Cardz TV Mailbox Challenge

Hello Crafty Friends! It's time for a new Mailbox Smiles Challenge over at Cardz TV. For my Design Team card I used the Cardz TV stamp set "Just Chillin". I needed another birthday card for a grandson. I decided to make this one a little interactive for him and went with a shaker card. The "Just Chillin" stamp set has this adorable penguin along with an ice cream cone image. I stamped the ice cream cone in a pretty turquoise color and turned it upside down for a birthday hat by adding a little twine and an enamel dot to the top. I think it turned out so cute. I also added an enamel triangle in orange for the penguin's nose. For the shaker element I used a frame from Pretty Pink Posh and filled it with sequins and tiny birthday related images from Lawn Fawn. I stamped a sentiment from the "Just Chillin" stamp set onto a banner for the top of the card. I hope you'll play along with the challenge and link your card over at the Cardz TV blog for your chance to win some Cardz TV Stamps. As always the theme is anything goes.

The Cutting Cafe-Fun with Bingo Cards

This week at The Cutting Cafe Blog the Design Team is featuring projects created with any of Regina's Bingo Card files. I used the SUMMER BINGO CARDS printable stamps. I chose the bingo card titled FLIP FLOPS because I thought it would be adorable with some die cut flip flops on it and I knew I had some flip flop paper in my stash I could use for the background. I simply print and cut the file then attached it to the background paper. Next I added a die cut circle, the sweet little flip flops and a cute sentiment banner. A quick and easy card to send to my granddaughter who just finished her last day of elementary school. I can't believe she'll be off to middle school come September. The years pass so quickly.

Make sure to head to The Cutting Cafe Blog on June 21st to see the other amazing projects the Design Team created. My favorite of the bingo card files is the Christmas one. I've used it many times to make a fun bingo game for the grandkids to play for the holiday. Check this link to see one of them. I've also done a Halloween version here. Now would be a great time to whip up one of these and have it ready for the holidays. Thanks for visiting today.

Cardz TV Mailbox Smiles Challenge

It's time for the new Cardz TV Mailbox Smiles Challenge. For my DT card I decided to make a birthday card for my grandson. I've said this before, but boy cards are such a challenge for me. I decided, what boy doesn't like to eat? So I looked through Mary's food themed stamps set and chose this Hot Dog sentiment from the Cardz TV Stamps Set "Foodie Punnies". I cut the hot dog image from the Cricut cartridge Simply Charmed and added some googly eyes for a little extra fun. On the inside of the card I used the sentiment "It's Your Day & Happy Birthday" from Cardz TV Mini Messages.

I hope you'll have a chance to play along in the challenge. Link your creations, Anything Goes theme, over at the Cardz TV Blog. You'll have a chance to win some of Mary's Cardz TV stamps. Thanks for stopping by.

The Cutting Cafe Road Trip

I can hardly believe that the summer season is upon us. We are usually on our annual trek north to visit family and friends at this time of year. Sadly, we have no plans to travel this summer because we feel the trip would be too difficult on our aging dog. Last year's trip was really rough and for the first time he didn't do well in the car. We know our time with him is getting shorter because he is 14 years old, so for now we'll stay close to home. But, speaking of road trips this week's Cutting Cafe assignment for the Design Team was to use The Cutting Cafe Road Trip Time Again Printable stamp set. This set is so darn cute. It comes with 74 images and two shaped cards. Lots of bang for the buck with this set. I used two of the background images (road and large polka dots) for my card, then added the adorable car with the trailer on the back. I printed and hand cut all my images for the card. After I added the car and trailer I cut out the cute stack of luggage, tied a piece of hemp twine around it and added a little tag to the top of the stack. My sentiment is cut from another colored background piece that has all kinds of travel phrases on it. To finish the card off I decided to add some silver sequins to the centers of each tire. You'll want to see all the other fantastic projects from the Design Team. You can catch them at The Cutting Cafe Blog on June 7th. Thanks for visiting today.

Cardz TV Mailbox Smiles Challenge #3 A Father's Day Card

Hello Friends! It's time for another Mailbox Smiles Challenge at Cardz TV. As all of Mary's challenges for Mailbox Smiles it's an Anything Goes theme, so the Design Team will have a variety of styles and occasions to show you. I decided to go with a Father's Day card this time around. I used Cardz TV Stamps You're The Man stamp set and I also used Mary's newest sketch (#22) for my card. If you aren't familiar with Mary's Sketches you can find them at the Cardz TV blog by clicking on the "Mary's Kit & Kaboodle Card Sketches" tab at the top of the blog. Sometimes it's fun to have a starting point for a card when you can't think of how to begin and I find these sketches to be a valuable tool in my arsenal. They are free to download by clicking on the sketch and saving them to your computer. I've printed all of mine and keep them in a small inexpensive photo album I found at Michael's for $1.00.

I knew I wanted to use the "King of the Grill" sentiment so I went on the hunt for an appropriate image to use. I found the perfect grill guy on my old cartridge Block Party. I took a little design freedom with the sketch by making my background strips a little longer and instead of using a circle, like in the sketch, I used an oval. The sentiment I used comes in the stamp set stacked. I cut the words apart to place them in a long sentiment banner. I hope you'll play along with this challenge. You can enter your creation over on the Cardz TV blog by linking your card for a chance to win some of Mary's Cardz TV Stamps. Thanks for stopping by today.