Get Your Glow On Invitations

My oldest daughter is turning 12 next month and she wanted a Glow-in-the-Dark/Sleepover party so I created these GET YOUR GLOW ON invitations.

I used these items to create my invitations:

• Color Bok Day Glo cardstock
• black and white cardstock
• Design Studio
• Winter Woodland Cricut cartridge - square
• Hannah Montana Cricut cartridge - font 
• Computer generated font - inside

I am entering my invitations in the following challenges and linky parties:

• DL ART - Thankful Thursday - February Linky - Anything Goes
• Party Time Tuesday - PTT #161 - Anything Goes
• Decorate to Celebrate - Challenge #69 - 3D Flowers or Birthday

Thanks for visiting my blog and I hope you enjoyed my GET YOUR GLOW ON invitations.

St. Patrick's Day - 1st Birthday Elmo card

So you might think this is just a St. Patrick's Day card...well you're wrong!  This is actually a birthday card for a sweet little girl who is turning 1 on St. Patrick's Day!  Earlier in the year when I first saw this Cricut cartridge I just knew I had to have it and I got it as apart of my Valentine gifts...YAY ME!!!  I just love all the Sesame Street characters and so does my 2 year old daughter.  I know I will get many uses from this cartridge and this is just the beginning.

I used these items to create this card:

• Design Studio
• Elmo & Friends Holiday Cricut cartridge - Elmo
• Life's a Party Cricut cartridge - "Happy Birthday"
• Hannah Montana Cricut cartridge - 1st
• Martha Stewart flocking powder (ladybug) - Elmo
• brads
• "celebrate" wooden stamp (Michael's $1.00 bin)
• ric rac
• foam squares - just to pop up Elmo

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• Crafting When We Can Challenges #12 - Big Birthdays - 1st Birthdays are BIG Birthdays in our house
• Little Scrap Pieces Challenge - Use Green

I had some challenges with this card but all in all I am pleased with it.  I know the little girl who is turning 1 will never know what challenges I had.  It was a fun card to make and who can resist Elmo!  Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed my St. Patrick's Day - 1st Birthday Elmo card!  

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.

All Star - Shine On

I created this card for my 9 year old daughter. Her school has requested that the parents send in a "surprise" note this week to be given to their child next week before taking the AIMS tests for encouragement. I wrote a little note in the inside.  I've been having to do a little here and there all week to get this done without my daughter seeing it...I hope she likes it and it gives her that little extra encouragement to get her through the tests next week!

I used these Cricut cartridges:

Wild Card for the star card and I made the coordinating envelop both cut at 5 1/2, embossed the pink star and used glitter glue to add a little shimmer

Sports Mania for the All Star cut at 1 1/4 and the shadow

Hannah Montana for the Shine On in the inside of the card which I created in Design Studio, welded and slanted it slightly and then I added Martha Stewart glitter (tourmaline)

Here's a couple more images: