Mother's day Bouquet

My first attempt at making flowers. I decided to make a set for my Mom. I had seen similar ideas are several sites and figured I would give it a go. The stems are green pencils. The glass base is filled with clear tinted jewels. All of the supplies came from the dollar tree. The pink ribbon was scrap ribbon I had left from a previous project.

To make the flowers I punched 3 large and 2 small flowers for each one. The middle is a from a very small punch. The cardstock is from Michaels. I inked the edges with Bic markers in a shade darker than the card stock. The shapes are then glued together in a staggered pattern with quick dry glue. I then glimmer misted the petals in a gold shade. The label I embossed in a gold color on some tags I had recieved in a trade on Listia.

Birthday Card with Mickey Mouse

A card that I made for my cousins birthday. I used a balloon punch in a heavy card stock and pop dotted it to different heights. The edges are chalked in a pink eye shadow form L. A. Colors. The mickey mouse image came from another card that I cut out and glued to the base.  The strings for the balloons are drawn in using a black jell pen. The Jr. is embossed in  a blue color.  The edges are chalked in a reddish eye shadow from L. A. Colors. The base of the card is plain white card stock from Walmart.

Hint: The eye shadows I can not guarantee is acid free but the package labels it as safe for use on human eyes and when I used my acid test pen it shows a neutral result. It stays on the card fairly well but I often spray it with a fixative (usually hair spray for cards). I like the eye shadow colors because they are only $1, come in a variety of colors, and have a sparkle to them.

graduation cards

A couple of graduation cards that I made to give out. They are fairly simple. I'm not sure what brand the stamp set is. I recieved it as a secret gift in a swap that I was in. The cards are chalked with a pink eye shadow from the L.A. Color. The butterflies are from the Hannah Montana Cricut cartridge.  The base for the initial card was white card stock cut to size and creased on my scor-pal.

birthday card

My youngest daughter just turned 8 so I made her a birthday card.

The fairy was from a coloring page that I imported into Make-the-cut.   I then printed  twice and cut it once normal and once as a mat. Paper is just white cardstock from walmart that was cut and scored to make a card. The coloring is actually an old eye shadow color that I used

Make-the-cut

I have been a die hard SCAL user for a while. However I received Make-the-Cut for Christmas. I have to say " I love it". For one it doesn't crash as often and the interface is a little easier to work with. Though I miss SCAL's benefit, that if the program does crash, it starts where it crashes. Make-the-cut makes you restart the whole design if you haven't saved it. Lately I seem to be bouncing between the two programs. Does anybody else have an opinion or favorite?

Door marker

My daughter started college this year. I made a name tag for her door.

This used the black cricut markers and the basic letter from the Disney  Hannah Montana cartridge. The dragon was something that had been saved from somewhere on the internet for a coloring page (a long time ago). If anyone knows the link let me know, I will post it.

a little behind

i have been too busy to keep up on my new blog, but I'm hoping to change that. Any way I'm will be posting some new ideas this week and hopefully at least twice a week from now on.