Tree in a Dump Truck!

Okay, before I start, I have to share how this card came about.  My brother sent me a video of my nephews' favorite new pastime.  The 6-year-old sits in their toy dump truck with his 3-year-old brother in his lap, and they roll down the hill in the backyard.  It is too funny to watch, and I just had to incorporate a dump truck into their Christmas card!

I used some of my favorite patterned paper from Echo Park's This & That:  Christmas.  The dump truck is a cut from the Cricut Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge.  I cut it at 2 1/4", twice in yellow, and once in black, so that I could cut the different sections to give it a more layered look.  I inked around the edges and added some fun metal stickers that I had in my stash.  The tree is cut at 3" from the Cricut Christmas Solutions cartridge.  I then added some Liquid Applique to the tree, truck, and road to give it a snowy look.

This sweet sentiment is from My Creative Time's Christmas House stamp set, stamped on cream cardstock cut with the MCT Stitched Oval Die.  Hopefully the boys will like their little dump truck card!

Products used on this card:

Cricut Christmas Solutions Cricut Everyday Paper Dolls PTI Rustic Cream Cardstock PTI Pinefeather Cardstock PTI Summer Sunrise Cardstock PTI True Black Cardstock *Echo Park THIS & THAT CHRISTMAS 6 x 6 Paper Pad TTC38023 PTI Vellum Cardstock MCT Stitched Oval Die ekSuccess Bumpy Road Edger Punch PTI True Black Ink Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress Ink *Marvy Uchida Try to Flock with Liquid Applique WHITE

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Golf Cart Birthday Card

A friend of mine who is a big golf player is celebrating a birthday today, so I thought it would be fun to make him a golf cart shaped card.  On my Gypsy, I took the golf cart and the golf clubs from the Cricut Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge.  I hid all of the internal lines and then welded together a 4 1/4" golf cart and a 3 1/2" set of golf clubs.  I cut this out of the kraft patterned paper and then also welded 2 of these shapes together and cut the resulting card base out of white cardstock.

After adhering the kraft shape to the white card base, I cut the golf clubs at 3 1/2" with the internal lines visible out of light blue, medium blue, and silver paper.  Then I cut the layers out of the blue papers and adhered them to the sliver.  I went through the same process with the golf cart, cutting it out of red, black, white, and silver.  I ran the red layer through my Cuttlebug with the Polka Dots embossing folder.

Finally, I die cut the banner shapes from My Creative Time's Fly Away With Me sentiments, and stamped a sentiment from MCT's Many Greetings stamp set.  I punched a hole and tied it to the golf cart with some black hemp from Liz's Paper Loft Boutique before adhering the golf cart and clubs to the card base.

Products used for this card:

Cricut Everyday Paper Dolls PTI Stamper's Select White Cardstock PTI Pure Poppy Cardstock PTI True Black Cardstock PTI Blueberry Sky Cardstock PTI Spring Rain Cardstock *My Mind's Eye 6 x 6  EVERYDAY FUN Paper Pad Kraft Funday KFD142 DCWV The Metallic Stack Cuttlebug Polka Dots Embossing Folder MCT Fly Away With Me Sentiments MCT Many Greetings Stamp Set PTI True Black Ink .05 mm Hemp Twine

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Some Birthday Gift Card Holders

We have a lot of summer birthdays in my family, and over the weekend we had a big party celebrating all of them.  Some of my gifts included gift cards, so I quickly whipped up a couple of gift card holders using My Creative Time's Embossed Gift Card Holder Die.  For this one, I used a pretty piece of paper from Echo Park.

This adorable cupcake was made using the cupcake die from MCT's Celebrate Good Times.  Since I wanted to pop this shape up, but the pieces are all separate, I traced the combined image onto a piece of cardstock to cut and use as a base for the three sections.  Then I dressed up the frosting with some pretty Melissa Frances Pearls that I got from Liz's Paper Loft Boutique.

The sentiment is from MCT's Gift Card Sentiments stamp set, and I used some Versamark ink and white embossing powder to make it show up on the brown background.

This one was for my brother-in-law, who is a musician.  I used paper from the My Mind's Eye Haunted collection, which has some great prints on kraft that can be used for non-Halloween projects.  For a more masculine font, I used a sentiment from the MCT Card Sentiments stamp set.  These all fit perfectly onto the gift card holder die!  My cute little musician is cut at 3 1/2" from the Cricut Everyday Paper Doll cartridge, and his face is stamped with a face from the Peachy Keen Retro Paper Doll Faces.

Products used for the Cupcake Gift Card Holder:

Echo Park This & That Graceful Dots PTI Berry Sorbet Cardstock October Afternoon Campfire 8x8 MCT Embossed Gift Card Holder Die MCT Celebrate Good Times MCT Gift Card Sentiments Stamps VersaMark Ink White Filigree Embossing Powder PTI New Leaf Topnotch Twill Ribbon Melissa Frances Pearls

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Products used for the Guitar Player Gift Card Holder:

Cricut Everyday Paper Dolls My Mind's Eye Haunted Core'dinations Cardstock MCT Embossed Gift Card Holder Die MCT Card Sentiments Stamp/Die Set PK Retro Paper Doll Face Stamps Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Sakura White Gelly Roll Pen

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