Bicycle Card

I love this bicycle from the Silhouette store!!  I had no idea it would cut this well. Added a little washi and bling......there you have it!!

 
Inside of card

 

Birthday Card

Just playing around with my Cricut Imagine. I really like this card on the Word of Mouth cartridge so I decided to bling it out. I like how it turned out.

 
Inside, simple

 

Embossed Butterfly Card

I got a chance to play around with my new butterfly stamp that I got from my dear sister-friend Felisa Montee. I think we both have fallen in love with this stamp. I first saw it at the Circle Mania event on a layered card and I was like "Wow, I gotta have that stamp!!" The butterfly and Hello is heat embossed and I used my new glitter washi tape in the middle.
Here's my picture:

Inside of the card

 

Here's the card I got from Felisa.  She did the heat embossing and bleaching method with distressed edges. I love this card!!

This is the card that saw at Mania. Isn't it lovely???

 

 

Birthday Card and Matching Gift Box

My project this month for the Bugbytes DT is a birthday card and matching gift box that I was asked to make, as a surprise, for a dear friend. Now this being a surprise and me not having a picture of my friend, I had to become a sleuth!! I stalked her facebook page until I found single picture of her that I liked and I copped it!!! lol I blotted out the background with an ink pad, embellished and then mad a matching gift box to put it in.

Here is the finished card.

Here's the inside

For those of you that may remember, I told you, in a previous post, about how I like to use the plastic domes with my cards. For details about how to use the domes, ckick on thi link:  http://danitasdesigns.blogspot.com/2013/03/acetate-dome-birthday-card.html

The Box

For the box I used my old trusty tool, the enveloper. It comes with instructions on how to make a box top and bottom, but you don't have to use this to make a box. I'll show you how.

The first thing you want to do is place your card in the middle of an 8.5x11 piece of cardstock. Cut a piece of scrap piece of cardstock the length of the paper and as wide as the depth of the card. In this case 1inch. Use this as your guide and mark each side of the paper 1inch.



Then you want to cut an angle on all four corners of the paper.

Fold and crease each side, turning the angle pieces inside.

Glue all the edges together with a glue you trust to hold. I use Scotch Quick Dry Glue. Paper clip the edges together and let dry.

There you have it! the completed box bottom. Easy!! 

Repeat the same steps for the top.

See this 5x7 card fits perfectly in this size box!

Thanks for looking!!!

"Meant To Be" Charger Plate

This is my spin on a saying that I totally Scrap-lifted from one of those quote sites that show up on my  Facebook timeline. I liked it, so I made one and that's that!! (they should stop posting on my timeline!!  lol) Everybody knows.....crafters Scrap-lift!!! We see it, we like, we make!!! 

Bahahahaha!!!!  Enjoy!!!

My Crafty Yard Sale Haul!!! Score!!! Update!!

So I stopped by a yard sale on my way work (late as usual).  It was 8:50 a.m.  I was told "the sale doesn't start until 9:00 am". Hmpppf!!!  I was a bit perturbed and said I wasn't going back because I don't need anything anyway!. Ten freaking minutes and I can't even look!! Just so happen the girls in the office wanted some doughnuts so I said I would treat them today and headed out to get the doughnuts. Well darn!!! That dang yard sale is right down the street from the doughnut shop!!! My car has a mind of it's own and it whipped down that street before I knew what was happening!!! OMG!!!  What was I to do?? I didn't want to piss off my car, so I got out to give her time to cool down. As I walked toward the "sale" I noticed about 5 women already booted over the bins!!!  My heart sank!!! Too late!! I asked about the Graphic 45 she had listed.  It was in one of the bins being hoarded by the women. So I waited and decided to browse. I turned around and the first thing I see is a Hello Kitty font cart for $5.00 and an ATG for $2.00!!! Are you kidding me???? That right there told me these hoarding women were novices in this Scrap Game and had no idea what was valuable!!!  I tell ya', I don't like to do yard sales, but this one here was well worth it!! The hostess were great and friendly (not the meanies that I original thought)  AND everything was negoitiable!! Here's what I got, all for $60.00!!. I probably could have gotten it cheaper but my heart would not let me do it, I knew what I had in my possession: ( be sure to scroll down to the bottom to see my biggest score!)

 Washi Tape-.50, glue pad-1.00, Distress Inks-1.00 each, Glitz rub-ons-.50 

Tim Holtz embossing folder, she let me have it for $1.00

Bling!!!  .50 each!!

More .50 bling and TH stuff.

 $1.00 Stamps!!

I love this one.....A "Man" Stamp! $1.00

 Now this......she used for her alcohol inks, but it's a Stickles holder!!  Yay me!! $2.00!!

Not sure about this one, but she said it's for spray mists, okaaaaayyyyy. I'll use it for sumptin'!! lol

 Now time for the Grand Finale'!!!

This is called a Craft-n-Doodle

I had no idea what this was. It was just sitting there in the corner all by itself. So I asked the hostess, "what's that?" It had a price tag of $40.00 OBO on it, still it peaked my curiosity.  She said "Oh that's a super cool craft cart, let me show you".  When she started opening up this thing, I started salivating!!! I said "SOLD!!!" She said, "but I'm not finished". I said "I don't care, it's going home with me!!!"  ( It ended up being about $30.00!!!) 

 

 Look at this baby opened!! You can snap out the storage pockets on the sides.

They separate!!!

The bottom opens out to a mini craft table!! Awesome!!!

  The top bin was full of stuff.  

 Ink pads (never used) mini stamps and handle, a paper trimmer, & an ink pad cleaner

The second drawer has a Circle cutter and blades and more trimmer heads!!

 

It has a cutting mat stored in the back pocket .

And you can also store card stock, up to 12 x 12. (Ignore my ashy hand, I had just washed them, lol)

The back has extra storage pockets too!!

Who knows, I just may start going to yard sales now!!

 

UPDATE!!!!

So the Hubs said  , "Maybe you should go back today, because you really didn't have time to really look yesterday on your break".  What?????  Well okay then!!! I didn't want to disobey my darling husband, now would I?  ( I'll pay for it later, trust me) Here's today's haul, $40.00:

Anna Griffin embossed card stock and Bo Bunny paper

  Glimmer chips embossed tiles, scissors, AG tags, chip board

 Dies, ink pads, embossing pads, glitter, washi tape, vellum quotes

Stickles, glossy accents-regular and crackle, and IDK what the white stuff is.

Sprays  and Smooch

Craft shelf