Celebrate the Occasion

Welcome to another wonderful challenge! This week at Celebrate the Occasion we are asking that you make an "Any occasion card using ribbon".

I have a Birthday card for you today!

The stamp was given to me by my friends mom. It is a Stamps Happen, Inc stamp.

I used a shimmery red cardstock and added the stitching to match the bow.

This card was made for one of my LOH friends. My husband and friend share the same birthday!

We celebrated both birthdays this past weekend in Las Vegas!

Now go on over to CTO and enter your own card!

Thanks for visiting.

-Yvette

Another Baby on the way!

No, I am not expecting, but my husband's co-worker is!

This is the card and blanket I made for her.

Since the mom to be hasn't found out what she is having I decided to use both stamps.

I was going for a vintage look but I really don't have the right supplies for that theme.

I had started this blanket last Friday but realized on Sunday night that the pattern had a flaw.

So at 9pm Sunday night I started over and here is what I was able to produce.

(most of it was done while I was working). :)

The yarn is TLC ultra soft in neutral.

The shower is today. I hope she enjoys the blanket.

Thanks for visiting! -Yvette



The Circus is in Town!!!

Come one, Come all, To the greatest show on Earth!

This week at Die Cuttin' Divas we are having fun under the big top with our CIRCUS theme.

We were asked to think outside of the box so I decided to make an explosion box! :)

(By the way this is the first explosion box that I have ever made.)

These are the 150+ pieces that I cut using Paper Doll Dress Up, Everyday Day Paper Dolls, and Create A Critter cartridges so I could assemble all of the elements of the explosion box..

Around the outside of the box is the word CIRCUS.

Here are all of the layers to the explosion box.

This layer is made up if 6 clowns all cut at 2 inches.

This layer is the elephant and peanut group. All of these pieces were cut at 1 inch.

(except for the clown hats which were cut at 2 inches)

I just love the Lions, Tigers and Seals (Oh My!) layer. All of these were cut at 1 inch as well.

I forgot to mention that all of the animals have googlie eyes.

In the center of the layers you can see the Ringmaster, leading the show, and a little girl, enjoying the circus. (cut at 2 inches)

I had a blast making this explosion box. The template I used can be easily found by doing a search for explosion boxes. I found the template to be slightly off when putting all of the layers together. Maybe it was something my printer did to the template.

Thanks for staying though this long post. I hope you enjoyed my project. Don't forget to go to the DCD blog and show us your circus inspired projects. Also, please visit my fellow design team members, they all made such cre8tive circus projects this week.

-Yvette

Challenges:

Bitten by the Bug - 3D box w/ Cricut

Creative Stamp Friends - Anything but a card

Kaboodle Doodles - Lots of Layers

Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Nettie G's Digital Gems - Anything Goes

Outlines Monday Challenge - Lots of layers

Anything  Goes Challenge - Anything Goes

Going Grey With Scrap-Creations - Anything Goes

Jen's Digi Stamps - Anything but a card

Sweet Stamps - Anything but a card

Get Well Soon!

I wanted to share a card that I made for a blogger friend.

She was recently in a horrible car accident, but is slowly on the mend.

I used the sketch from The Sketch File.

The inside of the card has the same DP. I will be send this out to her tomorrow.

Along with many prayers and blessing for a safe recovery.

Thanks for stopping by.

-Yvette



Die Cuttin' Diva's Challenge!

If you are looking for the Celebrate the Occasion challenge, click HERE

Over at Die Cuttin Diva's we are having the best challenge. It's a zoo challenge!!!

I created this card for my niece. Her birthday was over Labor day weekend.

I used Create a Critter for the animals and pond. the sentiment is from a sticker pack that I won from our very own Patty.

Here is a close up of the animals that I used 3D Zots to pop out from the card.

This is what the card said, "Hip, Hip Hooray! Look who's turning 6 today!"

This was such a fun card to make. I can't see what all of you decide to cre8. So head on over to DCD and show us your zoo themed cards.

-Yvette

Celebrate The Occasion!

Welcome to another great Celebrate The Occasion challenge. This week we were asked to make a tall card that incorporated a present. I decided to make a card for my friend, Dave.

I cut the pirate ship and present using my cricut, the embossing is the diamond plate for Cuttlebug, and the stamp is Hero Arts. The brads are from Joann's.

I also decorated the inside of the card with another present cut on my Cricut.

The birthday dinner we had for my friend was so much fun and Dave really liked his card.

Thanks for visiting my blog. Don't forget to head on over to CTO for the challenge.

-Yvette

Critter Sketch Challenge Blog

Over at the Critter Sketch Challenge Blog they have an "anything but a card" challenge this week.

My friend let me borrow the bride quartet series by Nora Roberts. So as a thank you I made her this corner bookmark. Great books, check them out if you like romance novels!

The flowers are the new recollections bottle flowers. I used Kraft and cream cardstock and DP is from Michael's. The stamp is from Inkadinkado. The rhinestones are from the dollar bin at Michael's. I also used my Martha Stewart punch for the layers.

Challenges I am also entering this into:

Everybody-Art-Challenge: Autumn

Papertake Weekly Challenge: Anything goes

Try it on Tuesday: Monochrome

Stamp With Fun: Autumn/Fall

Woodware USA Clear Stamps: Anything goes

Thanks for visiting! -Yvette

Die Cuttin Diva's Challenge

We have a sketch challenge over at Die Cuttin Diva's this week. I just loved working with this sketch.



I used my Cricut Essentials and my Wild Card Cartridges for this card.

The sentiment and flower stamp are a dollar find from Inkadinado.

I hope you are inspired to join us for our sketch challenge.

Head on over to DCD and upload your cre8tion.

Thanks for visiting. -Yvette

Critter Sketch Challenge!

I am so excited to announce that I am a member of the Critter Sketch Challenge Blog Design Team!!!

My duties as DT will not start until October, but head on over and check out this week's challenge.

Thanks for visiting!

-Yvette

Celebrate The Occasion!

If you are looking for the Die Cuttin Diva's challenge click here.

There is a sketch challenge waiting for you over at Celebrate the Occasion.

This is the card I made for an LOH friend.

I used my Sizzix folder to emboss the blue paper.

The flower is made using Recollections Boutique Fleur mini teardrop gems, and the stamp is a dollar find from Michael's.

The inside of the card was made using the scraps left from the front of the card.

Thanks for stopping by. Now head on over to the CTO blog and try out the sketch.

-Yvette

Die Cuttin' Diva's Challenge!

This week at Die Cuttin Diva's we have a fall theme challenge going on.
I wanted to try a waterfall technique for this card.
I think it turned out really well.

As you pull on the tab the leaves reveal the sentiment.

The stamp is from Inkadinkado.

Now head on over to the DCD blog and share your fall creation with us.

Thanks for stopping by. -Yvette

Die Cuttin' Diva's Challenge!

This week at Die Cuttin Diva's we were asked to make a card with a "teacher" theme.

Here is my card:

 I used my Peachy Keen stamps for the apples. Since I didn't have any teacher stamps I wrote the sentiment by hand.

This is inside the card. I think that I will send this to one of my frineds that started back to school last week. Thanks for stopping by my blog I hope to see you at DCD this week with your own Teacher card.

-Yvette

Scrapbook layout

So it's been forever since I have done any scrapbooking and then I read a comment that said when you see a picture and are motivated, make a page. I thought that was brillant. So here is the page I made.

The sketch came from Helen at scrap-a-little.com.



I want to make a scrapbook of special moments. I dated the bottom corner of the page so I can remember when the picture was taken. It was at my best friend's graduation dinner. We were celebrating the achievement of her Master's from UCLA.

Thanks for stopping by.

-Yvette

Happy Birthday!

Earlier I posted a wedding card for a client of my husband. Well it happens to be her birthday as well. So, not knowing what she likes or her favorite colors I decided to make her this card.

I used paper from DCWV's The Glitter Sweet Stack, the stamps are from Hero Arts and Hampton Art, and the ribbon and rhinestones are dollar finds from Michael's. I used my Bow-Easy to make the bow.

I hope she likes it, I do!

I am submitting this card to the following challenges:

A Spoon Full of Sugar

Anything Goes Challenge Blog

Try it on Tuesday

Thanks for stopping by.

-Yvette

Die Cuttin' Diva's Challenge!

If you are looking for the Celebrate the Occasion Challenge click HERE.

It's back to School for many this time of year so "Kids" are the theme for this week's Die Cutting Diva's Challenge.

A couple of weeks ago I received a package of awesome brads from Eyelet Outlet.
As soon as I saw these round glasses and the black hat I wanted to make a Harry Potter card.

I couldn't wait for this week's challenge.

I used Everyday Paper Dolls  for Harry and Create a Critter Cricut for the castle. I embossed the castle using my Cuttlebug Mosaic folder. I also used a Peachy Keen "Wide Eyed Kids" stamp for Harry. harry is also on an action wobble. The sentiment I created using microsoft word.

Other challenges I am submitting this card to are:

Cards for Men

Make it Monday

Paper Playtime

I hope to see you at Die Cuttin' Diva's challenge this week.

Thanks for visiting.

-Yvette

Celebrate The Occasion!

If you are looking for the Die Cuttin Diva's challenge click HERE.

Welcome to another Celebrate the Occasion Challenge.

This week we were asked to make an easel birthday card.

My best friend's mom has a birthday next week and I thought this would be the perfect challenge to make her a card.

DT Call!

There is a DT Call for Critter Sketch Challenge Blog.

The sketch was so fun to work with. I was very inspired.
If you want to apply they will send you the sketch.
Here is my submission for the DT call.

The image was a free digi that I do not remember where I got it from. I colored it using colored pencils. The sentiment is from Hero Arts, and the yarn is from Loops & Threads Cotton Club line. I used my Bow-Easy to make them all uniform. All of the paper is from my scrap box, which keeps growing even though I have been making cards solely from the scrap box.Finally I embossed the green layer using the spring flowers Cuttlebug folder. I love how it matches my DP perfectly.

Thanks for visiting and I look forward to hearing if I make the team!

-Yvette