Joys of the Season Polar Bear Card - ScrapbookPal Design Team Post

ScrapbookPal.com sent me the Joys of the Season Cricut Cart for November.  It is one of my favorite holiday carts and the polar bear is one of my favorite cuts.  Here is the card I made using the bear.  I hope you enjoy it!

Ingredients:
Joys of the Season Cricut Cartridge
Blue cardstock 
White cardstock
Snowflake stamp
Light Blue ink pad
Waterfall and Icicle Stickles
Swiss Dots Cuttlebug A2 Embossing Folder
Labels One Nestabilites Die Set (Largest label)
Rhinestones
Adhesive
Pop-Up Glue Dots
Scor-Pal
Xyron 150 Sticker Maker

Recipe:
Cut blue cardstock 5" tall by 12" wide. Score at 3" and 9" using Scor-Pal. This becomes the base of your card.
Cut 2 pieces of white cardstock 4 7/8" tall x  2 7/8" wide.  Adhere to front panels of card leaving about 1/16" of blue showing on all sides. Randomly stamp icicles in blue on the cardstock.  Use Waterfall Stickles to highlight a couple of the icicles.  Let dry!
Using the largest nestability from the Labels 1 Die Set, cut 1 on blue cardstock.  Apply thin line of Icicle stickles around edge.  Let dry!!
Cut Polar Bear Shadow (p.52) at 2.5" on blue. Also cut the scarf (Polar Bear Layers) on blue. Don't change the size.
Cut Polar Bear at 2.5" on white.  Emboss in Cuttlebug using Swiss Dots Embossing Folder.
Adhere white bear to the shadow bear and then add scarf.  What is a polar bear without bling, add 3 diamond rhinestones to his scarf.
Using pop-up glue dots, adhere bear to the blue nestability label.  Using pop-up glue dots. adhere this to just the left side of the card. This will allow the card to open from the right side.
Cut Merry Christmas (p. 75) at 2.5" on white.  Run through your Xyron X to make into a sticker and apply to inside middle section of the card.  For some bling, use Icicle Stickles on the letters and LET DRY!!

Frankenstein Halloween Card

Here is another card we made in my card class earlier this week just in time for Halloween.  This little Frankenstein is sooooo cute!  This was made using the Stampin' Up Top Note Die (p. 207 of the Idea Book).  He was very easy to put together and was CASE'd (Copy And Share Everything) from another demonstrator.  I will be posting photos of the other cards we made in the next couple of days.

Elements of Style Card

It has been a while since I have made any posts that are not related to the ScrapbookPal.com design team. I  was buried in the planning of a conference for 1,200 people for the last 2 months and have not had much time to craft.  Now that the conference is over hopefully you will see a lot more of me!!  Here is a card I made for a card class I did for the City of Longmont earlier this week.  This is a pretty simple card, but very elegant.  I CASE'd this from another Stampin' Up demo, it is not an original creation from me.

This was made using the Stampin' Up Elements of Style stamp (p. 133 of the 2010 Idea Book) and black and Old Olive classic inks (p. 166) and black and white card stock.  If you are interested in placing an order for any Stampin' Up items, please email me at ComeStamp@gmail.com.  If you are interested in attending one of my card classes, the next ones will be Holiday cards and will be held November 17th and December 8th in Longmont, Colorado.  The cost is $25 and you get 12 cards (3 each of 4 designs).  Contact me if you are interested in signing up and I can direct you to the correct website to do that!

Happy Hauntings Card for Scrapbookpal.com

I am so in the Halloween mood this year so when I got the Happy Hauntings cart this month I was so excited to start making cuts from it.  I hope you enjoy this little card.

Ingredients:
Happy Hauntings Cricut Cartridge
Orange 8.5 x 11 cardstock
Black cardstock
Yellow cardstock
Purple cardstock
Holographic Embossing Powder
Embossing Inkpad
Piece of clear packing from embellishments/stickers
Embossing Heat Gun

Recipe:
Using Design Studio, cut the 3DFrame (p.68) on black cardstock at a 5.142 height x 4.742 width.  Now you need to weld the Shift 3DFrame with the 3DFrame Layer 1.  These were sized at 5.245 height x 4.768 width, slightly overlapped and cut on orange cardstock. Once cut, score/fold down the middle of the card.  In Design Studio, delete the 3DFrame Layer 1 and cut the Shift 3DFrame by itself on orange cardstock.

Cover the black 3DFrame with embossing ink pad and sprinkle holographic embossing powder over entire cut.  Shake excess off and pour back into the jar and add lid before turning on your embossing heat gun!!  Heat the embossing powder until it becomes holographic/shiny.  Adhere with Tombow Liquid Adhesive to the top of the welded Shift 3D Frame.

Cut the Witch at 2" on black cardstock.  Sandwich her between 2 layers of the clear packaging and glue down the edges.  Glue this sandwich on the backside of the 3DFrame (inside front of the card).  Glue the extra Shift 3DFrame you cut earlier to the backside of the front of the card so that the witch is sandwiched between the 2 layers.

Cut 2 of Frame 9 Shift Layer 1 (p.46 - Spiders) at 1" on black cardstock.  Stack one on top of another with a Pop Up glue dot in between.  Do this with the other 2 and then adhere to the front of the card.

 Cut Dracula Phrase (p.28 - BOO!) at 1" on purple cardstock.  Cute Dracula Shift Phrase at same size for shadow on black.  Layer and glue.

Cut 2 of Bat1 (p.48) at 1" on black cardstock.  Cut yellow circle at 3.5" (I did this free handed but there are many carts with a circle).  Adhere the yellow circle to the inside back of the card making sure that no edges are visible from the front of the framed oval.  Adhere the 2 bats and word BOO! where desired.

ScrapbookPal.com Design Team - Card Project for June

This is the card I submitted for the ScrapbookPal.com Design Team blog.  I received the Cindy Loo cartridge which is the exact cart I was hoping to receive.  New projects will be posted about every 2 days so follow their blog and keep watching for unique and beautiful creations by all of the design team members!!

Ingredients:
Cindy Loo Cartridge
Doodlebug Bon Bon Crushed Velvet Flock
Tan Flock
ColorBox Fluid Chalk Cat’s Eye Inkpad – Dark Brown
ColorBox Fluid Chalk Cat’s Eye Inkpad - Blackbird
Glue Glider Pro and Permatac Adhesive
Tombow Mono Aqua Adhesive
Lime Green Stickles
Green Stickles
Pearls
Pop Up Glue Dots
Xyron Sticker Machine
Ribbon
Cardstock:
    Shiny Silver
    Dark Green
    Light Green
    Dark Brown
    Light Tan/Brown
Cricut DesignStudio Software

Instructions:
Using the Cindy Loo cartridge -  
     Cut Doily2 (page 69) at 5” on shiny silver, a dark green, light green, and dark brown.
     Cut Deer (page 61) at 2.75” on light tan/brown twice.
     Cut Squirrel (page 61) at 1.5” on dark brown twice.
     Cut a circle at 4.25” (I used Plantin Schoolbook)

     On the shiny silver paper trim along inside edge of circle cutting out the trees and animals.
     On the light green paper, trim out the center tree.
     On the dark brown, trim out the trees trunks/bases.

Use Tombow Mono Aqua to:
    Adhere the light blue circle to the back of the dark green paper
    Adhere the tree trunks to the dark green paper
    Adhere 1 deer and 1 squirrel to the dark green paper
    Adhere the silver doily to the front of the dark green paper covering the feet of the animals

Use Pop Up Glue Dots to:
    Adhere the light green trees to the center trees
    Adhere 1 deer and 1 squirrel on top of the ones you glued down

- Run the last deer and squirrel face down through Xyron Sticker Machine
- Apply dark brown flock to the front last deer and use Dark Brown Cat’s Eye to ink all of the edges 
- Use Pop Up Glue Dots and adhere it to the top of the 2nd deer
- Apply tan flock to the front of the last squirrel and use Blackbird Cat’s Eye inkpad to ink all of the edges
- Use a black marker to drawn in the tail and head shape
- Use Pop Up Glue Dots to adhere it to the top of the 2nd squirrel
- Add pearls between each scallop and smaller pearls to the light green tree.
- Outline the dark green trees with green stickles  and the light green trees with lime green stickles.
- Tie a thin ribbon around the neck of the deer and then add small black pearls for the eyes of both the deer and squirrel. 

Using Design Studio, weld 2 of Doily2 together overlapping about 1/2 inch.  Use the Hide Contour feature to hide the interior cuts for the card base on both.  Attach the finished card front to the welded doily with the Glue Glider Pro Permatac.

Card Submitted for Jen Young's Challenge

My friend Jen Young is hosting a sketch challenge each week on her blog.  This is the first week of the challenge and it is for a card.  Here is the card I submitted, I hope you like it:

Father's Day Card for my Father-In-Law

Here is my final Father's Day card.  I made this one for my father-in-law.  I am very lucky to have not only wonderful parents but also wonderful in-laws!  I hope he likes his card!! 

Father's Day Card for My Daddy

My dad loves to play golf so when I saw this image in my Graphic 45 Proper Gentleman pack I knew it was going on a card for him.  I think it speaks volumes when you use your FAVORITE paper for others!!  LOL!

Father's Day Card for My Husband

So last weekend I was at the monthly day-long swarm/crop I host and actually finished 4 cards and a circle pop-up album while I was there.  Here is the card I made for my wonderful husband for Father's Day.  The paper is from Graphic 45 which is my new all time favorite paper!!

The Front

The Inside - Sentiment is not in here yet

The Back - Added some stamp looking images from another page in the pack

Thinking of You Card

I had 4 friends in the last week who all needed a Thinking of You card so I came up with with design and assembly lined it.  Here is the card I came up with.  Please leave me a comment if you like it!