Matthew - New Arrival via Airplane card

Today I bring to you a very special card for the arrival of Matthew to a very special couple.  In just a couple more weeks the arrival of Matthew is planned via a scheduled C-section.  Matthew's parents have been friends with my mom for many many years and I have become close friends with Matthew's mom over the last couple of years. 

I chose to use the airplane from the New Arrival Cricut cartridge because I know that Matthew's room is decorated in planes, trains, and automobiles.  I also tried to best match the color scheme as well.

I used these items to create this card:

• Design Studio
• New Arrival Cricut cartridge - plane, banner and clouds
• Plantin Schoolbook - Matthew on banner
• foam squares - on plane, banner and clouds
• Glossy Accents - on the windows of the plane
• Brad - on the propeller
• floss - between the plane and banner
• brown ink - on the edge of the banner
• My Craft Spot - clear stamps - Inside and Out Set #2 - sentiment inside card, "A baby is a gift from Heaven above...bringing joy down to earth filling hearts full of love."

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• Fantabulous Cricut - Challenge Me Monday #128 -Trains, Planes, & Automobiles  - open til 9/15
• Use it Tuesday - Challenge #39 - Anything Goes - all of the products I used are part of my stash (nothing new) especially the cloud paper I've had for years - open til 9/21
• Hooked on Craft Challenges - Challenge #24 - create a card for a male or a males birthday - open til 9/29
• DL ART - Thankful Thursday - 1000 Post Linky Party - open til 9/30

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Matthew - New Arrival via Airplane card.

Halloween Hello Kitty Shape card

Ok so Hello Kitty is cute all on her own, but when she gets dressed up in her Halloween costume she's even cuter!  I didn't want to do the traditional black, I gave her an orange tabby stripe costume.

Here's a little closer look at her black and orange glitter bow and sucker.

I used these items to create this Halloween Hello Kitty Shape card:

• Design Studio
• Hello Kitty Greetings Cricut cartridge
• Martha Stewart black glitter - bow
• Orange Stickles - bow
• Studio G black glitter glue - sucker
• Glossy Accents - bow
• Orange floss - sucker
• Buttons
• Stampin' Up Halloween stamp - inside

Here's a look at the (simple) inside:

I am entering this card the following challenges:

•  BBTB2 - Shaped Up Challenge - make a shape card - open til 9/9
•  Scrappy Moms - Terrific Tuesday Challenge - Shape Up - make a shape project - open til 9/10
•  Paper Take Weekly - Anything Goes - with the optional extra to use a non square base card or project - open til 9/10
•  Cardz TV - Challenge #14 - Happy Holidays - Pick One - I chose Halloween - open til 9/13
•  Cut it Up Challenge #1 - Anything Goes - must include a die cut - open til 9/19
•  DL ART - Thankful Thursday - 1000 Post Linky Party - open til 9/30
•  Getting Cricky - Simply Sunday Challenge - Happy Fall Y'all - open til 9/30

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Halloween Hello Kitty Shape card.

Frankie and His Bride ATC's

So I am totally digging doing these ATC's.  I'm enjoying the fact that I can plan, design, create and finish a single project in a day and that's with many interuptions.

Today I bring to you the very nervous Frankie and his Bride.  He is bringing his bride a bouquet of sweet candy.  You can see the look of uncertainty...will she have me or not?  None the less, isn't he too cute!!! 

Our Bride has the same thought and brings Frankie a box of candy.  True love in the making <3

I used these items to create these ATC's:

• Wooden rubber stamp from Michael's $1.00 bin from last year
• Sharpie Markers
• while gel pen
• clear stamp from Bug Bites - All Year Round set - "for you, from me"
• clear stamp from My Craft Spot - Inside & Out - set #2 - "love you!'
• Martha Stewart corner punch
• msic. candy stickers that I layered on white cardstock then cut around them
• white card stock rolled for the stems of the candy bouquet and Frankie's Bride's dress
• orange floss
• foam squares - to raise the candy bouquet and box of candy
• orange brads
• Martha Stewart glitter - for Frankie's Bride's dress and crown
• gem
• misc. stickers
• Cuttlebug - dress
• Swiss dots embossing folder - dress

I am entering these ATC's in the following challenges:

• Craft Your Passion Challenge #122 - Anything Goes - open til 8/12
• Paper Take Weekly - Anything Goes - open til 8/13
• Wicked Wednesday ATC #44 - Frankie and His Bride open til 8/14
• DL ART - Happy Birthday Linky Party + GIVE AWAY! - open til 8/31

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Frankie and his Bride ATC's.

Frightfully Delightful Spider Halloween card

I have here for you today a card I was inspired to do because of a couple of challenges:

• Krafty Girls Challenge #11 - Color Splash - create a paper kraft that is black and white with a burst of color of your choice - I used green - ends 7/15
• Haunted Design House - Macabre Monday - HDH#141 - Butchered Blueprint -You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece that uses the following sketch.
  
  
   You can follow the sketch completely, or you may take some
  artistic license. Either way, the sketch should be obvious and easy to find - ends 7/15

• I think I was able to follow the challenge with just a minor change in the location of the stiches

• Party Time Tuesdays Challenge #76 - Lets Get Punchy - ends 7/16
• Little Scrap Pieces - Fun Friday Challenge - Anything Goes - ends 7/20

I used these items to create this easel card:

• Design Studio
• Martha Stewart punch
• Eyelets
• Floss
• October 31st Cricut cartridge - spider
• Paper Dolls Dress Up Cricut cartridge - web
• Glossy Accents - spider
• misc. Halloween clear stamps
• foam squares - spider

Thank you for stopping by and checking out my Frightfully Delightful Spider Halloween card.

Class of 2012 High School Graduation layout

 

Today I share with you a layout I made as part of a gift for my neice who is graduating high school this May.  Her school colors are Red and Grey.  The only bit of grey I have is apart of the photo mats, everything else I went with the red. 

For the top part of the title I used my Design Studio to weld on the cap to the "C."  The scroll/diploma is acutally just a small peice of cardstock, rolled and tied up with floss.  I also used glitter and glossy accent to the title and stars.

I used a black fine point marker to highlight the cap and gown image then added glossy accent.  The same goes for the caps at the bottom of the layout as well..

I used these to create this layout:

• Design Studio
• PlantinSchool Cricut Cartridge - the font
• Everyday Paper Dolls Cricut Cartridge - the cap and gown
• Wild Card Cricut Cartridge - the stars
• Martha Stewart glitter - the letters and stars
• Glossy Accents - the letters, stars, cap and gown
• ribbon - 2012 and Graduation
• 2012 bling
• foam squares - for all Cricut cuts except the title
• floss - for around the "diploma"

I am entering this layout in the following challenges:

• Cooking with Cricut #83 - Bling, Bling and More Bling - open til 5/1

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Class of 2012 High School Graduation layout.

Zombie Love card

So I couldn't resist when I got this FREE digi from Dilly Beans to do her up in time to make the

• Zombie Love Challenge 
• Forever Night - Freaky Friday Challenge #25 - Create a project with the theme Alternative girls, plus the color challenge (red, black, grey and white). 
• Haunted Design House - HDH #119 Freakers Free For All

Once I got to coloring her everything else just fell in place...the glossy accents, then floss, the prefect paper and here she is.

I used these items to create my Zombie Love card:

• Dilly Beans Digital Stamp
• Sharpie markers
• Glossy Accents and floss - for the hearts
• white gel pen - for the eyes and accent in the hair
• metal charm - Love
• ribbon
• heart brads
• scissors - to hand cut the large heart
• misc. clear swirl stamps
• black ink

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my Zombie Love card.

If I couldn't have him, NO ONE WOULD!!!

For those of you have been following me might remember back in September I had displayed my Appalling Apothecary.  Well a piece of that apothecary was the heart of a (former) sinful boyfriend (in the jar to the right). 

Today I give you a little back story how that heart got there. 

My relationship with my former boyfriend was just like any other relationship, except I was in love with him but he was in love with someone else.  Once I found out about this, I felt that since I couldn't have him, NO ONE WOULD and I "took care of him!"

Here is how my memory box use to look like when were together:

Valentine's Day use to be a favorite holiday of ours until I found out that he was also planning to spend it with the other woman.  So I decided that Valentine's Day would be the perfect day for me to "take care of him!" 

I found a voodoo priestess and she instructed me how to make my very own paper voodoo doll.

Then when I knew he was with her, I did it!  I then claimed the heart that belonged to me and would NEVER belong to another! 

This was his hearts first resting place along side the wonderful memories we created together:

Now NO ONE will ever have his heart but ME!!!

I used these items to create my paper voodoo doll:

• Wonderstrange arts Free digital image Voodoo Doll which I printed out on craft paper (to give it a burlap look) and altered by cutting off the candy cane
• red Sharpie marker - for the heart
• Silver Gloss paint marker - for the pins
• white gel pen - for the heads of the pins
• Glossy Accents - for the entire pin to give it a more realistic look
• buttons - for the eyes
• floss - for the eyes, mouth and around the heart
• doily heart
• ribbon

I am entering this Paper Voodoo Doll in the following challenges:

•  Dilly Beans Challenge - Freaked - This week theme is "FREAKED" take it how ever you wish & get creative!
• Haunted Design House - HDH #117 - Shot Through the Heart - You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece that includes a heart and a hole somewhere on the project

Ok, so obviously this is just a fictious story that I created to go along with my creation.  I hope I didn't freak you out too much!

Let's Do the Time Warp Again!

I just knew when I saw the challenge over at Forever Night - Freaky Friday Challenge #23-Rocky Horror Picture Show, I knew I had to do it!  I then began my search for something that I could possibly use to create Tim Curry's character  Dr. Frank N. Furter and I found parts that I could use on my Once Upon a Princess Cricut cartridge I just had to make some minor alteration to the outfit for it to work. 

I also found some other challenges to enter this card including the Forever Night - Freaky Friday Challenge #23 - Rocky Horror Picture Show:

• Fantabulous Cricut - Challenge Me Monday #95 - Label it -  my label is where the music is
• Celebrate the Occasion - Challenge #47 - Masculine Birthday
• Paper Take Weekly- Happy Highlights - highlight part of the image or paper using something like glitter, glossy accents or decoupage, or anything at all that takes your fancy
• Crop Stop - Challenge #55 - Time is Gold - "TIME" You can interpret it  any way or form you wish
• My Sheri Crafts Challenge #77 - New Things - include in your creation a NEW technique, NEW things you got for Christmas, NEW NEW NEW! - my new is the Glossy Accent

I used these items to create this card:

• Design Studio
• Once Upon a Princess Cricut cartridge - for Dr. Frank N. Furter
• Hannah Montana Cricut cartridge - for the music label, trebel clef and notes
• floss - for the top part of Dr. Frank N. Furter's outfit and garter
• Glossy Accent (which I never used before this project) - for the outfit, gloves and shoes
• Vellum - for the stockings which I used a black ink on to create black stockings
• Red Sharpie marker- for the lips
• Grey and white chalk - for the face make-up
• Computer - for the title

Here are some close-ups:

This was for sure a challenge but I think I rose up to it.  This was so much fun and I know the person I will give this to for HIS birthday will love it!

Thanks for looking and I hope you enjoyed my Let's Do the Time Warp Again! birthday card.