Getting into the Spirit of things

I’m testing my new blog publishing software using Windows Live Writer for the first time ever. I hope I can be better at updating my blog if it’s easier.  Here’s a card I made last year around this time for Christmas. 

This is from the Christmas Solutions Cricut Cartridge.

Hip Hip Hooray birthday card

One extra fold added a lot to this card. It made it nice and dimensional without hardly any effort.

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Used the flower that was cut from the hippo's bum to add to the inside of the card for a nice touch.

My son has informed me just now that it's missing something.  Googley eyes!

Butterfly card

This was such a simple card to make, especially after I tossed all the
detail cuts for the dots on the wings and just used bling. This was a card
that went with a present. It would be very chunky to mail.
I think everything was purchased at Joann's. Coor-dination's paper and some
really old flower bling from the dollar bin.

50 Bites

Made this for my sister's 50th birthday last year.  I wish I would have picked better contrasting colors but it still looked great in person.  My flash washed out the colors.  50 flowers on skewers with a bite of chocolate in the center of each one.  All flowers were done with a Cricut Cartridge.

The Happy Birthday and 50 Bites were with SCAL

Princess birthday card

You can't have a frog without a princess! Natalie's card was made on the Gypsy because the crown is from Gypsy Wanderings. Used the shadow feature for the base paper and the regular feature for the front. Stickles filled in the crown to give it some sparkle.

The Happy Birthday Natalie is a combination of the Gypsy Wanderings font for the upper case letter and Plantin Schoolbook for the lower case.

The lighter pink is some eye-popping pink from an old paper pack from ages ago. The front page is DCWV Winter or Spring cardstock stack from just over a year ago.

Once again, I cut the base paper 6x12 and then joined it end to end with a double sided tape. This was cut on the 12x24" mat in one piece.