Newborn baby aeroplane card

 This card was made for the Paper Playtime challenge #83 - Gingham and a die cut.
I just love this yellow gingham paper, such a gorgeous colour for a baby card.

The aeroplane and circle were cut at 3 inches using the Boys will be Boys cricut cartridge.  This would have to be one of my most favourite cartridges ever!  So many gorgeous images for boys!  I can picture baby boy cards, birthday cards for little boys, birthday cards for big boys....so much fun!

I'm loving the primary colours for boys cards too.  I'm into anything bright and cheery at the moment.

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Owl birthday card

I made this card for my girlfriend's birthday in a couple of days.  Super simple.  I really love this owl image from Create a Critter, I use it a lot for birthday cards and thank you cards.  (See my next post for a few more similar cards).

I am entering this in the current Paper Playtime challenge - use polka dots and a sentiment.

I chose red paper with white polka dots for the owl and cute multi-coloured polka dot paper for the background.  I stitched a red border around the patterned paper just to finish it off.  Seems like I can't finish a card anymore unless I've stitched a border around it!  The sentiment is a CC Designs sentiment which I am using all the time at the moment...love this set of stamps.

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Friendship card

The challenge at Paper Playtime this week is to make a friendship card with a sentiment.  The timing was perfect for me as I have a beautiful friend going through a tough time at the moment and I know she will appreciate a handmade card.  I like the little sentiment I used - I love a good pun!

I used the Create a Critter cartridge for the little bear image and the scallop on the bottom of the card is a MFT die.  The pink felt flower is also a MFT die.  Papers, stickers and 'thinking of you stamp are all Kaisercraft.  Lace and ribbon are from my stash. 

I used this weeks Card Patterns sketch for the layout of the card. 






The card is an easel card, so the sketch was used for the top part of the card.  Hopefully this still counts!

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Dragonfly card

Don't you just love this cute little 'wink face'!  It is my favourite Peachy Keen face.  It's from the Everyday Faces set and I use them all the time. 

Please excuse the dreadful lighting in these photos - it's almost dark here and I only have a couple of hours to go before the Paper Playtime challenge ends...so I found the room with the most light (our ensuite), turned on all the lights, tried to get my shadow out of the photo and then clicked and hoped for the best!

This little card was made for two challenges:

Paper Playtime:  For challenge #7 use any type of DIE CUT and/or DIE CUTTING machine and make a BUG CARD!  I chose to use the dragonfly from the Create a critter cartridge.  I hope that dragonflies are considered bugs!  I did have a look at the other entries and there were lots of bees, snails and dragonflies so I think I'm right! 

Peachy Keen Stamps:  Anything goes challenge - must use Peachy Keen stamps.  I used my peachy face for the dragonfly - you know those faces can be added to just about anything!  I first bought them to use exclusively with my Paper Doll Dressup and Everyday Paper doll cartridges, but now I'm enjoying using them for all sorts of things such as faces for flowers, suns, critters...the list is endless!  I've seen them used on cakes, couches, carrots, strawberries...they make the images come to life and look so cute.

I used the Stretch Your Imagination cartridge to cut out the card base in dark blue and also to cut out the green scallop frame.  This cartridge continues to surprise me.  I got it for free when I bought my cricut expression and to be honest, I had a quick flip through the booklet and wasn't overly impressed or excited by many of the images.  But there are a few little surprises in there and I am so glad that I had another look at it and found the card bases and frames - I think I'll be using these a lot more now.

I cut the card at 4 inches and the scalloped frame at 3 1/4 inches.  The dragonfly was 2 3/4 inches.  Patterned papers are from a Jillibean Soup collection - I think it's called Owl Soup.  I wanted the sentiment to say, "Fluttering by to say hi" but given my space restrictions, I settled for the much shorter "hello" sentiment.

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My first spinner card!

My very first spinner card - how exciting!  In fact, I was quite ridiculously excited when I finished it and found out that it actually worked!!  My heart was pounding and I was immensely proud of myself!  I won't lie, yes the card might look super simple, but it did take me a while to figure out.  I followed a great set of instructions from Splitcoaststampers, however, they used American coins so I found out that there is a bit of a difference in size between our Australian 5 cent piece and their coin that they use.  Anyway, after a bit of extra cutting and fiddling I figured it out...and now I can't stop playing with the card!  I will probably wreck the card by spinning it too much before I give it to someone for their birthday!

Here are some little pics to demonstrate how the little bird spins around from one end to the other end of the card (and quite surprisingly, he spins rather fast and twirls around a lot!)

Oh the possibilities!!  I am excitedly thinking of all sorts of creatures and things that could spin and twirl on cards.  I can feel that my next few blog posts may be a bit 'spinner-card-heavy'!  (....thinking astronauts twirling in space; cars racing along a road; train tooting along a train track; butterflies and bees....)

Anyway, I made this card to enter into a couple of challenges.  I have never entered these challenges before but they look great so I thought I would have a go.

Die Cuttin Divas - Challenge #61 Garden Theme.  Nothing quite says garden like birds and flowers!  I cut the twirling bird and his birdhouse from the Create a Critter cartridge.  The little bird is only 1.5 inches.
Paper Playtime - Challenge #76 Birthday card with sentiment.

What a lot of fun this card was to make!  I love making new types of cards and I think they would make excellent cards for little kids - quite a novelty!

On another rather exciting note, I have been published for the very first time!  The latest Australian Scrapbooking Memories magazine went on sale yesterday (Vol 14 no7) and one of my double page layouts was in their 'digital gallery' on page 51.  What a buzz!

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