For You

Let's try this again. I got the entire post typed and then clicked to add an image and all my Internet Explorer windows closed. I did a test cut last night of the triangle background found in the Wild Card book. I wasn't sure about the cut or what to use it for so I cut it using Georgia Pacific cardstock from Walmart. This stuff is great for crafting. It's acid free and SO cheap. You can get a whole package for something like $6 (I might be a little off on the price, it's still cheap whatever the price is) Anyways, once I got it cut I really liked it and ended up making a card using it. I paired it with blue and brown which is a color combo I really like. The strip and oval on the front are also cut from Wild Card, I think it's the page with the little gift boxes on it. The sentiment also comes from Wild Card but I have no idea what page. I like to take different cuts and mix it up for different cards. The inside just says Happy Birthday.

You Rock Valentine

I'm finally starting to feel better after battling the flu for the last few days. For today's card I made a Valentines Day one. It's my first this year and I figured I better get going since the big day is less than two weeks away. I found the black and silver paper a few months ago at AC Moore and have been saving it to make Valentines cards. It's actually a Harley Davidson paper I just cut out the corner with the logo and won't use that on any cards. The rest of the paper is just colored card stock from my stash. The ribbons were spools that I got at Walmart, no idea what brand, but they were like 99 cents each and there is a lot on each spool. The letters for "You Rock" were cut using Wild Card and the guitar came front the Everyday Paper Dolls cart. I just love the paper dolls cartridges, there are so many cuts on them that you can find one for just about any project. I pop dotted the guitar as well as the square with the words to make them stand out. I fought with the ribbon for a good five minutes before getting it right. For some reason I could not wrap my brain around the way the ribbons needed to lay. Inside I stamped "Happy Valentines Day" and put another piece of ribbon with a smaller guitar. Have a great rest of the day and thanks for looking.

My Pink Stamper Challenge 2

Robin at mypinkstamper.com posted a second challenge today. Today's ch allege was to make something that was warm and springy. I made a butterfly card using designers calendar and some card stock. I made a white 6x6 side fold card and added a 5 1/2x5 1/2 piece of green and a 5x5 piece of white. The pieces or the butterfly were cut using the heart cut on designers calendar. I folded the top set of wings and adhered buttons down on top of them. The inside says "Happy Birthday". The antennae and the swoop behind the butterfly were done using stickles.

Weekend Crafts

With the weekend here I have more time to craft, which I love. After completing a card for the challenge yesterday over at My Pink Stamper I made a second card with some of the paper that was left over.

I also made a beach layout using Everyday Paper Dolls and some DCWV paper.
The last thing I made today was set of cards. My Pink Stamper has another challenge today, to make something warm or springy. I made this butterfly card in red and decided that it looked too much like a Valentines Day Card. I ended up making it in another color for the challenge but here it is in red.

My Pink Stamper Challenge

Robin over at My Pink Stamper has posted a challenge on her blog to make something using your favorite color and black. I had a bit of a hard time to decide what my favorite color is. I know what color I don't like but I pretty much like all of the other colors. I finally decided on blue, that's usually my go to color so it must be favorite right? I've never done a challenge before I guess because I always though that they would be too hard. This was so easy though. Once I chose my favorite color and found the papers the card came together so fast! It was super simple easy as well. The only cut that I made on the card was the "Celebrate" on the front. The rest were all made using my paper trimmer. Basically the entire card is made of squares, it doesn't get much easier than that. Anyways here is my card. Thank you for taking the time to look!
The black on the card is looking a little brown in the photo, that's a little disappointing. Oh well, you'll have to take my word on it being black, lol! The camera also didn't pick up the glitter. The parts on the strip that look white are actually silver glitter.

Perk Up

I just love the message inside this card. For this card I used Wild Card to cut the card and envelope. I cut both on the blackout feature so I wouldn't have all of the little cut outs like the leaf on the envelope flap. They were both cut out at 5" Then I used From My Kitchen for the coffee pot which was cut at 2 1/2. The inside says "perk up" and was cut using Wild Card. The patterned paper is DCWV and is from one of the summer time stacks, not sure of the exact name. The solid card stock is just small scraps that I had left over, not sure of the brand.

Superboy birthday card

I made two of this super boy card back a few months ago, just before Halloween I think. At first I thought I would use them as Halloween cards and then decided that they would make really cute birthday cards. To one of the cards I added the phrase "Have a super birthday" to the inside. The other one was for my aunt. We have a little thing going where we send each other numerous cards for our birthdays and holidays. We each try and out do the other with a funnier card or with one that has a better jab. On her card I put "you're super" on the front and added just the word "old" to the inside. She loved it. Here is a picture of the front. It was all done with Paper Doll Dress Up.

Amanda

Wild Card Installment #1

I got into making cards a couple of years ago and now that is the majority of what I do. About a year and half ago Cricut came out with a Wild Card cartridge that has everything you need to make 50 cards. It's great for first time card makers or for people who have been card making for years. Each card has an envelope, an envelope liner, card and some sort of card liner, as well as frames, phrases and icons. It's so much fun and easy to use. When I first got the cartridge I remember looking through the booklet that comes with it and asking myself "what is that?" "what do I do with that" and "how the heck am I supposed to fold that?". Now that I've had the cartridge for awhile I've made most of the cards on there so I thought I would share some of them. As I post them some will be fancier than others. There are some cards on there that I won't use very often so I probably won't go into as much detail with those. There are cards for nearly every occasion you could think of. Today I made the band aid card which at first I didn't really like but once I got it together it looks really cute.

Here is a picture from the cricut book that goes with the Wild Card cartridge. I cut out the card and envelope, the liners for both, as well as the doctors bag (which I ended up not using), the phrase "Get Better" and the stethoscope.

Here's a picture of everything all cut out. I cut the card out twice because the patterned paper that I wanted for the band aid was not thick enough for the card. I cut the card out of green cardstock and the patterned paper and then just trimmed the patterned paper to fit the front of the card. I had a little trouble putting the liner into the envelope because it kept moving when I would open and close the envelope. If you're making an envelope with a liner make sure to use a lot of adhesive so the liner won't move when you open/close the envelope.

Here's the finished product. I adhered the "Get Better" phrase and the stethoscope to the inside of the card. I'm hoping to do a Wild Card post at least once a week. It may end up being less though depending on what else is going on and how many projects I'm working on at the time.

Enjoy!