Easter Card

Happy Easter!

I don't have a cartridge with a cross cut out, so I opted for the bunny tag from A Child's Year. (Love the tag feature on that cartridge!)

I used a dark purple for the tag, it felt Easter-y to me, and then used a pale peach to back it. A simple stamped message and a few pale pearls to finish it off!

Entered in the following challenge:
Paper Play Challenge: Easter

Garden Journal Mini Album

My mom is an avid gardener. I am an avid scrapper. I also just got a bind-it-all and the Mariposa DCWV stack. So what happens? A garden journal mini album!

 The green ribbon is attached to the back cover so that even when it is untied to open the journal the ribbon won't fall off or get lost.

 Cards in the envelope are for keeping notes on when seedlings are started and when things are planted in the garden.

I love this page. The last tag in each stack in attached to the paper. The others are just held together with the brads. This allows them to be fanned out or stacked. My though with this page was that she could take notes on bugs that attacked the veggies and how she delt with them.

The secction that says seed notes is an accordion fold that pulls out into 6 square boxes for taking notes on seeds.

The tags are attached and can be used for notes and the envelope on the right page can be used to store notes or to hold pictures of the garden.

You always need a place to store Misc info!

A final page for more notes and an envelope to keep pictures of the garden and her favorite flowers.

The end (with a nice pocket for a few more notes or pictures).

Birthday season

Spring means birthday season for me. Between my family and my husbands family we had 6 birthdays to celebrate. I didnt' have a chance to blog the cards individually so this is a multi-project blog.

This one is hard to see. But it is a penny slider card. My first attempt, and I was very pleased with how it turned out. I should have made a video of it. (Maybe next time.)

Here is the website I got the directions from:

http://www.card-making-magic.com/spinnercard.html

This lady has a bunch of card directions. I highly recomend checking her out!

  

This is my first accordion stand up card. I love the stickers (from my stash) and the paper is the new DCWV Celebrations stack.

 This is my favorite of all the birthday cards. This is my horizontal stand up accordion card. I made a zig-zag support on the sides of the frame so that the green frame stands out about a 1/2 inch from the paper. I then punched a hole in the top center for the frame. Threaded a cute paperclip through and hung the cake from it. I don't know if you can see it in the picture or not, but the cake is full of stickles for lots of extra sparkle!

I used these directions as a base and then adjusted it to my own needs:
http://www.card-making-magic.com/tentcard.html

Paper: DCWV, Cake cut from Simply Charmed Cricut Cartridge.

 This is a stand up card (see picture below to see the stand up feature). Simple and fun. I love the digi stamp (I have many on my computer, but this is the first time I have actually printed and used one.) The particular stamp is a Dustin Pike digi. Love his work! http://dustinpike.blogspot.com/ He gives away freebie digis every once and awhile.

Entered in the following challenges:

ABC Challenge: S is for Sparkle

A Spoon Full of Sugar: Let's Celebrate