Hello Kitty 1st Birthday Card

My granddaughter's 1st birthday party was this past Sunday, and here is the card I made for her.

This is an A2 size card (4 1/4 x 5 1/2"). The base and all solid cardstock is Recollections. The patterned paper is Lucy (a retired Close To My Heart (CTMH) B&T paper pack).

For the front of the card, the patterned paper layer measures 4 x 5 1/4". I used the Hello Kitty Greetings Cricut cartridge to cut Hello Kitty at 3 1/2", I used the Hello Kitty Font Cricut cartridge to cut the number 1 at 2" and I used the Stampin' Up! Bitty Banners stamp set and CTMH Archival Black exclusive ink pad for the sentiment and cut it out using the coordinating die set and my Cuttlebug. I used Recollections glitter on the flower on Hello Kitty's head and the number 1.

For the inside of the card, the patterned paper layer measures 4 x 5 1/4" and the solid layer measures 3 x 4 1/4". I used CTMH's retired Card Chatter - Birthday stamp set and CTMH's Archival Black exclusive ink pad for the sentiment.

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Birthday Card

My future daughter-in-law's birthday is December 13th, so I made this card for her.

The card base is an A2 size (4 1/4 x 5 1/2) card made from Bazzill cardstock.  On the card front, the first layer is 4 x 5 1/4, the second layer is 3 1/2 x 4 3/4. I used the Elegant Edges Cricut cartridge for the mat that Hello Kitty is on.  The mat and shadow were cut using the oblong feature at 3 1/2 inches.  I used the Hello Kitty Greetings Cricut cartridge to cut Hello Kitty at 3 1/4 inches.  All the patterned paper is from The Paper Studio Birthday Extravaganza paper pack. The rest of the solid cardstock is Recollections. Since the "balloon strings" on the cut were so thin and broke, I used Queen & Co. twine for the balloon strings and then added a bow made from the twine to cover up the ends.  For the inside of the card, the layer is 3 3/4 x 5.  The sentiment is from the CTMH Card Chatter - Birthday stamp set, and was stamped using the CTMH Archival Black Exclusive Ink Pad.

Halloween Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Halloween blog hop hosted by the wonderful Yolonda from Crafty Scentiments! You should have arrived here from the very talented Terri's blog. If you didn't, you can go to Crafty Scentiments, start at the beginning of the hop and have a chance to win a Cricut cartridge. I'm sure you'll see a lot of wonderful Halloween projects on this hop.

Here is my project, which is a Hello Kitty Halloween card.

Gypsy Screen Shot of the cuts:

The front and inside of the card:

I used the Hello Kitty Greetings Cricut cartridge to cut Hello Kitty and the pumpkin.  Hello Kitty was cut at a height of 4 1/2 inches, and the pumpkin was cut at a height of 2 1/2 inches.  All cardstock used for the cuts is Bazzill.  The base is white cardstock, and the patterned paper is something that was in my stash.  The stamp used for the sentiment was purchased at Michaels.


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Here's the Blog List in case you get lost along your way.

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Becka from http://www.creationswithbecka.blogspot.com/

Tammy from http://www.scrapcavecreations.com/

Michele from http://www.michelegreen.com/

Betsy from http://betsymcreates.blogspot.com/

Tracie from http://www.thecraftytouch.blogspot.com/

Sherry from http://macybella.blogspot.com/

Terri from http://tdycreativegal.blogspot.com/

Amy from http://www.clearlystamping.blogspot.com/

Paulette from http://scrapalette.blogspot.com/

Birthday Cards

Yesterday was my son's 18th birthday, and it was my mom's birthday as well.  It's been so busy with end of the school stuff for my son, that I was short on time to make birthday cards.  Anyway, here are the two cards that I whipped up for their birthdays.

Here is the card I made for my Mom.

Here is the card I made for my son.

Here is the screen shot from my Gypsy for my Mom's card:

I used the Sweet Treats Cricut cartridge for the cake and it was cut at 2 1/2 inches high.  I used a card base bought in a pack from Hobby Lobby, the background cardstock is from The Paper Studio Birthday Extravaganza paper pack and all solid cardstock is adhesive backed cardstock I bought from QVC a few years ago.  The buttons are from the 3 Birds Cute As A Button kit I bought from HSN.

Here is the screen shot from my Gypsy for my son's card:

The car was cut from the Hello Kitty Greetings Cricut cartridge at 2 1/2 inches high, Happy Birthday was cut from the Gysy Wanderings cartridge at 2 inches high and the Candles were cut from the Sweet Treats cartridge at 1 inch high.  I used a card base bought in a pack from Hobby Lobby, the background cardstock is from The Paper Studio Birthday Extravaganza paper pack and all solid cardstock is adhesive backed cardstock I bought from QVC a few years ago.


I think the cards turned out pretty good considering I completed them both in about 45 minutes.

Thursday, January 14th

I got a pleasant surpise when I got in my car for work this morning. Beth left me two messages on my windows. Here are the pictures.

Also, today is Lawrence's 16th birthday. I sure wish he lived near us so we could celebrate with him.

I also wanted to add some scrapbooking things to this post, so here pictures of the Hello Kitty I cut from the Hello Kitty Greetings Cricut cartridge and SpongeBob Squarepants that I cut from the SpongeBob Squarepants Cricut cartridge. SpongeBob was kind of hard to assemble since some of the layers were small.

Made Ethan's Halloween Card

Last night I actually found time to get out my Cricut Expression and made Ethan's Halloween card. I used the Hello Kitty Greetings cartridge and the Martha Stewart Drippy Goo punch. I still have to put the sentiment on the inside, but here is the outside.