Thank-You Cards with a Mascot!!!

My good friend is in the middle of her first year as a Cheerleading Coach at East High. The girls have been fund raising all summer and have gotten many donations from the local businesses. Here are the Thank-You's they ordered from me with their mighty eagle on it!

Hope you have a great year girls!

The eagle is cut from Car Decals at 3 1/2"

All of them are embossed with different Cuttlebug folders.

The sentiment is stamped in black and is from the Greetings stamp set.

Hope you like 'em!

Bundle of Joy Card!

A good friend of mine just recently had a niece born! She's been struggling healthwise since and still has a ways to go, but I wanted to make a card for her family celebrating her arrival at home! Here's what I came up with..

The baby girl is cut from the Baby Steps Cartridges at 3 1/2" on my gypsy.

I used the D'vine Swirl Cuttlebug folder to add some dimension to my cloud.

My card was A2 size, but I trimmed about a 1/4" off of the top so I wouldn't cut into a block.

I originally thought that these colors were too bright for a baby, but I couldn't resist the background paper from the Nana's Kids stack.

The sentiment is stamped in pink and is from the Baby stamp set.

Stickles bring out her cute little bow, and ribbon from Joanns completes it!

I hope you like it, and please pray for this sweet baby girl!

Throwback Thursday Challenge!!!

Hello everyone!!! I have been so busy with school and weddings that I have been neglecting my blog!! I figured I'd get back into it by participating in Emma's Throwback Thursday!

I made this card for my boyfriend's mother who absolutely loves dragonflies!

This is from the live simply cartridge, which isn't that old but is one of the older Cricut Lite Cartridges.

The dragonfly is cut at 3"

I embossed his body with the Swiss Dots folder.

The sentiment is from My Pink Stampers Birthday Crazy set.

Background paper is from DCWV Summer Dream Stack.

I used stickles in the circles on his wings.

Hope you like it!!



Congratulations Card for a Friend!

A good friend of mine recently became a Cheerleading Coach at one of our local high schools! I decided to make her a card to say congrats! The schools mascot is the mighty eagles so I was thrilled to see this eagle on the Car Decals Cartridge.

The eagle is cut at 3.5". I left out a layer to keep my eagle gold because that is their main color.

I used the Seeing Spots Cuttlebug folder to emboss the white layer on my card

Inside I used the Cheerleading stamp set to make it look more Cheerleading related.

Hope you like it!

Congratulations!



Happy Mother's Day!!!

I thought I'd take a break from the National Scrapbook Day madness and make a post for Mother's Day!

My mother has to be the most important part of my Grotto! She is always there with me, giving me her perspective and keeping me company. It's so hard to make things for her because she's always by my side cheering me on, like she has my whole life. I owe everything to her from my life, to my happiness and also my strength. I love you very much Mama and I hope you have a wonderful day!

My Mama's favorite color is blue, but I was feeling very pink and floral when making my cards so luckily I found a patterned paper in my stash that was both!

The sentiment is from Wrap It Up and I used a border punch and Stickles to jazz is up!

One thing my Mama doesn't like is to be called Mother, so for her banner I put only MOM!

The banner pieces are from Straight From The Nest cut at 5 1/2"

I embossed the pink layer with the D'vine Swirl Cuttlebug folder.

The letters are from Country Life cut out at 1 1/2"

I used light pink and blue 5/8" satin ribbon for the strings and little knots .

I love you Mama!

I also made a card for my sweetheart's mom.

She loves dragonflies so here's what I came up with for her...

The cute little dragonfly is cut at 3" from Doodlecharms.

Cuttlebug D'vine Swirl and Stickle really make him pop!

I used Pink 1/4" ribbon to make my sentiment stand out.

I don't remember where I got the stamp I used from but it's pretty!

Hope you like 'em!

Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful Mothers out there!

My Pink Stamper National Scrapbook Day Challenge #8

Challenge #8! Holy moly I'm getting exhausted but there is still more to come. Challenge #8 consisted of making a project summer themed. Since my favorite part of summer is Independence Day I decided to make a card for it!

Here it is!

My hat is cut from the Independence Day cartridge and embellished with Stickles.

My background is embossed with the Stars Cuttlebug folder.



The brads and ribbon are from Hobby Lobby

My sentiment is from the Celebrate Spring set by Recollections

Hope you like it!

On deck is Challenge #9!

My Pink Stamper National Scrapbook Day Challenge #3!!!

Yay! I'm keeping up! For the third challenge of the say we had to make something Breast Cancer themed. I decided to make something 3D since my last two were cards. This has truly been a day of challenges for me since I'm stuck working without my beloved Gypsy :( Luckily the amazing people at the Provo Craft Warranty center have a new one on it's way to me! I can't wait. Thankfully I've seen all of Robyn's videos so I can navigate very well around my Expressions. You can see all her videos at

http://www.mypinkstamper.com/p/projects-videos.html

I used one of the goodie bags from the Cricut Lite Slumber Party Cartridge cut at Fit to Page so it'd be as big as I could cut on a 12x12 sheet of pink cardstock.

It gave me a 3x3 box so I cut a 2 3/4" piece of light pink and used the D'vine Swirl Cuttlebug folder to emboss it.

The ribbon is 1/4" bright pink from Joanns

The heart brad is from Hobby Lobby  

My sentiment is stamped in bright pink.

I tossed some leftover Easter grass inside to complete it 'til it's filled

I've never known anyone with Breast Cancer, and I pray I never have to. My heart goes out to all the women we've lost to it, and to all the strong survivors of it.

Hope you like it!

Next is Challenge #4!

Batman Birthday Card for a Special Person!

This card is for my Boyfriends sister, Kandi. She absolutely loves Batman, so I decided to make her a girly Batman card for her birthday. Her actual Birthday was on the 16th. With school and being sick, my love and I hadn't been able to do anything with her til tonight, so we are having her over for supper!

My card is A2 size.

The Blue layer is embossed with the Stars Cuttlebug folder.

My sentiment is from My Pink Stampers Friends and Family Stamp set.

The Batsign base is cut from Batman the Brave and the Bold Cartridge at 3 1/4"

I used my Gypsy to make an extra layer so my batsign would be 3 colors.

The little yellow layer that my 1/8" pink ribbon is on is 2".

For my inside layer I used yellow and also added the inside of my Batsign to left side of the card for extra decoration.

Hope you like it!