Fintastic Wiper Card

Today I want to share with you a wiper card that I made. Erika over at Cricut Love has been sharing this style of card on her blog and even did a video tutorial on how to make them. So I just had to try one. Here is how it looks closed. The sun and clouds border at the top and the wave border at the bottom are both from Beloved Keepsakes. The cute little Funky Fish are from FileKutz by LisaJane. And the sentiment is from K Andrew's Splashtastic Summer stamp set.



Here is the card open. It has a little tag that pops up when you open the card. This sentiment is also from the Splashtastic Summer stamp set.




This style of card is so easy to make. I can definitely see myself making more of these. If you would like to give one a try, stop over at Cricut Love for a fabulous tutorial. Erika is even having a giveaway for someone who creates a wiper card and links it up to her blog. I am linking mine up. I am also entering this card into last weekend's Simply Sunday Challenge over at Getting Cricky.

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Stinkin' Cute Blog Award

Look what I received! Amy over at Love to Crop has generously gifted me with my first ever blog award. And what a great award to receive. Thank so much Amy! If you have never been to Amy's blog, go check it out. She has some amazing craft projects to share.

The only 'rule' for this award is to pass it on to other creative bloggers. This is a tough one for me because there are so many wonderful blogs that I visit for inspiration. I will pick just a few - some of the ones that I have been faithfully visiting lately (I left a few off because I saw they already won this award).

In no particular order, here are my selections for the Stinkin' Cute Blog Award:

Becky @ Squirly Girl Creations
Chloe @ Chloe and her Clip On Koalas
Erika @ Cricut Love
Julie @ A Little Bit of Bling
Kathy @ The 3 E's Blog
Rebecca @ The Crafting Misfit
Sonia @ Cards, Crafts and Kids Projects

Please stop by and visit these blogs. You will not be sorry. These are some extremely talented ladies with awesome craft projects to share with you.

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Graduation Card

My youngest cousin graduated from high school last month and her graduation party is this weekend. My mother needs a card to give to her so I offered to make one. My cousin is an avid reader - in fact, I don't know if I have ever seen her without a book in hand. This is what I came up with for her graduation card.


This card features a cutter file from Ginny's Happy Cuts. The background paper is from K & Company (Classic K Margo Paper Pad). I thought the print went really well with the bookshelf. The sentiment is cut from vinyl - I really love using vinyl for my sentiments and other wording. I find weeding the vinyl letters much less cumbersome than applying adhesive to small letters. The colored sections of the books and the graduation cap were cut from several colors of mica/metallic paper (from The Paper Temptress). I cut 2 of the grad caps and pop dotted one on top of the other for some added dimension. I am quite pleased with how it turned out. What do you think?

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Sunny Thoughts Card

So this week I received 2 new stamp sets in the mail - my first ever set of Peachy Keen face stamps (I went with the Everyday Character Faces) and my Splash-tastic Summer sentiment stamps from K Andrew Designs. I was so excited to play with these stamps and then the new card sketch challenge got posted over at Paperthreads and everything just fell into place.



The card is based on a sketch by the wonderfully talented Aussie Caz. The background paper is from My Mind's Eye. I embossed the blue square with a Sizzix embossing folder called Stars with Swirls. The sun element is from I Scrap Designs. The face is a Peachy Keen stamp and the sentiment is from K Andrew. I added some pen stitching around the sentiment and around the card base.

Let me take just a moment to tell you how amazing Kristal's stamps are. I had been hearing rave reviews about how cleanly they stamp and it is true. The mix of fonts and cute sayings are fabulous too. And with every one of her stamp sets she sells, $1 goes to a very worthy charity. To find out more, please check out her sentiment stamps HERE.

I hope you enjoyed my card today. I am sending sunny thoughts to each and every one of my blog readers. Your comments mean the world to me and I appreciate you taking the time to visit my blog and leave a comment.

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Mini Legal Pad Cover

As you may know, I am on the creative team for Shelly's Art. She designed this fabulous cover for mini legal pads (5"x8"). As soon as I saw the file, I knew I wanted to make one for my grocery list. I found my little mini legal pads at the dollar store (3 in a pack), but I am sure they are widely available.



I used double-sided papers from K & Company (Classic K McKenna Paper Pad). Have I mentioned how much I love this paper? I did a little distressing with my sanding block on the scalloped strip. The writing was done with my pen tool using an alphabet file from Sam & Hailey Designs. I then added some pen detail by hand with my white Signo pen. This is the best white pen I have used so far. The white flourishes are rub-ons from American Crafts. The last touch was a fabric flower from my stash topped with a Flared Flower from Creative Charms.

On the inside, I added the pocket using some more K & Company paper. I don't usually like to combine too many patterned papers because I am afraid it will look too busy, but when it all comes from the same paper pack I feel a lot more comfortable. I think all the patterns go pretty well together.


Now I have a pretty cover to hold my grocery list and a pocket to hold my coupons. There is even a pen holder. Isn't this a fun little project? You could use this for so many things (a journal, a doodle book, for writing letters, etc.). I think I may need to make a few more now. :-) If you would like to make one of these for yourself, Shelly should have it loaded to her section of the store soon.

I am also submitting this to the Made It Myself Mondays challenge over at You Had Me at Craft.




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Butterfly Square Card

Happy Monday, everyone! It is a gorgeous day here today. I hope your day is just as beautiful. Today I am sharing a card with a butterfly and lots of bling. It is a square card, which I tend not to make very often. Most of my cards start with a 5x7 card base, but sometimes it is nice to do something different. After I cut the background from blue cardstock and layed it over the beige card base, it felt a little plain. The beige color showing through the blue cutout just didn't pop enough for me, so I went and grabbed a bottle of Champagne Stickles and filled in the flourishes. Then I added a couple of rhinestone flowers (from Creative Charms) and some pink pearls for the butterfly. Lastly I used my black pen to make a trail for the butterfly.


The background and the butterfly are both cutter files from FileKutz by LisaJane. The background file can be found HERE and the butterfly is part of a collection which can be found HERE. I am also entering this card into Kristal's Simply Sunday Challenge over at www.gettingcricky.com where this weeks theme is using pens on your project.

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Floral Stamped Card

Hello all! I hope you are having a fabulous weekend. Today I have a card to share that doesn't use any cutter files. Can you believe it? It has been awhile since I made something without using at least one thing from my cutter. For this card, I pulled out my oval templates, a stamp and my markers.


Supplies:
Background Paper from K & Company (Classic K Margo)
CM Oval Templates
Brown ribbon from Colorbok
Pink pearls
Floral Stamp from Inkadinkado
Marvy LePlume markers (several shades of red and green)


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