handcrafted cards . . .heartfelt expressions
This is a Valentine’s Day card I made for my favorite loves. I used the owl from the silhouette on-line store and the paper is from K&Company. The sentiment inside is from LetteringDelights. I added some stickles and Martha Stewart red twine. I am entering this card in the CRAFTY CARDZ CHALLENGE and My Craft Spot Monday Challenge #86 For Your Sweetheart. I hope you all have a wonderful Valentine’s Day!
Hi all,
I can not believe Christmas is less then 2 weeks away. This month seems to be flying by. 
I am also anxiously awaiting the birth of my 3rd grandchild due next week. I am trying to finish up all my cards and wrapping this week. I made this gift bag for my nail tech. I used the Cricut Forever Young cart for the purse and nail polish. The ornament is from the Cricut Artiste cart. I am entering this bag in My Craft Spot’s Wrap it up challenge.
For this week’s dynamic duos challenge we were to use certainly celery and real red. I decided to pull out my Winter Frolic cricut cartridge and create a card for a friend. She is an animal advocate, so I thought this would be the perfect card for her for the holidays. I used Authentique paper and cut the shapes at 3 inches. I also used the sentiment that comes with the image and cut it at 2 inches. I added wiggley eyes and lots of diamond dust stickels to help make it sparkle. I think it came out cute. Sorry if my camera washed the colors out a little.
This week OWH challenged us to make Winter themed cards that are fun for our heroes to send home
to their family and friends! I made both of these cards using the Cricut Very Merry Tags cartridge. I had a lot of fun using this cartridge and plan on making several other cards from the cuts on it. I used a little liquid pearl to add a bit of pop to the snowflake and his eyes. The second card is a try fold card. I used my cuddlebug snowflake folder for the background. I made the button with a Martha Stewart punch. The sentiment on the first card is a Fiskars stamp.
I plan on making a few more of these to include in my box of cards to OWH.
Operation Write Home along with Tonic Studios has challenged us to create a card for our Troops using sketch #143.
Here’s the sketch…
I decided to create a card with a winter theme. I used Close To My Heart Artiste Cricut cartridge for the snowflakes and the coordinating winter stamp for the sentiment. I used cuddlebug snowflake embossing folder for the background. I highlighted the embossed snowflakes with Tim Holtz embossing ink. I added liquid pearls to the snowflake to give it a little dimension and sparkle. I embellished the bow with a crystal from Megan Elizabeth | Above Rubies Studio
I love the blue and white colors together. The card measures 4.25 by 5.50.
Comments are always welcome.
I made these cards for Operation Write Home’s blog hop. We were to use a winter theme to make cards that our heroes could use to send home to their love ones. The first one is made using Close to My Heart winter sentiment and snowflakes from the Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge.
I used liquid pearls to decorate the snowflakes and the ink was one of Megan’s little juicy stamp pads from Above Rubbies Studio. I love the way the colors match. I added a little stickles to the bottom snowflake and popped up the sentiment and center snowflake to add demension.
The second card was made using the same cartridge and stamp set. Only this time I used the OWH sketch 139 as my inspiration. The pattern paper is from Recollections. I used the liquid pearls again to add demension and sparkle and popped up the center snowflake.
I hope you are enjoying the card hop. Please consider joining us in making cards for our heroes. It is our way of saying thankyou and letting them know we care. Feel free to leave a comment. I love reading them.
Visit to our blog, Stars and Stamps:
http://operationwritehome.org/starsandstamps
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This week at Operation Write Home there is a color challenge using Red & Green! We’re to make cards using the colors Red & Green for our heroes to send home to their family and friends! I used Cricut Snow Friends cartridge to make my snowman cut at 3 inches. I added a little stickles to the snowflake on his shirt to give it a little shimmer. The paper was from a holiday pack I got last year.
Operation Write Home’s VCMP‘s next challenge is to make a card with a snowflake theme but not Christmas. This theme was selected by Cindy’s Card Co blog. I used my cricut and paper from my stash to make this card. I hope you enjoy it!! Fun thinking of snow when the air conditioning is on. LOL
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