With Sympathy Card

Ok I just had to make this card.

Credit for the idea goes to Jeannie over at http://www.aplaceformycards.blogspot.com/ and Bobby and Jill over at http://cricutcouple.blogspot.com/.  I loved their cards.  If you haven't seen their blogs you should check them out.  The are both wonderful and inspiring. 

I thought this would make a beautiful sympathy card. 

So here is my version of their cards.

Cartridges used: Create A Critter, Pooh and Friends, Speaking of Fall,

Storybook, Walk in my Garden and Wild Card.

The card base is 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" in a beige cardstock.

The maroon cardstock is cut at 5 1/2" x 4 1/4".

The flower paper is cut at 5 1/4" x 4".

The maroon and flower paper are from the Paper Studio Mirabelle paper stack.  This is a very beautiful and elegant stack.  I love the papers in it.

Create A Critter: I used this cartridge to cut the butterfly on the inside of this card.  It is found on page 64 and is cut at 1".

Pooh and Friends:  I used this cartridge to cut the butterfly on the front of the card.  It is found on page 24 and is also cut at 1".

Speaking of Fall:  All of the leaves are from this cartridge all cut at 2 1/8" found on pages 19, 20, and 36.

StoryBook:  I cut the frame 2 times in the maroon paper and 2 times in the beige paper.  They are all cut at 3 1/2" and are found on page 66.

Walk in my Garden:  The flowers are all cut at 1/2" and are found on page 30. 

Cut 15 for the front of the card and 6 more for the inside of the card.

Wild Card:  With Sympathy is cut at 6 3/8" and is found on page 32.

I inked around all of the edges and added Icicle Stickles to the butterflies and to the centers of all of the flowers.  Used a black gel pen to add detail to the center of all of the flowers and a green gel pen to add detail to all of the leaves.

Inside of card.

Thanks for looking.  I would love to hear your comments.

Easter Egg Painting

Here is an easter card that I made for my grandkids.

The cardstock was actually white.  I made my own version of glimmer mist.  I used yellow with a few sprays of purple.

On this card I used my Easter 2010 and Storybook Cricut cartridges, Cuttlebug, Copic Markers, gel pens, chalk and a Peachy Keen Stamp.

The bunny coloring the egg was colored in with copic markers. 

The purple frame was cut out from Cricut Storybook cartridge.

Eggs, Happy Easter and the blackout for Happy Easter were cut from Cricut Easter 2010 cartridge.

I then ran the eggs thru the Cuttlebug, swiss dots folder.

Chalked all the edges, used my purple gel pen to add a little stitching around the stamp, and you can't see very well from this picture but I used a white gel pen to stitch around the edge of the whole outer edge of the card.