Mothers Day Card

Welcome to the Cardz TV 3D design team challenge

For this challenge you are to make a 3D Mothers Day card

Starts Friday April 1st
Ends Thurs. April 14th at Noon EST

For my card I made an A2 side step card
Using the Explore for my cuts

Fence (2.87" x 3.62") "Wrap it up" cartridge
Flowers (.8" x 2.1")   "Bloom" cartridge
Sentiment from Cardz TV Stamps "Mothers Day" set


Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!



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3D Birthday Card

Welcome to the Cardz TV 3D design team challenge

For this challenge you are too make a Birthday card

Starts today Feb. 19
Ends March 3 at Noon EST

Winner will be chosen by Mary at Cardz TV using random.org and they will
receive one set of Cardz TV stamps- you can see then here

Today I have made a card for my husbands 50th Birthday!

I used my Cricut Explore and Cricut design space.

I used the insert shapes and used the pentagon and manipulated it too
make it into a card and too make the layers.
Then I used the numbers from Sesame Street Friends cartridge.

I used two thicknesses of foam tape too pop up the top layer so it is 3D
The designer series paper are from 6 x 6 pads that I got at Michaels.

Sentiments are from Cardz TV Stamps -
"Good Times" and  "Make a Wish" stamp sets

I think this turned out much better than my last project! Lol
I really like this one and so did my husband. The dsp was a great find because we are boaters and it has little boats on it.
Thanks for stopping by!
Have a great weekend :)


Here are a few pics from Key West, only 3 weeks left- Boo Hoo!
My plan is too retire somewhere down in the Keys- I do not like the cold
weather in Ohio and I would rather be hot than cold! lol

Key West Sunset

These guys are all over the place

This is a giant tree, we couldn't get the 

whole thing in the pic. So just got part of it.

These guys are all over also

These two are from the Miami boat show-

we drove up for a visit from the Keys.

                        My Dream Boat

Largest Sandcastle

Gelato Thank you card

Hello again!

Today i have another Thank You card!

I decided to play around with my Gelatos.

I purchased these last year and have finally had 

some time to play around with them.

I had cut a bunch of "Thank Yous" out with

my Cricut Explore using white cardstock.  I figured i could just color them to make them whatever color i wanted.
  I need to build up a stash of

Thank You and Birthday cards, so this is 
where i am starting.

So here is my first attempt at Gelatos

and this was actually my first try with the 

"thank yous" that i had cut as well.

Entered at

simon says stamp blog- make your own background

I used water color paper added the Gelatos, misted with water,
then smeared it with the paint brush.
For the "thank you" i used zing white embossing powder to make it pop.
Added the super cute sequins that i picked up at Walmart. Check out my Haul video to see the bag full of mixed sequins i purchased, linked on the left sidebar. 
It is mounted on black cardstock.

I just love this card, i wasn't sure about it at first. But after i added the thank you and sequins i fell in love with it!

Thank you card

Hello my friends!

Today i have a "Thank You" card!

I received a very nice birthday surprise from

one of my boating friends, so I wanted

to make a thank you card for them.

I used my Explore and design space,

I am starting to really like using it. 
I didn't like it at first, but after i got

a new iPad and started playing around with it

I have finally gotten the hang of it.

I have really been wanting to cut out words with it,

since I have seen lots of crafty bloggers using dies

and i just didn't want to buy dies when

i have several cutting machines that i should

be able to use to cut the words out.

So here is what i came up with!

Entered at:

A Blog Named Hero
inky chicks- Faux or Real Stitching

I cut the banners and "thank you" using design space.

The anchor was cut with a Momenta cut and emboss die.

I heat embossed the "thank you" with Stampin' Up embossing powder and added some sequins.
 I faux stitched the banners with a white jelly roll pen and blue pigma micron pen.

The designer paper is from Carta Bella "Ahoy There" 6x6 paper pad.

Cardz TV 3D Challenge #5

Welcome to the 

Cardz TV 3D Challenge #5

"Tag...You're It"

Make 3 Small Christmas Gift Tags

Start Nov. 28th 12am EST

Ends Dec. 11th Noon EST

For my tags i used the Cricut Explore, I have included all Design 
Space item #'s for the tags and cuts.

Tags- Art Philosphy 

Frozen- Olaf 3" #m1bd88e, Tag 4.5" pg. 50 #m408b7 for some reason on this tag the search doesn't work. Go to the Art Philosphy page in Design Space and go all the way to the bottom, then count up to the 23rd row (or row 44 down from the top) and it is the blue one on the right.

Jolly Holidays- Ornament 2.9"  m3d38f, Tag 4.5" pg.60 or m449a8

Holly and Ivy- Stocking 3.01"  mabd05, Tag 4.7" pg. 70 or m42810
Wink of Stella Clear 
Tim Holtz Salty Ocean ink pad
Tim Holtz Tattered Rose ink pad
Tim Holtz Bundled Sage ink pad
Versafine Black Onyx ink pad

Sentiments from Cardz TV Stamps- Christmas Joy, Very Merry,

Home for Christmas

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to head over to Cardz TV

to see the beautiful tags the rest of the wonderful DT

has made for your inspiration!

And be sure to join in the fun and enter your tags, the winner will receive their choice of 1 set of Cardz TV Stamps from Mary!

Get the Cricut Explore for $194.99 HERE

Cricut Explore Layout

Here is my first Cricut Explore project,
I used one of the pre-made layouts
that is on the Cricut Design Space.
It took a little getting use to and some
time watching a few videos,
but i managed to do it :)

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