My NEW crafting addiction!!

My new addiction is called "decoden". Mostly used on phone cases but I did manage to do a mini purse mirror. The Doctor Who case is for my friend Brianna and a couple of these went to my sister. I kinda think maybe I could sell them. Once I get a bit better at doing this, its pretty easy but the pieces fall off after a couple months and the cream stuff turns dark and dirty looking. Hopefully I can fix these problems. :) Any comments are welcome!! 

craft sale cards!

Well I've failed at not making any more Create a Critter cards! My mom is getting a table at an upcoming craft sale so as of now, thats what I'm creating for! These are cuts I made before and just never used, so now here they are in simple cards! I'm thinking that I will charge $3.00 a card or two for $5.00. I also want to sell sets of five cards for $10.00. I'm hoping that will go over well for Christmas cards and such! Anyways heres some cards I made recently. 

Here's the puppy cut from create a critter and sentiment cut for jubilee. Simple cards but so cute! 

A Couple New Cards!

Two A2 cards that I made recently. Of course its the create a critter cartridge. I have more cartridges but I just love how childish this one is I guess. I will have to challenge myself to make a card with a different cartridge, then I need to buy create a critter 2!  Anyways heres what I've made! 

First is Hogs and Kisses,  the sentiment is cut for everyday cards I believe and of course my little piggy is create a critter. I'm still learning to control my urge to glitter everything. Oh well, you gotta start somewhere!

This card I am in love with. Hoppy birthday is cut with jubilee and the frog was create a critter. All I did was glossy accent the belly, cheeks and eyes on this little guy and glittered the letters. I really love how this one turned out. :)


Thanks for checking this out! I will try something new tomorrow!!

Embossed Backgrounds!

 I've always had such a problem picking background paper for cards so I decided I'd try something new. I got the idea from pinterest, not sure the owner. However its simple enough it could have been anyones idea. I cut the cupcake from create a critter at 3 inches and glossy accented the cherry and eyes. I cut a regular A2 card out of kraft card stock and then the white piece at 4x5 1/4. I stamped out my sentiment first and it says "you deserve a day sprinkled with fun!" Then I chose an embossing folder and ran it through my big kick! Tied some bakers twine and popped the image up on dimensions and called it finished! 

 This is yet again, create a critter bird cut at 3 inches. Everything is the same as the last card just with minor changes.  I wanted a way to make cards fast and easy because you can never have to many. Aside from the cutting it only took me about 5 minutes to complete! I'd say thats a success! The stamp says "its your day" and is just from the $1.50 bin at Michaels! :)

To finish off all of my cards from now on I will be adding this cute little stamp of a hand that says "handmade by" and of course, filling my name in. I got this stamp so long ago from the $1.50 bin at Michaels and I finally have got around to using it. What a great buy for $1.50!  I'm very happy! 

MOO

Well I just can't sleep so I thought why not make a post again! So that no one can read it... This is getting weird writing to myself but oh well. It's a start I guess! 

I decided to make a VERY simple layout with no patterned paper at all. I challenged myself to use other forms of media. For example, I used lots of different fibers like twine, yarn, thread and lace! Then I also added a metal tag used to track cows. I used to be so obsessed with cows, this photo was from my old cottage and means a lot to me. I did some journaling directly on the page because I thought I had enough dimension in this page already. I watered down some paint and splattered it on the kraft card stock and made the title "moo" with some old thickers.
Thank you if anyone actually sees/reads this! :) 

four year anniversary!

Well I am just awful at making cards for things I know that I need to make, so really I should be making my dear boyfriend a birthday card because he turns 21 on Canada Day! Instead I made one for our four year anniversary which will be on August 10th! This is just another simple card, nothing fancy but he will love it. :) Please pardon my horrid lighting, my camera just wouldn't work! 

 I used the squirrel on the create-a-critter cartridge cut at 3 inches. I glossy accented the eyes and nose ( finally got some control! Instead of covering everything with it) I cut out "4 years" with jubilee and added that. This is a regular A2 sized card.

On the inside I matted the card and added the sentiment from create-a-critter that says "nuts about u" Jeff knows I love corny, punny things and I'm sure he will shake his head while I laugh but I know he will appreciate the card.

Jeff and I at his dads wedding. I will post more pictures of us and our story closer to the date :) 

Thanks for reading! 

bear-thday card

I went through my card stockpile and found that I am short on just about everything but Christmas cards. So I decided I'd use the remainder of my recovery time making cards to store away. I made two birthday cards that are very similar to the one I made my dad but small. (A2 card size) Lately I've been obsessed with my cricut so it seemed like a perfect idea.

I just did the normal 1/4 inch border for the papers. Then I went a little crazy with the glossy accents and stickles but oh well. I used glossy accents on the balloons, eyes, nose, and flame. Then stickles on the star, the shirt and the cupcake. I did this for both of the cards.

I thought this was an adorable sentiment on the inside cut with jubilee.








The card on the bottom is kinda a mess up but I'm just going to say that he's floating away with the balloons. ;) Thank you for reading!

horse ribbon!

Today was the first show of the season for Greyden, and even though I was unable to compete due to my appendix being removed two weeks today, I couldn't miss it! Everyone did so amazing I am so proud to be a part of such an amazing team! Anyways while being stuck in bed I made this rosette for one of my favorites, Brianna. She came out of the show as the Grand Champ and it was just so incredible to watch :) Anyways I wanted to make her a special prize because she is so special to me! She really deserved her win and I am so proud of her. She's the little sister I've always wanted! 

baby boy card!

baby boy card

When I found out a lady at my barn was having a baby I was so excited because it meant I finally had a reason to use baby paper from my stash! I always say to my mom that I cant wait to have a baby to scrapbook the kid! She doesn't like those comments ahaha. Anyways she had a beautiful baby boy and I needed to make a card for her. Lately I've been obsessed with using my cricut for cards. More specifically the Teddy Bear Parade cartridge. I just think they're so cute. I know this is a very simple card but I thought I'd share it anyways. Thanks :) 

 

Card Making

 I thought it may be cool to post some pictures of some cards I've made. I'm pretty proud of them, and because I'm justing making this blog now I might as well share the stuff I've already made. I really like to make basic cards that are easy to reproduce and make several of. However these are some of the ones I've made with more details. The first one was for my dads birthday. I used We Are Memory Keepers paper line, and the Teddy Bear Parade cricut cartridge. I used a lot of glossy accents on this card, more then I should have:P Its on the balloons, eyes, nose, star, cupcake, and flame of the candle. I really like how this turned out though and I made it pretty quickly.

 The next card was made with the horse from Paper Dolls cartridge and the apple from Preserves. The yellow paper killed me to cut into and was from stamping up. Then all I added was some apple stickers and a happy birthday stamp. This card was one of the first ones I made so the flaws are very visable. I just learned about distress inks but you learn as you go. I still think its really cute.

This card was made for Valentines day for my amazing boyfriend. I am aware that there is a missing "s" at the end of valentines. This card was pretty large. I did one of my first copic colourings and used it as the focus of the card and then kept adding to it. I used stickles on the wings and I love the look of it. I ended up having to make my own envelope because the card was so large.  Ahaha.







Thanks for reading!

Teddy Bear Graduation Rosette

Please pardon the Instagram photo. My sister took the picture on her iPhone, but this is a ribbon I made for her for graduating college. What I did was scored a sheet of paper cut at 6x12 scoring at ever 1/4 inch. Then I cut the 6x12 piece of paper into 3x12. After this you follow the same steps you normally would of folding but I glued them together making a circle. Again, following the same steps you normally would making a paper rosette. Its important to add the extra piece of paper because other wise the it will rip. I finished the rosette and added the botton "ribbons" with are from 8.5/11 card stock cut to three inches wide and decorated the bottoms. Finally in the centre I added the graduation bear from the cricut cartridge "Teddy Bear Parade" I glossy accented the nose and eyes, and added a little bit of glitter. I drew in some details with black and white gel pens and glued on a wood vener of an A+ as the finishing touch. I'm happy with how it turned out but next time I think I would do something different from the "ribbons" hanging down. Unfortunately I didn't have any ribbon the appropriate size. Thanks for reading!