Friends Forever Card

Hey all! I have been a busy girl this past week. I have a couple of fun projects I did that I will be sharing, starting with the card today. I hope to finish up with a video looksie of my BOOK project I was working on.

So now...on to it! I just love the Teresa Collins Friendship line.  You don't need to just use it for friendship projects. The colors and design are so workable into any project. :) It is one of my fave lines to work with. :) That being said, I DID use it on a FRIENDSHIP project this time. Here it is! :)

Front of card

Inside of card

What I used: Teresa Collins' Friendship paper, Best Occasions cardstock, ribbon from Michael's, Colorbok (bling).

Thanks for stopping by! :)

CuttleBug Fun "Springy Flower" Card

I decided to have a little fun with my Cuttlebug (and join their challenge #26) tonight while my Bestie, Bex, was here with me! :) I used a Fiskars embossing plate with it to make my Fun, Springy Flower Card! :)

I cut out a flower shaped card twice (at 6" with the Expression) with my Cricut Wild Card Cartridge. I cut this shape in light purple and white Best Occasions Cardstock. I lined the two card cuts up and adhered the backside (square part) only together. Now, the card cuts out the flower shape on the front of the card with a square backing, but I wanted a circular back, and I didn't feel like messing with my Design Studio, so I enlisted my Creative Memories Circle Cutting System to do the job. I cut the back of the card at a 5 &1/2" circle and made sure that the circle template was overlapping the fold of the card so I wouldn't cut my card into two different pieces.

I then put my Expression into frame mode on the Wild Card Cartridge and cut the flower out in white and pink Best Occasions cardstock. I ran the pink and white flowers through the Cuttlebug (separately) with the dotted Fiskars embossing template and then chalked them with Pebbles Inc. Pearl Chalks (white was colored with pink and pink was colored with white). I did this to bring out the embossed dots a little better.

I did have to use my Fiskars rubbing tool to emboss the purple flower because it was a little too big to go through my Cuttlebug.

I "skewed" the flowers on top of each other (white on top, then purple "card", and last pink). Pierce the 3 layers (be careful not to go through the non-adhered white flower shape of the card) and place a Heidi Swapp Big Bling Brad though the three layers. Then adhere the white flower part of the card to the layers.

I finally stamped the phrase "lean on me" from the CTMH Friendship word stamps set, in CTMH Amethyst ink. I then took a clean Fantastix (tsukineko) pointed end tool and put a little Amethyst ink on the end and made three dots. Then on the inside of the card I stamped, with Amethyst, the phrase, "through happy times and sad", also from the Friendship set. I used the flower border from the same set and stamped the top and bottom of the inside of the card. :)

I just love the end product and hope you will enjoy it too! :) Thanks for looking and visiting! :)

Jon and Sasha

These pics were taken the day after our little girl, Sasha Wren, came into our lives.
What I used: Best Occasions Textured Paper Pack- Blue 12x12
Blue circles were cut from scraps using Creative Memories circle Custom Cutting System
Little Yellow Bicycle Baby Safari- circle on bottom left on the bigger darker circle and the 2 blue birds are from LYB's Safari Baby Boy Clear Cuts
Ali Edwards for Designer Digitals- Moments journaling box