Elephant Birthday Card

Hello everybody, I hope your day is wonderful!!! I made this card for the Wacky Wednesday Zoo Theme Challenge over at More than Favors. I have always loved Elephants and I am in need of some Birthday cards so that was my project!!! I used a Wide Eyed Kids Stamp set from PKS for the Elephant eyes but I masked off the nose and mouth.

Materials:

Elephant from Zooballo Cricut Cartridge

Stand is from Create-a-Critter Cartridge

Peachy Keen Stamps, Wide Eyed Kids Face Assortment PK-450

Sentiment stamp from Mega Mixed Messages, Papertrey Ink

Red Background Paper is from the clearance spot at M's

Twine is the color peapod from the Twinery

Cardstock. pompom ribbon and brads are from my stash of scraps

Black, white and red gel pens

pink chalk for cheeks

I cut the little banner freehand and the banner poll is the bottom of a matchstick

Thank you so much for stopping buy!!! I appreciate all comments!!! Have a fabulous day!!

Long Island Hugs, Cathryn

Stop & Smell the Flowers!!!

Hello everyone, I hope you are having a wonderful day. It is very windy and rainy here on Long Island. Perfect reason to stay in and craft! I am very proud of this card! I love it but it took me forever!! I landed up with very few of the original elements I had begun with. I always second guess myself, gotta get over that someday soon HA! I am entering this in the PKS Sketch challenge, Terriffic Tuesday Challenge-Create a Critter at Scrappy Moms Stamps and Wacky Wednesday - Farm Challenge.

Materials:

Create-a-Critter Cartridge for chick

Paper Doll Dress Up Cartridge for fence

Zooballo for grass

Peachy Keen Stamps - PK-754 Critter Faces Medium

Papertrey Ink - Vintage Picnic Sentiments

Cardstock - New Leaf, Raspberry Fizz Papertrey Ink

Patterned Paper - K&Co Citronella & Sweet Nectar- Papertrey Ink Bitty Dot Basics

Leaf Ribbon - Papertrey Ink

I Rock

Pink Sorbet Twine - The Twinery

White Gel Pen

Copic Marker

Mulberry Paper Roses - Recollections

Thank you for stopping by. I appreciate all my followers and Love all comments!!!

Have a great day!

Love, Cathryn :)

Spring Pillow Box

I made this project for Emma's Throwback Thursday Challenge. The challenge is to use the Walk in my Garden Cart and incude a flower on your project. I chose to do a pillow gift box. I used the tag feature on WIMG.

Materials:

Pillow Box from the Wedding Solutions Cartridge

Sentinment - You had me at Chocolate, My Creative Time

Cardstock & Ribbon - Hibisus Burst, Paper Trey Ink

Patterned paper - Sweet Nectar, K&co.

Yellow Stickles

Twine - Lemon Drop, The Twinery

Swiss Dot Embossing Folder

Black Gel Pen

Thank you for stopping by!!! Your comments really make my day!!!

Hugs, Cathryn ;)

Tea Cup Card

This weeks Cricut Cardz Challenge was to use a cup image from any cartridge you would like. I used the tea cup cut from the Stamping solutions cartridge.

Materials:

Cardstock & Ribbon - Lavender Moon Paper Trey Ink

Patterned Paper - Charlotte K&Co

Sentiment - Warm Happiness Paper Trey Ink

Flowers - Boutique Fleur Recollections

I Rock

Dew Drop Chalk Ink Maltd Mauve

Thank you for stopping by. I appreciate all comments and followers!!!

Have a great day!!!

Cathryn <3

Twins Card

I made this card for PKS Sketch Challenge. This idea has been in my head for a while. It is a memory from when my twins were little babies. They used to sleep in their bassinets at the foot of my bed and in the morning when I heard them waking up I would look down at the foot of my bed and two bright eyed little heads would pop up very unsteady and wiggly. I would think to myself "how did My husband, daughter and I ever live without these beautiful little people in our lives". Now they are so big!! I can't believe it, great memories!!!! My Creative Time's sentiment stamp went perfectly with my memory!

Materials:

Paper Doll Dress Up Cricut Cartridge

Peachy Keen Stamps Wide Eyed Kids Face Assortment PK-450

Sentiment - My Creative Time You Had Me at Chocolate Set

Paper - TPC Studio Bugs and Butterflies

Sixxix Embossing Folders - Hearts and Dots

Distress Inks

EK Sucess Label Punch

Pink Sorbet Twine - The Twinery

Pompom lace from my stash

White Gel Pen

Thank you for stopping by. Have a wonderful Day!!!

Hugs, Cathryn <3

Green, Blue and White Valentine

Hope everyone is having a wonderful Valentine's Day. I must say, I love how this Valentine came out! I have never done something like this before and it was so much fun. I am sure I will be doing many more. I think they would make pretty package decorations too!!

I used my scalloped and regular heart nestabilities and my cuttlebug (I used chipboard for the middle to give it some weight and it was much easier to use the nesties for that than change out the blade for my cricut). I am sure you can get just about the same effect from the hearts on the Sweethearts Cartridge.

I cut two hearts from the patterned paper and one from lightweight chipboard (a cereal box I had hanging around).

Inked the edges with some green distress ink.

Attached the ribbon to the chipboard. Then covered the front and back with solid cardstock and layered the patterned paper on top.

I used the leaves that come with the Recollections Boutique Mulberry Paper Roses. They were a bit too bright green so I rubbed some white irridescent ink on them to tone the color down.

Attached the leaves first, then the two flowers, then stuck the leaf pins in.

Materials:

Scallop and regular heart nestabilities with Cuttlebug

Spring Moss cardstock - Papertrey Ink

Patterned Paper - K&Company Charlotte

Leaves from Recollections Boutique Fleur Collection - Mulberry Paper Roses Tin

Flowers from same collection - Floral Embellishments (Michaels)

Leaf Pins - Maya Road

Ribbon from my stash

Tim Holtz distress ink - peeled paint

White ink - Brilliance Pigment Ink Pad - Moonlight White

Glue dots and Zip Dry glue

I will be entering this into the Cricut Cardz Challenge #61

Thank you for visiting me today, I appreciate all comments! Have a great day!! Love, Cathryn <3

Heart Shaped Crayon Valentine's

I made 60 of these valentine's for my 7 year old twins classmates. We are not allowed to send in food treats so I figured this would be a useful fun gift! (I'm not quite sure but I think an alarm will go off if a cupcake enters the school building!!!!!!!!!)

I made the crayons with a heart shaped silicone pan. It took quite a while because the pan only made 6 at a time and I only had 1 pan!!!!

The hearts are all from the sweethearts cricut cartridge.

Materials:

Wilton heart shape silicone pan

At least 4 crayons per heart broken up

Patterned paper - K& Co.

Journaling and sentiment stamps from My Creative Time - My Journaling and You Had Me at Chocolate Sets

Twine

Eyelets

Ribbon

buttons

pop dots

I put the filled heart pan in the oven for about 10 - 15 minutes @ 250 degrees. They needed to cool for at least 30 minutes. I attached them to the front of the Valentine with 2 pop dots.

I will be entering this in the Wacky Wednesday Valentine Challenge

Thank you for stopping by! I appreciate every single comment and follower!!! Have a great day! Love, Cathryn <3

Card for Mom

I made this card for my Mom using a sentiment from a new stamp set I got from My Creative Time. Love the stamps, great quality!!! I also used a die and stamps from PKS Cottage Cutz. I am entering this is Emma's Throwback Thursday Challenge. I struggled for a couple of days but I LOVE how this card came out! You had to use either the Just Because Cards or Wildcard Carts and include a stamped sentiment. I used the milk bottle cut and a tag from Just Because Cards. I took the tag and welded another one to it to make a shaped card. I ran the milk bottle top layer through my cuttlebug with a new Sizzix heart embossing folder.

Materials:

Sentiment- My Creative Time Mom You Rock set

Flowers - CC-PK4x4-010 Cottage Cutz die and stamp

PTI Cardstock - Kraft, sweet blush, ripe avocado, spring moss and lemon tart

Patterned Paper - K&co. Spring Blossom

Cappuccino Twine - The Twinery

Pink chalk

White Gel Pen

Distressed Inks

Sizzix heart embossing folder

eyelet

Thank you for stopping by, I appreciate every single comment!!

Lots of Love, Cathryn <3

Valentine Card for My Hubby

This card is for my husband for Valentine's Day. I got the inspiration from Leanne, a member of Emma's Design team (creativetimeforme.com). She got the directions from a tutorial on valitasfreshfolds.blogspot.com. I watched the video and then did things a little bit differently. Instead of punches I used the heart on Create a Critter and I did not put the extra circles under the dress of the lady. I love these hearts so much I can tell I will be using them for quite a few projects in the future!

I will be entering this card in the Cricut Cardz Challenge

Materials:

Patterned Paper - Garden Vignettes DCWV

Cardstock - True Black Papertrey Ink, Red, Grey and Black from my stash

Create-a-Critter Cartridge for hearts and frames

black ribbon for tie

Irock and gems

Sentiment - You Had Me at Chocolate from Emma's Creative Time

Stick on pearl for dress

Black fibers from my stash

Thank you for taking the time to look at my post. I appreciate all comments and my followers are the best!!! Lots of Love, Cathryn

Valentine Treat Holders & a Card

Here are a few Valentine treat holders I made out of some empty Prima flower bottles.

First I took some stiffened felt and cut it to fit almost entirely around the middle of the bottle.

Cut some cardstock almost as long, punched the borders and attached an eyelet (through felt and cardstock) at each side with my crop-a-dile.

Attached the felt with some ribbon on back put through the eyelets

Wound some twine around the neck of the bottle, tied the scalloped image on and attached a bow.

Materials:

Recycled Prima flower bottles

Stiffened felt from M's

Cardstock - K&Co. Lovely

Circle, scallop and border punches - EK Sucess

Stamped Images from M's Dollar Bin

eyelets

ribbon from M's

Sentiment From Emma Aguilar's You Had Me at Chocolate set www.creativetimeforme.com

Stickles

Copic Markers

For the card I used some beads and a stick pin from M's jewelry section to create an accent for the bow.

Materials:

Cardstock - Papertrey ink Plum Pudding, Hibiscus Burst

Patterned Paper - Martha Stewart

Ribbon from my stash

Stamped image from M's dollar bin

Sentiment from Emma's set also

Stickles

Copic Markers

Gel Pen