Fruit Basket Card Set

I am a super proud member of Tracy's Crafty Designer Design Team over at Craft Junkie too.   She asked if she could feature my work today... how could I say anything but "YESSSS!!" :)

So this is the project I decided to feature.  It's one I have never shown on my blog but I made a while ago.

Todays project is an fruit basket card set. I have made an apple basket and I shared that recently, I love this one so much I made the apple basket for the teachers in our lives.

Step one is cutting a bowl for all the fruit to sit in. I used the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge to cut a bowl using vellum. Using the Fit to Page feature, cut the Pioneer Girl on Accessory 2 (the bowl will cut between 30"-33"), or RDS or 11 3/4" on the Gypsy

If you have a Gypsy, just hide the contours (the lip of the bowl) and cut a second bowl out of white card stock (or whatever color you'd like your bowl to be).

 If you don't have a Gypsy I've written some alternative directions:

You'll have to glue the vellum bowl down onto white card stock. Using a glue runner, glue only the top rim (above the lip cut), around the edges, and the bottom of the bowl. Attach it to the card stock and hand cut the bowl backing.

Step two is cutting the apple from Preserves cartridge. I cut an apple (in green and red), an orange,  a banana, grapes,  and a pear.  They all measured around 4 3/4" and all fit into an A2 envelope.

Again, if you have a Gypsy the directions are easier (just weld the card base to be a shaped card). If you don't have a Gypsy, cut two base layers and attach them together at the stem/leaf / top of the fruit with some glue runner. 

Put all your fruits together and add doodle dots, etc. 

Here are the red and green apples and the pear.

Here are the grapes, orange and banana.  I reverse embossed the orange with Swiss Dots to get that wonderful orange peel texture.

Here is a picture of the fruit all piled in the bowl.

See how they peek through the vellum bowl?

I added a pocket to the back of my bowl to hold all the envelopes for the apple cards.  These are sized to fit an A2 envelope just fine. 

Super fun card set!! Now jump over to Tracy's blog... she is having a very fun giveaway today... hint hint: she is featuring some more of my work! :)

Summer Scene Card

I love making shaped cards (as you'll know if you are regular visitor) but I like to look beyond the usual shapes for my inspiration. This card, believe it or not, is created by re-sizing a tag shape.

I love summer!! This would be a wonderful birthday card for someone special, but this one is going to a blogger who recently sent me some blog candy I won. :)

My little sentiment tag is hand cut to about 3/4" x 2". The stamp is from Scrappy Mom's Stamps. I mounted the tag up on pop dots and tucked the end under the tree just a little. I finished off the tag with some white gel pen stitches.

The sun is from Celebrate with Flourish, cut at 1 3/4". I added Glossy Accents to the center (it's still wet in the picture). The clouds are from Serenade, cut at 1" and 1 1/4". Both layers of the sun were inked with orange ink, on the clouds I used blue ink.

This tree is from Simply Charmed, all layers cut at 3 1/4". The grass is from Paper Doll Dress up cut at 1" and 3/4". The little bird is from Serenade, cut at 3/4".  I also used green and clear Glaze pens to add the details on the tree. I inked the tree and grass with green ink and the sky layer was detailed with the same blue ink I used on the clouds.

I hand drew the little daises with my white gel pen and added the centers with a yellow Glaze pen.

Here you can see the full card base.  I used Tags, Bags, Boxes and More cart.  This tag is from page 91 (button #10) using the mirror creative feature. I sized the base to 4 1/4" x 11". The front layers were sized down by 1/4" each. The black layer measures 4" x 5 1/4" and the blue sky layer measures 3 3/4" x 5".

Challenges:

Fantabulous Cricut : Summer Sun

The Paper Variety : It's Summer

Celebrate the Occasion : Celebrating Summer

Cricut Cartridge Chaos :  Tags Bags Boxes and More

My Sheri Crafts : Summer

Mountain Scene Card

Hi everyone! I have a fun card to share with you today.  One of my favorite things about this card is that there are surprise moving pieces on the front. 

Here is the card front.  It's all put together here, it may look kinda ordinary, but there is a wonderful secret.

When you fold out the tree, you can see more of the mountain scene revealed. I cut the tree and all it's parts from Simply Charmed at 3 3/4".  Something special is how I made this card.  The tree is welded to the blue layer so that it all cuts together, making the piecing fairly easy.

Second, the picket fence folds out too.  Again, I welded the fence (from PDDU, cut at 1 1/4" two fences welded together) to the black mat. I cut the white fence and when pieced it makes a nice strong fold out layer.

This is the grass, fir trees and mountains from Paper Doll Dress up.  The mountains are cut at 5 3/4" wide, I cut a second layer to get the snow caps. The mountains are cut using gray shimmer paper (they look more subtle in person). The fir trees measure between 1/2" and 1". The grass layers are measured to 5 3/4" also. The little flowers are from Simply Charmed (with yellow liquid pearls centers) and the clouds are from CAC.  I added some inking around all layers and gel pen stitches around the black layer. Stardust Stickles adds the sparkle you see all over the card.

I added some matching blue and black mats to the inside. I added a Hero Arts stamp from the Big Hugs set and some white gel pen stitches.

Challenge:

Cricut Cartridge Chaos : Paper Doll Dress Up

Throwback Thursday : old cart and use green and yellow (flower centers)
Bitten by the Bug 2 : cloud

Apples for the teacher

I don't know about everywhere, but school hasn't quite ended here.  The last day of school for my boys is June 16th and I thought I'd share this project for all of you last minute crafters out there.

Todays project is an apple basket card set. All six of the apples are shaped cards with white card bases. What a perfect gift to give your favorite teacher, right??

Step one is cutting a bowl for all the fruit to sit in. I used the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge to cut a bowl using vellum. Using the Fit to Page feature, cut the Pioneer Girl on Accessory 2 (the bowl will cut between 30"-33"), or RDS or 11 3/4" on the Gypsy

If you have a Gypsy, just hide the contours and cut a second bowl out of white card stock (or whatever color you'd like your bowl to be).

 If you don't have a Gypsy I've written some alternative directions:

You'll have to glue the vellum bowl down onto white card stock. Using a glue runner, glue only the top rim (above the lip cut), around the edges, and the bottom of the bowl. Attach it to the card stock and hand cut the bowl backing.

Step two is cutting the apple from Preserves cartridge. I used apple 4. Cut all layers at 4 3/4".

Again, if you have a Gypsy the directions are easier (just weld the card base to be a apple shaped card). If you don't have a Gypsy, cut two base layers and attach them together at the stem/leaf with some glue runner. 

Put all your apples together and add doodle dots, etc.  I have to make two bowls of apples so I keep the doodling to a minimum! :)

I cut six apple cards to get a nice full bowl of apples.

Here is a picture of the apples all piled in the bowl.

See how they peek out of the vellum bowl?

I added a pocket to the back of my bowl to hold all the envelopes for the apple cards.  These are sized to fit an A2 envelope just fine. I think these would make a wonderful gift for the end of the year gift (like we are doing) or teacher appreciation, first day of school etc.

Challenges:

Celebrate the Occasion : School's out - Apples

Paper Variety : Fruity Fun

Off Roading Truck card

Here is a little card I made for my son's classmate.  Bryce (my 8 year old) loves that each and every member of his class gets a handmade card for his or her birthday. We usually make it together, but I assembled this card while Bryce was at school.  

I used "The Guy Stack" from DCWV for all the patterned paper. As you can see the blue bg paper has a glossy diamond plate pattern and the second hill is also glossy.

The hill and mountain are cut from Paper Doll Dress Up. 

The clouds are from Create a Critter at 1" and 3/4".

I used DCWV shimmer paper for the layers of the truck, blue for the truck body and silver for the bumpers. This truck is cut a 1 3/4" from Boys will Be Boys. The tires are up on pop dots and the truck is attached to the card base with a second layer of pop dots. I added some Star Dust Stickles to the headlight.

I inked the edges of the hills and mountains with black ink. The sentiment is printed on Post-it Adhesive Craft Paper. I used the Dinosaura font for the adorable sentiment that Bryce came up with! :)

Challenges:

Tacky Tuesday: Car/Truck + wheel or roll in sentiment

Cricut Cardz Challenge : Manly card + wheels

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge : Blue Skies + at least one cloud

Spring Birthday Card

Here is a spring birthday card I made today!! It measures

5" x 5" so I'll have to make an envelope for it! :(

I added a little bird to the tree in scraps of the back ground blue polka-dot paper.

I inked the bg paper, the bird and the clouds with dark blue ink.

The tree is glued under the grass like at the trunk and the top is attached with pop-dots.

I love this little sunshine.  I covered the center of it with glossy accents

and inked the golden layer with orange ink.

(Yep, I couldn't wait to take the pic and the GA 

are still wet... they'll be clear when they finish drying.)

I inked the grass and tree top with green ink and the trunk with black ink. 

Adding stickles and rhinestones to the purple flowers really made them shine (yeah, the flowers are actually dark purple and you can see the color through the glitter in person)!

The inside of the card got gel pen stitches (like the front of the card) and I put little eyes on all the birds with the same white gel pen. I thought the little bird family on the inside was oh-so-cute!

Supplies:

Craft  card stock base

Black card stock layer

blue polka dot paper is Heidi Grace

Green card stock

chocolate brown card stock

goldenrod card stock

orange card stock

Dark purple generic card stock

clear self stick rhinestones

Glossy Accents

Stickles

Gelly Roller white  gel pen

Pop dots

Scotch Quick Dry Glue

ATG glue runner

birthday sentiments are Scrappy Mom's Stamps

Cricut Cartridges used:

Preseves for the card base:  (it's just a tag so most any tag could work).  I sized the card base to 5 1/2" x 4 1/4", copied and welded the two to form the card. I coped the shape two more times to make the black and blue polka-dot mats (black @ 4" x 5 1/4" and blue@ 3 3/4" x 5").

Simply Charmed for the tree (3")

Serenade for the leaves, flowers and bird

Gypsy Wanderings for the sun (1")

Paper Doll Dress up for the grass layers

Challenges:Wacky Wednesday @ More Than Favors : Green Purple and yellow

Fantabulous Cricut  : Square card (mine is 5" x 5") + use green and gold (or yellow)

The Pink Stamper : Spring Theme

Pals Paper Arts : Spring or Easter

Halloween Blog Hop: Day 3

Thanks so much for joining me on the third day of the Halloween blog-hop!! I'm so excited you came back to craft with me again!  Don't forget to leave me a comment at the end of this post for your chance to win my blog candy for today!

 In case you missed it, here is a link to my blog candy announcement. 

http://cardsbycg.blogspot.com/2010/09/halloween-blog-hop-blog-candy.html

Yesterday was World Card Making Day so I thought it was only fitting that I share a card with you!

Today the project is the tunnel card.  You can easily make this card for most any occasion, but for our Halloween  themed hop, I made a Halloween card!

Here are the supplies you'll need for this card:

2 card stock base, both measuring 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"

2 coordinating CS pieces measuring 5 1/4" x 2"

1 frame piece

plus pieces to decorate the front and inside

Step one: start with a card base and a card inside.  Both will measure 5 1/2" x 8 1/2".  Fold one for the card base (4 1/4" x 5 1/2") and fold the other to match but then add two more score/fold lines, each at 2 1/4". Now your second card base (the inside of the card) will form the letter "M."

- see picture-

Here is the sample in white so you can see it better - I used black for this card.

Step Two: cut a window size hole in the center of the inside card. 

Again, here is the white sample.

I used a hole cutter to make sure the hole is centered.  Mine measures 3" but you can make yours measure as large or as small as  you'd like to fit your card design.

Step Three : Attach the inside to the card base.  I fold the whole inside up and start with one of the panels and glue it to the inside of the base. - See picture -Then attach the second side by applying glue runner and closing the card to attach the inside to the base. 

Step Four: I decorated the inside side panels with matching paper to the front.  The side panel papers measure 2" x 5 1/4"  (for the decorative paper). 

Then I cut a border for the window using Accent Essentials, Essential 30 at 4 1/4" and attached it all.

Step Five: Decorate the front.  I cut the front papers to 5 1/4" x 4" and 5" x 3 3/4" .  I added the adhesive ribbon across the bottom. I then used my ATG gun to attach the front to the card base.  I then added the "stitching" with my white Gelly Roll pen.

Step Six: I added the sentiment I stamped from an Inkadinkado $1 stamp to the front and attached the ghost using pop-dots.   On the inside I added the Happy Halloween stamp to the center of my card.  It was also a $1 Inkadinkado stamp. The spiders were PDDU also cut at 1", 1 1/2" and 2".

Step Seven: I attached the ghost (PDDU 4 1/4") and the mats to the front.

Black: 5" x 3 1/4"
Spider web: 4 3/4" x 3 1/2"

Here is the complete inside of the card:

Here are the details about today's project:
Papers used: generic cardstock, Heidi Grace "Jeepers Creepers"
Ribbon: KI Memories "Haunted Words"
Cartridges used: Paper Doll Dress Up
Stamps: Inkadinkado
Glues: Scotch/3M ATG glue runner, Zig 2-way glue

Thanks so much for joining me on the hop today.  Don't forget to leave me a comment to be
entered to win today's  blog candy.

Here is the complete blog hop line up so you won't get lost:


Jen at Purplescrapbooker
Georgiana at Carson's Cricut Creations
Dorcas at 4 Crafty Angels
Cheryl at Cards by CG (That's me)
Carri at abusybee
Star at Stars Paper Passion
Courtney at Courts Crafts
Yvette at The Little Things

Made by Momo Challenge: Hubby Challenge

Momo over at madebymomo.blogspot.com has the best challenge ever over on her blog!!  It's the "hubby challenge."  As much as I LOVED the challenge, my hubby was not the best sport.  With a little (okay, a lot) of prodding, my wonderful husband created this card for a very good buddy of his.

My husband, Roy, at the Cricut.

He used Paper Doll Dress up for the girl's top (3 1/2" on Real dial size). He needed help for the girl's body so I drew out the lines for her curves and he cut them out.  He also inked all the edges and tanned her body a little with a cotton ball and the ink. The background paper is from the DCWV summer stack from last year, is supposed to be a towel the girl is sunbathing on.

What better card for a guy to create??

This photo was updated when Roy decided to add the "Make a Wish"
 to the bikini top on 09-22-10

And, of course the girl's top "comes off" (opens up).  Roy thought it was a good teaser for there to be the sentiment under her top instead... the "happy birthday" is a studio G stamp from Joann's (so is the "make a wish" on the top).

Wow, she even has tan lines!! :)

Okay that last picture is a little dark... she doesn't 
look "Snooki" orange in person...

I'm sure my husband, Roy would love to hear your positive comments about his card... thanks so much!