Froggy Valentine

Yesterday when I was browsing my blog list I just fell in love with this froggy and had to recreate it. I found it on Sherri's blog Love, Laughter, and Creations. You can find the details how to make Mr. Froggy over there. If you haven't visited her blog check it out. She is so talented and has lots of inspiration over there.

On the frog I did ink around everything but the eyes. I used Plantin Schoolbook for the frog. The heart is cut at 1/2 inch. For the frogs mouth I used a peachy keen stamp for the frog on the New Arrival cartridge.

The card is a standard A2 card but I cut the base at 4.25" by 11" and folded it in half. The frog paper is from K & Company. I cut the strip of frog paper at 1.25" by 4.25" and inked around it.

The pink square is cut at 3.5" by 3.5". I ran the pink piece through the cuttlebug with the swiss dot folder and inked the edges. Then I matted it with green paper.

I have entered this card in the Practical Scrappers Embossing Challenge.

Room Signs

Well one more gift from this weekend. I made room signs for my two nephews. I found the base of the signs at the Dollar Tree. I painted them to match their taste.

I used Plantin Schoolbook for the letters. I typed their first names in the cricut and used the fit to length button to 5" so the cricut could calculate what size the letters should be. I cut the letter and then a shadow for the letters

Then on my younger nephew I cut the laying Pluto on the Mickey and Friends cartridge at 2.5" For the older nephew I just printed a logo from the net that he likes.

I used mod podge to adhere the letters and graphic/pluto to the boards. I then gave it two coats of mod podge to seal it.

Altered Birdhouse

We had our final Christmas over the weekend and I made my FIL and my husbands grandfather a birdhouse with pictures of my kids. I got this idea from the girls at Holidays with the Cricut. They give great instructions on how to make this.

I bought the birdhouses at the Dollar Tree but you could find them at Micahel's also. I painted them white and then went to my scrap box to find paper.

I used the following cricut cartridges: Storybook and Accent Essentials.

For the piece around the bird hole I used an accent from the Accent Essentials cartridge which can be found on page 33. I cut it at 1.5" on one birdhouse and 1.75" on the other birdhouse.

The piece around the peg is from the Storybook cartridge. It is the frame on page 58. I cut it at 1" for both birdhouses.

Then for the trim on the roof I used the exclamation point on the Storybook cartridge which can be found on 62. I cut it at 3.5" for one birdhouse and 4" for the other birdhouse.

I painted the birdhouse white before I decoupage the picture and paper to the birdhouse. I used two wallet size pictures for the roof of the birdhouse and a 4x6 picture for the back. I did not get the picture on the back cut quite right but my youngest is so cute (well all my kids are cute) it makes up for it :)

Here are some more pictures of the birdhouses.

Butterfly Card

Here is a card I made for a friend to cheer her up. The Pink Stamper posted a challenge to make something using scraps and Just Buggin' challenge #18 is to use the shadow function.

I used the butterfly from the Mickey and Friends cartridge which can be found on page 123. I cut it at 4". I ran the green layer piece through the cuttle bug with the swiss dot folder.

I then cut the blue background at 5.25" by 4" and ran the background paper through the cuttle bug using the tiny dots folder.

I pop dotted the butterfly. I used white ribbon from walmart. The sentiment is from a pack of Micheal's dollar stamps.

Deer Dad Birthday Card

This is a cute birthday card I made my husband for his birthday. This is a 5.5" by 8.5" card. I used 4 different cricut cartridges. I also got the inspiration for this card from the fisherman's card on Cardz TV.

The first cartridge I used was the Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge. I cut the body out at 4" on blackout. Then I used the clothes from the fisherman on page 71. I cut the hat, hair, shirt, vest and waders all at 4". I inked around all the detail pieces with brown cat's eye chalk ink and inked the detail cuts on the hat and vest. I also used a stamp from Peachy Keen's Basic Paper Doll Face set.

I cut the deer from the Animal Kingdom cartridge. I cut it at 3" and inked around him with brown cat's eye ink. I also used a black pen and drew over the contour lines of the deer.

I used Plantin Schoolbook for the grass. It is on page 69. I cut it at 8.5" with the fit to length button on the expression. I inked the tips of the grass and the bottom edge with the brown ink also.

I used the Stand and Salute cartridge for the gun. I used the cross rifles found on page 49 and cut it at 1.5 inches. I then cut one of the rifles off so it was a single gun.

The sentiment I typed and printed off the computer.

I pop dotted the hunter, deer and sentiment.

I entered this card in Just Buggin' Challenge #17 and Cupcake Craft Challenge #71. Please go check out these awesome blogs.

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Cheers Card

For this New Years card I used the Wild Card and Plantin Schoolbook cartridges.

Using the Wild Card cartridge I cut the base of the card on blackout on white card stock at 5 3/4.

Then I cut a regular base on white card stock at 5 3/4 " also. I then cut the label and white part on the top of the bottle from that base.

Then I took a piece of green paper and put it on the mat where the bottle was cut and cut the blackout base again just to get the bottle. I did the same for the cork with kraft card stock.

I then cut the Cheers (found on the same page as the bottle card) out on metallic silver paper at 5 3/4".

With the Platin School book cartridge I cut 6 stars out of metallic silver card stock at 3/4". I then attached them to three ornament hooks I had. Before I attached the top label on the bottle I used a glue dot to secure the stars.

I then cut a 3 3/4 x 5 3/4 piece of card stock for the background of the card.

This card has been entered into Cricut Cardz Challenge #6 and Paper Cutz Challenge #22.

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Cup cake birthday card

For this yummy cupcake card I used the cupcake on the From My Kitchen cartridge and the scallop and circle are from the Mini Monogram cartridge.

I cut the stripe pattern paper for the cup cake base on blackout at 2". I also cut green cardstock at 2" on blackout and just cut off the leaf and stem part. Then I used light pink, dark pink, and red cardstock and cut on the layers function at 2 ". After putting all the layers together I used red stickles on the cherry, green stickles on the leaf and stem and pink stickles on the frosting.

I cut the scallop with purple textured cardstock at 3". I cut the circle from white cardstock at 2.5". I then inked both with purple ink. Then I attached the cupcake cake to the circle and the circle to the scallop.

I cut a 4.5" square from lavender cardstock and inked the edges with purple ink.

I used the same pattern paper from the cupcake base and cut a strip 1.5" x 4.5". I then attached a purple ribbon that I got from targets dollar bin to the strip of paper and attach that to the lavender cardstock.

I attached the scallop and then the whole piece to a white 5"x 5" card base.

The "Let the Good Times Roll" stamp is from Michael's dollar bin.

This card is entered in three challenges:

Mojo Monday Week 117

Lexi Creation's Challenge 3

Cupcake Craft Challenges #70

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