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Monday, June 18, 2012

Beach Photo Frame


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Here is the photo frame I made for my Hubby for Father's Day. He loves to surf and lucky for us we live about 10 min from the beach :) Our last trip to the beach I got some very cute shots of him with our daughter  , so I thought a nice frame to put then in would make a nice Father's Day present.  
I started with a plain wooden frame I had bought from Michael's ages ago so I'm not sure what I paid for it but I think it was only a dollar or two. And I used the "Endless Summer" stack and "Mango Frost" stack from DCWV for most of the cuts.  I used my "Life's a Beach" cartridge for the surf boards and waves and for the wording  I used the "Cricut Font and Basic Shapes" 
Thanks for taking a peek! I love hearing your comments!

I will be linking this project here:

Do you like to go to the BEACH?
For Ch# 23 (Week 23) 
Create any type of project using any type of medium that has a BEACH THEME.

 For Ch# 77 it's Anything Goes plus add a Sentiment! Your project can be a scrapbook layout, mini album, card, altered frame, bookmark, anything!



Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Dino-mite Father's Day card

Yup another Father's day card! This is one I made for my Dad from my daughter (she calls him "Papa"). I am so happy with how it turned out!! It was really hard to get a good picture because all the folds/layers, so I took several, lol! I used the SCS tri-fold card tutorial, found here but I changed the dimensions on the side to 1.5" since I was only putting the skinny palm tree on it and I knew the volcano was going to be pretty wide.
Here's the recipe:

Papers: Sorry I used scraps again and the only patterned paper I used was for the volcano.

Cuttlebug folders: "herringbone" for the palm tree leaves and  "circles" for the dino skin

Cricut cartridges:
Create-A-Critter (of course!)
TRex- cut @ 3.5"
palm tree- cut @ 3.5"
"Dino-Mite"- cut @ 2.5"
volcano- cut @ 3"

Just Because Cards
"you're RAD"- cut @ 3.75" (cut off the "RAD")

Plantin Schoolbook
"Papa" - cut @ .68" and welded together

I love the way the white pen accents came out. It really helped the eyes pop since the colors were so dark! Thanks for checking in! Leave a comment I'd love to hear from you!

I will be linking to:

#115 - Father's Day
Make a card using an outdoors theme; hunting, fishing, hiking etc.

MY SHERI CRAFTS CHALLENGE #87 - Father's Day

Fun Friday Happy Father's day Challenge

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Turtle Father's Day card

I LOVE how this card turned out! My husband just loves the way our 16 month old daughter says the word "turtle" and asks her to say it all the time so I thought it would be the prefect theme for a father's day card for him! I used my all-time favorite cartridge Create-A-Critter for the turtles, clouds and speech bubble, and I used my new cartridge Wild Cards 2 to make the card and the grass. I hope he likes it but I'm pretty sure I don't have much to worry about there!
Recipe:
Papers- I mostly just used scraps I had so I'm not sure where I got them

CAC-
  • Daddy turtle cut at 1.5"
  • Baby turtle cut at 1"
  • bow cut at 1.5" 
  • speech bubble cut at 2"
  • clouds cut at 1" and 1.4"
WC2-
  • "grass card" (pg 33) cut at 4.3"
  • grass cut at 4.3"


I am linking this to:

 Cardz TV Challenge #10 ("My Guy" Create a card, gift or craft project for a masculine birthday or Father's Day.)

Shopping-Our-Stash challenge # 54 (anything masculine (colors or image, theme, etc) or Father's Day!)

Exploring Cricut  (Father's Day Challenge)