A Girlie Birthday!

Today's birthday card (and bag) was for my niece who turned two earlier this month.  She is such a sweetheart and being that she is the ONLY girl in our family, I just had to do something over the top girlie for her.

I used the Lettering Delights Provinicial Princess SVG set for the cut files.  I used Papertrey Ink Raspberry Fizz and Royal Velvet (love this purple!), Sweet Blush, Hibiscus Burst and of course some American Crafts Silver Glitter (swoon).  For the bag I used another cut from the Provincial Princess set and the same colors.  These kraft bags are really inexpensive and it is amazing the impact that they have with a coordinating die cut on them.  It was also the perfect size for the summer outfits that I bought for her.

Another Birthday

Happy Easter Everyone!

Today's birthday card is for another of the "85ers" and this one is for a lovely lady, but I actually think that this interesting color combo would work great for a man as well (even if it does have a little pink).  The layout for this card is the same as the one for the previous card (actually all of the 85ers cards use the same general layout), and I used a new to me color combo of Scarlet Jewel, Terracotta Tile, Dark Chocolate, Vintage Cream, and Raspberry Fizz from Papertrey Ink.

The background was impressed with the Sweet Symphony impression plate and then I used Mat Stack 1 and Tag-its 2 stamp sets from Papertrey Ink along with the Mat Stack 1, Doily Details, and Limitless Layers dies from Papertrey Ink.  The border was from an SVG set (don't know where it came from) and cut out using my eCraft.

A Slew of Birthdays...

I hope you all are ready to see some birthday cards!  We have a bunch of birthdays we are celebrating in April.  For starters, on my husband's mom's side of the family there are four (yes FOUR) people celebrating their 85th birthday this year.  The family decided to have one party to celebrate all of them!  This card is for the only man in the group.

I used PTI Aqua Mist, Spring Rain, Enchnted Evening and Kraft for this card.  The patterned paper is from PTI Postmarks patterned paper set.  The long half circle piece sticking out of the border is a shape that I created in Make the Cut using the basic shapes and cut out on my eCraft.  I also used the Woodgrain Impression Plate, Postmarks stamp set and All & Around Sentiments all from Papertrey Ink.

I will be sharing more birthday cards here in next few days so stay tuned!

Super Cute Easter Monster

I was thrilled to see the Easter Beastie Bag SVG set from Lettering Delights.  I just love the Animal Boxes and Bags set, so this was right up my alley.  We always go out to eat on Easter and I try to make a little something for the kids to have at the restaurant because with a party our size (somewhere around 15) the meal always takes a LONG time.  The more we have with us to entertain the kids with the better!  These are for my two boys and also my niece and nephew.

All of these were cut out with my eCraft using the new SCAL 3.  I will be doing a complete review of SCAL 3 here soon, so stay tuned for that.  Since I am more of an MTC girl, I feel like I have to take a little extra time with SCAL 3 to get more comfortable with it and I want to be as impartial as possible.  Once the stable version of the eCraft plug in for MTC is available, I will do a complete review of that as well and then will also do a comparison review of the two programs all for the eCraft owner. 

A Tropical Thank You

Well yesterday, we woke up to a light dusting of snow on the ground.  It's April, we aren't supposed to have snow!  A few weeks ago, we were enjoying the warmth and sun on the Gulf Coast and now we are back home in snow!  But enough ranting about the weather...this card is one that I made as a thank you to my parents for inviting us to their condo on the Gulf Coast.

The waves and the tropical drink are from the Lettering Delights Pucker Up SVG set and cut out on my eCraft.  The background was created with some Distress Inks and my ink blending tool.  The stamp is from the new line of larger sentiments from Papertrey Ink called Think Big Favorites.

Now to just daydream about warm weather again.

Working with Small Elements in Make the Cut

Now for another method!  I personally think that this method works great and I generally like the look of it better than vinyl, especially with text and that is to print it.  In this tutorial, I will show you a quick and easy way to print small elements directly onto your die cuts.  Here is a side by side picture of the two cards that I made.  The one on the left is with the vinyl from yesterday's tutorial and the one on the right is the printing method that I demonstrate in today's video.  Enjoy!

Working with Small Elements in Make the Cut

One of the trickiest things that paper crafters come across is cutting out small elements.  Even when you can get a good cut, once adhered in place, it doesn't always look so good.  Today's tutorial is all about one method to overcome this problem.  Instead of cutting these small elements out of cardstock or paper, you can get a much cleaner cut and overall a cleaner look when you cut it out of vinyl.



In tomorrow's tutorial, I will show you another way to work with these small elements that I personally like even better then the vinyl method I demonstrated today.

Here is the card that I made using the vinyl method.  Have a great day everyone!