CAS DT Finals...Which one?

Which would you choose for Clean and Simple DT Finals?  Pics aren't the greatest.  I will take more after the decision is made!

Latest CAS DT challenge upload

Have you ever made a card for yourself? This is for me! I am pregnant with my first girl. I have 2 boys that I love more than life, but I am beyond excited to be adding my little girl to our family. After 8 years of waiting for my precious little girl, the sentiment "Precious Moments" refers to those wonderful little girl moments I can't wait to share with my baby girl. The thought of playing dress-up with her tiny little feet in my high heels brings tears to my eyes. So congrats to me! Now to the nitty gritty, first, I apologize for the scan. No matter what I did, I couldn't get the color right in a photo. Here is a photo I took of the same card.http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/ga...;ppuser=230060 The CAS DT challenge titled "Fashion Statement" was to use DP in a card, but not too much. My DP is the shoe lining and flower. The shoe is cut using SCAL and a file from SVGcuts.com. I scored a box in the white paper just outside the inner black mat and finished the corners with gems.

A shabby chic card and NEWS!

I'll start off with the news...I made the semi-finals in the Splitcoast Stampers CAS Design Team search with this card.!  

And my shabby chic card to show you...

The flower is cut using the SCAL program on my cricut.  The cardboard came from a yogurt box, lol.  Edges are distressed using a fork and brown inks.  TFL.

Back to school

I have been super-busy getting a back to school gift ready for Michael's sweet new teacher, Mrs Ruth.  I made a bunch of teacher themed cards as well as some other cards with various themes and included them in the box pictured below.  I also made a few cards for a few close friends that teach at my son's school too. 

This is the one I chose to submit for the CAS DT search

And the gifts...

The box is cut using this svg file.  Wasn't she sweet to share!?  I just heard from my friend who teaches at the school and she said Mrs. Ruth LOVED her gift.  I'm soooo glad!  TFL!

CAS DT apple for teacher.

Here are 2 card I am considering entering in the CAS design team search.  Which do you think?

July girl's night

So, a lot of my cards are Clean and Simple, and I think they're pretty self-explanatory.  If you have any questions, however, I'd be glad to answer.  Just leave me a comment.

A thank you card I made for my Aunt's wedding and shared at girl's night.  The waves are one of the slim cb folders, done twice.

A small note card Anita made.  Flowers are stamped with versamark.

Adorable Elmo card Mrs. Bowman brought.  So clever and if you switch the color to blue, you have Cookie Monster.

Awesome card designed by Mrs. Hoffman.  The dewdrop centers add some color and interest.  This card was chosen as a CAS favorite!

Check back soon, I still have tons of catching up to do.

Christmas catch-up.

Wow, do I have some catching up to do!  Today, I'll post a bunch of Christmas cards I've designed.  I've been trying to get ahead on them since the baby is due at the end of December.  I think I'll be busy enough without worrying about making Christmas cards.

The trees are cut out of pp and layered on cs. I popped them up with dimensional adhesive.

Snowflakes are inked in Sea Breeze Versa Magic and trimmed with silver glitter pen.

Tree is Cuttlebugged with a swirl folder and trimmed with bling.

I love the red and white!  Score lines were done with my MS scoreboard.

The tree is actually silver, a silver mirror paper.

The ornament is a red button layered with a gem.

Thanks for looking and check back soon, I have tons of cards and projects to share!

May Girl's Night

This month girl's night was at Mrs. Bowman's house.  She made the most delicious crab and spinach quiche and Aunt Kak's broccoli salad was awesome.  They sure know how to feed a starving pregnant lady.  :-)

Mrs. Bowman kicked off the evening with this adorable little bag of notecards with envelopes (I think the envelopes and bag are from the Bags, Tags and Boxes cartridge).  She used PP for the envelopes and we assembled them with the design on the inside for a little surprise.  The cards are stenciled using punches.  What an awesome idea!

I did my projects next.  Our challenge for the month was to use ugly ribbon (although I think I was the only one to use REALLY ugly ribbon).  I had a horrible time using this ghastly rainbow ribbon so I made a few cards trying to get one I might actually give away!  Stamped images are Hanna Stamps.  The inside of the Rain card says "to see the rainbow"

I also brought a baby card, so I might have something I was proud to share.  I was obviously thinking pink thoughts!

Aunt Kathy brought an adorable Birthday card that was simple to assemble, yet cheerful and bright.  The circles are just layered circles of different sizes.  (Not quite ugly ribbon, in fact I think it's quite cute.)

And to finish out the night, Anita shared an elegant, yet rustic Father's Day card.  Love the kraft cardstock for this!

One last card which was inspired by my Aunt Kak, who has shared so much of her design expertise with me. Last month Mrs Bowman gave us this House Mouse stamp and challenged us to use it in a card.  Here's mine.  The inside says, "All I know, I learned from you."

Hope you enjoy this month's creations!

Guess What!

I had a little surprise for my hubby when he met me for dinner tonight.  The SCS ladies were sooo helpful with their advice.  Good thing I will have lots of people to tell, because I have a lot of great ideas!

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So, Easter is over, but I couldn't resist posting pics of my boy's Easter bags.  These were one of those projects that I tackled in the middle of the night when I couldn't sleep.  My Michael woke in the morning and was so excited to find his bag.  His is the bunny.  The sheep is Mason's.

Click Here to download the Scut2 file for the bunny.  Click Here for the sheep.  Each page is marked with the color I used.  Please note, Each file has more than one page, and you have to pull it up under File, Open, not import svg, because it is a scut2 file, not an svg.  Enjoy!  If you want to resize, you could either move everything to one page, group it and resize it all together, or just play to get all the parts the right size.  Mine sit on an 8.5x11 bag, to give you and idea of size.

Girl's Night, Only a month late.

This is my other card from last month's Girl's Night.  Our theme was cuttlebug.  I also added 3 score lines with my Martha Stewart Scoring tool (which I love!)  The flowers are cut with scal and are found on the Saru's Flower Ding font, but any long petaled flower will do!  I ran a stylus down each petal from center to tip, to give them a little dimension.  Hope you enjoy!

Gerbera Daisy

Hi, for girl's night last week, I was totally stumped.  I finally saw some of the daisy pictures on the Paper, scissors, ink site, and was inspired.  Her scut files were down, so I wrote my own.  I hope you enjoy.  Click here to download the file.  Remember, to use this you go to open, file, NOT import svg!  I would add a Sentiment in the lower, right hand corner.  I chose to leave this blank to stamp later, so I could use it for any occasion.

And thank you to the wonderful ladies for including me and sharing their awesome ideas!

Directions for flowers:

Run the stylus down the center of each petal on the biggest 4 flowers from center to tip.  This curves them up and gives them a little shape.  Curly the petals on the inner 4 flowers around a toothpick to curl them to the center.  Some of the ladies left these a little more flat and they looked great too, but I really like the Gerbera look, so I did mine like this.    Find what works for you!