Cre8tivegirls Blogoversary Blog Hop! First Easel Card and First Entry into Cooking With Cricut Challenge

If you've hopped over from Doris' blog, you're in the right place! If you've just arrived here and want to start at the beginning, head over to Yvette's blog and begin the fun there. Yvette is celebrating her first blog anniversary and this hop is all about "firsts". What a great idea. I thought about making a 1st birthday or anniversary card but I don't have any use for one of those any time soon. Instead I decided to try out some new projects that I've never done before - they're firsts for me!

This is my first easel card. And since I needed a birthday card for a man, I decided to do an easel card with a masculine spin. And because this hop is all about "firsts" I'm entering this card into my first Cooking With Cricut Challenge. The challenge (#45) required using a sailboat in your project made with the Cricut.



Making an easel card is actually very simple but at the beginning I had a hard time figuring it out. Fold this, fold it this way, put this here, etc. - WHAT? I think I'm "craft challenged" in many ways! Then I looked at this video and it made it very easy. Clear sailing from then on! Get it-clear sailing? Ha ha. Here's the link for the written directions with pictures.


In order for the top of the card to stand up, you need to "build up" the base of the card with additional cardstock and a decorated piece of cardstock at least 1/3 the size of the base. This will hold the card upright in the easel position. In this picture the very top of the card was not attached yet.


This card does lay flat for mailing. It's pretty bulky though and will require extra postage.


This card was made using:
Kraft cardstock
Cricut Imagine More cartridge- circle borders and sailboat
Cricut Imagine Hopscotch cartridge - for the cloud patterned paper (this is tucked behind the circle borders)
Scor-Tape - be sure to use strong adhesive
Technique Tuesday stamps - for sentiments
Martha Stewart border punch

Now head on over to Paula's blog and see the darling card she's created for this special occasion! Be sure to leave her a comment!

Here's a list for this Blog Hop if you want to jump from here or if you're lost.
Yvette www.cre8tivegirls.blogspot.com
Georgiana www.carsonscricutcreations.blogspot.com
Sherrie www.sherriescraps.blogspot.com
Giselle www.yuveriaseden.blogspot.com
Yvonne http://www.onecreativemomma.blogspot.com
Emma www.creativetimeforme.com (Sat. and Sun only)
Doris www.momsbeenscrappin.blogspot.com
Chris http://craftemama.blogspot.com/ -you are HERE
Paula http://www.alluringinkspression.com/
Martha http://scrapabulous.blogspot.com/
Gerda www.cardscreations.blogspot.com

We'll be hopping for 3 days (through Sunday) so stop by again tomorrow and check out another first for me.

And last, but not least, thank you to Yvette for inviting me to participate in her Blogoversary celebration!!

Have a happy crafting day.

Birthday Card for a Boy

A friend of our family is turning 12 years old. It seems like only yesterday that we went to the hospital to see him and his proud parents when he was born. Now he is a big kid - almost a teenager! Kevin is a big Laker fan and loves basketball so it was easy to design his birthday card.

This card was made using:
Cricut Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge
Cuttlebug embossing folder
Technique Tuesday stamp- birthday sentiment

I used the Cricut Imagine with the Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge to make this card. It's so convenient to use white cardstock and select the colors you want to print and cut with the Imagine machine. The color scheme is very simple but even so it was nice to choose the colors instead of digging through my cardstock to find the right shades of purple and yellow.

This Cricut cartridge has so many fun, useful images on it. Lots of things from everyday - just like the title implies!

Thanks for visiting my blog!

Peachy Keen Sketch Challenge #55 and Mad For Markers Challenge:Pink and Yellow

Here's my card for Peachy Keen Sketch Challenge #55. I'm also entering this into my very first Mad For Markers Challenge: Pink and Yellow. I love coloring with my Copic markers -I'm learning and practicing! I thought I'd jump in to this challenge - thank you Mad For Markers!


This cute little hamster holding a cupcake is a digital image from Sliekje Digi Stamps. Sliekje is so talented! And the digital images she draws and shares on her blog are free! That is so generous. I just love all her images.

For this 5x7 card I used:
Sliekje digital image/stamp Cupcake Hamster
Cricut Imagine Better Together cartridge -all patterned papers
Technique Tuesday Happy Birthday stamp
Copic markers
tiny pearl accents

This was a great sketch! Thanks Peachy Keen! I entered this card with minutes to spare as the challenge was about to close. Wow, it was close. And of course my camera wasn't cooperating. Some strange setting appeared and I couldn't figure out how to turn it off so many of the pictures I took were blurry. So these pictures are not the best but at least I figured out later how to fix the camera.


My two little girls wanted to color this cute little hamster too and I told them I'd put a picture of their work on the blog. They didn't get to use my Copics!! They did such a good job! I'm enjoying that we can all work together in our craft space even though it makes me a bit crazy when they get into some of my stuff - but it's just stuff so I take a deep breath and try to keep a smile on my face. But the Copics are still off limits :-).

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