Birthday Card for Cousin (Tara, don't peek :))

I made this card for my cousin Tara's birthday.  She loooooves cupcakes.  Hopefully this one is cute enough to eat (even though she can't eat it, hehehe).  I fell in love with the saying on the inside...it just fit her.  If you can't read it, it says "Birthdays are natures way of telling us to eat more cupcakes"

I used the cupcake from Wild Card and the cherry and additional topper on the cupcake is from Sweet Treats.  Embossing folder is Spots and Dots.  Glitter for icing is PK Glitz Crystal glitter.  Cherry is coated with Glossy Accents.  Inside sentiment was printed on printer using Angelina font.

 

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Birthday Card for BIL

This is my first card using Sweet Treats. I used the card function for image #11 on the overlay (or page 34 of the handbook). The 'recipe' is below.

Cuts: (all images cut at 7 1/2")

• cards feature - cut with beige cardstock
• shift - cut with pink cardstock
• layers - cut with Coredinations Chocolate Box/mint green
• layers shift - cut with red cardstock
  

Cuttlebugged:

• cone/beige cardstock using Tiny Mosaic Texture folder
• top scoop of ice cream/Coredinations cardstock using Divine Swirls folder (make sure the stem isn't in the folder when running through the cuttlebug
• strawberry/red cardstock using Swiss Dots folder

I then inked the cone and strawberry to bring out the texture and all edges of each piece using Colorbox Cat's Eye Fluid Chalks. I then put a light coat of Glossy Accents on the strawberry to make it shine. Then I sanded the Coredinations cardstock to let the mint color show through. After that I adhered all the layers to the card and stamped with 'happy birthday' using Versamark and bronze embossing powder and applied heat. That's it!

By the way...I am very new to heat embossing. I learned on this card that it doesn't work so well with the small stamps ;)! Just a tip in case you haven't tried it before either. This is only my second try with heat embossing. Gotta start somewhere, right?

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Birthday Card and Nintendo DS Gift box for 9 year old Nephew

Well, I haven’t posted any projects in a while…to be honest I have done too many. Here is what I have to share with you…

Card is Gifts Pup from Paper Pups. Nintendo DS game gift box using Graphically Speaking for the Nine9 image for my nephew.

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More cards...

I have been enjoying my weekend of just playing with my Cricut. I have made a few more cards to share with you. The cupcake card is for my Mother-in-law’s birthday in Oct. The Hello Kitty card and sticker is for my niece’s birthday in November. The argyle card is for my Uncle’s birthday in November. So now that those are done I can start concentrating on a few other projects I have in mind. Hope you like them.

Instructions for cupcake card: Cut envelope first using fit to page option with Wild Card cartridge Cupcake (#30 pg 61) which cuts at 5 1/4". Cut card, liner and icons at 5 1/4".

Instructions for argyle card: Cut envelope first using fit to page option with Wild Card cartridge Argyle (#2 pg 33) which cuts at 6". Cut card and liner using blackout function @ 6". Cut Icons at 6", but wanted them smaller so cut again at 5 1/2".

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Paper Pup Cards

These two cards are from the paper pups cart. I made the hello (hi) pup for my great uncle and it was blank inside. I made the birthday pup for my uncle and used the relax cut from pp and simply wrote "We hope you have a nice, relaxing birthday." on the inside.

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