New Handmade Birthday Card

This is another take on the thank-you card that I posted yesterday.  I had said that this layout would work as a birthday card, so I decided to give it a try!  I used lots of bright colors like green, orange, yellow, and blue.  I decided to gear it more towards a boy, so I added the little birthday snake from the Create A Critter Cricut cartridge.  There was also a cute little pig in there that would have been fun to use, but I thought the snake would work well for a boy. I also used my Plantin SchoolBook Cricut cartridge for the letters, but I think I made them a...

Thank-You Card

This new Thank-you card I created today was inspired from one I saw in the June/July Cricut magazine, found on page 97.  I though it would be a simple card that people could still create even if they didn’t have a Cricut machine or Cuttlebug. Although I used my Cricut to cut out the circles and letters, I did use my square punch as well.  I would have used a circle punch but I didn’t have one the same size as the square.  I found the square measured approximately 1 3/4″, which I didn’t have the same size in any of my circles.  It would be easy...

Sweet Safari Wall Hangings

I found these canvas boards in one of the local stores and thought they would be fun to decorate with some paint and paper.  I surfed the net a bit and found a cute girl’s bedding set at Target called the Tiddliwinks Sweet Safari collection.  It has lots of sweet little animals like giraffes, lions, turtles and more, in bright raspberry, lavender, and orange colors. I painted my two canvases in lavender and grey and decorated them with lavender, green, orange and brown papers.  I cut the shapes from my Create a Critter Cricut Cartridge, and mod podged them on,...