Birthday Cards

Showing posts with label Cuttlebug. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cuttlebug. Show all posts

Sunday, February 5, 2012

50th Birthday

This was a quick card that I made right before leaving for the party. I didn't want to make it too much of a joke card but did include the 50 on the card.

I ran everything through the Cuttlebug folders that I bought at Pat Catans and have that graphic feeling. "Happy Birthday" was cut from the Gypsy Wanderings, "50" was from Blackletter and the border was cut from Paper Lace cartridges to fit on the 4.5" x 6.25" card. All the sayings were stamped from a set and I couldn't decide which one to use so I did most of them.

Friday, February 3, 2012

Penguin Birthday Card

For my new son in laws birthday, I created this card. He is a big fan of the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team.

The card is 4.5" x 6.25" in white in which I edged in yellow ink. I did size everything to fit in the Cricut Craft Room but cut and finished sizing in my Gypsy. There have been too many problems with CCR for me to waste my time trying to get everything to cut and I don't have the room to have the computer near my Cricut and still have a work area.

The triangle is cut from George in yellow and then adjusted the black to be 1/8" larger. The penguin is from Christmas Cheer but did not use the hat. In Everyday paper Dolls were the rest of the hockey items. I did cut two of the net, (one in black and the other in light grey) and then trimmed the black inside net to attach to the grey layer. Added black pen lines for additional detail and Stickles on the skates, puck and penguin. The "Happy Birthday" was a stamp and run through a folder with the Cuttlebug. The inside "Happy Birthday" was cut from Create a Critter with two layers for the happy. Mounted on a embossed folder that I found at Pat Catans craft store and then used a border punch at the bottom of the white card stock.



Another view


Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Birthday card

Sometimes I find a card that I like, maybe with favorite colors or just the shapes. This is one of those cards. Love black, white red or yellow combinations. Taking the idea and using what I have on hand I created this card. The "Happy Birthday" was a stamp and then mounted on red card stock. Used the Cuttlebug to emboss the cherries (with Stickles) and the saying. This is the inspiration for my card that is above. I did not have the cartridge that had the scallop circle or the ribbon. Love this card and the details that the Creator used!

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Wedding Announcements

Several more announcement cards. I uses various embossing folders and the butterflies that I cut from MS Elegant Cake Art cartridge @ 2". Some of the folders were from Sizzix and the Cuttlebug. All done with the same glitter paper.




I do like the butterflies on this cartridge but had to set them to cut twice and did it without the gypsy so that I could control the speed. The paper is heavier than most card stock.

The all white does look a little more elegant.





Monday, August 29, 2011

Wedding Announcements

Since it was a small wedding, the grooms mother wanted to know about announcements to be sent out.
The first pictures are a few of the cuts from Sweethearts cartridge on page 65. I had the glitter paper in her colors and decided to use them for the cuts. I emailed the bride with this selection for the announcements for her to pick which one she liked best. Well as it turned out, she liked the all and so I used them all for the cards. The "Just Married" was cut @ 3" and the car was cut @ 4" with all the layers cut also. I actually did this in the Gypsy and fit everything on a 12" x 12" paper so that I could cut multiple images at once.

These are a few of the examples with the cards made up. I did print the announcement details in both landscape and letter so that I could use either style. The image above was embossed first and since it had too much free space, I cut a small card shape and used a folder that just had the smaller designs on them. This one says "Forever Together" but I also used "Love" also


This one was very plain with just the cut file.


On this car, I cut the "just married" center image and just used it so the green was the background


On these last two cards, I just used the "just married" on the layers using different size backgrounds.



Sunday, August 28, 2011

Wedding Card

So after working on all these projects for the wedding, at the last minute, I made the couples card. Ran out of time and had to leave so I packed a folder with cuts and paper plus glue, tape, pop dots and any other supplies needed. I did run the paper through the Cuttlebug before also. The inside verse was printed although it wasn't shown in the picture.

The butterfly was cut from Elegant Cake Art on page 48. The heart was also cut from Elegant Cake Art on page 38. The stones were added as a final touch. They were both cut with the shadow feature and the pop dots helped to add dimension to the card. Always, Remember, Love was added from a package die cut that I had to run at the last minute to Joann's because I forgot the other ones that I made. They were also glittered so everything sparkled.



Saturday, August 20, 2011

Wedding Projects

First of all it was a great wedding. I have been so tired and have been relaxing since the event. So now its time to post some of the projects that I did for the wedding in the next couple of days.

These are the favors that were made from Tie The Knot cartridge. They were both cut
@ 11.5". The bride box was cut from the glitter paper and then embossed with the D'vine Swirls folder and the stones were added where all the cuts were made from the Cricut. A ribbon was added to hold the box closed. The groom wore a tan suit so that is why this was made in the color scheme but the paper had the two different side look when folded. The white shirt was cut from the same glitter paper as the brides dress. I did not finish putting the boxes together until the the candy was put inside so that the stress on the paper would hold up. Back view.


Side View




Since it was a small wedding, I only had to make 26 boxes. All the boxes lined up on my table.




Saturday, July 30, 2011

Christmas in July

WOW! Almost the end of July! The next two cards have two views, the closed and the open showing. This basic card instructions are from:
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/trishuttercard/

The snowmen and "Let It Snow are from Winter Woodland that were sized to fit in the Gypsy. The snowflakes are from the leftover from the shower and used various sizes. Stickles were also added for the bling.





The scallopped circle for this card was also cut from Winter Woodland and then run through the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder.
























Saturday, July 23, 2011

Christmas in July

I have had trouble posting more Christmas cards for the last several days, so hopefully this will work today. Two cards that I couldn't post earlier.

This card was made with the solutions cartridge that was a free download for buying the Gypsy with an offer from Cricut last year. Simple tree cut from this Christmas cartridge using a gold paper and the put on a green paper and just cut the shape around it using my rotary cutter. The stripe paper is from Hobby Lobby. Added stones to the top and the curly parts of the tree.

Bow added to the bottom.The angel and noel is also cut from the same cartridge in the same gold paper and run through the Cuttlebug with the Swiss dots folder. Had some gold brads and used the to put the rectangle on the white card stock.



As with these two cards, you can make them any size to go with the envelopes and paper in your stash.

Monday, July 18, 2011

Christmas in July

Another day of simple cards.
Using light blue card stock, make a A2 (4.24 x 5.5), you can get two cards out of 1 sheet of 8.5 x 11' paper. The Snowflake folder was then used and a free hand cut piece of white paper with the D'vine swirl for the snow with stickles added.
Cut from Hello Kitty Greetings, I used the snowman on page 77 using the colors as shown on the page. Remember to always have the real size feature OFF when cutting images that are layered. The greeting Merry Christmas was cut from Wild Card on page 74. The best suggestion for cutting sizes is to use the Gypsy or at least use CDS to get the sizes that you want. You don't have to cut from CDS but it is a tool that helps you get sizes without wasting paper for fitting designs on a page.

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Christmas in July

Very simple card and oh so popular among friends and family was this card. I did find the idea from someone else on the web.
I did use the Gypsy to weld two circles to form a card that was opened at the top. I did size the circles to be 1/2" smaller than the base and the head just a little bit smaller. Embossed each of the circles with a different folder. The "stick arms" are cut from Christmas Cheer page 63 but hid the scarf and hat on the Gypsy. A ribbon was used for the scarf folded slightly off center. Pop dots were used to place the layers together. Stickles were use for the nose and the eyes were small flat black beads.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Christmas in July

Since I have been working on wedding stuff and enjoying the weather, I decided to do the Christmas in July CARDS. These were sent last December and I don't think that I ever posted any of them. I am starting with the easiest cards that I used scraps of paper. No Cricut! I did these because I ran out of time and needed a few extra cards to send.
Cut a thin brown scrap of paper for the trunk of the tree. Four different scraps of green cut at various lengths and just glued to a embossed white paper. Added a star brad for the tree top. DONE! When I look at it now, I think I would cut the strips a little narrower and add one more color.This card was done the same way but punched one edge with a border punch and then rounded the top edges with a corner punch.

Very simple but when you have limited time they are easy to do.


Thursday, June 30, 2011

Wedding Invitation

After trying to decide what to do for the invitation, my daughter chose this tri-fold card. Although this is my sample, the other cards went home with her on Sunday. I did not use the Cricut for this card which is different for me.

The main card is cut @ 6.25, x 9.25. This was to fit in a folder that I had with the birds on it. I had to "dress" the folder and change the plates to put it thought the Cuttlebug. It worked fine on the sample of printer paper but then when I put the glitter paper in, the lines had torn the paper. In this photo, you cannot tell but it is a glitter paper and was hard to print because it was so thick but I finally got it through the printer.



The flower was a Spellbinders Nestabilities flower which cuts and embosses. I could cut the scraps that I trimmed from the 12" x 12" paper that was trimmed to go into my printer. A stone was added to the center of the card.


Added a ribbon and a separate bow


I was not sure how well the glitter card stock would stick together to each other so I did cut an extra flower and pasted it on the inside of the card.




Also embossed the flap of the envelope.










Monday, May 16, 2011

Invitations

So finally the invitations for my daughters shower are done. These are the final result after I had her visit Joann's in Pa. for her to choose the right purple.
It came to 1o different cuts from the Cricut to create, with 2 strips also cut for the band.

The first thing that I did was to choose the scalloped Invitation of page 72 of the Tie the Knot cartridge and size for it to fit in the A 2 envelope. Next was a tag to weld with the Elegant Cake "Celebrate". The tag was embossed with the Swiss Dots folder and then both sides of the invitation was done with the D'vine Swirls folder before putting it together.


The flower was from Tie the Knot and was sized in the Gypsy at 1.65" so that i could shadow at 1.75" with the lighter shade. The leaves also were cut the same size but cut two of the leaves and one was mirrored and the smaller leaf was hid. On the tag, I put the flower and the leaves were put on the envelope.

Using the computer, the info was printed and sized to fit on the bottom of the tag so that when you lifted the tag the info was located there.


I cut a strip of green card stock 1.25" and then punched both edges with a Martha Stewart punch. I could not find the right color ribbon so then I did put a 1/4" strip of the purple on the green and then the ribbon so that it would give it the right shade.


All the invitations scattered on the table before getting them put together in the envelopes.




Saturday, May 7, 2011

Invitations

These are the invitations that I am working on for my daughters shower. We are doing this through the Internet since she and her future mother in law live in a different state. It is difficult to interpret the colors through the colors on the screen.

This is the first card that I made using the flower as the theme that is closest to the tropical type of theme that I have in my cartridge library. A simple card with a border. The next day, I created this card using a tag feature with the word Celebrate from Martha Stewart Elegant Cake with all the layers. The scalloped pocket is from Tie the Knot as well as the flowers. The purple color is what I thought was the color. The border is cut @ 1.5" and then punched on both sides with a Martha Stewart punch. A strip of purple paper is added to the center. All layers were embossed using Cuttlebug folders (D'vine swirls and Swiss dots). Details for the invitations will be printed and put on the bottom of the tag.


So the colors were not quite right on the first card so the two cards are next to each other with a shadow effect on the newer card. The one on the right will be the choice.


A brighter, lighter purple, 1.25" punched border. Will be looking for the ribbon to match instead of the purple strip.

At least with the blank samples, I will be able to use these cards for other occasions.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Bunny treat box

First of all, I want to say this is not my original idea and here is the link to the post where I first saw this project: http://community.provocraft.com/Cricut-Community_postst63716_Little-Bunny-Purse-Treat-Holder.aspx She has posted the directions on this blog and want to Thank, SandraCoe. In my Gypsy, I was able to cut two @ 5.5" on the mat. I wanted the box a little bigger but then thought I'd have to add too much candy so that is why I then did the 5.5" size. I did a test cut on a scrap of paper and cut all the lines, then went back and got rid of all the fold cut lines so that it left a cleaner finish. The ears were cut at real size and also hid the outside cut lines to cut the inner pink part of the ears on another page. Still need to add a Velcro dot to hold the flap down.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Waterfall card

I do love the effect of the waterfall card so this is the second one that I created but this time I used stickers that I had from a kit instead of the embossed squares. To hold the strip better that holds the carrot strips, I did use 4 flower brads on each corner.
The Happy Easter was cut @3/4" and each letter had the blackout feature with two shades of orange so they would fit going along the sides of the waterfall.
As an afterthought, I found this bunny stamp so he did not stamp correctly because I already used the Swiss dots folder to emboss so then I added Stickles.
And now the inside of the card: I used the green paper to hide the back side of the brads, then thought it looked a little plain so had another sticker with seeds on it and then added the grass and bunny that was cut from Kate's ABCs.

Monday, March 28, 2011

1st Birthday Card

For this card, I used my Gypsy to get the sizes that wanted starting with the card cut @ 5.5" with the scallop card on page 52 in the Wild Card book. Next came the circle to cover the middle section of the card front which was cut @4.75" from George and used the Swiss Dots folder to emboss. The next step was to open another page on the Gypsy to get my sizing for the cupcake on the Baby Steps cartridge which I found that 4" was a good size. I cut all the layer mostly by the suggestions in the book except that I didn't like the green. I ran the light pink through the Cuttlebug with the D'vine Swirls folder and the dark pink with the Distressed Stripes folder. I also cut the blackout feature of the card and cut it in half so that it would cover the ribbon on the backside of the card because the ribbon was not reversible. Added the Stickles to finish the look and a stone for the center of the flower. Ever so slightly, on the white of the candle I did add 1st and outline with a gel pen.
The Happy Birthday was from Gypsy Wanderings and just cut to almost two inches because the words are stacked, it worked out to about an inch for the words.