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For my son’s “bestie”  (best friend) birthday, I created him a Dinosaur birthday card using Paper Doll Dress Up.  I really like the dinosaurs on the cartridge, but never knew how to use them.  I figured the wording “dino-mite” called for the use of a dinosaur, so when I realized I could use that wording for the sentiment, I ran with it!

I cut the dinosaur out in green, but to give it some color, I chalked his outside ridges with a darker green.  I drew in the lines that the Cricut so graciously cut for me, so that he’d look like a real dinosaur, and not just a cut out.  I used glitter paper, and cut it, and used coordinating blue paper a little larger to mount it on, and then mounted it all on a white 5 x 7 card. He was turning five, which for these little ones is a big deal, so I cut out the number five using Plantin School Book, and the circle to surround it and then the scallop (again, I forget which cartridge that one comes from).  Added green ribbon and stapled it on there; I love using staples! It’s like a different type of embellishment that is CHEAP! LOL.

Some other views are below:

I placed the dinosaur and the five medallion on pop dots to add dimension. I think it was a big hit, I know his mom loved it!

I topped it off with a personalized envelope:

Thanks for looking!

Samantha

My husband never asks me to make him cards.  I guess he’d been seeing stuff I was playing around with and decided to ask me today OR maybe he thought it was time he put my investment (or should I saw “his” investment) to good use! So he asks me to make his grandmother a card. 

Can I be honest? I loved that he asked me to make a card for him!  I feel like he takes my hobby/passion seriously!  And obviously, he thinks I have some talent in order to trust me to make his grandmother a card.  Now some background…he hasn’t given his grandmother a card OR a present for her birthday in years.  So I knew it needed to be a good one!

So thanks to my YouTube obsession, I had been practicing with layering different sizes of flowers cut with the George Cartridge and balling them up in my fist to make them “ruffle”. This was the base of my card.  I also used Everyday Paper Dolls to cut a gorgeous butterfly.  I cut four up, and folded them in half and glued each one together on its side until I had it glued around, and then was able to make it pop out.  Here is the end result below:

I used a stamp for the sentiment. It had balloons around the wording, but I used my stamping markers just to color the wording part, and stamped that on an oval, cut out from the George cartridge.  I used some ribbon to thread through to and mounted all on brown cardstock.  I used the letter “J” on the George once again for my stems and cut out leaves from Plantin Schoolbook. I added some glitter to the butterfly and again, had it popping out of the card to make it 3d-ish. I held down all my different flower cutouts with a gemstone brad. Some other views are below:

I don’t remember the dimensions for all the flowers, it was really a trial and error with the layers.  I suggest playing around by cutting one large flower several times, and decreasing the size by 1/4” each time.

I think it came out really nice, I almost didn’t want to send it to her!  Lately, that has been my problem, I’ll make cute cards, but decide not to send them out because they were too cute, lol.  My husband really liked the end result, and even remarked that he didn’t know it would come out “that nice”. 

Next time, maybe I’ll cuttlebug the brown cardstock to give it some texture.  I’m still learning how to incorporate it in the things I’ve been working on. Thanks for looking!

Samantha

Hi all!  I know it’s been forever since I’ve updated my blog.  And I’ve been super busy in my craft room, just been so busy I hadn’t had a chance to update with all my great projects! 

In September, we went to visit my aunt and my mom in LA, California, and in middle of the trip, we went to Las Vegas, my first time visiting the city!  And with any first visit, comes a bunch of pictures… I think I took more than 300!  Anyway, my mom, was a visitor as well, so not only did my aunt had to bus me and my family around, she also had to accommodate her! I was so thankful for all the fun we had, and her opening up her home to me and my kids, so I decided to make her a thank you card.  But wait, how ‘bout a thank you card that can also hold a cd of all the wonderful pictures I took during our visit with her?

Below is pictures from my combo thank you card and cd holder.  Unfortunately, I didn’t keep dimensions, and being it was some time ago when I made it, I don’t even remember all the logistics behind it.  I can tell you I used my cricut, and I used Plantin School Book and George to make the embellishments and wording.

I made it so that the thanks could be removed and used as a sleeve to keep the card closed. The thanks was cut using end caps and placed on black cardstock which was adhered on both ends to make the sleeve.

I made the flowers with Plantin School book and surprisingly, I figured the “J” on the George cartridge looked a little like a stem when placed just perfectly under the flower.  The grass, if I remember correctly, came from Plantin also. 

I cut two smaller pieces of white cardstock to handwrite my thanks on them, and used ribbon to tie the cd to the card. I probably should’ve made a label for the cd, cause it would’ve enhanced the interior better. I used coordinating paper, the polka dots, which I also used to enhance the envelope.

All together, I think it came out really cute.

Thanks for checking it out! If you decide to make one on your own, please let me know, I’d love to see your version of the thank you “slash” cd holder!

Samantha