Happy Birthday Grandpa

I made this card in about an hour. That includes the time spent choosing the paper.  Not that I didn't want to spend more time, I just didn't have any. Right now I am suppose to be out the door.....so I'll make this quick. Grandpa loves old cars.....its his birthday......I thought the saying was funny. I found it on the Internet by using google "funny birthday quotes".  The complete quote is "Just remember, once your over the hill you start to pick up speed."  I thought the saying would fit in with the car theme.  I hand cut out the hill (I know you can tell), I used grass,sun, and cloud stamps with versamark, my cricut to cut out the car and the head from the Heritage cartridge, and of course my copics were used to color the car and to give it a little detail.



Happy birthday Grandpa, see you soon!



I don't know where the time goes!  I am not going to make any excuses.......except this happened and then that happened and before I know it summer is almost over.  Well maybe not yet, but I know that its going fast.

I haven't had any time to do any scrap booking at all, so, this is something I did a while ago. I used the cricut to draw this butterfly and then cut it out. It's a bit of a process.  If you are going to use your cricut for this, please remember to make your start point with the marker....so that way when you change back to the blade housing you can be pretty close with the cut line.  I had to try this twice before this one! I am glad I got a picture of this card that I made for my daughters birthday, because we can't find it any where.  I have almost all of my kids cards from birth forward.  I have been slowly putting them into a card album. It's just one more thing that they can look back on.  My daughter will have to clean her room in order to find this one!  I can guarantee the complaint department will hear from her!!

To My Favorite Teacher

I know that I shouldn't be thinking about the end of school, but I love having my kids to my self....I know, I know.....I will be singing a different tune about 1 week after school lets out..... but until then I will get a head start on teacher cards and gifts.  Lets just skip spring and head right into summer. 
I am following the Mojo Monday week 190 sketch. 

My supplies: Paper- American Crafts a la carte, Heidi grace designs, brown and blue card stock; white ribbon colored with copics YG 25; stamps-  "Favorite Teacher" that I have used, alot and Penny Blacks "Betsy Bluebell"; Creative Memories- Butterfly punch and paper flowers. I also used copics B12, B14, B16, E00, C1, C3, Y23, E55, E57, YG25, RV09, R39, G03, B91.

You Rock!

This card was so fun to do.  I followed the template on this weeks Mojo Monday contest 189.  I  hope to enter this card in the contest.  Either way, I love this card....I just hope the Birthday Boy does too.

I think that my favorite thing about this card is the pop out guitar.

I was also going to use guitar string to anchor the star, but it seemed to sharp and I could not fold it and safely adhere it to the card.  I used Gillian Roberts stamp "I'm a Rock Star"; my computer, printer, vellum, and a star font that I found on line; pop dots; Smooch Spritz- silver on the brown and blue stars; Creative Memories- star and star border punches; Paper : Making Memories- Patterned Argyle, The goods American Craft, and card stock- blue, brown.

I started with copics paper and stamped 2 images using black Memento Ink.  I started with the guitar and colored both stamps at the same time so that each looked the same. I then colored the sleeve and the skin.  Now with that done, I cut out the guitar and the sleeve so that I could use the pop dots and make the guitar stand out. I then went back to my coloring. When I was done coloring, I attached pop dots to the back of the guitar and glued the shoulder to the first image.  The pop dots were a little high so I cut them down and used my glue pen to adhere the dots to the first image.
These are the copics that I used;
                                        Guitar- C1, C3, N4, N6
                                        Pants- B24, B26
                                        Skin- E00, E02
                                        Shirt- N6, G3, G5, G7
                                        Hair- E55, E57, E59
                                        Shoes- E57, E59