You Color My World

I've been wanting to make a wall hanging with positive affirmations to hang on my wall and I've also been collecting chipboard books from Maya Road. Well, I bought another one while at CKC-Houston a couple of weeks ago and decided the wait had been long enough. I started with my glimmer mist paints and painted the chipboard, then I covered it with beautiful black and white pattern papers, each in a different design. I used the You Color My World Sentiments set from The Cutting Cafe for the affirmations, then cut sentiment shapes from the Cricut Lacy Labels cartridges for each sentiment. This was such a fun project; all the ribbons and bling. It's going to be perfect on my wall.
Enjoy and TFSB

Birthday Greetings Inside & Out 1

I've been playing around with an all white card for a while now, but each time, I end of adding a little color to it, either with paint, glimmer mist or dimensional pearls. Well, not this time. I'm so proud of me. I embossed one layer of the card, then used pop dots to add some dimension to it. The butterflies were cut with my Cricut Expression and the Paper Lace cartridge. I added a little bling to the butterflies, but clear; still no color. I used a fabulous stamp set, Birthday Greetings Inside and Out 1 from the Cutting Cafe . I love this set because I do a lot of birthday cards and can't always think of something to say on the inside of the card; this set takes the guess work away.
Enjoy and TFSB

Let's Play Dress Up

Ready to play dress-up? Try this adorable dress shaped card from the Cutting Cafe. I had the pleasure of babysitting my niece and nephew this weekend; my little niece always wears the cutest dresses. Not that those dresses make a difference to her. She's generally crawling under a table in it or writing on it with a crayon. Maybe this will be one she doesn't draw on.
Enjoy & TFSB

Everyday is a New Gift

Every Day Is a New Gift digital stamp from the set by the same name, from the Cutting Cafe was the perfect stamp for this summer-time card. I'm very thankful for each new day and consider each a special gift from God. I hope that this will brighten your day.
Enjoy and TFSB,

It's Your Birthday

I wanted to make a masculine birthday card for a friend and I always struggle with colors and embellishments for male cards. I reached into my stash and pulled out these great brown and beige tone papers; maybe a little boring, but I love these colors. I paired the papers with a great background stamp from the Cutting Cafe's Bingo Month Card Set and dark colored accessories. Ummm, mission accomplished.
Enjoy, TFSB

Last Graduation Card

I've really enjoyed making graduation cards this year, for the graduating seniors at my church. Here's one that I made for one of the young ladies I've watched grow-up. I found this great Mind's Eye paper on sale at Hobby Lobby and thought the subdued colors would make great graduation cards.
Enjoy and TFSB

DAD's Day

Father's Day, what a wonderful time to let your dad know how much he is loved and appreciated. I have an amazing dad; we're very close and I take every opportunity to tell him and show him just how much I love and appreciate all that he means to me. So as I was looking through some of the digital stamps from the Cutting Cafe, I saw this set, Dad I Love You Text, and knew it would be perfect for the masculine card I wanted to create. I paired it with the great black and white striped paper I purchased over the weekend at Archiver's. I pop-dotted the layer right under the sentiment, to add some dimension, then added ribbon, because it's one of my favorite embellishments. I told myself that I wouldn't put ribbon on this card, but my hands went on auto-pilot to one of the ribbon drawers; what can I say?
Enjoy & TFSB,
Karen

Graduation with Bling

What's graduation without a little bling thrown in. I am trying to get a jump on the many graduation cards I need to create in the next couple of weeks. More to do, more to do.
Enjoy and thanks for stopping by.

Graduation Time - The Cutting Cafe

It's that time, Graduation time, and these two Graduation stamp sets from the Cutting Cafe are just perfect for the ocassion. I bought this sheet of muted colors pattern paper some time ago and remembered I had it some where and that the colors would be perfect for graduation season. I pulled out one of my Martha Stewart border punches, the big Swiss dots embossing folder, some ribbon and added a piece of black bling to set-off the cap.
Enjoy and thanks for stopping by.

Cup Cakes - The Cutting Cafe

Everybody deserves a special treat every once in a while, so here's a yummy treat for you from The Cutting Cafe. I used the Huge Cupcake stamp set for this card; along with pretty hot pink ribbon and one of my Martha Stewart border punches; don't you love it? I don't know if you can see the score lines at the bottom, but the lines were scored with my Martha Stewart score board. The "Time To Celebrate" sentiment stamp was from my stash. YUMMY, YUMMY!!!
Enjoy and TFSB

Sweet, Sweet, Sweet

Another chance to work on the girl's layout and add ribbon, flowers, silver painted leaves and butterflies. I am so loving this.
Enjoy and TFSB,
Karen

The Little Princess

What a great time I had working on this layout. In addition to using my Cricut to cut the crown from the Rock Princess, I painted it with the Pearl paint dabber from Adirondack. I also cut the "Diva" sentiment from that same cartridge and added some bling. It helped having great "girlie" pictures to work with.
Enjoy and TFSB,
Karen

For That Wonderful Mom

I wanted my first card for the Cutting Cafe Design Team to be a Mother's Day card. Regina, the owner of the Cutting Cafe has put together a great selection of digital stamps for Mother's Day. I used For That Wonderful Mom for my project.
I don't know that I've every been so nervous about posting a card, as I was to post this one. But, now that it's been posted, I'm ready to get busy creating more cards and projects for the Cutting Cafe.
I'm still working on taking better photos, so bear with me here.
Enjoy; thanks for stopping by.

Go Eagles

I whipped out the Locker Talk cartridge from Cricut, to cut the megaphones and layer them, and of course used one of my Martha Stewart border punches to trim multiple borders, to create a layout to help cheer on those little league Eagles. I keep my punches close by whenever I'm scrapping because they're what I reach for every time. Flowers, of course!!!
Enjoy and TFSB,
Karen

More Graduation

Enjoying the graduation pictures so much and it's that time of year again, so thought I'd design another "grad" layout. I had to work some pink (my absolute favorite color) in the layout.
Enjoy and TFSB,
Karen

Just Me

What a darling little girl. One great picture and an opportunity to create a layout with all my favorites, Cricut Mini Monograms cartridge, ribbon, flowers, bling, chipboard letters, paint and the paper backing from a pack of Prima flowers that I inked.
Enjoy and TFSB,
Karen

My Brother and Me

Having a great time with my Martha Stewart border punches, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, Maya Road mini envelopes and Spellbinders' dies. I wanted to create a layout that was feminine, but not to girly because there's a young man in the layout. Ummm, I think I got the right look.
Enjoy and TFSB,
Karen

Once Upon A Time

High school prom; what an awesome time. I created these two (2) layouts to commemorate a special time for a very special young lady. These layouts gave me a chance to pull out and use the Cricut Storybook cartridge, that I had to have months ago and didn't remember purchasing. I also used a Martha Stewart deep border punch for the hearts border. I guess this is part of using my stash.
Enjoy and TFSB,
Karen

Graduation Day

I've been working on a scrapbook project; having a great time. I completed this graduation layout using my Cricut, some fabulous paper from my local scrapbook store and bling by ZvaCreative.com. Stay tuned for more layouts.

The Cutting Cafe Design Team

Hi everyone:

I want to share my exciting news with each of you: I made the Cutting Cafe's Design Team. I got the news on Saturday morning. I am so exciting to have the opportunity to work with Regina Easter. I've followed her since her days on the Cricut message board. I am so looking forward to designing for her team and getting inspiration from other team members.

Please visit regularly for post to my site, as I participate in all the great challenges from the Cutting Cafe.

Thanks for stopping by,
Karen