Fall Banner

If you are looking for my Whimsical Wednesday - No Tricks Just Treats post scroll down or click HERE.

I had made a mini banner for summer and when I took it down my oldest started to plead with me to make a fall one. Her requirements were leaves and the word fall. I had wanted to put the word 'autumn' but she insisted fall was better so fall it is. This is also my project for the current Let's Face It Friday Challenge over at Peachy Keen Stamps.

Here is the whole banner strung together with raffia. I think raffia is such a fun fall look.

This is a close up of the first girly leaf:

I inked all of the leaves and added a few doodle dots. The leaves come from the Straight From the Nest Cricut cartridge and are cut at 5". The darling face is from the Princess Face Assortment by Peachy Keen Stamps.

Here is a closeup of one of the fall letters:

The letter is cut from the Gypsy Font cartridge and is cut at 1.5" (base and shadow layers).

Here is the cute little boy leaf:

The face for this one is from the Boy Mates stamp set by Peachy Keen stamps.

Well I hope you enjoyed my little fall banner. Have a terrific night friends! Hugs- Glora

Items Used:

*Straight From the Nest Cricut cartridge

*Gypsy Font Cricut cartridge
*Peachy Keen Stamps - Princess Faces
*Peachy Keen Stamps - Boy Mates
*Tim Holtz Distress Inks
*Sakura White Gellyroll Pen
*Raffia

Joyeux Noel

This is Christmas card that I made for the dearest couple that live in France. I met them while I was living in Melun France (a suburb of Paris) and they have become a very special part of my life. They are about the same age as my parents and sweet as can be. We quickly 'adopted' each other. En tout cas, voici ma carte de Noel...

I wanted to submit this for the Fantabulous Cricut weekly challenge.

Items Used:

*Gypsy Font
*Gypsy Wanderings for the background shape
*Gypsy
*Sakura White Gelly Roll for doodling
*DCWV patterned paper
*Ribbon

Halloween Treat Holder

This little project is for Peachy Keen Stamps Let's Face It Challenge #1. My container is the Easter basket from the Easter 2010 cartridge. I just tweaked the scallops for ghosts and pumpkins on my Gypsy. Here is a view of the front of the basket.

This is a view from the top. I switched out the Easter flower for a bat.

Here is one of the side views:

And here is a corner view. The candy is all pop dotted to give some added dimension.

I hope you liked it. Below is a list of items used:

Doodlecharms: candy

Easter 2010: basket

Paper Doll Dress Up: ghosts and bat

Create a Critter: pumpkins

Peachy Keen Stamps

Simple Sallies for the pumpkins

Simple Simons for the long candies

Everyday Face Parts for the suckers

Funshine Face Parts for the candy corn

The bats face was stamped with a discontinued fall set

Coredinations cardstock and paper from my scraps

Ribbon

Candy 

Peachy Keen Stamps - Challenge 32

The subject for this challenge was summer destinations. Our FAVORITE summer destination is DISNEYLAND. We had a fabulous time at Disneyland last month. This project will be the introductory page for our Disneyland vacation scrapbook.

I love how this turned out. I tried to give us all our actual look and I think it worked out well. Here is a close up of the paperdolls with their cute Peachy Keen Stamps faces.

For this project I used:

Peachy Keen Stamps - Simple Sallies for the girl faces

Peachy Keen Stamps - Basic Paper Doll Faces for the boys face

Everyday Paperdolls - for the dolls and their clothing

Mickey font - for the Mickey icons

Mickey and Friends - for Minnie's bow

Once Upon a Princess- for the castle

Gypsy Font- for Magical Memories

Rhinestones

White gel pen, black pen & Versamark watermark pen

Thanks BEARY Much

Emma over at My Creative Time has started up a new Throwback Thursday's Challenge. She is going to challenge us to make something with some of the older Cricut cartridges. This week was Animal Kingdom. I always need thank you cards, so I looked through the animals on the cartridge and this is what I came up with.


I used Animal Kingdom for the Bear, Peachy Keen Stamps Critter Faces for the bear's face, Everyday Paperdoll's for the grass and Gypsy font for the sentiment. You can always click on the picture of the card if you would like to see the details closer up.

Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge 28

I love these challenges so much! I've had my card designed in my Gypsy for almost a week, but the girls got sick and so crafting had to wait. Today everyone is feeling better and so I was able to cut and put together my card. There have been so many cute entries. I always love to see what all the other participants come up with.


Here is the wonderful sketch that we had to work with:


For my card I used the following cartridges: Gypsy font for the scalloped circle, George for the oval, squares & rectangles, New arrival for the bottles and onesie, Stretch Your Imagination for the baby, Everyday Paperdolls for the headband, Plantin Schoolbook and Gypsy Wandering for the scalloped border. Wow that is quite the list isn't it? I used Peachy Keen Stamp set PK-493 Everyday Character Face Parts and PK-573 Basic Paper Doll Faces for the pacifier.

Happy Happy Anniversary!

This weekend I was busy making a couple of anniversary cards. This first card is for a couple in our neighborhood. They just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. How awesome is that?

For this card I used the scalloped circle from the Easter 2010 cartridge (I welded two together in my Gypsy). The circle is from George. The 50 is the Gypsy Font welded together. I ran my circle through the Cuttlebug using the love language embossing folder for the tiny heart background. I pop dotted the 50 for some added depth and added a ribbon to the top. Pretty simple, but I like how it turned out.
The second card is for my sister and her husband. They were married in the Salt Lake LDS Temple and when I saw this image on my Destinations cartridge I had to make them an anniversary card with it.
Like I said the Salt Lake Temple is on the Destinations cartridge. I welded together two shadow layers in my Gypsy and then cut the temple for the front. I added a Happy Forever stamp and cut my own gold piece for the Angel Moroni statue at the top of the temple (the cartridge doesn't have that extra layer, but I just 'cheated the cut' in my Gypsy and layered it on top).

Happy Mother's Day - a little late

Yesterday was a super busy and wonderful day. So, this post is a little late. But here is the Mother's Day card I made for my Mom. It is a larger card because all my siblings needed to write a note in it. The card for my husband's Mom is in an earlier post. Click on this link if you would like to see it.




I used the Gypsy font for Happy Mother's Day and welded it together. The flower is from the Easter 2010 cartridge (I just cut parts of it a few time so that I could layer it). Then I added some white dotting and a few gems. I hope everyone else had a very happy Mother's Day too.

Play Ball !!!

Here is the fun baseball mit shape card I made for my nephew's birthday! I hope he likes it. I had a lot of fun making it and trying to make it look like a real baseball mit. Happy Birthday Brett!

I used the baseball mit from Everyday Paper Dolls, the circle is from George, and Brett is the Gypsy font. I welded small circles from George around the edge of the card so that I could lace the card with some thin leather. The card is popped up with dimensionals. It really was a little tricky lacing the card with the leather but the effect in person is really very neat and so worth the effort! Below is a side view of the card.