Boy's Birthday

Here is a card for a little boy's birthday:

The card is 5 1/2"x4 1/4" and made of black card stock.  All the patterned card stock is from the Hip Hip Hooray stack by Doodlebug Design, Inc.  The grey mat was cut using a metal die from the Card Mat Dies set by Jaded Blossom.  The long rectangle with the zig zag pattern was cut using one of the Panel Dies from Jaded Blossom.  

The two circles are both from the Stitched Circle Dies set by Jaded Blossom.  The dump truck is from Boys Will Be Boys.  It is cut at 2 3/4" and I put it on an action wobble so my nephew can have fun with it.  The 2 on the truck is from Robotz, cut at 1 1/8."

The sentiment is from Jaded Blossom as well.  It is from the So Many Birthdays set. 

The rectangle and circles on the inside are from the same sets as I used on the front.  The sentiment is from the Scrappy Moms Stamps set Ready, Set, Go!

Greyson

I got the name sign done for my friend's son.  I started on it as soon as I found out what they named him, but it took a while to get it all finished.

The sign is a piece of 12"x24" canvas.  I painted the background with a bright blue and then added some curves in a darker blue.  The font is from Robotz and is cut at 3 1/4."

The seaweed, fish, crab, and shark are all cut from the Silhouette.  I used Mod Podge to adhere all my pieces to the canvas, then sprayed the whole thing with a clear coat protectant.

Perfect Sentiments: "Masculine Birthdays"

It is time for another challenge at The Perfect Sentiment! This week's challenge is "Masculine Birthdays." The challenge: create a card with a birthday sentiment. The twist: make the card masculine. Here is my card:

This challenge is perfect, because my husband's birthday is just over a week away, so I used this challenge to create a card for him! I think he will like it. :) The card is 5 1/2"x4 1/4." I used a dark silver cardstock for the card base. I then trimmed some teal polka dotted cardstock 1/8" smaller. I used Cricut Craft Room to create my next layer. I used a rectange from Cricut Craft Room Basics and sized it at 5 1/4"x4." I then added the "33rd" from Robotz. I cut it out of silver cardstock, then I removed the "33rd" and used the negative image. I stamped "happy" above the number and "birthday" below using a stamp I found in my stash. I then embossed the silver layer with the Diamond Plate embossing folder and my Cuttlebug. I adhered this layer to the teal layer with foam tape because I like the added dimension it created.

I hope you enjoyed my card and I hope you join us at The Perfect Sentiment. I can't wait to see what you create!

Binary Birthday

I have got a fun, but nerdy shape card for you today! I created the shape using Robotz and my Gypsy to weld all those 1's and 0's together. For those of you who don't speak binary (which would also be me - I had to look these up), the top number is an "H" and the bottom one is a "B." The numbers are 2" tall and welded together using the shadow feature. I then cut them all again using the shadow feature at 1 3/4" and the regular feature, also at 1 3/4." I used Once Upon a Princess for the balloons, I just hid their faces on my Gypsy. I stamped my sentiments, which are from Scrappy Moms Stamps on some banners that I cut and added some bling on the "happy" one. I used a lot of pop-dots to layer all the pieces onto the card. All the patterned paper (10 different patterns!) came from the Celebration Stack by DCWV.

I made this card for my brother. He is a self-proclaimed nerd/geek. At Christmas he wanted a welcome mat that spelled out welcome in binary. That gave me the idea to make his birthday card in binary. The only problem is that spelling out the whole word would take up a lot of space, so I limited it to the letters "H" and "B." Hope you enjoy this one!

I made this card for the following challenges:

My Craft Spot: shaped birthday card

365 Cards: 10 different patterned papers

First of the Month Challenge #16

Challenge #16 for the First of the Month Challenge at Card Creations & More is to use the Life is a Beach cartridge. I created a layout of part of a snorkel trip I took when I was in Belize on vacation. This is a 12"x12" layout and I used a glittery teal cardstock for the base of the page. I used my Gypsy to weld three of the wave shapes, from Life is a Beach, together and cut them at 12" long. The shark and swimmer are also from Life is a Beach and both are flipped. The shark is cut at 3 3/4" and I embossed the dark grey layer. I sprayed him with some shimmer mist and gave him some black gem eyes. The swimmer is cut at 2 3/4." I used some blue gems for his bubbles. I matted the photos with the same shimmery blue that I used for the waves. I also used it for the journalling mat. I added some blue gems to the bottom of the journalling mat as well. The title is cut from Robotz at 1 3/4." I used pop-dots to adhere the "H" and the "R" for some dimension. I finished off the page by adding my journalling and some doodling dots on the title and the waves.

Now create your own project with Life is a Beach and link it up with the First of the Month Challenge. I can't wait to see what you come up with!!

Graduation Album

I guess these are usually called "word books," but since this creates the number 2000, I will call it a number book. It is a mini album for pictures from my graduation and grad party. I found these pictures in an old album and thought they needed something a little more special.

I created the book using my Gypsy. I welded the numbers to squares and rectangles. The numbers came from Robotz and the squares/rectangles the make up the pages are from George and Basic Shapes. The book is 5" tall and made from chipboard. The grad cap on the front is from Locker Talk, cut at 2 1/2." I flocked the tassle and used glossy accents on the button. The title is Cricut Keystone, cut at 1" for "Central" and 3/4" for "graduation." I then embossed it with Swiss Dots. Each page was covered with red cardstock and the numbers were covered with white glitter cardstock. I used an EK Success punch for the star border and all the small stars. The one larger star is a Fiskars punch.This title is from Jasmine, cut at 1 1/2."

I added Stickles to the stars on this page.

The banner and font are both from Birthday Bash. The banner is cut at 1 1/4" and the font at 3/4." I then used some white glitter on the font.

I made this for the following challenges:

• Fantabulous Cricut: use a rectangle and a triangle


• Paper Cutz: graduation


• The Paper Variety: stars

Card Creations & More Challenge #9

It is challenge time at Card Creations & More! This week's "So Saturday Challenge" is challenge #9, use some sort of embossing.

I created a 12"x12" layout. These are some more pictures from my trip to Sweden, back when I was in high school. You can see some pictures of the castle I saw in yesterday's post. :) The background cardstock is from K&Company. The two corner pictures are 3 1/2"x5" and the middle picture is 3"x6." I matted each picture with some teal cardstock, cut 1/8" larger than the picture. The journaling part is 3 1/4"x4 3/4." I matted it with some light blue cardstock cut at 3 1/2"x5" and some teal cardstock cut 1/8" larger than the blue. The ship is cut from My World at 3 1/2" and the waves are cut from Life is a Beach at 1 1/2." I then embossed the waves with my Cuttlebug and the D'vine Swirls folder. The title is cut from Robotz, using the font shadow and font feature. I then embossed the white regular layer with the Polka Dots embossing folder.

Now head on over to Card Creations & More by C and check out what the rest of the design team has embossed. Then enter your own embossed creation! I can't wait to see what you come up with!! :)

Robot

This card is 4 1/2"x6 1/4." I used a striped paper from the Black Currant Stack by DCWV for the card base. The black circle is 4" and embossed with the Seeing Spots folder. I cut a silver strip of cardstock at 2"x4 3/4" and then cut a piece of white cardstock at 1 5/8"x1 3/4" and adhered it on the silver strip. I added black brads to the corners of the white cardstock. I stamped the sentiment using starlite black ink by Tsukineko and put black diamon Stickles around the edge. The robot is cut at 3 1/2" from the Robotz cartridge. I put him on a piece of white cardstock, cut at 2 1/4"x3 3/4." I layered that on a piece of dark silver cardstock, cut at 2 1/2"x4." I used foam tape to mount the robot panel to the card.
I made this for Cooking With Cricut. Their challenge was to make something for a birthday, so I made a masculine birthday card. I used their bonus card sketch for the layout of the card. I also made this for Alphabet Challenge, where their challenge is M for Men.

Congrats on Getting Your Wings

My brother is getting his wings to be a helicopter pilot in the Navy on Friday. I made this card for him and sent it to him a week ago, but had to wait until he got it before I could post it. Well, he finally got it so here it is. This is not the kind of helicopter he will be flying, but that's all I could find. I used the card feature on Stand and Salute to make the aircraft carrier card and then pop-dotted the helicopter. I used the Cuttlebug on the card, to kinda make it look like water. The "congrats" is from Robotz and the "on getting your wings" is computer generated. The wings on the inside are from A Child's Year, not Navy wings, but again it was all I could find. He said he isn't offended, which is all that matters.