Mini Monsters - Creation #2

For today's "Mini Monsters" creation I made two birthday cards - masculine and feminine.

The cards are both 5 1/2"x4 1/4."  I used dark grey card stock for the bases, then cut mats for them at 5 1/4"x4."  I then used the Scalloped Circles Nestabilities by Spellbinders for the mats on which I placed my monsters.

The blue monster can be found on page 43.  I cut him at 2 1/2," also using the shadow feature.  I gave him a googly eye and covered his tongue and toenails in glossy accents.  I also gave him a bow tie.  It is actually the bow tie from the vampire (page 34), just sized to fit the monster.  I covered the tie with turquoise Stickles.

The pink monster is on page 40.  I also cut her at 2 1/2" and again used the shadow feature as well.  I gave her some googly eyes and popped her trunk/nose up to compensate for the depth of the eye.  I also covered her trunk/nose in glossy accents.  Her bows are also from the vampire, again sized to fit her.  I covered them with cotton candy Stickles.

The sentiments are a combination of two stamps.  The "have a monsterously fun" is from My Craft Spot, the "Ghostly Greetings" stamp set.  The full sentiment is "have a monsterously fun Halloween," I just masked off the "Halloween."  The "birthday" is from a "happy birthday" set I had in my stash.  I don't remember who it is by.

Mini Monsters - Creation #1

Since it is time to move on to a new Cricut cartridge to explore, I thought I would go with one for Halloween.  I chose to play with the "Mini Monsters" cartridge.  Here is my first project:

My card is 4 1/2"x6 1/4."  I used some shimmery black card stock for the card base.  I then cut some green glittery swirl patterned card stock, from K&Company, at 4 1/4"x6" for my mat.  I  adhered a variety of googly eyes across the card.  My little monster is from "Mini Monsters," page 38, and is cut at 2 1/2."  I used some face stamps from Peachy Keen for his eyes and mouth.  They are from the Make a Monster Face Assortment.  I also used a Peachy Keen stamp for the "eek" sentiment.  It is from the September 2012 Stamp of the Month kit.  I adhered the monster with two layers of pop-dots to lift it above the eyes, I also covered his spots in glossy accents.

I cut some more green swirly card stock at 6 1/8"x4 3/8" for a mat on the inside.  I then cut some shimmery black card stock at 5 1/8"x3 3/8" and some light purple card stock at 5"x3 1/2."  The sentiment is again from the September 2012 Stamp of the Month kit and the face is also from the Make a Monster Face Assortment.  I covered the eyes with glossy accents.

I made this following the current sketch challenge at Peachy Keen Stamps.

Campin' Critters - Creation #10

Wow!  Ten creations with the "Campin' Critters" cartridge.  I'm sure I could make even more, but this will be my last one, then I will be playing with another cartridge.  For today's project I used one of the 3D items that are available on this cartridge.  There are two types of tents, a backpack, and a journal.  I wanted to make a little camping scene for some home decor.

I made one of the tents, then I added a few more things to jazz it up a bit.  The tent can be found on page 68 and was cut at 9."  I pieced it together, and it stands about 2 3/8" tall.  I also cut the little peeping bunny found on page 57.  It was cut at 3 1/2," but I got rid of the tree.  I adhered the bunny so it looked like he was peeping out of the tent.  I used glossy accents on his eyes.  Finally I cut the directional sign, also found on page 57 (the sign feature), at 3 1/2."  I then cut three signs: campsites is on page 59 (sign feature on shift), trading post is on page 62 (sign feature), and outhouse is on page 62 (sign layer feature on shift).

There is my little bunny camping scene.  Enjoy!

I made this for the following challenges:

{Cupcake Inspirations}: cupcake photo (white, teal, orange color combo)

My Craft Spot: favorite technique (using die cuts)

Fantabulous Cricut: use at least one Cricut letter or number (sign post)

Silhouette Sunday - Lego Card

One of the women I work with came to me with a card request.  Her son's 6th birthday is coming up and they are throwing him a Lego party.  She was wondering if I could make a card for her to give to her son, with a Lego theme.  I said I could probably come up with something and then proceeded to put my thinking cap on.  Eventually this is what I came up with:

 

The card is 5 1/2"x4 1/4."  I used white cardstock for the card base, then cut at 5 1/4"x4" black mat and a 5"x3 3/4" white mat.  The white mat was embossed with the Polka Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder.

 

I created the bricks and Lego man head with the drawing tools in the Silhouette Studio.  For the bricks I used the "draw a rectangle" and "draw an ellipse" tools.  I drew out my rectangle, then sized my circles to fit.  Once I had one basic brick that was the correct size I copied the circles and drew the other shapes around the circles, so that everything would be proportional (or as close as I can get).

 

For the Lego man head I used the "draw a rounded rectangle" and the "draw a rectangle" tools.  I had a little Lego minifigure in front of me while I was doing this so I could get its look right.  I think I did a pretty good job.  I used the "smiley face" cut by Silhouette (#2360) for the face.  I sized the eyes and smile on the head I had created.  I also made the size of the actual smile smaller because it was too tall and curved.  I used the cut called "3 thought bubbles" by Lori Whitlock (#7507) for my sentiment.  I used just one of them and sized it to fit on my card.  I then used a stamp from Scrappy Moms Stamps, the "Hooray for Birthdays" set for my sentiment.

 

The Lego head and thought bubble are adhered to the card with pop-dots.  The bricks are all adhered to the card, but the circles on them are adhered with pop-dots.  I think they look a little more realistic with the dimension.  I also added some accents with a white gel pen, it adds to the realism that much more.

 

When I showed this to my coworker she was quite impressed.  She said her son would just LOVE it!

Campin' Critters - Creation #9

I made something a little different for today's creation using "Campin' Critters."  I have been making pretty much just cards, aside from the clock, with this cartridge and thought it was time for something new.  So I finally started making the pages for my paddle log which I actually started quite a while ago.  You can see that post here.

 

 

The first place my husband and I kayaked, with our own kayaks (not rented or borrowed), was a place called Boulder Lake.  It is near Island Lake, just outside of Duluth, MN.  We stayed a campground on the lake and one morning took out the kayaks.  It was after paddling here that I decided I should make a book logging all the places we paddled so that we could decide if we would ever want to go back.

 

For these pages, I covered them with some watery patterned paper from a K&Company stack called Happy Trails.  My pictures are all matted with some shimmery blue cardstock.  The title is a font I downloaded and printed and then cut with a banner using my Silhouette.

 

I used the paddling skunk from "Campin' Critters," he is found on page 48 of the handbook.  I cut him at 3."  I covered the yellow part of the boat with glossy accents and gave my little guy some google eyes.  The rocks are from "Dino Play," a lite cartridge.  I cut the stack of three rocks at 1 1/2."  The larger rock in the background is cut at 2 1/2."  It is actually supposed to say "you rock" on it, but I hid all the contours using Cricut Craft Room.  I inked around the edges of the lighter colored rocks with weathered wood Distress Ink by Tim Holtz.  The set of three rocks are adhered to the page with foam tape and the smallest of those three rocks is also adhered with foam tape.

 

I attached two of my pictures with washi tape so that you could lift them up.  I then adhered two smaller pictures beneath them.  This way I was able to put five pictures on these two pages, which are about 6 5/8"x10."

Campin' Critters - Creation #8

Today's creation using "Campin' Critters" is a cute little thank you note card set.

 

The cards are 3"x3" and made from white cardstock.  I then cut some more white cardstock into three 2 7/8"x2 7/8" squares.  I covered them with different patterns of yellow washi tape.

 

 

The suns are from "Campin' Critters" and cut at 1 3/4."  I added glossy accents to the eyes.  The sentiment is a stamp from Fiskars.

 

I made these for the following challenges:

{Cupcake Inspirations}: cupcake photo inspiration (sun)

The Friday Mashup: set of 3"x3" notecards using washi tape

Perfect Sentiments: thank you

Campin' Critters - Creation #7

I made another shaped card with this cartridge.  This time it is a "get well" card.

 

 

I used the first aid bird found on page 45 for the shape of my card.  I cut two of the images, scored the second image just above the beak and adhered them at the top to create my card base.  The image was cut at 5 1/2" and makes the card just over 4" wide.

 

 

I cut a second piece of the white layer, which is the basic layer, and then hand cut out the bandage part of the image.  I then used a Cuttlebug embossing folder called Animal Print to create the look of a wrapped bandage.  I adhered it and the wing with foam tape for some dimension.  I gave my little guy google eyes just for some fun.

 

The sentiment is from Scrappy Moms Stamps, from the "Mini Messages" set.

 

I am entering this in the shaped card/layout challenge at BBTB2.

Campin' Critters - Creation #6

I decided to finally make my Christmas card using "Campin' Critters."  In fact, I made two of them with this cartridge.  Here they are:

 

Both cards are 5 1/2"x4 1/4."  I used white cardstock

for their bases.  The dark blue snowflake mats are 5 3/8"x4 1/8."  I cut another white mat for each card at 4 1/4"x3" and a light blue snowflake mat at 4"x2 7/8."  The snowflake patterned papers are from the DCWV Arctic Wishes Stack.  I rounded the corners of the small mats.  I used a stamp from My Craft Spot for the sentiment on both cards.  It came from the "Tis the Season" set.  I stamped it with rich cocoa ink by Tsukineko.  This whole panel was added to the card base with foam tape.

 

For the deer card I cut a piece of glittery white cardstock at 3" wide and rounded its bottom corners.  I then hand cut it into a curvy shape to simulate a snow bank.  The skiing deer is the cut I used from "Campin' Critters" and is on page 29 of the handbook.  I cut it at 2 1/2."  I finished off this card with three snowflake shaped buttons.

 

I used the snowmobiling fox cut for my other card.  This little guy is on page 53 of the handbook and is cut at 2 1/4."  I finished off this card with three silver gems.

 

I used the sketch at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown for both of my cards. 

Silhoutte Sunday - Halloween Candy Apple

For this week's Silhouette Sunday I made another Halloween card, this one featuring a candy apple.  But, not just ANY candy apple...a poison candy apple!

The card is 5 1/2"x4 1/4" and made from a bright green cardstock.  I cut a piece of shimmery black cardstock at 5 3/8"x4 1/8."  I ran it through my Cuttlebug in a Darice embossing folder called "Spider Web Frame."  I covered the spider with some black diamond Stickles.

The image is from the Silhouette store.  It is called "poison apple" by Megan Hardy Designs (#33257).  I cut the apple from green and the candy (or caramel) coating from a shimmery orange.  Once it was all adhered I covered the coating in glossy accents to make it even more realistic.

The sentiments are from Scrappy Moms Stamps.  Both are from the "A Haunting We Will Go" set.  The sentiment on the front is heat embossed with some bright green embossing powder.  The spider stamp on the inside is from My Craft Spot, the "Stampin' Around Fall" set.

I am entering this in the current CASology challenge.  The current cue word is "apple."

Campin' Critters - Creation #5

For today's card using "Campin' Critters" I decided to make a z-fold, also called s-fold, card.

 

The card is 5 1/2"x4 1/4" when folded.  I started with a 5 1/2"x8 1/2" piece of white cardstock.  I scored it at 2 1/8" and 4 1/4."  I then folded it to create my z-fold (or s-fold) card.  I cut three pieces of brown cardstock and three pieces of the pale teal wood grain cardstock for my mats.  The brown pieces were cut at: 5 3/8"x4 1/8" and 2"x4 1/8" (I cut two of that size).  The wood grain pieces were cut at 5 1/4"x4" and two pieces at 1 7/8"x4."

 

 

I used "Campin' Critters" for all the elements, and they can all be found on page 47.  The sign, which is actually the sign feature (and its layers) was cut at 2 3/4."  The frog and smallest butterfly were cut at 2 1/2" from the basic feature.  The two larger butterflies in the corners were cut using the badge feature, its layers at least.  The one in the upper corner is cut at 2" and the larger one was cut at 2 1/2."  All the butterflies were adhered with foam tape.  The frog was covered in glossy accents and his eyes are brown gems.

 

For the inside I cut another sign at 2 1/2" from brown cardstock, then again at 2 1/4" from white cardstock.  The sentiment was stamped in rich cocoa ink by Tsukineko.  The stamp is from Scrappy Moms Stamps, the "Little Critters" set.

 

I made this card for the following challenges:

Color Throwdown: chocolate chip, sage shadow, white, kiwi kiss, old olive

Scrappy Moms Stamps: gone buggy

{PIN}spirational Challenges: photo inspiration (frog)



Campin' Critters - Creation #4

Today I am presenting you with my fourth creation using "Campin' Critters!"

 

The card is 5 1/2"x4 1/4."  I used dark brown cardstock for the card base.  The striped paper is from The Indian Summer Stack by DCWV and is cut at 5 3/8"x4 1/8."  I then cut a piece of leaf/acorn patterned paper at 3"x3" (it is also from the Indian Summer Stack) and a piece of dark brown cardstock at 3 1/8"x3 1/8."

My guitar playing bunny can be found on page 32 of the "Campin' Critters" handbook.  He is cut at 2" and I hid his eyes in Cricut Craft Room so that I could stamp some eyes from Peachy Keen.  The eyes are from the Cute & Cuddly Face Assortment.  The music notes are also from "Campin' Critters."  They belong with the bird, found on page 33.  I sized them to fit on my matting.  The bunny is adhered with foam tape.

The sentiment is also from Peachy Keen.  It is from the July 2012 Stamp of the Month kit.  I trimmed it down into a banner.  I then tied some twine into a bow through a green button and added it to the sentiment.

For the inside, I cut a green mat at 5 1/4"x4" and a striped mat at 5 1/8"x3 7/8."  I then cut a dark brown mat at 4 1/4"x3" and a cream mat at 4 1/8"x2 7/8."  The sentiment on the inside is from Scrappy Moms Stamps, from the "Hooray for Birthdays" set.  I cut two more musical notes and added a Peachy Keen face to the larger one.  This face is from the September 2012 Stamp of the Month kit.

I made this card for the following challenges:
365 Cards: "Day 244" - sketch
Fantabulous Cricut: music notes or musical instruments
My Sheri Crafts: fall colors
Peachy Keen Stamps: photo inspiration (colors, fall feel of the picture)

Silhouette Sunday - Eat, Drink, & Be Scary

I thought I would start getting into the Halloween spirit a little early.  Although at work we have had the Halloween stuff set for a couple of weeks already.  Anyway, here is the Halloween card I created:

 

I used a pre-made card from DCWV for my card base, it is 5 1/2"x4 1/4."  I cut a piece of patterned cardstock from K&Company at 5 1/4"x4" for my mat.  The "drink with skull" is #47759 and designed by Michelle Renee.  When it is all assembled it comes to about 5."  The cup alone is just shy of 4," about 3.98."  I cut the cup out of white cardstock and then again in a pale blue vellum to get the right look.  I covered the little bubbles coming out of the drink with some star dust Stickles. 

 

The skull and crossbones were covered with Crackle Accents for a little added texture.  The crossbones were adhered to the cup with foam tape.

 

I ran a piece of lilac twine across the card and added two twine bows.  I adhered my sentiment banner over the top of the twine.  The banner is actually "fold over page markers (#40848)" by Megan Hardy Designs.  I used just one of them, the far left one when you look it up in the Silhouette Store.  The sentiment is from Scrappy Moms Stamps, from the "A Haunting We Will Go" set.