PRAYERS FOR AUBREY'S FAMILY

When my kids were little I had a young girl, Debbie help me with them.  She became the most amazing babysitter.  She is now a mother of three beautiful children.  Last week she lost her little angel Aubrey to a brain tumor. Aubrey was almost two and she fought cancer for almost a year.  I made these cards for Debbie and her mother.  Gold is the pediatric cancer ribbon color.

 The base of this first card is an Anna Griffin base.  I cut the Anna Griffin centerpiece twice on my Cricut Explore.  The beautiful ribbon is St. Tropez Gold by DL.ART.  The ribbon charm is from Michaels.

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All of the papers on this card are Core'dinations.  The base  and bird were cut on my Cricut using Anna Griffin Elegant Embellishments.  I embossed the center matt with an Anna Griffin embossing folder.
I am entering this into the  Little Scrap Pieces-Show it Off Saturday Linky Party,

TRANQUIL SYMPATHY CARD

A young man who I used to babysit passed away last weekend.  I made this card to send to his parents.  I began by making the base using my explore and Anna Griffin Garden Cards and Embellishments.  Then I cut the bird motif using Annas Elegant Embellishments. The brown part of the bird were on my desk from a different bird I was cutting.  The solid papers are DCWV.  The gold cardstock is Paper Source.  The flowers are Paper Studio.

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The inside sentiment is an Anna Griffin Stamp.  I am entering this into the FCCB Anything Goes Challenge.

FLORAL SYMPATHY CARD

I needed a quick sympathy card.  An old family friend passed away on Friday.  I looked through some images that I had colored a long time ago.  I don't know what digital company they are from.  I embossed some white Core'dinations cardstock.  Then I cut an oval of gold Colorbok cardstock using a Die Versions die.  The sentiment motif was cut with a Spellbinders die.  The recollections sentiment was embossed with silver powder by Paper Source.

FLORAL SYMPATHY CARD

My friend from high school lost her mother to cancer.  I made this card to send to her. I got my inspiration from 2 challenges.  DIE CUTTING DIVAS are having an April Sketch Challenge and BBTB2 are having a Spring Flower Challenge.  I used the Cricut cartridge "Florals Embellished."The base paper is Core'dinations, the floral is Authentique and the rest is DCWV.  I used 3 Girl Jam ribbon for the three stripes on the sketch.  The sentiment banner, sentiment and circle die are all My Creative Time.

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ANOTHER SYMPATHY CARD

My Sister-in-laws father passed away last week.  I made this card for her using Florals Embellished.  The patterned papers are from K&Company, the solid glitter papers ar DCWV.  Double Click Connections are having a Skittle Challenge where you hace to use a bow, button or brad.  The ribbon is from this cute new store in Niles CA, called Gorgeous Bits.  

MAGGIE WILL BE MISSED

My friend Tracie lost her Bernaise Mountain Dog, Maggie, to cancer.  I made this card for her.  All of the dies are MY CREATIVE TIME.  The dog related cuts are from "Loyal Friends", The sentiment is from "Live, Love, Bark" The clouds are "Stitched Cartoon Clouds."  The polka dot paper is DCWV.  The solids are Paper Studio Adhesive packs.  I love this paper for small pieces.

Challenges
DL.Art-January Linky Party
LITTLE SCRAP PIECES-Show It Off Saturday

SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS

This past weekend I had to make 5 sympathy cards.  A good friend of my husbands family passed away from breast cancer.  She was only 42.  I will miss her very much.  She was a great crafter.  Every holiday she made something cute, usually with candy in it.  My husband and I also had a few friends whose parents passed a way.  Here are a few of them

The papers are DCWV and K&Company.  I used spellbinders for the die cuts.  The center card is made from a punch out pad by Colorbok.  The Thoughts and Prayers stamp is from Unity.  The Sympathy stamp is from G Stamp.  The ribbon is from Karen at Little Scrap Pieces.

Favorite Thing Damask Decor

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Damask Decor is my favorite cartridge.  I had it for a while before I really appreciated it for all of the functions.  It is a great cartridge to use when you need a quick card.  I needed two sympathy cards.  The card function has many cuts that have a space to put a sentiment.  They also have envelopes.  I cut a bunch of different cards yesterday and  made two sympathy cards, in about 20 minutes.  I also love this cart because it has seasonal cuts on it too.  There are not two many layers and there is a lot of open space where you can use fun glitter papers or emboss the under layer.  There is also a fun tag function.  Karen at Little Scrap Pieces is having a "Favorite Things" challenge.  check it out CLICK HERE

FORMULA
Papers:S.E.I.;Core'dinations-whitewash; DCWV-glitter
Stamp:Studio G, Memento ink
Cricut:Damask Decor
Adhesive:Zip Dry

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SYMPATHY CARD Florals Embellished

Here is a sympathy card I made for a friend whose father passed away.  I find that the Florals Embellished Cartridge Works well when you want a large central image.  I chose pastel colors for the center cut

FORMULA
Base card-Joannes Essentials
Yellow pearl paper-Colorbok
Patterned background papers-DCWV Linen Closet
Papers for center cut-K&Company
Tag and borders-K&Comapny
Pearls and Dimensional dots-Recollections
Other adhesives-ATG and Red Tape
Cricut Florals Embellished 2.25"

SYMPATHY CARD #2

I made a sympathy card to send to my cousin.  (My uncle passed away last week)  I have one more to make for my other cousin.   I used "Florals Embellished"  I find it is easier to work with this cartridge when the cuts are large.  There are lots of layers.

FORMULA
Card Base-JoAnn's Essentials
Background paper-K&Company,all other paper DCWV matt stacks
Green flower under sentiment-K&Company
Dove-Florals Embellished-3.5 Circles(leftovers from other project, probably Storybook)
Cuttlebug with Swiss Dots and Divine Swirl folders
Sentiment-Stamps of Life
Ink-Vivid
Adhesive-3M dimensional tape, Zig 2 way glue pen, ATG
Flower sequin-from my stash

Starfish, Wild Card

I needed to make a sympathy card to send to my aunt in England.  I had been playing around with A challenge at BBTB2 where you had to use a starfish cut.  Also My Creative Time's Throw Back Thursday challenge is to use Wild Card and Embossing  The card is all gold and white (The black is what backdrop for photo)

FORMULA
Papers-Colorbok pearlescent and textured;DCWV-glitter paper
Cricut-Wild Card Star Shaped card 6"(pearlescent cardstock))frame(textured cardstock)
            Life's A Beach, starfish 6"
Cuttlebug-Divine Swirls, Tiny Bubbles
Tag-Colorbok Chipboard
Stamp-Stamps of Life
Inkpad-Tim Holtz
Pearls-Recollections
Ribbon-from a present
Adhesive-ATG , Aileenes Tacky Glue Pen
Challenges
BBTB2-http://heather-bittenbythebug2.blogspot.com/-Starfish
My Creative Time-http://www.creativetimeforme.com/-Wildcard, embossing
CCCC-http://morethanfavors.blogspot.com-Wildcard

my son Robert and my daughter,Emily at Capitola Beach

A Child's Year for a Friend Who lost Her Dog

My friend, Casey, Lost her dog on Easter Sunday.  Bailey was a beautiful, sweet Manchester Terrier whose heart gave out.  I went back and forth on what kind of card to make.  when our children were younger, Casey and I went camping a lot and Bailey would follow the kids around.  My son was a baby and we would put him in the playpen with Bailey.
My son was really being a pain last night, I had completed the center portion and was sitting at my table about to stamp the sentiment when I got hit in the arm with a ball.  It only affected the "G" So I didn't redo it. You gotta love 13 year old boys who think they are so funny.

FORMULA
7X5" card-DCWV Lemon Flower Stack
All other paper DCWV Lemon Flower Solid Matstack
Cricut Lacy Labels cut Yellow at 4.18; grey cut at 4.29"(I sized it up on my gypsy)
Cricut A Childs Year-cut at 2.41"
Ribbonn-grey-Michaels, Yellow Target
Flower K&Company from Christmas collection
Adhesives-ATG
Sentiment-Inkadoo, inkpad-vivid
 

About Challenges-A couple week ago I found myself making cards for challenges and cards that would fit into many challenges.  I started to loose focus.  And I decided to go about it diferently.  Now I write down all of the challenges as I read thru blogs.  Then I decide what kind of card I want to make, make the card and find a challenge to fit the card.  I use these challenges to grow as a designer so I will probably only enter a card into 1 or 2 challenges.

I see that CCCC-Cricut-Cartridge-Chaos-Challenge is  having a challenge using "A Child's Year"  http://twoscraptasticgals.blogspot.com/2011/04/cricut-cartridge-chaos-challenge-15.html

THURSDAY'S CARD

Today I made a quick sympathy card for a friend who lost her mom. I used Cricut Storybook cartridge for the filigree design and Sentimentals cartridge for the phrase. I decided not to layer the phrase, instead I cut the blackout design and wrote the sentiment in with a metallic marker. That's my dog's head on the bottom.
MATERIALS:
5 1/4"X8 1/2 piece of patterned paper(S.E.I Bissett)
white pearlescent paper-Colorbok Walmart)
lemon paper(Colorbok-Walmart)
aqua textured paper(Colorbok-Walmart)
Cricut Sentimentals Cartridge
Cricut Storybook cartridge
ATG gun
aqua SRX Metallic Colorsharp pen
Zig 2 way glue pen
DIRECTIONS
1. Score patterned paper 4 1/4". Fold
2.Cut white pearl square 3"; aqua square 31/2"(Storybook pg.60 accent blackout-shift)
3.Cut lemon filigree square 3"(Storybook pg.60 accent frame-shift)
4.Cut sentiment shadow 1 1/2" (Sentimentals phrase-shift) write sentiment in with marker
5.Adhere filigree to white square using 2 way glue.
6.Attach aqua square to to of car leave a 1/4" border on top. Add filigree piece diagonally on top of aqua piece.
7.Attach sentiment, bottom center, with pop dots