My Sheri Crafts #82

MSC Turns Two!

My Sheri Craft is now two years old!  To celebrate... this week's theme is all about birthdays for the little ones.

I created this project for my niece, Emily, who will be turning 2 years old.  I made these goodie boxes using a Dunkin Donut box template I bought for $.27!  LOL!  The girl at the counter looked at me when I told her I just wanted to buy the box.  Of course, I bought a donut as well, but I had her put it in a small bag.

• Box dimensions - 7" x 4.25" x 6"
• Paper - DCWV
• Stamp - all images of the animals and colored with Copics
• Stamp - "don't feed the ANIMALS"
• Clouds are cut out from K&Company paper
• "Happy 2nd Birthday Emily" is computer generated
• Cricut cartridges:
• CM Traveler - sun
• Don Juan - "2"
• Paper Doll Dress Up - leafy trees
• Plantin Schoolbook - grass

Card Sketch Challenge: 3-28 (sketch 2)

I made this card for no one in particular but since I have so many friends  and family members that like Nintendo... it won't be a problem using this up.

This is also using this week's Ad colors (black, gray, red, and orange)

• Card size - 8.5" x 5.5"
• Papers - DCWV
• ek success - border punch
• Image downloaded from the internet and printed on photopaper
• Sentiment is a WordArt from Microsoft Word
• Cricut cartridge: Wild Card - orange frame

Made for RAQ's 3-28 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by Turtlebug

Card Sketch Challenge: 3-28 (sketch 1)

The first of many Mother's Day cards I need to make... LOL!

• Card size - 8.5" x 5.5"
• Papers - DCWV
• Fiskars - corner punches
• Martha Stewart - border punch panel
• Sentiment is a stamp colored with gel pen
• Flourish is cut with SCAL (copied from Cheery Lynn)
• Cricut cartridge: Tags, Bags, Boxes, & More - tag

Made for RAQ's 3-28 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by Turtlebug

JustRite Friday Challenge: #069

Spring Fling

This is my first card entry to JustRite Friday Challenge.  Now that Sheri Holt (our awesome DT leader at My Sheri Crafts) is the new official host for this challenge... I will try and support her and participate each time.

For challenge #069, we are to use "soft spring" colors.  I'm not exactly sure if my card qualifies as "soft spring" colors.  LoL!  Looks more vibrant summer colors to me.  Oh well!  We're also supposed to have at least one butterfly and of course, use some sort of JustRite stamp on the project.

• Card size - 4.25" x 5.5"
• Papers with coordinating strings - Basic Gray
• ek Success - triple butterfly layers
• JustRite stamp - Times New Roman 50pt. "Hello"
• Sizzix - leafy branch
• Spellbinder - Fleur de Lis Squares
• Flowers and butterfly painted with glitter glue

Card Sketch Challenge: 3-21 (sketch 3)

I saw this "Just wanted to say HI" stamp for $1 and had to get it since it's what I always text to friends I haven't talked to in a long time

• Card size - 5.5" x 8.5"
• Papers - DCWV
• Cuttlebug - embossing
• Sizzix - leafy branch
• Spellbinder - rectangle
• Sentiment tag is a stamp
• Skittles colored with alcohol inks
• Image downloaded from Precious Moments Coloring and colored with Copics and glitter gel pens

Made for RAQ's 3-21 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by RAQ

Card Sketch Challenge: 3-21 (sketch 2)

I made the butterfly for another project about two years ago and I've held on to it and wanted to finally use it.  The flowers have also been in my stash for at least five years.

• Card size - 5.5" x 8"
• Papers - DCWV
• Fiskars - corner punch
• Sizzix - leafy branches
• Sentiment is a stamp and heat embossed
• Cricut cartridge: Indie Art - butterfly

Made for RAQ's 3-21 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by RAQ

Card Sketch Challenge: 3-21 (sketch 1)

I made this super simple for my daughter, Kiara.  She adores Pink Panther

• Card size - 5.5" x 5.5"
• Paper - DCWV
• Spellbinder - square
• Image downloaded from Pink Panther Coloring Pages and colored with Copics and metallic gel pens
• Cricut cartridges:
  
  • A Child's Year - sentiment colored with gel pen
  • Fabulous Finds - circles

Made for RAQ's 3-21 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by RAQ

Golf card

I made this for mission 868 for the Cricut Fairy Army.  I liked the negative cut so I used it for the inside

• Card size - 5.5" x 4.25"
• Papers - DCWV
• Sure Cuts a Lot - "Thinking of you" drawn by QuicKutz pen
• Cricut cartridges: Father's Day - golf

Jingle Belles - March 9th

Neutral Noel

This week's theme over at Jingle Belles is to make a card inspired by the image below from Pottery Barn

... I'm not sure if my card qualifies as a neutral tone... but the pillow with the goldish tree on the top left was my inspiration for this card.  I tried three different ways of putting those beads on but sewing them three at a time was what I finally stuck with

• Card size - 5.25" x 5.25"
• Papers - Martha Stewart
• Cuttlebug - embossing
• Spellbinder - square and circle scalloped frame
• Sentiment "NOEL" is a stamp and heat embossed
• Each bead was sewn on 3 at a time
• Cricut cartridges:
  
  • Christmas - angel (cut and heat embossed)
  • Home Decor - flourish

Inspired by sketch 1 from RAQ's 3-21 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by RAQ

Strawberry Pickings

Here is a layout of my three kids picking strawberries at Burr's Berry Farm in Miami

• Layout page size - 12" x 12"
• Papers - DCWV
• Creative Memories - leaf punch
• Cuttlebug - embossing on black panel
• Sentiment - computer generated
• Spellbinder - lattice rectangles
• Burr's Berry Farm Brochure - arrow, white-bordered strawberry, and "u-pick"
• Mice image - cut with Spellbinder from a store-bought card my daughter received
• Cricut cartridges:
  
  • A Child's Year - "picking"
  • Don Juan - "strawberry"
  • Home Decor - branch
  • Indie Art - black-bordered strawberry

Inspired by sketch 1 and sketch 2 from RAQ's 3-14 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by SHELBYWOO

March 14th Sketch Challenge

RAQ's 3-14 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by SHELBYWOO

Sketch 1

• Card size - 5.5" x 8.5"
• Papers - DCWV
• Sizzix - leafy branches
• Stickles on the mini flower punches
• QuicKutz pen for the sentiment
• Liquid Glass on the mini red dots up top
• Cricut cartridges:
  
  • Stretch Your Imagination - "Summer"
  • Wild Card - "Have a Great"

Sketch 2 in this week's Ad colors

(Red, White, and Black)

• Card size - 5.5" x 8.5"
• Papers - DCWV
• Fiskars - corner punch
• Sizzix - leafy branches
• Spellbinder - lattice rectangles and used glitter on the edges
• Sentiment is a stamp and heat embossed
• Cricut cartridge: Home Accents - flourish

Sketch 3

• Card size - 5.5" x 5.5"
• Papers - DCWV
• Fiskars - border punch
• Sizzix - leafy branch
• Spellbinder - scalloped circle and circle frame
• Cricut cartridges:
  
  • A Child's Year - all the text
  • Fabulous Finds - ribbon banners

My Sheri Crafts #81

Easter Pastels

 This week's theme over at My Sheri Crafts, is to use Spring's pastels and make a craft project with it.

Since it was my first project back as a Design Team member... I wanted to add my signature love to using feather boas.  YES!  After a LONG break, I'm finally back with My Sheri Craft's Design Team!  I'm so excited to be working with a new group of talented people.

I had intended to make this project initially for Easter for my three kids.  The bags were left over party bags from my girls' birthday party back in 2007... I had exactly three left!  Why I held on to them... who knows... why do we hold on to all the stuff we have in our stash?  So we'll have them in case we need them!

The green bag is the original size just folded over at the top, I had cut the two purple ones to add the feather boa and the handles

• Papers: DCWV
• Spellbinder: three different die cut frames for the three bunnies
• Bunnies: downloaded from 321 Coloring Pages and colored with Copics
• Cricut cartridge: Designer's Calendar - "Easter"

YOU DID IT! Layout

Swim Academy

Here is a layout of Kiara graduating from Swim Academy in October 2010

• Layout size - 12" x 12"
• Journaling is computer generated
• Stickles - used along the edges of the stars and the title 
• Cricut cartridge: Wild Card - "YOU DID IT!" and the stars

Inspired by sketch 2 from RAQ's 3-7 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by sunnieday

March 7th Sketch Challenge

RAQ's 3-7 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by sunnieday

Sketch 1

I wanted to use up some old beads I had in my stash so I decided to sew some directly on the paper.  Each bead was sewn individually using the ladder stitch technique.

 

• Card size - 4.25" x 5.5"
• Paper - DCWV
• Cricut cartridge: Accent Essentials - fleur de lis border

Sketch 2

A St. Patrick's Day card for Zenica... "the chimp"

• Card size - 5.5" x 8"
• Papers - Generations
• Cuttlebug - embossing
• Sentiment - computer generated
• Cricut cartridges:
  
  • Life's a Party - monkey
  • Pagoda - tree branch
  • Paper Doll Dress Up - shamrock
  • Plantin Schoolbook - grass

Sketch 3

I wanted to make this sketch into a diamond shape because I thought it looked better with the card suit theme

• Card size when folded - 5.5" x 5.5"
• Cuttlebug - embossing
• Crackle accents on all the cut pieces
• Cricut cartridges:
  
  • Celebrations - "it's your day"
  • Indie Art - heart, diamond, spade, clover

Hogswart Student Layout

Halloween 2011

This is Zenica as a Hogswart student from the Harry Potter series.  Her grandmother, "Mam-Apot," made her costume from an old graduation gown.  She also sewed the necktie and painted gold lines on them

• Layout size - 12" x 12"
• Papers - Scrapbooking Supplies
• Cricut cartridge: Designer's Calendar - "Halloween"
• Journaling - printed from computer
• Gryffindor patch - downloaded from PatchesMall

Inspired by sketch 3 from RAQ's 2-29 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by Suevan911

February 29th Sketch Challenge

RAQ's 2-29 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by Suevan911

Sketch 1

I used Crackle Accent on this particular project for the first time.  My good friend, Donna (*NanaDonna*) had sent me a bottle because I'm on a craft-spending ban.  LOL!  She's so sweet!

• Card size - 5.25" x 5.25
• Papers - DCWV
• Fiskars - border punch
• Sizzix - leafy branches
• Cricut cartridge: Home Decor - "Hope" colored with Copics
• Crackle Accents on the mini squares then inked it to highlight the cracks
• Alcohol inks on the satin flowers

Sketch 2

I found this image and I knew I just wanted to use it for something... not necessarily for an Easter card either but most likely will end up as one.  Hee hee

• Card size - 5.5" x 5.5"
• Papers - Generation
• Cuttlebug - embossing
• Fiskars - corner punch
• Spellbinder - scalloped circle
• Image downloaded from Precious Moments Coloring Pages and colored with Copics
• Sentiment is a stamp

*I can no longer find the link to give credit for the image

Sketch 3

I made these to stick inside my daughters' lunchboxes.  They were going to have a mini party to celebrate the Leap Year in school

• Card size - 4.25" x 4.25"
• Papers - DCWV
• Fiskars - border punch and circle punch
• Calendars and sentiments made on Microsoft Word

My Sheri Crafts #80

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

This week's theme over at My Sheri Crafts is all about making St. Patrick's Day cards but to make it into an easel card.  It also has to have at least one shamrock.  Is my shamrock big enough?  LOL!

• Card size - 5.5" x 5.5"
• Paper - Generations
• Embossing - Cuttlebug
• Image of the leprechaun downloaded from Leprechauns Coloring Pages and colored with Copics and Stickles
• Sentiment is a stamp colored with glitter gel pen
• Cricut cartridge: Paper Doll Dress Up - shamrock
• *I used Stickles to outline the shamrocks

I'm also using this as my Extra Credit shaped card for RAQ's 2-29 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by Suevan911

Jingle Belles - February 24th

Stuck on You!

This is my second entry to Jingle Belles challenge.  For this week's theme, you're supposed to use stickers and such... but I don't have any. So, I made my own! The white Christmas tree is cut from ProvoCraft vinyl and I adhered it to vellum

Card size - 5.5" x 7.5"
Papers - JoAnn's
Spellbinder - cut out frame and the scalloped circle
Fiskar - circle punch out and corner punches
Sentiment is a stamp
Cricut cartridge:
Christmas - Christmas tree


Inspired by sketch 2 from RAQ's 2-29 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by Suevan911

Good Luck Sleeping Bear

I made this card to slip into Zenica's lunchbox the next day.  She had FCAT Write testing for all 4th graders and she was having trouble sleeping the night before.  I hope she wasn't too tired for the test but I have full confidence she did well on her test.

I picked the bear because their school mascot is a Ranger Bear

Card size - 5.5" x 4.25"
Papers - DCWV
Embossing - Cuttlebug
Image of the bear was downloaded from the internet and colored with Copics
Cricut cartridge:
Simply Sweet - "good luck" colored with a black gel pen
Wild Card - star

February 22nd Sketch Challenge

RAQ's 2-22 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by AcrossThePond

We were given three sketches this week and the last sketch is a layout sketch but we could make a card for it instead

Sketch 1 

Card size - 4.25" x 5.5"
Papers - DCWV
Embossing - Cuttlebug
Cricut cartridges:
Celebrations - "celebrate"
Pagoda - bowl, chopsticks, and flowers

Sketch 2 in this week's Ad colors

(Yellow, Blue, Green)

Card size - 4.25" x 5.5"
Papers - DCWV
Spellbinder - Scalloped frame
Sentiment - stamp from Close to My Heart
Cricut cartridge:
Cindy Loo - leafy branches and flourish

Sketch 3 as a layout

This is my daughter, Zenica. In 2nd grade, her teacher picked out a "Student of the Week" every two weeks for the best behaved student. The student that got this title got to take home Murphy (the monkey) for one week

Layout size - 12" x 12"
Papers - DCWV
Journal - printed from the computer
Cricut cartridge:

Don Juan - "Murphy"
Home Decor - leafy frame
Life's a Party - monkey

Way to GO Layout

Disney's 15th Anniversary Half Marathon Race 2012

Here is a layout of Jason after he finished the half marathon race.  I had to alter the image in Adobe Photoshop to remove a section in the panel that had all sorts of advertising for Facebook, Twitter, and such and replaced it with his one quote for the race... "Mickey is Next!"  The Mickey Race is a full marathon which he plans to do next January

Layout size - 12" x 12"
Cricut cartridge:
George and Basic Shapes - "Way to GO!"

Thanksgiving Play Layout

Kiara's Thanksgiving Play in VPK from 2005

This was inspired by a sketch from RAQ's 2-15 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by SandyPalmer

Layout size - 12" x 12"
Papers - DCWV
Fiskars punch - scalloped circles and circles
Sizzix - leafy branch
Cricut cartridge:
A Child's Year - tag, all font, oval scallops