)

Hope you are having a good time....come back again,

Cathy

ALL ABOUT ME BLOG HOP

Welcome to the ALL ABOUT ME BLOG HOP!!! Today you are going to see a lot of wonderful projects, and learn a little bit about some of us crafters, that you probably already follow, or maybe see someone you have missed, and would love to follow.  Either way, have a fun time, make sure you comment on each blogs projects, there maybe some goodies along the way. I have the line up below incase you get lost.  You should have arrived here from Sarah"s, if no, and you just happened upon my blog, start at the beginning at Shelley's so you don't miss a thing:)  Also you will want to make sure you follow her rules to win this mouth watering candy!!!

1. Shelley  - http://shelley-scrapbookingforfun.blogspot.com/

2. Judy - www.bepresentbereal.blogspot.com/

3. Sandy - http://scrapbookblessings.blogspot.com/

                            
 4. Shelley  -  http://heartstring-designs.blogspot.com/

5. Melissa - http://iamapapermaniac.blogspot.com/

6. Janet - http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com/

7. Roberta  - http://thepapercraftingleague.blogspot.com/

8. Claire - http://threewaterscreations.blogspot.com/

9. Sarah - http://craftingwithsarah.blogspot.com/

10. Cathy - http://cathyplus5.blogspot.com/

11. Nadja - http://nadjarobbins.blogspot.com/

12. Tess - www.sassycricutcrafting.com/

13. Robin  - http://cutonedesignsbyrobin.blogspot.com/

14. Amy  - http://www.scrapthissavethat.blogspot.com/

15. Miranda- http://www.nanasscrapspot.com/

16. Kim - http://theartisansattic.blogspot.com/

List of products used:
Cricut
Artiste cartridge
Cricut Sampler
Ribbons And Rosettes
Zig Pen
Rubber cement
DCWV..The Crafty Stack
Jolee's candy/cross
Ranger's Tim Holtz Distress pad Olive green

Here is my project about me:

To me, my family is the center of everything, as you can see it the layout, and next is the extension of my family, my pets, a golden retriever named Shelby, cat ma==named Lois and a Rosey Bourke parakeet names Sammy

Through my whole marriage, my husband has been my constant companion and the love of my life, we do everything together (except craft.lol) and have fun doing it:)

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and what has kept us together is out love and God, and our faith.

Another thing about me is I am a "Chocoholic".  Have been for years, there is no cure, I am hopeless! I showed this with the little pieces of candy I got from Jolee's Halloween stickers.

Another love of my life is flowers, I love growing them indoors, in pots.  When I was younger, (not that I am that old),  I used to spend a lot of time out door in flower gardens I had started.  My favorites are roses and lillies.  So I put some roses on the layout to represent that, as well as a stick pin I made.

And lastly I added a little spool of thread next to the small journal paper, which does a quick description ALL ABOUT ME.

Now your off to the talented Nadja.

                          Happy crafting, Cathy

MCCR November 100 Cartridge Blog Hop

 

Good morning crafters, and welcome to.. 

 November's My Cricut Craft Rooms 100 Cartridge Blog Hop, day 2.  Glad you are here.  This months theme is Christmas.  I realise we have not had thanksgiving yet, but we want to give you ideas and inspiration for your holiday card making and decorations and gifts.  There is nothing nicer and more cherished than Home made.     So here we go........

 

Card #1

 

 

The first of the cartridges I used was the  Winter Frolic cardtridge, which has some wonderful features and images,  There is something in there for everyone.  My card is a 8 1/2 by 11 cardstock folded in half, on which I used papers from DCWV's Seasonal stack.  I made 4 mats, each 1/4 inch shorter than the other.  And then on them I used 2 mats 3 1/2 by 4 1/2 and cut 2 pieces of patterend paper 1/4 in smaller.   On one mat I put a strings of  colored Rhinestones and a picece of colonial white cardstock that I used a friends' Martha Stewart "Gift" border punch, did not get the name but going to research it and put it on my Christmas list. hehehe.

 

 

On the second mat, I cut out a Gift giving mouse from Winter Frolic with Recollections card stock and papers from DCWV and Bo Bunny.  The mouse was at 3.5 inches.  On the inside I used the phrase "For You" .

 

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                                                                                          Card #2

 

 This card was made with the Paisleycartridge, It is 5 and 1/2 by 8 and 1/2.  There is a 3 and 1/2 inch wide band that I made to go around the card to keep it closed. and decorated it with beautiful roses from the Artiste cartridge. and added some brown and rose colored leaves, as well as 2 ornaments i cut from Artiste as a tie in to go with the patterned paper from DCWV Christmas and Winter Stack.  At the top of both fold are swirls of pink rhinestones I got at walmart in the Clearance bin.

 

  

 

On the inside I cut out a cute monkey from Paisley with a sucker.  he is such a cutie.lol  "happy Holidays comes from the Winter Frolic cartridge.  On the 2 side flaps I put some Christmas trees from WF as well.

 

 

I just LOVE the roses from Artiste and Art Philosophy!!

 

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Card #3

 

 

 This card I made with Echo park papers from last year.  The cartridge is 3 Birds on Parade. This is another versatile cartridge.  I love it.  The santa bird that I cut from the 3 Birds cartridge is sitting on an action wobble. I had recorded a small video to show you how he dances, but could  not get it to load, sorry.  I hade some scalloped square mats to put him on that was embossed as well with Holly leaves.

 

I tried to take a close up picture of the round glass balls that matched the papers,  a little blurry, I love them!  They are Crystal candy Dots from Pebbles INC.  On the inside I used the sentiment from the 3 Birds on Parade cartridge.

 

 

 

 

Card #4 

 

This is a "telescoping card".  The bird is from 3 Birds on Parade, and all the rest of the cuts are from the Artiste cartridge.  Papers used were a combination of Close To My Heart and Recollections.  Th cold little biry was cut at 3 inches. I used a little Stickles on  his pom pom and the liner of his boots.   The mittens on the middle section were cut at 2 inches with a shadow.  I used trendy twine to tie them together.  Then added a little Bling:) I used several different shapes on each layer to make it easy to distinguish the layers.

 

The different cuts that were used were on pages 79, 35 and 31 of the Artiste booklet.

 

This is what the card looks like fully opened.  On the last layer I added the sentiment...Baby it's cold outside..i like how it turned out. if you would like to try this typ of card and have nevertried it here is a link to a tutorial. http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/telescopingcard/

 

 

Other supplies  used in making the cards, Expression2, Fiskars trimmer, paper piercer, gel pens, atg gun, dimensionals, brads, Tim Holts distress inks,  Zig pen Liquid glass and fabritac. 

Hope you enjoyed my projects today and they inspired you to try something new.

 

 

Thank you for hopping along with us, your next stop is

 

 Erica's Projects 

Sunday

1. MCCR http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com

    2. Claire http://threewaterscreations.blogspot.com

    3. Cathy  http://cathyplus5.blogspot.com

    4.  Erica’s Projects http://ericasprojects.blogspot.com

    5.  Jodi http://jodiesscraplab.blogspot.com

    6.  Jamie M http://craftygirl21.blogspot.com

    7.  Erica’s Blog Candy http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com

Birthday card

Good morning friends.  What a nice day it is gong to be!  No humidity, sun shining,birds singing, it is wonderful!  Yesterday was hot and HUMID, great day to stay in and make a card, so that is what I did.   It was a quick simple card, made with DCWV Sweet stack.   I had a hankering for a card made with pinks and browns and so this is the color theme of the day.  I love the Sweet Stack.

I love the pink and brown together:)

I used Core'dinations card stock for the base and then cut the mat with Colonial white. I also used Martha Stewart's doily border punch to make a border at the bottom.  To embellish it I had some BO Bunny gems, and the sentiment was from a small sentiment stamp set I got at Michaels.  The circle and scalloped circle were cut with the Cricut using Art Philosophy Cartridge and the ribbon was leftover from my stash of ribbons. The card is all held together with my ATG gun and some pop dots between the layers of the circles, and Fabritac for ribbon.

Hope you liked the card,come on back tomorrow for some more creativity,
                                                          ~~Happy Crafting, Cathy~~~

Card Creating Tuesday at MCCR

Card Creating Tuesday at My Cricut Craftroom

Today is Card creating Tuesday at My Cricut Craft Room and todays' sketch card to follow is below. I chose to do this sketch as a reminder of my dad, who I lost 30 years ago and he was the best dad.!

He was not a cowboy, but he played in a local band, and the music was Country and western, and so i decided to just change the cards a little and instead of using a dress shirt, I used the cuts from the Paper Doll Dress  Up cartridge.  

  

I decided to make my card a 6x6 because I just got some envelopes for that size.

I used some paper that I got from a kit to make Army Scrap book pages, one of them had like a worn blue jean look to it, it was perfect, I just sanded the edges and the pockets. 

     I cut all the pieces to fit a 5 inch paperdoll.  I made him a hat and a lasso of course:) I faux stitched the neckerchief and hat.  I used Close To My Heart white card stock, DCWV card stock from the All About Boys stack, and some cocoa and yellow [a[er from my scraps.  I   used my atg gun to adhere the papers as well as the Zig pen.  For the shirt buttons and the embellishing I used BO Bunny gems.

      For the "Best Dad"  I used the Martha Stewart Seasonal Cake cartridge. I cut the words and the shadow at 1.25 inches.  It seemed to be lacking something so I hi lighted with a little Stickles.  Voila///add a few pop dots and also some Tim Holtz walnut distress ink, and done.

Now you have two more stops. Head over to Erica's store here. She has great deals and keeps adding products. You will find something you have to have at a great price. When you are done shopping there, head over to her blog here to check out what the rest of the design 
team made to share.
  Have a great day and happy crafting:)   Cathy

First Card Finally

Here is a card I made.  ( keep in mind I am new at doing this, hehe)  This card was made with DCWV  The Sweet stack .  I also used Cricut Georges basic Shapes to make the flowers cut at 2 1/2" , 2" .1 1/2" , 1 1/4" and 1" from asst'd  solid color paper from Wal Mart and DCWV.  I also put a doily as a base to the octagon shape from GBS cartridge cut at 2, 2 1/2 and 3".  I cut a strip of white card stock and used Martha Stewart punch  Doily lace.  I added 3 buttons on the bottom and a Center button (can not remember where I got it) that says..." Thinking of you makes me smile"   Inside the card is blank.  Thanks for any critiques.  have a great day.    PHEW!!!  I did it:.