Leaving the Hive

My oldest niece is now a high school graduate and is getting ready for her graduation party.  Her school mascot is the Bee.   I created this card using the Sentiments cartridge.   The beehive was cut at 3" and the bee at 2".   I used this honeycomb embossed paper that I picked up in a stack by Carson, at the Flower Factory.  SUPER CUTE and fitting for the theme!

The card is a 5x5 square.  The mat paper is from the DCWV Lemon Flower stack (her school colors are green and yellow).  I have some silver plastic glitter ribbon from Christmas that I used a Fiskars border punch on (although you can't see it that well in the picture).   I added these to the left and right side with thin strips of black ribbon.   I pop dotted the hive and then glued the body of the bee but, pop dotted the wings to make them pop off the card.  The stamp is from a Hamton Arts set.

On the inside, I printed the sentiment 'we heard you would bee leaving the hive.  Congratulations' and stamped some little bees from American Crafts set.  I used the same border punch on the yellow strips inside as well as the silver strips and black ribbon, 

Key to Your Heart

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!

Today's card is a creation that I am giving my little sis, The Cricut Crazed Lady, for Valentine's.   She loves the trendy old skeleton keys so, I am busting out my Sentimentals cartridge!  I cut all three keys at 3" in different silver colored shimmer papers and then black shadows.  One of them had a hole at the top but, the other two, I punched the hole in.  I bought some black jewelry chain in the jewelry making section at Joann's.   It was on sale so I think I paid like $2 for several feet of it. 

The card is a 5x5 black base with pink and silver metallic paper from the DCWV Metallic stack.   I punched the bottoms using the border punch from a MS all around the page punch.   I used my Crop A Dile (really into it now) for the eyelets in the top corners.  

Since the chain is real, I didn't want to run it through the eyelets because it would be bulky on the back so, I threaded some black thread through the chain and then taped the thread onto the back of the card.  The keys are all pop dotted and the sentiment was printed on my computer and then I inked it in pink and mounted it to a small piece of the metallic silver.

On the inside, I used two strips of the pink metallic on the top and bottom of the card.   I used a black piece and then border punched it across the top and bottom and then I added the rest of the sentiment in the center.  The lock was also cut from Sentimentals at 2 1/2" using some other metallic papers.  

She loved the card!!

Wedding Invites

My post today is one that I have been working on for weeks. I made the 180 invitations for my cousin's September wedding! What a job it was. The cutting wasn't bad but, as you will see, there were soooo many layers to glue and that was just a boring job. :) I've never done something on this big of a scale but, I am glad I did it, it was a learning experience!

The actual invitation is the four fold with the crown on the Sentimentals cartridge. I used Design Studio to hide the contour of the crown shape so that the four fold would be plain. The dimensions of the four fold were 9.509 x 10.175". This size makes the invite a 4x4 when the four flaps are folded in. I then used my guillotine cutter and cut the red square at 4x4 to fit in the center. The pearl paper with the wording was cut at 3 3/4 x 3 3/4". After scoring and folding all of the four sides, I added a monogram.

The monogram is mounted on a fancy frame that I used DS again to alter. The fancy frame is the first frame on the Storybook cartridge. It's more of a rectangle so, I altered it to 2x2" and recreated it as many times as would fit a sheet. The 'S' monogram is cut using the Tie the Knot cartridge, monogram creative feature. The 'S" was tehn glued onto the fancy frame and then embossed using the Swiss Dots embossing folder. After embossing, the pearl gem was added in the center of the scroll on the 'S' monogram and then the entire monogram was attached to the invitation. On the bottom, I used a permenant glue dot and on the top, I used a repositionable glue dot so that the invite could be opened and closed easily.

The invite also included the reception information card, the RSVP card and an accomodations information card. All three were cut using the guillotine cutter and then mounted together, black, red and then the pearly white paper with the information printed.

Fleur Di Lis

A birthday card for my niece who loves all things Fleur Di Lis. I hope she likes this one. I used DS to create a shaped card using the Sentimentals cartridge. This is actually a card shape on the cartridge but, I welded two together which made the one side straight and then I used some pirinted paper to give the card back the original shape about 1/4" smaller than the card size. I cut the Fleu Di Lis from Sentimentals as well. There is a tag function that has the shape so, I did a Hide Countour on the tag portion and just cut the shape using the metallic silver paper. I cut a liner for the inside, also 1/4" smaller than the card and stamped my sentiment!

Wedding Shower Invites

I finally finished all 120 wedding shower invites for my cousin's shower next month. I now have to switch gears to the actual wedding invites! I love that she is so excited about all the details of her wedding. I talked to her fiance this weekend at a wedding and he thanked me for all my hard work but, what was really nice to hear, without him even saying it, is how much he wants her to have the kind of wedding she has always wanted. You just don't see that as much as you should, right? And I really believe that if you aren't into your wedding, you probably won't be into your marriage. Congrats to them, I look forward to helping with the shower and being there on their big day!!

The invites were the pocket fold envelope made with the Sentimentals cartridge. I used the hide contour in Design Studio to remove the fleur-de-lis cut from it. I don't know the exact cut size but, I was able to cut two per 12x12 sheet. I also used Tie the Knot to cut the 'S' monogram at 2" and then embossed them with the Swiss Dots folder. I was able to cut 20 monograms per page when using the Auto Fill feature on the Cricut. The actual invite I cut in black and then mounted the white to it. I punched a hole in the top and added the 'swiss dot' ribbon.

MPS Challenge #12 - An Animal Card

I have been wanting to cut this one for a while. I am really happy with how it turned out!!!

MPS Challenge #10 - a card with a flower...or springy

Here is my creation using a flower. Really like the Citrus paper stack (maybe DCWV..will have to check that out)

Butterfly BD Card

So, #3, a birthday card for my grandma.