Wedding Wishes

Here's another card made last July.  It's difficult to see in the picture, but I used the Cuttlebug and embossed both the layers.  The larger layer was embossed using Swiss Dots (probably my favorite), and the smaller rectangle used Divine Swirls.  The stamps used were Stampin' Up, and I colored the cakes using a blender pen and pastels. 

Happy Anniversary Derek and Yvonne!

Recipe Card Swap

Just finished up some recipe cards for a swap over at the Cricut message boards.  The first one is a recipe that my fiance's Grandmother makes, called Frog Eye Salad.  It's like ambrosia with a twist...itty, bitty round noodles.  Sounds weird, I know, but YUM! 

I used my Gypsy to weld together the letters and words, and cut the frog/lily pad using Create a Critter (my new "go to" cartridge).  Even if you're not a critter kind of person, this cartridge has so many other elements it's worth looking into. 

For the second card I used CAC (again) for the barn, and Everyday Paper Dolls for the chicken.  Not my favorite chicken, but the only one I have for now.  I used the Cuttlebug to emboss the barn (but I can't remeber the name of the folder...distressed lines maybe).  I was going to originally put the chicken on the "ground" in front of the barn but while I was inking the edges, one fell on top and I liked the way it looked more.  It no longer looked like a barn to me, but more of a chicken coop.  Anyway, with the chicken up there I had to make some changes for the recipe card as well.  That's when it hit me.  I could make the barn into a pocket and weld that chicken to a tag that slips behind it.  So, when you pull the chicken off the chicken coop, you find this...

MPS Challenge#8: Love my color

For this challenge we were to use a monochromatic color scheme and a flower.  I was going to use some orange flowers that I had, but couldn't find the right shade of paper.  While looking, I noticed some scraps of blue big enough to be punched into squares, and decided to use them instead.

The paper is bashful blue from SU!.  I layered 3 small squares onto one large one and then layered that on the card stock.  If you look closely in the corner of each small square I've stamped (also in bashful blue) the word live, laugh, love.  The stamps are from Clear Dollar Stamps.  The area at the bottom is left blank so that I can stamp it later to fit the occasion. 

MPS Challenge #7: Hey Dad!

This challenge was to make something for Dad or with a masculine feel to it.  I used some paper from DCWV's Latte stack, the Top Note die from SU!, SCAL (for the word), and my Cuttlebug (with the traffic jam embossing folder). 

I think it needs something, I'm just not sure what.