Cardz TV Gallery Critter Captions For the Birds

Hi Everyone! So glad you stopped by today. I've got two kid's cards to share with you today. Cardz TVs Critter Captions and For the Birds are the two stamp sets I used. For the critter images I used the Cricut cartridge Animal Antics. What could be cuter than a hippo on a scooter or a toucan driving a car for a little getaway vacation. I have a 6x6 paper stack called American Road (made by Paper House) with fun travel papers that were perfect as backdrops for these two cards. As you may have seen in some of my previous posts, I've been making cards to send to my 3 1/2 year old grandson weekly while his daddy is on deployment. I just know he's going to love the cards I made for this month with a travel theme (scooter, car). I hope you'll stop by again to see my other themed cards for this month.

The Cutting Cafe Valentine Word Window

It's a Valentine project this week for The Cutting Cafe. I've used the VALENTINE WORD WINDOW SET-TEMPLATE AND CUTTING FILE for my design today. This is an awesome set that comes with 9 mini background printables, 6 Valentine Window cards, 2 envelopes and 7 miscellaneous images. I used the SVG cutting file and my Silhouette to cut my card from kraft cardstock and the top printed layer (word and heart). After assembling the card and layers I did a little embellishing with some paper flowers, leaves and a little lace. You'll want to be sure to stop by The Cutting Cafe Blog on Saturday (FEB. 7th) to see the rest of the projects from the Design Team. You're sure to be inspired. Thanks for stopping by.

Cardz TV Stamps Note Card Set

Today I'm sharing a set of note cards I made for the Cardz TV Stamps Gallery. I put these together very quickly using a metal wafer die from Simon Says Stamp called Heart Parade. This die cuts the heart outline (I used black cardstock for the outline) and also cuts the inside pieces for the inlaid look. I used several different coordinating patterned papers from an older 6x6 paper pad from KAISERCRAFT called Chapter one. These papers are thinner which allowed me to stack two pieces at a time to run them through my die cutting machine. As you can see from the photo I mixed up the different pattern papers on each card. I love how these turned out and I like the simple, clean look. After I had the cards assembled I looked through all my Cardz TV Stamp sets for "heart" sentiments. There were a lot. In fact, so many that I actually made another four cards.

Here are the different stamp sets I used-Hugs & Kisses, Heart to Heart, Encouraging Thoughts, and Heartfelt Wishes. You can purchase them at Mary's Cardz TV Stamp shopping page HERE.

The Cutting Cafe Calendar set

This week at The Cutting Cafe the Design Team is showing off creations made with the 2015 Day Calendar Printable set. Lots of possibilities with this set. You can make a calendar for your desk or use the printable day sheets to create a card like I did here. I made a 4.25" square New Year's card. I simply printed out the day, and added it to a base card. I used white cardstock for the base card, topped it with a colorful chevron print, added a turquoise mat behind the day, then did a little embellishing. A pre-printed banner from my paper pad (Hampton Arts) that I fussy cut, a few die cut balloons and a die cut scalloped circle with a Happy New Year sentiment that came from another Cutting Cafe set called Happy New Years Printable Stamp Set.

AHOY! Pirate Bear

Hello, my crafty friends! As I mentioned in a previous post, I have a series of cards to send to my 3 year old grandson this year while his daddy is on deployment. I'm continuing with my bear theme for the month of January and today I have Pirate Bear. I cut him with my Cricut using the Teddy Bear Parade cartridge at 3.5". I've been using stitched rectangular dies from My Creative Time to put all my cards together. It makes the process so much quicker to be able to cut these stitched layers for my cards. I also added a little sand dune and a blue wave which are also My Creative Time dies.

Hubby and I have been working on this "deployment" project together. For his part he has been composing letters to go in the cards. He has been sorting through our photos from when our kids were small. He usually scans a couple pictures of our son into his letters and writes a story to go with them telling what the pictures are about. Kameron has been enjoying having his mommy read the letters to him and listening to the stories about his daddy when he was a little boy.  It's fun for us to reminisce and to share some family history with our grandson. I encourage all you grandparents out there to share family history with your grandkids as a legacy for your family.

The Cutting Cafe It's About That Time

Happy New Year to all my crafty friends! Did you all spend New Year's Eve watching the clock for the magical time of 12:00 and the beginning of another year? Wow 2015! This week at The Cutting Cafe the DT has a free week to design with any Cutting Cafe file we desired. I decided to use an oldie but goodie called It's About That Time printable stamp set. This set comes with all kinds of clocks and time sentiments, 77 images, to be exact.

I was looking for a masculine feel to send a card to my son so I used the pocket watch. If you've read any of my recent posts you know that my Marine son deployed a couple weeks before Christmas. I've made it my personal mission to send him cards as often as possible while he is deployed, as well as his little 3 year old son he left behind. I thought this pocket watch was the perfect image to go with my sentiments. I decided to stamp my own sentiment with an alphabet stamp set from my stash. Sometimes you just can't find the perfect sentiment and need to make your own. Having an alphabet stamp set can help you do this. I used papers from the Simple Stories Yearology 6x6 paper pad. I added a die cut chain cut from textured gold cardstock and a few die cut stars scattered around. This card went together very quickly because all I had to do was print the pocket watch, hand cut it then assemble the card. Just for fun here is another card I created with the same stamp set. Love this card. It makes me think of my grandma and the cuckoo clock she had. Make sure you head over to The Cutting Cafe Blog on Wednesday, January 7th, to see all the fabulous designs from the Design Team.

Sympathy for Payton

My sweet little granddaughter, Payton, lost her pet hamster on Christmas Day. If we were in Michigan, where she is, I could give her a big hug. Since we are in Florida I decided to send her a little card to let her know that Nana and Pop are sad for her. I found this cute little hamster on the Cricut Four-Legged Friends cartridge. I cut the image at 3.5". To make the card I started with a white base card (A2 size), topped with with a pretty blue mat that I cut with my My Creative Time Stitched Rectangular Frame dies. Next I added a speech bubble on the top edge and stamped the perfect sentiment on it from the MCT stamp set Live, Love, Bark. I also heat embossed a gold halo above the hamsters head with a stamp from this same set. To go along with the sentiment I stamped a tiny red heart on the hamster. I found the little heart in the MCT Build a Post Card Stamp set. I know that Payton is really going to love the card and knowing that we feel bad for her. I'm sure that we will be getting a phone call from her soon to tell us all about her new hamster. Her mom said that they will be taking her to the pet store for a new furry friend.