A Star is Born - for BBTB2

On Bitten By The Bug2 this week, Carla set the challenge, and asked us to use the delivery cut from the New Arrival cartridge

I used a 6 x 6 scalloped card base from Craftwork Cards, and embossed it with my new 5 x 5 dots embossing folder - how I wish they had made it 6 x 6! I cut a strip of pattern paper (DCWV) for the edge, and popped another smaller embossed scallop strip onto that, wrapped with ribbon. The star was cut from George at 4", and the baby at 3". The baby face is a stamp by Peachy Keen, and I used copics to give her a bit of colour. Lettering is tiny alphas by Making Memories

I scribbled on the star with a quickie glue pen and sprinkled with glamour dust
If you enjoy a challenge, why not join in this week at BBTB2? We love seeing all the creations.

I think it's a back-to-work day in the USA today, here in the UK we have a bank holiday. Easter monday is the first bank holiday of the year after new year, so a whole lot of events are arranged, the motorways come to a standstill with everyone out and about...............me? I'm staying home and finishing off the babies first birthday cards.
See you tomorrow

Two more magazine cards ............

Since I have had my hands full with little boys for the past couple of days, here's a peek at two more quick cards from this month's Papercraft Inspirations. The first one is a card for Mum - it would do as a birthday card or mother's day I suppose. The circle card is the doily cut from wildcard, cut on blackout at 6", and the papers are from Polkadoodles Sugar Birdies Cd. I cut the flowers from one of the papers, added a bit of doodling and a quick sentiment.

This one was based on a very heavily altered pregnant mummy cut from New Arrival. I really just used the base cut and altered it drastically, especially around the legs, but she turned out looking good - I wish my legs looked like that! The sentiment is from a stamp set by MFT (My Favourite Things). the figure was done in white card, and I used flesh copics (E00 and E02) to turn it into skin tones
The boys were really good yesterday, thank goodness. Milo has got used to us now, and we had a lot of smiles, and even a few chuckles, and as long as any activity revolves around Fireman Sam, Max is happy. He spends his time dashing around putting out imaginary fires. EMERGENCY he yells, dashing past you waving a plastic fire extinguisher. I have taken quite a few photos, so will update the ones on my sidebar over the weekend.

Shopping Card

The inspiration for this card came from those MFT stamps where the ladies never have their heads showing. The base card is 6" square, and I cut the expectant mummy from the New Arrival cartridge with my Cricut machine at 8", then, feeling like Henry VIII chopped off her head......... then cut off her pregnant tummy

the bags were cut from New Arrival as well, the pink and white ones are the diaper bag - I ran the black and white bags through the cuttlebug, using the tiny dots folder
gave her a bit of bling, and I was done. It's always nice when an idea in your head works out just as you imagined it!


I have had a bit of a disaster here, water has been dripping from the ceiling of my crafty cupboard right onto my supplies below. The plumber has been out, shaken his head gravely and been unable to trace the leak. So now I have boxes of stuff out of the cupboard, floorboards up in the bathroom above, and black sacks full of soggy papers. I might just go back to bed and pull the duvet over my head......................

Two Cards Using Wild Card

I am bowled over with the new Cricut cartridge Wild Card. Before buying it, I couldn't really find out much information about it and had reservations that the cards were cut to a prescribed shape and that I wouldn't have much room to be creative. How wrong could I be, it's simply fabulous, all the cards come with their own perfectly fitting envelope.

Here are my first two, the baby carriage was cut first out of very pastel blue cardstock, then out of pattern paper. A lot of stitching, a brad, and the cute baby face from New Arrival, stamped with a Peachy Keen face stamp, and I was done.

The second one is the telephone card, which I cut out of a double sided cardstock and decorated with ribbon, prima flowers and gems.

Peachy Keen Face Stamps

I bought a couple of sets of the Peachy Keen face stamps, one for the animals from Animal Kingdom, and one for New Arrival. There was a bit of a learning curve with them as you can't cut the images with the little marks for facial features, so if the face is in blackout, the whole animal is blacked out. To overcome this, I cut two, one regular, one blackout. I then placed the regular cut with the detail, over the blackout and punched tiny holes with a paper piecer along the detail marks (leaving the face blank). It was then easy to doodle along the detail marks as usual. The face stamps are very cute. Here are some cards I made with them, all the animals were cut at 4"

My favourite of course is the lamb.

Birthday Boy - Train Card

The challenge on the Bitten By The Bug site this week was to use this little train from the New Arrival cartridge. I cut it at 4", the gifts are from various cartridges and the sentiment is from two Studio G stamps. I added the giant buttons for wheels to give it a bit of oomph! I did have fun using all these really bright primary colours together to catch a childs eye. I left the little star blank so that I can write the name of the child on it before I mail it.

Click HERE to go to the site and see how the designers all had different ideas for this cut.

Welcome Baby Card - New Arrival

My card for today is just a simple little new baby card using New Arrival. Lots of stitching of course. This sweet pea cut is so cute, I cut it at 3", the sentiment is a clear studio g stamp.

Baby Boy Card - Plantin and New Arrival

Here is the baby boy card. This time I cut a 5" strip from 12 x 12" cardstock and scored three times, at 4". Covered the three sections in coordinating papers, and again cut the word B O Y out using plantin at 4", and ran it through the cuttlebug as before, then cut the letters again to shadow them. I used stitching quite randomly to outline the edges, and decorated each letter.

The onesie on the front was cut from new arrival at 3". The baby word is white rub-ons from American Crafts

Baby Girl Card - Plantin and New Arrival

Another challenge site, ScrummyStash Cafe asked for a baby project. I made these two cards last night. The baby girl card was cut from a 12 x 12 sheet of card, I cut it at 5", then scored the long side at 3", making 4 folds. The B A B Y letters were cut from Plantin at 5", two in white and two in the palest of pinks. I ran them all through my cuttlebug using the swiss dots folder, then decorated - I had fun with this, put all sorts of little embellishments on it.

I covered the front with a spotty paper and made a band to keep it all together. The little dress was cut from New Arrival at 3"

Little Feet Scrapbook Layout

Someday I'll walk through puddles,

take a stroll or run a race.

Someday I'll walk across the street

or maybe walk in space.

Someday I'll scale a mountain

or join a marching corps,

someday I'll walk a tightrope

or explore the ocean floor

Someday these feet will do some things

that only heaven knows,

but for now they're happy

just to wiggle all their toes

The baby feet are cut from new arrival, the silhouette circle is from george. I love this layout, the black and white photos of Max's feet were taken when he was about six weeks old. I found the lovely poem on the internet.

I have had a lovely award from Rima - thank you so much Rima. I am supposed to nominate 10 favourite sites, but have decided to give this award to everyone who visits here, and makes such nice comments about my work. You all make my day!

Friendship Card

This week's challenge over on Daring Cardmakers is to make a special love/friendship card, preferably using Stampin Up images. Stampin up has long been huge in the US, and has just been introduced over here in the UK. The dress is from one of my favourite sets, Haute Couture, and was stamped on patterned paper from Lakeland. The saying 'Our Friendship is a perfect fit' is from a retired set. The zig-zags were cut from Plantin at 1", and the coat hanger was cut from New Arrival at 1 1/2". I added quite a lot of doodling dots and dashes to this one.

BBTB Shape 'Love' Card

The designer challenge
over on the BBTB site
this week was to make
a shaped card, using the
New Arrival cartridge.
I chose the heart cut
simply because it has
that handy little hook
thing at the top, which was perfect for holding the two halves of the card together.
The papers are from DCWV all dressed up stack - love this
paper, the flowers were cut from another sheet, and the stamp is a $1 find. Doodling done with a black sakura
gelly roll pen.

Love - New Arrival

I really like using cartridges 'outside the box' and this love cut from New Arrival seemed perfect for a card which fits in with the weekly challenge on http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/ This is another first, I seem to be getting into this blogging thing and doing all sorts of challenges. Anyway, back to the card, I cut the 'love' out at 5 1/2", shadowed it in black, and used a black heart, which I ran through the cuttlebug - I think the folder is called dots. Tied the ribbon on with a fastenator which says 'love', added some adhesive stones for a bit of bling, and popped the whole lot on a background paper by Papermania. The doodling is a black sakura gelly roll pen. I quite like the way this turned out.
GD

Rock-a-bye Baby

A sweet little new baby card, I thought he would look cute swinging from the moon. Both cut at 3 1/2", paper is by wild asparagus.

Umbrella and Zoo Animals Childrens Card

I'm on a roll with the children's cards. This one was done with the New Arrival cartridge and is for Kiki - it's in a safe place until August!

Elephant Happy Birthday - Cricut

This is a card I made for a challenge on the Bitten by the Bug site. I cut the elephant twice at 5" in blue card, and once in a spotty paper. I made a little flap out of card so that he would stand up, added googly eyes and a bow and made a matching envelope with a tiny elephant on the flap. This will be Max's first birthday card - I'm ahead of myself, he is only 7 months old.