Owl Always Love You

HAPPY  VALENTINE'S  DAY!!!!

This is a 5.5" x 8.5" card I made for my daughter.  The base of the card is red card stock and I chose papers from K & Company Specialty Papers.  The "stamp" frame is cut from the Silhouette Studio and popped up for dimension.  The adorable little owl is a print and cut digital file from Digital Delights by Louby Loo.  She has such CUTE stuff!!!!!  I used white tulle with three different ribbons which I bought from Hobby Lobby to give the card some flare.

The sentiment is on the inside of the card which came from my Silhouette Studio.  I used pop dots to place it onto the "stamp" border to give it some dimension.  Below it, has a tag to add your personal touch.  I used a heart button on the corner of it to dress it up a little bit.  And of course, I had to do some doodling.  If I had to do it all over again, I'm not too sure I would doodle around the inside edge of the "stamp" border....

Challenges Entered:

Come and Get It:  Share Your Hearts

All Sorts: Valentines

Red Carpet Studio:  Where the Heart Is

2 Sisters Challenge:  Hearts

Pink and Tack:  Anything Goes

The Cutie Pie Challenge:  Valentine Cards Unlimited
Tuesday Throwdown:  Anything Goes
Love to Create:  Feelin the Love
Pumpkin Spice:  Valentine
Kaboodle Doodles:  Valentines
Paper Crafting Journey:  Love
Craft Your Passion Challenges:  My Valentine
A Pink Gem of a Challenge:  Hearts/Valentines
My Craft Spot:  For Your Sweetheart

This is a photograph of her little Valentines gift from Mommy and Daddy.  The  brown bear is a stuffed animal and believe it or not, she smells like CHOCOLATE.  Yes, that's right, C-H-O-C-O-L-A-T-E... I don't know how they did it but it smells soooo good.  She is just going to die.... she loves chocolate!!!! 

Thanks for visiting and Have a Happy Valentine's Day!!!!

Let's Play

Here's another beach layout.  Boy, I guess I'm ready for summer!!!  We don't hear that often down here in the South.  Most of us dread the HOT summers!!!

This was a fun layout to put together.  I used blue open stock paper for the background and I used off white card stock for the sand.  I inked the sand to give it some dimension.  The sand is cut from the Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge on page 41.  The book has the cut displayed as water, but I cut it to use as my sand.  I think it turned out cute.

The sandcastle is cut from the same cartridge and can be found on page 77.  I cut it out twice for some added dimension since this is an accessory to the cartridge and it only cuts as a single layer.  I also inked the castle with Momento brown ink.  The cute little crab was cut from Create-A-Critter cartridge at 1.25".  I used my Gypsy to hide the face and used my Peach Keen Stamps PK-490 Everyday Character Face Assortment.

The beach chair and umbrella were also cut from the Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge on page 41.  These were cut multiple times to give them some dimension.

The title was cut from Create-A-Critter cartridge on page 40 at 4.46".  I used Hobby Lobby yellow gingham ribbon and yellow poka dot ribbon as embellishments on the photographs.

Now, where is my swim suit????  I gotta go find it!!!!

Pizza!!

Hello and thanks for visiting!!!

This layout is made using two open stock pattern papers from Hobby Lobby.  The bottom layer of pattern paper is cut at 11.5" x 11.5" and mounted on 12 x 12 yellow card stock.  The second layer is mounted on 8.5" x 11" piece of yellow card stock and the pattern paper is cut at 8" x 10.5".   

I used the cuts on page 76 from the Simply Charmed cartridge.  I used my Gypsy to hide the faces and used my Peachy Keen stamps PK-490 Everyday Character Face Assortment.  I decided not to put a face on the pizza as I liked the look of it when I was done putting it together.  I inked all the layers of the pizza to give them more dimension.  Of course, I just had to doodle them both up!!!!  

I used Martha Stewart Crystal Fine Glitter on the Recollections flower to give it some sparkle.  Then I placed a Gemstone in the center.  

The cute little tag was made using a rectangle shape from Cricut Craft Room Basics and then I cut numerous lengths of different ribbons and attached them to the back for added flare.

I think this layout turned out really cute and I just love the colors!!!!  The use of colors make your layouts "pop" and is very appealing to the eye.  

Let me know what you think!!!!

Beach Party

Don't you just love going to the beach!!!!  Well our family does, and for our daughter's 6th Birthday, we did just that.  This was a fun layout to create!!! 

I used blue open stock paper from JoAnne's and layered it on top of navy blue card stock.  The sand was cut on off white card stock at 11.80" from the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge on page 78.   To give it the sandy color, I inked it with Momento brown ink and placed it on pop dots for added dimension.  The beach chair and umbrella were cut from the Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge and can be found on page 41.  I cut several layers to give them dimension/color as these are accessories to the cartridge and they only have one layer.  

The sand bucket was cut from Simply Charmed on page 51.  My cute little crab was cut from Create-A-Critter and cut at 2.41".  I used my Gypsy to hide her face and used my Peachy Keen stamps PK-754 Critter Faces-Medium. 

My title was cut from Cricut Craft Room Basics at 1.08" and the number "6" was cut at 2.15".  The embellishments are from Recollections.  

Man, writing this makes me want to go to the beach right now!!!!

I hope this give you some inspiration!!!! 

Got Milk & Cookies!

I am so excited!!!!  My wonderful husband got me a Silhouette Cameo for my birthday.  OH MY GOODNESS!!!!  The possibilities are unlimited!!!  You can do so many things with it and I love putting together all the little paper piecing files that you can download from different web cites.   The files are pretty reasonably priced.  The average prices I found ranged from .99 to $8.99 per file.  I will still keep my Cricut but am finding that the Silhouette cuts much better.  Anyway enough about that!!!

This layout is a paper piecing file that I bought from Treasure Box Designs.  She has some really cute stuff!!!!!!  I used several layers of open stock papers and the green scalloped border on the top and bottom of the page is from the Silhouette Studio. Before putting the Santa and cookies together, I inked around the edges with Colorbox Cat Eye Chalk Ink to give them some added dimension.  The ribbon is from Hobby Lobby. 

Dry Bones

Ok, this is a pretty simple layout.  Really not much to it.  The only cuts I used in this layout was the Dry Bones Costume, the spider web and the title.  These cuts were all from the Paper Doll Dress Up Cricut cartridge.  All other embellishments are from K & Company and Dress-it-Up Buttons.

The papers I used are from K & Company Specialty Papers and open stock papers.  The Dry Bones costume can be found on page 49 and was cut at 6.5".  I used my Peachy Keen Stamps PK-490 Everyday Character Face Assortment to stamp the eyes and nose.  The spider web can be found on the same page and was cut at 2.5".  The title is from Cricut Craft Room Basics and cut at 1.5".  I used my white gel pen to add detail to the costume.  All embellishments were placed on pop dots for dimension.  The ribbon is from Hobby Lobby.

Ghosts and Goblins

Another Halloween layout using the Paper Doll Dress Up Cricut cartridge.  I just love making all these paper dolls!!!

This layout was made using open stock paper and K & Company Halloween Specialty Papers. The ghost costume was cut at 4.22" from page 49.  The large flying ghost is also cut from page 49 at 3.15".  The title was cut at .92" from Cricut Craft Room Basics.  The small ghosts flying out of the "O's" in the title are cut at .88" from page 49.  The photographs are embellished with ribbon from Hobby Lobby and Dress-Up Buttons.  The two other ghosts are from The Paper Studio.  All of the ghosts are placed onto the layout using pop dots for dimension.