Male 60th Birthday Card

Made this card for a dear male friend’s 60^th birthday. J

Started w/ a card base using the Cupcake from the Cricut cartridge, Something to Celebrate.  Made it into a shaped card and made it as girly girly as I could.  LOL

I was being a li’l discreet about his age, in having the “60” in small numbers, next to the heart.  Looking at it, he prob. thought I mistakenly made this for someone else --- a girl!!! LOL

Then when he opens it up, I get down to the nitty gritty.  LOL  ---- him being over the hill and a buzzard.  LOL  

I’m sure he’ll get a huge kick out of it.  J

Tools/Items:-

Cricut Imagine

Cricut Imagine Cartridges  – see below

Cricut Cartridges – see below

Cardstock – white (for the Imagine)

Patterned paper (Over the Hill background)

Glue – ATG; Zig Two-Way

Stickles – Yellow (candle wicks)

Stamp -- swirls

Googly eyes

Flower sticker

Pop dots

Cricut Imagine Cartridges 

Best Friends – background & branch

Blossom – cupcake and layers

Cricut Cartridges

Life’s a Party – buzzard & layers; Over the Hill & candles

Something to Celebrate – cupcake & layers

Sentiments were computer-generated.

Western Birthday Card

Made this birthday card for my cousin.  

Inside:- 

This is my very first time using my one and only Digital Cricut Cartridge: County Fair.  Made the entire project on my new Cricut Mini.  Love how it turned out and he enjoyed it.

Tools/Items:-

Cricut Mini

Cricut Cartridge – County Fair

Patterned Paper (envelope)

Cardstock: white; brown; tan; black; silver

Glue – ATG; Zig Two-Way

For the boot sentiment, I cut the boot out and then printed the sentiment on top of it.

Birthday Card for Friend

Made this birthday card for a special friend.

Inside: 

Tools/Items:-

Cricut Imagine

Cricut Imagine Cartridge – Blossom

Cricut Cartridges – see below

Cardstock -- white (for the Imagine); yellow (base)

Patterned paper (background)

Stamps – Happy Birthday; Special Friend

Glue – ATG; Zig Two-Way

Stickles – Waterfall; Eucalyptus; Pink; Yellow

Rhinestone

Button

Popdots

Cricut Cartridges

3 Birds on Parade – bird w/ cupcake & layers

Sweet Treats – cupcake

Make the envie for my card, using the We R Memories Envelope Punch Board.  Loooooove this gadget.

Li'l Bailey is standing guard over it.  LOL  

Daughter’s 25th Birthday Card

My daughter isn’t into traditional BD cards, so I made her this one and she just loved it. J

 Inside:-

Tools/Items:-

Cricut Imagine

Cricut Imagine Cartridge – JT (designs)

Cricut Imagine Cartridge – Yummy (background design)

Cardstock -- white (for the Imagine)

Glue – ATG; Zig Two-Way

Rhinestones

Ribbon

Popdots

This is one of the largest cards I’ve ever made.  It’s
7 ½” x 8 ½” (folded) because I wanted the design to be readily seen, not eensey weensey.  I put the card base together w/ ribbon.  Clever, eh?  J 

The background paper is from the Yummy cartridge.  I call it “pink elegant”.  I used one of the stock images, found on the Imagine, cut at 7.4” and flood-filled w/ the pattern.

Created the various design(s) and layers, using the JT cartridge:-

* Frame:- Image 39, at 5”

* Wings:- Image 09, at 2.5”

* Skull:-   Image 08, at 2.2”

* Chillaxin’:- Image 49, at 2.6” --- added the layer of the skull (on the front page) to Chillaxin’.

Finished it off w/ rhinestones at the bottom of the frame and for dotting the “i’s”.

The sentiment was computer-generated.

Mother’s 95th Birthday Card

My mother turns 95 today!  Unreal, eh?  She still bowls and hubby & I took a homemade cake to the bowling alley for her bowling buddies to help her celebrate.  She was totally surprised.

We're going to celebrate, as a family, tonite.   Another surprise for her. 

I made her this fun card.   J

Inside:-

Tools/Items:-

Cricut Imagine

Cricut Imagine Cartridge – Yummy (cake)

Cricut Cartridges – see below

Cardstock -- white (for the Imagine)

Glue – ATG; Zig Two-Way

Stickles -- Yellow (no name)

Rhinestones

Popdots

Cricut Cartridges:

Sweet Treats – 9 and 5 w/ candles

Paper Lace – Happy Birthday

Created the base card using the shape card technique I figured out a while back.  (I’ll post that tomorrow.)  Cut the cake (Image 6) at 7”, from the Imagine Yummy cartridge.   Cut the image again but this time flipping it, so the flipped image became the back of the card.  Love this new technique!

The 9 and 5 w/ the candles (cut at 1.8”) are from the Sweet Treats cartridge.  The “Happy Birthday” sentiment is from the Paper Lace cartridge and is cut at 1.5”.

Stickled the candles and rhinestoned the cake.  J

Hubby’s Birthday Card

Made hubby a fun card for his birthday, this year.

Inside:- 

 Sorry for the blurriness inside.  It says: "Happy Birthday, you old buzzard!"  J

Tools/Items:-

Cricut Imagine

Cricut Imagine Cartridges –

  Best Friends (background; branch)

  Yummy (party hat)

Cricut Cartridge – Life’s a Party (vulture/buzzard; card; Over the Hill; candles)

Cardstock -- white (for the Imagine)

Glue – ATG; Zig Two-Way

Stickles – Waterfall; Yellow (no name)

Google eye

Boa

Sentiment – computer-generated

Created the base card (at 7”), using the card feature from the Life’s a Party cartridge.  Used the background (5.5”) and branch (2.4”), from the Imagine Best Friends cartridge.  Placed the buzzard on the branch.

You may notice that the branch looks a li’l bit different from the picture in the handbook.  I actually cut away one of the small branches from the top and re-attached it to the bottom of the main branch.  Otherwise, the buzzard, where it was positioned, would’ve been hiding that li’l branch.

Put a party hat, from the Yummy cartridge, on the buzzard, adding a pink boa around its neck. 

The inside of the card was created using the “Over the Hill” insert, cut at 4.4”.  I found you couldn’t use the same ratio for the layered candles, so cut that at 4.1”.

Utilizing CCR (just for designing --- I don’t ever cut from it), I was able to figure out what size the party hat needed to be.  Cut it at 1.8”.  The buzzard is cut at 2.3”.

It was a fun card to create.  Just hope hubby finds the “fun” in it.  LOL  J

Happy Birthday Halloween card

I created this card for my Mother-in-Law, whose birthday is on Halloween.

Inside:- 

Tools/Items:-

Cricut Imagine

Cricut Cartridge – A Frightful Affair

Cardstock -- white (for the Imagine & card base); orange (card layer)

Glue – ATG; Zig Two-Way

Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page -- Spider Web

Martha Stewart Deep Edge Punch -- Pumpkins

Stickles -- Holly

Glitter Tape

Pop Dots

Card base is 5” x 7”.

Cut and print, w/ the Cricut Imagine, using “A Frightful Affair” cartridge:-

p. 38 of the handbook

-- for the skin tone, I used RGB code:- 255-220-177

Layer – used black

Cut the witch at 4”, and the layers accordingly.  Adhered together.

Using orange cardstock, used the Martha Stewart “cobweb” Punch Around the Page

Adhered a background paper and added some Glitter Tape on the sides.

Attached the witch, using popdots.  Glittered the hat brim, the li’l rat, tops of shoes, and top of cauldron.

Computer-generated “Stirring up some. . .” using “Halloween Spider” font.

Inside of the card:

Using the Martha Stewart Pumpkin Deep Edge Border punch, created a border of 5 pumpkins.

Computer-generated the word clouds, as well as the “WISHES” sentiment.  Punched the edges with the cobweb corner punch.

Happy Birthday card

Made this card for a Japanese friend’s birthday. J

 Inside:-

Tools/Items:-

Cricut Expression 2

Cricut Cartridge:- Pagoda

Cardstock -- white

Patterned paper

Martha Stewart Border Punch:-  Deco Fans

Corner chomper – Cloud (birthday sentiment)

Recollections Stamp Set:- Kyoto (Geisha)

Birthday Stamp Set

Memento Black Ink

EC Shape Studio – round 14

EC Shape bubble caps – round 14

Glue – ATG; regular

Ribbon

Prima Flower

Seed bead

Stamped the li’l Geisha and Happy Birthday.  The symbol inside the card stands for “celebrate” and is from the Pagoda cartridge.  Thought Martha Stewart’s “Deco Fan” was the perfect added touch to this card.  Hope she likes it.  J

Happy Birthday card

Made this card for a dear friend’s birthday.

Inside:-

Tools/Items:-

Cricut Imagine

Cricut Cartridges: Birthday Bash (birdie, layers, & sentiment)

Cardstock -- white (for the Imagine); patterned & red (for layers)

Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page:-  French Scroll

Glue – ATG; regular

Rhinestones

Ribbon

Sentiment inside:-  clipart

65th Birthday Card

Made this card for a friend’s special birthday --- the BIG 65.

Inside:- 

Found this super cute clipart on the Net and the card took off from there.

Tools/Items:-

Cricut Imagine

Cricut Imagine Cartridge:- All Wrapped Up (patterns/colours)

Cricut Cartridges:-

* Over the Hill (sentiments)

* 3 Birds on Parade (word “but” --- used “Social Butterfly” and cut off the “but”)

Cardstock -- white (for the Imagine)

Corner Rounder

Glue – ATG; regular

Rhinestones

59th Birthday Card

You read that correctly.  It was my male friend's 59th birthday, but I made it for his "29 Again" birthday.   J

 Inside:-

Tools/Items:-

Cricut Imagine

Cricut Cartridge: Over the Hill

Cardstock -- white (for the Imagine)

Corner Rounder

Glue – ATG; regular

Rhinestones

I didn't use any Cricut Imagine cartridges in this project ---- just the colours that were in the machine.  

Butterfly Birthday Card

Made this card for another dear friend’s birthday.

Inside:- 

Tools/Items:-

Glue – ATG; Zig Two-Way

Cardstock – double-sided patterned for the base; glittery for the front; blue glittery for the  butterfly

Martha Stewart Punch – Monarch Butterfly

EK Layering Punch -- Butterfly

Embossing Folder:  Darice – Happy Birthday

Corner Chomper – Scallop

Prima Flowers

Rhinestones

Brads

Pop dots

The front of the card spoke for itself w/ all its glitteryness.  J  Didn’t seem like it was necessary to add too much to it, so I just added layers of Prima’s to some of the flower designs.

I love how the embossed “Happy Birthday” is so raised up and distressed looking.  Looks like I sanded it but. . . I didn’t.  J

The front sentiment was computer-generated.

The small butterfly was created using a layering punch.  How fun.  You get three different parts of the butterfly:- 

v  Base shape

v  One w/ cutouts in just the outer wings

v  One w/ cutouts in the outer wings and inside wings

Here’s what it looks like:-

side of punch showing different layers

top of punch

When layered, you end up w/ a butterfly like this:-

Cool, eh??   J

Birthday Card for 80th birthday

Made this card for a dear friend’s mother’s 80^th birthday.  She’s a real “sweetheart” and she deserved a “sweet” card.  J

Inside:- 

Tools/Items:-
Cricut Imagine

Cricut Imagine Cartridge – Yummy

Glue – ATG; regular

Cardstock -- white (for the Imagine)
Patterned paper – double-sided, glued together

Corner chomper – Scallop

Pop dots

Rhinestones

The patterned paper I chose was double-sided but I didn’t like what was on the back, so I chose another double-sided patterned paper and just glued it to the first one. 

Both sentiments were computer-generated.

The “balloons” were done using the “SF Balloons” font.

80^th was done using the “Boingo” font.

The sentiment inside used the  “ChocolateBox” font

There’s no candle on the cake because of the sentiment inside the card.  J

Birthday Card

Made this card for a dear friend’s birthday:-

Inside:-

Tools/Items:-

Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page  – Deep Edge Double Loop

Martha Stewart Punch – Monarch Butterfly

Embossing Folders:

* Darice -- Butterfly

* Darice -- Happy Birthday

Stamp – swirl

Hand-made crocheted flower

Glue – ATG; regular

Cardstock -- white

Rhinestones

Bead – for centre of flower