Pop-Up Thank Ewe Card

Hello! I have been busy making end of the school year cards. Currently,I am obsessed with pop-up cards. They are so fun to make. If you haven't played with the new Cricut cartridge called Simple Pop-Up Cards, I recommend it. (This cartridge is included in the subscription.) All the cards are simple two layer pop-ups using the score tool and a Cricut compatible pen.

So fun!

Thank you card

Hello! I am planning to catch up on some card-making this week. I have some thank you cards, some teacher cards and a condolence card to make.

Thanks for stopping in!

Thank you card

I'm back from Washington, folks. What a great place to tour! I loved the museums, monuments, White House, Kennedy Center, Georgetown all of that fun stuff. My first order of business back in reality is to make some thank you cards. (well, maybe snuggling my family was the first order of business and a suitcase of dirty laundry was the second.)



I will need to be busy making "end of the school year thank you cards" for the teachers, bus driver, piano teacher etc. Anyone want to have a card making day? Maybe a virtual card making day?

I would also love to quickly make a "Washington trip" mini album to show off my pictures. Here it is so far...



Have a great day!

Music challenge

Isn't it funny how challenges can be issued right when you need them? This week at Fantabulous Cricut, the challenge is a music one. Well, on Thursday, my MIL generously gave us (as in her grandchildren) her piano.

This is my card for her. I'm sorry the photo is a bit dark but the piano is slathered in shiny Glossy Accents and not very camera flash friendly.

All cuts on this card are from the Twinkle Toes Cricut cartridge. The sentiment is a rub on and there are many layers of pop dots. The embossing is done with the Tim Holtz Sheet Music folder and Core'dinations paper.

1 tag, 1 bag, 1 box and more...

I must confess that I don't have much experience making bags or boxes. This is the first time I have used the cartridge Tags, Bags, Boxes and More.



We celebrated my daughter's birthday on Saturday by bringing her friends to the new Smurfs movie. For the lootbags, I cut out the popcorn bag from T,B,B & M. I jazzed them up a bit by adding white stripes, a film strip from Mickey and Friends and a ticket from the Locker Talk cartridge.

I am entering these lootbags at Celebrate the Occasion their challenge this week is Kid's Birthday.



This tag is cut from two scraps of Core'dinations paper. All cuts are from Gypsy Wanderings.



We have new neighbours on our cul-de-sac. My son and husband baked cookies as I cut out this house from the Handy Man cartridge.

Thanks a latte - No Cricut

My son's teacher enjoys Starbucks coffee so he wanted to purchase a gift card for her end of the year gift. I wanted to make a "Starbucks" card...



I used my paper trimmer to guess out a cup shape. I originally wanted the cup to look rounded on the paper with double pop dots but that didn't seem to work. The stamp is actually two different stamps that I put together (I wish now that I left out the exclamation mark). The background paper is from my scraps and the coffee stir stick is from Starbucks.

Sunny thank you

So many end of the school year cards to make... I figure I might as well have some fun and enter some challenges while I am at it!




I am entering this card at :

1. Fantabulous Cricut Summer Sun

2. Celebrate the Occasion Celebrating summer (with a sun)

3. More than Favors Wacky Wednesday with embossing

Teacher Appreciation Challenge

On my to-do list were thank you cards for my daughter's school division choir director/music teacher, pianist, music director and choir coordinator.



These cards are for the My Pink Stamper Teacher Appreciation challenge. This is her challenge #5 for National Scrapbooking Day.

These cards needed to be large enough for 37 children to sign. I loved making these cards because I used my Gypsy for the very first time for the music notes! I used my friend's Cuttlebug to emboss the music and then I sanded the Core'dinations paper.

I got these done in the nick of time as we need them for Tuesday. Thank you Pink Stamper for issuing this challenge and forcing me to get down to business (card-making business)...

Quilt show thank you cards

My MIL was very involved in a local quilting show last weekend. She worked hard putting together the silent auction and wanted some thank you cards to give out for companies that had donated prizes. For some reason, I just couldn't make plain cards. I wanted to make quilt-like cards. I came across this blog. They had a quilted card challenge last week. Too bad I didn't see it sooner. This is my version of a "faux-quilted" card. I used all black and white because those are my MIL's favorite quilting colors this season.




The cartouche and thank you are both from Sweethearts. I pop-dotted the cartouche for some dimension. I now have some new appreciation for quilting because it took me a while to figure out all the measurements involved because I rarely measure anything. All the paper is from a Me and My Big Ideas Black and White paper pack. I hope she likes them.