Thursday, May 19, 2011

Birthday Time!!













At work we had 2 Birthdays.. I made a couple cards for our little shindig... I made this one for BJ... she turned... well... she turned another year older (for the record still don't believe she is as old as she says she is) I made her this card from me.. basic 4in x 5.5in with a black layer being 3in x 4.5in and the teal and if you can see its texture which i thought was a cool look for the dress (same as dress color) 2.5in x 4in I cut "model9" from "forever young" cartridge at 5 in I did the under lay in purple but the top in teal along with head band and bracelet, since i didn't have the purple i used in the dress i had to use the teal so I did the silhouette in the same color as the card so she would pop more. i found this saying "Like many women my age...." and on the inside i wrote  "I am 29 years old" the next card i did was for Mrs Juddie one of our volunteers I made her the Mushroom card... same dimensions except only the first layer and then i put this new ribbon I found in the dollar bin at target :) I then did a mushroom from "Simply Charmed" at 3 in and that was basically it, the picture is not the best color wise but  it was fun to do :) The bottom Cupcake  card was to BJ from the entire department we all signed it,  it was the same size card with the 2 layers each decreasing in 1/2 inch the cupcake was from simply charmed cut at 2.5 inches in the same colors the purple being textured if you can see on here and another piece of matching ribbon from Target! It went good though brought in some food and had a good time which is all that matters.





Monday, May 2, 2011

over a month!


Oh Lordy, it has been over a month since i posted i honestly can not believe it, things haven't slowed down for me at all :( but I have cricut-ed... If noticed I also changed the name of my blog... i love the idea of doing the challenge but who are we kidding... I am to busy and get distracted to easily for that to work :( so I am just going to post projects as i do them.. i am branching out to more things, I have the cutest clothes i want to make... some for my cute little niece (Left) is she the cutest niece ever! (can you tell she is my first :) and even some ideas for my little sister  (Below )
Any who i have done several cards.. rearranged my craft room umpteenth times and am finally gonna slow down to play! lol So if y'all will just bare with me my face book page will be updated to this as well soon and i am going to continue to post the tips i learn along the way.. and things like i mess up so you don't have to lol, I'm also running low on the general supplies cough**tape gun... refills**cough, just in case you wanted to know(see list on side) lol... i am also in the process of getting a few more boyish cartridges I went to make a few a while back and realized that my cartridges are not very generic.. kinda lean more towards girly. Any ways I hope y'all have had a very enjoyable Easter and month of April! i missed talking to you guys.. and cant wait to get started :)
Thanks for Reading
Sammi Jo

Monday, March 21, 2011

Wedding Fever!!

I finally got the wedding cards together, I want lie I slacked off a bit on them, but there really was a ton of pieces to them... there are two girls I work with that are both getting married in the very near future. And the first one i did was Melissa, she said her colors were pool blue, cream and black, and so i did a bride and groom  Which i cut at 3 inches and from the "Simply Charmed" cartridge, and she is holding blue and black flowers and then i but then on a black base card of 4''x5.5'' I then did a blue layer of 3.5''x5'' and pop-dotted the bride and groom, i then used the same button to cut "the happy couple" which i then pot "the" on the front and some dots from previous projects and in the inside i cut a cream colored paper at 5.25''x 4 (so as you could see what was wrote) and then attached "happy couple" inside the card. If you noticed both of the writing is in the blue however the back ground varies, for front i did cream so as to pop a little more and vise versa for inside where i used black to contrast.

 For Mitzi,who is getting married this weekend, Her colors were dark purple and a lavender. So for her card i used the wedding cake with out the berries from "Simply charmed" at first i cut it at 3 inches but being how skinny it was made it real short. So i cut it at 4 inches in a lavender and cut the decorations in a deep purple. for this one i did not do layer 1, I did not want a face on my cake, so i had to do a partial cut again of the purple which i then cut down to put the spiral  on the top layer, I cut the base out of the back of a valentines paper scrap that was silver metallic. I cut the card at 4''x5.5'' and then the second layer was fun I cut a white piece to 3.5''x5 and used a lavender stamp pad and brushed the piece so it had a hint of lavender (ink pad was a cheap little one so didn't work great you see it better in contrast to a white piece or up close) i then did another dark purple layer at 3''x 4.5'' I then put a smaller lavender piece inside (forgot picture sorry) and it was 3''x 4'' which i wrote message, and then i cut a cake at 1.25 in in lavender used a black sharpie to color base and a fine tip pen in purple to draw designs on the cake which i then glued to inside left bottom middle.
Well I also made a giraffe card this weekend i am not crazy about it will post a picture in a bit, i love the way the giraffe turned out i used the scrap where i cut the giraffe out for the card last week, and took a paint brush and brown ink pad  and brushed the stencil and then took a brown fine tip pen and colored in the accents and also the plant with green and pink and then i didn't like where it went from there... lol ill have to try it again and see what i get lol
Thanks for reading
Sammi Jo

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Happy Hump Day!!!

So This week really needed HUMP DAY! I feel like it was never going to end, yet also going by so fast, oh how weird is that? But any who i got a little creative yesterday, and did these two as well as a project i started, but has a lot of little peices, so definatley a 2 day project... work on it later today!
 So yesterday i was trying to figure out what to do thought well i wanna do a boy card, I always do girly ones,  so i used the Simply Charmed cartridge and cut the frog at 2.5 inches  and cut in green with yellow crown and light blue belly (matched stripes) I cut traditional card t 4x 5.5, and second layer of sriped glitter paper at 3.5x 5 and then an color cordinating orange at 3.5x3 and used my scalloped border punch to  cut one side and layered it on the stripes, not sure what to right think im going to wait for the occasion to decide. Secondly i did something really kind of challenging but so fun and now have some orders for them :) cant wait :)


These were cool i had some white book marks i bought years ago.... and cut the pencil and paper from from "Simply Charmed" at 1.5 inches and  wrote "Back To School" and tied a pink ribbon in a whole i ponch with a generic hole punch... i did usea blue fine tip and pink fine tip pen to trace lines they were punched but as small as they were  you couldnt see them. Well tell me what you think!
Thanks for Reading,
Sammi Jo

Monday, March 14, 2011

Card Crazy Saturday!!

I made several cards Saturday.. I made a dragonfly card I used the basic card size 4x5.5  with a pink floral piece 3.25x4.75 with a solid pink layer 2.25x3.75 with the dragonfly cut at 3.5 inches the middle hearts, are the same pink and I stamped them in red fo the inside of the card i used the dragonfly in a circle cut at 1.5 inches and staped it in red as well putting only the little dragonfly in the middle bottom.
I then made a giraffe card... same card size  4x5.5 (pink) dark brown cardboard like  at 3.5x5 and a light yellow  at 3x4.5,I then cut the Giraffe at 1.5 inches using the same yellow an thin light brown cardboard, with the dark cardboard (same as (2nd layer)  i then used a paint brush and brown ink pad and brused the yellow parts. I then used the same pink to cut "Just be you" at one inch.

I then cut 2 more cards, they are both tri-fold tab cards:
This one is pretty simple I cut it at 1.5 inches in light pink used a dark brown for the oval and light brown backing.

This one i cut at 4 inches, in bright blue circle in hot pink, and backing in lime green, super simple, super cute, gonna be great for bulk cards needed :)
Thanks for reading,
Sammi Jo

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Get Well soon!

I made this card for a lady I work with this morning, she has not been doing to well lately, and always comments on my cards and bulletin board so i thought what better way that with a card...

This card was fairley simple I used the basic card size in lime green 4x5.5 and then the pink layer (same as shell) 3.5x5 and then the next one Blue (same as trim on shell) cut at  3x4.5 then used my scalloped  border punch and punched around the whole blue. I  then used the paisley cartridge to cut the <turtle> at 2.5 inches pop dotted it on the  lower middle and wrote "Feel better soon!" in a fine blue ink. well hopefully ill make more this afternoon, going to do a projet with my sister for school, so we will see. :)
Thanks for reading
Sammi Jo