Happy Birthday, Eunice

Although I have TONS of scrapbooking to do, I still take some 'timeout' and make a card for a friend's birthday. Eunice is a pretty cheery girl. Therefore, I want her birthday card to be bright. When I saw the mushrooms, they made me smile. So I hope this card will make her smile as well. To make it girly, I had to add a butterfly with a trail of pearls. WHEN DID I BECOME SO GIRLY? 

Paper: The Paper Company, K & Company, scraps

Stamps: Penny Black Critter Party

Techniques/Tools: Cricut Indie Art

Embellishments: Self adhesive pearls

A side view so you can see the dimensions. 

I like decorating the inside. Sometimes I'm just too lazy to do it, but I wanted to do it for this one. The inside:

Happy Birthday, Teresa

Original Post: June 13, 2009

Despite of all the drama going on lately, I still have the mood to make a card for my dear friend's birthday. Tomorrow... more like in 8 hours, we're going hiking to go celebrate it. It's a pretty simple one, since I made it so last minute. I hope she likes green. This card is REALLY green. Haha. Too bad you can't see the green foil on the paper.

Paper: SEI, Me and My Big Ideas

Stamps: Studio G, Gel-a-Tins - Happy Birthday

Embellishments: ribbons, gem stickers

June Swap

Original Post: May 29, 2009

I still haven't sent out my May swap yet. I wanted to be a keener like last time and send out the next month's swap as well. However, I procrastinated until now. Nonetheless, they are done and ready to be sent out along with the May swap.

The theme for June's swap is 'Birthday'. For this theme, I wanted it to be fun. Therefore, I wanted the colors to clash as much as possible. As shown below, each card is different (only the swap host and whoever checks this blog out will know). One reason is because I was running low on a single color cardstock. The other is because I wanted to use up some leftover scraps - they were nice scraps too: Core'dination paper! All the mats were from my scrap paper box!

This one caught my eye the most. Hence, I chose it for the close up picture!

Paper: The Paper Company, DCWV, Core'dination (scraps)

Stamps: Studio G, Gel-a-tins Happy Birthday (inside of the card, no picture; just says Enjoy with a cupcake beside it)

Techniques/Tools: Cricut Doodlecharms, Cuttlebug Happy Birthday, Divine Swirls

Embellishments: ribbon

Berry Birthday Card

Original Post: May 28, 2009

Ok, this is something I would have never made a year ago. I'm not a really cutsie person. I don't know what happened! I got this berry paper I really wanted to use. So what the heck?! It's my friend's birthday, and I think she would think this is cute! Cute cute cute, that's what most girls want, right?!

I usually like to add something different to my creations. For this one, I somehow 'discovered' a new way to use those Prima flowers that I went crazy buying! Can you find it? =)

Paper: Core'dination, K & Company, SEI, scraps

Techniques/Tools: Cricut Indie Art, Paper Pups

Embellishment: eyelets, Prima flower, green staple

This is the inside. I didn't want to waste the strawberry top from the Indie Art cut, so I used it on the inside. It's cute, right? In a way, it looks like a present ribbon bow, which fits with the birthday theme. So, whatever! Strawberry top/present ribbon bow is in the eye of the beholder!

Birthday Card for...

Original Post: April 2, 2009

I made this birthday card for someone (not saying who...) but I just never got to them. Hahaha. Therefore, I'll just add to my collection of "Ready to Use" homemade cards.

Paper: Core'dinations, scraps

Stamps: Hero Arts Four Dolls

Techniques: Watercolor pencils, chalking

Embellishments: ribbon, sparkly gemstone stickers

Twins' Birthday

Original Post: March 11, 2009

This was a challenge for me. This is my first card that I made for kids. My boyfriend's friend is throwing a little party for his precious twins' 2nd birthday. The gift was easy, but not the card! Good thing I bought some cute stamps recently. Although they are only 2 (and probably don't know what the card is for), a cute and kiddy card is still essential!

Paper: Stampin' Up, watercolor, scraps

Stamps: MSE Party Animals

Techniques/Tools: watercolor pencil crayons, chalk

Embellishments: ribbon

Happy Birthday, Ang

Original Post: February 21, 2009

My first trifold card is for my good friend, Angie. She loves dogs and I believe her favorite colors are blue and red - cuz she seems to wear those colors most of the time...

Opened up:

Paper: DCWV
Stamps: Penny Black - Critter Party
Techniques/Tools: Cricut Zooballoo, Cuttlebug - Happy Birthday Embossing Folder, heat embossing

FPS Birthday Card

Original Post: December 13, 2008

For this card, my craftsmanship is not the best, but it's definitely the most creative!

A christian themed FPS for birthday

On the inside...

A little rushed, but they all worked out!

Original Post: December 6 & 7, 2008

So my coworker called me up yesterday and requested two birthday cards, one for a pastor and the other to a friend and he needs it today. He gave me the following criteria:

For the two cards:

1. Cards must be big for a big group of people to sign
2. Cards must have some Christian theme/content

For the pastor, it can have either guitar or video games content, and for the friend, guitar or music content.

Since I had only 24 hours, I have to say I did quite well!

For the pastor:
Outside/Inside:

First of all, I went on the Internet and looked for a Mario face. It was actually quite difficult because most of them were side view, or not the right look. So, I found one from someone's blog:

http://jimboscoloringpages.blogspot.com/2008/04/more-super-mario-coloring-pages.html

Note: This head comes out to be about 2.5" wide and 3" high.

The first step is to print out two copies: one on skin colored card stock and the other on scrap. The skinned colored one will be the 'template' and the other one will be used for tracers. Since I was going for a "God" look, I had to omit the hat, and put some "Mario hair" on him. This was where the Cricut came in. I used "Paper Dolls Dress Up" Clown hair. I had a few trial and error attempts using Design Studio to get the hair to look right on the head. (For those who just want a Mario look, just keep the hat). However, the hair didn't quite cover all the black outlines, so I modified the picture a bit:

Mario has brown hair, and therefore, I cut out his sideburns, eyebrows, and mustache. They were then traced onto brown card stock. However, I think if you have a moon crescent shape on some cartridge, they will make good eyebrows... now that I think of it, I might have one on the Don Juan cartridge! (DOH!) These pieces were glued on first. Note: before gluing the mustache on, I colored in the mouth with a black marker.

Next were the eyes. My Cricut cartridges are limited, and I don't have any skewed oval shapes for the eyes. Thus, I had to trace and cut them out as well: the whites and the blue. I was lazy, and just drew in the black pupils with a nice black marker! These were glued on next.

Last is the nose. I also traced and cut.

I do suggest the trace and cut method. It's nice to get the perfect circles and ovals with the Cricut, but it takes forever to get the right proportions (i.e. hair).

Hope this helped a bit. If you find any improvements on the method, please inform me! I would like to make it a more user friendly paper craft.

For the friend: