Princess Cards

   Our friend's granddaughters are our "adopted" nieces...and they both have birthdays in August, so I made these butterfly beauties just for them!

   The paper is Butterfly Kisses by Paper Studio. The stack includes matching cardstock which is handy. I used my Cricut and the CTMH Artiste cartridge to cut the butterflies.  The stamps are an older retired CTMH set, Princess Wings. 

On the first one, I heat-embossed the princess crown, tag, and wings with Amethyst embossing powder, which has a metallic sheen, then fussy-cut them. I over-stamped the word Princess in black after they dried. 

On the other card I stamped the oval tag with CTMH Gypsy ink and heat-embossed the word Princess in black.

 

 A little ribbon and bows are the finishing touches,  along with a dab of iridescent glitter on the little butterflies.

Fairy Wishes

September was my niece's 4th  birthday...and I forgot to post this..but enjoy it now. 

She is heavily into Tinkerbell. Since I bought her a "pirate fairy" dress up set (from the pirate Tinkerbell movie), I looked for fairy inspiration on Pinterest as a start for her card.

I was inspired by this design from Tracy at Callmecraftie, and made this sweet 1-of-a-kind card.

The  paper stack is Butterfly Kisses by Paper Studio which has the "just right" shades of purple and green. I layered a magical-looking swish patterned paper on purple for the background.

Of course, with a princess niece, I have the Once Upon a Princess Cricut cartridge.  I found all of the die cuts on this cartridge: the dress, butterfly wings, wand and number.  

Dry-embossing the dress added some needed texture to the layout. I used some sheer shimmery ribbon strips in my stash (previous Dollar store find...and stocked in several colors!), which I taped to a shimmery iridescent glitter ribbon for a sash.

The inside says Fairy Birthday Wishes using "Fairy" cut from the phrases on the cartridge.

I think the dress was cut at 3" and the wings too, but I learned that I should have a notebook by the Cricut to record my cut sizes, so I can come back later and cut the complements at the same size without guessing.

That would be important especially if I'm using a special paper or one that I only have 1 sheet.

I had a lot of fun putting this card together!  Thank you for looking and have a magical fairy day!

Valentine's Card

It's a little late but I've been on  a hiatus from posting as I have been the proposal manager for a project at work that requires 14-16 hour days. That  doesn't leave much time for stamping or posting. So as dear husband says, life got in the way of fun! I'm not done with the project yet but have a few spare moments.

This was my Valentine's card for Dear Hubby this year. The heart is a sticker  on a heat-embossed lace doily in blue.
I couldn't post beforehand... For obvious reasons and then apparently I got too busy to post but it was a nice card that came together quickly and is NOT pink and red, but rather manly.
Thanks for looking!

WOYWW#245

Not much time today so a quick peek at my work desk shows that I was working furiously on Valentines cards for the grandkids nieces and nephews last night. And this is the mess I leave when I work a project in a hurry and on top of another project you can see the Cricut owls I was working on the other night. More to come on them later!  Some Cricut valentine parts int he tray, and an assortment of ribbon. Have a great day!!! If you are coming from another blog checkout the WOYWW blog here.  Gotta run to work!

A Different Bootie

I've been using the same set of paisley pink and brown papers for the baby shower.  I've made a banner, invitations, and the menu cards.  I have enough papers left to make quite a few items, but I quickly made a special baby shower card on Friday night for the Shower, which has finally occurred.

I had a lot of fun making all of the items for her shower. 

The boot is from the internal Cricut E2 cartridge. The oval die cuts (plain and scalloped) are Spellbinders dies. My new CTMH scalloped border punch worked well on the striped layer, and the sentiment is StudioG.

Hope you enjoyed the journey with me over the past month! 

Thanks for stopping by!

WOYWW#244

Tonight, Wednesday night, my workdesk has the pieces of the menu cards for the baby shower that I am trying to finish. The attendees get to select their flatbread - basically a 1 topping pizza. They will circle the topping and sauce selections and turn them in to the server at the winery. The baby shower is Saturday and I can ties the bows tomorrow so they'll be done. 

Then there's a long look at my table because on one end is the banner for baby Clara Ann. This is my extension table. Do you think I have enough scissors?  LOL.

My real table has some owls on it right now...saving for a later project. When the banner is off to the shower, one whole end of my table will be cleared for the next set of projects!  Yay!

Thank you for stopping by and hope you enjoyed WOYWW and all my friend's lovely desks on display at the blog hop at the Stamping Ground!

 

Mojo329

This week slipped away from me...I just completed my Mojo Monday card this morning... which would be Thursday... hmm... been a little busy. However, the crafting must go on.

I was able to create a card using the papers that I've been working with for my friend's daughter's baby shower.

My new E2 internal alphabet cartridge has a beautiful doily in it so I cut it out on the Cricut.

On my first try I am embossed it with and black embossing powder, but then decided that the chestnut embossing powder would go with the papers better, so I redid it.
I used a favorite Stampin ' Up stamp from the retired Illuminations set and a Martha Stewart border punch. 
Not a complicated card. I could easily change up this sketch for other purposes.
Thanks for visiting today!