Ninth Birthday Card

I just love this snake cut from the Cricut Birthday Bash cartridge!  He usually holds the number 8, but it's easy to swap out the numbers in Cricut Design Space.  I made this card for one of my students.  A quick watercolor of the background and a sentiment from My Creative Time's Prehistoric Holidays finished off the card!

10 Year Old Birthday Card

One of my students turns ten today, and I found this cute cut of a squirrel holding a 1 in the Cricut  Birthday Bash cartridge.  I just added a 0 in Cricut design space, adhered it to some patterned paper trimmed with one of the My Creative Time MORE Stitched Rectangular Dies, and added a sentiment from MCT's Make a Wish!

Birthday Snake

Here's a fun birthday card I made for one of my students.  I used images from several different Cricut cartridges:  a snake from Animal Kingdom, a party hat from Doodlecharms, and some presents from Birthday Bash.  For my background, I die cut a square using the largest of the My Creative Time Stitched Square Dies Inside & Out and made some scor lines on it with my Scor-Pal.  I then added a sentiment from MCT's Prehistoric Holidays.

Products used on this card:

Cricut Explore Machine Cricut Animal Kingdom Cricut Doodlecharms Cricut Birthday Bash Cartridge PTI Dark Chocolate Cardstock PTI Kraft Cardstock PTI Raspberry Fizz Cardstock PTI Lovely Lady Cardstock PTI Harvest Gold Cardstock PTI Simply Chartreuse Cardstock PTI Limeade Ice Cardstock PTI Hawaiian Shores Cardstock MCT Stitched Square Dies Inside & Out MCT Prehistoric Holidays Tsukineko VersaFine ONYX BLACK Ink Pad VF-82

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Shark Birthday

Here's a card I made for one of my third grade boys who celebrated his birthday last week.  I have so many great Cricut images, I thought I should browse through them and start using them on occasion! I thought this shark cut (that came with the sentiment) from Birthday Bash was perfect!  To spice things up, I created a watercolor background using some Tim Holtz distress inks.  I cut the watercolor piece with a 5" Stitched Square Die from My Creative Time, and then made the card 5 1/4" square.

Products used on this card:

Cricut Explore Machine Cricut Birthday Bash Cartridge MCT Stitched Square Dies Inside & Out Canson Watercolor Paper PTI Soft Stone Cardstock PTI Smokey Shadow Cardstock PTI Orange Zest Cardstock Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad PEACOCK FEATHERS Ranger TDP40064 Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad SALTY OCEAN Ranger TDP40132 Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad CHIPPED SAPPHIRE Ranger TDP39907

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8th Birthday Card

My nephew turned 8 last weekend, and I knew the My Creative Time Surprise Pop-Out Card Die would be perfect for making a fun interactive card for him!  I used the die to cut the card base out of Papertrey Ink orange zest cardstock and then ran the right side of the die through my Vagabond again with some fun chevron paper from the Echo Park All About a Boy collection to give it a layer.  Then I used a die from the MCT Stitched Party Dies to make a cute balloon for the left side of the card.

This cute little birdie is cut at 1.88" from the Cricut Birthday Bash cartridge.  I used him on this card because I knew he would work perfectly with what I was going to do on the inside of the card.  Instead of cutting out eyes for him, I used some Imaginisce Glam Rocks.  To get my sentiment, I mixed and matched parts of sentiments from a few different MCT stamp sets:  the 8 and exclamation point are from Just Simply Live, "is" is from Mom you Rock, and "great" is from So Grateful for You.  I just used washi tape to cover up the part of each sentiment that I didn't want before inking up, and then removed the washi tape before stamping.

Here's what happens when you pull open the card.  I love how that panel swings around!

I used the inner oval dies that come with the Surprise Pop-Out Card Die to get some more color on this panel.  Now you can see why I wanted that Cricut cut of the bird holding the envelope.  Here's the little envelope again, but this time it's made with the MCT Mini Stitched Envelope Die!  How cute is that???  I used a brilliant idea from my design team sister Kim and used the smaller die from the MCT Square Stitched Goody Dies to make a little "letter" for the inside, stamping it with a sentiment from MCT's Once Upon a Time.

I'm just loving playing with this new My Creative Time release!

Products used on this card:

Cricut Birthday Bash Cartridge MCT Surprise Pop-Out Card Die MCT Mini Stitched Envelope MCT Square Stitched Goody Dies MCT Stitched Party Dies PTI Orange Zest Cardstock Echo Park All About a Boy *Echo Park SCOOT 6 x 6 Paper Pad SC41023 MCT Once Upon at Time... MCT Mom You ROCK MCT Just Simply Live MCT So Grateful for You Stamp Set *Tsukineko MEMENTO Full Size Ink Pad TUXEDO BLACK *Tim Holtz Distress Ink PAD VINTAGE PHOTO Brown Ranger *Imaginisce BLACK Glam Rocks 002989 i-Rock

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Rewind: 4th of July Banner

I just got back from a very fun trip to Boston and Cape Cod, so I have no new projects to share with you.  While I get myself organized and back to crafting, I thought it would be fun to share some 4th of July projects I've done in the past.  I made this banner for my little niece's playhouse 2 years ago. It's still one of my favorite projects!

The pennants are cut at 6" from the Cricut Birthday Bash cartridge. To make the 4" rosettes, I followed this great video by Tammy Skinner. On top of each rosette, I adhered a 6" circle from Cricut's Mini Monograms. This "freedom" cut is from Cricut's Graphically Speaking.

For this pennant, I cut a 3 1/4" firecracker from Cricut's Sweet Treats.

To see the technique I used to stamp this 4 1/2" star from Cricut's A Child's Year, visit this post.

I love this cut from A Child's Year. It is cut at 4".

Finally, here is another cut, at 3 1/2", from Graphically Speaking. I dressed it up with some white stitching and a stamp from My Creative Time's My Little Firecracker stamp set.

Recipe:

Papertrey Ink Pure Poppy, Kraft, & Enchanted Evening Cardstock

K & Company Americana Patterned Paper

Core'dinations Textured Cardstock

Papertrey Ink "Botanical Silhouettes" Stamp Set

My Creative Time's "My Little Firecracker" Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream, Enchanted Evening, & Pure Poppy Ink

Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress Ink

Sakura White Gelly Roll Pen

Offray Grosgrain Ribbon