Immortal Love Mini Book

It is a work in progress. I went to JoAnns and bought the Immortal Love DCWV stack before the big midwest blizzard hit and spent about 6 hours working on this so far. I LOVE the roses the ladies at the DCWV booth wore at CHA and I watched the DCWV YouTube tutorial video to learn how to make them. Not very hard... and they turn out SUPER COOL!

So here is a sneak peak for now.  I go back to work on Monday, no more snow days...

So this is it for now, I will make a new post when I complete the album.

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Anniversary card

Just a quick and simple anniversary card for our friends 50th anniversary.

This was a quickly made card, but I did take the time

 to make the inside and envelope all coordinate.

I used pop dots behind the ring to give to front just a little dimension.

Images cut from the Sweetheart cartridge. Paper is DCWV.

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crafty calendar - Love
miami doodles - the magic of love
prarie fairy - for sweetheart

Abby Caddaby Birthday Card

For my neighbors daughter's birthday. Thought a shape card would be fun, I haven't played with Sesame Street cartridge for awhile and Abby seemed to be the perfect way to "wish" her a happy birthday!

I didn't take a picture of the inside but I have a great stamp that says "Wishing you a marvelous birthday!" and is surrounded by little stars. I stamped it in bright pink.

I went a little crazy with the stickles. But I can't help it. They are so much fun and they really look great on projects!

Random Memories Mini Album

For my sister in law to store her random memories and pictures.
Made with DCWV vintage paper stack and a few envelope and tag cuts from Just Because Cricut cartridge.

Instead of posting 10 pictures of each page I decided to make a video walk through:

There is a blizzard outside... So I made a mini album!

There is a blizzard (like a for real blizzard, I'm not hypeing it up) so I bunkered down in my craft room and started creating!   My dad is an avid bicycler so I wanted to make him a mini album where he could write about some of his biking adventures and keep little momentos of his various treks.

I found this Recollections paper about 2 months ago on clearence at Micheals and I knew it would be perfect for it.

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Untraditional baby card.

I wanted to make something for my friend who is having a baby, but I didn't want it to just be a card, I wanted to make sure that it was something that could be used and enjoyed for awhile.

Scalloped shapes and the letters were cut from the Once Upon A Child Cartridge, I embossed the small white layer with my Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder.

Entered in: Penny's Paper craft Challenge - Anything goes

Christmas 3D scene!

This was a fun one, and only took about 15 minutes! But it isn't foldable, so it turned out to be less of a pop up card, as originally planned, and more of a 3D pop up scence.

All images were cut from the Christmas Cheer cartridge. The trees in the back were embossed to add texture, the mustache and hat trim were applied with pop dots to give it some demenstion. I used paper tabs behind the Santa's and two of the trees to make them stand out from the trifold. The stars are strung from the ribbon and attached behind the santas with glue dots.

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Stampin for the weekend: Christmas Challenge

For funn challenges: Merry Christmas

Papertake weekly: Anything Goes

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Fussy and Fancy: Snow

Seasons Tweetings

Just a simple season card with a fun message.

 "Seasons Tweetings"

Bird paper: scrap

Bird cut from Create a Critter

Branch cut from Serenade

Card paper: DCWV Christmas stack

entered in the ABC challenge: K is for Keep it Simple

More paper doll scenes

My niece requested more paper doll background scenes for Christmas. I have been going crazy making these sets for her. I LOVE the paper doll cartridge! She has a full set of paper dolls and also a fairy tale castle scene.
(see link: http://carrieannscreations.blogspot.com/2010/04/paper-doll-extravaganza.html)

I was hit with the Christmas spirit and decided to make a nativity with all the characters as well. I love this one. I think I am going to make one for my daughter as well.

Here is a glance at the back of the trifold scene. I think I might have explained how I make these in the link above.

I think I will do a tutorial sometime about how I assemble these....
:-)

Non-paper project

At times I set down the paper and glue and pick up another material to craft with. I have been wanting to make new stocking to go with my Americana/Primitive decor for quite some time now. I found the time and in a few hours over two days time this is what came out.