Suzy's Crafts

Monday, September 5, 2011

Card Creating Tuesday

Today is Card Creating Tuesday at http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/ and I am featured as a designer. I made this card for my Mother in law who is in the hospital. God has blessed us though and she is doing great!

I used the cricut cartridge Preserves to make the Cherries and then used some paper from some small stacks I had laying around. I cut the square at 4 inches and added the cherries to the center. I like how it framed them. :)

Next I took some primas and applied some glitter mist. (I love this stuff!). Added some brads and a couple layers of paper on the inside to show of the loopy Martha Stewart punch and voila!

(I apologize for the dark picture, but I used my iphone as I did not have my camera handy. )

I love how it turned out. It is already in the mail and off to her!

Thanks for taking the time to stop by.

Suzys Crafts

Friday, September 2, 2011

My Cricut Craft Room's 100 Cartridge Blog Hop

Welcome to My Cricut Craft Room's 100 Cartridge Blog Hop

You should have come from Shelly. If you did not, please start at the beginning of the hop at http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/

The first project I have made was done using the Stand and Salute Cartridge in memory of Sept. 11th.

I cut the "God Bless America" frame at 4" X 6" and then did a 2 inch tag adding the 9.11. I added a little red ink around the edges, and some stickers I had and I am very pleased with how it turned out. Not sure of the picture I am going to put in here yet, but it will be special.

For my second project I used Nursery Rhymes and made a card for my new grand nephew. Cutting the "Sweet Baby Boy" at 3", along with the shadow. I then felt it needed a little something. So I added some Ink around the edges of the shadow and used some Martha Stewarts Embossing powder in light blue to emboss the words. I added some paper, some ribbon and a cute button I had to complete the project. I hope he likes it. :)

Lastly I used French Manor and Sweethearts to create a Wedding card. This was my first use of Vellum and I wanted to try something different.

Using my Gypsy, I welded the "Mr. & Mrs." and rings from the Sweetheart Cart to the French Manor scroll card. I then cut off the back of the card to just use the front piece of Vellum and after cutting the shadow of the rings and Mr. & Mrs. and adding that, I glued that to some silver cardstock I had that I made into a 4.25 X 5.5 inch card. I then took some silver embossing and embossed the edges of the vellum and the words and rings. I embossed the diamond portion of the ring using some pink embossing powder.

So a little out of my comfort zone, but I had fun doing it.

Thanks to everyone for stopping by!

Next you should go to http://thepurplemuse.blogspot.com and see the awesome projects Tammy has made!

If you get lost along the way, here is the entire lineup:

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Would you Guess Wednesday

Welcome to "Would you Guess Wednesdays". Today I am showing a card I did for MyCricutCraftRooms Design Team. On Wednesdays, we are challenged to use something other than the base images on a cart. This causes us to step outside the box and use some of the features on the cartridges that generally don't just 'pop' out to you.

I am still getting back into things so mine is a pretty simple project. I used Forever Young and a saying that seems to be popular around my house full of young adults. :) In fact, as I was creating this card, my daughter came us to me and said "Seriously Mom, you made me come down here for that?". LOL

I used DCWV Sweet Small Paper Stack. I then cut the 'Seriously' out at 1.5 inches as well as the border. I wanted to add a little extra to the card and I am 'seriously' loving embossing right now. So I embossed the 'Seriously?' with some Martha Stewarts embossing powder. Add a few pop dots for dimension and a Flower I had laying around and here you go. Hope you enjoy!