A different colour Pallette for me today.

I've been trying to get to all of my pads of beautiful paper that have sat unopened and unused because they are just too darn pretty. I bit the bullet and ripped all sorts of paper out and started cutting, and gluing, and I-rocking, and embossing....a whole lot of product went on this card - and here it is!

Have a great night everyone - I'm off to bed *yawn*

Wishing for Spring

I still have many more months of winter ahead of me - and spring is all I can think about.

It looks as though my spring fever has also leeched it's way into my birthday card as well :)

I used my Gypsy for this card.
I used WildCard for the card base, used some Stampin' Up stamps for the sentiment.
Got out my Irock and Cuttlebug and went to town on those butterflies and the front of the card.

Hope I brought you a little bit of spring today. :)


Magoo.

'The Classics' - a Birthday Pop Up Card

Hi Everyone!!


Last week I found myself making a really fun birthday card. Instead of reaching for my newer cartridges, I thought I'd dust of my 'older' carts and see what little treasures were hiding on them :)

So out came Stretch Your Imagination, and Celebrations. I REALLY love Celebrations...have you seen the AMAZING cuts on this cart? There isn't anything missing that you'd need to make a party invite, b-day card, a birthday banner....it's all about the party! I do want to warn you though, some cuts are better cut out at a much larger size...unless you are working with thinner cardstock (I did have to re-cut a few since I was using a thicker/textured cardstock). Or, if you still want the design small, use your cricut markers for just an outline....just an idea to throw out there :) I haven't used my markers yet....I've had them for over a year....I'll add that to my list of projects to do! :)


So, grab your SYI (stretch your imagination from here on out) and flip to page 61. For the front of my card I used the LAYERS feature, the SILHOUETTE feature and the BLACKOUT setting. The hardest part for me was picking the paper and trying to make sure it would co-ordinate once cut out. So have fun picking your paper!! :) :)

Then I grabbed my new I-rock and glued all sorts of bling all over....and for my candles I used patterned paper and STICKLES!! (aren't they sparkle-y?? ).

For the inside of the card I scored a piece of cardstock in half and for the pop out I measured 3 1/4" in length and 2 1/4" apart. Once it was cut I pushed it in towards me to form the step that I would glue my happy birthday to.

I got out Celebrations and flipped to page 124. I used the regular cut, the Shadow and Blackout feature for 3 layers of this cut. I ended up only using 2 layers for the happy (as I liked the patterned paper that was showing). So I stickled the 'A' in Happy and glued the 3 layers for the birthday. I cut out a cute little b-day hat that can be found on page 103 and added some more stickles - black this time :). Then for the stack of presents behind the 'Happy' I flipped to page 119 and cut out the Shadow, the Blackout and Shift Blackout. I glued them all together and stuck it behind Y in happy. Then I just pop dotted both to the pop out portion and VOILA!

It's a very easy pop out.....the time consuming part was gluing the layers together....so it looks really great but not all that difficult. :)


Hope you like it as much as I do!


~MAGOO~

Wild Card Wednesday- Let's Shake things up!!

Hello everyone!! Welcome to Wild Card Wednesday - this is the day that I get to make any style of card I choose. I decided to go with a GET WELL SOON theme and I also included a fun little shaker embellishment on the front of the card :) I LOVE cards that do things, make noise or feel great in your hands....I tried to do all three with this one.

As I am using Gypsy Wanderings and Wild Card cartridges all week this project again will involve my gypsy- tomorrow's project could be done without using a gypsy or DS. I also used ProvoCraft's 12x24 paper in todays project simply due to the way I designed it.

This is what my gypsy screen looked like with all of my images placed on my mat ready for cutting page 1, page 2 has the base of the card and the sentiment for the inside of the card. You can only cut 1 page at a time, when page 1 is done, simply touch on the number 1 and it will change to page 2:

This is how I laid out my paper to cut for page 1:

Page 2 paper layout:


For the base of the card I chose a tag from Gypsy Wanderings and added it to my mat. Then sized it to 4.75W x 6.25H. Next you will select the Marquis shape on Gypsy Wanderings and size it to .55W x 3.99H. These images can be found here on the gypsy: .

Now move your Marquis shape and place it over the hole on your tag as I've done in this picture:

After you have placed your images, you will group the marquis shape and tag. Once they are grouped press copy 2 times for a total of 3 tags. Select 1 tag and using the FLIP button flip this tag Horizontally. Next align the 2 tags and overlap slightly so they look like this:

Group your items and select weld. Everything that will cut is in RED, anything that will NOT cut is in GRAY:

When you cut out your images you will score down the spine and fold it in half:



At this point I chose to run it through my cuttlebug-used the swiss dots folder. Then will apply adhesive to the middle of the spine and press together so your left edge is glued shut (you will be tying a TON of ribbon around this and need it to be sturdy).

I then searched through the all the phrases on Gypsy Wanderings and Wild Card and chose 'Thinking of You' for the front of my card.

Size this to 3.99W x 2.98H. You will also select the shadow for this phrase by touching the shift button and then size the shadow to 4.13W x 3.16H. Once the phrases were cut I decided I needed to ink these too, and a little doodling all over :)

Next a rounded square was selected from Gypsy Wanderings, added to the mat and sized to 4.57W x 3.67H. This square is going to be used as the mat on the inside of the card. Once cut out you can ink the edges to give it a more finished look and apply it to the inside of the card leaving a little more white space on the bottom than the top. Ink all edges with your favourite ink colour.

I found the most adorable little border of flowers on the GW cart and decided I would use these on the inside of the card.
Size the flower border to 4.90W x 1.36H. Once you have added this to your mat you will need to copy it 4 more times for a total of 5 flower borders on your mat. I wanted to be able to have each flower a different colour, so you will be cutting a flower out of each strip to use on the inside of the card:
Once you have 5 each in a different colour you can run them through your cuttlebug for a little more texture and interest. You can also add a rhinestone or two for a little something shiny :)

I had a hard time choosing the sentiment for the inside of the card- Wild card has so many great choices!!! In the end I chose 'Get Better' from Gypsy Wanderings simply because I like the font. I ended up inking the edges on this too. When inking smaller cuts I really like to use a Q-tip. I try to get the Q-tips from the dollar store as they have less fuzz on them, which means less fuzz on your project LOL!!

For the shaker embelly I was looking for an image that had a cutout, AND could take the place of my letter O on the front of the card. I found one on GW sized it to 1.53W x 1.53H.
Once it was on my mat I copied it for a total of 9 cutout flowers on the mat. I went back to the cut out flower in my cart and pushed the shift button to get the solid circle that is used as the backing for this cutout. I copied this circle twice, 1 circle will be for cardstock, the second circle for a transparency sheet.

To assemble your shaker you will line up your cutouts, then glue them on top of each other sandwich style leaving 1 cutout aside and unglued.
Take your solid circle that was cut out of transparency and glue it to the underneath of the flower cutout you left aside. This will be the top for your shaker flower. Find your solid circle cut out of cardstock and glue it to the bottom of your stack of cutout flowers. Now go find some mini beads...glitter, coloured sand....what ever little bits that will fit. Glue your lid on top and shaker flower is all ready shake it's stuff!!

Take your phrase Thinking of you and carefully cut out the O off of the letter f. This will allow you to place your shaker where the letter O was without any patterned paper peeking out beneath

Now go and get that huge stash of ribbon that is in a box somewhere and all tied up in knots and pick out co-ordinating colours, and feel free to mix up the textures- the more the merrier!! Don't be afraid to tie and squish as many pieces of ribbon onto the 'handle' as you can!!!
Grab some more sparkly bits and find fun places to put them....gotta love a little bling ;)






I hope you enjoyed my project for Wild Card Wednesday, be sure to go back to the top of my blog and download the gypsy file :)

Tomorrow is Scrapbook Layout Thursday!!!! Hmmmm, I hope you are all with me on this one.....this should be VERY interesting- this is my very FIRST paper layout I have ever made. And you are all going to get to see it........gulp! :)

Looking forward to tomorrow everyone ~ HAVE A GREAT WEDNESDAY!!!!

My First card made with the GYPSY!!!

Now that I'm finally up and running I made a card with my Gypsy!!! All the cuts were made using my new G.
I didn't go very fancy or elaborate with this card. I only tried welding a whole bunch of circles I stretched to be narrow to make a strip behind the cute little birds. This post is really just to tell you about my experience using this to design cards.

WHERE HAS THIS LITTLE GADGET BEEN ALL MY LIFE?? LOL!!!





I love that I could scroll through images at the drop of a hat. When I found images I liked, all I had to do was select them and put them on my Gypsy mat. I can't believe how easy it was. The whole design process is my most favourite part of making a card and this gadget just makes it so easy and SO FUN!!

I'm very slow at making cards, usually I'm taking forever looking through the booklets, then I have to put a sticky on the pages I want to use, so I can refer to those when I'm ready to cut.

I was able to find the cute images I wanted in just a few minutes. The easiest part was when I thought I wanted to add more to it, instead of looking through the booklets again...I just scanned the images on my Gypsy!

It took me less than half an hour to design this card, and maybe a half an hour cutting and gluing and inking it together.

If you are considering buying a gypsy I say: GET ONE! It's a whole new way to design, you really have better control over the images and can manipulate them in so many ways to truly customize your card :) Ok, enough already, I love my G.

Happy Birthday Sweetheart!

That's right my DH is turning 31 tomorrow!! I'm so glad I was able to get this finished. I just love it when everything comes together because I'm lovin' the paper!
Cricut carts used are: Celebrations, Storybook and Accent Essentials. Cuttlebug folders used: bubbles, swiss dots and Happy Birthday. I sure hope he likes it, cards for men are tricky! I just realized now that I used polka dots! Woo Hoo! My challenge for Sugar Sweet Paper Treats is complete!!