First day of school!

My niece (I know I have been talking about her a lot lately!) starts Kindergarten this week! Since I don't live near her I wanted to send her a card to wish her well on her first day and to just let her know I am thinking about her.  I was actually working on another project when the idea for this card came to me so I just whipped it together!  It's a simple, simple, simple card!

The card is cut at A2, 5 1/2" by 8 1/2".  It's 5 1/2" by 4 1/4" when folded. I just realized as I was typing that I make A LOT of cards that open up instead of sideways.  Anyway, the apple is cut at 4 1/4" using the Create-a-Critter cart which is such an awesome cartridge.  I used regular plain cardstock for the apple and the card.  The printed paper is just some school-themed paper that I had laying around and thought it would be perfect for this!

I didn't want to leave the inside of the card plain so I made a little apple for the inside.  The apple is cut at 2".  It is cut using the shadow button so there isn't a face on it.  Now all it needs is some well-wishes for my sweet niece and I will send it off!

Dragon!

Sorry for the lack of posts in the past few weeks.  We have been doing some traveling and projects around our house and have just been busy, busy, busy!  This card is for a boy, my sweet medium cupe!  He is starting school so I wanted to make him something to mark the occasion. 

It's simple and boyish, which is what I wanted!  I used textured cardstock for the dragon.  The dragon was cut using the Dress-up Paper Dolls cart, it's cut at 4".  I used stickles and glossy accents to give him some texture! 
The card itself is cut at 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 and folded.  The red paper is cut at 4 1/4 x 5 1/2.  The blue paper is textured using the Diamonds in the Rough embossing folder (cuttlebug) and cut at 4 x 5.  I used ribbon from the dollar section at Target to give it a bit more color.

I also used pop-dots so that the dragon was raised for more dimension!  Inside it is lined with red cardstock!

I hope you enjoy!!

Turning 5!

My niece is turning 5 years old this month!  I can't believe it, it seems like just yesterday we were waiting for her arrival!  She's starting school this year and everything!  I was looking at different cartridges to see what I wanted to make for her birthday card and I chose this one because it had 5 balloons on it!

The card is 7 x 5 (folded). The cut is from the Hello Kitty Greeting cricut cartridge.  It's cut at 5 3/4".  The purple cardstock is embossed with the "With Gratitude" Cuttlebug embossing folder. In order to emboss the entire paper I put it on the paper sideways and ran it through my Cuttlebug and then lined it up on the remaining paper and ran it through again! It worked pretty well.  The ribbon is from the dollar bin at Target.

I used Glossy Accents on the balloons to make them shiny.  They are very shiny! It's kind of hard to tell in the picture though. The "5" is cut from the Hello Kitty Fonts cartridge.  Hello Kitty's dress and bow also have Glossy Accents to make them shiny, it didn't show up in the pictures though.

I cut a tag out from George and stamped Happy Birthday on it.  I know that the lavender paper looks crooked, but it really isn't! I wish I knew what I do to make it look like that. It happens so often when I'm taking pictures (sigh!).  The flower is cut at 1 3/4".

The card is done, now I just have to find the perfect gift for her!!  

Yummy Cherries!

I have been wanting to make a cherry card for a while. I had this cute cherry print paper and I love it! I grew up in Michigan and I love Michigan cherries! They are soooo delicious!  Traverse City, Michigan has the National Cherry Festival every year in July. There are delicious cherry products in various shops there too!  Dried cherries are a must in my household. My DH (big cupe) loves them, I make him cherry muffins and he also eats them in his cereal.  My little cupe likes them too, she thinks they are candy. Okay, enough about that, on to the card!

The cut is from the Hello Kitty Greetings Cricut cartridge.  It's cut at 3 3/4".  The cherry paper is from Dream Street Papers LLC (isn't it so cute?!).  The card base is dark brown cardstock.  I used textured cardstock for all the cuts, I really like textured cardstock!  I used pop dots on the cherries so they would have some dimension:

I lined the inside of the card with white cardstock but it still needed something so I made some little cherries and I think it made it so much better!

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