Frosty Kisses

Isn't this little chap cute?! He's the nicest looking snowmen yet on ANY of the Cricut carts. Some of them are downright horrible ! I used the 'card within a card' format again and papers from last years DCWV Christmas stack (poinsettas) and Papermania. I cut the little chap as a tag from icy blue glitter card and again as just the snowman from white glitter card. I cut his accessories from red & cream glittercard. I cut the shadow from blue mirri & embossed it with a Fiskars snowflakes texture plate. I layered it up with foam pads and added a printed Prima flower and swirly blue ribbon. I added red gems to the tag. I cut out Frosty Kisses from blue mirri ,embossed it and adhered it inside the card.
Cart used:
Snowman tag, snowman & frosty kisses- Winter Woodland
Thanks for dropping in!
Heather

Baby Gatefold

Thought I'd try a different fold for a card (and a different occasion!) and decided to try a gate fold. This is A5 size and folded from A4 with a scoring board. I used papers with baby related words for the outside & paper with faint images on them (from The Works) on the inside. I covered both fronts with the script paper and the back with the other paper, both matted onto the relevant coloured cardstock. I cut a 6 1/2" scalloped frame and a smaller panel to fit inside it. I embossed this panel and adhered a small strip of punched paper to the bottom of it. I added ribbon, a bow & pearls. I cut a scalloped oval with the word 'BABY' cut out of it from glitter card. I backed this with a scrap of the same paper as the inside back. I added a layered flower and some leaves and a rattle button which I enhanced by colouring the spots on it with a permanent marker and adding some glitter glue. I finished it with some pearls and then adhered it with foam tape to the front panel. The finished panel was then adhered to the front of the card with DST. I cut 'welcome baby' from glittercard with a plain cardstock shadow and adhered it to the inside back of the card.
Carts used:
Scalloped 'BABY' oval & rectangular frame- A Child's Year
Welcome Baby- Ashlyn's Alphabet
Thanks for visiting!
Heather

Reindeer Greetings

I was really chuffed with this card when it was finished. I think that it looks really elegant-what do you think? I used papers from Creative Cardmaking magazine. I cut the bauble from red glittercard and the bauble backing from gold mirri card, which I embossed with a Fiskars texture plate in the Cuttlebug. I layered the bauble up on foam pads and added a red flower with rose centre and a gold bow. I used gold mirri for the matting and added 3 gold candy dots to finish. The inside sentiment was cut from mirri card and adhered flat. The card looks way better in real life-the colours are much more vibrant!
Cart used:
Deer bauble & sentiment-Winter Woodland
Thanks for looking!
Heather

Happy Birthday Amy!

One of the little girlies who lives next door(there are 3 of them & 3 little fellas on the other side!!!) was six on Sunday and this is the card that I made for her. I used papers from DCWV and pink & green glitter card. I mounted the birthday girl icon onto a white oval with green shadow, then onto a scalloped oval. I added a striped Doodlebug ribbon bow and a layered flower. I cut the letters out of green glitter paper from Crafttime with a pink shadow & adhered them onto white cardstock letters. These were then adhere to the top of the card above the oval. I added scalloped strips and a sentiment to the inside of the card.
Carts used:
Scalloped rectangle-Celebrations
Scalloped oval-Storybook
Plain ovals-George
Birthday Girl Icon- A Child's year
Amy-Ashlyn's Alphabet
Happy Birthday-Stamping Solutions
Thanks for dropping by!
Heather

Baby on the move!

I thought that this crawling baby would make a great 1st birthday card. I used paper from DCWV Nana's Nursery in lilacs & greens. I added some stripey ribbon, buttons,a rosebud and some lilac bling. I cut the baby and 1 from glittercard and adhered them with foam tape. I also cut the inside sentiment from glittercard and adhered it flat. By the way, I think that the baby was cut a tad too big, but heyho!
Carts used:
Baby & 1- A Child's Year
Inside sentiment- Ashlyn's Alphabet
Scalloped rectangle-Celebrations
Thanks for looking!
Heather

For Mummy

Here's another card-within-a-card. I used lovely pastel freebie papers from Creative Cardmaking. The card was made in exactly the same way as the others but this time I used a lacy edged mat. I cut the image from aqua glitter card and adhered it with foam pads. I added ribbon, layered flowers,leaf branches, some bling and a sentiment inside.
Carts used:
Mother & Baby & lacy mat- A Child's Year
Sentiment-Ashlyn's Alphabet
Leaf branches-Stretch Your Imagination
Thanks for looking!
Heather

Bon Voyage!

A standard A5 card for you today! I made this card for some friends of ours who were returning to the States after spending several years in London. I used papers from DCWV in a lovely pale blue stripe & houndstooth check and Papermania brown polka dot . I teamed it with brown cardstock. I cut a brown scalloped circle and blue circle & layered them up. I punched a hole in each side of the circle embellishment then threaded blue & brown striped Doodlebug ribbon through and secured it behind the panels. I cut the 'journey' icon and adhered it flat to the circle. 'Bon Voyage' was cut from polka dot paper and doodled with faux stitching. I added a silver aeroplane to the front of the card and a smaller one to the inside along with an 'enjoy the ride' icon.
Carts used:
Journey & 'enjoy the ride'-Graphically Speaking
Bon Voyage-Life's A Beach
Aeroplanes-Going Places
Thanks for looking!
Heather
p.s No1 son was home from uni for the weekend so we went to see Disney Pixar's UP in 3-D. What a hoot!See it if you can. There is also a 3-D version of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol coming up with Jim Carrey in and it looks AMAZING! Will deffo go & see that one!