LITTLE BO PEEP

HAS LOST HER SHEEP AND DOESNT KNOW WHERE TO FIND THEM. 

When I first decided to make cards, I really wanted to be able to donate some of them to a good cause.  So, I went searching and found Send A Smile 4 Kids...I think that they're doing a really great thing and I plan on doing my part by making cards for their choosen catagories and sending them in.  If you think that you would be interested, take a little visit to their blog and see what it is they do.

The card I made today is for the Button, Ribbons and/or Flowers challenge over at sendasmile4kidschallenge.blogspot.com. .

                                                                      Pretty in pink

For this card I used the following cartridges and measurements.  Toy Story-Bo Peep/Shadow (pg 57), cut at 6 inches and Flower Shoppe-Scallop #1 (pg 13), cut at 2 inches and 1 1/2 inches, plus the  heart leaf (pg 22), cut at 1/2 inch.

I wanted this card to be a little girly, so I used a lot of pink and some floral paper and to offset the entire base from the image, I placed Bo Peeps shadow on the checkered green...I inked Bo Peeps outfit and added Liquid Pearls-Flamingo for the dots on her dress and put Glossy Accents on her shoes and eyes.

For the roses...I cut them using white cardstock and inked them with white, light pink and an almost rhaspberry color (my new favorite color).  I also placed Liquid Pearls in the centers and added the leaves.  Oh, and lets not forget the ribbon and bow!

Thanks for stopping by.  Kathie

 

STILL WITH ME...

EVENING THOUGH MY GREAT-GRANDMA IS NO LONGER WITH ME HERE ON EARTH, SHE IS ALWAYS IN MY HEART...AND FOR THIS REASON, I MADE THIS MOTHERS DAY CARD IN HONOR OF HER.  LOVE YOU GRANDMA.

I wanted to enter a couple Mothers Day challenges this week...and I know that the whole idea for making the projects that will be entered, is to eventually give them to someone special.  But, I still wanted to honor my great grandma because she meant so much to me and our entire family.  So, in her memory, I made this recessed window card.

I've entered this card in the Mothers Day challenges over at creativecutterroom.com, exploringcricut.blogspot.com and fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com.

                                         

In this photo, my great-grandma is holding my grandmother.

For this card I used the following cartridges and measurements.  Flower Shoppe-daisy (pg 18), cut at 2 inches and leaf # 5 (pg 26), cut at 2 inches.  Wild Card-I thought of you/phrase (pg 54), cut at 5 inches.

As always...I just had to use my inks!  I used a goldenrod on the tips of the flower petals and brown on the leaves.  I mounted the photo of my grandmothers with the patterned paper I used on the card and some chocolate brown cardstock.

If you are interested in making this type of card, you can find the instructions for it at splitcoaststampers.com. .  Simply type in recessed window card in the search engine.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by and have a look.  Kathie

MOTHERS DAY CARD #1

This is the first of two cards that I will be making for Mothers Day.

In my very first post, I showed the shadow box that I made for my mom...and this is the card that will go with it.  I will be entering this card in the Thankful Thursday Challenge over at dianamlarson.blogspot.com in celebration of Mothers Day.

 
                                                                       5 1/2" x 8 1/2"

For this card I used the following cartridges and measurements.  Kate's ABCs-flower pot (pg 67), cut at 6 inches.  Flower Shoppe-daisy (pg 18), cut at 1 1/2 inches and 2 inches, leaf #5, cut at 1 1/2 inches and 2 inches.  Plantin SchoolBook-Mom, cut at 1 inch.

When I made the flower pot image, I removed the flowers that were on the cut and replaced them with the daisies...and used pop dots to give it some dimension.  I also placed glue dots along the outer edges of the pot and doubled the pop dots down the center to give it a rounded look (as if it were coming out of the card).

For the inking that I had to do, I used the following colors.  For the daisies, dandelion and for the pot...to give the affect of weathering terra cotta, desert sand, potters clay and rich cocoa.  I also used paprika stickles in the flower centers.

Thanks for taking the time to look...hope you like it.  Kathie

ONE CARD...THREE CHALLENGES

I'm going to enter this card in three different challenges this week...the first challenge calls for an umbrella, rain or clouds, the second calls for three flowers and the third challenge is called April Showers.  Here are the links for all three challenges. Fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com, Especiallymade.blogspot.com and creativecutterroom.com.

I knew for this card I wanted to have a somewhat Asian feel, so I chose the image of Mulan and since I was crossing over into another challenge which included flowers, I decided to use the Chrysanthemum since it has a lot of meaning in the Chinese culture.

                                                                           Mulan

For this card I used the following cartridges and measurements.  Happily Ever After-Mulan (pg 75), cut at 7 1/2 inches and the umbrella/icon, cut at 4 inches.  Flower Shoppe-Mum (pg 21), cut at 1 inch and 1 1/2 inches.

Like I've said before,  Im big on inking and the colors that I used on this card are...burgandy, antique gold, brown and cottage ivy.  I also used Copic markers to color Mulans face and hands...E00, E01 and R20.

Thank you for taking the time to stop by and have a look.  Kathie

 

Mothers Day Shadow box...

This is the project I have chosen to be posted to my new blog.  It is the first time that I've every made a shadow box...I enjoyed making it so much, that I've already decided to make a few more for some special people in my life.

The picture being used was taken

at the Baltimore Zoo.

The items for this project were, an 8x8x1.5 shadow box and the following Cricut cartridges...Flower Shoppe, Art Nouveau and Ornamental Iron 2.