Today's Cards

So today I wanted to finish a couple of projects I had started a little earlier.  These are Christmas cards that I have quilled parts of them but the quilling isn't the whole project.  I think it's a little harder to incorporate stamping, quilling and card making together sometimes.  Today I was in the mood for warm tones, so this is how they turned out:

Have a great day everyone!

"BUTTONS AND BOO'S"

Cardz TV Challenge #16

"BUTTONS AND BOO'S!'" Create a card, layout or craft project for Halloween using BUTTONS!  

I have some really cute Halloween paper from Cloud 9 titled "Seasonal" that I picked up from Jo-Ann's the other day and just had to make a card with it... of course I had to quill a little bat onto the front since I've become addicted to quilling now :-)  hope you enjoy!  

Have a great Friday everyone and here are the details of card challenge:

You have until noon EST, Thursday, October 11th , to post your name and a link to your card, LO or craft below using Inlinkz.   I'll announce the winner on Monday, October 15th, and the winner, picked by random.org, will receive a set of Cardz TV Stamps!

"SSSooo SSSpooky!" Cricut Cardz Challenge #117

Challenge#117: “SSSooo SSSpooky!” Make an S-fold card for Halloween using any cartridge(s) and any colors you’d like.

Mary and her design team are at it again....they come up with the greatest challenges!  I just had to make a "S-fold" card for this one!

Ok here is my card... the front is from the Pooh Font Set cartridge, and the cape and mask is from the Paperdoll Dress Up cartridge.  The paper is from the Cloud 9 "Seasonal" 12x12 mat stack, I picked up from Jo-Ann's.

Darn!  I forgot the button's Mary ~ sorry, maybe next time.

I was on Stamp TV's site today and there was a challenge i wanted to try... "keeping it simple" sounded good.  I was surprised it was hard to do, because we get caught up in adding elements to our cards and before you know it, there is too much to look at.  Sooooo today i thought it would be good to get back to "simple".

Here's my card:

Here's the challenge:

http://stamptv.ning.com/forum/topics/live-chat-challenge-9-let-s-make-it-simple

Live Chat Challenge #9!! -- Let's Make it Simple!!

• Posted by Cat, GKD DT/Moderator on September 26, 2012 at 2:00pm in Current Challenges
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Hey y'all!!  Welcome to another Live Chat challenge hosted my ME?   Aren't you just thrilled?!  :D  I know you are...haha! 

Ok, believe it or not, gonna take it easy on you for this challenge!  Let's make it simple by doing a CAS creation!  CAS stands for 'Clean And Simple'!!  Lots of open space needs to be on your creation! 

You need to have your creation uploaded to the gallery no later than Oct 2nd (O.M.G!! It's OCTOBER??)8PM CST with the tag STVLIVECHAT9

Cardz TV Challenge #116

Challenge#116: “Creature Feature"

Make a card for Halloween using the card feature from any cartridge, and using any colors you’d like.

Ok so my Card was made from the Pagoda Cartridge (the panda cutout) and I used the Elmo & Friends Holiday for the Pumpkin.  I found some paper that made me think of Mary and I tried to add some purple buttons on the front for Mary but I just couldn't ~ The paper was pretty busy and the buttons competed with the Panda's eyes.  Sorry Mary, maybe next time lol.

1.   The front of the card is held closed by the panda's hands holding the pumpkin.

2.  I thought it would be cute to add a little sentiment in here although there really wasn't room.  I added an embossed "Boo" to the back of the pumpkin.

3.  Attached another card to the first one (the back of card one to the front of card two) to make the extra pages and add stability.  The orange "Halloween" cardstock is from the DCWV Bewitched matstak in the size of 4.5x6.5

 4.  View from above.  You can see I should have used a heavier cardstock on the front, it is a little weak.  If I had known how it was going to turn out I could have planned ahead, but this was a build as you go kinda card.

 5.   A peek-a-boo of all pages.

 6.  semi-closed look

Thanks Mary for challenging us to stretch our imagination, I had a blast and came up with a cute card I will send out for Halloween. Laura

Challenge#116: “Creature Feature"

Make a card for Halloween using the card feature from any cartridge, and using any colors you’d like.

Post your name and a link to your card in Mr Linky by noon EST, Tuesday, September 25th. We'll use random.org to pick a winner for a fun prize! We can't wait to see what you create for this challenge!

Our awesome Cricut Cardz Challenge Design Team has given us some wonderful spooky inspiration for this challenge! Be sure to visit and  follow their blogs, and leave them some comment love! 

Fall Cards

Hi everyone~ hope your week is going well!  I put together a couple of cards that I wanted to share with you.  I've been asked to make more cards that have been quilled.  So here they are...

Back to School

So many of us have children going back to school.  I for one just dropped my daughter off at high school.  Wow how the time flies.  I took a couple of quick pics - cause she's too cool to pose now for those cute little pics!

I can't help but reflect on the years gone by and it reinforces how I want to make sure that these memories are not forgotten.  I will take just a few moments today to jot down a couple of things that I don't want to forget, so when i go to scrapbook it I will have those memories forever.

Digital or Traditional scrapbooking is all about saving those moments, so we can share them with friends and family.  Most importantly (for me) is to be able to pass these memories down to the next generation.

Hug your family and love them while they are at home because all too soon they will be grown up with their own families... and that's a whole new chapter in our lives!

Here she is at 1-1/2 - seems like only yesterday-

p.s. my son will drive himself to college later this month and that just blows my mind completely!