3D Dalia Card

My sister sent me a beautiful get well card in the mail the other day. I loved it so much I had to make one myself. Of course I had to do different colors so I wouldn’t be completely copying hers. You can see hers by clicking HERE. And here is my take on it. She also sent me some cool digi stamps that I can’t wait to try out. I’m also entering this in a challenge over at PaperPlayChallenges .

I went for a cleaner look this time. I thought about inking the edges but was afraid I wouldn’t like how it looked and I was so pleased with this I left it. Thanks again sis for the beautiful card and for the idea on the flower. If anyone wants to see how to make this flower Sarah has a link to the video on her BLOG. Hope everyone is having a wonderful day.

A Giveaway at Getting Cricky

 

 

Kristen over at http://kandrewdesigns.blogspot.com/ is having a wonderful giveaway. Check it out. When she reaches 1200 followers she will be giving away the Twinkle Toes cartridge.

Head over and check out her amazing work. Wish I had a quarter of the talent she has.

Changing my blog design

Can anybody tell me how to change my blog design. I know about their templates and all but can you use your own design or something you found online somewhere. What about the blog header? I see so many beautiful blog headers and I want one. How do I do it? I’m pretty computer savvy so if someone could give me some quick instruction I’m sure I can follow. Oh and how do you add different pages to your blogs? Is that possible?

Wow, my first award

Wow, thanks sis. That is just what I needed to put a smile on my face. Now, hopefully I can get feeling good enough to make it stand true. Since you named me then I don’t guess I can name you can I? I’m going to anyway, I love the stuff you make.

Okay so this is my first award, given to me by my sister Sarah at http://craftingwithsarah.blogspot.com/

In order to qualify for the $5.00 Digi’s With Attitude! Gift Certificate you must state 3 things that makes you different from everyone else and you must nominate 5 blogs. Lastly, you must display the Blog Award Badge (above) in your sidebar and link it back to the Digi’s With Attitude! Challenge Blog.

If you have been awarded the “I got the Attitude! Blog Award” and you have followed all the steps please email dwacblog@live.com claim your Gift Certificate. Include your full name and your blog name. Only one gift Certificate per person & blog please.
Gift Certificates will be sent to you within 48 hours of receipt on a business day via a reply to the email received.

3 things that make me different:

1) I absolutely love love love to take pictures

2) I have a ton of card making and scrapbooking supplies that I don’t even know what to do with most of the time

3) I’m going to school part time to be an elementary school teacher (at the age of 38)

 

5 blogs that I nominate are:

1) Sarah

2)Merideth

3)Sandy

4) Norma

5) Paper Issues 

A Get Well Card

I still feel really bad but I wanted to do something besides lay on the sofa today. Yesterday I told you the only motivation that I had was maybe to make myself a get well card. Well, I didn't make it for myself but I did make one. The card was cut in Sure Cuts A Lot 2 but as usual I am not sure exactly where the cut file came from. I'm entering this card for a challenge over at Meridith Scraps http://www.meredithscraps.com/2011/01/card-challenge.html so wish me luck!

The card itself was cut out of a plain beige cardstock. The patterned paper behind all the butterflies is from K&Company. The little flower in the corner was cut out of the same paper by hand as was the big butterfly on the front.

The entire card was inked around the edges with Rubber Stampede Coffee Bean Ink pad. I love to ink, to me it just seems to bring everything together. Now, I just need some colors besides brown. I am also thinking I would like to try chalking some too.

Hope you all have a wonderfully, creative 2011!

An update to this post. My BF actually said it was cool, must mean it is really good. All I ever get out of him when I say "Honey, look at the card I made" is a "yea" or "uh huh". WooHoo, I am def pleased. :)

After Christmas show of cards

Okay, so it took a little longer to post then I had planned. I did a bunch of cards Christmas Eve day and I am gonna go ahead and post them all. I am so ready to work on something besides Christmas cards (like something springy). I have been feeling under the weather so I really don't have any inspiration beside maybe a get well card to myself. Anyway, here are all the cards I made.

 

I wasn't very pleased with this one. I got the embellishment too far to one side then I couldn't move it.

 

This is one of my favorites. I was really happy with the way it turned out. The tree and the caption had to be raised with pop dots because of the snow and it really popped off the card.

This was an svg file I got from somewhere. I get a lot of my svg files from svgcuts blog so that is probably where this one came from.

 I absolutely fell in love with this one. It has such a soft look to it. I used blue card stock behind the caption and then put vellum over it to soften the look. The brads are from Making Memories I'm sure. I know they came from Michaels.

A gift card holder for an xBox live card for my son.

Hope you all enjoyed. Now I get get to making something sunny...lol.

A gift card holder

I don't have a scrap room. I had a kitchen table..lol. As of today, I have a corner, I just hope nobody wants to eat at the table :). I needed some space so I took it. Now I can at least see what I have and try to keep it organized. One of these days I'll have a scrap room but not today so this works.

I also decided several days to customize my lil Cricut so here is a pic

And finally, my creation for today is a gift card holder. I got my mom a gift certificate to Michaels for Christmas...ssshhh Sis, don't tell her. I wanted it to be in something special. I used an svg template for a gift card holder (not sure where it came from..sorry) and I used some Jolee's stickers I have had forever. I just used regular old cardstock and the ribbon came from Michaels.

I have a dinner to go to tomorrow night and my mom Christmas Eve and then plans Christmas Day so I don't know that I'll be back on before Monday. If not then I wish you all a Very Merry Christmas!