"In God we Trust" 4th of July Card

As a veteran married to a veteran who is the daughter of two veterans and the grand daughter of veterans patriotic holidays are a big deal in our family. I wanted to make a few cards for the 4th of July and here is the first one I came up with last night.  I love the "A Child's Year" cartridge, but rarely use the silhouettes as silhouettes.  Instead, I cut them a bunch of time and create my own layers with different colors of cardstock and by adding little details like the belt, shirt color, hair and pant leg cuff.


Have a fantatic weekend and be sure to check back on Tuesday for my last post with My Pink Stamper - I can't believe the 6 months have flown by so quickly and our DT term is already up!

Recipe:
Cricut Cartridges: A Child's Year, Tags, Bags, Boxes and More, Plantin Schoolbook
Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug: Swissdots
Patterned Paper: Graphic45, October Afternoon, Prima, Miss Arts Papercrafting School: Ruth's Recipe Kit
Dies: Nestabilities Circles: 3," 2.25" 

Star Punch: EK Success
Lace: Wyla
Adhesive: Zip Dry, Glue Dots, Tombow Aqua Liquid Glue
Buttons: Misc.

Cuts:
A Child's Year: "4July2-s" cut at 2.5" from white, peach, brown, gray, black, and white cardstock, blue star patterned paper, and yellow patterned paper

Tags, Bags, Boxes and More: (round card base) "circle" cut with "mirror" function selected at 2.75 inches

Plantin Schoolbook: "star" cut at 6.5"

Thanks for stopping by,

CarrieAnne

February My Pink Stamper Design Team Project

Today is the day we get to post the projects we made for February with Robyn's new stamp releases over at My Pink Stamper. I had the opportunity to work with Sweetest Cupcakes.

The set contains 25 expressions all about cupcakes, baking, sweetness, love and yummy food.

I have had this idea about making an oven gift box in my head for a while, but I wanted to make it super easy so I could do multiples to send a little something sweet to folks from church or friends who are under the weather. Let me tell you this box could not be easier and the how to's are below. I fit a few mini muffins or small chocolate chip cookies in mine. I made the mixer card to match with a little yummy frosting spilling over the edge just like what happens in my own kitchen.

Don't forget to leave a comment if you haven't already to win the 2 bottles of Viva Decor Paper Soft I am giving away. I am picking the winner on Friday.


Thanks for stopping by,

CarrieAnne


RECIPE:

Stamp Set: My Pink Stamper: Sweetest Cupcakes ("Baking Up Some Love" and "I'm Sweet on You" Sentiments)

Cricut Cartridges: Bags, Tags, Boxes and More, From My Kitchen
Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug: Swiss Dots

Ink: Stampin' UP!: Wild Wasabi
Patterned Paper: Imaginisce, GCD Studios
Filigree Metal Flowers (Burners on the stove): Nunn Designs
Dimensional Paint (Chocolate on Mixer Bowl): Viva Decor
Transparency (See through front on oven): Staples
Small cherry punch and 1/16 hole punch: Marvy Uchida
Brads and Half back Pearl: Misc

The How To's on the Oven Box

Stove Knob Back Panel

1. The only part of the box from From My Kitchen is the knob section (the back panel above the burners) so you could certainly whip up an alternate option if you didn't have this cartridge. This panel comes from the main oven cut on page 30. Cut it out on blue cardstock at 3 inches.

2. Then using the existing upper cut line for the stove door as a guide, remove the bottom portion of the stove front.

3. Using the "layers" function cut out the two white strips and adhere them to the knob panel.

4. Using a 1/16 hole punch pierce the center of each of the 4 marked "knobs".

5. Insert your favorite brads in the holes to act as knobs.

6. Set aside this stove panel momentarily.

Oven Box

1. With the "Fit to Length" option selected and the "Window" function on cut out two of the square boxes found on page 119 at 11 1/4 inches from the Bags, Tags, Boxes and More cartridge. You will need one in light blue cardstock and one in white cardstock.

2. Fold the blue boxe in half and dry emboss it with your Swiss Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder.

3. Score on all of the fold lines with a scorer or bone folder. This is an important step if you want a balanced and stable box. Hand folding without scoring can make it wonky!

4. Adhere a small square of clear transparency to the inside of the box behind the cut out square.

It is important to do all your embellishing before you assemble the box. With this in mind we are now going to add the details.

5. Use your paper cutter to remove the panel on the white cube box with the window section. Stamp "I'm Sweet on You" on the lower part of this section. Punch cherry out and adhere next to sentiment. Adhere white window panel over the blue window section of the blue cube box.

6. Use scraps from the white cube box to add the handles on the front and side of the oven. I used glue dots and then bent the strips of paper for dimension with my fingers.

7. Cut a small scrap of patterned paper and fold it in half over the side oven handle. Adhere ends of the patterned paper with one glue dot. Snip a tiny fringe if desired. This is now a dish towel embellishment.

8. Using scraps of cardstock create the layered stove top - white, then blue, then white cardstock squares. I made mine fit just inside of each other and I dry embossed my blue layer with the Swiss Dots embossing folder.

9. Add your stove burners with a glue dot. I used filigree metal flowers from Nunn Designs, but you could use stamped flowers, circles, epoxy stickers, buttons, or round paper clips.

10. Assemble your box and add glue dots where needed to keep flaps together.

11. Slide in the "knob panel" into the top opening of the box. Adhere with glue dots.

You are DONE!!!

It's Raining Sprinkles

I have been having a blast using Robyn's new release stamps. If you haven't seen them be sure to head over to My Pink Stamper and check them out. This card uses the sentiment "It's raining sprinkles!" from the Sweetest Cupcakes set.

The girl on the card is a hybrid creation from three different girls and the dad on the Country Life cartridge. I wanted a body with a raised arm, but the outfit on the second girl, the third had those super cute bangs and the dad had on some kickin rain boots. I ended up having to hand cut the sleeves, her little belt, a cute collar and her bob but I am happy with how it came out in the end. The umbrella is from Everyday Paper Dolls.

This card is also my entry for the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge this week. The challenge was to Make a project featuring your favorite seasonal weather (Spring, Summer, Fall or Winter). I have decided my favorite seasonal weather would be one in which sugary sweets fell from the sky. I know it hasn't happened yet, but a girl can dream. And Spring would indeed be dreamy if it rained sprinkles!

Recipe:

Stamp Set: My Pink Stamper: Sweetest Cupcakes
Cartridge: Country Life, Everyday Paper Dolls
Embossing Folder; Cuttlebug: Swiss Dots
Paper: Chatterbox
Baubles: Stamping Bella
Stickles: Ranger
Ink: Stampin' UP!
Pearls: Misc

Thanks for looking,

CarrieAnne

My Pink Stamper Pinkalicious Blog Hop

Welcome to the third stop on the My Pink Stamper's Pinkalicious Blog Hop.

If you are coming from Court's blog at Court’s Crafts you are in the right place. If you just happened on the hop be sure to start at the beginning at Robyn's My Pink Stamper blog.

This month we got to play with some of Robyn's brand new release sets. If you haven't seen them be sure to check them out here.

Rosettes and county fair ribbons are all the rage at the moment. I discovered this very inexpensive and fun way to make a rosette baby shower invitation and matching thank you card using the Old West Cricut Cartridge and My Pink Stamper's Sweet Baby Stamp Set.

I am giving away two bottles of Viva Decor's Paper Soft Color (Violet and Cream). If you haven't played with this product yet, you will have a blast doing so. One lucky winner will be drawn on February 25th. To enter you just need to leave a comment on this post.

If you are just looking to mosey on to more My Pink Stamper Design Team Inspiration Sonia is up next! If you are interested in project details and how to's they are listed after the blog hop list.

Robyn

Courtney-Court’s Crafts

CarrieAnne

Sonia

Lori

Julie-readysetstamp

Agnes-Flowerdisco

Helen

Angela’s Simple Creations

Tracy-Craft Junkie Too

Pam

Cristi

Shelley

Shauna at Craftee She

Edna

Kassidy

Andrea

Raechel

Bling Queen Wendy

Michelle-Meesh’s Pieces

Karlee

Alex-You Had Me At Craft

Maria

Thanks for looking,

CarrieAnne

Recipe:
Stamps: My Pink Stamper: Sweet Baby
Cricut Cartridge: Old West (ribbon), Sweet Treats (circular card base)
Cuttlebug Embossing Folder: Argyle , Swiss Dots
1/4 inch Circle Punch
Ink: Stampin' UP!: Cool Caribbean
Stickles: Ranger: Star Dust
Stick Pins: Jenni Bowlin Studio: Pewter
Patterned Paper: Making Memories
Adhesive: Beacon Adhesives: Zip Dry
Tulle, Ribbon Scraps

The How Tos:

Rosette Shower Invitation:

CREATING THE PLEATED CIRCLES

1. The base of this card is a circle shaped card with a hinge on the left. It was cut from white card stock at 3 1/4 inches from the Sweet Treats Cartridge. It can be found on page 69 under the "cards" function.

2. The rosette is created from the ribbon top cut on the Old West Cartridge on page 73.

3. Using the icon function and shift key cut out 5 ribbon tops in a variety of patterns. The ribbon tops need to become progressively smaller in order for them to layer. I cut one ribbon top at 10 inches, 8.5 inches, 7 inches, 5.5 inches, and 4 inches.

4. Beginning with the 10 inch ribbon top remove the center circle by snipping at the few places it is attached the "pleated" outline.

5. Choose any scored line and cut the pleated outline. It is no longer a closed circle now, but an open circle.

6. Accordion pleat this open circle piece backwards and forwards at every score or cut mark.

7. Dry emboss the open pleated circle with the Argyle Cuttlebug Folder

8. Use glue dots to reattach the open circle ends so that it is now a pleated circle.

9. Adhere the pleated circle to the circle card base with Beacon Adhesives' Zip Dry Glue.


10. Excluding the dry embossing, repeat steps 4 thru 8 with each progressively smaller ribbon top.


BUILDING THE ROSETTE

1. Freehand cut tulle circles that are slightly larger than each of the 4 smaller rosette layers. I cut 3 tulle circles in each size.

2. Free hand cut circles from tulle that are slightly larger than the ribbon top they will go under.

3. Using Beacon Adhesive's Zip Dry adhere tulle than ribbon layer, tulle than ribbon layer. I also randomly added scraps of ribbon. As you are building your layers be sure to nestle them firmly one inside the other and flatten them to retain the circular rosette shape.

4. Stamp "Baby Shower" from the Sweet Baby stamp set on off white cardstock and punch out with 1 1/4 inch circle punch.

5. Outline stamped circle with Stickles and adhere to rosette with Zip Dry Adhesive.

6. Place something marginally heavy on the rosette (I chose a box of checks) and allow to dry for 30 minutes.


Thank You Card

1. Create a rectangular card base from solid cardstock. Mine is 4 x 3 1/4 inches.

2. Adhere a rectangular card to the base.

3. Now its time to use those circles you cut out fro the rosettes. Stack the circles one top of another.

4. Using a crop-o-dile pierce all the layers at once and secure them with a brad.

5. Spray the stacked circles with water and crumple them all in towards the brad. Allow them to dry for 10-15 minutes.

6. Once dry slowly uncrumple circle layers. Rotate the layers to add interest.

7. Adhere two pieces of green ribbon to the card base and the flower on top of the card with large glue dots.

8. Apply Stickles to the edge of every other flower layer.

9. Stamp "Thank You" from the Sweet Baby stamp set on white cardstock and layer on top of hand cut blue and black rectangles.

10. Add pierced corners to card base with paper piercer or needle.

Life Saver Card & Giveaway

My four month old son has a thing against sleeping. He hates to sleep! The only way we can get him down is to put him in his swing. He now weighs an astounding 22 pounds and has outgrown our swing. A friend of mine had a swing with a much higher weight threshold and has lent it to us (THANK GOODNESS)!

I made her this card as a way of saying thank you. The inside says "you are a life saver."

Recipe

Cartridges: Cricut Lite: Splish Splash, Cricut: Tags, Boxes and More
Paper & Border Punch: Stampin' UP!
Embossing folders:Cuttlebug: Swiss Dots, D'vine Swirl
Ribbon: Basic Grey
Ink: VersaMark
Sentiment: American Crafts Rub Ons and my word processor

How To's

1. The base of the card is the circle tag from Tags, Boxes, and More cut on 5" inches using the mirror function. Because I hate a flat hinge showing on a circle shaped card, I cut the polka dot paper at 5 1/4 inches to cover the entire base of the card and give it a clean look. This circle is also from Tags, Boxes, and more. It was cut using the Blackout function.

2. I cut the blue cardstock circle and a striped patterned paper circle at 5 inches using the functions described above. I then dry embossed the blue circle with Cuttlebug's D'Vine Swirl Embossing folder. The blue circle was then distressed with VersaMark Ink. I cut the striped circle in half and layered it on top of the blue embossed circle.

3. The border punch was punched out twice, once from the yellow check and once from glossy white cardstock. They were slightly offset then adhered together.

4. The life preserver was cut from white cardstock using the Cricut Lite Splish Splash cartridge at 3 inches. It was then embossed with the Cuttlebug Swissdots Embossing Folder.

5. The finishing touch was added by the "ropes" I adhered over the red sections of the life preserver. These were made old school - ala friendship bracelet with dmc floss.

Don't forget to celebrate reaching 200 followers with me!! I am giving away the Thanksgivings Blessings Cricut Cartridge to one lucky winner.


I don't normally require readers to become followers for a prize or challenge, but as this is to say Thank You to my followers to enter you will need to:

1.Be a follower
2. Leave a comment on Friday's post.

You have until Tuesday, February 1st to enter at 8am EST. The contest is open to all followers, but a winner outside of the United States will be responsible for their shipping costs.

Thanks for looking,

CarrieAnne

Love Cafe

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my first "real" project for the My Pink Stamper DT. If you have not yet stopped by Robyn's amazing website (My Pink Stamper) be sure to do so as each of her designers has come up with something fantastic to share with you.

Our challenge was to make something with the Cricut, the My Pink Stamper Stamp Set Love-alicious and the prompts: pink and love. I came up with this "Love Cafe" card with a three dimensional awning.

Recipe:
Stamp Set: My Pink Stamper: Love-alicious

Paper: Making Memories: Je t'Adore Collection

Cricut Cartridges: Bloom (Topiaries), Sweethearts (The couple at the table), My Community (the cafe awning and backdrop)
Embossing Folders: Cuttlebug Swiss Dots, Textile Texture

Ink, Punch, Hardware: Stampin' UP!
Buttons, pearls: My stash

The How-To's

The base of the card is made from off white cardstock using the candy store cut on page 56 of the My Community Cart. I cut the candy store at 6" and snipped off the awning. I then embossed the base with the Textile Texture embossing folder. Using the layers function I cut out the awning at 6 1/4 inches. I then scored 1/4 down from the top to create a flap to adhere to the card. I bent one panel on each side of the awning down and attached it to the card with a glue dot.

The man and woman at the table were cut from page 40 of the Sweethearts Cart. They are cut at 2 1/2 inches and I added a few details to make them more realistic. The lady was given an extra headband, and I added cuffs to his pants, a sleeve to his shirt and a cuff to his sleeve.

The 1/2 wall and side rail were added to the candy store cut to make it look more "restauranty" and I covered the "Candy Store" wording on the storefront with the swirled Making Memories paper. The topiaries were given a few pearls and I added trim to the pots to make them stand out more. The topiaries were cut from the Bloom Cartridge on at 2 1/2 inches.

I stamped "Love" from the My Pink Stamper "Love-alicious" set and then embossed the sentiment with the Swiss Dots folder.

Thanks for looking,

CarrieAnne